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Tripredacus

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  1. I've changed on that aspect. the server can see the internet. Originally when I was planning this setup I figured that the server would have an older OS like Windows NT or some other OS that shouldn't be exposed to the internet. Now I have changed those requirements, rather it won't be just a file server. I built (or repurposed) a Windows 10 PC for that spot and there is no issue with it being online. The file server role will not be handled with file sharing, rather I installed XAMPP on it and will use FileZilla to let the older systems get files via FTP. This is more ideal since I have a 4th spot (or more) potentially open for adding other computers such as a Mac or other things that may not play well with Windows file shares. So in my diagram, the Server connects to PC4 and 5 (and 6) via a router., And the Server connects to the DECA network on a separate ethernet port. It will be that physical bridge between the two networks, rather than the old plan to put some actual network hardware in between.
  2. I had already gone through and tested the hardware listed above with exception of the ProCurve. The Cisco devices had the most promise, however they had issues where certain settings are not stored on the CF cards and the battery on the board was dead. The battery being soldered to the board meant that it would require more work than I was willing to invest to get them working. For an example, one of the things that is handled by the battery is ports being up, including the management port. So every time power was reset, I would have to use terminal over serial to up the ports again. Rather, the next step seems to be to use the "Server" as the go-between. I have already built a computer that has 2 LAN ports and 1 will connect into the DECA network and the other to a switch that the computers will connect to. I still have to work out this switch, as it may have to be a router since I have non-computer devices present now that I need DHCP for. I am not using a Server OS. In general, the computers on the private end shouldn't have access to the internet, but a couple of them may be allowed to get to specific addresses. Bard says that I can make a Bridge on the server and use Windows Firewall to block all inbound on the private nic with exceptions, but I generally do not trust Windows Firewall. I suppose I could use the router for that instead, but a bridge still may be needed in any case.
  3. The data archive is still offline, only wayback machine is back.
  4. Combo devices should work in Device Manager by just showing two separate devices. The WLAN which is the DEV_43B1 under Network, but a BT should show up as a separate device. If there is not BT section, it may appear under Other Devices (IMO MS made a mistake to make this icon white) or it may appear under System without a flag. A BT device usually has a HwID like VID_xxxx&PID_xxxx.
  5. This is an enterprise feature, based solely on this: A major issue in the modern enterprise is that a lot of the software is on the internet, and users are not tied down to a specific or regulated computing system anymore. You may have that for people in an office, but many people are using a large assortment of notebooks and mobile devices to access resources. So a use case scenario is if you have a web application that needs to be private, but the users are not in a regulated environment or even in the same location. In the past, you'd have to restrict access to an online resource either with user agents or IP addresses and that doesn't work for this scenario. And it has the potential to go beyond just requiring authentication, if you can block the entire site from those you don't want to see it.
  6. The site is down until they can redo security and no data was lost. It was posted on x but I can't find the official posting. It doesn't help that one of archive's main admins blocks so many people on there.
  7. What is the HwID of the device?
  8. See if this works: https://superuser.com/questions/1364764/clone-windows-user-settings Otherwise you're going into the territory of LCP or GP, where you are to customize the Default profile and any new user account that gets created will use the Default as the base.
  9. It is in a cab or compressed file on the OS disc, but I think this file is also updated in MSU/CAB from Windows Updates. If yours got updated that way, going back to an older version (like from the disc or some random website) might lead to other problems. Technically, if you have another XP computer, you can copy the msports from there. Remember that on a 64bit computer that the 32bit files are in syswow64 folder and the 64bit files are in System32.
  10. Poll closed 1. There are already (legitimate) sanctions on Russia and other countries that already prevent these types of exports or services being provided. This began during the Obama administration. 2. This is an internal thing relating specifically to the Treasury Department and does not apply to any part of the government outside of that or to regular citizens. Executive Orders only apply to the Executive Branch of the government. No one is permitted to amend an EO except for the President, certainly not the Director of Foreign Assets Control, so it is quite possible that this is an illegal order in the first place. 3. The topic is not technology related, the only thing posted were parts about government policy. The poll is completely political and unrelated to the topic. In the future, users should report political topics instead of trying to be moderators.
  11. So far I get the following: 1. Windows shows a wrong architecture message for msports 2. SFC says msports doesn't match crc with the file in winsxs 3. SFC says the msports in the datastore is corrupted You have x64 in your forum profile, is that also the type you are using here? If the OS is 64bit and uses a 64bit process, it may show a message like #1 if it tries to use a 32bit binary or vice versa. The file it tries to use may be actually fine. I'd validate the file by opening it in some sort of program that can read headers or a decompiler. Typically opening a binary in a program designed to read binaries will fail immediately if the file is actually corrupt. Make sure the environment variables for the OS are not modified. Basically, this could all be true IF Windows is trying to use the wrong msports, if there are actually 2 versions, one in System32 and one in Syswow64.
  12. No appropriate option for Yes/Indifferent. I only use it on one computer, it is v115 and uses HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript and uBlock Origin. Technically my Win98FE computer has Firefox installed, some early version like 0.9 iirc but this computer doesn't ever use it for going online, only internal network stuff.
  13. You will find that people in every country will say the same things about the security agencies in their own country.
  14. Whatever FSB does is not different than what other agencies in other countries do or attempt to do. They are all running shadow games.
  15. Invision Power Services, the company who makes the forum. And re your second post, what you see with the duplicates is what I was referring to in my post.
  16. IPS implementation of it makes it not really useful. It also is not very good since it will list the same device as multiple. I'm sure banks do something similar and so do things like payroll and insurance companies. And for those examples, it is usually tied in with MFA and is more annoying because I'm fairly certain those sites are also seeing 1 device as multiple, and then trigger MFA or confirmation steps. IPS doesn't do anything like that, at least by default. IMO until however these sites come up with this information resolves this duplication issue, they shouldn't be forcing additional steps like they do now.
  17. The forum has a function called Display Name History. I don't know if it is enabled here or potentially it is not used based on how we change names.
  18. The basic gist is that Telegram is one of the few social media platforms that did not accept censorship demands of foreign governments, for good or for bad. Pavel Durov even had this MO when he ran VK. https://t.me/durov/179 He is being charged with the crimes of his users. What makes his situation different from other social media CEOs is that all the other companies work with governments to censor their users, not just criminals or political opponents. I think these charges cannot stand because it basically means that any "webmaster" (the term used in the French complaint) is reponsible for illegal content and if so all social media platforms would go away. Also this is another situation where a government is trying to enforce laws on a company that is not in their domain. UK has been speaking like this recently when it says it will try to extradite people from other countries who violate the UK speech laws, even if that person posted on a non-EU site.
  19. The message the nvidia installer gives is due to the HwID not being found or having a matching arch/OS the primary INF. I did not look at all, but the "64" CAB from MS did not have the HwID in the nvhda.inf. It doesn't match to the SUBSYS in nv_desktop_ref4wu.inf. So this is not the driver. In an INF, if a the subsys is present, then Windows will try to match to that. It doesn't matter if the VEN/DEV matches, if the subsys doesn't then it will report to the installer that the device isn't present.
  20. Windows 11 Enterprise Setup UX cannot delete an MSR partition on a disk. You need to use the cmd (Shift+F10) to use diskpart to clean the disk, then close the cmd, and refresh the disk ui to be able to see a fully unallocated disk to install onto. Obvious this also requires that you are trying to install the OS onto a used disk.
  21. The onus has been placed upon the user to make sure their password is secure. But this is a fallacy, as the weakness of a password was only an issue decades ago when the primary way of getting into an account is to guess a user's password. Or if not guess, then run a rainbow table on it, or whatever other method. Then, even now, having to have a complex or often changed password is only the domain of a priveledged individual and not the common person. 99.9999% of the security issues that involve compromised accounts these days do not come from guessing or a brute force method, rather the insecurity of the provider that hosts the account. Offloading the burden of protection to the user is a mistake. The service provider is the one who is responsible for security breaches. So the reason why you have a hundred different accounts on a hundred websites and have to change your password all of the time is because the websites are bad at security. Somehow the user being responsible for these things has become mainstream and you end up with articles like the op posted.
  22. There was some concern (by someone or multiple) that the software contained in one of the links was "dangerous" which was communicated in a report and an Admin hid the post. As I posted above, it was not deleted.
  23. Normally we only will delete accounts if a user is in EU and sends a properly formatted GDPR request but I do not know if that is what happened here. Another reason may be if the user had a temporary email domain on their account, as it says in the rules, sometimes accounts tied to those get purged.
  24. The links post was "hidden" but someone quoted it. I don't particularly feel there is need to hide that type of information, We can find such things exist, and then others can post that it is false, a mirror (authorized or not) on github, or has bad/incomplete data. That is correcting the record and is fine. That way someone can know what those links are and not have to guess.
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