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Another reason why the IoT may not be that good an idea ...
Tripredacus replied to jaclaz's topic in Technology News
--JorgeA I've seen this somewhere before... Oh right -
What is the operating system? The WAIK is really just WSIM (making an answer file) and WinPE. If you know what you are doing, you don't need WSIM to make an answer file.
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Another reason why the IoT may not be that good an idea ...
Tripredacus replied to jaclaz's topic in Technology News
jaclaz Not entirely sure about this effecting all security equipment. I can understand the blocking of the communication between the security panel and the monitoring company, but not the sensors. If the security panel loses connection with any of the sensors, it will trigger an alert. This happened to me personally, when I removed a sensor to replace a door. They received an alert that a sensor went offline/missing, even though the system was disarmed. -
Code (index) - show_ad.js from GoogleSyndication is present multiple times. Design - the first 5 links in the top menu go to other pages. As such, it is expected that the 6th link (download) would also go to a page. Instead it prompts to download a file. This is also true on the left image that links to the download. Overall, I think your website is AOK! You even put alt attributes on your img tags (that XHTML 1.0 Transitional deems so holy) that I would have given you a pass on.
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I can't replicate the issue in the first post using the example thread. It may be due to the fact that I can reply into locked topics. This one can be used as an example where it also applies to forum staff. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/20197-autoit-script-collection-contributions-only/?p=739676 Which is post 211 on page 9 of that thread. The link example I used is of a topic that is archived. No one can reply to it. EDIT: Topic archiving was enabled at some point in the past but is not currently. Any posts made in a topic that is archived will not show up in Search results. If you made a large amount of posts prior to 2006, the topics they were in may be set in the archive.
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Ok this explains why I couldn't view the Forbes link you posted before. I ran into it on another forum today too. Forbes does a redirect, which puts me into an empty page. I'm not even concerned about it. If the website does not behave properly, I won't reconfigure everything just to make it work. It isn't worth the effort. I won't use websites that do this and the other offender mentioned there: websites that won't let you scroll. I will make exceptions only in required cases and in those instances only to use a specific browser just for those sites. Best example is IE, which I only use on MS websites.
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I have webpages I've saved (as complete) from 15 years ago that still work properly. Of course, for websites these days it depends on how it is put together. Some pages will not save everything required to view the page, such as scripts or CSS (or even images) that are stored on other domains. EDIT: on all my PCs, I've never changed the .html/l file association. As such if I open any of them manually, they open in IE.
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What browser are you using?
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long time lurker, sharing my services / components removal lists
Tripredacus replied to RanCorX2's topic in Windows 10
Fixed the links. You had a ) in the URL. -
Well... you could just write your own... Surely such things aren't required. Wordpress itself is a mess. One of the first cookie-cutter builders where I noticed the totally un-needed linking to multiple stylesheets AS WELL AS having styles in the HTML.
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Let's not bypass the swear filter. On searching on Google, it is another bad sign. Nearly every time I search for something, the site decides that I must actually mean to search for something else. It is very frustrating and there doesn't seem to be a way for it not to randomly include "similar" words in place of what you actually typed in without having to resort to quotes and (the limited) boolean (support) every time.
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ntlite.com is up for me.
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The Younger Crowd Attitude Changing on Technology ?
Tripredacus replied to Monroe's topic in General Discussion
I am not sure to understand, you are acquainted with "kids" or with "old people" (i.e. "50+" )? Both! The kids are mostly from interactions at family get togethers. They do not seem to have a good grasp on how to computer as much as one would think, since they have been raised with them. -
How to avoid being "upgraded to Win 10" against your will:
Tripredacus replied to dencorso's topic in Windows 8
You can probably also add my strategy to this... I disabled Windows Update. -
I would not recommend doing it after the fact. If you have CSM/Legacy HDD boot options, you can install Windows to a single disk-spanning partition on a 2TB or smaller HDD using an answer file. Windows 10 on EFI "requires" the EFI and MSR partition in addition to the OS partition at a minimum. The MSR partition does not appear in Disk Management but it can be seen with Diskpart. I have not tried or researched having Windows 10 boot on a single partition on EFI either after the fact or from bare metal.
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I blame this on the fact that as time goes went on, there were less people who learned to build websites from books. Books, you may recall, were the go-to learning tool for nearly all of computing up until around 2003 or so. That year also seems to be when a larger percentage of users (in the United States or users of English language websites) were moving to broadband. I remember my first actual software development job in 2004 where it was not actually required to install the 2 CD add-on for Visual Studio for documentation because Microsoft had everything on Technet or MSDN and it was updated. Web development from those book times tought two important things: 1. Do it yourself, only use what you need 2. Keep sizes and load times down because most people did not have a fast internet connection... see "56K Warning." Those getting into making websites around 2000 would often ask, why is my page so slow? It was usually due to being build with a "Generator" such as FrontPage or an online builder like what Homestead had. These WYSIWYG programs would often add code that un-needed (but you might use that someday) or not remove remarked markup or (worse) have some sort of buggy or non-standard code/plugin that would confuse browsers. So a bad thing happened. People still wanted to make webpages but did not want to do all the work from the ground up. They slowly moved away from site generators and into full on web application packages. The first of these were CMS and CMS add-ons for forums. A huge amount of stuff you would install and just fill in what text and pictures you wanted. Then came the age of adding a something into your site that provided a function that another site provided. This had existed for awhile with page counters, polls and webrings. You just copy this HTML and stick it on your page somewhere and boom! instant functionality. This now meant that in order to load up your page, you also had to load content from x other websites and HOPE they aren't having a problem. In the early days, the thought was you could take their code and host it locally. Since that code often changed or updated, people didn't want to have to keep up with everything they were adding. Now site builders stick in these includes and forget about it, until one day it screws up. It seems like nowadays that people designing a website are either not technically sound OR are not willing to tell the decision makers that their idea is not good and shouldn't be used. I've worked on a web team where the others would just accomplish any task given to them. Websites in the business world became less about functionality and more about what looks cool and design experimentation. The Paypal example from the link above is not where I thought the author would go with it. Yes there are usuability problems with Paypal in the user cpl. However, there is no reason in the world why the main index of Paypal needs to stream a video as its page background! One last thing we can blame is the web browsers we use. They used to be known for their rigidity in adhereing to web standards, and over time they have been changed to ignore them and make it so the websites render. Browsers now will ignore nested HTML tags where in the past using those would break the page, this is mostly caused by includes from other websites. All our browsers by default allow XSS. People are still using Iframes. SVG is now available for everyone but only as images. XSL/T still doesn't work in anything besides IE6. wow i typed a lot.
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Yet these services may be needed for disk backup software and the same. In a normal situation, I would agree. However, Nikolas is running this in a VM.
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The Younger Crowd Attitude Changing on Technology ?
Tripredacus replied to Monroe's topic in General Discussion
"older generation"="50+" You have set a rather low level for "us". I tried to use age numbers based on the people I am acquainted with. It may also reflect the fact that I've been living in an urban area for over 10 years. Were I living in the country towns again maybe things would be different. And, I am speaking specifically of life in these United States, with full knowledge that other countries can and often are radically different. -
The Younger Crowd Attitude Changing on Technology ?
Tripredacus replied to Monroe's topic in General Discussion
Certainly there are shops that can do that for cars, but the common US everyman isn't going to fix up their own car should it become damaged. That subset of society, the motorhead (like a lot of trade skills) is primarily owned by the older generations... say 50+. In the past 15 years, people are not keeping new cars even for the length of their warranties. Instead they most often adopt to trade the car in for another new one once the payments are up. At least around here, those who fix up their own cars or keep older ones are either involved in some sort of motoring hobby. Racing (legal or not), showcase (severe minority), automotive industry workers or those who live in rural areas with less access to dealers or auto part stores. Even in this day, it is rare to hear that someone has changed the oil in their own car, as compared to just 20 years ago. Now people go to a shop and have it done for them. I wouldn't say that 36 is the "younger crowd" really. I think that trends in technology and the internet is driven by people younger than 30. Those who have spend a good 10-15 years in the real world after school years usually wisen up by the mid-30s and not want to deal with so much anymore. -
Certainly no one should post their personal email on a public forum.
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And also there is no way to know if the keys are deleted from your account, rather it doesn't show up when you log in. Think of it this way, when we delete a post on the forum, it doesn't go away. You can't see it, it doesn't show up in your history (except the increased post count) but it isn't deleted. Its still in there. I would be surprised if said key was actually deleted out of a database (not counting backups) rather just de-linked from your account, or hidden from your view. Here's an example of an account without any keys. I used my testing account which has been used to set up Windows 10 systems. I'm not entirely certain that Bitlocker is as automatic as they say.
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I guess you are running in a VM? You have the VirtualBox service there which you obviously wouldn't want to disable. From the list given maybe just two Shadow Copy services. You can try disabling the Print Spooler, but in the past I've ran into programs that complain if it does not work even if unrelated to printing.
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Assigning a Static IP Address
Tripredacus replied to nhall@emc.org's topic in Unattended Windows 8/Server 2012
Have you seen any instance where re-arranging the XML does anything? By design, it shouldn't, as everything should be parsed prior to being used.