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#21 User is offline   LiveBrianD 

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Posted 03 December 2011 - 05:32 PM

View Postwaldojim, on 03 December 2011 - 04:14 PM, said:

View PostLiveBrianD, on 03 December 2011 - 03:53 PM, said:

Really? The thing is, I prefer 7-zip because, with it being free, if I ever need to recover my stuff I don't have a risk of loosing the installer and such - I just download it. I find the 7z format works pretty well. I haven't used Real Player in quite a while.

Winrar is annoying, but still, it is free-ish.


They're only trials, right?
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 05:46 PM

View PostLiveBrianD, on 03 December 2011 - 05:32 PM, said:

They're only trials, right?

Trials that never really expire.
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 06:15 PM

View Postwaldojim, on 03 December 2011 - 05:46 PM, said:

View PostLiveBrianD, on 03 December 2011 - 05:32 PM, said:

They're only trials, right?

Trials that never really expire.


What do you mean? At the end of the trial period it just nags you to buy the entire thing at each launch?
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 06:59 PM

View PostLiveBrianD, on 03 December 2011 - 06:15 PM, said:

What do you mean? At the end of the trial period it just nags you to buy the entire thing at each launch?

That's it!

Sadly, I actually prefer that to the mess that is 7-zip
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 08:54 PM

View Postwaldojim, on 03 December 2011 - 06:59 PM, said:

View PostLiveBrianD, on 03 December 2011 - 06:15 PM, said:

What do you mean? At the end of the trial period it just nags you to buy the entire thing at each launch?

That's it!

Sadly, I actually prefer that to the mess that is 7-zip


What is it about 7-zip? I mean, sure, maybe the interface isn't the best, but I find it works plenty well. People use what they want to, I guess.
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 10:08 PM

View PostLiveBrianD, on 03 December 2011 - 08:54 PM, said:

What is it about 7-zip? I mean, sure, maybe the interface isn't the best, but I find it works plenty well. People use what they want to, I guess.

The interface all but useless. At least I can exit easily enough.
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  Posted 04 December 2011 - 02:51 AM

View Postwaldojim, on 03 December 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:

View PostOpSec39, on 03 December 2011 - 08:34 AM, said:


Some people prefer icons, I prefer hot-keys! :P

Don't be fooled by that single 225Gb HDD either, theirs plenty more, a total of 4 atm, upgradeable to 12.

What interface are you using? That is exceptionally clean.


OpenBox with Gnome, tint2 Panel & Conky status display. It's also incredibly light on the memory, 148MB with the whole desktop loaded leaving approx 1.50 Gb of RAM to get chewed up as an when you open an application, SELinux extensions compiled into the Kernel. You can read more about SELinux @ it's homepage. http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/ <-- Hence the wallpaper :D

It supports mandatory access controls, smart-cards, RFID, a range of peripherals, A-Bit motherboard. Mostly AMD all the way.

It supports MUSCLE (making use of smart cards under linux) so when you think of chip & pin spare a thought of me with my CAC (common access cards) instead of having to type my user name and password, I just drop a card onto the reader and logging out has never been simpler, just pull out the card and walk away.

It's got great novelty value as a topic of discussion, you can say to people, when the subject comes up about PKI based security, "yeah man, my system is totally Cac!" :P

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  Posted 04 December 2011 - 05:54 AM

@ waldojim, I seem to recall one of the PC manufacturers had something similar on a laptop with smart cards for logging in and out on one of the tough-book range of lappy's but the idea never really took off instead they embraced Biometrics which I have to confess I am not really that much of a fan of, simply because I am a person with a nervous disposition and thusly I chew my fingers and nails, so trying to login with the idea of Biometrics with me in mind would be an absolute bloody nightmare as with one tiny chew my finger-prints would never be the same.

I've also got an eye out to see if I can pick up a mini-disk reader / re-write Sony brought them out on the VAIO range to replace the floppy disk and again it never really took off despite the fact a mini-disk holds Gig's and a floppy holds like three megabytes tops. I have a DAT drive I could use in place of the floppy but sad to say even with six expansion slots for PCI extra's I find myself in dire need of more as I can not mount the DAT and SCSI card without sacrificing something else, like extra USB slots or Crystal Clear sound editing, or the video editing which I am in no rush to do.

I never thought I would hear myself say it but "I need more PCI Buses!"

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Posted 04 December 2011 - 06:41 AM

View Postwaldojim, on 03 December 2011 - 01:36 PM, said:

You can tell a lot about a man by looking at his desktop.

The clutter is comical.

But REAL PLAYER?! :blink:



I happen to like Real Player. It is better than Windows Media Player in my opinion. I have a lot of excess stuff on the desk top. There was a lot of stuff from when I was trying to unlock the BiOS in the Gateway. There was one file for The Witcher 2, that needs to be added. In short, a lot of that stuff is temporary stuff and I prefer to put it on the desk top.
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  Posted 04 December 2011 - 07:35 AM

Oh the Joy's of Spares!

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Thats 10 seconds of looking in the draw. You should see inside the big red box!

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  Posted 04 December 2011 - 09:29 AM

I love it when I get them on the phone, hello we're calling from india to offer you our premium anti-virus, we got your number from Microsoft and have detected your PC is running slowly and we'd like to offer you this once in a lifetime opportunity to let us into your system via remote desktop support. lol

Last one was Virgin Media with some thickly American accented woman saying "Hi and congratulations we're calling from Virgin Media to notify you that we've got some fantastic upgrade options available for you as an account holder may I please have the last three letters of your password!?"

Oh man she asked for it, "Which password would that be? The password to my PKI Keys, the password to the Firewall Log, the password to my Crypto Keyring, the password to my mail , the password to my Sandbox, the password to my true-crypt volume, the password to my password store, the password to my wireless, the password to the router or the password for my Browser, please do be more specific dear oh and you have nothing I want thanks" *click*

What they do apparently is call up offer you an upgrade and you get upgraded to the Sky box with a wireless router (already got one) and then hit you with more charges hidden in the contract.

If they took a long hard look at my original agreement they would see nothing about Router or more than one PC on the connection, just the line coming into the stone walls to which I then added all my own equipment. Including a VPN, hardware firewall, software firewall, tables, tunnels, encryption and a wireless with more 'omph' than anyone else within a mile radius!

Bless my mom "what are you doing?" "just splitting the connection up across a miniature network dear!" "WHAT!?, Stop that at once they didn't say we could do that!" "Oh go back to your knitting woman, they didn't say we couldn't either!"

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Posted 04 December 2011 - 12:25 PM

I would love to be a fly on the wall down at my ISP's, what does the DNS cache say about this customer? We have no idea, the customer has bypassed the DNS and went straight to DNS_sec with a third party secure provider and our poisonous persistent cache has been disabled! Waah, our Zend PHP knows nothing what do we do.. FAIL
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 01:28 PM

View PostOpSec39, on 04 December 2011 - 05:54 AM, said:

@ waldojim, I seem to recall one of the PC manufacturers had something similar on a laptop with smart cards for logging in and out on one of the tough-book range of lappy's but the idea never really took off instead they embraced Biometrics which I have to confess I am not really that much of a fan of, simply because I am a person with a nervous disposition and thusly I chew my fingers and nails, so trying to login with the idea of Biometrics with me in mind would be an absolute bloody nightmare as with one tiny chew my finger-prints would never be the same.

I've also got an eye out to see if I can pick up a mini-disk reader / re-write Sony brought them out on the VAIO range to replace the floppy disk and again it never really took off despite the fact a mini-disk holds Gig's and a floppy holds like three megabytes tops. I have a DAT drive I could use in place of the floppy but sad to say even with six expansion slots for PCI extra's I find myself in dire need of more as I can not mount the DAT and SCSI card without sacrificing something else, like extra USB slots or Crystal Clear sound editing, or the video editing which I am in no rush to do.

I never thought I would hear myself say it but "I need more PCI Buses!"

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Lenovo does have the option for a smart card reader. I opted out when I bought my machine... though now that I think about it... it was a $10 option, I should have gotten it. It has also been proven that computers are very easy to trick into letting you in. Fingerprint readers are a wash.

The only two DAT drives I ever used connected to a common connection. One of them was floppy, the other SCSI. Never really considered mini-disk as an option though. May have to look into that.
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 01:30 PM

View Postcoastie65, on 04 December 2011 - 06:41 AM, said:

View Postwaldojim, on 03 December 2011 - 01:36 PM, said:

You can tell a lot about a man by looking at his desktop.

The clutter is comical.

But REAL PLAYER?! :blink:



I happen to like Real Player. It is better than Windows Media Player in my opinion. I have a lot of excess stuff on the desk top. There was a lot of stuff from when I was trying to unlock the BiOS in the Gateway. There was one file for The Witcher 2, that needs to be added. In short, a lot of that stuff is temporary stuff and I prefer to put it on the desk top.


No worries! I just had to poke a little fun other the real player.
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 03:28 PM

View PostOpSec39, on 04 December 2011 - 12:25 PM, said:

I would love to be a fly on the wall down at my ISP's, what does the DNS cache say about this customer? We have no idea, the customer has bypassed the DNS and went straight to DNS_sec with a third party secure provider and our poisonous persistent cache has been disabled! Waah, our Zend PHP knows nothing what do we do.. FAIL


What, so they can track what sites you visit? lol... I'm using google dns right now. (I was using openDNS, but stopped because when you hit a 404 they give you their stupid search page. Gee, it's easier if you LEAVE the url as it is and just let firefox give a 404 error so I can just look at the url that I typed and change it, and then try again.)
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 06:13 PM

View Postwaldojim, on 04 December 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

View Postcoastie65, on 04 December 2011 - 06:41 AM, said:

View Postwaldojim, on 03 December 2011 - 01:36 PM, said:

You can tell a lot about a man by looking at his desktop.

The clutter is comical.

But REAL PLAYER?! :blink:



I happen to like Real Player. It is better than Windows Media Player in my opinion. I have a lot of excess stuff on the desk top. There was a lot of stuff from when I was trying to unlock the BiOS in the Gateway. There was one file for The Witcher 2, that needs to be added. In short, a lot of that stuff is temporary stuff and I prefer to put it on the desk top.


No worries! I just had to poke a little fun other the real player.


I know I have a messy desktop. :D I put everything there that I am working with until I decide what to do with it. The icon that mentioned a Succubus, is a Witcher 2 file ( Mod ).
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 06:47 PM

View Postcoastie65, on 04 December 2011 - 06:13 PM, said:

View Postwaldojim, on 04 December 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

View Postcoastie65, on 04 December 2011 - 06:41 AM, said:

View Postwaldojim, on 03 December 2011 - 01:36 PM, said:

You can tell a lot about a man by looking at his desktop.

The clutter is comical.

But REAL PLAYER?! :blink:



I happen to like Real Player. It is better than Windows Media Player in my opinion. I have a lot of excess stuff on the desk top. There was a lot of stuff from when I was trying to unlock the BiOS in the Gateway. There was one file for The Witcher 2, that needs to be added. In short, a lot of that stuff is temporary stuff and I prefer to put it on the desk top.


No worries! I just had to poke a little fun other the real player.


I know I have a messy desktop. :D I put everything there that I am working with until I decide what to do with it. The icon that mentioned a Succubus, is a Witcher 2 file ( Mod ).

Very nice! :D
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 06:56 PM

View Postwaldojim, on 04 December 2011 - 06:47 PM, said:

View Postcoastie65, on 04 December 2011 - 06:13 PM, said:

I know I have a messy desktop. :D I put everything there that I am working with until I decide what to do with it. The icon that mentioned a Succubus, is a Witcher 2 file ( Mod ).

Very nice! :D


I used to, but eventually decided not to given how it impacts performance. Besides, I rarely look at what I have on the desktop anyway; all my useful stuff is tucked away in other folders.
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 01:22 AM

View Postwaldojim, on 04 December 2011 - 01:28 PM, said:

View PostOpSec39, on 04 December 2011 - 05:54 AM, said:

@ waldojim, I seem to recall one of the PC manufacturers had something similar on a laptop with smart cards for logging in and out on one of the tough-book range of lappy's but the idea never really took off instead they embraced Biometrics which I have to confess I am not really that much of a fan of, simply because I am a person with a nervous disposition and thusly I chew my fingers and nails, so trying to login with the idea of Biometrics with me in mind would be an absolute bloody nightmare as with one tiny chew my finger-prints would never be the same.

I've also got an eye out to see if I can pick up a mini-disk reader / re-write Sony brought them out on the VAIO range to replace the floppy disk and again it never really took off despite the fact a mini-disk holds Gig's and a floppy holds like three megabytes tops. I have a DAT drive I could use in place of the floppy but sad to say even with six expansion slots for PCI extra's I find myself in dire need of more as I can not mount the DAT and SCSI card without sacrificing something else, like extra USB slots or Crystal Clear sound editing, or the video editing which I am in no rush to do.

I never thought I would hear myself say it but "I need more PCI Buses!"



Lenovo does have the option for a smart card reader. I opted out when I bought my machine... though now that I think about it... it was a $10 option, I should have gotten it. It has also been proven that computers are very easy to trick into letting you in. Fingerprint readers are a wash.

The only two DAT drives I ever used connected to a common connection. One of them was floppy, the other SCSI. Never really considered mini-disk as an option though. May have to look into that.


Here's the only one I could find with 5 minutes of searching, used on eBay

http://www.ebay.com/...=item19cb5f8fa3

Take-note PC World, your customers want Mini-Disk RW and if you stock them, we'll be up your trouser leg like a ferret to buy one!
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Posted 05 December 2011 - 05:31 AM

View PostLiveBrianD, on 04 December 2011 - 06:56 PM, said:

View Postwaldojim, on 04 December 2011 - 06:47 PM, said:

View Postcoastie65, on 04 December 2011 - 06:13 PM, said:

I know I have a messy desktop. :D I put everything there that I am working with until I decide what to do with it. The icon that mentioned a Succubus, is a Witcher 2 file ( Mod ).

Very nice! :D


I used to, but eventually decided not to given how it impacts performance. Besides, I rarely look at what I have on the desktop anyway; all my useful stuff is tucked away in other folders.



Well, when I was working on the Flash drive for flashing the BiOS, there were a number of files involved and I put them on the desktop to expedite things. One is to format & make a bootable drive ( DOS ), the next is the Flash utility and then the BiOS Image itself. It is better to have that stuff at my fingertips, as it were, then somewhere I would have to dig it out. As for impacting performance, if it does at all, it is marginal at best. They are only short cuts to the folder and nothing more.
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