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Hey guys.

I'm sure some of you have seen it, but I'd like to have a discussion about how Microsoft is ignoring attempts to keep W10 from contacting ad networks etc.

We all know that in the Home and Pro versions that this is excessively difficult, but Enterprise was supposed to allow for it. Unfortunately it appears that Microsoft is fully Ignoring the Group Policies when you turn off data collection settings.

At this point I think it's time that SysAdmins, and Techs and anyone else starts taking the fight to Microsoft's door, or rather pocket book.

I believe it's time to start fully blocking entire Ad Networks. I don't just mean blocking them on a single machine. I mean creating a lis

Hello all,

Just curious how many other people that signed up for the D&D Secret Santa ended up receiving nothing? I sent out my Secret Santa stuff (as confirmed by the user that received it, and the user that put it all together u/DareTheDev).

Anyone else end up with nothing? Or with something awesome? Please share your stories.

Does anyone happen to have anything to brute force, or otherwise get through Syskey? I've run into yet another customer that gave some malicious call centre from India access to her machine and they turned on Syskey with at least a semi-decent password.

I'm trying to avoid wiping out the machine if possible, but I know that will work if need be. Just looking for something that will be able to break in without resorting to full data loss (which I have already informed her is likely at this time).

Thanks for any suggestions.

Hello everyone,

I am working on putting a list together of all of the artists that take commissions for our D&D characters. The reason being is that I have two friends that would like to start doing commission work here as well, but for fairness I would like to get a post together (potentially turning into a wiki page) of all of the available artists and links to their work.

If you're an artist (or know some) that wants to take commission work, or is taking commission work can you please post with a link (or 3) to your work, and your prices?

Depending on how long the list becomes I may just order it in Alphabetical order. If it's reasonably small it'll just be in the order that th

Hey guys/girls.

I'm trying to located a video I watched last year (2015, video was from before that), that talked about Rapport by Trusteer. It was a fairly scathing review of the software and I'd like to be able to track it down again but for some reason it seems to have vanished.

It was about 45 minutes long, and was at one of the White/Grey/Black hat conferences. Basically called Rapport out as being complete garbage sold to bankers that don't know any better.

[Edit] Found it, 44CON talk on the subject by Neil Kettle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EimZQgt7WPg

I've been running across this more and more lately, but modular cables are rarely long enough for full towers + Cable management.

It would be extremely convenient if PSU manufactures provided cables that could be run along the backside of larger cases. Especially now that most cases are bottom mount for PSU's.

Example being a Thermaltake 1000W modular PSU bottom mounted in a Thermaltake Level 10 GT case. The CPU cable is about 1.5 inches too short to reach the connector on the board via the back of the case (with some extra so it isn't pulling on the connector).

This seems to be a pretty common theme. Cables that

Hey guys/gals.

I've had a local motel ask me if I can come up with a better wireless network solution for them as their current one is aging, and customers are complaining that they cannot get on etc.

I'm looking at somewhere north of 27 rooms in a large L shaped building, with a couple of out-buildings.

The current setup will almost definitely need to be entirely scrapped, so using existing hardware is unlikely to be an option (pretty sure it's just retail grade routers set as access points).

My first inclination is to install a business grade router (which I will need to be able to connect a DSL connection and a Cable connection to, with separate settings and fail overs), with somewh

Hey guys/gals.

I have a customer that picked up a Seagate external 2TB HDD for backups within their office. Problem is I very much want to set it to backup files on networked machines, as well as the one it is hooked up to. Seagate support has confirmed that the Seagate Dashboard software that comes with the drive will not access networked drives (which IMO makes the software worthless).

Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative software for running regular backups without user interaction?