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I prefer frequent updates to being exposed to malware and hackers. Yes, it's a never ending struggle.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I prefer getting work done, it's a rewarding use of time
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Come now. Do the updates really take so much time out of your work week?
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actually no idea, haven't run an update for a few years, there was nothing in them I needed, nothing useful.
you do realise all the latest scary stories, wannacry, meltdown, spectre included are weaknesses, but still rely on operator stupidity to be effective - they still need you to run something on your machine to give the access, download something, double click an email attachment... as has always been the case with every virus since the 1980's (which btw is when I first got into computers). OK, there were a few exploits found in mailservers and similar but those are long gone, and I don't run a server.
There's actually nothing very new in those "new" viruses, trojans, malwares except perhaps the way they instantiate themselves (yes because with updates the older holes are closed). It's like new cars are far better then the old ones and have less [old] problems, but they're still 5 wheels and an engine - the "new model" is just that - a new model of the same thing, improved yes, but not a completely new item. wannacry is just the new bleeding hearts which was the new iloveyou which was the new ... Same crap, different name.
Short version: I don't need crap designed to protect idiots slowing me down. I mean do you still use training wheels when you ride a bike? No matter how you say it, it's the same bloody thing.
If my computer is on it's because I'm using it, when I'm not using it it's switched off, and so yes, the time taken for updates is my lost time, it wastes my time, and I gain nothing from it.
Oh and yes, I've got zero sympathy for anyone that gets infected, because only one thing is true: it was their own fault, and I'll happily tell them exactly that too.
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Well, I think I was attacked 3 times (it may have been 4) with some variant of Ransom malware, when I visited malicious websites. Every time I was surfing, searching for information on some programming issue I was having. Every time it took me less than 30 minutes to recover, because I always have a fairly recent systems drive image that I could restore.
I have a strategy to recover when attacked. I am not going to cower in some safe little corner for fear of the nasty low lives that stink up the Internet.
Does that make me an idiot? I think not. I stay prepared!
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So what you say is your backups helped you, not so much the updates.
As to malicious websites, never had a problem even when warned the site was malicious. If the settings are correct it's not possible; there are settings to block or at minimum ask before downloading and/or running anything - it's that simple.
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I believe updates help also, but backups are *vital* regardless of other protections.
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+5 for winning the Internet with that message.
Jeremy Falcon
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The last frame is wrong. It should be present tense there.
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...What is your train of thought on this one???[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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You seem to want our esteam.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Restoring that will require some enginuity.
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It remembers me on my childhood.
My birth down was at one of the two last routes where steam locomotives where servicing passenger trains in Germany. So the DB (Germany Railways) collects a lot of the remaining locomotives to be located at those routes. Instead of repairing defective locomotives, they where parked on the tracks of an disused freight depot in my birth town. They parked there rusting for many years until removed one after another. It was a sad sight.
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I cannot help but wonder if there isn't enough steel in those engines to make scrapping them and selling the parts as scrap worthwhile?
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There is and it was usually done. But once the condition has reached those from the photo it is often not worthwile anymore because it has to be done on-site or you need an expensive heavy weight truck.
The locomotives from my childhood with better condition has been finally moved for scraping and the others has been scraped on-site. Interestingly they modified many of the tenders on-site to become snowploughs.
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I thought I'd track down the problem but got tied up on a couple of things while conducting the investigation.
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I don't think that is ready to service any pull requests.
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"Politicians promises reduced to a list." (8)
Good luck.
Andy B
modified 18-Jan-18 4:01am.
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Manifest
Reduced Manifesto.
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Well done! I thought it might have taken slightly longer than that. Your turn tomorrow.
Andy B
modified 18-Jan-18 4:01am.
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Data Encapsulation[^] - I knew managing was something like that!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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We have a requirement to download lot of files that come from a specific vendor via email. That is the only way they can send us. I am looking at some tool that can help me download attachments from those emails and save it on local machine for processing. Preferably a command line utility I can setup in task scheduler.
Any suggestions for such utility ?
We are currently on Gmail but soon be moving to Outlook so I am looking for something generic that can work with any email provider. Google is providing some answers but wanted to know what others use and if there is something that is recommended by community.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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I'd like that too (for Outlook), but so far the best I have come up with is a Rule which runs a Macro.
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Is the gmail purely web based client or read in the local [outlook] client.
Once it's in the client there's always macros, the programmers favorite: outlook interop, or for the complete fun experience a combination of both.
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Create a wrapper around Exchange web services?
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