Posts by rproffitt

Do you have the medical background and insurance to offer such advice? The US folk can be a litigous group.

Also, how does your advice differ from say https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/can-you-reverse-type-2-diabetes ?

We all agree that quacks and misinformation must be squelched.

This question has popped up far too many times. As such I refer to the Communty rules about showing your effort.

Do provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments

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Windows 10 is not a programming language so add a tag for which language you are using with your work so far.

Given the rather lax requirements this could be done in a single cout statement. Was there more to this assignment?

It appears this was kicked around about a decade ago.

Are you reporting all those methods are now broken?

This does not look like psuedocode. It's also missing any hint of what each line does.

No need since you can type in your link address above and below so folk know what's going to happen.

Odd thing.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise notes a choice of

1. Enterprise.
2. LTSC.

You noted a version I can't find.

The admins I know restore from the last backup if they can't admin their way out of the issues.

I see you on the web. Example: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:46SRQ8EEtKYJ:https://www.roomfurnisher.com/what-we-are-doing+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=opera

App developers here seem to be plentiful. I worry here that you are proposing no pay during development. Folk have to eat, pay rent and buy their Apple gear to work on projects. Maybe if you were clearer about ongoing compensation you'd get more interest.

@increase. This thread has issues.

1. "(upload script is not mine)" this means that you may want to find the author to ask questions.
2. This thread is 7 years old. Participants may not reply.
3. Current members seem to ignore old posts like this.
4. If you can't modify the code above, you may not be able to maintain it later or even get it working. In this case I suggest you add more members to your team that maintains your websites.

All that and I can't guess where your licensed full version of Office is. I would be guessing you want some hack to get around Microsoft's license systems.

Office 2003 still works at the office so why not reinstall that? We are running Windows 10 Home and Pro at the office.

For new laptops we install LibreOffice and Thunderbird and if the employee can't adapt we use one of out last Office 2003 licenses.
PS. There'a a calendar addon for Thunderbird as well.

It will do what you design it to do. Since the equipment is not known, then I can't predict what will happen.

There are MANAGED SWITCHES (a basic staple of networking so I won't duplicate what they do here) that could assist but as I don't have all the details I'll only write that it might be needed.

Yes. Let's look at this image about permissions and yes, there are two root@ entries. If you are missing one, time to make another or fix your codes.

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Also, what is "ρavg"?

220,000 plus dead in the USA. There are naysayers and those that speak the words "comorbidity" and how our leaders are not responsible.

Anyhow, this site is about the numbers: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

I have friends in Canada that tell me the USA is like the neighbor's car that the alarm has been on for months.
I tell them that we're in the car.

This conversion doesn't seem too onerous. But you must show effort unless this is a requist for paid work.

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My view is that the abject failure of the US leadership and as of today 220,000 or more deaths alone is all we need to know.

Graph it all you want. The current POTUS did not engage the threat and undermined those that tried to help.

No graphs needed in my opinion. Just the number of how many dead tells all we need to know.
Then again we could compare the USA response and deaths to say New Zealand.

COVID-19 doesn't care about politics.

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While I think your code was badly formatted, let's look at https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_while_loops.asp

Since you break on line 4 the remaining code does not execute and thus no return of the list. Since all we need is to return to end the while loop, how about the following? I did not bother to name variables here. Quick and dirty. The reason for the print is to see the list build.

def that():
    l = []
    while True:
        print(l)
        userinput = input("Enter a string: ")
        if not userinput: return l
        l.append(userinput)

print(that())

I didn't find any lack of tutorials when I used a search engine. But I would start with https://www.figma.com/resources/courses/figma-tutorial-a-free-ui-design-prototyping-tool-its-awesome/

A few issues here:

1. No code offered so no one can see your approach.
2. What API? There are so many.

You are about 100 miles from me. Tell more.

Where's the code you tried?

I wrote a lot in Turbo Pascal long ago and recall it had loops and string length functions. So that's the basics but where's your code?

Absolutely not. That company apparently has not responded to your concerns which is a bad sign. Also such companies are a dime a dozen now.

Find one that you can actually talk to and work on your concerns.

IOW, I see nothing special about Appoly.

PS. You asked about Appoly last month. Asking again reinforces my answer here that they are not to be considered given your posts about them and their apparent non-responses to you.

https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/tree.html did not show this as a feature. To me that means you'll have to add code to add this feature.

PS. What code? Try ideas from https://www.google.com/search?&q=python+treeview+how+to+select+and+set+focus+on+a+row

While many VB (Visual Basic) versions were the same I'd research this with the usual search engine with "visual basic date calculations" to discover what functions are available and then look at the function to see if it will do.

Or if you know the month then your choice to do a simple method and not worry about if 28 or 31 days equals a month.

I won't supply code given the less than sufficient specifications plus how would you know if it's right or how to maintain your code. Let's try instead to learn more about the dates you want to find the differences from and then work from there. Supply an example of the code that holds this date as I've seen dozens of date variable types over the years.

As I read your post I notice that you used all capital letters. This is not acceptable for most blogs and articles that you want to write.

It looks like you can still blog for free and work on your research about monetizing your blog. I'm not going to write about monetization since that's been done so much.

Let's see one of your current blog posts. Hoping to see some lower case letters there. ?

Sorry for the delay. DW has been slammed with spam recently and I only get so much time here.

You write "open to public access" in regard to ports (I assume.) I maintain that open ports are a non-issue when there is no listener and you have a good stack.

Bad stack you ask? Going back to Microsoft's old stacks in Windows 3.1x, NT and 95 those were exploitable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke for example.

Today you won't find that or rather should never see that again. But hey, new programmers creating their own or borrowing ancient codes could bring these horrors back.

-> Can you define what "open to public access" means? To me that would mean there's a server or service responding.

As to your first question about any dock, that's where you search for such but App Killers used to be quite the thing on the Google Play Store.

I think that Google has tightened security since https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1044192/Android-List-and-Kill-Background-Process was published so while that's a start on finding what and where the functions are here, you would also research if new permissions are required.

This question needs refining. I can't guess what you need to do here. Share some code and where you think it fails.

I don't see what language this would be in and the tags you used seem to not apply.

You'll have to tell more but if this was one of say the Microsoft Visual Studio languages then yes. Firing this event would be no different than any other form event. No need for me to write your code here. Also, the condition sounds like we use the "if" statement.

Let's define what an open port is.

To me an open port is one that is not blocked by firewall or other means and has a listener.

I'm sure you have followed the back and forth discussions about GRC and similar.
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/8xquqi/why_are_pias_grc_shieldsup_results_complete_crap/

So let's be very defined here. Open ports does not mean "exploitable."

"everything open there will be taken advantage of"

I wish you had followed that up with something like " if there is a service listening."

If a packet arrives and there is no service listening, in all the Linux setups I've seen that packet is dropped as it has no where to go.

For this with these few files I would not write a script. I'd open Windows File Explorer then select the files I need then send them to the zip file.

But hey, you may want a script. For that we read https://support.winzip.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011641387-Create-individual-Zip-files-with-a-command-line

Skip down to the section titled "Individual Zip files of folders."

Now alter the 3rd line (it's the one with DIR) to pick out those files. Given that the DIR command has been around for 30+ years I take it you know how to use DIR.

I use TAILS and have tried the PARROT distros. These seem secure enough to me. In fact the Tails OS is disliked by USGOV agencies.

https://www.theregister.com/2014/07/03/nsa_xkeyscore_stasi_scandal for example.

I wish I have more to offer here but for decades I've used the method of dropping unsolicited packets to stop attacks in their tracks. Now if you run some Fish Server that has an exploitable bug, my view is you fix the Fish Server.

Since you know how such apps work, you design (before coding) your new system then begin to build it. Once in a while you encounter a new coder that thinks they can do this from scratch. For example I've run into a few "I'm going to write my own Windows" folk and because I want to know why they think they will, I listen and try to understand. Everyone of them didn't grasp the task at hand or how long it would take and what resources (time, coders, servers and CASH!) it will require.

Not really. We've seen many PCs over the years hit with lightning strikes and as yours, a PSU blowout.

About all you can do is to start fresh and with the new PSU see what works.

To answer your question another way, you install the new PSU and test to see if it survived.

Watched most of The Social Dilemma ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/ ) it appears to me to be successful you must learn certain, let's say, deep physcology and think about how to sway your followers using all the tools noted in the movie. This is a drama documentary but what you see there does remind me of what methods I've seen before.

Yes, they do paint a dim picture but if you don't, your site and presence on the web appears to be diminishing.

Worth a watch.

Comment if you feel that pull to "The Dark Side."

You? I take it you are a human on the planet Earth. Many humans carry a smart phone which is their connection to that quaint network.

Thank you again Rev. Be safe and sorry about the dumpster fires to the south.

Consider Herman Cain's COVID-19 timeline:
@TimOBrien
"A humbling Herman Cain/coronavirus timeline:

6/24: Attends Trump rally, maskless
7/2: Tests positive for Covid-19
7/10: Says he’s improving
7/15: Says his doctors seem happy
7/27: Says he’s really getting better
7/30: Dies"

• https://twitter.com/budgie/status/1313203764535402505

Sadly Herman Cain did not get VIP Treatment.

I hear you. Now let me present our long standing method for a nice secure device or platform. What I'll write next is a basic idea and not all that we can do but the premise is so simple and has saved us from working harder than most. Ready?

We disable any service/server that is not required. This limits the attack vectors to only what remains. I know the beginners find this step incredibly hard since they are asked to learn what their server is doing along with "what does the tapioca service do?"

So much of the past exploits depended on your devices to be in their default config that when you stop all those services the attacker is not getting responses from your machine.

That still leaves us with denial of service attacks but that's usually handled in your router or ISP levels. ISPs work to mitigate DOS attacks since it chews up their bandwidth.

Sure there's more but I see I didn't lead with what we find to be the most effective first step.

You found what you like. What's stopping you now?
Also, where is your site?

can't be hacked

There it is. As it stands today nothing is bulletproof. However we did take time to secure our systems which IMO leads to zero breaches unless you count some spyware that well, we spotted in seconds and mitigated the hell out of.

Today I'm also encountering folk that call any version of Windows a security breach, spyware or something else. They are free to make such a stance but then you find them running Windows, an Apple OS, Android and not some secure or better secured OS.

In closing, when I do make a setup secure as possible the user balks because things like Yahoo and Facebook don't work.

I missed where you shared the bug/issue report for surricata or such. I worry this is:

1. Not reported in the bug pages.
2. That you may have gone down the Chicken Little "sky is falling" rabbit hole.

That said, I don't run surricata or had to do anything like you noted and our office has been fine for decades. We run Linux, Windows and until recently an few machines and phones on Apple OSes. Just programmers with some of us having written router code long and me? A few projects on proprietary almost IP networks but not since they wanted a secure LAN.

Rule out human error? No can do. So far all this code has been written by humans.

Also, from what I can distill from your posts is you have found an exploit or whatever you wish to call it. Report that now or they won't know to work on a fix or tell us how to mitigate.

Have to answer no. In decades I have not found what you seem to be presenting as a panacea. Why? "Dave."
You can see dave at https://www.reddit.com/r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/comments/7crx0b/it_security_vs_dave/
Copy follows from source:

Now Dave is not only the user but any app, stack, operating system etc.

Back to surricata. If you feel it's broken, report that bug.

How to present your data. 2020 style.

The subtle details in the chart, well done.

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