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Post by Slinger on May 21, 2023 15:49:38 GMT
LOL, hopefully, they won't go silly on hardware specs as corporates and education simply won't be able to keep up. Anyway, I'll have stopped caring by then. Think of the big paydays when they ask you " to come back in" as a " consultant" Martin. That happened to a mate of mine (and a lot more people I didn't know but knew of) after redundancy from BT. John was a project manager, which was a highly paid job to start with, and he took a very large wedge in redundancy. Like me, he was a " lifer" and was a fair bit older than me too, so he'd been there for an age. About 6 weeks after he'd " retired" they asked him to come back on as a consultant. For a laugh (he wasn't bothered about the job one way or another) he asked for three times his leaving salary. They didn't blink, and he spent another 15 months absolutely coining it, until he'd had enough, and left for good. |
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Post by Tim on May 21, 2023 18:50:12 GMT
LOL, hopefully they won't go silly on hardware specs as corporates and education simply won't be able to keep up. Anyway, I'll have stopped caring by then. Don't you use Windows LTSC Martin? |
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Post by MartinT on May 21, 2023 19:01:44 GMT
Don't you use Windows LTSC Martin? No, because the density of attack types nowadays requires the monthly updates to be applied with a sense of urgency, with almost every month including one or more high urgency CVEs. In fact, some updates were expedited out of the usual monthly cycle because of severe vulnerabilities. It isn't just Windows, all of our Linux appliances incurred urgent updates, all of our Macs and iPads ditto, and a lot of our software packages based on Java or scripting languages too. There's some evil crap out there and long term stable versions of OS are no longer desirable. |
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Post by Tim on May 21, 2023 21:20:49 GMT
There's some evil crap out there . . . True dat . . |
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Post by Slinger on Jun 1, 2023 18:32:53 GMT
As you may have noticed from my post in the "Couriers" thread, I've just bought another 64GB of memory. The reason is that Amazon are selling exactly the same kit I originally bought, but for around eighty-five quid less. It was one of those "too cheap to resist" moments.
Now May is out of the way (the worst month of the year for me) I might actually get cracking on the new build, which will now have 128GB of RAM
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Post by Tim on Jun 1, 2023 20:44:33 GMT
. . . . which will now have 128GB of RAM Haha, you shamed me earlier with my 16GB RAM, so the other week I upped that to 32GB . . . now I'm in the 'is that all you've got?' corner again!
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Post by Slinger on Jun 1, 2023 20:58:38 GMT
. . . . which will now have 128GB of RAM Haha, you shamed me earlier with my 16GB RAM, so the other week I upped that to 32GB . . . now I'm in the 'is that all you've got?' corner again!
I just couldn't resist 64GB of nippy gaming memory for under £135.00 |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 2, 2023 8:49:54 GMT
Me and my mediocre 16GB and 6 cores are in the doghouse. It's plenty fast enough for all the things I do, though (not gaming).
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 2, 2023 11:00:43 GMT
Still remember forking out big time for
4 Mb, yes Mega Bytes
£160
I also remember when it was all fields around here
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Post by Slinger on Jun 2, 2023 12:11:30 GMT
I do enjoy a spot of gaming now and again (Fallout 4, Skyrim, a couple of Tomb Raider ttiles etc. old-ish stuff, but they can get pretty resource-heavy, especially with added "mods".), and of coursr I also use Photoshop a great deal, and both will benefit from a decent video card and, basically, as much memory as I'm prepared to throw at them. I also want to do the best I can to "future proof" the build, as I intend it to last me a while without constantly having to upgrade bits of it.
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Post by Tim on Jun 2, 2023 18:29:06 GMT
Me and my mediocre 16GB and 6 cores are in the doghouse. It's plenty fast enough for all the things I do, though (not gaming). It's not that long ago that would have been considered a powerhouse! |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2023 4:35:27 GMT
If you're using weak passwords - don't!  |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2023 4:37:03 GMT
...mine will take 21,000 years to crack. Adequate.
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Post by Tim on Aug 2, 2023 9:46:26 GMT
...mine will take 21,000 years to crack. Adequate. I prefer better than adequate . . 
How Secure Is My Password?
The #1 Password Strength Tool. Trusted and used by millions.
ENTER PASSWORD
*****************
It would take a computer about 15 billion years
I don't store passwords in a browser or use the same for different sites either.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2023 9:50:38 GMT
I uprated mine to 25 million years.
A bit more adequate.
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Post by Tim on Aug 2, 2023 9:51:29 GMT
I uprated mine to 25 million years. A bit more adequate.  |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2023 9:52:33 GMT
Please only use this tool in an InPrivate/Incognito session! |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2023 9:55:09 GMT
How Secure Is My Password? The #1 Password Strength Tool. Trusted and used by millions. Your tool rates my password at 5 hundred trillion years. Yep, that should see me into retirement... |
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Post by Tim on Aug 2, 2023 10:01:34 GMT
Yup - I also clear all my session data every time I close a browser, even without a private session it all goes. I know you're not a fan of Firefox, but in my days of computer forensics, that was the only browser that actually did clear everything from a session and it couldn't be recovered. Can't vouch for that now though obviously, as that was a few years ago!
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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2023 10:02:06 GMT
Installing Windows 11 on non-compliant hardware
This method, using Rufus and a suitable ISO image, works. We are using a variation at work for some older Lenovo machines with TPM but a non-compliant Intel CPU* and they all install W11 without fuss and perform nicely.
*I am so fed up with Intel's vulnerabilities that I will only order equipment using AMD processors now, including our immensely powerful servers running Epyc processors.
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