3s-gtech

Yes, you can close the port.

Putting it behind Azure App Proxy is the right idea. It’s easy enough to do, and it works well. I did the same for our RD browser solution.

Time for this old classic.

What does the contract say about recompense for downtime? As in, is it mentioned?

At least it's a free service. Oh wait Building in resilience is obviously expensive, but so is losing all of your customers because your product can't do the one thing it's there for.

The normal setup is to install the Smoothwall iDex client on a DC, then enable iDex on the Smoothwall. That should then show the AD user on the Smoothwall logs instead of just the IP. Should. It doesn't always work, but it's okay (you can cross-check easily enough against other logs to that IP).

Does it look something like Bootstrap? If so, the versions have shifted over time so elements that haven’t been updated for a while may use older versions of the library. I had to go through that with our in-house stuff to update it all, and it’s not the work of five minutes as it can affect things like containers and nav elements.

32" 16:9 is a bit big, if I'm honest. At least when sat at a desk. Wouldn't change mine, but having to move your head around is a bit...odd.

We have three folders in our shares. Draft policies (Word documents) Current policies (PDFs, governor approved) Archived policies (old PDFs). It's supposed to be 'edit the Draft policies only!' but they do love pinging them across by email still. I was asked to set this system up, and I'm pretty tough on them using it - "oh, you've edited the wrong version as that was saved in your home drive. Now do it all again, this time starting with the governor approved copy". The draft goes to governors, gets approved, then is PDF'd and goes into current and distributed. When someone asks me how to edit a PDF policy, they get shouted at.

Hwb uses both rather deliberately, and that's across the whole of Wales. If you want an example of not choosing either/or on a large scale, that is it. We use both, and will continue to do so. Primarily M365, with GW for Chromebooks.

The kicker was the old Intel 915 debacle where real cheapo Pcs were 'certified' to run Vista despite not being able to run Aero glass. 915 was awful anyway, but I guess Intel had a stockpile to go. 945 that was available at the time was more than capable of that job, but customers got stiffed when they bought a 'new' PC. Vista itself was fine IME, when given some power to run. Better than 98-->ME!

Done and done, Kingston A400 and a 5 amp CTEK both reduced and bought.

Looking for a 1TB SSD for my PS4 Pro, though they have gone pretty cheap already. Also looking for another CTEK. The problem of having cars sitting about through winter.

It’s such a good compromise, I’m seriously considering one for my next PC. My ‘gaming’ PC will stay as a retro machine and go offline only as it’s so old. I can’t justify the cost of modern graphics cards etc as I barely game now - but I may if it’s portable. How easy would it be to dual boot?

You can use a Steam Deck as a desktop replacement - output to monitor, install Windows. It’s quite versatile.

Nowt. It’s our default and I don’t install Chrome.

Surely old systems are harder for cybercriminals to attack, unless they use Matthew Broderick’s setup in Wargames? /partly serious “They’ve managed to hack into the UNIVAC, which doesn’t even have a modem?!”

Technically it has reached end of support (long ago!) so from a professional angle that’d be the line. Same as running old versions of Windows, Office, MacOS etc, you would recommend against its continued use. I believe what you saw related to Creative Cloud directly, but it may indeed affect CS. https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/adobe-warning-of-legal-problems-if-users-keep-using-old-versions-of-creative-cloud-apps

Dunno. I activated CS6 offine (using their code generation system, on their servers) last week. I don’t like the changing of licensing terms after purchase (when I agreed to them) so they can rotate upon my neatly extended digit.

You'll want greater than 1080p - and there may be borders due to the non 16:9 resolutions of Apple screens. The closer you can match to the built-in screen for mirroring, the better - for extended, anything will work. Scaling wise, you'll want to use overscan settings.

My 2017 Macbook Air has responded well to OpenCore - now it’s running MacOS 15 rather well. Not so successful with an old 2011 Macbook Pro - non-Metal graphics meant it was limited on compatibility.

Most of my reimages are due to major version changes of Windows - I think I’ll do Windows 11 next year fresh rather than in-place. Not looking forward to that! The rest are for vanishingly rare SSD failures, failed Windows updates and the power being pulled.

Microsoft are still beta testing this version. They thank you for your efforts.

It has Thunderbolt ports on it. Use these for a display output with a mini-DP adapter - these tend to be really snug and durable. You should be able to bypass the HDMI output entirely. Macs recognise the keyboard layout of many keyboards - but some keys will differ like Option and Cmd. Otherwise they’ll work with a wide variety of USB keyboards. Mice are even simpler.

As above really - they work great docked. HDMI/mini-DP, USB or Bluetooth for the keyboard and mouse, off you go. Sometimes you need a converter to HDMI but they're cheap enough.