dcwhitworth

We've got a very small bungalow on site. It used to be for the head caretaker who is by the longest serving member of staff. He's had a few health problems ion recent years and is no longer head caretaker although he still works here, but he still lives in the house. I'm not sure exactly what will happen in the future but I expect when he retires they'll let him and his wife continue to live there if they want to. Honestly doubt anyone else would want to live there as it's so tiny.

No, it's legit. Actually getting decent service, hooray ! We're trying one last thing then they're shipping a replacement to us.

Thanks ! Now trying that, looks a lot more hopeful.

Can someone help me make sure i'm doing things right. I have a faulty HP switch with supposed lifetime warranty and I need to log a call to get a fix. I tried logging it via My HP Support but it refused to accept the serial number. I logged the call anyway including the serial number in the text. The mailed back asking for the serial number. I replied on the call giving it to them again. Then nothing . . until today when the call was closed with no explanation. So I'm rather fuming, but want to make sure I'm using the right route before I actually explode. Also if anyone has any numbers etc I can call that would be good. Thanks very much

Yes there's the one named after the small town in Massachusetts. You'd have to be careful as someone might coal in the moderators and you might not be granite a second chance.

I think there's a difference between getting it wrong and bad standards. You can get it wrong by extrapolating to the wrong conclusions in good faith from available data (Dewey defeats Truman !) or in several other ways without necessarily being untrustworthy in the long run. It is (or should be if it's a decent plug in) long term behaviour that gets the rating not individual errors. And no you shouldn't trust a plug in or indeed anything tech 100%, that's when the trouble starts.

I don't believe most people do believe every word. I bet most people believe the papers spout rubbish a lot of the time but that they are able to tell when and are unaffected by it. Research however shows that people who believe they are not affected by biased reporting are actually the most vulnerable to it.

Thanks very much for this, I will be giving this a look. I love step 4 - "Run this script to get the hashes from ntds.dit, this may need to be done in an elevated session.". I'd be concerned if you *didn't*need elevated privileges to do this !

Don't worry, no one was going to erupt. Generally there's a lot of lava in these forums.

They have no one but themselves to blame in every way - "Our journalist analysts always contact websites if they get a negative rating on any of our nine journalistic criteria. The Mail Online chose not to reply," co-chief executive Gordon Crovitz, who used to oversee the Wall Street Journal's business and journalism operations, told the BBC.

You'd have to be flint hearted or have lost your marble to not enjoy this thread.

I had a look round recently and decided I rather liked the iPhone SE mainly because of the price. I intensely dislike both Apple and Google, but at least Apple has the advantage of not having a fragmented platform that manufacturers can do what they want with and all the inherent security issues this brings along. I don't really want a whole load of apps, maybe just a few basic mainstream ones but I can live without them if needed. What I really dislike is the stupidly inflating size of phones these days and the equally stupid assumption that I'm happy to pay more for my phone than for my PC. Of course now I find Apple have discontinued the SE as of late last year, only stupidly expensive iPhones now available.

I think with a lot of these things it doesn't so much matter what your policy is, more that you have a policy that is written down and has been formally approved.

The keystone of our dealing with these issues is we have a specific system admin AUP on top of the standard user AUP which covers our broad behaviour and deals with some specific issues like what if you see something confidential. Personally I think monitoring the monitors is rather overkill and time that could be better spent on something else unless you have specific security concerns. We allow connection to all machines without permission. You can argue it both ways but there are times it is useful to be able to connect without permission being able to be granted.

Not done yet but I definitely want to introduce it. I have concerns about user pushback over the 'inconvenience'. I think it's an essential in the cloud age.

Wow, we have until December ? :-D That's great news !

Thanks, fixed. Odd, picture showed up fine when I posted it before and the link still works for me.

Well . . . good.

If we need access to their account without them being present we reset their password with their agreement or if it's (very rarely) going to be longer term we set an agreed password. Once the work is complete we get them to reset their password. With the advent of the age of cloud identity management is critical to security and secure password management is at the core of that.

I just can't see that this policy does anything other than reinforce bad habits on several levels. The excuse of 'it's more convenient this way' is usually a big red flag when it comes to security.

Great to be here amongst the faithful !

There are DHCP logs in %SystemRoot%\System32\dhcp although if the machine is in frequent use the IP address may well not have changed.

I'm finding it all a bit of a grind.

I'm relieved I thought the puns had dried up.

Only numerically I'd bet, not in volume held.