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  1. EphesiaNZ

    Last Chance to get Windows 10 for Free.

    Use a partition tool, like gparted, to create an NTFS partition on your flash drive. Make sure you mark the partition bootable too. Once that's done, extract the ISO and copy files across to the flash drive. Once that's done, go make a coffee and relax, you're finished.
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    Last Chance to get Windows 10 for Free.

    As the saying goes, "When a product is free, you end up being the product"
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    Does having which cell phone model affect what you earn + your promotion (on the long run) ?

    This is an interesting happening in regard to mobile phones and work, http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-7-job-firing-china-news/
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    How to stop Windows 10 spying on you

    Did someone say Windows 10, whats that... :doh:
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    Password protect a pdf file?

    Why not?, that's my favourite :) Yes, famous people quotes, movie quotes and song lines/titles are all up there for easy cracking.
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    Password protect a pdf file?

    And what about phrase attacks?
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    Password protect a pdf file?

    Well would I trust the results when one site says, Well, there's an answer to that :) Yes GPU's are bad news in a way but it's no worse really than any modern advancement in CPU speed over the years but to quote from that article, Anyone with data to keep safe should be changing...
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    Password protect a pdf file?

    If they were the same length, the second one is still more secure due to obfuscation and randomness - though it could have been a lot more random. So, going back to, 1) JD&hh3)&DF#jSD or 2) ThisIsHowWeAreGoingToRememberOurPassowrdOnDec25th2015. With the right algorithm and dictionary...
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    Password protect a pdf file?

    And do you always sit there calculating a password/phrase before entering a new one. Whats more secure, y%F#m1D8^%9n or, 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Mathematically, the longer second one is for sure but, in reality the second one is stupidly...
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    Password protect a pdf file?

    Maths aside, I stand by the following, So it's possible the first one could be more secure due to its "randomness". A good passphrase would be of course very secure if it had 30 (or more) random characters, though not very easy to remember. But that's a key rule, if its hard for you to...
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    Password protect a pdf file?

    First one is better. Second one is just a passphrase which can be decoded by a dictionary. Tip: never use an online (or application) password generator, why? Because they they could now have your password and ip address possibly.
  12. EphesiaNZ

    Windows 10 - Linux Edition

    Yes that did predate Linus but, that's just the order of chronology. Not much he could have done about it. Hmm, Lets see, Multics - mid 1960's UNIX - 1970 MS DOS 3.1 - 1985 Minix - 1987 Torvalds starts coding Linux - 1991 Slightly more unbiased #_
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    Backup System

    Cool, looks like you're getting there. UEFI is a major pain in Linux and especially dual booting with Windows. This is why I tend not to mix a backup server/system along with a running or production system/server. A NAS server is purposed to do that backup role generally.
  14. EphesiaNZ

    Windows Vista Start Menu

    Ah maybe Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs or Program and Features. Select link on right to Windows Features and add tick in box for Windows Search. This is probably how you disabled it.
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    Backup System

    If you haven't already run an update/upgrade sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade and maybe, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade That should bring it up to date and try deja dup (i think that's Ubuntu's default backup software) again. If it's still not working then it might be better...
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    Backup System

    Lets hope your iPod doesn't get stolen at the same time your iMac suddenly crashes or the hard drive dies... But some sort of backup is better than none.
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    Backup System

    Ah UEFI, don't have any personal experience of it and it's a right royal pain. Try looking through this, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI That should hopefully get you back on track.
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    Try Linux Thread

    Ah systemd(own), using it but would rather not - why did Debian steamroller this thing? It's caused me more than a few headaches and it will cause more in the future. I pretty sure systemd is the beginning of a monolithic Linux build as it is/has (from what I know) going to tie in with things...
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    Windows Vista Start Menu

    Haven't used Windows Vista (or Windows) for a while but, try right-clicking the Start icon and it will probably be under Properties from the menu that appears.
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    Backup System

    If you want to go the internal route, then you don't really need any on/off switch on the 3G hard drive. If you install Ubuntu on that drive then the file system will be EXT4 by default and this is unreadable by Windows natively so there's little to worry about there IMHO. Ubuntu will read all...