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I take it you want something more secure than Dropbox/Amazon. How much data are we talking about, how often, and do you specifically need to back up to somewhere off-site?

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Originally Posted by Josem

1016,

I use CrashPlan, works fine for me AFAIK.

Thanks for the help.

Gonso,

Not sure, didn't know that Dropbox and Amazon weren't secure tbh.

5>25 GB. Less than 50 MB of new content on an average day. Backed up daily, and yes, needs to be off-site. I'm paranoid enough that ideally I would have two backup services (both off-site).

08-24-2013 , 07:32 PM

#127

hulk3rules

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In the new Firefox, the address bar now defaults your searches to whatever is selected on your search bar. WTF is the point of doing that?

08-24-2013 , 08:46 PM

#128

LirvA

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Go to the search engine you use before inputting your search terms.

08-24-2013 , 09:08 PM

#129

hulk3rules

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What's the point of even having a search bar now?

08-24-2013 , 09:10 PM

#130

LirvA

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Sounds like it's redundant now. You could remove it and save space imo.

08-24-2013 , 10:20 PM

#131

Low Key

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I don't understand what your saying Firefox does. In chrome, if you type in an address in the address bar, it goes there. If you type in a term(s) to search in the address bar, it shows search results.

I don't see why anyone would want anything other than this, but that's me. What exactly is FF doing? I know it has separate address and search bars (at least up until this version if that's changed).

08-25-2013 , 12:51 AM

#132

Gonzirra

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 1016

It's secure enough for me. Drop files right in that bitch

08-25-2013 , 12:15 PM

#133

hulk3rules

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Low Key

There are two bars. The "awesomebar" which is also the address bar, and the search bar, typically to the right of the address bar. For years, I have used, and now my brain is trained, to hit Ctrl+L to go to address bar if I want to search google, and Ctrl+K if I want to search somewhere else (generally left at Wikipedia but I have 7-8 search engines there). Now both places will just search wherever the search bar was last set/used.

Imagine if a shortcut you used as many as 50-100x a day was switched. You would probably be annoyed as well

08-25-2013 , 07:12 PM

#134

Low Key

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Understandable.

However, I seem to be stuck beta testing a new god-awful piece of software known as "windows 8," so it's hard to muster any sympathy when I can't do simple things like "download and install updates," or "use the computer."

Eta

Anyone know what I'm supposed to do with all these failed updates? Try them again? Do I have to uninstall them first?

Last edited by Low Key; 08-25-2013 at 07:18 PM.

08-27-2013 , 09:05 PM

#135

1016

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Gonzirra

It's secure enough for me. Drop files right in that bitch

Install/setup is super easy, but I'm not sure the optimal way to handle this now. I assume most people just keep the originals in the actual Dropbox folder so that it's constantly synced.

If I have files that are being consistently written and/or updated though, probably better to copy them in once a day or something? (For example, if I put my hand history folders in there, it would be uploading files the entire time that I'm playing.)

More hassle than it's worth to back up 2 computers this way if I don't want the files synced across both computers? Better to just use 2 accounts I'm guessing.

Am thinking maybe I'll use something like Cobian to autocopy the files I need to the Dropbox folder daily, and then I can use CrashPlan or similar to backup the Dropbox folder as well and I'm all set.

Thanks.

08-27-2013 , 09:05 PM

#136

1016

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BTW, I'm obv now curious why you said "something more secure than Dropbox/Amazon." You just meant a private server somewhere rather than something with a web interface? Or is there something else about Dropbox that makes it less secure?

08-30-2013 , 05:42 AM

#137

LirvA

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Foobar2000 question

In the album art viewer pane, sometimes it shows the album art, sometimes it doesn't, even though the pictures are there in the folder. Anyone know what the deal is?

08-30-2013 , 05:45 AM

#138

LirvA

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So right clicking the album>tagging>attach pictures gets it to work properly, I just don't understand why the hell it doesn't work in the first place.

Tilting.

09-01-2013 , 08:14 AM

#139

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IBM file leak: When will the enterprise learn?

News broke this week about IBM’s latest file leak, where a former employee with access to confidential information regarding IBM’s play in cloud computing technology leaked hundreds of pages of documentation, shedding light on IBM’s weakness within the cloud computing industry. While this is terrible news for Big Blue—which is trying to gain a foothold in the cloud against rivals Amazon, HP, Oracle and SAP—this whole scenario is somewhat ironic. While it is unclear how the documents were leaked, it poses the question of why this anonymous employee was able to access and share the files at all—especially at a tech giant that should be reigning in control of potentially volatile information.
(continued)

http://blogs.computerworld.com/secur...terprise-learn

09-01-2013 , 10:22 AM

#140

kerowo

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Not really on topic for that laptop thread Lirva so I moved it here.

It's not ironic at at all that IBM or any company with computers can't control access to their data. It's a hard problem that requires a lot institutional will to implement and has to be 100% effective all the time.

09-01-2013 , 12:04 PM

#141

LirvA

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It would be weird if it was a chinese spy or some ****

09-01-2013 , 12:07 PM

#142

LirvA

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can anyone recommend a mother board, and maybe PSU, case, and maybe some DDR3 RAM for me?

Looking to build a 64 bit windows gaming machine with 2x GeForce 9800 GT in SLI, and probably like 8 GB of RAM minimum. It will be used for gaming, but also video editing/production.

As far as the graphics cards and processor, I want to be able to overclock to get real high performance. I have a GeForce 9800 GT right now, but it's bottled by my processor, RAM, AND operating system.

I figure getting another 9800 GT and putting them in SLI with a lot of DDR3 RAM and overclocking them with a fast processor will be a huge upgrade over what I got now, and would do really well with video production, and it would be more economical than buying the biggest baddest single graphics card.

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09-01-2013 , 05:00 PM

#143

Shoe Lace

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9800 gt SLI? I'm not sure if you're trolling or not.

In case you're not, I have a single 9800 gtx+ and every modern game runs at like 15-30 fps unless I turn everything on low and run it at 1366x768 in which case I'm lucky to get 60 fps during low stress situations but my CPU is a c2d 2.13ghz.

I think you're about a million times better off getting a single card that's a few generations newer for maybe $100 if that's about your budget for a vid card.

09-02-2013 , 10:42 AM

#144

Gonzirra

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9800 GT is like 4-5 years old, no way would I buy another to run in SLI today. You buy a used one and either could die before too long. Might as well just get an updated card, one with the most recent Direct X version and things like that.

09-02-2013 , 11:39 PM

#145

LirvA

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I see, thx. Can you recommend a < $1k system? Already have monitors.

09-10-2013 , 12:40 AM

#146

hulk3rules

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Quote:

Originally Posted by hulk3rules

In the new Firefox, the address bar now defaults your searches to whatever is selected on your search bar. WTF is the point of doing that?

I found an extension to fix this, in case anyone else is looking for a fix. Seems backwards that I have to add an extension to get features that use to be default, but oh well

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...eyword-search/

09-13-2013 , 01:33 AM

#147

ItalianFX

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What does it mean when you go to a website and you just get a blank screen that says, "I cannot connect to MySQL Server."

It's not specific to my computer as I know it's happening to someone else too. I don't know if there is a fix or it's just an issue with the website itself.

09-13-2013 , 07:49 AM

#148

kerowo

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It means there are problems on the back end of the website.

09-14-2013 , 07:10 AM

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How NSA’s cyber sabotage puts us all at risk

Earlier this year, the director of national intelligence told Congress that cybersecurity is now a bigger threat to the security of this country than terrorism, echoing a similar point previously made by the head of the FBI. Members of Congress have heard this message loud and clear, holding numerous hearings, proposing legislation, and repeatedly stressing that cybersecurity is a high-priority issue.

Yet just last week, the New York Times, Guardian and ProPublica revealed that the National Security Agency has leveraged its “cooperative relationships with specific industry partners” to insert vulnerabilities into Internet security products. Similarly, newspapers reported that “the agency used its influence as the world’s most experienced code maker to covertly introduce weaknesses into the encryption standards followed by hardware and software developers around the world.”

NSA has two, often conflicting roles. (1) It steals the secrets of foreign governments and other intelligence targets (which, we’ve recently learned, includes all Americans), and (2) it is responsible for protecting the security of American government computers and networks from foreign threats.

Traditionally, one of the main ways that NSA achieved its offensive signals intelligence role was by breaking the codes used by intelligence targets. For example, during world war II, the US and UK governments worked together to discover critical flaws in the cryptography used by the German and Japanese militaries. In 1945, there were limited uses of cryptography outside of the government. However, today, cryptographic technology is in widespread use: our credit card numbers are encrypted as they are transmitted over the Internet when we make online purchases; our electronic health care records are encrypted by hospitals; the searches we enter into Google are encrypted, preventing others from learning what we’re searching for; and the video calls we conduct with our loved ones using Skype and FaceTime are encrypted as they are transmitted over the Internet.

Not only do we all rely on encryption to protect our private information, but the same encryption technologies are widely used around the world. A journalist in New York and a human rights activist in Egypt will likely use the same encryption technology to protect their communications. Terrorists, drug kingpins, foreign government ministers, and millions of Americans all use the same technologies to secure their communications and private data. It would be one thing if the NSA had discovered and exploited unintentional design flaws in the encryption and security technologies we all use. However, the media reports last week suggest that NSA has in fact worked to insert intentional flaws into security software, both by manipulating the technical standards setting process and by collaborating with “patriotic” American technology software companies.

NSA is prioritizing its own foreign intelligence collection goals over the security of the Internet. The agency is gambling that the flaws it is exploiting will never be discovered by other governments’ intelligence services, or by hackers. As Howard Schmidt, the former White House cybersecurity czar observed earlier this year, when governments quietly exploit, rather than fix security vulnerabilities “we all fundamentally become less secure.”

During a hearing last fall on the risks associated with Chinese networking technology, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers observed that that “Americans have to trust our telecommunications networks" and that “when vulnerabilities in the equipment, such as backdoors and malicious code can be exploited by another country, it becomes a priority and a national security concern.” Chairman Roger’s point about the risks associated with vulnerabilities and backdoors is just as valid if those backdoors have been placed there intentionally by the NSA as the Chinese.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-s...ts-us-all-risk