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Gender
Male
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Location
United Kingdom
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Interests
Film; photography; music; computing; cars; rollercoasters
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Occupation
Broadcast Engineering Trainee, BBC
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CPU
Intel 6700K
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Motherboard
Gigabyte Z170X-UD5-TH
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RAM
32GB DDR4 Kingston HyperX
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GPU
NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060 6GB
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Case
Zalman Z11 Neo
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Storage
SanDisk 240GB SSD, Seagate Barracuda 2TB
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PSU
Corsair 600W
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AOC U2879G6, BENQ GW2450H
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Cooling
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
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Keyboard
Corsair K55
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Mouse
Logitec MX Master
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Sound
Terrible
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Operating System
Windows 10
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Alert for LastPass Users, The Breach in August was Worse Than Expected
jammiescone replied to scottyseng's topic in Tech News
Must admit I'm wondering where to go from here - I get a free LastPass Family membership through my employer, and have been preparing to onboard the rest of my family, but now I'm wondering if it's smart to continue - I'm waiting for the 'actually we stored some of your passwords in plaintext by accident' email... -
AMD Cuts Price of 3900X in response to Comet Lake
jammiescone replied to jammiescone's topic in Tech News
Worth noting that US listed prices usually do not include taxes, whereas UK prices do -
AMD Cuts Price of 3900X in response to Comet Lake
jammiescone replied to jammiescone's topic in Tech News
Worth noting that US listed prices usually do not include taxes, whereas UK prices do -
AMD Cuts Price of 3900X in response to Comet Lake
jammiescone replied to jammiescone's topic in Tech News
Haha, would be a pretty big move for me -
AMD Cuts Price of 3900X in response to Comet Lake
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That is a very sweet deal for a 12 core processor, wow! -
Source: https://www.eteknix.com/amd-price-drops-its-ryzen-9-3900x-processor/ AMD have officially dropped the price of the Ryzen 9 3900X in response to the launch of the Intel 10900K. Is this enough to keep people flocking to team red? Gaming performance is certainly in the Intel camp but productivity still lies with AMD for now.
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Native GUI/GPU Support Coming 'This Year' For Windows Subsystem for Linux Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/19/wsl2_gui/ Through collaboration between Canonical and Microsoft, it looks like WSL is going to be getting a big upgrade to include native GUI and GPU support later this year. While it's been possible to get a GUI environment working for some time, this will be the first out-of-the-box support. Would you have use cases for GUI or GPU support in WSL?
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UK Bank NatWest Trialling Debit Cards with Fingerprint Readers
jammiescone replied to jammiescone's topic in Tech News
Currently you have to physically go into the branch to activate the card, at least the way NatWest are running it. The video suggests that there may be scope to activate it through a mobile app in the future, but I suspect the in-branch method will stay too. -
Original source from KitGuru. UK-based bank NatWest is trialling new debit cards with built in fingerprint readers, in order to improve payment security. Currently, in the UK, NFC payments can be made with your card under the contactless scheme for payments up to £30, without the need for any further authentication. Adding the fingerprint sensor to the card will allow users to remove that cap, effectively replacing the current chip-and-pin system. NFC payments made using Apple or Google pay are already unrestricted in many major stores. The technology has been developed by Gemalto, and is explained in their video here: All fingerprint data is stored locally on the card and is not transferred to the bank's servers. Hopefully this will improve the security of contactless payments, and I think it could be a step in pushing reluctant adopters to use it more often.
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Windows 10 October Update Can Now Disable Your Administrator Account
jammiescone replied to jammiescone's topic in Tech News
I'm not sure it was intentional, because I think Microsoft knows that there are still sysadmins out there who use it responsibly when it's required. It will be an accidental security improvement for regular users who had it activated without knowing, but I don't reckon there's many of those around since it's not something you can really enable by accident! More likely to just cause minor headaches for those using it as a last resort tool!- 80 replies
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Windows 10 October Update Can Now Disable Your Administrator Account
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New from Microsoft: Slightly-less-functional-than-before-Windows 10 1809 (SP36)- 80 replies
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Windows 10 October Update Can Now Disable Your Administrator Account
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A fair point, I think most people probably go about things the same way now. I do know a fair few people though who do enable it periodically for serious troubleshooting, particularly if having issues with a specific user account.- 80 replies
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Windows 10 October Update Can Now Disable Your Administrator Account
jammiescone replied to jammiescone's topic in Tech News
That's a user admin account. These days the default system admin account has to be enabled manually, usually for a specific purpose, hence I don't see it affecting too many people overall!- 80 replies
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Source: https://www.eteknix.com/windows-10-october-update-may-ruin-admin-account/?fbclid=IwAR1etKL1YiWwgzVF9t1hAX8TihPk27RAfPfD50NdTqACZc7lTwE1SqnbZb8 It looks like the Windows 10 October Update is not out of the woods yet with new bugs still rearing their heads. This time, it's being reported that under a specific set of conditions, the default Administrator account can end up being invalidated after upgrading from 1803 to 1809. According to the reports, originally from GHacks: The biggest thing for me on this is that Microsoft's recommended fix is that you either: Create a separate account with admin privileges BEFORE installing the update, to use going forward, or; Avoid meeting the criteria Neither of these feel like real solutions to me, and there is no advice offered for anyone who might already be in this position. I can't imagine this having too much of a drastic effect for most people, but it's just another issue to add to a long line of issues, and I'm not a big fan of Microsoft's response. Anyone here who uses the default administrator account and could be affected by this?
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