Thanks. I usually Google before going to any ‘tech’ forum, which is why I don’t like the first response when it is “Just Google it”. I guess they don’t see that if everything could be found with Google, their special forum wouldn’t be needed, not to mention that many answers found in Google come from tech forums.
Tell me about it. At my own forum website I have a strict rule in place that says if anyone posts a just "Google it" response you'll get a warning. It is perhaps one of my biggest pet peeves. Your assessment on the "Google it" crap (which is what it is except the word starts with a massive
S) is the same as mine. If there weren't any tech forums out there or perhaps Stack Exchange and what not then where in the actual HELL! are you going to dig up that gold nugget in a sea of lead?
Several years ago I joined a tech forum to ask a very specific question that I thought had a good chance of being answered from this particular forum. Well, was I so wrong to think that. Got an email notification saying someone replied to my post, eagerly logged in and the response was, "Google it." Since I absolutely hate that crap I deleted my bookmark and just closed the browser without logging out never to return.
Stack Exchange and its cousins are an interesting animal as well. I have asked exactly two questions. One was about why a DHT (Distributed Hash Table) port showed up for my VPN at Shodan which sure as hell shouldn't, and my post was down voted at least twice. No explanation as to why. Just two down votes and not a single response to this day after about two or three months. Then after my second email to my VPN provider, I see that the DHT port that showed up at Shodan went *poof*, gone, like magician's flash paper. So they must have fixed a vulnerability or blocked Shodan's bot from hitting their VPN server looking for that port. They may have fixed it at the server level because Census doesn't show it either. I'd have to do an Nmap to be sure.
The other Stack Exchange question I asked was at the radio communications section and it was straight forward that any knowledgeable radio communication hobbyist or amateur radio operator should have known or at least could have pointed me in the right direction. I just wanted to know how to use SDR (Software Defined Radio) software to decode the sub tone (as I call it) on a carrier. I got a response my question was, and I'll paraphrase, "too advanced." Then I got another response asking what a sub tone was. He was undoubtedly just being
cute (and not like an LA Lakers cheerleader either) because I probably should have said "SUB CODE!" instead. In reality it really is a tone. It's a constant tone that rides on your carrier when you press the PTT (push to talk) button that you can't hear but the receiving radio can in an effort to keep others off your channel or minimize interference. I wanted to see the sub code because I own some radios that encrypt the tone and I'm thinking it's simple XOR, but I'd like to see it for myself right in front of me in software with SDR# or something.
/Nerd mode -off. LOL
[Not a ‘fan boy’, but I don’t have any issues with Outlook either. I was working for a place back in ’07 that had some kind of deal with MS and I got the whole / full Office suite for $9.00 so I grabbed one. (It was an offer for anyone that worked there.) I use only Outlook, Word, and Excel, and they all do what little I need to do with them. Before Word, I liked Word Perfect a lot.
Yeah, I've heard about this a lot. Especially for those that go to college. From my common sense understanding on how marketing works, it's a way to get the product out there and into your own little day to day life. Eventually you'll find yourself dependent on it and paying for upgrades. Just like pay to play stupid Face
Moron games or what ever. Now I hear that Office is built or is being built as a pay for service. LOL! Just like Windows 10. It's not free because Redmond wanted to be nice. This carney has turned the user into their own little corporate cash cow to further expand their bottom line and making their share holders happy dividend earners and what not. There's an absolute orgy of telemetry pouring out of that OS. I've seen it with my network sniffer. Not so much with Windows 7 and XP. Those two OS's just have some local NetBIOS stuff and hits to the time server. There's also a hit to a CDN (Cloud Delivery Network) that tells you if you have an Internet connection or not. Ever see that little yellow exclamation icon over your network icon in the Task Bar? That's because the OS couldn't ping a server which means you more than likely have no Internet access. You may have local network access, but no Internet access. But that could be a DNS issue or other things as well.
CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.
39
Libreoffice Libreoffice : List of security vulnerabilities
Over 500
Microsoft Office : List of security vulnerabilities
Quality control is to Microsoft as is a monkey eating a snake sandwich.
The "man" wears sheep's clothing yet somehow has become the herder.
