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... is going f***ing ridiculous.
I tried to open my google account today from a computer I had never been using before.
As a security check (You are not using this compute to access your account blabla..) I got asked to enter a f***ing phone number finishing with two given digits that was supposed to be in my personnal profile : never heard of that number. So could not do it.
Alternatively, they wanted to send me an SMS code on the same number. This was logically pointless as I do not know that phone number, and I did have my phone with me anyway.
So I had no way to access my account ! What is the f***ing point of having data in the cloud if you cannot access it from devices "you are not using usually" ? 
As a result : Back home, I was forced to modify my Google account password, which I have now to take over on all my android devices, redo all the f***ing sync settings. I haven't found any place where I could find or change that wrong phone number they were asking me
I am so done with that sh*t.
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Go here[^] and click 'Phone Number'. It gives you instructions. I have verified them,
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I once accessed one of my Facebook accounts via TOR browser. Facebook locked out my account. It said I accessed my account from a Denmark IP. Which is probably correct. The thing is it's Facebook! Not citibank.
My guess is Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Amazon are trying to be the super do login "authenticators".
2 cents.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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Ernst Iliov Stavro Blofeld wrote: The thing is it's Facebook! Not Citibank.
A lot of people link their Facebook account to all sorts of other accounts, so if it gets compromised, they are all compromised. Admittedly, today no banks are stupid enough to allow that, but that's just a matter of time and change out of management who grew up trusting FB.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Now imagine having to go through that every couple of months for one of your relatives who keeps "losing" his password and wants you to reset all of his accounts across all of his devices...
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They get to ask once, just once, after that they are on their own.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Training my friend, training. Don't do it for them, make them do the job. HUGELY frustrating to do that but worth the effort.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If only it were that easy.
There's been situations where I've sent links to people with detailed step-by-step walkthroughs with screenshots, I've offered to people to show them some stuff and suggested to them to take notes as I walked through something, and had some of them tell me straight to my face, "I don't want you to show me how to fix it when it goes wrong, I just want you to keep it from happening again".
I can certainly walk away, but some of these people are those I see at every family reunion and that sort of thing. Some people simply refuse to learn.
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There used to be an old saying, "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." With computers and most electronic devices and non tech type people, this just doesn't seem to hold up. You have to constantly feed them them. That is why IS departments exist.
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nothing to do with "internet" security.
there is none
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Ridiculous, certainly! But let's remember that all this nonsense has come about from pressure on companies like Google and Facebook from paranoid users (and scaremongering 'security' professionals more than willing to make a fast buck). I'm disinclined to blame Google for the bunker mentality of its 'customers'.
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That's an extremely old picture. The first time I saw it, it was on a computer made of bamboo and stone, and pterodactyls were circling a nearby active volcano.
Cornelius Henning wrote: Never complain when you cannot get a seat on the train!
Just because someone somewhere at some time was on an even fuller train does not make my situation any better.
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That is what Pakistan is all about. Real-time stunts are performed without using any Maya-like animators. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Hover your cursor over the image.
You will discover that "Frando Calamba" is either...
- An extremely common name there, or
- An example of severe multiple personality disorder, or
- One User ID being shared by too many real humans
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How's that even possible? 
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As some of you know, I am preparing for Win10 by making sure I have a good, solid Win7 image I can "fall back" to in the event that Win10 is more Win8.2 than actually useful as an operating system.
So I thought I'd try a couple of free system imagers: "AOMEI Backupper" and Windows "Backup and Restore", both of which have a system imager.
Initially, AOMEI had it hands down: nice looking app, easy to navigate, easy to use, compressed images. Windows...well, least said about that lot, the better. It's not pretty.
The way AOMEI stores images is nicer IMO as well: it's just a file so you can move it, rename it, copy it...The Windows one is a lot larger, and stored as an Admin-only folder so it's a lot more PITA than it needs to be.
So last night was the important test: restore the image.
Obviously, I wasn't going to restore this onto my "live" machine! But, I have a surplus-to-requirements NAS with 4 1TB drives in that I need to clear before it goes up for sale.
So I pull one at random from the NAS, open up the pc, disconnect the HDD, and hook up the "new" one.
Boot from the appropriate recovery disk (each app makes it's own) and off we go.
Initially, the AOMEI looked good - but then I started to worry, when about one minute after booting the PC it's at 49% complete...
After half an hour or so, it's dead - no video, no HDD activity, no nothing except the caps light toggling. After two hours and absolutely nothing happening I killed it.
Tried the Windows one: worked fine, if rather slowly, and rebooted itself unattended so it was ready in the morning. All apps working fine, no noticeable difference from when I made the image.
I suspect that the AOMEI problem was that the disk was already partitioned - it asked which partition I wanted to restore into - Windows just said "I'm going to kill everything on this disk, ok?" and got on with it. Which for an image restore is probably a lot more appropriate.
If that's the case, then I'll try again tonight after deleting the disk partitions first and see if it works - because it was a lot nicer to use - but that's a big limitation if true: you need a "working PC" in order to recover the working PC...
Anyone got any other free imagers that they like / suggest I should test? I'm willing to give most of 'em a go and it could give us all some interesting comparative info.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You may find this thread useful:
http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?fid=1159&select=5033410&fr=12551#xx0xx[^]
Western Digital offer a WD version of Acronis for free on their website, but this version only works if it sees a WD drive attached to the machine. I have using a WD Acronis for many years, and this old version works great, but last year I tried the 2014 full Acronis with bad results. I quickly dumped it. Their customer service sucks! I have no idea how good the 2015 version is.
One final thought: Acronis can verify the image file, once it's made. I think being able to verify an image is crucial. I have had images that failed verification, rendering them useless. These are very large files and if a single bit gets flipped by a gremlin: That's it - the image is useless.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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That's the link I had already found with google and used to create the image!
(It's a good description of how to do it, that - well written and accurate)
Acronis, acronis...I'm trying to remember why I stopped using them...they had a couple of bad versions if I recall and I gave up with them, I think.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The past 2 versions of Acronis have gotten progressively worse where the new one is a heaping pile of dung. I've had to go back 2 versions to get one that works like it should. A lot of people are upset because Acronis not only put out a piece of crap but customer service is none existent unless you pay them there $20/hr tech. fee.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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You can try the free version of EaseUS Todo Backup[^] I've used it with success in the past, but the restore did take very long, which might have been a bug in the version I used.
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I'm using Macrium Reflect and I'm quite happy with it. Backups are files and can be verified, can be browsed or converted to a VHD, it can create a rescue CD. So far restores have always worked.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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