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It gives the office people something to do 
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Opening a Office-document is as dangerous as running an executable.
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One of the most annoying 'features' is that you have to allow editing of a document before you can print it.
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Jacquers wrote: One of the most annoying 'features' is that you have to allow editing of a document before you can print it.
of course, they worry you may off-line edit it, i.e. with a pen or such other dangerous implements.
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<slow clap=""> Brilliant. 
What if you want to save your chances?
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Yep! It's there for a reason.
If you get Office documents from 3rd party sources consistently, then a "weird" one shows up that you don't immediately know is "weird", the document doesn't have a chance to execute its "payload".
We got bit by that once. It spread by converting every folder it saw into a shortcut to a folder of the same name. That was fun.
ONCE because that policy is enforced.
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I am working in a 300,000 people organisation. About half of these open between 50 and 100 office files a day. What is the cost of billions of unneeded clicks compared to a reformat of one infected computer ?
Plus, people are now so used to clicking that they do not pay attention anymore if the file is "weird" or not.
All in all, this is utterly useless.
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Rage wrote: What is the cost of billions of unneeded clicks compared to a reformat of one infected computer ?
What is the cost of clicking the button, compared to the cost of the enormous fine you'll be hit with when a macro installs a RAT, and exfiltrates all of your customer data?
What is the cost of clicking the button, compared to the cost of recovering from a ransomware infection that encrypts every single accessible file on your network?
You say it's enforced by policy. That means the people in charge have decided that the cost of clicking the button is worth it to mitigate the risk of allowing documents from untrusted locations to execute whatever code they like.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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All for your security 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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About a month ago the motherboard on my daughter-in-law's PC crapped out. They could have picked up a new motherboard easier, cheaper, but instead decided to purchase a brand new PC. And being the online shoppers they are found a reasonably good deal at CyberPowerPC. They do have a really nice customization page.
I've been wanting a new PC myself for about a year and now that the bottom has finally dropped out of the cryptocurrency market the price of video cards has once again become much more reasonable, I decided to do some shopping myself.
I to decided to take a look at CyberPowerPC and found myself a decent rig. Not top of the line but a good rig that should last me several years. And with a bit of customizing should be more than sufficient for my needs, and the most I've ever spent on a PC.
Intel(R) Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Coffee Lake)
240GB WD Green SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive)
16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1)
Raidmax Monster II ATX High Airflow Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0
LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner
ASUS PRIME Z370-P ATX w/ USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe
850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
GeForce(R) GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 (Pascal)
Windows 10 Pro (64-bit Edition)
With plenty of case fans.
15 days for them to put it together and ship it. Now what really drew me to purchase from CyberPowerPC was their partnership with Affirm. Online loan approval, much lower interest than we could get with a card, 10%, and no late fees. In fact no hidden fees, you can see all your payments online. And then it shipped.
Que the horror movie music. The package was scheduled to be delivered today, a package I have to sign for, and the UPS tracking site indicated it was on a truck and out for delivery by 8:30AM. I was able to get permission from my boss to work from home for the day—no big deal really. My wife is a scrapbooker and we get a lot of packages delivered. Some are delivered before noon, some after, not that unusual.
But no package before noon, so I head to lunch. Before I get three blocks I see a UPS truck, turn around, go back home. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait, no truck, go to lunch anyway. Get back home, it is now 1:30PM. Spend another 30 minutes working...and then my remote session to work drops. This has happened before, no big deal. Wait five minutes, attempt to connect, fails. Wait 15 minutes, attempt to connect, fails.
At this point I've given up and emailed the boss and network services, no response from either. So, go watch TV and wait for UPS. Two hours pass, it is now 4:30PM, the same time my wife gets off work and the time I normally leave work to pick her up. 30 minutes pass, it is now 5PM, I check the UPS tracking site one more time. Still out for delivery, since 8:30AM. I leave to pick up the wife at 5:01PM, she works half-way across town, it will be almost 5:30PM by the time I get to her office.
And the punch line is—after I get to her office I again check the UPS tracking site. Attempted delivery at 5:14PM. But wait, there's more. After getting back home we attempt to change the deliver method from the UPS tracking site. No can do, all options are greyed out. Call UPS, finally get to talk to a person. The shipper has picked the option that only allows for home delivery and someone must sign.
Call CyperPowerPC, they selected this shipping option because we purchased the PC with Affirm and they can't change it unless Affirm says they can. Call Affirm, they do a lot of business with never heard of this before and are highly confused. But they are understanding and willing to have CyberPowerPC change the shipping options.
Can we setup a conference call to CyberPowerPC? WAT? Affirm is wanting us, the customer, to setup a conference call between them and CyberPowerPC? The customer support people can't do this themselves? Nope? At his point the wife was already talking to Affirm while I was ranting at how lame UPS is. I was so hacked I just left the room and went to mow the lawn.
As I was leaving the house to mow I stuck my head back into our office to find my wife with two cells phones, mine and hers, talking to Affirm on one and CyberPowerPC on the other and both of company reps talking to each other through our phones.
However, after everything was all said and done, I can now pick up my PC Monday from the UPS customer center. I'm beginning to think all of the online ordering and payment should be thrown out and we should go back to bartering. I'll give you three cows, two goats and three pigs. Can I now have my PC please.
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Well serves you right for ignoring the long time honored rules of delivery and installs like landline/cable/anything
1 When they say: "we will be there between X and Y" (typically a 4 - 8 hour separation during which you must be there) it always means 5 minutes before Y.
2. but Murphy adds: "Step out at any time, Z, during the interval X to Y, the time changes to Z + 2 minutes."
3. Murphy's wife also likes to add, "even should you stay home during X and Y, and decide to perform any involved task (messy sticky finger lunches in particular), or dare to sit on your porcelain throne for some quiet contemplation, the time will change to then."
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And Murphy's second cousin's corollary "If it's really needed, the courier will claim he tried to deliver but you weren't in so he gets home early".
And that's ignoring the "delivered" items that turn up at a neighbor the following day. I'm still trying to work out how one delivery got to a bedridden 93 year old lady with dementia instead of me.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm still trying to work out how one delivery got to a bedridden 93 year old lady with dementia instead of me.
That's easy. She got out of bed, strolled down to your house, and stole it off the porch!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I had to wait more than a month after ordering a Dell gaming notebook, something went wrong with the IDEAL payment (which is the most popular way of paying online in the Netherlands) on the Dell side.
But now I'm really pleased with the notebook, setup went flawless, and I got 100 Euro discount because of a discount action during the waiting period.
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Z.C.M. wrote: I'll give you three cows, two goats and three pigs.
Well, the cows can be herded down the road to my farm, but you'll have to tell the mayor that traffic on the road needs to be closed off and you might need a special license. The goats can be delivered by truck to the pen, and could you take the pigs directly to the butcher?
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I do ordering a lot online, however if it s something local I ask to place it in one of the shops nearby, as I prefer to pick it up at the end of the day instead of playing mouse-and-cat with the delivery guy...
For instance, two weeks ago (one Thursday), wife's laptop dead... Ordered one online the very same night, picked it up Sunday on way home...
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Try the Beau Monga's rendition of "Hit the road Jack" from New-Zealand's X-Factor.
It's quite nice.
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Assembling my AMD 32-core CPU beast of a machine!
I've decided to name it: Triacontadicore
Thanks to all those who provided suggestions!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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sounds like a beast. what are you doing with it all of that?
note: please don't say win10
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Yes, Win 10 Pro.
Lots of virtualization and software development, as well as some personal video encoding.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You will realize very soon that 32 core is way to little to run Windows as host for massive virtualization...
If you already using virtualization try a Linux host... It worked for me for over 7 years (when I just realized I need no Windows at all)...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I've decided to name it: Triacontadicore
Thanks to all those who provided suggestions!
Is it too late for suggestions? AMD32CoreCPUyMcAMD32CoreCPUFace? 
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The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Install new SSD, install Linux on the ssd, and convert existing win7 instance to a virtual machine (if that's even possible).
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