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Quote: I've never had a problem with Win 7/8/8.1 built-in drive image facility.
If you ever have a hard drive failure and you try to transfer an earlier image from that drive to a new drive, using the Windows 7 utility, the boogie man may get you! 
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Definately!
Images are a damn good idea - I use AOMEI Backupper which is also free, and also allows you to mount an image as a virtual (read only) disk so you can recover individual files as well, which is handy.
It's a good idea to use two drives - Images on one, then "regular" backups on another and to have neither of them permanently connected to the PC. (Remember that the ransomware elephants aren't stupid, they will corrupt every disk they can find - and backups are a good target.)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: It's a good idea to use two drives - Images on one, then "regular" backups on another and to have neither of them permanently connected to the PC.
You must be spying on me! That's exactly what I do.
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Do you recall what the site was that did this? Presuming it was a coding site of some sort, there may be plenty of others here who might also stumble onto it...
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Quote: Do you recall what the site was that did this?
No, unfortunately when it happened I was so focused on getting the machine shut off, that I did not make a note of the site. And of course, after re-imaging the drive the day's browsing history was gone. All I remember is that I was googling the terms 'data trigger' and 'converter' when it happened.
My machine is supposed to automatically report such attacks to Microsoft. I hope this happened because that site should then be included in the next set of definitions for Defender.
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Just saw the sad news of the passing of Umberto Eco.[^]
Well known for The Name of the Rose (which was made into a movie). Foucault's Pendulum would be my favourite along with The Island of the Day Before.
All originally written in his native Italian, but wonderfully translated into English.
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I really enjoyed the movie of "The Name of the Rose". I think it was Sean Connery at his best. Sad news about Umberto indeed.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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modified 20-Feb-16 21:24pm.
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Oh my, one of my "literary gods" is gone.
For me, "Name of the Rose" and "Baudolino" are cynosures (beacons) of love, light, and laughter, and the joy of language and playful rapture in surreal esoterica, in post-modern existential fiction's so often haunted, lonely, cities, and desolate steppes.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Someone just asked for a program to make iso files on windows.
But it was gone when I tried to reply.
Anyway mkisofs is a no nonsense, no gui, no cost, no installation tool to create ISO files.
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Yeah, twas me. I took it down cos I found one but thanks for the recommendation.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I had an opportunity to go to Kiel recently for some training, and one weekend, we did go to the miniature museum in Hamburg. It is a very neat place showing the history of Germany throughout the ages. The trains are neat, but the Airport room is awesome
The neat thing is all of the visual 'easter eggs' seen throughout the museum.
Ken
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I love the Area 51 in the America section.
Or the cows with the diving equipment in the Scandinavia section.
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Very cool. BTW, I spotted a UFO hovering above the tracks. Probably waiting to abduct some of the miniature people. 
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If you ever go there in person there's a button to press and the UFO starts to move...
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I had a train set as a child and have not really been much of a miniature train person since, however this is amazing thanks 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thanks for the links!
Nature is incredible, love to be out in it! I'm an avid hiker, camper, backpacker and boater and lucky enough live in an area where I can do all of it!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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... Unless I had a requirement to support old mickeysoft browsers.
I had been banging my head over a simple design solution for last few hours to just get the navbar right.
I can't use polyfills because that may not be available due to "security"
And browser cannot be updated again due to an obnoxious cocktail of "security" and "compatibility"
Because an internal thing is running on something that breaks on new mickeysoft browsers.
(Hope the "one" is not seeing me  )
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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ΑlphaΔeltaΘheta wrote: Because an internal thing is running on something that breaks on new mickeysoft browsers.
Compatibility Mode?
Really, I don't understand why it's so difficult to fix the 'internal thing' to work with the modern browsers as it's usually just outdated javascript or css.
This morning (at my non-developer Saturday job) I have been fighting with IE11 on Win10 Home. (yes, they are using Home edition for the business) Start IE, it crashes. Disable all add-ons and restart it, it crashes. So why not just use another browser? Because the commercial web application we use to do business only works with IE<10! I finally got it to work by using the 'run as admin' option which raises another question. Why does that work, when I'm already an Administrator on the box?  Actually, I don't care, as long as it works for my shift. My point is that it is bad business to promote an IE only product!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Why does that work, when I'm already an Administrator on the box?
UAC - you're an Administrator, but you're not an Administrator.
Did you try turning Protected Mode off?
Internet Explorer Protected Mode - Turn On or Off - Windows 7 Help Forums[^] (It says Windows 7, but the steps haven't changed for W10.)
It could be a problem with the permissions on the file system or the registry. They aren't documented anywhere, and they're so complicated to fix that MS usually just tell you to create a new user profile, or refresh/reset your PC. 
"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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Richard, Turning off the Protected Mode did the trick. Thanks!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Really, I don't understand why it's so difficult to fix the 'internal thing' to work with the modern browsers as it's usually just outdated javascript or css.
No it isn't difficult at all. But no one cares to update it. It does contain some kind of ActiveX back from the IE6 days which refuses to run on new machines.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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How old are we talking?
If it's IE10, then you just need to use the older syntax[^].
Using Flexbox: Mixing Old and New for the Best Browser Support[^]
If it's IE9 or earlier, then you'll need to fake it with float or display:inline-block.
Use Modernizr[^] to add classes to the <html> element so that you can easily switch between approaches:
.flexbox .product-grid
{
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
flex-wrap: wrap;
justify-content: center;
}
.flexbox .product-grid > .product-grid-item
{
flex-basis: 25%;
}
.no-flexbox .product-grid > .product-grid-item
{
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
width: 25%;
}
If you're using display:inline-block, watch out for white-space between your elements:
Fighting the Space Between Inline Block Elements[^]
But now this is starting to turn into a programming question! 
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: But now this is starting to turn into a programming question!
Thank you for your awesome answer for my non programming question. Especially for the link to the old syntax and how to mix it with the new syntax properly.
But the idiot devil sysadmin has turned off JavaScript
Old : As I'm told a couple of boxes may still run IE 6. Majority are Windows 7 boxes, so I guess should be IE 8
Pretty old indeed. With the exception of dev boxes that we use.
I'm not using flexbox now. Had to go the hard way with floats and inline-blocks.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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