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    Request: Your experience with Win 10 vs. 11 & different versions.

    WAU Manager (Windows Automatic Updates Manager) does work on Windows 10 Home edition It requires an extra step of installing the Group Policy Client, which it will install. WAU Manager essentially modifies group policy settings to control Windows updates. Windows 10 Home doesn't have Group...
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    Request: Your experience with Win 10 vs. 11 & different versions.

    You should check out WAU Manager and Incontrol
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    Amazon Driver hits my pole

    Railroad tie!
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    Blue Iris Windows 11 or Windows Server?

    My BI computer is running Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2 since 04/2023 without any issues.
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    Do you use a password manger? I keep my passwords in a text file.

    I use KeepassDX on my mobile devices and KeepassXC for my Windows browsers. From a previous post of mine on this site ... If you really want to have a secure password make it a "Double Blind Password". When you use a DBP neither you nor the password manager app know the full password. You...
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    Can you ID this Halloween pumpkin thief ?

    Maybe he took it off so he wouldn't be recognized because unlike Yogi and Boo Boo he's really smarter then the average bear!
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    Flock installed LPR's without permits and has now been banned from operating in two states

    You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people, people like you. Crimes the government...
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    Security camera installer reuses passwords

    I suggest that you change the passwords BEFORE you have him removed!
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    Spider Webs Covering Outside Camera Lens

    I did the same thing except I used this ... Dust Wand ... that I found at Lowe's and permanently attached to a extension pole.
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    Pet Collar Cam?

    The first time I put a flea collar on my once feral cat she looked like a wild horse being ridden for the first time!
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    What motivated you to get started

    For me it was because I found out how easy it was for someone to come up to my house and screw with me. About 8 years ago I started having problems with air pressure in the front drivers side tire on my truck. It was low, about 10 pounds so I got out my air compressor and reinflated it. Well the...
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    Security issues... maybe... probably? F......

    I actually had the credit card that I used to purchase BI from Amcrest stolen/hacked. It was a brand new, just received and activated card. I have all of our accounts/cards setup for text and email alerts so I immediately contacted my bank. I sent this email to every address connected to...
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    Find the cat :)

    The heating pads use low wattage, 20 watts for the small to 60 watts for the large size pads, I have two that are always plugged in and have not notice any increase to our bill.
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    Security issues... maybe... probably? F......

    From a previous post of mine ... If you really want to have a secure password make it a "Double Blind Password". When you use a DBP neither you nor the password manager app know the full password. You create a strong password that is stored in the password manager and then you add a unique...
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    Find the cat :)

    I tried that for a feral cat a couple of years ago, using a large styrofoam cooler but she wouldn't use it. I ended up making a lean-to with small openings on both ends and a pet heating pad, she used it all winter!
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I just refreshed the page and captured this image ...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    After seeing this post I googled "southern most point webcam" and there was a couple taking pictures (2335 hrs), she was sitting on her ass holding her legs spread wide apart while he took pictures! When they finished he waved at the webcam.
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    Man's Speeding Ticket Said His Fine Was $1.4M : Steve Lehto

    Germany, France, Austria and the Nordic countries issue fines based on a person's wealth. In Germany the maximum fine can be as much as $16 million compared to only $1 million in Switzerland. Only Finland regularly hands out similarly hefty fine to speeding drivers, with the current record...
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    Dear Abby: My Husband is addicted to security cameras

    My wife may be writing to Abby very soon ... In the past 15 months I have replaced a LaView NVR with a BI server that I built and purchased 10 cameras from Andy to go with the 10 original cameras.
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    Range Finder

    I used this Mileseey by RockSeed Laser Measure to get the distance for my LPR (198 feet) ... AT NIGHT.
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    EmpireTech 8th Anniverasay Sales July.18th-23rd

    I just ordered one .... 14 and counting
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    Electrical Inspection Wall Of Shame

    come on that can't be real ... is it?
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    2023 EmpireTech Memorial Day Sales

    Do Like I plan on doing, don't tell her ... what she doesn't know won't hurt ME!
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    Clean install

    My hard drive is fine. My problem was with Windows 10 so I did a clean install of everything.
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    Clean install

    Thanks, I did deactivate my license before I started.
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    Clean install

    Yes I know about losing everything else, I just didn't want to have to reconfigure all my cameras. Thank You!
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    Clean install

    I'm about to do a clean install of Windows and BI and I am wondering if the settings I configured when I logged directly into each camera via a web browser be affected? I'm asking about picture. exposure, BL, WB etc ... If so is there a way to back them up. Thanks!
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    Steps to keep a PC running BI from updating or shutting off.

    FWIW You should check out WAU Manager it will do it all automatically.
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    Steps to keep a PC running BI from updating or shutting off.

    I use WUA Manager ... Windows Automatic Updates Manager
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    LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults

    If you really want to have a secure password make it a "Double Blind Password". When you use a DBP neither you nor the password manager app know the full password. You create a strong password that is stored in the password manager and then you add a unique identifier that only you know. You...