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Comment on Realtors define “smart home”– but there’s a catch. by Mark Toniz

Creative idea 🙂

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Comment on Adventures in VBScript – Including code from other files by Dave...

I too have used vbscript over many years and have a significant library of reusable components. The lack of an include was frustrating and I solved the problem the same way you have. The most...

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Comment on Realtors define “smart home”– but there’s a catch. by Mark Toniz

Good Post 🙂

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Comment on Adventures in VBScript – Including code from other files by Simon...

Thanks for your comments Dave – I agree for speed of implementation, VBScript is hard to beat. Re debugging though, I can recommend the excellent VBSEdit – it handles included modules admirably!

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Comment on New S.M.A.R.T Monitor Tool for Hard Drive Health by Stéphane Pautrel

Hi Simon, Since a few years, i have been interested in your studies on the recovery of SMART information from a hard drive and I like your work “SmartDisplay.hta” (nice aspect and very clear display)....

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Comment on New S.M.A.R.T Monitor Tool for Hard Drive Health by Simon Hunt

Good catch! I didn’t realize that the value could span multiple bytes. The actual oversight is in the section “calculate and display smart attributes for current drive number” – the arrDriveRawData...

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Comment on New S.M.A.R.T Monitor Tool for Hard Drive Health by Stéphane Pautrel

I just made the test, with your modification the return of the value of id 009 (POH) is now GOOD. But, now this has distorted the return of several IDs that have erroneous values, such as (in my case,...

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Comment on Is Encryption enough? Why just encrypting data doesn’t solve...

Hello Simon, I’m not sure if you’re still into the drive encryption thing, or if you’ve moved on. :>) Does using autoboot with TPM make autoboot any safer? Does it change your opinion of autoboot at...

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Comment on Is Encryption enough? Why just encrypting data doesn’t solve...

Good question Mike, and yes, I am still “into the drive encryption thing” – I’m now EVP and CTO for WinMagic. No. I don’t consider TPM autoboot much better, attacks within the OS for example can be...

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Comment on Is Encryption enough? Why just encrypting data doesn’t solve...

Simon, thanks for the reply!

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