Questions tagged [risk]
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Is VGA port hot-pluggable?
In meetings, I often see people detaching the VGA connector from one running laptop and connecting it to another, while the projector is still on.
Is this 100% risk free, and OK by design of the VGA standard?
If there's a risk involved in…
Martin Bøgelund
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What are the risks (if any) of installing an older version of Linux
My machine has limited RAM capacity. Newer Linux distributions seem to require more memory (often 1 GB or more) and seem to consume more than 500 MB on itself.
Is it safe to use an older version of Linux? Are there risks to installing old Linux…
wisdom
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Can this 5-attribute 2D risk map be built in excel?
So there is this risk map (or heat map otherwise) below (*):
What is interesting is that in the a 2D image there the following attributes are mapped:
Attribute -------- Drawing component
1. Likelihood -------- y-axis value
2. Impact --------…
K. Rmth
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Can the mandatory update policy in windows 10 generate momentum/oportunity risk?
Disclaimer: This is a followup question for Will the mandatory update policy in windows 10 bring security issues?; With the purpose to divide one broad question in two specific one, coincidentally originated due to the same policy. Thus, expecting…
CMPSoares
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How to figure out which cookies give what information where?
I have tried viewing cookies in my Chrome settings, but I don't see any human-readable data about my browsing. Most of what I have read stops at telling me how to view and delete cookies without explaining how to get meaningful information from…
Stonecraft
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Can installing an old HDD as a secondary hard disk just for making backup, effect your PC?
Last night, I found my super old computer in the basement. IDK Why but I wasn't able to boot the computer from HDD itself. I was about to do something but I was a bit worried about losing all of that data. Now I want to connect it to my main…
ViperTheGuy
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What is risk of moving pagefile.sys to another partition?
I have 4 physical drives 146 GB in my server (windows server 2008) configured as RAID 0 result of 2 logical drives C(50 GB) and drive D(remaining GB)
My system is showing alters of low disk space in C drive.
I tried to solve this problem, but…
Kamal
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Might using Bluetooth headsets to output audio damage them?
My current workstation has no audio card, so I've been listening to music via a Bluetooth headset and a USB bluetooth dongle. Since the headset has a jack for optional cable audio in, I figured that it may be possible to output the audio through the…
dotancohen
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Excel Bubble chart risk map with labels - please help not working in 2016
Hi I am attempting to make a similar bubble chart (or ANY chart) to what was posted here:
Can this 5-attribute 2D risk map be built in excel?
Problem is, it doesn't seem to work in Excel 2016. Seems like the bubble chart is NOT ignoring the #N/A…
bbnks
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Risk to native OS from Live CD?
Will booting from a Live CD (I was thinking Anonym OS) have any risk to the native OS? I wanted to try it out on my school´s computer, but I´d rather not have to explain why I accidentally reformatted the HD and deleted everything.. I know once…
Brett Johnson
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Assistance with Excel Conditional Formatting
I'm trying to create a formula for conditional formatting that will identify two words and create an output of a word.
See example below:
Right now I'm having to manually put in the Risk Type. I want it to output the risk type based on the…
Morgan
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