Hurricane Katrina Blog

I remember coming across this back when it was happening. A guy, running a data centre was staying in the building to keep it all up, from what I remember. He eventually got a web cam up to film the street below. The vids have gone but someone on reddit found the blog

https://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/29

A snippet in case it ever disappears

“August 29th, 2005

Ok, lots of creaking now. The blinds are rattling. The trees in Lafayette Square behind us are all still standing. We’re getting very light power flickers now — infrequently. Not even enough to reset the computer, but just enough to dim the lights for a sec. I’m gonna step outside on the 11th floor balcony and get a feel for the wind.

For those of you who haven’t been reading this, I’m on the 10th/11th floors of a 27 floor high rise at 650 Poydras in downtown New Orleans. If you go to Google Earth or some other map program, we’re the big brown building between Poydras ave and Lafayette Square and between Camp Street and St. Charles Ave. We’re about 6 blocks from the river. We have a view (in the daytime) of the river, the twin spans over the river, the interstate, the Entergy building, the landmark building, the federal court of appeals building, a bunch of hotels, etc.

Welcome to ground zero.”

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/650+Poydras+St,+New+Orleans,+LA+70130,+USA/@29.9493868,-90.0715451,190a,35y,81.56h,52.26t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x8620a6749dc036db:0xe8db747c95b1e0e5!8m2!3d29.9488746!4d-90.0701146!16s%2Fg%2F11c3q36xr_?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMxOS4yIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Windows 10 official ISO vulnerable

Annoying that the arses at MS haven’t bothered to patch the Windows 10 ISOs to the Blacklotus Malware so the recent official ISOs are flagged when using Rufus to create an image. These are ISOs even from the official Microsoft Volume License ISOs. They are clearly attempted to force people move to Windows 11 because those ISOs don’t have the issues.

Project Zomboid – Thought of the day

Played this on and off since they started and its good.

Project Zomboid

This game made you realise why it would all end quite quickly. Fire. In the game you can break into other houses, watching out for the dead left inside. You can use the cooker if the electric is still on, but if you then have to bug out quickly and don’t get a chance to turn the cooker off and there was food in it, a fire starts and that’s it. If it doesn’t rain soon then that fire spreads. I’ve had games where it spread for several blocks, I used it to thin out the heard. With no fire brigade to put fires out, it can spread for several streets.

Made you realise the likes of The Walking Dead wouldn’t last, simply due to fires starting and spreading.

Disable Windows Defender permanently

Run gpedit from the start menu.

Go to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Microsoft Defender Antivirus/

Set “Turn off Microsoft Defender Antivirus” to ENABLED. If you do this WON’T work, even with tamper protection off. Its supposed to enter a reg settings but doesn’t and when you open gpedit again you’ll see its not set again.

Instead I go to

Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Microsoft Defender Antivirus/Real-time Protection

And set “turn off real-time protection” to ENABLED. That seems to survive the settings change and turns of real time protection so you can do what you need when its incorrectly blocking files.

Dell u2722de Menu

Appears you have to have at least the HDMI cable in to be able to view the menu display. I assume it will work with the USB-C that runs power and display but only when you get your device to actually work with the USB-C cable.