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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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How to figure out which cookies give what information where? [closed]

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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