That’s just bizarre. Government references put CR as one of the level 1“Exercise normal precautions” which is less of an issue than traveling to Germany right now (Germany is level 2 due to terrorism issues). 

Forgot to add, USD is accepted at most places. It’s good to have a little local currency for places like gas stations, but I was able to buy groceries or hit up shops, and even food carts with US currency. Pretty handy overall.

Getting around:

Because offsite matters. For security and insurance purposes, having security recordings saved to the same location it is protecting is a terrible idea. Need recordings of the thieves breaking into your house? Well, you won’t because they nicked all your electronics that onsite was saving to. Need recording of the…

There are a bunch of great BBQ places worth visiting. Oklahoma Joe’s is always worth the wait. Jack Stack too.

I too get motion sick for certain games. I have however, found I can often modify my play settings and style a bit to get used to many of them. I’ve found that for me:

As someone who flies 2 - 4x per week: these are pretty good recommendations. I’ll add the following:

If you work with anything even remotely sensitive, stay very far away from running your own NAS service with external access. Several of the worst data breaches of the early 2010's happened that way. That’s why most enterprises have moved to other services by cloud hosted providers. 

Didn’t think I implied it did. Instead of SSPR, LAPS rolls the password, and it’s looked up via AD. For the local account in Win10, if using a Microsoft account the admin account is created but disabled by default. 

For that we use LAPS and basically never use the local admin accounts unless we have no choice (for many good reasons). https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/mt227395.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 - Again, just from an Enterprise perspective. If you are doing workgroup systems and have no AD, you are better off using…

In the Enterprise world, we use Azure Active Directory Self-Service Password Reset, which includes multiple factors of validation such as text or phone, application prompts and as above questions as one option. We get to set the number of factors required and the questions (if any) that are offered.

LOL! We must have stayed at the same hotel, I have the same picture from my trip!

Basically any of the food in the embassy district is amazing. Best Peking Duck anywhere. I wish I could remember the name of the place I dropped in, but I was kind of in a food coma at that point. It had tons of photos of presidents and kings from around the world eating there.

In my nomenclature (from 2011 when I posted this), I’m referring to external usb thumb drives. At that time which is well before USB 3, the underlying technology was drastically different as were the transfer speeds and typical sizes.

As a business traveler, it’s an unpleasant city to visit.

If you want to get serious about doing ALL of the security things you can (for free), Microsoft has tools with security baselines you can apply to your computers. It secures both Windows and Office. There are baselines for other apps too. It’s not exactly user friendly, but this is what we use for government and…

Defender has been pulling higher scores on the independant AV tests than Avast for a while. Many of the consumer aimed paid ones will identify things like cookies being loaded and call them a threat to make you feel like it’s doing something. It’s not just Avast though. That said, if you like it and it’s doing enough,…

There are a ton of things I’d add, but the most meaningful one would be not run day to day as an Administrator account, especially while browsing the web. Set up an admin account, and then a user account. Day to day stuff should be performed as your user account, if you need to install an app, printer or whatever, use…

Without a password, if I can see your computer on a network, I can do pretty much anything to it (load software, download your info, crash it). 

As a frequent flyer, I don’t mind the drinking. I do mind the behavior. There is nothing quite like having someone slump against you in an inebriated sleep as they loose their bladder (has happened twice this year). In typical drunkenness, most don’t realize when they’ve passed the line into disorderly or problematic.