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Out of curiosity, do you have an opinion on the Z CAM K1 Pro?

The way that second story is worded, I had assumed a koala was stuck in the fence area. Imagine my surprise when a koala glared at you and then flew away.

I can answer that. It's because while MSE's security definitions are pretty good, their real time scanner is not perfect. It simply intercepts any file a process grabs and scans it first. It picks up everything that malware bytes picks up because it scans it at the same time malwarebytes grabs it to do the scan as well. It's just that malwarebytes is smarter about knowing where to scan for viruses and security essentials hasn't scanned these files before. A security essentials full scan would pick up (some of) the viruses that malwarebytes picks up in a quick scan.

As for the effectiveness of MSE, I have a sneaking suspicion that microsoft buys their definitions from sophos (the definition files are almost identical in size to the sophos definitions). Where they are lacking is not in the definitions, but their heuristic virus detections (which I believe are non-existant for MSE), and proactive defense against viruses taking over the system. MSE is just a smart scanner. It checks files before they're used, and that's about it. If something gets past their first line of defense, there's nothing else MSE can do about it.

Depends on your purpose. Everyone here is saying "oh go grab access, a general purpose database tool with no structure".

I mean, you could, and you might get slightly more efficient referencing out of it, but it's clunky and not scalable and probably unnnecessary.

You get two nice things out of a database that you don't get out of excel:

• Transactional interface (aka: many people can use it at the same time, and that usage is trackable)
• Far more efficient relational searching (aka: if I search for "job this" involving "person that" who had a tea party with "this guy", it takes excel 30 years while taking a database 3 seconds).

Granted, this is all based on scale. If you have a spreadsheet with data for 3000 people, you don't even need to bother. If you have a database with 3,000,000 people, then yeah, get a goddamn database.

Even then though, you don't need to use generic database software. Generally if you're structuring your own database and you're not a DBA or developer, you're 20 steps too far into reinventing the wheel. Also, almost every developer in existence cuts their teeth on database functions, so there are a ton of useful open source projects involving database stuff.

90% of people here are probably looking for a CRM (customer relationship manager). There are tons out there.

I generally recommend erpnext, which is overkill for most people, but is also very user friendly and you can conveniently ignore the extra functionality (accounting, inventory management, invoicing, etc.) that yo udon't need. The nice thing about it is when you do need it, it's there.

There's probably like 50 other CRM/ERP programs I could say are at least functional, but I like that one, so that's what I use.

Interesting, I don't use the K1 Pro but I do use the S1 pro (which is theoretically even more dense). By overheat do you mean heating to the point of failure? I've used the S1 pro for 3 hour livestreams without fail (though it does approach too-hot-to-touch levels).