Bummer
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Yes. But I rarely use it. I'm running 64 bit Fedora on a quad core 64 machine. Adobe only supplies 32 bit code, so I use an open reader that is 64 bit. Everything I've read indicates that the exploit simply won't work on Linux. It ultimately comes down to installing a Windows back door. I do agree, however, that in general all software should be kept updated. Unfortunately not everyone does.
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As long as it's not Australopithecus afarensis I'm ok with it. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
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Here in Indiana, where it's normally below zero and two feet or more deep this time of year, we have maybe half an inch with the temp in the upper teens. The Weather Liar says the daytime temp should be around 50 the tenth of February. Looks like Global Weirding to me.
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I agree completely. I go to Topix to argue. This is home.
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Ah, but it's still Windows. First zero day exploit. A recent article on Slashdot, shortly after the Google break in, lead to information about an old exploit that runs through all copies of Windows back to the change from '98. Microsoft says they'll patch it. Most of the Slashdot crowd chuckled. Apparently "Built on NT technology" is seen as a warning.
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Well done, sir. Safety first.
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I avoid cross platform plugins like the plague. That's one place where any system can suffer at least some compromise. While they can't affect my whole system they could cause problems in my home directory, and I don't need that. Too much of a hassle rebuilding it. Of course the whole thing's archived on an external drive, but why set myself up to need to?
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It's much more specific than that. I get it in every thread that Brake Pad posts in. I personally suspect that his Tin Star image is linked from his personal site, but that's just a guess. I use Opera and would not dream of lowering the security level. Opera has had real security for years. Tabbed browsing too. It's also standards compliant, which tends to show me which web sites are Nephew Ware. Funny, a local college that brags about it's IT department has a web site with literally hundreds of coding errors. Opera has a menu option to Validate page code through the W3C. When I get a malformed page I usually validate it so I can snicker at the "professional" who wrote it. The State of Indiana's web sites are terrible. Roberts Camera? Literally thousands of errors. Nope. Not turning down security. Long live the penguin.
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What's the point of Microsoft FINALLY adding some security to Exploder if everyone turns it off? Seems to me if one has an OS with major known problems, like Windows, one should be more alert to problems, not less. I don't know if he needs to do a systems check. I do know that I scanned my system recently and found fourteen potential viruses. All in emails sent to me by people running Windows. Of course, none of them run on my system so I just quarantined them with plans on finding them and dissecting them for the fun of it.
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Why? Wouldn't that reduce your theoretical security? By the way, there have been reports of attacks based upon a Java problem in .pdf files. It would appear this problem has been evolving since '07. This is as of last July. As of last December. Of course that doesn't mean the file in question is part of the problem. But... FWIW I've been getting the attached warning for quite a while. I just say no and move on.
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Hmmmm. Not logging out this time...
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In your opinion, what are the top five states to motorcycle in?
Bummer replied to Sunrayman's topic in Watering Hole
Nope, I haven't. But the area's on my to-go list. If nothing else New England is on the way to Nova Scotia, which is near the top of that list. -
Nor was it taken that way. No problem on this end at all.
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The one I made up started out as a joke: Mr. Potato Head because of Potato Creek - it seemed so obvious. Then the quarter was mentioned so I found a copy of the quarter and put Mr. Potato Head in the driver's seat of the race car and waited to see who'd notice. Then Wanderer mentioned the year so I changed the quarter to 2010. Then Kbay mentioned 5th anniversary and Freezy mentioned "Back home again in Indiana". (Can you hear Jim Neighbors singing?) It's been the evolution of humor for me. I've been amazed, and a bit dismayed, that nobody else has submitted anything. Stomping the brakes on the thread was not my intention. While I missed the original event by about four months, I'm pretty sure the tail feathers with scissors concept has meaning to the folks who were there. (Anybody remember who has it now?) So whip up a design. It's certainly not going to hurt my feelings if someone else wins the vote. I'm even willing to help, but I don't have a picture at all close to what you describe and my skills with The Gimp (Linux Photoshop) are pretty much limited to manipulating existing images. Anyone? Anyone?
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Speedy recovery, Charlene!
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Hmmmm. I've always heard that the other way 'round. Synthetic's ok. Energy conserving's bad. The local Yamaha dealer recommends the new Yamaha full synthetic. Wonder if John was just having an Old Timers day? For some reason it's happened to me before... I'm thinking that after shipping mine was around $85 and I got it within the last six months or so. It's still cheaper than getting it from my local Yamaha dealer. When I checked they wanted that much for just the spring.
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If there's one thing I've learned from all the cops on TV it's that evidence never seems to go away.
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Oh man, I logged out for a few minutes and missed everything. Sigh.
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It doesn't actually sound like much has changed since I was there in '70. Density perhaps, but not intensity.
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In your opinion, what are the top five states to motorcycle in?
Bummer replied to Sunrayman's topic in Watering Hole
Gotta gos: Colorado (Pike's Peak, Mount Evans, Trail Ridge Road, Powder Canyon, Million Dollar Highway, Independence Pass... too much to list) Montana (Beartooth Highway, Going To The Sun Highway, everything in between) Wyoming (Beartooth Pass, Yellowstone, Wind River Canyon) Then there are: Arkansas (At least the northwest corner! Seriously nice riding.) North Carolina (Tail of the Dragon, Cherohala, Blue Ridge Parkway, and much more...) Tennessee (Tail of the Dragon plus...) Plus: West Virginia (Lots of small roads between KY and the Blue Ridge) Virginia (Blue Ridge Parkway, plus...) Kentucky (Lots of nice stuff scattered around the State) Indiana (Yes Indiana - The southern third has some fun roads and it's close, what with me being in the middle and all.) Northern Georgia was nice. Wisconsin - Door county was pretty, though not really curvy or anything. Michigan has some pretty places. Nope, sorry. Can't do just five. Pictures: My web site. Look around. Lots of pics. I don't think in terms of States as much as roads. My all time favorite road is the Beartooth Parkway from Red Lodge, Montana toward Yellowstone, then a left on the Chief Joseph Highway. Can't ride this route enough. If I'm within two States, I'm going. -
Chasing this information I found a semi official statement that unemployment is at 17%. I do not believe this number fully reflects those who have run out of benefits, but I don't really know for sure. Retirement doesn't count in unemployment statistics, since if one retires one may not draw unemployment. A guy at the Cato Institute, whose bio suggests he's never had what most folks would call a real/productive job, argues that the 17% number is high. Not because folks have work, but because folks won't accept work at minimum wage. (How not accepting a job that won't buy the gas to get there makes them employed is anybody's guess.) Recovery guesstimates vary by State. Indiana isn't expected to hit 0% job loss until third quarter 2010. Moody's isn't expecting Indiana to actually go positive until 2011. Right now, due to the Great Recession, employers in Indiana have increased their education/training requirements far beyond what they even dreamed of prior to the crash. Most would like to see at least an Associates degree for a $12 an hour job. I was laid off at the end of last July when Navistar closed the PowerStroke plant. I'm in the process of going back to school to fluff up my resume. I have forty years as a Stationary Engineer and HVACR Tech, complete with certifications, licenses, and continuing education. I have about ten years left before retirement. For the most part, I'm waiting for somebody older than I am to retire (or die - their call). The number crunchers say that close to 50% of the employees in my trade are retirement eligible. None are retiring. They're all waiting for the economy to recover. Many refuse to leave the plant without a toe-tag. I feel sorry for the widget bolters. Unskilled labor that once made good money. I'll find another smoke stack eventually and am just taking the education because it's free and I enjoy it. They have to actually learn a trade or flip burgers. Now that's rough. Most of the production people got laid off a year or more before I did and have seen their primary benefits run out. One guy went semi-postal at the unemployment office and got cuffed and stuffed. I saw Navistar's woes coming and paid everything off, so I'm doing quite nicely, considering. It's kind of painful to see old buddies, eyes haunted, wandering around the union hall, which is now an unemployment office because of the number of folks laid off, wondering what they're going to do tomorrow. The Credit Union has a bunch of huge Ford diesel trucks it repoed and can't get rid of. Retailers are having trouble moving product. Housing starts are at rock bottom and foreclosures are way up. On a much more cheerful note, according to a recent news report the bank that was at the center of the crash and got billions in bail out money spent it buying other solvent banks and is now well into the black. So much so that all the employees will be getting raises. Best of luck, one and all.
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Hey Brad, do you have a larger copy of that image?
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There's a nostalgia blast. I spent my time on CVA-42, Midway's sister ship, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. I look at that first pic and hear Twilight Zone music.
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Check your mail, there's a full sized png (in inches) on its way.
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Width at the base/ratchet hole end = .787 Thickness = .280 The first image comes out very close to life size on my monitor. The second image is 1/2 size when the size is displayed in inches rather than pixels in my graphics program. The full size, in inches, image is too large to upload, though I can send it to you in an email if that'll help.