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  1. Couperin47

    An electronic old wives tale proves true

    I haven't experienced an actual hard drive failure in decades. I have 5 Windows boxes here, all self built except the last, a Lenovo Mini-tower ThinkCentre bought when the last i7's that could still run Win 8 were disappearing. At least 3 of the boxes still run regularly with a ton of WD and...
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    If you run Win 8.1 Pro x64 ...

    If you are stubborn like me and are running 8.1 you're most likely to be running the x64 Pro or Ultimate. If you havn't been allowing all updates or otherwise just want to check that you have all the relevant security updates that really matter, it can be tedious to find and download them as...
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    Happy Birthday Chairman of the Board

    Whitey is 90 today and is now the oldest living member of The Hall. The last link to the 2nd Great Dynasty.
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    Throwing in technological towels

    2 unrelated pieces of news that some here may want to comment upon. At an investors meeting on the 29th AT&T stated that they will launch no further satellites and as their existing ones die Direct TV will be exiting the delivery of TV via that medium. It will take years, but they will be gone...
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    The Chairman of the Board

    Guess who turned 90 today ? He's now the oldest living Hall of Famer still with us, with the highest winning percentage of any pitcher with at least 200 games since 1900. He and Larson our our last links to that age of glory.
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    The New Cold War warms up a bit...with your router

    Today we get far more details about the VPNFilter malware and it's way more serious: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/vpnfilter-malware-infecting-50000-devices-is-worse-than-we-thought/ My main takeaways, to be instantly corrected by some here who have more knowledge, if...
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    RIP: The Haloid Company, the technological leader who ignored their own Cassandra geniuses

    Never heard of Haloid ? Yeah, founded in Rochester NY in 1906 in the shadow of another photographic company, they later changed their name...to Xerox. Their PARC labs in California invented it all: the idea of a gui, the mouse, pretty much everything about the way we interface, the 820 Bigboard...
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    Begining of the end of the, relatively, open Internet

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/02/10/1443231/internet-backbone-provider-cogent-blocks-pirate-bay-and-other-pirate-sites?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline+(Slashdot:+Your+Rights+Online) In short, Cogent Communications, a backbone...
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    Coming soon: Bayless & Sharpe

    Announced on Cowherd today. Skip and Shannon will be arguing for 2 hours per day preceding the Herd. And you thought Bayless and Stephan A. were bad...
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    Tex will retire at end of season

    Announced this morning, not that we didn't already suspect this. Reported by Olney and others. The end of an era.
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    If you're using Maxthon as a browser....don't

    Maxthon started as nothing more than an IE shell and was utterly useless. It has since developed into a 2nd rate 'me too' Webkit browser. Did I mention it's a Chinese company ? We have just discovered it quite efficiently periodically phones home to a server in Beijing and reports, well...
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    If you own a TP-Link router or extender, note this:

    TP-Link makes some decent inexpensive routers, extenders, etc., including their recent Archer models that have pretty good reviews for the price. TP-Link 'lost control" (probably just failed to renew and someone else grabbed) one of their primary domains. This means the info on much of their...
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    ESET newest versions: just say no

    I have suggested ESET AV, in particular the basic NOD32 version for years here. They are now offering the newest version of their engine, 9 as a free upgrade. Don't do it: 1. The direct upgrade is failing in novel ways for so many, they have a warning on their main Support page. In most cases...
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    Korea Media Player shortcuts ?

    If you do any recent updates to anything from Win Vista (really ????) to Win 10 and you have the Korean language pack installed, you will find shortcuts to a Korea Media Player Center littering your desktop and launch menus. No Kim Jong-un has not infected your PC, Korea is forcing this...
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    Hard Drive reliability, latest figures

    Backblaze, a cloud storage company, periodically reveals it's own experience with hard drives, which probably represents the largest real world report (over 56,000 drives). Their mix represents large capacity 3.5" drives that get run 24/7. Their experience still finds that HGST...
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    Linux security...mindboggling flaw

    Not meant as an attack, this just proves that even after years of open-source scrutiny, huge flaws can hide in plain sight: http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-hack-any-linux-machine-just-using-backspace/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61 essentially, you can bypass the password...
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    Why treating your phone as a computer is becoming a mistake

    I realize this is going to enrage or anger many here, but the situation regarding most mobile phones, both Android and iOS is becoming increasingly dangerous:  ...
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    But WHICH iPhone 6s do I have ?

    So it turns out Apple has dual sourced the production of the A9 cpu used in the 6s between TSMC and Samsung, and because the processes these two use are different, so are the resulting chips, with considerable differences in performance and battery life. There is an app to inform you who's chip...
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    If you use AVG malware software..you may want to rethink that.

    Years ago AVG's free av softeware was one of the first free offerings that wasn't a complete joke. The truth is it's never been very good though the version you pay for is better. AVG has a new privacy policy for their products: starting October 1 their policy states that they WILL be selling...
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    Hard Drive failure

    There's nothing quite like finding information that confirms your own prejudices. None of us has anywhere near enough experience with hard drives to form a truly informed opinion as to which brands are most reliable, but my experience over the last decade has always favored WD and their...
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