What the Hell…

Fox News = WTF

nothing new to blog about lately. life and the pursuit of happiness. mostly working on the yard and house and truck.

The truck is running schwell and took it to ellensburg with no issues. Katie did recently try driving it and didnt let it warm up causing her to kill it on the road.

House… oh house… what fun that I will never (ever?) stop spending money on you. Went to get some things at home depot for fixing up little projects. 400 bucks later I got them done. Built a shed, took down the chimney. Mowed a bunch. Katie painted the front door red. Paid a bunch of bills.

I will be in PA next week for work, I do get to stop for a day in Chicago to visit Fernando.

Want to be more secure online? Stop using Adobe Acrobat reader to open PDF documents in your browser. That's what F-Secure virus hunter Mikko Hypponen, the closest thing to a rock star holding court at the RSA security conference, is advocating.

Ditching Adobe Acrobat Reader will greatly reduce your chances of getting your PC infected by a drive-by download, says the pony-tailed Hypponen, who was recently profiled in Vanity Fair. "That's my advice," says Hypponen, "I don't expect a Christmas card from Adobe."

The bad guys are increasingly using security flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plugins to open a backdoor to your hard drive. These instructions get implanted when you visit a tainted website. The next time you use Adobe Reader, a very tiny poisoned PDF from the bad guys also opens and installs the backdoor that may allow them to take over your computer.

from USA today – however I fully support that claim I use FoxitReader

I don't know that I would call myself a successful published, BUT!! I did get published in 2600 magazine. I have been a long time subscriber and was bored one day and felt like writing. Published up some code to hack up a robots.txt file its fancy I will give you that, no more cut and paste! I think my dosbox code was cooler.

anywhoo go get a copy of the Spring 2600 magazine and I will sign it for you.

“‘TIS EASTER SUNDAY and it seems Microsoft is commemorating the resurrection with a little resurrecting of its own, dragging us away from our chocolate egg hunt with snooze, er, news that its talks with Yahoo are back on again.”

Source: The Inquirer

did I just read that the resurrection of christ was compared to microsoft and yahoo…

Create a user.js file in your Profile directory for firefox (%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\) Dump this following code into that file.

//Speed Tweaks FF3
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 500000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 250000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 20);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive", true);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 600);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 10);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 3600);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 1000);
user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", 3);
//set following to false if you find that FireFox is slow to maximize from the tray.
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
//security tweeks
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);
user_pref("browser.microsummary.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.microsummary.updateGenerators", false);
//memory cache  Physical RAM Memory Cache (in KB)
//32 MB 2048
//64 MB 4096
//128 MB 6144
//256 MB 10240
//512 MB 14336
//1 GB 18432
//2 GB 24576
//4 GB 30720
//8 GB and up 32768
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 18432);

Got this code from a post on DSLReports page, copy here for my own notes.

I miss learning how to drive with you. I miss weeks on the Island. I miss your stories about goats. I miss your songs. I miss you and grandma taking us to town. I just wanted to be greedy and have some more time – I don't miss cancer, its a real pain in the ass.

I don't pretend this blog makes a difference or anyone actually gets information from it. However I like to think that somewhere a random person finds it when they are dealing with a problem and I help. Be it with microsoft products, security issues, goat care, …life. I like to think that I know it all – but I don't.

I do know that the only way you can ever take away the pain of death is to know that if you trust in God - that one day when your cancer comes, you can be with your family once again. If God isnt your thing, I cant express how important it is to just call your loved ones, and remind them that you care, because the clock of life isnt yours to wind.

I love you grandma and grandpa’s and Kathleen and I will see you soon.

So today I worked from home for various reasons and here is a account of my day…

1) The neighbors dog can jump over a 6 foot fence. Into my yard with the goats. I was also told after this happened that the dog has the ability to walk along the top of the fence like a cat. They call him trapeze dog.

2) Goats take no crap from a dog in the food area. After #1 the goats charged and tried to ram the dog. haha Goats 1 dog 0

3) Two kids in the area skateboard every day, today I heard them yell out “dude we are totally going to my house to have some pizza and mountain dew” ahh to be in high school again…

4) I was able to make a QRP QSO with a guy on top of Mt.Si that was cool

5) My fear of owning goats happened today, …they got free. We had to chase after them. I left the gate open, but they have now had a taste of free range and they want more.

I also washed the pickup, which hasnt been done in 5 years it was a mess. But I did get REAL photos of it online 1974 F250 Camper Special

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