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  1. Anti-virus Software?

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    Thanks to all for the suggestions. I've been through the above steps regarding the system time and TLS vs. SSL. No luck there.

     

    I've got my backup machine (a Windows 10 laptop) fully updated and working properly now. With Windows 7 no longer supported, I think it's probably safest to retire it and move on. Sooner or later I have to learn to use Win10, like it or not.

  3. Anti-virus Software?

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    Monkeying around with stuff way above my pay grade and I think I found the problem. Our ISP has upgraded to 5G, and apparently we now have a 5G network connection on our router? (I didn't know this was a thing.) Exact same name as the old wireless network with "-5G" after it. So I connected to that one instead of our old wi-fi, and now the issues I was having are gone. Also, I have six times the connection speed.

     

    Still have no idea why I couldn't connect with the old network, but here I am.

     

    I'm in shipping and receiving, drat it!

     

    And about two minutes after I wrote the above, my browser stopped working, AGAIN. So I haven't fixed anything, really. No idea what's going on here. My browser stops working after an hour or three, I reboot the computer, it works okay again. It stops working. Repeat.

  5. Anti-virus Software?

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    Bitdefender has made my desktop pretty much impossible to use. I have not-so-old (new in 2018) Win7 machine and I've got MalWareBytes running now. I had MWB running simultaneously with Bitdefender, but the latter recently decided the entire internet is a security threat, refusing to load pages, slowing down my browser to the point of uselessness. I had to deactivate it.

     

    I've got no issues with MalWareBytes, but I usually keep a couple of anti-malware systems running at once if at all possible. Is there anything else I should install? Recommendations from the Hero Forum would be welcome.

  7. Insights from the long vacation

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    On 5/14/2018 at 1:26 PM, Cancer said:

    17.  In the Four Corners states drivers have a nasty habit, no, obsession, on freeways with 2 lanes in each direction.  If you are in the right-hand lane closing up on a slower vehicle in your lane, drivers of passenger cars and pickup trucks initially behind you will do their utter damnedest to zoom up in the left-hand lane and pinch you in behind the slower vehicle, and then actually slow down once they've achieved pinch position to increase your annoyance.

     

    This is not a habit I'd ever encountered here in Washington; admittedly, though, there aren't many freeways on the west side of the Cascades with only two lanes on upslopes.  However, east of the Cascades that's the rule, and I cannot recall a single instance of that trick happening to me on either I-90 east of Snoqualmie Pass or on I-82, the northernmost 30 miles of which is nothing but three consecutive long upslope/downslope stretches as the road crosses over Manashtash Ridge, North Umtanum Ridge, and South Umtanum Ridge (in that order, north to south).  I've driven that last many, many times, and the zoom-and-pinch has never happened to me there.

     

    After two weeks (about half of which was not spent on freeway driving) I learned to recognize the phenomenon, and altered my own driving habits in defense.  When in Rome, do as the mofo a**hole Romans do.

     

    That said, there are other ramifications as well.  While I had never considered those directions of particular importance before, I have had to revise the design of my ideal vehicle to include vastly augmented weaponry facing left side and left rear.  Increasing the number of burned-out wrecks and partially-incinerated corpses on the freeway medians of those states might improve the driving habits there.

     

    It's an all-too common occurrence in some parts of the country. I keep getting questions about my curious driving habit of activating my turn signal blinkers exactly once, about a half a second before changing lanes, and then doing so, shall we say... vigorously. I learned it's pretty much the only way to get the drop on the "blinker assassins." Yes, there's actually a name for these miscreants. They're the jerk-wipes in the adjacent lane who stomp on their gas pedal the instant they say a lane-change signal, as if they're on a crusade to prevent any and all would-be encroachments against the sanctity of their precious lane.

    May they all crash and burn.

  11. Are we too hard on Wil Wheaton?

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    On 4/11/2018 at 1:54 PM, Lucius said:

     

    They're not letting Wil Wheaton steer are they?

     

    Lucius Alexander

     

    Air Force Surplus Palindromedary

     

    From what I heard, nobody was steering. Wesley Crusher (or Wil Wheaton) would have been an improvement.

     

    Continuing this derailment, as it's of no concern to me who (whom?) Cassandra thinks we're being to hard on, or not.

  18. Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)

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    5 hours ago, DShomshak said:

    I must correct my previous post. Trump did not use the specific words, "Mine is bigger." In the hour between my hearing the news item and my posting, my erratic brain condensed and altered his words. I heard the exact words two hours later, to my mortification, but by then I was home and could not retract the post.

     

    No matter how much I dislike Donald Trump, I do not want to condemn him for things he did not actually say or do. (His real, accurately reported words and actions are quite bad enough.)

     

    I apologize for the inaccuracy.

     

    Dean Shomshak

     

    Trump never gets tired of reminding us all how superior he is. Mainly because he isn't.

  24. Daylight savings time?

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    Tinkering with the clock doesn't really change anything, and it's a huge inconvenience. I say get rid of DST, and then fire the bureaucrats who perpetuated it this long. Also, no severance pay for the dinks who kept changing the start/end dates. They're a menace.

     

    Just let me get my precious hour of sleep back this year because somebody owes me for that, and then let's be done with it.

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