[CGUYS] Apple Issues Patches for 25 Security Holes

2007-04-20 Thread Pete Rozanski
From today's Washington Post Apple today released software updates... All told, today's batch fixes some 25 distinct security vulnerabilities http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/04/apple_updates_plug_25_sec urity_1.html?referrer=emailreferrer=emailreferrer=email Peter Rozanski

[CGUYS] Tinkerers in the treehouse

2007-04-20 Thread b_s-wilk
In terms of real scientific tinkering, what was common for experiments is data acquisition cards. I don't know if either system is more amenable but even in the mid-90's there were literally dozens of Visual Basic packages for using DAC's in different types of experimental set-up (dozens

Re: [CGUYS] Toss You PC For Free Day (Sun in DC)

2007-04-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
Overlooking your slightly incorrect link... How about posting your version of the link? Since the link I gave continues to work for me, I can't fix it. http://www.epa.gov/oei/ecycling/ * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE -

Re: [CGUYS] Toss You PC For Free Day (Sun in DC)

2007-04-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
a Saturday 21st dropoff at Carter Barron, 9am to 3pm. In the past DC would not take you junk unless your car had DC plates. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Issues Patches for 25 Security Holes

2007-04-20 Thread mike
I'm having a mental block on that free public DNS that is out there...someone help me out? They have had quite a bit of publicity the last year...sorry can't think of any more info. It's on the tip of my brain...AARRGG! Mike On 4/20/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest

Re: [CGUYS] The disappearance of bees...

2007-04-20 Thread Steve Rigby
On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Terry Kilburg wrote: I live on a farm in Iowa, we have 8 bald eagles fly and perch in trees in our pasture every year! The Mississippi river just in Iowa sees over 100 every year!!! But, back in the day there would have been thousands. They are making a

Re: [CGUYS] TV Programming [Was: Apple entertainment...was:Anti

2007-04-20 Thread Steve Rigby
On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I see VHF SD stations use the least watts UHF SD stations use the most watts -- 10x the VHF stations UHF HD stations are in the middle, but strange. Can anyone shed some light on this? There has always been a problem with television markets.

Re: [CGUYS] The disappearance of bees...

2007-04-20 Thread mike
Good thing they banned DDT too, gives us a chance to spread malaria even faster in Africa. Mike On 4/20/07, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Terry Kilburg wrote: I live on a farm in Iowa, we have 8 bald eagles fly and perch in trees in our pasture every

Re: [CGUYS] firefox using 99% of CPU ?

2007-04-20 Thread Vicky Staubly
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, db wrote: My firefox 2.0 started using 99% or such resources today. If I kill Firefox process, reboot the XP Pro computer and restart firefox choosing Restore Session it restores the previous windows, works normally for a a few minutes and then bogs the computer down

Re: [CGUYS] OpenDNS, was: Apple Issues Patches for 25 Security Holes

2007-04-20 Thread Fred Holmes
At 04:06 PM 4/20/2007, Tom Piwowar wrote: Regarding OpenDNS: But they don't say if they are using a MS or xnix box. Does anyone know how to get the server to tell us? Don't know how to get the server to tell us, but a request to tech support elicited an immediate response. Date: Fri, 20 Apr

Re: [CGUYS] The disappearance of bees...

2007-04-20 Thread John DeCarlo
DDT isn't banned any more, at least for anti-mosquito efforts. You can buy insect repellant now that has DDT in it. I don't know whether this is because of risk-benefit, or whether further scientific advancement has shown that DDT wasn't really the problem. On 4/20/07, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]