2009 July 01
MODIS Image of the Day ==> 
The most complete digital topographic map of the Earth has been produced.
The map was created using measurements from the ASTER instrument
(Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer)
aboard the decade-old Terra satellite.
1912 June 23 in 1912. A cryptanalyst during WWII, Turing was based at Bletchley Park,
where he devised a machine that decoded enemy transmissions and helped to break the
Enigma machine. Before the war he had postulated a universal mathematical machine,
now called the Turing machine, which became a prototype for the electronic computer.
His Turing test worked to determine whether a computer is capable of humanlike thought,
igniting discussion on artificial intelligence. In 1945, Turing was awarded an OBE for his
work at Bletchley Park, even though the work itself remained secret for many years.
Quote: “Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.” — Alan Turing
Microsoft finally acknowledges Windows 7 will ship 2009 Oct 22
{Australia and New Zealand, FIRST}
Recent
Earthquakes in Hawai`i (“Big Island”), Hawai`i
Earthquake
List for Map Hawai`iRecent Earthquakes in Hawai`i
2007-2009 Kīlauea Eruption Timeline
New from Google, Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify. Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in. See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square. Save and share Squares with others.
Here is the M$ Windows 7 packaging.
What will be the pricing ???
Apple gets new viruses — If your faith allows you to see themBy Nick Farrell Friday, 2009 June 12
MISSION CRITICAL and totally secure Apple software is apparently vulnerable to two new viruses. SophosLabs has found a Macintosh Worm with text inside it saying: “RESPECT about what are you talking about me (cybercriminal..) Don't say what you ignore !!!!!!!!”
Angered by Apple delay, hacker posts Mac Java attack Activity:
“A security researcher posted attack code that exploits a flaw in Apple's Mac OS X
since the company has failed to patch its software.
The code exploits a vulnerability in the Java software that comes with the OS.
Sun Microsystems, Java's creator,
fixed the problem in December,
but Apple has yet to address the issue.
The flaw allows unauthorized programs to run on a person's Mac.
Apple said it is aware of the bug and working on a fix, but did not provide a date.”
Trojan's, Bot's & Worms now targeting MAC's
http://www.securemac.com/
Conficker -- still in the “wild”
Last week the latest variant of the Conficker worm surfaced -- and just to prove it, the worm infected at least 700 computers at the University of Utah. According to school officials, two main systems are affected by the infection: the university's three hospitals, but also its adjoined medical, nursing, and pharmacy colleges.
Warning: Conficker is aimed at Windows users. But Mac's can pass it on thru email.
US-CERT Current Activity
My first pre-April-1st Conficker email had a plethora of information & links on Conficker.
The questions we ALL had: What is Conficker and what was it going to do on 4/1 & after?
And how do we protect our Windows OS [XP & Vista] from Conficker and its variants ???
The U.S. has a "Computer Emergency Readiness Team" ==> http://www.us-cert.gov/ has even more information on Conficker [A.K.A. Downup, Downandup, Conflicker, and Kido] virus.
You could enter "Conficker" into the US-CERT search box. But our time is precious.
The Conficker Working group has created a web page that uses knowledge about conficker blacklisting to allow you to easily determine if your computer has been infected.
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All you need to do is navigate to the website ==>
If you can see all six images in the eye chart, the computer that you are browsing from is likely not to be infected
(your results may vary if you are using a proxy).
If the page doesn't load at all, the site has too much traffic. [or try entering: http://149.20.56.65 into your browser]
If you are infected, you'll just be missing specific images in the "eye chart".
IF YOU ARE INFECTED, THEN THERE ARE SEVERAL CURES:
F-Secure has made a free tool available here ==>
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001636.html
The link to the tool is at the bottom of the FAQ page.
PRoComputing uses ==> McAfee’s stand-alone Avert Stinger utility
and Microsoft has a Malicious Software Removal tool at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962007
60-Minutes segment on Sunday [29 March]==>http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3036“. . . on April 1st, infected machines will start calling home to the authors for further instructions. However, as Joe Stewart explains, this does not mean there will be a computer meltdown on April 1.”
Detection [all FREE]
Enigma Software.com ==> http://www.enigmasoftware.com/tools/conficker/cfremover.exe
Sophos ==> https://secure.sophos.com/products/free-tools/conficker-removal-tool/download
Sophos direct ==> http://downloads.sophos.com/dp/full/ssconftool_10_sfx.exe?550103.exe
Wikipedia in-depth ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
from Microsoft ==> http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Entry.aspx?Name=Win32/Conficker
and from ZDNet ==> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3043
Evidently, PC's running XP with only SP1 or SP2 [NO SP3] should ==>
Start | Control Panel | System
will display your Windows Operating System + latest Service Pack [SP].
http://news.cnet.com/faq-conficker-time-bomb-ticks-but-dont-expect-boom/
Grisoft free AVG 8.5
(anti-virus)
NY Times Google Article
(article contains gems like ==> 800-GOOG-411 Possibly the best voice-recognition cellphone service in existence. Call the number, say what you’re looking for (“comedy clubs, Chicago” or “Domino’s Pizza, Cleveland”), and Google’s auto-voice reads off the closest eight matches. You can speak the number of the one you want, and he’ll connect your call automatically — no charge. You never know or care what the phone number was; it’s like having a personal secretary.
57 Useful Google Tools Scholars, Students, and Hobbyists
by Christina Laun
If you’re like most people, you use Google’s products several times a day to search for information or check email. Most people don’t know, however, how many useful tools Google has to make research and time management much easier. Here are just a few of the products Google offers that may be worth trying whether you’re a scholar, student, or hobbyist.
Chromium is an open-source browser project that provides a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. Google's browser Chrome, is built from the Chromium source code, so Chromium has many of the features that make Google Chrome so great, separate processes for each window, the omnibar, the Task Manager, & incognito browsing but none of the hassles like Google's Update Utility or an EULA. [PRo: Much more robust than Google's "son of Chromium"]
popup:
in system tray
SCAM (info here)
DO NOT INSTALL “Antivirus 2009 Protection”Malwarebytes does protect your PC
AND MICROSOFT SECURITY [1-866-737-2338]
asks you to load/run: http://antimal.notlong.com/
[a direct link to the current Malwarebytes mbam-setup.exe ~2.5 Meg install program
before they will help you LIVE, FOR FREE, over the phone, if that does NOT fix your problem]
If you think this is NOT serious, then look at the screen captures in:
Internet Browsers:
Internet Explorer==>(bundled w/Windows operating systems)
Current Firefox ==>http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/firefox
Chromium 2.0.160.0 (parent of Google Chrome) ==> http://free-chrome.net/
Google Chrome Chrome 2.0.172.28 ==>http://www.google.com/chrome [NEW version]
Slimbrowser 4.11 b025==>http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser [too buggy]
New Opera browsers ==> http://www.opera.com/
Apple Safari 3.2==> http://www.apple.com/safari/download
PRoComputing is experimenting with the following two M$ Windows Operating Systems. The beauty of Windows XP FLPC is that it can run on older, full-XP-incompatible hardware. I.e., can use simpler hardware (older/slower CPU's and LESS RAM), but it still has most of the features of a standard XP. While Windows 7 is a newer, lighter, faster Vista==>
© Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PC's [WINFLPC]
{2006 stripped down XP that can run on older PC's w/limited CPU, RAM & HDD storage}
and
© Microsoft Windows 7 [Beta, “son of Vista”]
{simpler Vista-compatible OS w/lesser RAM & CPU requirements}
Due out in ?
both Windows are shown running on a dual-boot ECS 6100 motherboard
w/AMD64 dual-core 2.4 GHz CPU+two Gigs DRAM
But both run well on a VIA 1.5 GHz CPU w/one Gig DRAM & under five Gigs HDD.Microsoft TechNet ==> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd353205.aspx (BOTH Windows FLPC and Windows 7 WILL work with AVG 8.5)
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks
The OpenOffice.org (OOo) project ranks high among the most popular open source software applications. The cross-platform productivity suite, which has been adopted by government agencies, companies, and individual users around the world, got a big boost this Monday, 2008 October 13 with the official release of version 3.0.1. The new version includes a modest assortment of significant new features and brings improved support for document standards. One of the most noteworthy additions in this release is native compatibility with the Mac OS X.
17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love To Use!
ULTIMATE LIST OF FREE WINDOWS SOFTWARE FROM MICROSOFT
Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows and Office Programs available for download
Now it costs an extra $99 for a Dell Optiplex with Windows XP
http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/optix
Olliephonics Every Sunday, 7 to 9:30 pm,
at the NEW Blue Dragon (the old Blue Dolphin) in Kawaihae, Hawaii
$10 Entertainment Charge
(from [TAa])
James Chong, Bob Lee and Albert Loh saw a market opportunity and they pounced on it. Close to a year ago, when eBay's core auction business was showing signs of weakness, Chong, Lee and Loh (all former Charles Schwab execs) were plotting a new commerce site that would rival eBay. They talked to hoards of eBay users, and today they've launched their baby: Wigix (the "Want It, Got It Exchange").
Wigix aims to be everything that eBay is not. Although it's ostensibly a commerce site, the fee structure and rating system stray from eBay conventions. For one thing: Wigix doesn't charge a fee for anything sold for less than $25; and it charges a flat fee of $1.50
to both the buyer and seller for anything valued between $25 and $100.Also, Wigix isn't an auction-based system, which Chong hopes will reduce the risk of fraud. Users can use the site to keep track of all their "non-financial assets" and just like a stock market, the valuations of those goods adjust in real-time according to recent transactions.Another major distinction between eBay and Wigix: While eBay recently revoked feedback privileges for sellers (the company said too many sellers abused the rating system for retaliatory purposes), Wigix lets buyers and sellers rate each other after a transaction.
The Oakland-based company has raised "significant" funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a VC firm that, incidentally, backed Skype, which was sold off to eBay.
Linux PC At Wal-Mart For $128
OUT of [ONLINE] STOCK at WalMart.com as of 2009 March: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8304655
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1.5 GHz Via Technologies C7-D processor Delivers energy-saving performance
512 MB of DDR2 system memory Offers good performance & is expandable to 2 GB
80 GB hard disk drive Provides space for documents, games, photos and music
DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive — play DVDs, burn CDs for entertainment & data backup
10/100 Mbps Ethernet Connects to a local area network & broadband Internet
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A Linux build that fully integrates Google. In the words of the developers,
“Our idea is to be a simple, user friendly, beautiful desktop for normal people.
Out of the box, just works! We're creating an OS ecosystem that is complete.
We come with all the software you need to browse the web, email, instant message... play movies, music, and connect to iPods... create and edit documents,
spreadsheets, presentations, databases, images ... out of the box.
Plug and play! We recommend Google for just about everything... Gmail,
Gtalk, Calendar, Maps, Docs and spreadsheets, and more. We'd like to
welcome you to the idea that Google already is your operating system.”
gOS enables you to use the supplied OpenOffice.org software suite.
standby and sleep mode: unused appliances, and chargers
that stay plugged in, waste your electricity and money (story)
“Updating a program is usually a good thing, but in some cases its not. That is what we're here for! There have been several instances where a new release of a program is not always the better choice, due to several factors.
First,your computer may not be able to handle the new program. Another issue may be spyware. Spyware is the new thing many companies have adapted, which reports information back to the companies, as well as possibly providing an additional income source for the companies by displaying something such as a pop-up ad on your computer. This is a very large deciding factor in program version choice, because many people are beginning to catch on to these detrimental business practices. Whatever the reason is for wanting an old version, we're here to help!”
“ATTENTION FREEBIE FANS
- Google has just opened a new
service called Share Stuff,
which, as the name sort of gives away,
lets users share their stuff with trusted others.
That means you can post stories you like, images, videos, bookmarks and such like. Think of it as a cross between a personal web page, Delicious and Digg. I’m not a big fan of those sites but somehow this one is quite appealing
and worth having a look at if you want your opinions
of what’s hot to be in the virtual shop window.
Try it if you like. It’s gratis anyway”
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Kona, Hawaii
Dr. Ann Goody, Curator
www.threeringranch.org
(Dr. Norm Goody originally used MS FrontPage, now Dreamweaver)
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Compuker --> HUMOR (updated 2009
JUN 16)
PRoComputing
Compuker --> APPLE HUMOR (updated 2008
DEC 07 )
PRoComputing
Compuker --> MOVIES (updated 2007
DEC 25)
Official2012Countdown.com
GRISOFT once again received
the VB100% Award by independent malware advisor,
Virus Bulletin,
in June 2006. AVG Anti-Virus proved itself by detecting
all in the Wild
viruses, while generating no false positives, during
both on-demand and
on-access scanning in Virus Bulletin's comparative
tests.
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BrixNet's “TestYourVoIP” is uphttp://myvoipspeed.visualware.com/
War in Iraq
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