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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2015! ... Thank you xper The same back to you and your loved ones and everyone else for a good 2015 ... only 85 years left in this century ... give or take.

Maybe so ... I'm still taking precautions: JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp/B00067F1CE/ref=pd_sbs_misc_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0T0J0TZ2165J514T3W0K Carries cargo or a crew of up to five internally or on the roof. Piloted from within the armored shell or from an exposed standing position through the hatch. 6hp Tecumseh gasoline engine, top speed 40 mph. Includes head/tail and turn signal lights, trim and underbody lighting. 400 watt premium sound with PA system, plush interior, and external camera. 1 new from $19,999.95 ... I'm a little short on the price at this moment but I am getting the Geiger Counter ... like last year, can't decide on the model. ...

Some time back last year there was some discussion about the radiation approaching from Japan. We are going to need geiger counters ... "(NaturalNews) Beta radiation levels are off the charts at monitoring sites all across North America, according to new reports. But experts are blaming these radiation spikes on practically everything except for Fukushima." "San Diego appears to be one of the hardest-hit areas, with a CPM reading of 650, as of October 1. This figure is 60 times higher than it was last year on the same date, despite the fact that San Diego's normal background radiation rate typically hovers around 20 CPM." "Radiation testing site near Chicago records radiation levels thousands of times higher than maximum safety threshold." "California official blames plastic eating utensils for radiation spike, insist it can't be Fukushima." http://www.naturalnews.com/047996_radiation_levels_Fukushima_government_denial.html Deadly Fukushima radiation up 50,000% as elevated radiation levels seen across North America December 15, 2014 (NaturalNews) Beta radiation levels are off the charts at monitoring sites all across North America, according to new reports. But experts are blaming these radiation spikes on practically everything except for Fukushima. Data gathered from tracking units in California, Arizona, Illinois and elsewhere reveal radiation levels up to 50,000 percent higher than what was observed at the same time last year, and in some cases compared to levels seen this past summer. EnviroReporter.com says the impacted sites are scattered throughout the country and aren't just confined to the West Coast. Readings taken near Los Angeles; Chicago; Montgomery, Alabama; and Madison, Wisconsin, reveal total beta counts per minute (CPM) greatly exceeding the 1,000 CPM threshold considered by the government to be problematic. In Tucson, Arizona, for instance, a 460 CPM reading was recently taken, which is more than 10 times higher than the reading taken last year on November 27. Similarly, Phoenix, Arizona's 735 CPM reading measured more than 21 times higher than last year's reading. San Diego appears to be one of the hardest-hit areas, with a CPM reading of 650, as of October 1. This figure is 60 times higher than it was last year on the same date, despite the fact that San Diego's normal background radiation rate typically hovers around 20 CPM. "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency RadNet radiation monitors have detected renewed surges in atmospheric readings of dangerous beta radiation across the country," explains EnviroReporter.com about the seemingly inexplicable phenomenon. "Over a dozen metropolitan test sites have registered four-month highs in EnviroReporter.com's most recent comprehensive assessment." ... more at the link

Everybody has left the house ... you get a few quiet moments at the computer ... but maybe you are not really alone ! ... or alone at work when the others have left for the day ! Average worker comes into contact with more than 10 MILLION disease-causing bacteria lurking on their keyboard, phone and mouse. 5 December 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2859334/Why-s-time-detox-desk-Average-worker-comes-contact-10-MILLION-disease-causing-bacteria-lurking-keyboard-phone-mouse.html More than 10 million bacteria lurk on the average office desk with 7,500 organisms hidden in your keyboard Unhygienic working conditions are a 'key contributor' to millions of working days lost to sickness each year Hygiene expert Dr Lisa Ackerley said bacteria and viruses can survive on hard surfaces for up to 24 hours Says our hands are a germ motorway; many surfaces they come into contact with can breed bacteria and viruses Millions of us spend our days slaving over a keyboard. But lurking between the keys, hidden on the mouse and nestled in your phone lies more than 10 million bacteria - 400 times more than on the average toilet seat. Unhygienic working conditions are a 'key contributor' to the 131 million working days lost each year in the UK and millions more around the world, to illnesses including colds and flu. Bacteria and viruses can multiply on hard surfaces, remaining infectious for up to 24 hours, hygiene expert and visiting professor at the University of Salford, Dr Lisa Ackerley told MailOnline. ... more at the link

Came across this page dated September 29, 2014 ... probably a good page to bookmark for future reference as the list grows. http://portableapps.com/node/42651 Apps That Have Dropped Windows XP Support: List, App Homepage Indications September 29, 2014 We're now starting to see more apps which are dropping support for Windows XP. I'm wondering how the community would like to handle this. We'd like to maintain a list of last-working versions for users to be able to obtain. We'll include a caveat about bugs, security issues, and it being unsupported, of course. I'm inclined to have a single page listing all the last-working versions and including links from each app's homepage affected to that page. That way we can have all of them in one place and only have one big notice about why it's a bad idea as well as how to install it so the updater won't offer to update it. It's possible we could also do a specific XP version with a renamed AppID (FileZillaPortableLegacyForXP) as a last release as well using the updated installer so that it will continue to work. We could even include a warning about it being unsupported on install. Thoughts? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Very good discussion about XP and SSE2 just below the list. There's some mention of a "go around fix" for some apps ... "As I mentioned in LibreOffice, the problem seems not to be so much a problem of XP but the CPU it is running on. If the CPU supports SSE2 then XP with SP3 should be good for awhile longer. Unfortunately the developers releasing new versions of software are not considering backward compatability for older CPUs and OSs. A quick google turned up SSE2 issues with Skype 6.2, uTorrent 3.4, and MuseScore 2 beta. There was a post at MuseScore that was pretty in depth:" ... also a fix maybe for some apps ... October 8, 2014 "If by soft fail and hard fail, they're both hard fails in our usage. If we mark an app as MinOS=Vista, that means it requires Vista and later no matter what CPU or anything else you have. It won't work on XP full stop. The same goes for requiring SSE2. An app that requires SSE2 won't work without it due to the way it was compiled. Note that we make a best effort to get apps working on XP even when no longer supported. For example, Blender is now only supported on Windows Vista and later, but we add the appropriate Visual C++ runtimes to our package and it continues to work on Windows XP. It's like a later release will be compiled with a newer compiler and not work on XP at all, but that's a different scenario." ------------------------ I didn't fully understand what has been happening so this page has brought me up to speed ... look forward to more discussion here also. A lot of reading at that web page. *** As a side note further below in the discussions ... a "small fight" or "brush fire" over also including Windows 2000 has started ... Ditching 2K We're ditching 2K. It's barely used and most apps no longer support it. Windows XP is still widely used. ------ Poor Win2K, this makes me very sad. I would think you'd want to make it a reusable system, in case Vista (not likely) or Se7en (more likely) decide to hang on like XP has, in which case adding 'Legacy Win2K' support wouldn't be much more of a burden then adding 'Legacy XP' support already is. (I'll make 'Legacy Win2K' Plugins [see below] for you if that'll help to change your mind.) ------ First, we're dropping Windows 2000 support in the platform, so they won't even have access to the ability to download alternate versions by the platform, rendering the alternate packages moot. Second, even if we did tie ourselves to the dead Delphi XE2 release in order to keep supporting Windows 2000, the bigger issue is time. At present, all releases have to be reviewed, digitally signed, uploaded, and added to the database by me. I'm not going to spend time doing that for the 150 apps in our database that dropped Windows 2000 support 1 or more years ago. Windows 2000 users have no active support from most apps right now, so it's not like they're losing anything. Windows 2000 also has barely any userbase. Windows XP is a very different situation. There are probably more Windows XP users today than there were Windows 2000 users 3 years before it was end of lifed. And the majority of apps today support Windows XP. So, this is a small amount of work for the handful of apps dropping Windows XP support that we'd have to test for anyway for a benefit for a good number of users. Windows 2000 is a ton of work for a handful of users for very old and insecure versions of apps. --- I answered what you asked. And you did have 2000 or 2K 5 different times in your post. My point was that it would only serve Windows 2000 right now, which doesn't make sense because it's barely used, would require a ton of effort to sort through the apps for little benefit, and the platform will be dropping support for it anyway which makes it moot. We don't need to worry about Vista until 2017... and then not much at all since it's the ugly stepchild with hardly any users. So, Windows 7 in 2020 is the likelier bet due to the large installbase and the fact that desktops get replaced much less often than 10 years ago. ... Oh well those old Windows 2k die hards ... hope it just stays XP, will be complicated enough. ... also as mentioned in the discussions ... the little free program CPU-Z will show if your CPU has SSE2. I have used it for years as most everyone has but if you never heard of it ... here's the link. I am still using version 1.70.0 but the current version is CPU-Z 1.71.1. http://www.cpuid.com/ ... this is from a posting at the discussion section: I think an addition to your proposed page instructing the users to try CPU-Z to check their CPU. If it doesn't support SSE2 then they are probably stuck with an older version of the App they are trying. Maybe a sticky somewhere is needed to alert XP users to check their CPU if they are having problems with new version of an App. ...

If anyone is interested in the portable version of CCleaner ... it is also available. CCleaner Portable 4.19.4867 http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/ccleaner_portable.html older portable versions are here ... it usually takes this site a few days to post the latest portable version. Click on the "All versions" tab. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/security/system_cleanup/ccleaner_portable.cfm#all_versions ...

I probably didn't understand your post ... there are also two paid versions now, I thought there only used to be one. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download As I said earlier the "free version" is still around but maybe it's not as good as a few versions back. It doesn't seem to have very many "checkmarks" these days ... everything maybe been moved to a paid version, I don't know. It doesn't have "Complete Cleaning" checked for the free version. Not sure what is not "cleaned" and how important it might be. I've always used it with Windows 98SE and XP. Maybe anyone fooling around with Windows 10 will want to check it out.

I was only posting about the free version ... it's still around.

Not really sure how important this is to anyone ... I'm not really following Windows 10 ... I noticed today the new CCleaner had Windows 10 Preview Compatibility added. I didn't know where to really post this ... I wanted it under the Windows 10 topic but move it if necessary. v4.19.4867 (24 Oct 2014) - Added Windows 10 Preview compatibility. - Improved Opera 25 Cache cleaning. - Improved exception handling and reporting architecture. - Improved Auto-Update checking process. - Updated various translations. - Minor GUI Improvements. - Minor bug fixes. ...

That's a good description ... more like a periscope. The military will probably have many uses for it as also police maybe in a hostage standoff. I'm sure the company will sell many of these little devices. It doesn't seem like a real drone to me with the tether line attached for power but it has many uses and small drones with a power supply would be of limited use timewise. ...

Seems like a new drone thread is in order ... the other has gotten so large. All those earlier drone posts about "small or tiny" drones not being able to fly around very long ... might be ancient history. This new small drone will fit in your pocket, fly for hours and send back top quality video. Now we all have reason to be worried about being watched or spied on by a neighbor, police or anybody. From the article: "It fits in your pocket and weights a mere 80 grams. It'll fly continuously for two hours or more, sending back high quality HD video the entire time." There is one catch, if you can call it that ... it has a microfilament tether that unspools from the drone and keeps it constantly connected to communications and power. I guess this is still a drone even though the power is not on board ... still interesting for "long term" spying ... explains why the weight is so low. So a neighbor could easily hover and spy all night looking into windows ... if it's plugged into a power grid, you get two hours + from the base station. Also, the drone can't be messed with jamming signals ... from the article: "Power may be the primary reason why the Pocket Flyer uses a microfilament thether, but there are a bunch of other reasons why it's a good idea. You get high definition video with no lag. You can put a lot of obstacles between you and your drone without having to worry about losing communications. And, you're protected from malicious people trying to mess with your drone, as Greiner explains: If you see these wireless systems, you can look at the signal, and potentially take control of the vehicle. If you're not that technologically sophisticated, you can actually just put noise into the environment and jam the signals, and the drone will lose control. The microfilament is impervious to that." CyPhy Works' New Drone Fits in Your Pocket, Flies for Two Hours 23 Oct 2014 http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/cyphy-works-pocket-flyer-drone I took the above quotes from this article. http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/new-drone-fits-in-your-pocket-flies-for-two-hours-141023.htm ... I'm just thinking that people living in the country with no really close neighbors may not always have their drapes closed, not thinking about a drone hovering around recording everything ... also in a large city living way up many floors with no drapes ... someone on the floor below or above just places the drone a few feet down or up to watch everything. It's amazing with all the drone developements since I started that first drone topic in 2013. I remember no drone talk or much news in 2012. ...

OK ... the news that you have KM74 working a little on W98SE might be of interest in the KM Forum ... after you experiment more. I assume you probably have KernelEx installed. I am sure there are still W98SE users there along with Windows XP. I tried K74 and it seemed to have "some limitations" that the developer didn't carry over into his version ... also a lot of older plugins working with older versions of KM didn't work with KM74 ... that was a few months ago and maybe some of those have been updated. I liked the KM v1.8 version since it still was close to the KM v1.6 (JamesD) version, which I understand better but it has a newer Gecko engine, if I understand things correctly. This is taken from the thread / topic: Question About All These Newer K-Meleon Versions http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?2,128917 "adodupan's 1.8 is a test version of 74 that works on core but IMHO mainly has changes in XUL/Chrome -> Prefernces Panel. You will notice that he asked in General for details about what chrome pref parts do normally when they function. Its both: about broken things and new things." I don't fully understand all the work being done on the various versions but I think everything will eventually end up in a "future" KM74 version update. Great bunch of people over there working on various problems and versions. For now I like KM v1.8 ... don't know if there will be anymore work done with it. ...

It is a little hard to find ... it is in the Development thread under the General thread Support & Development Development The third sticky down ... started by adodupan Sticky: K-Meleon 1.8.0 Development The first link : gecko.24.kmeleon.1.8.24.build.22 under George Haal on Page 0ne I don't know if it will work with Windows 98SE but no harm in experimenting ... *** Forgot the links: Development : K-Meleon Forum http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/list.php?2 http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?2,126206

I thought someone might answer your question, so I will reply. I have no real answer for you ... I don't use Firefox and I am not using this newer KM version at present. I am using KM v1.8.24 which is "connected" to the newer version on early research or trials. I was using (and still have it available) the KM v1.60 by JamesD and then in August I discovered KM v1.8.24 ... it's more like the KM JamesD version but newer. It doesn't seem to use much resources. Go to the KM forum under the General tab and ask your question ... I am sure JohnHell or JamesD or someone will answer your question ... you do not have to be a member to post anything, I am pretty sure. I seem to remember someone making a comment about FF and KM some time back ... it may have been JohnHell. ...

herbalist ... welcome back ! ... really missed your posts dealing with security and all the crazy stuff going on. ...

Good one ... worth watching more than once ! ...

Starting a new post ... the other is long enough. I missed that about Windows 7 in your first post ... that Netgear card will not work with Windows 7 ... I think ... so with Windows 7 and XP on one computer probably something more "modern" is the answer ... I only have XP on my notebooks. I found this at the Major Geeks forum: The first link in the answer by Squeaner does still work and you might want to download it and save it in a folder ... maybe it will be useful, maybe not. thinkpad t42 wireless problem http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=210783 *** just to add ... perhaps someone else with a Thinkpad T42 can be of help to you. I just pulled one of the Netgear WG511 v2 boxes out of storage ... it says it will work with Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 Professional and XP ... no Windows 7 mentioned. However, this card did not work very well for me with Windows 98SE ... it was hit and miss, maybe the Netgear drivers were at fault for this newer card ... when I used an older Netgear card with Windows 98SE, everything worked great. That's when I decided to put XP on my T42 notebooks ... that was a good move ... I thinks this card had better drivers for XP, seems to be flawless. Just my observations. ...

From what I remember over 2 1/2 years ago ... the part about going back to an older driver was on the Thinkpad forum. I have been searching around and can't spot any talk about it. Perhaps IBM or Lenovo fixed or released a newer working driver since then. I seem to remember as I searched ... there were many people having problems with the WiFi on the T42 notebook. I had the Netgear card working and after a few more months of searching finally found the solution to the T42 WiFi working. So I have two ways to connect with WiFi ... I have the IBM T42 internal WiFi turned off and use the Netgear card. After I got everything working to my satisfaction ... I made an image backup of both machines ... never going to have that problem again. This is the Netgear card that I bought ... you don't have to buy it ... I had an older Netgear card to use for Windows 98 but it didn't seem to work well with XP so I got a few of these cards ... they were $15 then for new ... today I see the price is $5.25 ... it looks like a new sealed card but it might be used. http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-WG511V2-54Mbps-802-11g-Wireless/dp/B003HY35O4 I also found the card here at Amazon for $59.33 from another seller ... After I tried it out on my T42 XP setup and it worked OK ... I bought 3 or 4 more to use and have some "spares" in case one of my cards went bad ... newer notebooks no longer have these PCMIA slots, I think ... don't know for sure with "all" newer notebooks ... so I figured these cards were no longer going to be made, wanted to play safe. I have used this card like crazy many times every day for years and it still works just fine ... I guess better to be safe than sorry and have a spare or two. http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-Mbps-Wireless-Card-WG511/dp/B003WT3IB4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1413104941&sr=8-2&keywords=Netgear+WG511V2 Your Netgear stick should work ... just check the latest drivers for XP I guess. *** Just to add ... that first card being sold for $5.25 looks to be new ... it says "fullfilled by Amazon" and it looks just like what I bought in 2012 ... the box and everything. I would say it is a never used product ... but not 100% sure ... in case anyone else might want this kind of Netgear card for an XP setup. There is an answer out there somewhere. ...

I have two T42 Thinkpads and there are problems with the WI-Fi drivers as I remember from 2012 when setting up Windows XP. I bought a Netgear card (WG511 v2) ... very cheap from an Amazon seller and like it better in my T42. To make the Thinkpad Wi-Fi work I found a solution from others having the same problem ... the latest driver has to replaced with an older driver ... also do not download any WI-Fi driver from the MS update. They have an IBM driver there under Other Software or something and it will take off the old driver and put the newer driver back on and screw everything up ... at least it did on my machine. You will need to search around on Google and the Thinkpad forum ... you may not have the same problem that I had ... my Wi-Fi works fine but I like using the Netgear card in the PCMIA slot better ... will pick up more signals. Thinkpad T42 Wi-Fi search on Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=thinkpad+t42+XP+wifi+problem&btnG=Search&complete=0&hl=en&gbv=1&spell=1 https://www.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&complete=0&hl=en&gbv=2&q=thinkpad+t42+wi-fi+problem+need+older+driver&oq=thinkpad+t42+wi-fi+problem+need+older+driver&gs_l=serp.12...0.0.0.5053.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..55.serp..0.0.0.uVoQAE_QwNs It took me awhile to get it figured out ... maybe this will get you started but you're problem may be something different ... someone on Google or the Thinkpad forum may have the same problem. ...

Ok ... appreciate the replies. I will say that the games are OK and play nice on my setup, no problems except for what I described earlier ... also, I don't remember ever having this occur with anything else, just these free games. I downloaded Wireshark 1.12.1 and a message popped up that it "may" not work with XP and that I should download Wireshark 1.10.10 ... so I will get that version and see what information I get. I was just curious if others play some of these free games and if they also have the game trying to connect home when they start the game? Perhaps some firewalls are better than others and will pick up on the attempt to connect to the internet ... maybe no firewall program can detect the connection attempt ... that would be interesting to know ... also maybe because I am on XP versus a newer OS might have some bearing ... don't know. thanks ...

Last year I downloaded a few free games from a website and just a few days ago I downloaded a couple more from Game Top ... http://www.gametop.com/category/downloadable.html My question is a simple one which I know one of you real gamers can probably give me an answer ... I have searched around but can find no information. Ok, I download and install the free game but every time I click on the game to play or to quit playing, the game makes an attempt to connect to the internet. I am not connected at the time and these free simple games can be played alone on a PC ... no internet connection needed. My question is ... how are these internet connection attempts not going through my firewall so I could put the firewall setting at "No" and it would never happen again? It's a bit annoying but how does the game go straight online and by-pass the firewall? I am wondering about other possible programs going on the internet and bypassing the firewall also ... if these simple free games can do it. So far every free game that I have tried has the ability to not be picked up by my firewall ... like I said earlier, if it did go through the firewall ... I could set the setting to "No" for all future attempts. thanks ...

I mostly look around for XP news these days so I missed all these Windows 10 developments ... I only found the article, that I posted earlier about, interesting since it made mention of Windows XP. I asked to have the post removed since it is no longer relevant. ...

OK ... a stupid question from an XP user. A short time ago I posted a link to an article from Asia about the possibility of Windows 9 being "free" when it is released ... also there was some mention that there might be a special deal for XP users in some way. I'm not following these newer OSs too much since I will probably remain with XP anyway. However reading these posts over the last few days ... I'm a bit confused. All the talk is now Windows 10 and jumping from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Simple question ... where is Windows 9 fitting into all this or it doesn't fit. Is Windows 9 just an "enhansed" update for Windows 8 but being called Windows 9 ??? There is no talk or mention of Windows 9 ... just talk of jumping from Windows 8 to Windows 10 ... so there appears to be "no real interest" in Windows 9. I'm just curious about all this ... you guys know the new stuff coming on the horizon. I would have never posted the link to the article ... that Windows 9 could be possibilty free, it seems to already be "ancient history". ... OK I just now spotted a post by JorgeA: Here's an explanation (see the comments section) for why Microsoft jumped from Windows 8 to Windows 10. So Windows 9 no longer exists ... so it won't ever be free for anyone as it never really existed !!! Just missed all this news.

That's what I was also thinking ... since sharks are known to eat almost anything. I believe license plates and you name it has been found in a shark's s stomach ... maybe everything except a riding lawnmower. That's interesting about Google’s Undersea Cables ... maybe the sharks are on our side! Perhaps the eletrical impulses going through the cables are picked up by the shark since they and other sea animals can read electrical impulses of sea creatures in "fear" mode and such. Don't know, just a theory, not very scientific.

How many of those will be eaten by sharks ???