Good, I'm glad you're making progress. I'm so afraid of having something like that happen. I keep everything on credit freeze.
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BarnBuster
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Sounds like some good progress. The Experian account I have also has a "Dark Web Scan" feature. Very useful since that's probably where any info on your wife came from. There are a few services out there that do this scan. My main Hotmail email account is decades old and my phone is the same since 1979 and I also used (stupidly) the same password on many older accounts. Those first few deep scans were scary AF with all the info and sources that were revealed. Luckily(!) most of the related passwords were from dead accounts but still...
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BarnBuster
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This is a good time to remember that your folks and grandparents will/could be having the same problems and vulnerabilities with their online identity, credit reporting, the Internet. Please check in with them and kindly, gently see if they are having difficulties with any of this. It may require some detective work on your part as they may not be willing to admit they are having problems.
BarnBuster
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I cut the cord a year ago — here's how much I saved and what I've learned
Canceling cable was one of the best decisions I've ever made
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Here's a hack that works
been trying to log onto tracfoneforum.com. Perfectly legit site, worked fine for years. Couldn't get on no matter what I tried, something on my PC/software stopped access. Got varied errors:
PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR
SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE
NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED
So anyway, the hack. On Chrome after the message is displayed, type thisisunsafe or badidea on your keyboard and hit enter. I got right in.
Edit: looks like this has been around for a while
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been trying to log onto tracfoneforum.com. Perfectly legit site, worked fine for years. Couldn't get on no matter what I tried, something on my PC/software stopped access. Got varied errors:
PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR
SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE
NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED
So anyway, the hack. On Chrome after the message is displayed, type thisisunsafe or badidea on your keyboard and hit enter. I got right in.
Edit: looks like this has been around for a while
When you use 'badidea' or 'thisisunsafe' to bypass a Chrome certificate/HSTS error, does it only apply for the current site?
Sometimes and especially very often when developing a web-application Chrome doesn't allow you to visit certain sites and throwing certificate/HSTS error. I've found that typing badidea (more recen...
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BarnBuster
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This is usually my goto site for downloading any free software. I don't see a downside to this if you're looking for MS Office but it's not 365. I've been using Office 2003 since I retired cause I don't need all the bells and whistles of later versions and I can use the same license on multiple pc's. Got a new PC that I'm going to download this Office on so we'll see. I hate learning new shit now.
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BarnBuster
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Today in "Just About Anything Important in Modern Electronics" history:
1947: John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, with support from colleague William Shockley, demonstrate the transistor at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Bell Labs publicly announced the first transistor at a press conference in New York on June 30, 1948.
It's been called the most important invention of the 20th century. The transistor, aka point-contact transistor, is a semiconductor device that can amplify or switch electrical signals. It was developed to replace vacuum tubes.
Vacuum tubes were bulky, unreliable and consumed too much power. So AT&T's research-and-development arm, Bell Labs, started a project to find an alternative.
For nearly a decade before the first transistor was developed, Shockley, a physicist at Bell Labs, worked on the theory of such a device. But Shockley couldn't build a working model. His first semiconductor amplifier had a "small cylinder coated thinly with silicon, mounted close to a small, metal plate."
So Shockley asked his colleagues, Bardeen and Brattain, to step in. One of the problems they noticed with Shockley's first attempt was condensation on the silicon. So they submerged it in water and suggested the initial prototype have a metal point "that would be pushed into the silicon surrounded by distilled water." At last there was amplification — but disappointingly, at a trivial level.
Following more experiments, germanium replaced silicon, which increased amplification by about 300 times.
A few more modifications later, Brattain had a gold metal point extended into the germanium. That resulted in better ability to modulate amplification at all frequencies.
The final design of a point-contact transistorhad two gold contacts lightly touching a germanium crystal that was on a metal plate connected to a voltage source. Also known as the "little plastic triangle," it became the first working solid-state amplifier.
Bardeen and Brattain demonstrated the transistor device to Bell Lab officials Dec. 23, 1947. Shockley was reported to have called it "a magnificent Christmas present." But Shockley himself was not present when it happened and was said to be bitter over losing out on that day.
He had his revenge, though. Shockley continued to work on the idea and refine it. In early 1948, he came up with the bipolar or junction transistor, a superior device that took over from the point-contact type.
The transistor went on to replace bulky vacuum tubes and mechanical relays. The invention revolutionized the world of electronics and became the basic building block upon which all modern computer technology rests.
Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the transistor, but the trio never worked together after the first few months of their initial creation of the transistor.
Shockley left Bell Labs and founded Shockley Semiconductor in Mountain View, California – one of the early high-tech companies in what would later become Silicon Valley.
Brattain remained a fellow at Bell Labs. Bardeen became a professor at the University of Illinois in 1951, and he shared a second Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972, for the first successful explanation of superconductivity.
1947: John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, with support from colleague William Shockley, demonstrate the transistor at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Bell Labs publicly announced the first transistor at a press conference in New York on June 30, 1948.
It's been called the most important invention of the 20th century. The transistor, aka point-contact transistor, is a semiconductor device that can amplify or switch electrical signals. It was developed to replace vacuum tubes.
Vacuum tubes were bulky, unreliable and consumed too much power. So AT&T's research-and-development arm, Bell Labs, started a project to find an alternative.
For nearly a decade before the first transistor was developed, Shockley, a physicist at Bell Labs, worked on the theory of such a device. But Shockley couldn't build a working model. His first semiconductor amplifier had a "small cylinder coated thinly with silicon, mounted close to a small, metal plate."
So Shockley asked his colleagues, Bardeen and Brattain, to step in. One of the problems they noticed with Shockley's first attempt was condensation on the silicon. So they submerged it in water and suggested the initial prototype have a metal point "that would be pushed into the silicon surrounded by distilled water." At last there was amplification — but disappointingly, at a trivial level.
Following more experiments, germanium replaced silicon, which increased amplification by about 300 times.
A few more modifications later, Brattain had a gold metal point extended into the germanium. That resulted in better ability to modulate amplification at all frequencies.
The final design of a point-contact transistorhad two gold contacts lightly touching a germanium crystal that was on a metal plate connected to a voltage source. Also known as the "little plastic triangle," it became the first working solid-state amplifier.
Bardeen and Brattain demonstrated the transistor device to Bell Lab officials Dec. 23, 1947. Shockley was reported to have called it "a magnificent Christmas present." But Shockley himself was not present when it happened and was said to be bitter over losing out on that day.
He had his revenge, though. Shockley continued to work on the idea and refine it. In early 1948, he came up with the bipolar or junction transistor, a superior device that took over from the point-contact type.
The transistor went on to replace bulky vacuum tubes and mechanical relays. The invention revolutionized the world of electronics and became the basic building block upon which all modern computer technology rests.
Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the transistor, but the trio never worked together after the first few months of their initial creation of the transistor.
Shockley left Bell Labs and founded Shockley Semiconductor in Mountain View, California – one of the early high-tech companies in what would later become Silicon Valley.
Brattain remained a fellow at Bell Labs. Bardeen became a professor at the University of Illinois in 1951, and he shared a second Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972, for the first successful explanation of superconductivity.
BarnBuster
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I was never much of a keyboard shortcut user always just used the mouse. Ever close a tab and then have to find it again in history?
www.cnet.com
The Joy of Ctrl+Shift+T: Why This Is Now My Favorite Keyboard Shortcut
I found this simple way to reopen a browser tab, and my browsing life is better for it.
www.cnet.com
BarnBuster
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In Chrome if you right click on the tab bar you will get an option to reopen closed tabsI was never much of a keyboard shortcut user always just used the mouse. Ever close a tab and then have to find it again in history?
The Joy of Ctrl+Shift+T: Why This Is Now My Favorite Keyboard Shortcut
I found this simple way to reopen a browser tab, and my browsing life is better for it.
if you prefer mousing it. On a Mac it's cmd+shift+T
BarnBuster
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The James Webb Space Telescope is capturing the universe on a 68GB SSD
With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now powered up and snapping some spectacular images, you may wonder exactly how it's storing them.
BarnBuster
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An Opaque Web of Credit Reports Is Tracking Everything You Do
The "financial surveillance" state is here, and your credit score is just the tip of the iceberg.
"Who’s Keeping Score?: Oversight of Changing Consumer Credit Infrastructure"
BarnBuster
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I like to have this browser loaded just in case. For whatever reason some sites just won't load on FF or Chrome but usually will on Vivaldi. Haven't used it for email.
BarnBuster
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Return of the tinkerers
A somewhat aged Windows PC refused to join its designated network after each cold start.That prompted me to do something I hadn't done in a long time: tinker!
blog.ashampoo.com
BarnBuster
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Bypass Paywalls Clean v2.8.8.0
Firefox extension
works for NYT
local libraries may have online access to NYT and other paywall newspapers.
Firefox extension
works for NYT
local libraries may have online access to NYT and other paywall newspapers.
