2010 LIST OF MEMORIAL DAY MOVIES
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It was a short list, but varied:

1. Kelley's Hero's



2. The Battle of Britain



3. Sahara



4. Desert Rats



5. They Were Expendable



6. Operation Pacific



7. The Story of G.I. JOE

WE'VE BEEN BUSY.....
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SORRY FOR THE LACK OF POSTS BUT HERE ARE SOME PICS (NOT ALL IN ORDER)

"IF" I get the time, I'll add some captions - Woody.

MERRY CHRISTMAS,



AND...



HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!




Time has flown by these last few months, hope you're enjoying the Holidays, and perhaps some DX. I haven't had the chance since my last post to check conditions, and where I used to check spaceweather.com every day, I didn't get around to it until last week (the day of the eclipse). Still moving stuff, and while we didn't have any snow - we did get a cold, windy Christmas!
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Last week was slow, with very few calls but a lot of walk-in traffic. A virus had done something to wreck the boot record so the computer couldn't boot. My Boss had me type in two separate commands and it was back in business. I wrote those commands down and circled them on my scratch pad I carry with me.
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Yesterday I visited someone whose Daughter had run a file called Xmas.exe, and shortly afterwards he was left with a blinking cursor on his laptop. After trying the usual stuff I was about ready to tell him I'd have to take it back to the shop when I remembered those two commands. I had a disk to get me to the system and ran the two commands and it booted to Windows fine. After the boot, I used the usual stuff to eradicate the Trojan. Good thing I wrote those down eh?
73
Woody
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There may be a disruption on my website (but not the blog) this month as I move it to another provider, timing depends on my physical move, hope yer all enjoying those Sunspots!! - Woody

Sorry for lack of posts. Have been busy getting readg for relocation for job, and other issues.

Woody

THE PERSISTENT URBAN [AND CORPORATE] LEGEND ABOUT - PASSWORDS

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Much like the Babysitter who receives disturbing phone calls - from an upstairs extension, to girls who find the body of their boyfriend hanging above their car in the woods, there is a persistent "Urban Legend" about how frequently you should change passwords on a computer, that has yet to fade away.

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At one place of business not only the length of the password, but the frequency at which it was forced to be changed became a misery of many an end-user, when in fact, experts are reversing their opinion on this practice from the "DARK AGES". I recall many times seeing a persons list of passwords of everything from network login to EBAY and PAYPAL written on a piece of paper conveniently scotch-taped to the monitor or often, under the keyboard when in fact there were far worse things to worry about when it came to their personal and business security.

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If an end-user requires 4 different passwords, each different, to access the network and do their job - and is forced to change them every four or six weeks, memory (and we're not talking about PC memory here) overload becomes an issue and passwords get written down and stored in places they usually won't forget where they were placed. At one company I worked for, at least a third of the users used 123456 for a password, until the password rules were extended to eight digits. Suddenly 123456 became 12345678. Other examples abound such as adding a number or alpha character to the end of the current password, so if your password was geopet, then when the next change came, "geopet" became geopet1, followed by 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. [ed. - either you get the idea by now...or you're already password Zombies].

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Knowing what I knew, after many years of end-user/server support, I could see that as hard as a network security policy could be, end-users could find an easy way to comply, yet not compromise any further grey matter which could be used for better things. Over that past 18 months I've read numerous articles on this same subject, the consensus being - frequent password changes do little to secure your computer, data, or network. Just today I ran across yet another article CLICK HERE which prompted me to finally write what I wanted to write sometime go but forgot to write it because I have too many passwords stored in my head.

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WOODY