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Protect and Clean your PC for FREE!

  • Friday, June 08 2012 @ 06:05 am UTC
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I am often asked to recommend software for virus and malware protection. I sent the following information to a colleague in an email and decided to post it here for future reference. I hope you find this information useful:

To get free anti-virus go to the following page:

AVG FREE

http://free.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download

 

Click the “Download Basic Protection” button:

 

Choose the Free version

 

a download.cnet.com page will open...

click on the green download button:

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Welcome AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012 users

To complete your download, click on the link below:

download from cnet

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choose to save downloaded file to your computer.
file is named similar to: avg_free_stb_all_2012_####_cnet.exe

double click downloaded file to install AVG following prompts...

Basically

·         be sure to select free version

·         do not allow program to provide information to AVG (product improvement – or whatever)

·         I do recommend the installation of the AVG toolbar for browser and setting AVG as default search provider.

·         update AVG (possibly a couple of times) to get latest protections

·         run a complete scan as soon as possible

The complete process may take 30~60 minutes.

On Windows 7 (and Vista) the install places an AVG “widget” on the desktop with a scan button and an update button – as long as you occasionally do each you will be secure and up to date.

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and for good measure...

One of the best resources for instructions on cleaning up an infected computer can be found on the following page:

Lunarsoft

http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/PC_Cleanup

Of particular intrest here is the proper procedure for the installation and configuration of the following programs:

  • SpywareBlaster.
  • CCleaner.
  • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
  • SUPERAntiSpyware.
  • Spybot S&D.

For best results download and use the recommended Anti-Malware_Toolkit
to download the above listed programs.

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Keep in mind: AVG should be all the Anti-virus you will need. Installing more than one anti-virus on a system is inviting problems.

Best of luck && Watch what you click!

Using the above resources I have been able to protect and clean several computers; from XP to Windows 7 - I have had success with these products. I have never seen the need to investigate the purchase of anti-virus or anti-malware products for personal computers. On rare occasions a system may be so infected that an operating system may need to be reinstalled or repaired; I have found that system stability is greatly restored using the above techniques, allowing for file recovery and backup efforts prior to the dreaded reformat.

yadda-yadda your results may vary yadda-yadda

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Chappel - Shore Cemetery

  • Tuesday, June 05 2012 @ 06:27 am UTC
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Article in the works...

Chappel - Shore Cemetery 

Hancock Co. IN Green Twp. Elsa A.

approx. 200 E 700 N, Fortville, IN 46040

Historic CemeteryHiram-Mary-marker.jpgHiram-Mary-NorthSide-detail.jpgElsaA-marker.jpgoverviewIDA-marker-frnt.jpgIDA-marker-rear.jpgIDA-detail.jpgEliza-marker.jpgJoseph-marker.jpgLeora-marker.jpgMaryAShore-marker.jpgVergil-marker.jpgSatelite ImageMap DetailLocation Map

 

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Pablo Cruise . . . Still Cruisin'

  • Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 02:19 pm UTC
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Pablo CruiseComScore

 

We all have music in our hearts that in many ways define us. There are songs and musicians that we have heard throughout our lives that we - for whatever reason - actually treasure.  For me, "Pablo Cruise" is just such a group.

Recalling those fun and exciting times of my youth (and young adulthood) - these guys where often playing the background music of my life; bringing an energy and up-beat mood to my existence that will never be forgotten.

In a moment of "where are they now" curiosity I decided to ask the all seeing AltaVista and discovered PabloCruise.com. I am glad I paid them a visit. These guys have generously provided imbedding code for the media player below, offering a really nice assortment of tunes. Several are the original recordings along with the same songs presented as live recordings from their "It's Good to be Live" CD and yep, they still got it! 

Share and Enjoy!
 

Groove Now to Pablo Cruise


Media Source: http://www.pablocruise.com/

    In 1975 Pablo Cruise released its first A&M album simply entitled Pablo Cruise. The album cover was shot in the tropical gardens of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and it featured a huge gorilla standing front and center. The band, David Jenkins (guitars & vocals), Cory Lerios (keyboards & vocals), Steve Price (drums) & Bud Cockrell (bass & vocals) was nowhere in sight. At that point there was a bit of a mystique as to who Pablo Cruise really was. When asked, "who's Pablo," the band, which is a quartet, would answer, "he's the guy in the middle." When asked what Pablo Cruise meant, the well-rehearsed answer went something like this,"Pablo,represents an honest, real, down to earth individual; and Cruise, depicts his fun loving, easy going attitude towards life." In essence that's what Pablo Cruise's music is all about. Honest, real, down to earth vocals, accompanied by fun yet elegant, infectious grooves. To hear Pablo Cruise on record is one thing, but to experience the band live is an exhilarating event.

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THEN

It's Good To Be Live
Click for Hi-Rez

NOW

Now
Click for Hi-Rez

It's Good To Be Live

All Images From: http://www.pablocruise.com/

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BBS in the Twenty-First Century

  • Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 11:28 am UTC
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Image Source: Gizmodo


    In this age of broadband internet and universal connectivity it is somewhat difficult to recall life prior to the World Wide Web. However, one need not venture all that  far back through history to arrive at a time when most folks who possessed personal computers never imagined the potential those devices had for reshaping global society.

    My early personal computing involved chiefly small business type word-processing chores. The discovery that - with the addition of a "modem" device - the PC could be pulled into service as a fax machine was - for me - a watershed event. My eyes were opened to the added versatility that a connection to the telephone line would bring to even my lowly home computer system.

    Suddenly that list of public computer bulletin board systems in the back pages of my dog-eared Pocket PCRef took on a whole new significance. I was happy to discover there was a system in my calling area and wasted little time in making the connection. Little did I realize that with that phone call I was to open a portal from my home to the world...

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Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?

  • Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 09:34 am UTC
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"Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.”
(Brian Greene)


Is there more than one universe? In this visually rich, action-packed talk, Brian Greene shows how the unanswered questions of physics (starting with a big one: What caused the Big Bang?) have led to the theory that our own universe is just one of many in the "multiverse." Brian Greene is perhaps the best-known proponent of superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in a higher dimensional space-time create every particle and force in the universe.

Source: TED

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A (Belated) Happy 40th to FTP

  • Friday, April 20 2012 @ 05:07 am UTC
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I guess I'm truly doggin' it...
Soz a bit late on getting this up but I only just learned (thanks to LileBackenroth.com) that April 16th marked the 41st "birthday" of FTP. Where would we be without FTP - the "Fork-Truck Protocol" of the internet? I re-post Lile's article here for your perusal.

ftp - File Transfer Protocol

FTP 40 Years Old Today . .

April 16th, 2011 �

This year is certainly the year for birthdays. The File Transfer Protocol, otherwise known as FTP is 40 years old today. Originally put forth as the RFC 114 Specification on April 16, 1971, FTP (and the various iterations inspired from it) is as heavily used today as it was back then by people and companies all over the world.

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BBS The Documentary

  • Monday, April 16 2012 @ 10:45 am UTC
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Episode 1 - BAUD

 


The Early Days of BBS Remembered.

 

Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and recieve files.... and millions did.


They called these places "Bulletin Board Systems", or BBSes. And their collections of messages, rants, thoughts and dreams became the way that an entire generation learned about being online.

When the Internet grew in popularity in the early 1990s, the world of the BBS faded, changed, and became a part of the present networked world.. but it wasn't the same.


This movie is part of the archive.org collection: Community Video

 

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Putting the Squeeze on a Rattler

  • Monday, March 26 2012 @ 08:58 am UTC
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UPDATED STORY!

How I DIY'd my rattling catalytic converter.

[The story you are about to read is true. The ideas presented here are for entertainment only. This is not to be misconstrued as advice. If you choose to follow the trail I have blazed be aware that your results may vary. You may be seriously injured or even killed by trying to duplicate the procedures presented in this tale. Proceed with caution.]

 

The Bane Of My Commute.
Image Source:autopartsnetwork.com

 

The cost to replace my catalytic converter was enough to persuade me to put up with the annoying rattling from underneath my truck for longer than I care to admit. At first I thought the heat shield was loose (I have had that happen in the past) and a spot weld or two would likely shut up the rattle. However, on closer inspection I discovered the heat shield was firmly attached.

 With the engine running at idle there is no mistake that the catalytic converter is the source of the clanking rattles. It must be that the guts of this thing are loose and causing the racket. So, resigned to the fact that it must need to be replaced; it's off to the interwebs to prepare myself for the inevitable.

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Welcome to Graveyard Rabbit

  • Saturday, January 21 2012 @ 08:21 pm UTC
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Under Development

BlogDogIt is pleased to announce the addition of this brand new topic area - "Graveyard Rabbit." This blog will strive to earn the distinction of being A Member of The Association of Graveyard Rabbits. Thank you for visiting and please return soon as our special guest blogger begins to contribute to this space...

About The GYRabbit Association


Official GYRabbit Associatin Logo

Welcome to The Association Of Graveyard Rabbits � an association dedicated to the academic promotion of the historical importance of cemeteries, grave markers, and the family history to be learned from a study of burial customs, burying grounds, and tombstones; and the social promotion of the study of cemeteries, the preservation of cemeteries, and the transcription of genealogical/historical information written in cemeteries.

The Association Of Graveyard Rabbits was founded by Terry Thornton (Mississippi) with assistance from footnoteMaven (Washington) and Bob Franks (Mississippi). The Association Of Graveyard Rabbits is authored by Terry Thornton of The GYRabbit of The Hill Country. It features a weekly article with links to all of the articles written by the membership and a weekly feature devoted to the introduction of one of the members. Members are in contact with each other through their blogs, through a frequent Graveyard Rabbit e-Letter, and through interaction at the Graveyard Rabbit Group at Facebook. Additional publications planned include an e-Quarterly and an e-Annual.

The Association publication is implementing an articles and links library created with the contributions of its members. Discussions are ongoing about a Cemetery of the Year Award sponsored by The Association of Graveyard Rabbits.

 

Why The Association of Graveyard Rabbits?

 

The Association was named for Frank Lebby Stanton's poem,

 

Click on read more for more.

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