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In Windows 11, you may find you must now log in using a Microsoft account. I'll show you two alternatives that will allow you to continue to use a local account.

In Windows forensics, understanding the intricacies of autorun functionalities and the Windows Registry is essential for effective incident response and investigation. Autorun mechanisms, which allow programs to execute automatically when the system starts or specific actions are performed, can be exploited by malicious actors to persist on a system. The Windows Registry, a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the operating system and applications, plays a crucial role in tracking these autorun entries. Forensic analysis of the Windows Registry can reveal information about auto-starting applications, system configurations, and user activities, providing insights into potential security breaches and unauthorized changes.

In Windows gibt es jede Menge Tastenkombinationen, mit denen man schnell auf bestimmte Funktionen zugreifen kann. Auch der Shortcut „Windows“ + „K“ gehört dazu. Was die Tastenkombination bewirkt und wie ihr sie nutzt, erklären wir hier.

Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I had an interesting exchange with a contest manager and it's not the first time I've had this dance. As you might know, pretty much every weekend marks at least one on-air amateur radio contest. Following rules set out by a contest the aim is to make contact or a QSO with stations, taking note of each, in a process called logging. Using logging software is one way to keep track of who you talked to, a piece of paper is another. If your station is expecting to make less than a dozen contacts per hour, paper is a perfectly valid way of keeping track, but it's likely that most contests expect you to transcribe your scribbles into electronic form. Which electronic form is normally explicitly stated in the rules for that contest. While I mention rules, you should check the rules for each contest you participate in. Rules change regularly, sometimes significantly, often subtly with little edge cases captured in updated requirements. On the software side, using electronic logging, even transcribing your paper log, can get you to unexpected results. I participated in a local contest and logged with a tool I've used before, xlog. Contests often specify that you must submit logs using something like Cabrillo or ADIF. There are contests that provide a web page where you're expected to paste or manually enter your contacts in some specific format. Using xlog I exported into each of the available formats, Cabrillo, ADIF, Tab Separated Values or TSV and a format I've never heard of, EDI. The format, according to a VHF Handbook I read, Electronic Data Interchange, was recommended by the IARU Region 1 during a meeting of the VHF/UHF/Microwave committee in Vienna in 1998 and later endorsed by the Executive Committee. The contest I participated in asked for logs in Excel, Word, ASCII text or the output of electronic logging programs. Based on that I opened up the Cabrillo file and noticed that the export was gibberish. It had entries that bore no relation to the actual contest log entries, so I set about fixing them, one line at a time, to ensure that what I was submitting was actually a true reflection of my log. So, issue number one is that xlog does not appear to export Cabrillo or ADIF properly. The TSV and EDI files appear, at least at first glance, to have the correct information, and the xlog internal file also contains the correct information. Much food for head-scratching. I'm running the latest version, so I'll dig in further when I have a moment. In any case, I received a lovely email from the contest manager who apologised for not being able to open up my submitted log because they didn't have access to anything that could open up a Cabrillo file. We exchanged a few emails and I eventually sent a Comma Separated Values, or CSV file, and my log was accepted. What I discovered was that their computer was "helping" in typical unhelpful "Clippy" style, by refusing to open up a Cabrillo file, claiming that it didn't have software installed that could read it. Which brings me to issue number two. All these files, Cabrillo, ADIF, TSV, CSV, EDI, even xlog's internal file are all text files. You can open them up in any text editor, on any platform, even Windows, which for reasons only the developers at Microsoft understand, refuses to open a text file if it has the wrong file extension. This "helpful" aspect of the platform is extended into their email service, "Outlook.com" previously called "Hotmail", which refuses to download "unknown" files, like the Cabrillo file with a ".cbr" extension. With the demise of Windows Notepad, another annoying aspect has been removed, that of line-endings. To signify the end of a line MacOS, Windows and Linux have different ideas on how to indicate that a line of text has come to an end. In Windows-land, and DOS before it, use Carriage Return followed by Linefeed. Unix, including Linux and FreeBSD use Linefeed only; OS X also uses Linefeed, but classic Macintosh used Carriage Return. In other words, if you open up a text file and it all runs into one big chunk of text, it's likely that line-endings are the cause. It also means that you, and contest managers, can rename files with data in Cabrillo, ADIF, CSV, TSV, EDI and plenty of other formats like HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, XML and KML to something ending with "TXT" and open it in their nearest text editor. If this makes you giddy, a KMZ file is actually a ZIP file with a KML file inside, which is also true for several other file formats like DOCX to name one. Of course, that doesn't fix the issues of broken exports like xlog appears to be doing, but at least it gets everyone on the same page. Word of caution. In most of these files individual characters matter. Removing an innocuous space or quote might completely corrupt the file for software that is written for that file format. So, tread carefully when you're editing. What other data wrangling issues have you come across? I'm Onno VK6FLAB

In Windows 10 und 11 gibt es etliche praktische Funktionen, die verdammt gut versteckt sind. Dazu gehört bestimmt auch das Windows-Tool winget, welches ich ab sofort nicht mehr missen will.

In Windows 10 und 11 gibt es keine Netzwerkübersicht mehr wie noch unter Windows 7. Wie ihr die IP-Adressen von Geräten eures Netzwerks herausfindet und wie ihr eine Netzwerkübersicht erstellt, zeigen wir euch hier.

Wat als we de klimaatopwarming aanpakken op interplanetaire schaal, door bijvoorbeeld bepaalde stoffen de lucht in te sturen en nieuwe wolken te maken? Wetenschappers zijn het oneens over de gevolgen daarvan, en dat leidt tot discussie. In Windows maakt Clippy, de digitale assistent, een soort comeback. Nijlpaarden kunnen niet zo goed kauwen met hun gigantische bek, en Mark Zuckerberg overtuigt nu met zijn nieuwe VR-bril. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Je stem gebruiken als supersnel toetsenbord, wie wil dat nou niet? Met dicteren kun je teksten invoeren met je stem zonder dat je hoeft te typen. Dat gaat niet alleen sneller, maar het kan er ook voor zorgen dat typen je minder energie kost. In Windows 11 kan dit stemtypen nu ook in het Nederlands. Peter legt uit hoe het werkt en hoe je er zelf mee aan de slag kunt. Deze aflevering is ook met beeld als video te bekijken op YouTube: https://youtu.be/S9kmmLShDcA Meer Windows tips voor slechtziende en blinde mensen vind je op https://kennisportaal.visio.org/nl-nl/thema-s/pc-en-laptop/windows Heb je nog vragen? Mail naar kennisportaal@visio.org, of bel 088 585 56 66. Meer artikelen, video's en podcasts vind je op https://kennisportaal.visio.org Koninklijke Visio expertisecentrum voor slechtziende en blinde mensen  

With the vast majority of what would call the "Old Testament" composed and edited, and with Judea under continual military and political threats from outside, the Jewish theological literature did not simply freeze in place.  In these last few centuries leading into the 1st c. CE, scrolls such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and Tobit demonstrate that the views of angels, demons, and the roles of these beings in everyday life are very much continuing to be developed. Books: John J. Collins.  Daniel.  Hermeneia.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1993. Michael Heiser.  Demons:  What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness.  Lexham Press:  Bellingham, WA, 2020. Michael Heiser.  Angels:  What the Bible Really Says About God's Heavenly Host.  Lexham Press:  Bellingham, WA, 2018. John Walton, "Demons in Mesopotamia and Israel."  In Windows to the Ancient World of the Hebrew Bible.  Bill Arnold, Nancy Erickson, and John Walton, eds.  Eisenbrauns:  Winona Lake, 2014.  229-45. George Nickelsburg.  1 Enoch.  Hermeneia.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 2001.  2 vols. James VanderKam.  Jubilees.  Hermeneia.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 2018.  2 vols. James VanderKam.  "Demons."  In Demons:  The Demonology of the Israelite-Jewish and Early Christian Literature in the Context of their Environment.  Tübingen:  Mohr Siebeck, 2003.  339-64. James VanderKam.  "Mastema in the Qumran Literature and the Book of Jubilees."  In Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls:  John Collins at Seventy.  Joel Baden, Hindy Najman, Eileen Schuller, eds.  JSJSup 175; Leiden:  Brill, 2017.  1346-60. Karel Van der Toorn.  "The Theology of Demons in Mesopotamia and Israel – Popular Belief and Scholarly Speculation."  In Demons:  The Demonology of the Israelite-Jewish and Early Christian Literature in the Context of their Environment.  Tübingen:  Mohr Siebeck, 2003.  61-83. Géza Xeravits.  "The Angel's Self-Revelation in Tobit 12."  In Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls:  John Collins at Seventy.  Joel Baden, Hindy Najman, Eileen Schuller, eds.  JSJSup 175; Leiden:  Brill, 2017.  1399-1417. Artwork: "Norandino and Lucina Discovered by the Ogre," Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647).

Welcome to Hardware Addicts, a proud member of the TuxDigital Network. Hardware Addicts is the podcast that focuses on the physical components that powers our technology world. In this episode, we're talking about batteries in laptops. What ratings are important, how do these batteries work, and how to maintain your batteries to get the most life out of them. Then we head to Camera Corner where Wendy will discuss a tilt only lens. So Sit back, Relax, and Plug In because Hardware Addicts Starts Now! Products Discussed: - cloud lifter = https://amzn.to/3aF7eHZ - fethead = https://amzn.to/3ANucHx - Phase One Tilt Lens: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/13/phase-one-launches-an-11990-40mm-tilt-lens-for-the-xt-camera/ Commands to check battery life: - In Windows you can open powershell in admin mode and run a command like: powercfg /batteryreport /output “C:battery-report.html” - In Linux you can use the upower command.

Years ago I set up an email account for my son using Gmail, periodically forwarding things I thought he might find interesting. One day I was with him at his PC and asked if he'd seen something from me. He said he hadn't and opened his mail. He had dozens of emails, many of them marketing. I asked him why he didn't delete some of the obvious marketing ones that he didn't care about. He pointed to the sidebar, where the usage of his account was listed. It showed a few percent of the 10GB he was assigned in use. He said if the usage got too high, he would. For now, he would rely on search to find things. That was fascinating to me. I'd grown up with limited space, used folders for organization, and pruned out anything old or useless. It was an eye-opening conversation to me on the difference in how generations looked at computing. That same thing is happening on a larger scale. As this piece shows, newer generations are approaching the way they use computers in a completely new way. They don't even necessarily know how to find items on their computer by browsing, which is strange for older users. It's a trend that vendors embrace. In Windows, Microsoft surfaces "Documents", "Pictures", "Music", etc., and I find many people have no idea where those folders actually are in the file system. Read the rest of The Challenges of Changing Software Tools

### Reasons to switch to Linux - Linux developers patch security holes faster than Google, Apple, and Microsoft. - Linux security holes are patched in an average of 25 days. - Apple 69 days - Microsoft 83 days - Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-project-zero-finds-linux-developers-patch-security-holes-faster-than-anyone-else/ - You can still use a lot of the tools that you use in Windows - or there is a comparable alternative. - Microsoft Edge even runs in Linux. It's actually one of my favorite browser for using in the corporate world. You can sync your bookmarks/passwords, etc to your corporate account. You also sync them to a free Microsoft Outlook or Hotmail account, for example. - It's free - and doesn't have ridiculous licensing enforcement/greed that MS/Apple have. - You can run the "latest" version of Linux on just about any computer - Microsoft is about to enforce some terrible restrictions on even their "Pro" version of Windows 11 - and that's that they will not allow account creation without have a Microsoft account. This is pretty tyrannical. You realize that you own your computer, right? This is bullshit and nobody should put up with this. This means that in order to use your computer, Microsoft has to know about it first or else you can't use Windows 11. - Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/new-preview-build-adds-microsoft-account-requirement-to-windows-11-pro/ - You have a package manager. - Go ahead on your Windows computer. Think of a piece of software you'd like to install. Go to the website, find the download area, save it to your computer. Run the installer, complete the install, delete the installer file - By the time you thought of the piece of software you wanted to install, a Linux user was already able to install it, no cleanup needed. - Linux distributions, since I can remember over the last 15 years, have always had this, sort of, App Store. The difference with this "store" is that everything in this repository of software is free. - Your downloads folder won't be full of bloated installers that you forgot to delete like on your Windows machine. Sure MacOS reminds me to delete installers, often. Package installing is still easier in Linux distributions that have a repository, which is most of them. - Useful apps are already preinstalled. - In Windows and MacOS, you don't typically start out with a fully-functional Office Suite installed. In Linux distributions, you do. - Every Linux distribution and every spin or flavor of those distributions have their own software selections that their creators chose. - You can Run most Linux distributions off of a USB stick (Try before you buy). - This is how I started using Linux in 2005. It was on a CD Rom, though. But, since i couldn't write to that CD Rom, I couldn't save data to it. It was enough to play around with Linux to then decide if i wanted to install it to my hard drive. On the CD Rom, there is an Install launcher that made it so simple! Follow our Podcast - If you're a new listener to the Manly Hanley Podcast, we would love to hear from you. [Visit our website](https://randyhanley.com/) and leave a comment. Send me an email with any questions or comments. - Follow [Randrums](https://twitter.com/randrums) on twitter

We were very fortunate to have GILT on the podcast to talk about their new EP, "In Windows, Through Mirrors". Enjoy! GILT Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/giltfl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giltfl/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/giltfl/ Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/gilt/1088721936 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/59nCDPMkSmF4iyBkMwzpzx Bandcamp: https://gilt.bandcamp.com/ Website: https://www.giltfl.com/ Good Noise Podcast Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/good_noise_cast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodnoisepodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goodnoisepod Discord: https://discord.gg/nDAQKwT YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFHKPdUxxe1MaGNWoFtjoJA Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04IMtdIrCIvbIr7g6ttZHi All other streaming platforms: http://hyperurl.co/GoodNoisePodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/goodnoisepodcast Bandcamp: https://goodnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/

Angels are often portrayed as messengers, yet the prophet Isaiah describes a very different type of "angelic" encounter with 6-winged flying creatures bathing in smoke.  Isaiah doesn't even seem that surprised to see them - perhaps there's a reason for that?  Oh, and we'll talk about the Angel of Death.  Not his real name, but he's kind of a big deal. Books: 1.  "Sarapu."  In The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.  Chicago:  Oriental Institute, 1962.  Pgs. 102-5. 2.  John Walton.  "Demons in Mesopotamia and Israel."  In Windows to the Ancient World of the Hebrew Bible.  Bill Arnold, Nancy Erickson, and John Walton, eds.  Winona Lake, IN:  Eisenbrauns, 2014.  Pgs. 229-45. 3.  T.N.D. Mettinger.  "Seraphim."  In Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible.  Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter van Horst, eds.  Leiden: Brill, 1999.  Pgs. 742-4. Music: Clip from The Ten Commandments.  Paramount Pictures, 1956. Clip from Evan Almighty.  Universal Pictures, 2007. Alexander Nakarada.  "Vopna."  Creative Commons license.  www.serpentsoundstudios.com Artwork: Seraphim, from the Hagia Sofia, Istanbul.  Unknown date and artist.

Send comments and questions to: coffeeandconjure@gmail.com.Social MediaFacebook: www.facebook.com/coffeeconjurepdInstagram: www.instagram.com/coffeeconjurepdTwitter: www.twitter.com/coffeeconjurepdBibliographyhttp://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.aspBirx, H. James. "Ziggurats." In Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Birx, H. James. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006: 2363-64.Geller, Markham and Luděk Vacín. Healing Magic and Evil Demons: Canonical Udug-Hul Incantations. Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.Gosden, Chris. The History of Magic. London: Penguin Random House, 2020.Monroe, M. Willis. “Mesopotamian Astrology.” Religion Compass 13, no. 6, 2019.The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Peter Fibiger Bang and Walter Scheidel, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, edited by Timothy Insoll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.Walton, John H. “Demons in Mesopotamia and Israel: Exploring the Category of Non-Divine but Supernatural Entities.” In Windows to the Ancient World of the Hebrew Bible, 2014.

With any new version of Windows comes an updated UI. Windows 11 has introduced some of the biggest UI changes since Windows 95 (with Windows 8 set aside since Windows 10 undid almost all of that paradigm). Avram has been living inside of the latest Windows 11 build and has some of the most important changes, as well as ways to restore previous Windows UIs (for now).With change comes discomfort for many, and Windows 11 has a lot of big changes. The biggest and most obvious is the Start Button and Start Menu. First, let's talk about the position: the Taskbar, and therefore the Start Button, is centered by default. This is a major change, as Start has been in the lower-left corner since Windows 95. One of the biggest complaints with this positioning is that the Start Button moves around based on how many apps are open. If Microsoft had decided to place the Start Button in the middle of the taskbar and apps stretched out left AND right from that position, it might have had a different reaction, but that is not the case. Instead, it is left-justified in a centered world, meaning it doesn't have its own place. The good news is that you can easily change this back to left justification in the Taskbar settings.The Start Menu itself is the next major change. By default, it is bigger than the Start Menu in previous Windows versions (except Windows 8, which was full screen). But, while there is more space on the new menu, there is less information available. Only 18 apps appear pinned on the screen, followed by recent and recommended content. To get the full app list, you must click a button in the top-right corner, and then you get the alphabetized list. In Windows 10, you can have the full list appear on the left with your pinned Tiles on the right. This gives a lot more access without clicks. Now, the majority of the Start Menu is hidden behind a click.Adding to that, Search has changed, as well. In Windows 10, you can hit the Windows key on your keyboard and start typing to search your computer and the web. Now, Search and Start are different screens, and switching between them requires another click. When you click in the search bar at the top of Start, you are switched out of Start and into the new Search experience. The Search panel is larger than Start, and positioned differently, so the transition is a bit jarring. You can access the menu directly by using Windows+S, but that will, of course, require more keys and changes to behavior that has been taught for the last number of versions of Windows.There are ways to get a classic Start Menu back, as well as a classic or custom Start Button, using some tools available online. You can also get the full Windows 10 taskbar back using a Registry key change, though many aspects no longer work, such as Search and Task View. These hacks could always be undermined, as Microsoft keeps taking things away with updates.

With any new version of Windows comes an updated UI. Windows 11 has introduced some of the biggest UI changes since Windows 95 (with Windows 8 set aside since Windows 10 undid almost all of that paradigm). Avram has been living inside of the latest Windows 11 build and has some of the most important changes, as well as ways to restore previous Windows UIs (for now).With change comes discomfort for many, and Windows 11 has a lot of big changes. The biggest and most obvious is the Start Button and Start Menu. First, let's talk about the position: the Taskbar, and therefore the Start Button, is centered by default. This is a major change, as Start has been in the lower-left corner since Windows 95. One of the biggest complaints with this positioning is that the Start Button moves around based on how many apps are open. If Microsoft had decided to place the Start Button in the middle of the taskbar and apps stretched out left AND right from that position, it might have had a different reaction, but that is not the case. Instead, it is left-justified in a centered world, meaning it doesn't have its own place. The good news is that you can easily change this back to left justification in the Taskbar settings.The Start Menu itself is the next major change. By default, it is bigger than the Start Menu in previous Windows versions (except Windows 8, which was full screen). But, while there is more space on the new menu, there is less information available. Only 18 apps appear pinned on the screen, followed by recent and recommended content. To get the full app list, you must click a button in the top-right corner, and then you get the alphabetized list. In Windows 10, you can have the full list appear on the left with your pinned Tiles on the right. This gives a lot more access without clicks. Now, the majority of the Start Menu is hidden behind a click.Adding to that, Search has changed, as well. In Windows 10, you can hit the Windows key on your keyboard and start typing to search your computer and the web. Now, Search and Start are different screens, and switching between them requires another click. When you click in the search bar at the top of Start, you are switched out of Start and into the new Search experience. The Search panel is larger than Start, and positioned differently, so the transition is a bit jarring. You can access the menu directly by using Windows+S, but that will, of course, require more keys and changes to behavior that has been taught for the last number of versions of Windows.There are ways to get a classic Start Menu back, as well as a classic or custom Start Button, using some tools available online. You can also get the full Windows 10 taskbar back using a Registry key change, though many aspects no longer work, such as Search and Task View. These hacks could always be undermined, as Microsoft keeps taking things away with updates.

I swore up and down I would not release a newsletter this week owing to the July 4th holiday (Treason day for the Brits out there), and then Microsoft's Github announced and released Github Copilot, and my promise fell apart.CoPilot is an ML trained code snippet generator. What is it trained on, you ask? All the public code on Github, GPL'd or otherwise. This has angered the internet lawyers and is generally considered to be a Dick Move™ by everyone else (except those that have read the parable of the Scorpion and the Frog). And since there really isn't any magic in ML, that's led to some interesting bugs... like reproducing the inverse-sine function from Quake to include the PG-13 rated comments. Or giving internet randos the API keys that Sendgrid users put in their source code on accident, or even reproducing the GPL in its entirety in a source code header file and none of this includes the mundane but possibly Office Space plot inducing every day bugs present in CoPilot.It's almost trite to call these 'bugs', these aren't bugs. These aren't misunderstandings of product requirements, or bad coding. No, these are Ian Malcoms:Your scientists engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. (original source)AI and ML have given us a new class of software defect: the Ian Malcom, and we can thank Github for playing the role of movie villian here.With that out of the way, here's what else happened last week in .NET.

hello everyone my name is vijay kumar Devireddy and i am glad to have you back on my episode 30 today we are discussing about In order to maintain the security of our software, it's important for us to implement updates and patches.But, what exactly is a Patch? A patch is a single problem-fixing piece of software designed for an operating system or an application.Essentially, when we find a bug in the code,this is going to create a problem for us.And a patch is used to correct it.You may have also heard the term Hotfix.What's a hotfix? Well, it's a single problem-fixing piece of software designed for an operating system or application.Now, wait a minute.That's the exact same definition as a patch.Jason, are you trying to confuse us? Well, no.Originally a hotfix was different than a patch.A hotfix could be installed without requiring a reboot of your system.But a patch, required a system reboot.Over time, patches and hotfixes began to be used interchangeably by most manufacturers.Today, whether you call it a patch or a hotfix,it really refers to the same thing.Patches and hotfixes are both considered a general term.But there are more specific types of updates as well.Let's look at five categories of updates.First, we have a Security Update.Security updates are a type of software code that's specifically issued from a product-specific security-related vulnerability.So, if a hacker finds a bug in the code for Microsoft Word,that may allow them to breach your security.Microsoft would release a security update that contains a patch to correct the bug in the code.The second type of update, is a Critical Update.A critical update is a piece of software that's designed for a specific problem that addresses a critical,non-security bug in a piece of software.For example, if Google Chrome kept crashing every time you tried to load Facebook, Google would release a critical update that patches this non-security focused bug.A third type of update we have, is a Service Pack.A service pack is actually a grouping of other patches.It contains hotfixes, security updates, critical updates,and possibly even some feature or design changes.Service packs are commonly seen with an operating system update.As you can imagine, Windows has a lot of security and critical updates that have been released since the initial version comes out. If I installed a brand new copy of Windows 7 today, there would be several hundred patches and updates that I would have to install, to bring it up to the most current and up-to-date version.Service packs provide a single installation file that contains hundreds of these individual updates that can be installed.Generally, a service pack is only released once every other year.Any updates that have been released since the last service pack,would still have to be installed individually. The next type, is called a Windows Update. This is a recommended update to fix a non-critical problem that certain users have found, and it may also provide some additional features or capabilities.For example, if Microsoft wanted to add a new way to display animated background images on your desktop,they could do this as part of a windows update.The final type of update, is a Driver Update.Driver updates provide either a security fix,or additional features for a supported piece of hardware. For example, you might receive a driver update for your network card. And this can help you increase the efficiency in how it sends and receives data.In Windows 10, the windows update program is used to manage all of the different types of updates directly from Microsoft.And it can be configured to allow automated updates to occur as well.This is what most home users will do to increase their security. And ThankYou ...

Today we're going to look at an operating system from the 80s and 90s called OS/2. OS/2 was a bright shining light for a bit. IBM had a task force that wanted to build a personal computer. They'd been watching the hobbyists for some time and felt they could take off the shelf parts and build a PC. So they did.. But they needed an operating system. They reached out to Microsoft in 1980, who'd been successful with the Altair and so seemed a safe choice. By then, IBM had the IBM Entry Systems Division based out of their Boca Raton, Florida offices. The open architecture allowed them to ship fast. And it afforded them the chance to ship a computer with, check this out, options for an operating system. Wild idea, right? The options initially provided were CP/M and PC DOS, which was MS-DOS ported to the IBM open architecture. CP/M sold for $240 and PC DOS sold for $40. PC DOS had come from Microsoft's acquisition of 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products. The PC shipped in 1981, lightning fast for an IBM product. At the time Apple, Atari, Commodore, and were in control of the personal computer market. IBM had dominated the mainframe market for decades and once the personal computer market reached $100 million dollars in sales, it was time to go get some of that. And so the IBM PC would come to be an astounding success and make it not uncommon to see PCs on people's desks at work or even at home. And being that most people didn't know a difference, PC DOS would ship on most. By 1985 it was clear that Microsoft had entered and subsequently dominated the PC market. And it was clear that due to the open architecture that other vendors were starting to compete. And after 5 years of working together on PC DOS and 3 versions later, Microsoft and IBM signed a Joint Development Agreement and got to work on the next operating system. One they thought would change everything and set IBM PCs up to dominate the market for decades to come. Over that time, they'd noticed some gaps in DOS. One of the most substantial is that after the projects and files got too big, they became unwieldy. They wanted an object oriented operating system. Another is protected mode. The 286 chips from Intel had protected mode dating back to 1982 and IBM engineers felt they needed to harness that in order to get multi-tasking safely and harness virtual memory to provide better support for all these crazy new windowing things they'd learned with their GUI overlay to DOS called TOPview. So after the Joint Development agreement was signed , IBM let Ed Iacobucci lead the charge on their side and Microsoft had learned a lot from their attempts at a windowing operating system. The two organizations borrowed ideas from all the literature and Unix and of course the Mac. And really built a much better operating system than anything available at the time. Microsoft had been releasing Windows the whole time. Windows 1 came in 1985 and Windows 2 came in 1987, the same year OS/2 1.0 was released. In fact, one of the most dominant PC models to ever ship, the PS/2 computer, would ship that year as well. The initial release didn't have a GUI. That wouldn't come until version 1.1 nearly a year later in 1988. SNA shipped to interface with IBM mainframes in that release as well. And TCP/IP and Ethernet would come in version 1.2 in 1989. During this time, Microsoft steadily introduced new options in Windows and claimed both publicly and privately in meetings with IBM that OS/2 was the OS of the future and Windows would some day go away. They would release an extended edition that included a built-in database. Based on protected mode developers didn't have to call the BIOS any more and could just use provided APIs. You could switch the foreground application using control-escape. In Windows that would become Alt-Tab. 1.2 brought the hpfs file system, bringing longer file names, a journaled file system to protect against data loss during crashes, and extended attributes, similar to how those worked on the Mac. But many of the features would ship in a version of Windows that would be released just a few months before. Like that GUI. Microsoft's presentation manager came in Windows 2.1 just a few months before OS/2 1.1. Microsoft had an independent sales team. Every manufacturer that bundled Windows meant there were more drivers for Windows so a wider variety of hardware could be used. Microsoft realized that DOS was old and building on top of DOS was going to some day be a big, big problem. They started something similar to what we'd call a fork today of OS/2. And in 1988 they lured Dave Cutler from Digital who had been the architect of the VMS operating system. And that moment began the march towards a new operating system called NT, which borrowed much of the best from VMS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2 - and had little baggage. Microsoft was supposed to make version 3 of OS/2 but NT OS/2 3.0 would become just Windows NT when Microsoft stopped developing on OS/2. It took 12 years, because um, they had a loooooot of customers after the wild success of first Windows 3 and then Windows 95, but eventually Cutler's NT would replace all other operating systems in the family with the release of Windows 2000. But by 1990 when Microsoft released Windows 3 they sold millions of copies. Due to great OEM agreements they were on a lot of computers that people bought. The Joint Development Agreement would finally end. IBM had enough of what they assumed meant getting snowed by Microsoft. It took a couple of years for Microsoft to recover. In 1992, the war was on. Microsoft released Windows 3.1 and it was clear that they were moving ideas and people between the OS/2 and Windows teams. I mean, the operating systems actually looked a lot alike. TCP/IP finally shipped in Windows in 1992, 3 years after the companies had co-developed the feature for OS/2. But both would go 32 bit in 1992. OS /2 version 2.0 would also ship, bringing a lot of features. And both took off the blinders thinking about what the future would hold. Microsoft with Windows 95 and NT on parallel development tracks and IBM launched multiple projects to find a replacement operating system. They tried an internal project, Workstation OS, which fizzled. IBM did the unthinkable for Workplace OS. They entered into an alliance with Apple, taking on a number of Apple developers who formed what would be known as the Pink team. The Pinks moved into separate quarters and formed a new company called Taligent with Apple and IBM backing. Taligent planned to bring a new operating system to market in the mid-1990s. They would laser focus on PowerPC chips thus abandoning what was fast becoming the WinTel world. They did show Workspace OS at Comdex one year, but by then Bill Gates was all to swing by the booth knowing he'd won the battle. But they never shipped. By the mid-90s, Taligent would be rolled into IBM and focus on Java projects. Raw research that came out of the project is pretty pervasive today though. Those was an example of a forward looking project, though - and OS/2 continued to be developed with OS/2 Warp (or 3) getting released in 1994. It included IBM Works, which came with a word processor that wasn't Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet that wasn't Microsoft Excel, and a database that wasn't Microsoft Access. Works wouldn't last past 1996. After all, Microsoft had Charles Simony by then. He'd invented the GUI word processor at Xerox PARC and was light years ahead of the Warp options. And the Office Suite in general was gaining adoption fast. Warp was faster than previous releases, had way more options, and even browser support for early Internet adopters. But by then Windows 95 had taken the market by storm and OS/2 would see a rapidly declining customer base. After spending nearly a billion dollars a year on OS development, IBM would begin downsizing once the battle with Microsoft was lost. Over 1,300 people. And as the number of people dropped, defects with the code grew and the adoption dropped even faster. OS/2 would end in 2001. By then it was clear that IBM had lost the exploding PC market and that Windows was the dominant operating system in use. IBM's control of the PC had slowly eroded and while they eeked out a little more profit from the PC, they would ultimately sell the division that built and marketed computers to Lenovo in 2005. Lenovo would then enjoy the number one spot in the market for a long time. The blue ocean had resulted in lower margins though, and IBM had taken a different, more services-oriented direction. OS/2 would live on. IBM discontinued support in 2006. It should have probably gone fully open source in 2005. It had already been renamed and rebranded as eComStation first by an IBM Business Partner called Serenity. It would go opensource(ish) and openoffice.org would be included in version two in 2010. Betas of 2.2 have been floating around since 2013 but as with many other open source compilations of projects, it seems to have mostly fizzled out. Ed Iacobucci would go on to found or co-found other companies, including Citrix, which flourishes to this day. So what really happened here. It would be easy, but an over-simplification to say that Microsoft just kinda' took the operating system. IBM had a vision of an operating system that, similar to the Mac OS, would work with a given set of hardware. Microsoft, being an independent software developer with no hardware, would obviously have a different vision, wanting an operating system that could work with any hardware - you know, the original open architecture that allowed early IBM PCs to flourish. IBM had a big business suit and tie corporate culture. Microsoft did not. IBM employed a lot of computer scientists. Microsoft employed a lot of hackers. IBM had a large bureaucracy, Microsoft could build an operating system like NT mostly based on hiring a single brilliant person and rapidly building an elite team around them. IBM was a matrixed organization. I've been told you aren't an enterprise unless you're fully matrixed. Microsoft didn't care about all that. They just wanted the marketshare. When Microsoft abandoned OS/2, IBM could have taken the entire PC market from them. But I think Microsoft knew that the IBM bureaucracy couldn't react quickly enough at an extremely pivotal time. Things were moving so fast. And some of the first real buying tornados just had to be reacted to at lightning speeds. These days we have literature and those going through such things can bring in advisors or board members to help them. Like the roles Marc Andreeson plays with Airbnb and others. But this was uncharted territory and due to some good, shrewd and maybe sometimes downright bastardly decisions, Microsoft ended up leap-frogging everyone by moving fast, sometimes incurring technical debt that would take years to pay down, and grabbing the market at just the right time. I've heard this story oversimplified in one word: subterfuge. But that's not entirely fair. When he was hired in 1993, Louis Gerstner pivoted IBM from a hardware and software giant into a leaner services organization. One that still thrives today. A lot of PC companies came and went. And the PC business infused IBM with the capital to allow the company to shoot from $29 billion in revenues to $168 billion just 9 years later. From the top down, IBM was ready to leave red oceans and focus on markets with fewer competitors. Microsoft was hiring the talent. Picking up many of the top engineers from the advent of interactive computing. And they learned from the failures of the Xeroxes and Digital Equipments and IBMs of the world and decided to do things a little differently. When I think of a few Microsoft engineers that just wanted to build a better DOS sitting in front of a 60 page refinement of how a feature should look, I think maybe I'd have a hard time trying to play that game as well. I'm all for relentless prioritization. And user testing features and being deliberate about what you build. But when you see a limited window, I'm OK acting as well. That's the real lesson here. When the day needs seizing, good leaders will find a way to blow up the establishment and release the team to go out and build something special. And so yah, Microsoft took the operating system market once dominated by CP/M and with IBM's help, established themselves as the dominant player. And then took it from IBM. But maybe they did what they had to do… Just like IBM did what they had to do, which was move on to more fertile hunting grounds for their best in the world sales teams. So tomorrow, think of bureaucracies you've created or had created to constrain you. And think of where they are making the world better vs where they are just giving some controlling jackrabbit a feeling of power. And then go change the world. Because that is what you were put on this planet to do. Thank you so much for listening in to this episode of the history of computing podcast. We are so lucky to have you.

Heute dreht sich alles um das Thema: „Was ist eigentlich ein Bitlocker?”    Bei BitLocker handelt es sich um eine Sicherheitsfunktion von Microsoft, die in bestimmten Versionen des Windows-Betriebssystems integriert ist und eine Verschlüsselung der Systemlaufwerke, Festplatten oder Wechseldatenträger ermöglicht. Dadurch bleiben die Daten bei Diebstahl oder beim physischen Entfernen einer Festplatte aus einem Rechner geschützt. Die BitLocker-Laufwerkverschlüsselung sorgt in erster Linie dafür, dass Nutzer Daten nur dann lesen oder schreiben können, wenn sie über das erforderliche Kennwort bzw. die entsprechenden Smartcard-Anmeldeinformationen verfügen oder aber ein Datenlaufwerk auf einem Computer verwenden, der mit Bitlocker geschützt wird und über die entsprechenden Schlüssel verfügt. Darüber hinaus können Nutzer mit der BitLocker-Verschlüsselung ihr System so konfigurieren, dass dieses nur dann gestartet werden kann, wenn die richtige PIN eingegeben oder eine Schlüsseldatei auf einem Wechseldatenträger bereitgestellt wird. Wie funktioniert die BitLocker-Verschlüsselung nun genau? Zunächst einmal müssen Sie wissen, die BitLocker-Verschlüsselung durch den Advanced Encryption Standard, kurz AES, erfolgt. Die Schlüssellänge beträgt dabei 128 oder 256 Bit. Außerdem setzt BitLocker für den Idealfall voraus, dass in dem System, dessen Laufwerke verschlüsselt werden sollen, eine Trusted Platform Module -Lösung integriert ist. Hierbei handelt es sich um einen Chip, der grundlegende Sicherheitsfunktionen zur Verfügung stellt. Zwar ist ein solcher TPM-Chip für die Aktivierung von BitLocker optimal, aber nicht zwingend erforderlich. Kehren wir nun zur Frage zurück, Wie funktioniert die BitLocker-Verschlüsselung nun genau? Um ein Systemlaufwerk verschlüsseln zu können, benötigt BitLocker grundsätzlich eine eigene Partition auf der Systemfestplatte. Auf dieser befinden sich dann alle notwendigen Daten, um den Rechner zu starten und die verschlüsselten Daten der Betriebssystem-Partition zu laden. Wird die Verschlüsselung aktiviert, erstellt Windows bei Bedarf diese Partition automatisch. Diese Systempartition greift dann vor jedem Starten des Betriebssystems auf den TPM-Chip zu, um sicherzustellen, dass die Hardware im Offlinezustand weder verändert noch manipuliert wurde. Sobald die Integrität des Systems durch das TPM-Chip sichergestellt wurde, entschlüsselt BitLocker die Systemfestplatte und das Betriebssystem kann endlich starten. Grundsätzlich lässt BitLocker lässt sich abhängig von der Ausstattung des Computers in fünf verschiedenen Varianten betreiben. Computer ohne Trusted Platform Module- Wenn im Computer kein TPM-Chip integriert ist, speichert BitLocker die Daten auf einem USB-Stick. Dieser muss mit dem Computer verbunden sein, damit BitLocker booten kann. Computer mit Trusted Platform Module- Hier entschlüsselt BitLocker die Daten mit der im TPM gespeicherten Prüfsumme. Trusted Platform Module und PIN - Bei dieser Variante müssen Anwender zusätzlich bei jedem Neustart des Computers eine PIN eingeben. TPM und Startschlüssel - Statt der PIN verwendet der Computer einen Startschlüssel, der von einem USB-Stick bezogen wird. Recovery-Schlüssel - Diese Funktion wird benötigt, wenn sich die Hardware des Computers ändert oder Anwender ihre PIN nicht mehr kennen. Welche Windows-Versionen unterstützen die BitLocker-Verschlüsselung? Die Bitlocker-Verschlüsselung wird grundsätzlich nur von bestimmte Windows-Versionen unterstützt. Dazu zählen: die Ultimate- und Enterprise-Versionen von Windows Vista die Ultimate- und Enterprise-Versionen von Windows 7 die Pro- und Enterprise-Versionen von Windows 8 und Windows 8.1 die Pro- und Enterprise-Versionen von Windows 10 die Windows-Server-Versionen ab Windows Server 2008 In Windows 10 Home ist die Unterstützung der Verschlüsselung zwar grundsätzlich vorhanden aber nicht nutzbar. Bevor wir nun zum Ende unsere heutigen Podcasts kommen, möchte ich noch ganz kurz auf die Vor-und Nachteile der BitLocker-Verschlüsselung eingehen. Die BitLocker-Verschlüsselung bietet zahlreiche Vorteile. Dazu zählen: die Sicherheitsfunktion ist vollständig in das Windows-Betriebssystem integriert und einfach zu bedienen. die Bitlocker-Verschlüsselung verhindert, dass Festplatten aus einem Rechner entfernt und auf einem anderen Rechner eingelesen werden. Somit sind beim Diebstahl eines Rechners die Daten geschützt und für Unbefugte ohne Kenntnis des Schlüssels, der PIN oder dem Besitz der Schlüsseldatei nicht lesbar. die Vertrauliche Daten werden durch den Advanced Encryption Standard 128/256 gesichert der Login ist nur per Trusted Platform Module oder per Master – Key vom System möglich Neben bereits genannten Vorteilen birgt die BitLocker-Verschlüsselung auch Nachteile, wie die verzögerte Startzeit beim Booten die geringfügige erhöhte Auslastung des Systems und der Zugriffssperre, bei Verlust oder beim Vergessen des Login-Keys Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass man mit BitLocker sowohl eine effektive Datensicherung als auch Datenschutz gewährleisten kann. Auch wenn es einige Nachteile gibt, sollten Sie nicht vor einer BitLocker-Verschlüsselung abschrecken lassen.  Kontakt: Ingo Lücker, ingo.luecker@itleague.de

Welcome to the History of computing podcast. Today we're going to review A Brief History of Time - no, not that brief history of time. But instead how time has evolved in computing.  We love old things still being used on this podcast. Time is important; so important that it's epic! Or epoch more specifically. The epoch is a date and time from which a computer measures the time on the system. Most operating systems derive their time from the number of seconds that have passed since January 1st, 1970 when the clock struck midnight, when time began - likely the Catch-22 that the movie was made based on, later that year. This queue is taken from Unix Epoch time.  Different systems use different time as their epoch. MATLAB uses January 0, 1BC - which is all you need to know about Matlab developers, really. COBOL used January 1, 1601, likely indicating that was the year Cobol was written. OK so it isn't - but I'm guessing it's when many of the philosophies of the language were first conceived. Time must seem like it started on January first 2001 to Apple's Cocoa framework, which began epoch then. My least favorite would be AmigaOS, which started Epoch time on January first 1978 - Nothing good happened in 1978. Jaws 2 and Halloween were released that year. Yuck. Well, Animal House was pretty good. But I could do without Boogie Oogie Oogie. And I could do without Andy Gib's Shadow Dancing. Disco died the next year. As did the soul of anyone that had to use an Amiga.  Due to how many modern encryption protocols work, you want to keep time in sync between computers. A skew, or offset in that time, by even microseconds can impact the ability to decrypt data. This lead to the Network Time Protocol, or NTP for short. NTP NTP was designed by David L. Mills of the University of Delaware. It is a networking protocol that provides for clock synchronization between computer systems over standard data networks. NTP has been running since 1985, making it one of the oldest Internet protocols still in use today, with the most updated specs defined in RFC 958.  `date +%s` NTP has had a number of updates over the years, although they have slowed as it became more popular. NTP 0 was released in 1985, the same year as the Goonies, Pale Rider, the Breakfast Club and ironically Back to the Future. Given that NTP was free, it's also ironic that Dire Straits released Money for Nothing the same year it was released. Simple Minds, Aha, and Tears for Fears ruled the airwaves that year, with Tears for Fears proving that Everyone wants to rule the world, but despite being free, NTP is the one on all computers, thus outlasting the rest and being the one that ended up ruling the world.  Version 1 came in 1988, 2 in 1989, , 3 in 1992, and NTPv4 was drafted in 2010 but has not yet been published given how dependent we as an IT industry now is on NTP. To better understand how dependent we are, let's look at the three main platforms: In Windows, you can just “Double-click the system clock and then click on the Internet Time tab.”  On Mac, open System Preferences > Date & Time which configures the /usr/libexec/timed launchdaemon And on Linux, open System > Admin >Time and Date. These screens allow you to enter an NTP Server. NTP is short for Network Time Protocol.  NIST Internet Time Service (ITS) provides 24 names of Network Time Servers, and each vendor often operates their own, such as time.apple.com. Each machine then operates a time zone offset. You know Apple's time servers because you can read them plain as day by default if you cat /private/etc/ntp.conf - it just outputs server time.apple.com. I'd tell you how to do it in Windows but it would blow your mind. OK, I'll do it anyways: Just reg query HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesW32TimeParameters and then read the value of the NtpServer field in the output. OK, not mind blowing. But what is mind blowing? The Big Bang is mind blowing. Not the TV show; that's not. NTP uses 64-bit timestamps. Those consist of a 32-bit portion used for seconds and a 32-bit portion used for a fraction of a second, meaning that it rolls every 232 seconds, which is 136 years. NTPv4 will still need to get ratified by February 7th, 2036, if only to cover the first rollover. NTPv4 moving to a 128-bit date format should take us until the next Big Bang when this stuff won't matter any more.  Mills was an interesting cat. He got his PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1971, where he worked on ARPA projects wrote terminal software that provided connections to the IBM360 mainframe. He also worked on the Exterior Gateway Protocol. He initially invented NTP in 1981 and was a professor in computer science at the University of Delaware from 1986 to 2008. He's still an emeritus professor at the University of Delaware.  In 1610 (a few years after the COBOL epoch), the English naval officer Samuel Argall named the Delaware River and Delaware Bay after then governor of Virginia, Thomas West. West happened to be the 12th Baron De La Warr. Did you know that Delaware was the first state to ratify the constitution on December 7th 1787? Delaware is the diamond state, and the second smallest state in the Union. The state insect is a lady bug. Ryan Phillippe is probably more famous than NTP, even though he killed disco with his awful acting in Studio 54. Henry Heimlich is from Delaware. Hopefully you don't need to use his infamous maneuver as often as NTP gets updated. Elisabeth Shue is also from Delaware. The Karate Kid was awesome. But that's it. No one else of note. Joe Biden, Senator from Delaware from 1973-2009 and Vice President from 2009 to 2017 - he's not from Delaware, he's from Scranton. In case you're curious, that's not in Delaware.  Following the retirement of Mills from the University of Delaware, the reference implementation is currently maintained as an open source project led by Harlan Stenn, who has submitted bug fixes and portability improvements to the NTP codebase since the 1980s. He's been allowed to focus on time because of the Network Time Foundation, which can be found at https://www.nwtime.org. What's next for NTP? For one, ratifying NTS.  Network Time Security (NTS), draft RFC 7384, lets users or servers authenticate to the Network Time Protocol (NTP). This involves a key exchange over TLS that protects against man in the middle attacks, using standard PKI as well as a TLS handshake that then allows time synchronization via extension fields. 

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Furry-Muscle Cast – 26 – Rats Abound, Olympia & Questions (Due to computer virus this show was episode dead.)   1.      Introductions: Ø  Guest Host – Nexus – The comic master. Ø  Guest Host – Syn –Rat….more rats…*sigh* Ø  Maximus Ursus – Con-ing all the way with a paw on his butt Ø  Tiptoe – Cheese…yes…cheese…diet? Ø  Beastly Bahamut – Blue and still ripping his clothes! Ø  Schreeded Wolf – Still pumping that iron 24/7 Ø  Jazz Wolf – He has yet to go nuclear with the new IOS8…yet! Ø  Snowheart – Going to be saving people in the ER or French kissing you it’s! Ø  Zak – Even more busy with college.     2.      News: -          New drug mimics the beneficial effects of exercise (Gym Rats) (20-25 Minutes) §  Drug SR9009 §  Under development at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) §  Shows to increase the metabolic activity of skeletal muscle of mice. §  Treaded mice became lean, develop large muscles can run much longer distance. §  If the effect can be obtained in people, reversal of obesity, metabolic syndrome and perhaps Type-II diabetes. §  The replies where on both side of the road. For and against the drug the pros and cons for people and what doors it could open for people whom are drug addicts, trying to get an “edge.” §  What are the thoughts of this from the Cast and chat room? §  Source: http://www.gizmag.com/scripps-drug-sr9009-exercise-mimic/28651/     3.      Main Topics: A.     Breathing During Exercises - (15 – 20 Minutes) §  When working out breathe properly is a major key to helping provide oxygen to your muscles and cardio system. §  People don’t use their lungs to fill capacity; people just use 10% to 15% of their actual lung capacity. §  Becoming more aware of one’s breathing can help feel comfortable and prevent complications and get more of one’s workout. §  Cardio – During cardiovascular exercise try to breathe deeply. Make a conscious effort to keep breathing both deep and relax. §  Strength Training – When weight training people tendency to hold their breath during strenuous activity. When in the rep, don’t hold your breath just breath. Fitness experts say to exhale on the exertion phase (hardest phase) and inhale on the easier phase.     §  Stretching – Helps to relax the body so it can go back to a resting state after a workout. It also helps aid the mechanical removal of waste byproducts of exercises.  §  Source: http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/fitness_articles.asp?id=1424     B.      Mr. Olympia - (20 – 35 Minutes) §  The Olympia is the best of the best in bodybuilding and a focus point for many that are hardcore in to the sport. §  Competitors qualify for entry to the Olympia through season contests which reward points for place standing in each contest. §  Picture will be stream on LiveStream when we go over each one. Please remember to have LivesStream on mute. §  Source: http://mrolympia.com     2013 Mr. Olympia Qualified as of 9-13-2013 Schreeded Wolf’s Pick 1 Abbaspour, Baitollah IRAN   2 Beyeke, Lionel France   3 Centopani, Evan USA   4 Curry, Brandon USA   5 Cutler, Jay USA   6 Elssbiay, Mamdouh Egypt   7 Freeman, Toney USA   8 Greene, Kai USA   9 Heath, Phil USA   10 Jackson, Dexter USA   11 Jackson, Johnnie USA   12 Kuclo, Steve USA   13 Martinez, Victor Dominican Republic   14 McMillan, Cedric USA   15 Obaid, Essa UAE   16 Pakulski, Ben Canada   17 Piotrkowicz, Robert Poland   18 Rhoden, Shawn USA   19 Warren, Branch USA   20 Winklaar, Roelly Curacao   21 Wolf, Dennis Germany     C.      Proper Technique §  Proper techniques will aid in maximizing ones strength, lose fat, muscle tone and bone density. §  When first learning to do exercises; it be on the machine or free weights. Lift an appropriate amount of weight and go through the motion of the exercise slowly and pay attention what your body is doing. §  Make mind notes of where your body is position through the motion of the workout.  If your body should be against the seat and it not at the point in the workout. So next time when doing the workout makes sure the body is push against the seat to get the full extent of the workout. §  Just like the first subject breathing is a key as well. Don’t hold your breath and keep focus and keep deep breaths. §  Don’t rush through the exercise; you may injury yourself . §  If you feel pain while doing the exercise stop and try it again a few days and lower the weight. §  Play attention to some people in the gym and how their forms are. Look up and read information about the exercise your about to do. §  Learn how to do the exercise correctly and ask questions people are more helpfully then you many think. §  Last thing would be shoes! – Shoes help to keep traction and help to stability one feet and ankles. §  Source: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/weight-training/SM00028   4.      Emails: §  From 5Razor - All Question: I'm from Asia and I've been trying to lose weight. So, one thing I gotta fix is my diet. Since, most of food intake is rice here, how should I change it?   §  From Wolfone – To Schreeded Wolf Question: Would you explain why you pick a wolf as a character to be in the furry universe?   §  From Hornywolf – Max Question: With pecs and all you see in the gym do you ever get a hard on from watching them? Do you have to an fantasies or anything? Would you mind sharing some of them?   §  From Anonymous – Max & Tiptoe Question: Hello gentles, it been a while since you both gotten your fursuites / head. I wanted to know what parts do you dislike about your fursuite and how would you make it better. Also, how about your builders did you find someone else you may go with?         §  BlueDragon – All Question: Hello Cast, hope you all are doing well. I wanted to know if you be having a panel or doing something at a convention officially? My second question is what conventions will you all be going to?   §  Lady – Jazz Question: I would guess by now you have read about the Cintiq Companion. I have done my own research and gotten my own point of view on it, but I wanted to get your thoughts of the product. Because you are in the design world with your job how would this make it better for you as work tool? How about your private drawing life, how would this aid you in drawing Jazz on Jazz chain up porn and stuff?   §  Rattrap – Tiptoe Question – I saw your post about your diet, what key points did you fail at in your diet? How are you going to change your diet base on the new information you learn from your doctor? If you never ate cheese ever again what would you do?     Reminders , Notices: §  Furry-Muscle was move to a new server and all services restore to it original state. Although all bugs have been work out they may be more and plus report any problems to the Help Desk tab at the top of the website. When reporting please be as detail as possible and if one can submit a screen of the issue that helps out a lot. In Windows 7 the Windows snipping tool and in other windows systems Contorl+Print Screen button. Open up paint and edit menu and selected paste. 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Note: Starting in May, 2013 with version 11.0.3 an Apple iTunes update changed the iTunes Miniplayer. This update changed what must be done to view enhanced podcast images in iTunes. To view these images:Start playing the podcast in iTunes. At the top of iTunes you will see the player bar with a small icon of the show cover art. In Windows hold down Ctrl and click the cover icon. In Mac hold down Command and click the cover icon. This will pop up a new window where you can see enhanced images. (if you just click on the icon it only shows a larger icon, no enhanced images).In the universe of Marvel collecting the center is Hasbro. From Marvel Legends to Marvel Universe, movie tie-in figures and more, Hasbro holds the exclusive license to Marvel action figures. With all the changes lately, from lower articulation figures aimed at children to Iron Man Assemblers, fans and collectors were anxious for news on what Hasbro will do next. You heard a brief recap in our last issue, but now hear the entire Marvel brand presentation. And view the slides from the show on our web site, or the enhanced podcast! Plus hear the press conferences for the upcoming Marvel Studios films Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy! We want your feedback! Please take a few minutes and take the Marvelicious Toys listener poll and tell us what you'd like to hear on the show!

Note: Starting in May, 2013 with version 11.0.3 an Apple iTunes update changed the iTunes Miniplayer. This update changed what must be done to view enhanced podcast images in iTunes. To view these images:Start playing the podcast in iTunes. At the top of iTunes you will see the player bar with a small icon of the show cover art. In Windows hold down Ctrl and click the cover icon. In Mac hold down Command and click the cover icon. This will pop up a new window where you can see enhanced images. (if you just click on the icon it only shows a larger icon, no enhanced images).In the universe of Marvel collecting the center is Hasbro. From Marvel Legends to Marvel Universe, movie tie-in figures and more, Hasbro holds the exclusive license to Marvel action figures. With all the changes lately, from lower articulation figures aimed at children to Iron Man Assemblers, fans and collectors were anxious for news on what Hasbro will do next. You heard a brief recap in our last issue, but now hear the entire Marvel brand presentation. And view the slides from the show on our web site, or the enhanced podcast! Plus hear the press conferences for the upcoming Marvel Studios films Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy! We want your feedback! Please take a few minutes and take the Marvelicious Toys listener poll and tell us what you'd like to hear on the show!

Note: Starting in May, 2013 with version 11.0.3 an Apple iTunes update changed the iTunes Miniplayer. This update changed what must be done to view enhanced podcast images in iTunes. To view these images:Start playing the podcast in iTunes. At the top of iTunes you will see the player bar with a small icon of the show cover art. In Windows hold down Ctrl and click the cover icon. In Mac hold down Command and click the cover icon. This will pop up a new window where you can see enhanced images. (if you just click on the icon it only shows a larger icon, no enhanced images).San Diego Comic-Con International has the largest gathering of celebrities collectibles, comics and pop culture in the world. And for the third year in a row Marvelicious Toys was there to cover it all! Join Marjorie, Arnie, and Justin as they come to you from the show floor and report on the new statues and figures revealed, and the chaos of the exclusives. They are joined by several special guests this episode. If you couldn't make it to the con, this issue of Marvelicious Toys is the next best thing! And if you were at the con, take a listen and relive the memories! We want your feedback! Please take a few minutes and take the Marvelicious Toys listener poll and tell us what you'd like to hear on the show!

Note: Starting in May, 2013 with version 11.0.3 an Apple iTunes update changed the iTunes Miniplayer. This update changed what must be done to view enhanced podcast images in iTunes. To view these images:Start playing the podcast in iTunes. At the top of iTunes you will see the player bar with a small icon of the show cover art. In Windows hold down Ctrl and click the cover icon. In Mac hold down Command and click the cover icon. This will pop up a new window where you can see enhanced images. (if you just click on the icon it only shows a larger icon, no enhanced images).San Diego Comic-Con International has the largest gathering of celebrities collectibles, comics and pop culture in the world. And for the third year in a row Marvelicious Toys was there to cover it all! Join Marjorie, Arnie, and Justin as they come to you from the show floor and report on the new statues and figures revealed, and the chaos of the exclusives. They are joined by several special guests this episode. If you couldn't make it to the con, this issue of Marvelicious Toys is the next best thing! And if you were at the con, take a listen and relive the memories! We want your feedback! Please take a few minutes and take the Marvelicious Toys listener poll and tell us what you'd like to hear on the show!

Note: Starting in May, 2013 with version 11.0.3 an Apple iTunes update changed the iTunes Miniplayer. This update changed what must be done to view enhanced podcast images in iTunes. To view these images:Start playing the podcast in iTunes. At the top of iTunes you will see the player bar with a small icon of the show cover art. In Windows hold down Ctrl and click the cover icon. In Mac hold down Command and click the cover icon. This will pop up a new window where you can see enhanced images. (if you just click on the icon it only shows a larger icon, no enhanced images).San Diego Comic-Con International opened today with Preview Night! The Marvelicious Toys Podcast hosts were there and standing in lots and lots of lines. Listen to their reports now that they have purchased the Deadpool Corps Taco Truck figure set, the Thunderbolts Marvel Legends sets, a handful of Old Man Logan figures, and so much more! With reports on new high end collectibles to drool over, it's all in this short live report from Preview Night! And stay tuned with Marvelicious Toys on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest SDCC Marvel Collecting news, and next week we'll have our full recap! We want your feedback! Please take a few minutes and take the Marvelicious Toys listener poll and tell us what you'd like to hear on the show!

Note: Starting in May, 2013 with version 11.0.3 an Apple iTunes update changed the iTunes Miniplayer. This update changed what must be done to view enhanced podcast images in iTunes. To view these images:Start playing the podcast in iTunes. At the top of iTunes you will see the player bar with a small icon of the show cover art. In Windows hold down Ctrl and click the cover icon. In Mac hold down Command and click the cover icon. This will pop up a new window where you can see enhanced images. (if you just click on the icon it only shows a larger icon, no enhanced images).San Diego Comic-Con International opened today with Preview Night! The Marvelicious Toys Podcast hosts were there and standing in lots and lots of lines. Listen to their reports now that they have purchased the Deadpool Corps Taco Truck figure set, the Thunderbolts Marvel Legends sets, a handful of Old Man Logan figures, and so much more! With reports on new high end collectibles to drool over, it's all in this short live report from Preview Night! And stay tuned with Marvelicious Toys on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for all the latest SDCC Marvel Collecting news, and next week we'll have our full recap! We want your feedback! Please take a few minutes and take the Marvelicious Toys listener poll and tell us what you'd like to hear on the show!

Note: Starting in May, 2013 with version 11.0.3 an Apple iTunes update changed the iTunes Miniplayer. This update changed what must be done to view enhanced podcast images in iTunes. To view these images:Start playing the podcast in iTunes. At the top of iTunes you will see the player bar with a small icon of the show cover art. In Windows hold down Ctrl and click the cover icon. In Mac hold down Command and click the cover icon. This will pop up a new window where you can see enhanced images. (if you just click on the icon it only shows a larger icon, no enhanced images). The countdown to Comic-Con is on! Now join Marvelicious Toys as Marjorie, Arnie, and Justin run down the final exclusives, from glass coasters to bust banks to Betsy Ross, listen to find out what's for sale and where! Plus find out about a celebrity attending the con that is sure to fit the bill! Also on this week's show, did you know of the Marvel Universe comic pack paint variants? This subtle running change has gone under the radar of most collectors, including the hosts! Find out which comic packs you need to complete your MU variant collection. With a hands-on review of the second wave of Iron Man Assemblers, a POP Vinyl that is nothing to shake your head at, and so much more, it's all in this week's Marvelicious Toys! We want your feedback! Please take a few minutes and take the Marvelicious Toys listener poll and tell us what you'd like to hear on the show!

Note: Starting in May, 2013 with version 11.0.3 an Apple iTunes update changed the iTunes Miniplayer. This update changed what must be done to view enhanced podcast images in iTunes. To view these images:Start playing the podcast in iTunes. At the top of iTunes you will see the player bar with a small icon of the show cover art. In Windows hold down Ctrl and click the cover icon. In Mac hold down Command and click the cover icon. This will pop up a new window where you can see enhanced images. (if you just click on the icon it only shows a larger icon, no enhanced images). The countdown to Comic-Con is on! Now join Marvelicious Toys as Marjorie, Arnie, and Justin run down the final exclusives, from glass coasters to bust banks to Betsy Ross, listen to find out what's for sale and where! Plus find out about a celebrity attending the con that is sure to fit the bill! Also on this week's show, did you know of the Marvel Universe comic pack paint variants? This subtle running change has gone under the radar of most collectors, including the hosts! Find out which comic packs you need to complete your MU variant collection. With a hands-on review of the second wave of Iron Man Assemblers, a POP Vinyl that is nothing to shake your head at, and so much more, it's all in this week's Marvelicious Toys! We want your feedback! Please take a few minutes and take the Marvelicious Toys listener poll and tell us what you'd like to hear on the show!

Now that you've setup and booted your Linode virtual private server, you need to login to configure it. In Windows, we'll be using a tool called PuTTY.

Now that you've setup and booted your Linode virtual private server, you need to login to configure it. In Windows, we'll be using a tool called PuTTY.

The Windows heap manager has been around as long as Windows has, evolving with each release, getting faster, more reliable, and more secure. In Windows 8, the heap manager improves in two major areas: performance and security. In this video, Greg Colombo, a developer on the Windows kernel team working on the Windows heap manager, digs into the details. What are the changes that positively impact performance and security?This conversation—conducted entirely at the whiteboard—provides enough introductory information to ensure that even if you have no idea what a heap manager is—or what the heap is, for that matter—you will after you watch this. The complexity in this discussion increases over time, but remains understandable all the way through. Greg is an excellent communicator! Huge thanks to Greg for taking the time to educate us.Tune in. Learn.

Continuing with our series of conversations with engineers in Windows, we meet Pedro Teixeira, a software developer on the Windows kernel team (aka core OS) who has improved the Windows thread pools in Windows 8. Thread pools are thread management subsystems (user mode and kernel mode) where threads are created and queued for any number of arbitrary tasks (work) required by applications and services. As it turns out, there are some significant improvements to the thread pool pattern in Windows 8. Pedro takes the time necessary - at the whiteboard for the entire interview - to dig into the details, beginning with first principles. So, if you don't really know what a thread pool is, then you will after the first 5 minutes of this interview. As the conversation progresses, the complexity will increase, but will remain suitable for most user mode application developers. Speaking of user mode, much of the time in this interview is spent on the Windows 8 user mode thread pool. The kernel mode thread pool is addressed towards the end of the conversation.In Windows 8, there is a new thread pool model and new thread creation policy. What is the new policy? How is the new user mode thread pool designed? How is it better than its predecessors? What does this all mean for developers?Tune in. Learn. Huge thanks to Pedro for taking the time to dig in - and for explain things in such a clear way.

This Week: Has it really been 6 years? Really? Wow. Duncan and Richard have a rambling bout of personal abuse as the intro and then get on to the good stuff. Richard talks to Peter Zegers and Jill Bugajski about their work on the stellar new show at the Art Institute of Chicago Windows on the War, Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945, and on the accompanying catalog. Overview: During World War II, the Soviet Union's news agency, TASS, enlisted hundreds of artists and writers to bolster support for the nation's war effort. Working from the TASS studio in Moscow, these artists and writers produced hundreds of storefront window posters, one for nearly every day of the war. Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 is a monumental exhibition centered on these posters, which have not been seen in the United States since the Second World War. Impressively large, between five and ten feet tall and striking in the vibrancy and texture of the stencil medium, these posters were sent abroad, including to the Art Institute, to serve as international cultural "ambassadors" and to rally allied and neutral nations to the endeavors of the Soviet Union, a partner of the United States and Great Britain in the fight against Nazi Germany. In Windows on the War, the posters will be presented both as unique historical objects and as works of art that demonstrate how the preeminent artists of the day used unconventional technical and aesthetic means to contribute to the fight against the Nazis, marking a major chapter in the history of design and propaganda. While the exhibition's focus is primarily on the posters, viewers will also find their rich historical and cultural context revealed through photographs and documentary material illuminating the visual culture of US-USSR relations before and during the war. Windows on the War is not only a fascinating glimpse into one of the most significant government-sponsored cultural efforts of the 20th century but also a major scholarly undertaking that brings these posters into the public eye for the first time in six decades. Catalogue: The exhibition is accompanied by a 400-page catalogue featuring essays by Peter Zegers, Douglas Druick, Jill Bugajski, Konstantin Akinsha, Adam Jolles, and Robert Bird as well as by an extensive online initiative that will bring hundreds of these unique works to the public for the first time since the war.