Re: What is status of Silverlight on 98? Att: PCR
Re: What is status of Silverlight on 98? Att: PCR
Dan wrote:
| LOL, hopefully it will be down to minimal radiation status -- at
| least not much above XP's radiation levels -- which are not too bad
| with using Classic interface and a few tweaks -- grinning --- I can
| feel the peace of mind with the broken Vista Laptop out of the house
| and on its merry way to Toshiba to be repaired
.
| "PCR" wrote:
|
|> Dan wrote:
|> | "PCR" wrote:
|> |
|> |> Dan wrote:
|> |> | <bottom posted for fun and to keep people guessing>
|> |> |
|> |> | "PCR" wrote:
|> |> |
|> |> |> Dan wrote:
|> |> |> | You are most welcome. BTW, which service provider do you.
|> |> |> | PCR use and how do you connect to the 'Net -- eg. cable, dsl,
|> |> |> | <broadband> or dial-up <narrowband>. I am sure I asked you
|> |> |> | in the past but Gary S. Terhune has correctly stated in the
|> |> |> | past that my memory is poor and that is indeed the case
|> |> |> | because I am learning disabled which was diagnosed at age 6.
|> |> |> |
|> |> |> | I will always have to deal with that for what it is worth
|> |> |> | but at least it makes me a special and unique individual.
|> |> |> | Now, do I have a good perspective of all my ailments or am I
|> |> |> | just truly fully crazy. <grinning madly -watch out- LOL --
|> |> |> | sorry Gary -- I cannot resist -- I hope the fires are better
|> |> |> | now in California for Gary's sake>
|> |> |> |
|> |> |> | By the way, I connect with Comcast Cable which according to
|> |> |> | the us-cert.gov site was one of the first to protect against
|> |> |> | DNS Pollution.
|> |> |>
|> |> |> I am Dial-Up using NetZero. I thought from that article you
|> |> |> posted...
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
|> |> |> Vulnerability Note VU#800113
|> |> |>
|> |> |> ....that DNS pollution might be something for an ISP to solve
|> |> |> (not the user). I'm glad your Comcast has solved it for you.
|> |> |> I'm sure NetZero must be on it too. Anyhow, I've detected no
|> |> |> symptoms.
|> |> |>
|> |> |> You seem to be well enough to me, memory & all. I worry more
|> |> |> that Terhune will perish in an earthquake than in a fire. And
|> |> |> if only his governor would sit still, there'd be fewer of
|> |> |> those too!
|> |> |>
|> |> |> |
|> |> |> | "PCR" wrote:
|> |> |> |
|> |> |> |> Dan wrote:
|> |> |> |> | PCR, if you go into the Internet Explorer options and
|> |> |> |> | check the display a notification about every script error
|> |> |> |> | box and then run Internet Explorer you will get an idea
|> |> |> |> | of DNS Pollution. I noticied at work problems popping up
|> |> |> |> | with scirpt errors recently and contacted corporate and
|> |> |> |> | the two seem to be related but I am sure it is much more
|> |> |> |> | complicated than that but this can give you an idicator
|> |> |> |> | of a problem at least to start with in my opinion.
|> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> Alright. Thanks for the partial explanation. I'll continue
|> |> |> |> to keep an eye & an ear open for the rest.
|> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> "PCR" wrote:
|> |> |> |> |
|> |> |> |> |> Dan wrote:
|> |> |> |> |> | True, it is obsolete but I would say Windows 98 Second
|> |> |> |> |> | Edition is good and safe as Chris Quirke, MVP shows us
|> |> |> |> |> | in his website about Risk Management. I am sitting
|> |> |> |> |> | nicely and now running 98 Second Edition as my main
|> |> |> |> |> | operating system again since I downgraded to 512 sdram
|> |> |> |> |> | chip from 2 gigabytes and my machine and myself are
|> |> |> |> |> | humming along nicely while all the DNS Pollution is
|> |> |> |> |> | out there in the world. I await PCR's Response to
|> |> |> |> |> | this. <grins>
|> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> |> DNS poisoning is insidious & horrible, but I too see no
|> |> |> |> |> evidence of it yet in my machine. Unfortunately, I'm not
|> |> |> |> |> exactly sure what it would look like if I had it,
|> |> |> |> |> though. I do hope the mishmash of expert rules I have
|> |> |> |> |> downloaded into my Kerio Personal Firewall has it
|> |> |> |> |> covered.
|> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> |> From what I can make of that MS article, DNS poisoning
|> |> |> |> |> has to do with "translating host names to IP addresses
|> |> |> |> |> (and vice versa)". So, it's a matter of getting to the
|> |> |> |> |> right site when an URL is clicked. If you get to the
|> |> |> |> |> wrong one, mischief can occur. But I'm not sure where
|> |> |> |> |> the poisoning would occur. Is it in one's machine or at
|> |> |> |> |> a name server site? What is the evidence of a poisoning?
|> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> |> |
|> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |>
|> |> |>
|> |>
|>
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#apple_releases_security_update_20081
|> |> |> |> |> |
|> |> |> |> |> |
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
|> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> |> Going by that article, MS too has issued a patch for
|> |> |> |> |> certain systems.
|> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> |> |
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2647
|> |> |> |> |> |
|> |> |> |> |> | By the way, you guys see that Apple just released their
|> |> |> |> |> | patches for their operating systems and so much for
|> |> |> |> |> | Apple being the safe and secure solution that Walt
|> |> |> |> |> | Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal always likes to
|> |> |> |> |> | proclaim in his technology column.
|> |> |> |> |> |
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|> |> |> |> |> | "Gary S. Terhune" wrote:
|> |> |> |> |> |
|> |> |> |> |> |> LOL! "Cross-platform" doesn't include obsolete
|> |> |> |> |> |> platforms.
|> |> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> |> |> --
|> |> |> |> |> |> Gary S. Terhune
|> |> |> |> |> |> MS-MVP Shell/User
|> |> |> |> |> |>
http://grystmill.com
|> |> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> |> |> "Smith" <smith@smith.com> wrote in message
|> |> |> |> |> |> news:uOekH5b3IHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
|> |> |> |> |> |> >I have heard that M$ is promoting Silverlight as
|> |> |> |> |> |> >cross platform.
|> |> |> |> |> |> >
|> |> |> |> |> |> > Is it including Win 98 as a cross platform system?
|> |> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> |> --
|> |> |> |> |> Thanks or Good Luck,
|> |> |> |> |> There may be humor in this post, and,
|> |> |> |> |> Naturally, you will not sue,
|> |> |> |> |> Should things get worse after this,
|> |> |> |> |> PCR
|> |> |> |> |>
pcrrcp@netzero.net
|> |> |> |>
|> |> |> |> --
|> |> |> |> Thanks or Good Luck,
|> |> |> |> There may be humor in this post, and,
|> |> |> |> Naturally, you will not sue,
|> |> |> |> Should things get worse after this,
|> |> |> |> PCR
|> |> |> |>
pcrrcp@netzero.net
|> |> |>
|> |> |> --
|> |> |> Thanks or Good Luck,
|> |> |> There may be humor in this post, and,
|> |> |> Naturally, you will not sue,
|> |> |> Should things get worse after this,
|> |> |> PCR
|> |> |>
pcrrcp@netzero.net
|> |> |>
|> |> |>
|> |> |>
|> |> |
|> |> | You are correct, it certainly falls on the ISP side but the user
|> |> | must bug the ISP for fixes as well as being ever more careful
|> |> | while surfing the web and practice safe hex methods, of
|> |> | course. These few web sites may be of interest to you or
|> |> | others.
|> |> |
|> |> |
http://isc.sans.org/
|> |> |
|> |> |
http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1213
|> |> |
|> |> | The nice thing PCR about the 98 general newsgroup and especially
|> |> | posting within older posts like this is nobody really cares or
|> |> | is interested and it is nice to be somewhat subtle so you don't
|> |> | have to panic your average computer users. It reminds me of
|> |> | Spiderman "With great power comes great responsibility" not
|> |> | that I have any great power mind you and I just consider it a
|> |> | knack for computers. BTW, I will be starting a newer lower dose
|> |> | of thyroid medicine today because sure enough the old dose was
|> |> | too high again and made me angry, irritated and hyper. I
|> |> | appreciate you and so many others for caring for me and bearing
|> |> | me up and through these difficult times. You guys especially
|> |> | you PCR and Robear are truly awesome and brilliant individuals.
|> |> | (now I know I will probably get some post saying what about me
|> |> | and yes you helped also but these 2 individuals are on the top
|> |> | of my head right now of course. My head must be in the clouds
|> |> | and in dreamland again. <grin and bear it -- LOL>
|> |> |
|> |> | Dan W. aka Cloud aka Danimal (I have other nicknames but will
|> |> | not bore you with them all -- smiles)
|> |>
|> |> Alright. Glad I could help. You haven't made me as batty as poor
|> |> Terhune yet. I hope you recover fully or as close as possible.
|> |>
|> |> | "_>
|> |>
|> |> --
|> |> Thanks or Good Luck,
|> |> There may be humor in this post, and,
|> |> Naturally, you will not sue,
|> |> Should things get worse after this,
|> |> PCR
|> |>
pcrrcp@netzero.net
|> |>
|> |>
|> |
Thanks but what goes around comes around and as Gary S.
|> | Terhune made you batty, I made Gary Batty and so 98 general
|> | continues as one big family, imo. I am just glad I made it back
|> | and survived alpha, beta and gamma radiation from XP and Vista.
|> | My Toshiba Vista has been sent back to be repaired and hopefully
|> | purified from the radiation. The biometrics were faulty as well
|> | as other issues and too many issues with Vista even though I did
|> | indeed have a hand in beta testing it --- thanks to my friend Jeff
|> | who was a system engineer and he has now gone on to the ministry.
|> | :-o
|> |
|> | <shock and surprise --- sas -- lol -- getting the trick I guess --
|> | grin <g> :-!
|>
|> That's bad when the biometrics is faulty! Have that engineer say a
|> dozen Hail Mary's over that Vista machine! And don't turn it back on
|> until the radiation is halved! <g>.
|>
|> --
|> Thanks or Good Luck,
|> There may be humor in this post, and,
|> Naturally, you will not sue,
|> Should things get worse after this,
|> PCR
|>
pcrrcp@netzero.net
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net