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Got my boards today. Thank You! I have posted pics before but here are some more of my build. I noticed these boards have a 12 V for the filaments. The old board did not have it.

Went out for a quick spin on the MTB today on the trails behind my house. A neighbor pointed me to a new section, which is a hoot. Good news is that the test of the 1x10 conversion that I had done last week went without a hitch.

65 lg for now then upgrade to the 75 when available, and you have a spare 65 for another room ...

The plan was to grill a ham steak and some veggies. I did the prep and went out back to light the grill. Then I noticed that a skunk was sharing my back yard with me. He came waddling towards me. That was enough for me. I ceded the back yard to the skunk, put the prepped food in the fridge and microwaved something. The skunk dined on a fallen avocado. Both of us did OK.

Need to call it because the rest of the install will happen in the meantime and speaker placement depends on the dimensions of the set. Going with ribbon tweeter Monitor Audio in-wall LCRs and two Triad in-wall subs. Will look something like this ... Surround channels will go back to the existing in-ceiling speakers, which isn't ideal but does keep everything clean in what is more a living space than a dedicated media room. Should be pretty sweet.

88 years is a pretty damn good run. Adam West was one of those dues who became cooler the older he got.

Stuff like this is why I find electric cars and their rapid development so fascinating. They are going all out in solving the charge issues (hello high voltage) and the performance is just incredible. I've been toying with the idea of picking up a used Nissan Leaf as they cost nothing to run here, the electricity is so cheap. There are also new seat rails available which means I can fit in the bloody thing...

Kind of funky but working for me on a lazy Sunday...give it a few seconds to settle in suggested HS

For what its worth, I am thinking of buying the 65" LG later this year when it goes on sale. If you got the 65" and decided to upgrade in the fall there is a possibility that I'd be interested in buying the used 65".

Meanwhile, oops ... Thankfully, Richard Hammond is OK (fractured knee aside), although how do you set an electric car on fire? http://jalopnik.com/richard-hammond-airlifted-after-terrifying-crash-during-1795985170

Watching Ally Veneble. A hell of a guitar player. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My computer got hit by malware yesterday, which took all day to eliminate. Since there wasn't a lot of specific info online, I thought I'd post this in case it hits anyone else. Most of the web results point to 2012 recommendations that are out of date. This particular redirect hijacks your address bar and search results (for all your browsers) to SearchMagnified or SearchingMagnified, obvious bogus domains that will no doubt take you to further exploit sites. It also redirected direct links and bookmarks to these sites. I looked through the list of browser settings and add-ons (I don't run any), running processes, installed software, and even the hosts file and DNS settings, after dumping cache files and cookies in the browsers and refreshing them. Nothing obvious showed in the list of add-ons, processes, startup entries, or the Registry. It went right through Avira Antivirus and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware – neither was able to detect anything wrong with a full scan. Windows Defender was, of course, useless. First, I downloaded and installed (sequentially) a bunch of free antivirus apps, all of which have relatively good standing in their industry – Bitdefender, Avast, AVG, Kaspersky. I updated definitions and ran a full scan with each, which took all day and turned up nothing. I also uninstalled each app before trying the next one, which meant a lot of restarting. I also used the following anti-malware apps – Malwarebytes AdwCleaner and Spybot Search & Destroy. No results there, either. Eventually, I found a general help page on browser hijacks at the MalwareTips website (dodgy-sounding, I know, but I was at my wits' end by that point). Going directly to the applications the page referenced (rather than clicking through their links), I followed their recommendations step by step: 1. Kaspersky TDSSKiller (rootkit detection and removal) – no results 2. RKill (process blocker removal) – no results 3. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware – no results 4. HitmanPro – we have a winner! HitmanPro listed a small number of tracking cookies (low threat), and removed 1 malware from a 2016 archive file. Deleting these fixed the browsers. 5. Zemana Anti-Malware – did not try 6. Reset browser to default settings – already tried. No effect Takeaway lessons and reminders (most of these are pretty obvious): 1. Have up-to-date backups of your critical data as well as a system image 2. Make sure you know if System Restore is working if you have to revert Windows 3. Consider changing your user level down from Administrator 4. None of the browsers were safe. Modern hijacks are able to affect all of them. Windows 10 is obviously still vulnerable to drive-by website exploits 5. Have a second computing device, and at least a large flash drive or external hard drive to boot from in extremis 6. Hard drives are slow... the painful process of scanning the entire system (many hours) would have been much less painful on an SSD 8. Hybrid vigor: if you have the resources, experiment with multiple operating systems and virtualization to reduce your exposure 9. Keep a variety of these free anti-virus and anti-malware tools on an easily-accessible disk, and update them regularly. None of them are guaranteed to find all your viruses, spyware, adware, malware, and ransomware by themselves, so keep your options open. Paid security software (Norton, McAfee, premium versions of the vendors listed above) probably has the same pitfalls. 10. Update all your passwords and login information after an attack. Scan other volumes (e.g., external and networked drives) to ensure data security 11. Using cloud services reduces your reliance on a single device/system, but can introduce new weaknesses 12. Prepare for the worst-case scenario. Know what steps you would take if you lost all your data and possibly the entire computer (e.g., comparable to a theft, loss, or hardware failure) Conclusions: I suspected from the start that it was a simple browser hijack, but doing a thorough inspection with multiple programs confirmed the system and its data is essentially clean (I am running free Sophos Home now). I hadn't heard of a lot of the tools listed above, but they obviously vary in their effectiveness. In the end, I didn't lose any data and I only lost a day. It is important to act as quickly as possible against system security problems. You can't always rely on a previous set of security tools, so stay up to date and limit your vulnerabilities.

Multnomah Falls is a must see (stop by McMenamins Edgefield on the way). Portland has a lot of cool districts to walk around and shop/eat: 23rd st, Hawthorne, Belmont, Mississippi, Hollywood, Alberta come to mind. Powell's City of Books, of course. Chuck Palahniuk wrote Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland that includes a guide to weird places: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/what-to-do-in-portland/ Happy trails!

Thank heavens he is OK in a way he wasn't in the rocket car a number of years back. As to what causes the fire - stored energy in batteries. Suppose you have 1000 hp - 740kW. And suppose you can run at that level for ten minutes. Battery stored energy 450MJ. A hand grenade produces about 800kJ. So the stored energy in that supercar batteries is equivalent to 600 hand grenades. Even if that hand-wavey order of magnitude physics shit is wrong by a factor of ten, there is still massively enough energy in the batteries to cause a major fire or explosion. Now, how badly do you want that Tesla?

Under all the hollandaise, there are Dungeness Crab and Avocado Benedicts And cornbread

Live night #2, waiting for Thrice, followed by Deftones, followed by Rise Against at Huntington Bank Pavilion. Listened to the Rise cd, Wolves, that released this morning in preparation. Should be good.

costco sells one that looks like a good deal, if you're a member.

Anyone who's a fan of the Ænima album really should get to one of the shows this tour. Third Eye live was mind-boggling good. Maynard stepped up and they played The Pot as well, which is a rarity in recent years. Waited a long time to see them, absolutely worth it.

Just did 5.5 miles in the woods, 500 ft of climbing. Heart rate basically never dropped below 150. Felt like I was going to die most of the ride, but I did it, so next time should be easier. Made a friend

New Ultegra R8000