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One of our kitties is very cold-natured, always on the lookout for a warm item to nap on. We cannot leave our laptops open and running and logged in our she'll nap on it while simultaneously (1) filling any open app with random keystrokes, (2) reset the admin password, or (3) order random items from Amazon or Domino's Pizza.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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My laptop is angled on a cooler, presenting an unwelcome surface for cats. The cooler itself is mostly to push air while filtering the cat hair out of it.
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I'm shopping for laptop coolers as we speak ...
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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If you need one that actually works, get a GT500
Don't even mess with anything else. It's the only one worth a damn.
Disclaimer: It can get loud at full speed. It uses an industrial fan.
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I always thought there was something fishy about that proposition.
/ravi
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Wordle 1,100 3/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You and I tried the same word inrow 3!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 1,100 4/6
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They're always the ones that find the dead bodies.
Just sayin'
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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You'd think it would be more dog walkers.
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Nah, they find dismembered bodies. Different skill set.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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But that's a subset, yes?
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Exactly, with better planning and an earlier start, they could have had a civilised walk.
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Quit hiding them near established trails, then. Here in AZ, we have lots of abandoned mines in this desert, so I usually drag mine to a deep adit far from the trail. Joggers never leave the civilized paths... No worries!
Will Rogers never met me.
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My backyard's filled with bodies
My basement's got them too
My closets ain't got no more space
I've got the mass murderer blues
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We need a "wince" emoji...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have always protected my systems by keeping up to date system images and data backups, but I often wondered what would happen if some clever hacker developed a virus that corrupts the computer's BIOS. To the best of my knowledge, the BIOS is saved in a hardware chip on the computer's main board. Since the BIOS loads the operating system, if the BIOS is corrupted there's not much you can do about such a virus.
Yes, I have a utility from Dell that will reflash the BIOS chip, but since the BIOS virus controls the operating system, will it allow Windows to reflash the BIOS chip? I doubt it!
The main mechanism used by this malware is to corrupt the manufacturer's logo that first shows on startup, before Windows is loaded. I find this scary, but I have one point in my favor: I only bought Dell devices for my family. Here is a quote from the article below:
Quote: Many devices sold by Dell aren't directly exploitable because the image files are protected by Intel Boot Guard, making it impossible to be replaced, even during a physical attack.
You can read more here:
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack | Ars Technica[^]
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Cp-Coder wrote: if the BIOS is corrupted there's not much you can do about such a virus. Some motherboards, such as some Gigabytes, comes with a backup BIOS which can't be flashed. So, if the machine is mission critical then it's worth considering a board that has one. You can literally just boot with the backup BIOS and reflash the main one.
Cp-Coder wrote: Yes, I have a utility from Dell that will reflash the BIOS chip, but since the BIOS virus controls the operating system, will it allow Windows to reflash the BIOS chip? I doubt it! Windows has zero say-so on whether or not you can flash the BIOS. At best it can restart the computer. Any flashing software isn't using the Windows kernel, API, etc.
To your point though, a virus could in theory prevent the reflashing (not sure though). That being said, these days a BIOS is stored on EEPROMs, so nothing can prevent you from physically taking the chip out of the computer and rewriting a good BIOS on it before putting the chip back in the computer. Sure you'd have to soldier/desolder, but it would work.
Cp-Coder wrote: You can read more here: The logo fail thing has been around for a while, just FYI. There may be a new instance of this that just surfaced, but it's nothing new.
Secure Boot will help mitigate some issues with this. It's not perfect since a virus could bypass that too, but it'll at least make it a bit harder for the virus.
All scare tactics aside, this is one of those cases where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure though. If a machine is mission critical it should be behind a DMZ/firewall/something with locked down restrictions.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 22-Jun-24 16:47pm.
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