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Are You Going Rogue?
Got my tix!

Your upcoming movie
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE
Thursday, December 15 at 7:00 PM

Quote Of The Day Week Month Year
“Saying an August release of Windows 10 is only now ready for businesses should be a warning sign to everyone who installed it back in August”

I Just Found It Hard To Believe
Last week “reports” surfaced around the net that Microsoft was giving customer telemetry data to a security company called FireEye.
I just couldn’t believe it was true even though I trust Microsoft about as far as I can throw an elephant.
The reports turned out to be bull squat.
Ed Bott takes aim at this fiasco: Fake news: It’s not just for politics anymore

Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 376.09 WHQL

Software Updates
EMDB (Eric’s Movie Database) 2.60
Mp3tag 2.80

Firefox 0 Day

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This security vulnerability is being actively exploited. Stop using Firefox under Windows until patched.
“Currently it exploits Windows systems with a high success rate and affects Firefox versions 41 to 50 and the current version of the Tor Browser Bundle”
More info:
Emergency Bulletin: Firefox 0 day in the wild. What to do. – Wordfence blog
Firefox 0day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users – Arstechnica

Oh openSUSE…

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Sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve spent all my free time the last 2 days trying to get openSUSE Leap 42.2 installed on my main computer to no avail.
My AMD Radeon RX 480 is unsupported and simply will not work with openSUSE Leap 42.2. AMD only has drivers for Red Hat and Ubuntu. I’ve tried every hack, every tip, every suggestion I could find and some I made up on my own.
I tried Kubuntu 16.10. My graphics card worked out of the box. But, Kubuntu 16.10 is quite probably the worst KDE implementation I have ever seen.
Fedora 25 gets released in a few days so I may give that a shot. Linux Mint 18.1 is out soon too.
I’ll keep my ears open to see if someone gets my card working under openSUSE Leap 42.2 but I’m not all that hopeful. Doesn’t seem anyone really cares.

Tuesday Random Stuff…

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Firefox 50
Supposed to launch faster.
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Release Notes

CCleaner 5.24
“Improved…Updated…bug fixes…”
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Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 375.86
“Provides the optimal experience for Tom Clancy’s The Division Survival DLC, Battlefield 1, Steep: Open Beta, and Civilization VI”
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There has been controversy over Login Requirements and Nvidia sending telemetry.
Just choose custom install and don’t install GeForce Experience. You don’t need it.
*I’m wrong. More later…
And to all the websites out there that claim Nvidia isn’t spying, SHAME ON YOU. If Microsoft or the NSA were doing it you would lose your fracking minds.

*edit 1637hrs
AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Hotfix 16.11.3
I missed this release. Thank to Kelly for the heads up!