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Software Updates
Autoruns 13.90
Firefox 61.0.1 – Download EN-US 64-bit | All Firefox Versions | Release Notes
Macrium Reflect v7.1.3317
O&O ShutUp10 1.6.1397
Wise Disk Cleaner 9.7.6 (I use portable version)

Back From Vacation In West Virginia

July 3rd – Stayed at Snowshoe, West Virginia. Did a few runs down the mountain on my mountain bike. Saw a couple of deer here. Apparently they are very used to people. See video below. FYI – No cell signal for 24 hours. Don’t rely of your phone for navigation in this area. Apparently only AT&T works around here and then only in a few spots.
( https://www.snowshoemtn.com/-/media/snowshoe/maps/pdf/snowshoebikeparkmap.ashx )

July 4th – Biked a 25 mile section of Greenbrier River Trail from Cass to Marlington (Google Map). Parked in Marlington. Got breakfast and packed a lunch made by Dirt Bean Cafe. Great food and nice people. Took a shuttle provided by Appalachian Sport up to Cass so we could ride one way. Drove to Adventures on the Gorge in Lansing, WV where we stayed for 2 nights. We stayed in the Sunnyside Suite.
Though much of the ride is shaded it was hot and humid with heat indexes in the upper 90s. The 2 of us drank over 4 liters of water.
I have the CamelBak Adult M.U.L.E. Mil Spec Antidote Hydration Backpack. I removed the bite valve so I can just pour the water into our water bottles.

July 5th – Rafting the Lower New River. No pics this year as I didn’t wanna pay for them. Here is a pic from last year: https://www.tweakhound.com/2017/07/11/patch-tuesday-23/th_nr_wva_2017/

July 6th – Did the Bridge Walk before heading home. You walk the catwalk under the New River Gorge Bridge. Very cool. 876 feet high and people base jump off this thing on Bridge Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_Gorge_Bridge

This deer was at the base of Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia. The folks there tell me you can feed some of them from your hand.

Friday Random Stuff…

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GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 397.55
– After driver installation, Device Manager may report Code 43 error on a few GTX 1060 cards models.
– Netflix playback may occasionally stutter.
– Added support for Microsoft Surface Book notebooks.
– Windows 10: Driver may get removed after PC has been left idle for an extended period of time.
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Spectre Next Generation
“A total of eight new security flaws in Intel CPUs have already been reported to the manufacturer by several teams of researchers. For now, details on the flaws are being kept secret. All eight are essentially caused by the same design problem – you could say that they are Spectre Next Generation.”

[H] Victorious
Nvidia is canceling their GPP Program.
Chalk one up for the good guys!

Macrium Reflect v7.1.3196
“Incremental and Differential images created since 17th April using Macrium Reflect v7.1.3147, 3159 or 3169 could be corrupt if the Changed Block Tracker (CBT) driver was involved in the Image creation. This has been resolved.”
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LMAO OMG WTF SMH
If you think the H in IMHO stands for honest you should be banned from the internet and instant messaging for life.

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GUNS N’ ROSES: Remastered And Expanded Edition Of ‘Appetite For Destruction’ Due In June

3 White Lions Cubs Born At Metro Richmond Zoo (pics and video, they are awesome)

Ron Howard Gets A New ‘Solo’ Trailer For May The 4th

Wednesday Random Stuff…

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Software Updates
Macrium Reflect 7.1.3169
Wireshark 2.6.0

Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 397.31 WHQL
“Provides the optimal gaming experience for BattleTech and FrostPunk”
Download | Release Notes

Over It
That Win10 update that never got released? The one “they” say will be called “”April Update”? Now “they” say it will be released in May. Oh, and it might also be 1804 instead of 1803. I think we are all over it at this point.

Samsung 970 Pro and EVO NVMe SSDs
Seems the 960s were just released. Press Release here.
Anandtech ran some benchies.
“Since faster storage brings diminishing returns to overall real-world application performance, many consumers will can find drives cheaper than the 970 EVO that are still fast enough, and drives like the 970 PRO are impossible to justify on the basis of performance alone.”

Explained – 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Processors: XFR 2 and Precision Boost 2

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Best Headline Ever?
Uranus Smells Terrible. There, We Said it
“The finding comes courtesy of a study in Nature Astronomy, revealing that the cloud tops of Uranus are made principally of hydrogen sulfide, the gas that is principally responsible for the foul smell of rotten eggs and, yes, human flatulence.”

Fleetwood Mac Detail New Tour and Talk Life After Lindsey Buckingham

Pair of 1926 Macallan whiskies sold for record $1.2m

Tuesday Random Stuff…

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Macrium Reflect Updated
Version 7.1.3147 of my preferred backup software has been release.
Download | Release Notes | Home Page

Russian Hackers Targeting Routers
“In a joint announcement Monday from the US Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the UK’s National Cyber Security Center, officials warned that Russian spies have been looking for vulnerabilities on millions of routers as a tool for future attacks.
The targets include routers in homes and offices, as well as firewalls and switches from internet service providers, critical infrastructure and major private companies”
US, UK warn of Russian hackers targeting millions of routers

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Great Beer
Last week I had Uncle Jacob’s Stout from Avery Brewing for the first time. If you like barrel-aged beers like Founders KBS or New Holland Dragon’s Milk then you’ll love this. Highly recommended.

Windows Performance Impact Of Meltdown And Spectre

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Microsoft exec Terry Myerson lays out what he expects the performance impact of the Meltdown/Spectre patches.
– With Windows 10 on newer silicon (2016-era PCs with Skylake, Kabylake or newer CPU), benchmarks show single-digit slowdowns, but we don’t expect most users to notice a change because these percentages are reflected in milliseconds.
TH – Skylake released 2015. Kaby Lake 2016.
– With Windows 10 on older silicon (2015-era PCs with Haswell or older CPU), some benchmarks show more significant slowdowns, and we expect that some users will notice a decrease in system performance.
TH – Haswell released 2013.
– With Windows 8 and Windows 7 on older silicon (2015-era PCs with Haswell or older CPU), we expect most users to notice a decrease in system performance.
TH – Haswell released 2013
– Windows Server on any silicon, especially in any IO-intensive application, shows a more significant performance impact when you enable the mitigations to isolate untrusted code within a Windows Server instance. This is why you want to be careful to evaluate the risk of untrusted code for each Windows Server instance, and balance the security versus performance tradeoff for your environment.
TH – You’re attached to another object by an incline plane wrapped helically around an axis.

Conveniently left out is any reference to Microsoft bricking AMD machines.
I will repeat my advice to not update Windows machines right now. Certainly you need to have a full image backup before you do.
I recommend Macrium Reflect 7 Free Edition.

To find your CPU family.
Those odd names are CPU Family or CPU Code Names (Haswell, Skylake, Kabylake…).
Download Speccy PORTABLE and run it.
Click the CPU tab. Find the line Code Name, that is your CPU family.
Google it or, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors

Monday News

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Net Neutrality
Oh no, we ain’t done with this yet. Not by a long shot. A NN vote has been forced.

Why I Do Not Use A NAS Device
Well, this kinda stuff is one reason at least. Western Digital My Cloud had over 80 security vulnerabilities exposed last year alone. Another one has been found and it is far reaching.

New Nvidia Drivers
Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 390.65 WHQL
Provides the optimal gaming experience for Fortnite, including support for ShadowPlay Highlights in Battle Royale mode.
Security Update – This driver add security updates to driver components.
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Release Notes
Latest Linux driver is 384.11 Release Date: 2018.1.4

Macrium Reflect Updated
Version 7.1.2817 is out. There has pretty much been an update a week. If you haven’t created a boot disk lately you may want to do it now.
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Release Notes

Good Luck To All My Apple Using Friends
They’ve got an update for Spectre. Hope your experience goes better than my AMD using Windows bros. At least they have an update. I wonder how long us Android users will be waiting?

List Of CES News I Care About
1 – Booth babes
2 –

My Home Server – Windows 7

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Here is my current setup. I will be attempting to switch over to a Linux server setup in the near future (just because).
This machine was my secondary workstation and has been repurposed for my home server.
This is a quickie article. No hand holding. If you do not know your way around Windows this article is not for you.
[Read more…] about My Home Server – Windows 7

Weekend Random Stuff…

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Happy New Year!

Software Updates
Firefox 57.0.3 (fixes a single issue) Thanks Scott!
Intel Graphics Driver for Windows 10, version 15.60.1.1.4901 (28DEC2017)
Macrium Reflect 7.1.2801
Wise Disk Cleaner 9.6.2.685 (improved Microsoft Edge Session cleaning)

Use An Ad Blocker
Online ad companies are using “browsers’ built-in login managers (also called password managers) to retrieve and exfiltrate user identifiers without user awareness.”
Most adblockers block this behavior.
Original paper: No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers

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2 Supermoons this month!

Corsair Hydro Series, H100i v2 CPU Water Cooler $85
That is $45 / 35% off!