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[PCWorks] Firefox Sage Extension Cross-Context Scripting Vulnerability (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

TITLE: Firefox Sage Extension Cross-Context Scripting Vulnerability Highly critical Impact: System access Where: From remote Solution Status: Unpatched SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: ...

Re: [PCWorks] Jumper For Seagate Hard Drive (Tom)

Hi Clint, I was trying to use the Seagate hard drive as a slave but no matter what I did it kept being found as a master. I didn't think there was a jumper between pins one and two because when I ran my finger over the pins I couldn't feel it. I had to get a small screw driver and run it between the pins and that's when I felt a little bump at the pins one and two point and that's when I figured out that there was a jumper there. The jumper is about half the size of a normal one and ...

Re: [PCWorks] Jumper For Seagate Hard Drive (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

Tom what are you trying to do exactly? I don't remember, but if your HD is the only HD with nothing slaved to it, then it of course was setup as the Master. There are 4 vertical sets of 2 pins. Holding the HD with the rear to you and the power connector to the right, the first 2 vertical pins should be jumped for Master, and that should be how it was. -Clint God Bless, Clint Hamilton, Owner ...

Re: [PCWorks] Jumper For Seagate Hard Drive (Tom)

Thanks and much appreciation to all who answered my question about jumper on a Seagate hard drive. I didn't think there was a jumper on the drive but after it was mentioned that the slave setting was with no jumper, I checked the drive more closely and sure enough there was one. It was a jumper that had holes in both ends and it was pushed way down on the drive pins and I didn't think there was one on it. I did notice that I couldn't put a jumper on the first set of pins, guess that would be pins one and two, ...

Re: [PCWorks] Jumper For Seagate Hard Drive (Hugh Vandervoort)

The manual is here: \ Remove all jumpers for slave operation. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Tom tjd@xxxxxxxxx wrote: Does anyone have a Seagate ST380013A hard drive who can tell me which jumper will make it a slave? Can you explain by telling me how many jumpers from the right or left? ...

Re: [PCWorks] Jumper For Seagate Hard Drive (Phill Argus)

G'day Tom Have you looked at (Whew, thats a long one - it goes all the way to 70aa49b5e8ba0210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD, all on one line) As far as I can tell that specific number doesn't appear, but it should give you some clues. ...

Re: [PCWorks] Jumper For Seagate Hard Drive (Karl Springer)

On 23 Nov 2009 at 15:35 -0500, Tom wrote, at least in part: Does anyone have a Seagate ST380013A hard drive who can tell me which jumper will make it a slave? Can you explain by telling me how many jumpers from the right or left? There's such information in the Product Information manual, . Karl ...

Re: [PCWorks] Jumper For Seagate Hard Drive (Ben Moore)

The easiest thing to do for jumpers is to just google your drive followed by jumpers. That's what I did. go here and click on Seagate ATA jumpers. ; vgnextoid=cbc974850ce0e010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD Sorry for the long URL you may have to cut and paste it. By the way... no jumpers is the slave setting. Ben Moore ...

[PCWorks] Jumper For Seagate Hard Drive (Tom)

Does anyone have a Seagate ST380013A hard drive who can tell me which jumper will make it a slave? Can you explain by telling me how many jumpers from the right or left? If not this specific drive, how about a different Seagate drive? I've tried every combination with it and a Western Digital hard drive as the master and I just can't seem to force it to be a slave. ...

[PCWorks] Firefox infoRSS Extension Cross-Context Scripting Vulnerability (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

TITLE: Firefox infoRSS Extension Cross-Context Scripting Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA37467 VERIFY ADVISORY: DESCRIPTION: ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

Indeed, I agree. All these stupid proprietary viewers and players are ridiculous. Plugin required. Why they hell can't they all agree on a freakin' format that will simply play on any PC!?!?!? Nooooooooo, they have be special and have their own special little plugin that (as mentioned) could potentially screw up a PC. Many times they try and hijack all other viewers or players. Actually, it wasn't **I** that wanted to watch it. My Dad sent me the link asking me if it was safe (I trained him well, LoL). ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

A day later, and even after restarting, same thing is happening to me--that non-stop spinning twirling icon. -Clint God Bless, Clint Hamilton, Owner ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (David Grossman)

Hi, Hugh, Do you mean that one family member should be the cop? Will everybody else listen to that cop? Is that his punishment for being more knowledgeable? Will he still be on speaking terms with everybody else? For a long time, I've been getting regular messages reminding me to upgrade one of my Adobe programs. I don't want to upgrade it, but I must say that it would be the easiest way to get rid of their annoying messages. ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (Vern)

It said I need to take 3 steps to install that Silverlight when I clicked to view the video. I left without going any further so didn't see the video. Vern ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (Hugh Vandervoort)

I've seen PCs with 4 or 5 toolbars, slowly eating up all the screen real estate, and as many camera suites, as different family members acquire and dispose of cameras. Throw in all the scanners and printers that have been replaced, and you have a real mess. I believe these companies behave irresponsibly. Adobe, Yahoo and MS are at the top of the list. Your only defense is to appoint the most knowledgeable family member to look after these things. I'd like to see more limited accounts to prevent this, but MS didn't enact that option very well. On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:00 PM, David Grossman dgrossman@xxxxxxxxxxwrote: ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (David Grossman)

Google also has its own viewer. It seems that your computer can quickly get filled with a big collection of viewers, including the venerable iTunes and Quick Time, which also cause conflicts. Many of these viewers are very annoying when they also take over the basic chores of other viewers (Play your MPEGs through ME! No, play them through Me!). If they want to have yet another (probably unnecessary) new format, then that's bad enough. When they want to take over other File Associations, often without even asking permission (or by asking in a way that the user does not realize what they are going to do), I object. ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (Ben Moore)

It's ok. I avoided it at first too but finally gave in. Didn't see any ill effects. Ben Moore -----Original Message----- From: pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [] On ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

As have I. But apparently you MUST have it to view their videos. Now, NOTHING AT ALL is happening with the videos! A stupid twirling icon and that's it. But before it showed the info about Silverlight being required. It's like the site just freakin' died! I have that affect on websites. -Clint ...

Re: [PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (Hugh Vandervoort)

I have avoided this one like the plague. It's just like MS to come up with a plug-in that duplicate a functions that works perfectly. I call for a boycott! On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I came across a video on a Bing webpage and it wouldn't play without that ridiculous Silverlight. It said at one area ONLY a plugin was needed to play it. But just above that it said Silverlight must be INSTALLED. Either way, has anyone ...

[PCWorks] Any problems/issues with the "Silverlight" plugin? (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

I came across a video on a Bing webpage and it wouldn't play without that ridiculous Silverlight. It said at one area ONLY a plugin was needed to play it. But just above that it said Silverlight must be INSTALLED. Either way, has anyone had any issues or problems after installing it or just the plugin? Thanks, -Clint God Bless, ...

Re: [PCWorks] Can problems fix themselves? (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

I doubt there was an M$ update that fixed that. If it were a virus, you should have been alerted to it. I've had numerous problems over the years that also fixed themselves. It's a mystery. Remember, PC's are very strange things. :-) Sure, it can come back, or stay fixed. Run all the malware scanners to be sure about malware. -Clint God Bless, Clint Hamilton, Owner ...

Re: [PCWorks] Can problems fix themselves? (Hugh Vandervoort)

This should not surprise one of the chosen people. But seriously, folks... There's every chance an MS update or virus scanner did something effective for a change. 2009/11/21 David Grossman dgrossman@xxxxxxxxxx Two copies of Outlook 2000 used to load up simultaneously on my secondary computer. It took forever for them to load. When I exited the program(s), I ...

[PCWorks] MS Office 2010 beta (David Grossman)

Interested in the M$ Office 2010 beta? You can download it at It's only about 700 MB, so the download time is much faster than Windows 7. David Grossman ========================= ...

[PCWorks] Can problems fix themselves? (David Grossman)

Two copies of Outlook 2000 used to load up simultaneously on my secondary computer. It took forever for them to load. When I exited the program(s), I would get a Microsoft send - don't send report message. I never sent it. This lasted for several months. Since it didn't seem to affect the performance of any other programs, I never tried to fix the problem. Perhaps I was hoping subconsciously that it would go away by itself. Well, it DID go away by itself. The issue stopped last week. I think it was after I ran an updated virus check, but I'm not sure. Outlook now loads up ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

Harold I've tried to explain to you 3 times now, they will not work for ANYONE. Maybe you haven't see that post yet. You do not have to fix all errors. ~99% of HTML errors are benign and they have nothing to do with indexing. -Clint God Bless, ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Harold B.)

Hello again ... we had better put the curly quotes issue at rest. At least for me, they do not work well within the HTML tags. And as Hugh suggests, curly quotes / straight quotes can be configured in MSWord. Of course, I'm using Word:Mac, an accommodation that Microsoft must have made for Apple users, but I'm sure the configuration can be made there too. What's more pressing now is the 128 errors that Karl Springer found on my site (mostly links that need correcting and pages that are listed but were deleted by me for one reason or another. So now I'm busy with these 128 errors where each has to be corrected manually going from the backups I have in MSWord to the appropriate ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

Sure, correct, they WILL interfere with the showing of a webpage when used inside tags because of what I said; it simply doesn't recognize the 'commands in the coding' because it's simply not correct, it will become an invalid HTML tag. When a quote has to be used in a tag, that's **exactly** what must be used and nothing else can be used in its place. The best way to insure the fonts look the same across platforms, browsers, etc., is to use CSS. But as far as someone's screen resolution, the fonts ARE going to change due ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Hugh Vandervoort)

The curly quote thing is a setting in Word, but I don't recall the details. You've got kids who've been married 50 years, right? Does this mean we're getting back to the CSS thing? I always wanted to get that right. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Harold B. haroldbraun@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Took time out to go to a 50th wedding anniversary in early afternoon and to a sweet sixteen party in the evening and here I am again. I got up this morning saying I can't wait for this day to be over *s*. ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Harold B.)

Took time out to go to a 50th wedding anniversary in early afternoon and to a sweet sixteen party in the evening and here I am again. I got up this morning saying I can't wait for this day to be over *s*. For anyone interested in what Clint refers to as a Character Map, here's a good page for creating these strange codes ... ... yes, I should have known better, these codes will never do inside an HTML tag. They can be used in the content part of a webpage, the part that is seen by all. How else can you get an upside down question mark on a webpage to start a question in Spanish without ...

Re: [PCWorks] Re; Quote marks in HTML (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

The URL that Karl gave in another post shows what I tried to explain below ***** : -Clint ----- Original Message ----- Harold those kinds of quotes are in the Character Map I ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

Most of what you posted below I just answered in my last post. So I only left in what pertains to this reply. You DON'T have to go through all of your pages' HTML code and change marks to #quot; or whatever it was. Like I said yesterday (in my post at the bottom), that's only AN OPTION of another way to for quotation marks to be DISPLAYED ON a webpage. They don't really solve much: some people just prefer using the character CODE INSTEAD of the actual symbols or actual characters. The ampersand () is another example ...

Re: [PCWorks] Re; Quote marks in HTML (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

Harold those kinds of quotes are in the Character Map I mentioned. Now I finally see what you want to do, and that won't work. You can't replace quotes WITHIN HTML markup with substitutes because the quotes MUST be used! That's part of the HTML CODING. Any marks in the CODING MUST be used because they are commands (for lack of a better term). Why would you want to change them anyway? Since no one ever sees them. ...

[PCWorks] Re; Quote marks in HTML (Harold B .)

Thank you, Karl ... you gave me an idea that I pursued. I took another look at that curly simple curly quote page, that's: and then went to page source and noticed that the html tags all had straight quotes. I then copied the tags for the content of the page which is: #8220;Curly quote.#8221; and with that information, went to my buddychai.com page which I am currently working on (having a little trouble with font size) and ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Harold B.)

I know they can show up in text with no trouble. The question is, do curly quotes work WITHIN html tags? For some reason, I find they do not. Clint, take a look at Karl's page; those are curly quotes. You, Clint, are so knowledgeable in computers; I'm sure you know what they are. I think you meant, what's wrong with curly quotes? Nothing really; they're cute *s* --- Harold From: Karl Springer bi434@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 14 Nov 2009 at 0:32 -0500, Harold B. wrote, at least in part: ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Harold B.)

Clint ... Karl's article answers it all. I couldn't understand why pages would have all kinds of strange looking symbols where apostrophes and quote marks would be. When working in an editor (it was GeoCites and now it is Yahoo's editor), there is no problem when typing in an apostrophe or a quote or an ellipse. It is when copying from a word processor (in my case, from MSWord) where the problem crops up. There are different kinds of quotes, apostrophes, and ellipses. I might have even seen this problem with a dash (there are long dashes and short dashes). From a word processor, I know with quotes, if the processor is not configured to type in the straight ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Karl Springer)

On 14 Nov 2009 at 0:32 -0500, Harold B. wrote, at least in part: ... All I know is that straight quotes work in html and curly quotes do not. is a simple html page with curly quotes. Karl ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

I still don't understand what you mean by curly quotes and why you can't, or didn't use the regular quotes, and what problem you're having with these curly quotes. Still waiting on a URL example. From Karl's URL you mentioned, I kind of see what you're referring to, but I don't see what the problem is you're having. You can paste just about anything into the HTML code and it will display as such. That includes those tiny sub-case trademark symbol (tiny TM), copyright symbols, registered ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Harold B.)

Clint ... this problem with curly quotes is one I always had (in Windows and now I see in Apple). Karl just hit it on the head with the URL he posted. What is frightening is the thought of changing all quotes to what you write ... quotes can be put in HTML coded as: like this or using the code: quot;like thisquot; ... I'm sure you know how many times quotes appear in html tags and the thought of making changes quot;like thisquot; is more than enough reason to say ... quot;bye-bye, so long, it's been good to know youquot; ... to all thoughts of building a website. And Karl's article is right as I see it from my experience. The problem often shows up in apostrophes and ...

[PCWorks] Google Chrome security issue: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Security Bypass (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

TITLE: Google Chrome Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Security Bypass SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA37358 VERIFY ADVISORY: ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Hugh Vandervoort)

If there's a Mac gaming market, it's because they went with an Intel processor and can can also run Windows. I'm sure they have some lovely games, but there's a shortage of hardware, and I don't know a serious gamer (They are admittedly weird) who would remotely consider a Mac. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Peter Kaulback peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I like World of Warcraft on a mac far better than on windows, and there is a wide gaming market available for mac, not as wide as windows but certainly wider than the 64 bit market. Though be warned, WoW is ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Karl Springer)

On 13 Nov 2009 at 7:23 -0500, Harold B. wrote, at least in part: ... I find that curly quotes don't work in HTML. From where I am, for the want of one straight quote, a page or part of a page will not work. Check out . Karl ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

Harold you can get better hosting with more features for that price, and less. I'm unclear on the problem you're having with quotes. Is this a Mac thing? Are you talking about the way they display on your webpage? If so, can you give an example? Whether using a File Manager, or Notepad or similar, quotes can be put in HTML code as like this or using the code: quot;like thisquot; -Clint ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Harold B.)

I'm paying Yahoo a nominal fee for the site; something like $6 a month and using their editor on their site (I go to manage etc) and work there. Actually I work in two places: in the editor to post a page or make changes, and in MSWord where I backup all the html coding. That's the only way I know how to work on a website. As you know, I'm a perennial newbie. That quotes problem I also had in Windows when making a webpage. Something about curly quotes that doesn't agree with websites. --- Harold ------------------------------ ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Peter Kaulback)

I like World of Warcraft on a mac far better than on windows, and there is a wide gaming market available for mac, not as wide as windows but certainly wider than the 64 bit market. Though be warned, WoW is extremely addictive!! And there is only one proof of concept virus for the mac, and its a huge pain to get working ;( Peter Kaulback ...

Re: [PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Hugh Vandervoort)

Tell me you're not using the Hockey puck that comes with Macs. Get a two-buttton optical mouse and right-click for copy, cut and paste. You're right about Mac's advantages, but there are disadvantages as well. People who do more than email and surf have to consider the huge advantage that Windows has in software availability, and you'll never get a gamer to look at a Mac. Some colleges won't support Mac in a domain environment and Windows has the edge in cost, for the most part. The Windows community is huge, and if Mac ever gets even a fraction of the users, you'll quickly remember what AV software is. Mac has had a slew of patches ...

[PCWorks] Quote marks in HTML (Harold B.)

Hello again ... I always look forward to Hugh's philosophy of life except it never before came in such volume. I certainly would never want to hamper all the computer businesses you guys have but now that I'm using an Apple iMac system, I never have any of these problems. I have no virus or malware protectors (I don't even remember their names), no more crashes (seems it's unheard of in Apple), and the only blue screen I have is the desktop which I keep simple like the ol' Windows' blue classic I used. And for speed, you can't beat this Apple. I still have Windows 7 on the hard drive but never use it. I put it ...

Re: [PCWorks] FW: CPU incompatible with BIOS? (Hugh Vandervoort)

Thanks for the perspective, David. Although I prefer the more challenging tasks, error messages and Spyware are the bread and butter of my modest enterprise. Where would we be if MS had caught on to the proper way to write an error message: The web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. ...

Re: [PCWorks] FW: CPU incompatible with BIOS? (David Grossman)

Clint, Clint, Clint, calm down. Remember - your heart. Microsoft does just fine with its error messages. I think they're great. You and I and the rest of us have nothing to complain about. Think about it this way: If M$ error messages were all clear, or if the computer always booted properly, never crashed, and never gave a BSOD, then where would we be? We'd join all those homeless people out there, begging for food. You would have to deal with the hungry Orpheus Orphans. Fortunately, Wintel gave us the opportunity and privilege of making money, by offering us challenges that those mortals out there will never be able to ...

Re: [PCWorks] Blocking web sites (Vic Brocklehurst)

Hi Peter You might like to have a look at It provides a free, selective, routing service. The options can be to simply ban access to known ph-ishing urls, ad-ult sites, and/or other categories. If access is attempted it will screen a dialogue box indicating that access is not allowed. ...

Re: [PCWorks] Blocking web sites (Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin)

Oh my, that's different. I guess the site is NOT yours? If that's the case, the only way I know how to do that would be: 1. Internet Security Suite software will have (should have) some kind of Content filtering area where you can either blacklist domains, or use the banner ad blocker. You can look at the source code of the webpage to get the URL's or IP's, then blacklist them in the Suite's appropriate settings area. 2. And, or if that doesn't work, you can do the same thing to ...