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    Securing Your Smartphone

    Brethren, I've written a few technical series to help people on this forum, and I'm about to start another one. Researching how to secure your Android smart phone against malware, I was surprised at how contradictory and often incorrect different articles are. So, please come back to this thread...
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    Tithing?

    Long time, no here! Scripture lists the qualifications for pastors, bishops, elders, deacons, etc. Nowhere does it list tithing as a qualification for any of these offices, and "not tithing" is never listed as a disqualification for these offices.
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    Windows 11

    Uh-oh! On Thursday morning, August 22, 2024, CrowdStrike users in Europe suffered unexplained delays in booting up and operating. CrowdStrike had it fixed within hours.
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    Windows 11

    So how is Crowdstrike doing? Its stock is now 35% below its peak (ten days before the disaster), despite rising 4% in the last two weeks. As of August 14, 2024, 99% of Crowdstrike computers are operating normally. Analysts agree that Crowdstrike is a very successful anti-malware system, and...
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    Windows 11

    Time to rack it up! Massachusetts Institute of Technology has published a way for CrowdStrike home users to repair their computers. You have to start up your rig in Safe Mode and then go into your system to delete the update. And, we might as well tell the truth: because the update only...
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    Windows 11

    The CrowdStrike outage cost America's largest companies $5.4 billion. This is in addition to foreign companies and smaller US companies. CrowdStrike's greatest efforts have involved getting the big companies back online. But what about the people who have CrowdStrike on their home computers...
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    Windows 11

    Did you know that your monitor, by itself, is a computer? It has its own CPU and its own RAM chips. Your computer has several other pieces of hardware that are actually mini-computers--they have their own software programs that tell them how to operate, and they are not part of the Windows...
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    Windows 11

    Defender comes free with Windows 10 & 11. A variety of tests by different groups always rate Defender in the top ten, while they keep switching the other ones around. I have never seen CrowdStrike in the top ten, and had never heard of it until it caused a world-wide disaster. While most...
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    Windows 11

    It started as a joke. Jubilant users of Windows 11 (and Linux) posted triumphantly that they had survived the CrowdStrike attack unharmed. It was funny because they didn't realize that it wasn't an attack--it was a technical glitch, and you were only affected if you had CrowdStrike installed...
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    Windows 11

    After almost two years, I'm back. This week saw THE worst internet failure in history when "Crowdstrike" crippled airlines and banks all over the world. However, Crowdstrike is neither a virus nor any other form of malware--it is a security system. What they THINK happened: "Crowdstrike" is a...
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    Russian Tanks

    What do you call a Russian tank crew returning from the battle front? Infantry
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    Photographs Transferring

    I'm here. Hopeful, we'll need the specific model of flip phone you're talking about. Loosely speaking, if it has internet access, just send the photos to yourself. If you don't have internet access, you might be able to transfer them by cable.
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    Windows 11

    Windows 11 is getting a lot of complaints over its newest update. There appear to be at least four different causes.
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    Clint Eastwood joke

    Did you hear about the time that Clint Eastwood played Russian Roulette with a fully-loaded gun.....and won?
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    Windows 11

    Dorothy, does he like Windows 10? What does he dislike about 11?
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    Windows 11

    My adorable wife suddenly panicked when her computer lost all contact with the internet, along with losing all her contacts. I got upset at all the problems we're been having with her Apple iPad, when she pointed out that it was her Windows computer. Oh," I said. "Just reboot." Problem solved.
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    Windows 11

    Microsoft won't release figures showing how popular Windows 11 is, but online stat counters show it to be disappointingly low. Higher-end users are the most common, but the average SEEMS to be 8.57% of all Windows users are using 11. On the bright side, most users are happy with it. My...
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    Windows 11

    Microsoft has its Windows 11 fans upset. MS will soon bring out a new security tool for 11 that will scan all third-party downloads and will refuse to install downloads that MS considers unsafe--you will have no choice in the matter. Current 11 users will have to do a clean install of 11 to...
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    Windows 11

    The overwhelming report is that Windows 11 works fine. Most problems were caused by not knowing how to operate the system. A few patches corrected the rest.
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    Tithing?

    I just finished my 2021 accounts. My wife and I are retired Americans, living in Mexico. We have no income other than Social Security and a tiny pension, plus our retirement accounts. And we tithe. It doesn't happen every year, but we have more money today we had one year ago.
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