Posted on 09/28/2021 5:16:25 AM PDT by Openurmind
Internet connectivity for old devices within your home could be coming to an end on Thursday.
A digital certificate that was widely used in electronic devices prior to 2017 will expire on September 30.
It’s estimated that millions of gadgets worldwide will be affected and won’t be able to install updates of newer digital certificates to allow for continued connectivity to the internet.
Devices that could run into trouble include older MacBooks and iPhones that haven’t (or can’t) be updated with the latest software, some gaming consoles like PlayStation 3 and Nintendo 3DS as well as smart TVs, set-top boxes and IoT devices within your home.
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Good article. Thanks.
Absolutely my pleasure. :)
Having tried both extensively I went back to Mint Cinnamon. It really is a full toolbox. The longer term support is one of the best features over Ubuntu I like. :)
“It is the best all around full package available. :)”
I’ve always stuck with Ubuntu. I’m going to make a stick with Cinnamon and check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
I pay an extra $50.00 a month to not have a smart meter. Sooner or later they will force it done and charge me for the change out but until then, I don't have one.
Because a lot of people worked their asses off, so that nothing did happen.
The Bellingham, Washington pipeline explosion (3 kids killed) was partially due to “Y2K”. They had replaced remote indicator switches on the valves to be Y2K compliant.
They had a problem with one of the indicators on a valve. The computer would say the valve was closed so they would spend two hours or whatever it was for a technician to get to the valve and the valve would be open. This happened three times I think.
The fourth time they said “Oh - that’s just that faulty indicator again.” So they sent the fuel (jet fuel iirc). Except this time it really was closed. The fuel hit the closed valve and then sent a pressure wave back up the line. And it went to a nearby bend in the line that had been damaged a few years prior but nobody knew it.
Pipeline burst and spilled a bunch of the fuel into a park. Two little kids (10 years??) were playing with a lighter that they had found and “boom”. A teen fishing upstream had died from the fumes.
Those two little boys probably saved more people from dying. It exploded in the mostly empty park which was just before a populated area where a car or something would have set it off.
Hahahaha....nice!
Quake...:)
Wow. I didn’t know that.
A hammer in a hydraulic system is nothing to sneeze at.
That is what happened at Three Mile Island, where they ran out of head room in an expansion area in the system and when a bunch of valves closed automatically, it sent a hydraulic hammer through the water cooling system that demolished lines and valves and tore them from the walls.
There was a guy standing on the pipe, and he actually SAW the shock wave coming in the pipe and just managed to jump clear.
If they had that expansion room left in that system, there wouldn’t have been a catastrophic failure.
Everyone was so relieved that they could have given us a fossilized turd, and we would have been happy with it!
There were even more companies who did nothing and nothing happened.
That was all bullshit and you know it...............
The tech industry warned everyone who had a digital device that their devices would terminate at the stroke of midnight and that never happened either did it?......Sheesh!
How long did it take to fully believe all would be ok? I’m sure you were worried for some period of time (when will a problem be exposed?).
Like the "Blade Runner" replicants.
Great line as one of them meet the guy who created him: "I always wanted to meet my maker."
Ubuntu and Mint are the best two in my opinion. But Mint is just Ubuntu with a few improvements. That article explains it. :)
Mint comes with the Panel/Tool Bar at the bottom like Win 7. But you can right click it and move it to the top or along either side as you like. :)
I think you will like the boxed apps with Mint.
LOL, it only took a couple of hours until I really relaxed...:)
We had tested and prepared...thoroughly. I didn’t expect any problems since we had done simulations with no problems.
+1
(I too am an eye witness of some of that hard work.)
Pissing off customers one dirty deed after another.
Harvard business school can do a case study.
I worked my butt off in the couple years leading up to it… patching hundreds of small business and personal PCs as well as running down custom built software that had it built in. We made it a nothing burger through hard work and diligence, finding the hidden time bombs.
I got called by a used car dealer who tried a test by setting his computer to January 3, 2000, and found his software that printed all the sales contracts AND did all the registration for the DMV for selling a car claimed the car was being sold and registered on 01/03/1900! The software put that bogus date in every place on the contracts, registration, bill of sale, etc… and there’s a mandatory FINE assessed by DMV for every single error on those documents, regardless of why they were made, including typos. It calculated payment dates and payoffs, etc., using dates for the early 20th century, and screwed up the leap year for 2000 (2000 didn’t have a leap day, while 1900 did) throwing off another issue of every car being sold one day earlier than it actually was sold, creating the appearance of fraud. Since the publisher was long gone and no updates were available, he and all the other dealers who used that software were going to have to buy and learn to use new software on very short notice. Many after they discovered the problem after the new year and they could not legally transfer the cars they sold without incurring huge fines or requiring their customers to laboriously go through every single page of the error laden printed papers, and initial every single corrected date change from 1900 to 2000! And still run the risk of having the State DMV reject the entire package which is supposed to have no corrections or deletions!
I was able to patch his software as he did not want to shell out $16 grand for a new used car software package. I found the code and fixed his package, and then i was able to offer the fix to quite a few other dealers who used the same package once i showed them what was going to hit them! I made a tidy sum on that…
I can beat that. I designed a database once and design the input to be fool proof. I brought in homeless people and welfare moms to do data entry… and let them loose on it after two hours of basic mouse and keyboard orientation. I’d come in and do data validation… and refine the entry choices.
I had originally thought I had designed a fool proof system… i was wrong. It was amazing the ways fools could screw up data entry. They were ingeniously creative in finding ways to break it. But it showed me ways to get the data I needed that they couldn’t foul up… accurately… and with minimal skills and training. But it took patience and a good sense of humor… It took almost two years, but I got the entry error rate down to almost zero, even with a weekly or biweekly turnover rate in data entry workers. It got to the point where i could have a supervisor do data validation once a month! That system eventually ran for twenty-six years like that.
During a dyslexic zombie attack, it’s always good to have several Brians around.
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