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Long story short – the problem began after Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch updates, which included a mitigation for a known GRUB2 vulnerability (CVE-2022-2601). The flaw allowed malicious actors to bypass UEFI Secure Boot protections using a compromised GRUB2 bootloader.To address this, Microsoft deployed a Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) update (KB5041571) to block vulnerable bootloaders. Unfortunately, this had unintended consequences.While it was supposed to detect and exempt dual-boot configurations from being affected, this detection failed in several scenarios. As a result, many dual-boot users with Windows and Linux on the same machine suddenly found themselves unable to get into their...

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While visiting Yankee Stadium last Thursday for Opening Day, I was disappointed to see that the food choices at the concession stands hadn't changed since the 2010 season. One would really think that they could have found the time to bring in a good taco stand...

Maybe a couple of years ago, I gave up on ever expecting any quality product from the big 3 pizza stores. Without exaggeration, I could get a much, much better product by simply picking up a frozen Tombstone pizza and baking it. (Pizza Inn is great though. They don't deliver here, but I gladly go and pick it up rather than order the crap the big 3 serves.) On to burgers. I used to love McDonalds and Burger King hamburgers. However, for some time, when I would eat them, they just didn't taste right. Especially McDonalds -- It's like I...

Combat Cooks Keep Marines Energized, Happy Food Service specialists make sure everyone at Observation Post Falcons and other outposts have hot chow in their bellies. By Lance Cpl. Ray Lewis 1st Marine Division OBSERVATION POST FALCONS, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2006 -- If the Marines can’t come to the mess hall, then the mess hall will have to come to the Marines.Food service specialists assigned to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment set up a field-food facility so Marines can have a daily hot meal here.“If Marines don’t get a good meal, they don’t have the energy to complete their tasks,”...

Most of us take pride in the fact that we have some knowledge of proper nutrition and diet. Many of us run, bike, or do other vigorous exercise to maintain or college figures. But there are some foods, often discovered in our youth, that no matter how nutritionally worthless they may be, are just too darn tasty to give up. We may not tell our friends and loved ones, and we'll hide them under the other groceries in the supermarket, but somehow these guilty pleasure find a way into our gullets! So without further adieu... Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Foods5....