ReconRat

yupper, the same corporate thought processes that want to bring us into decorating with strings of lights and lots of spending for Halloween, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and any other holiday that they can push us into. And they wish they could find a fourth or fifth major consumer holiday. They want us to spend on these other holidays, like we do at Christmas. Probably won't ever happen. Also the same bull that gets Thanksgiving stuff in the stores almost before Halloween, and gets Christmas stuff in the stores almost before Thanksgiving.

Wait... they can actually read at all? I'm surprised. What's the percentage of the population that can't read in at least one language. I still run into somebody like that once and a while. Someone who can't read, they never learned.

I've seen a lot of Excel templates for free for financial. Maybe one will do that. Or with a little bit of modifications. I actually had a friend track all his expenses for a year. (Easy to do when you're a student.) He only wanted to determine if he was having fun on his budget. Dunno. He never did say if he was or wasn't. I think he blew all his money on drinking and didn't have anything left over.

It's ok, I speak girl talk. Just don't tell anyone... no, wait.... argh

Why would I put max pressures in a tire for Winter. 1. Tire design standards call for no less than 26psi in a mounted tire, under load. 2. Tire pressures drop 1psi for each 4F drop in temperature. So at 36psi the tires can take a 40F drop in temperature, and still be 26psi or better. 3. I've been stupid enough to jump on in the Spring time and ride on half flat tires...

I dip mine in bee's wax... Seriously, the minimum is clean the bike, fill the tank, change the oil, trinkle charge the battery indoors, oil the chain real good, plug up the exhaust outlets, and check the tire pressures (I go max pressures for the Winter). No tire should ever go below 26psi. That will damage the tire if it has weight on it. I do use the Stabil, but probably only because I bought some and it will last me 10 years. Running the engine in the Winter for a few minutes will most likely trap more moisture inside the engine, or just move the moisture around. If you run it long enough to evaporate all moisture out, that's ok. But it has to get really warm for a good length of time. And that's hard to do. Note: do not mess with plastic parts when they are frozen. Like side covers over batteries. They will break easily. edit: argh, what NinjaNick said... reducing the tire pressures is ok if it's up on stands. No harm done. Please note that some people have found out the hard way that race compound tires don't like to be frozen.

Well, it gets difficult to describe... but... as entropy slows, so does time, or existence as a word that describes human observation of time. Or in effect, we wouldn't notice a thing happening. It would just go on forever trying to stop. Till eventually it did. And probably already has in part. And energy conserved, it would probably start over. Biggaboom.

"The Universe has a lot of years left, it will last a long time." He said, as the stars started winking out...

I had seen the hosts file and trusted/blocked sites modified by some of these infections. What you were describing sounded a bit like one of those. Doesn't hurt to check. Viruses/Trojans make some really strange changes sometimes.

That's what I tell everyone else, and would do on any other machine. But this one machine is for checking out viruses to see how they work. That's about all it does for me. And it doesn't take long to get infected (when you're trying), even with an anti-virus, and several other safeguards. And nope, don't ever put a credit card number or other info in a badly infected computer. Not even if it was cleaned up.

Sno-Seal is the other good one. It works. Both the Sno-Seal and the liquid silicone treatment seem to be able to work outside in the puddles every day. Use both, lol... but no water sealer will fix a boot that actually leaks bad.

What RVT said... Safe mode with networking, and install with the options for immediate update AND run. I have seen two of the "Security Tool" infections in the last week, and the Malwarebytes was the only thing that initially worked. Not the same virus you've got, I think, but still a fight. They can also stop an install, block an update, or otherwise mess around. But yes, annoying when websites are blocked. Download the scanners installs onto a thumb drive from another computer, in order to install them. Superantispyware Spybot Malwarebytes (quick scan mode is ok, run first if needed) Combofix (do not stop this one till it's done, risk of op sys damage) Oh, and check both your hosts file and your "blocked site" and "trusted site" list in your browsers. See if they were modified. I ran fourteen+ scans over two days to get rid of the last one. Both safe mode and normal mode scans. It didn't quite go away on the first try.

okey dokey.... but any enginerd can handle those things, now that you know where to check based on those symptoms. soooo, did bats fly out of the furnace when it fired up? just curious...

I use two coats of liquid silicone water repellent. The type in the dabber bottle. I usually just buy whatever Walgreens has. I put a couple of coats of polish over it. It lasts long enough to be dry under even bad conditions. It works even on the cloth side panels on my combat boots. I heavily soak the seams with it. I rode home in the rain last Friday night, and they stayed dry inside. Everything else got soaked clean through (on the front side). Be aware that I wear a pair of boots/shoes out in about 6 months. I walk a lot. So I suppose the waterproofing needs to be repeated each year.

Ohio and New Jersey have the most out of control deer populations. Even with ever increased hunting limits on how many. Deer eat about 10% of the crops. Think of the starving children everywhere! oh, and this deer looking over my shoulder, reading this thread, says we are all stoopid...

hmmm, so the gas was off at one of the valves? Was it? argh...

What? Drive a car? Who me, the guy that gets 2 months on a tank of fuel in the Jeep? Blasphemy...

Geez people... who knows a lawyer friend? Just have him/her call this landlord and give the standard speech. That will probably get some action. And if not, follow the lawyer's instructions on how to proceed. Please note that unless action steps are taken, probably nothing will happen... Ohio law allows 30 days to repair? Having to wait 60 days wouldn't be uncommon.

Ohio Landlord-Tenant Law

sooo, how's the homework going, while wearing ski mittens? I don't have any electric heaters, sorry. But I did stay in a cold water flat overseas. Zero heat. Lowest annual temp was maybe 50F for a week.

Dang MJ.... less than 60 seconds to find a post that pokes AND answer? Hyper much? :grin:

Good point. But it's looking like dodge-em rain from now till the weekend. Who knows. BWR or KoC or stay home and be dry and warm. (my furnace works, sorry MJ)

It's called reward for failure. Goes with recognition for nothing. There's a lot of that going around. Sort of like the trend of getting a certificate of training for a 2 hour class about nothing. The world is going nuts and I don't want to go with them. luckily this sort of behavior is typically prone to failure... Oops, there's a reward for that...