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#31 Post by obxjerry »

Had a fitful night. Went to see the witchy woman during the evil hour. She sees definite signs of a spell woven in Lobster's words. She knows little of lobsters but is thoroughly copasetic with crawfish. She spoke an incantation and gave me a potion. She also schooled me as to what I must do to protect myself. I must keep that secret in order for it to work. She says magic is strongest in the dark of the moon. It's the light of the moon here. Does anybody know what phase of the moon it is in Australia?

A little help here would be nice. You're not all scared are you?

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#32 Post by obxjerry »

Dang, can't I count on you people. Came here with a small vexation of a haint, now I've possible offended a wizard. He said "The fear of being watched
produces the observer." Sounds like some variation of the spell of the evil eye. If I think he's watching me he's there. It's like not thinking about the pink elephant. Can't do it can you.

The oil on the water separated so I did the deed with the tip of the needle in the eye of the needle and chanted Occhi e contro e perticelli agli occhi, crepa la invida e schiattono gli occhi. I dropped the needles in the water, threw in 3 pinches of salt and cut the water and the air each 3 times with a pair of scissors. See it here http://pagan-wiccan-practice.suite101.c ... e_evil_eye

If this is not the cure for the Australian evil eye PLEASE let me know. Paranoia. You all have no idea.

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#33 Post by obxjerry »

It appears I have fallen off the turnip truck and ruined the fun again. Sorry.

bugman

#34 Post by bugman »

we're all too afraid to reply

[look for me in the corn field]

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#35 Post by Lobster »

Be wary . . .

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As for magick . . .
I do practice Tibetan Magick to keep me crazy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra
One day I may be able to give up such nonsense
including hunting for fish . . . and turnips . . .
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-97017.html
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#36 Post by obxjerry »

we're all too afraid to reply

Afraid of the sorcerer or the armed hillbilly? Both are to one degree or another conjures of my warped imagination you know.

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#37 Post by bugman »

whichever has claws

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#38 Post by looseSCREWorTWO »

Once Upon A Time In A Puppy Linux
Discussion Forum Post
Far Far Away

Lobster wrote:
[quote]This suggest to me (tin hats to maximum foil) that something is in the memory buffers - possibly of the ATI Radeon card.[/quote]

It's something Alien .You can see how an Alien would be attracted to something called an ATI Radeon can't you ? ? ? I mean ATI Radeon sounds like an Alien Death Ray or somethin', dunnit ? ? ? Anyway, this Alien (his name's Jeff by the way) hitched a ride back to Earth on the Flying Saucer the last time Bugman took it out for a spin. Remember that slight "bump" as you were passing Alpha Centauri ? ? ? That was Jeff farting. The enriched-uranium bi-phenyls in Alien Fart acted like an After Burner and then the (DELETED - THIS IS MEANT TO BE A FAMILY SHOW) increased forward velocity by a geometric rate of acceleration.

I'm afraid all of this can only mean one thing . . .

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IT'S ALL BUGMAN'S FAULT
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#39 Post by Lobster »

Back to the paranoia . . .
Would you or do you add passwords of the following complexity?
http://randomkeygen.com/

Look at that 504-bit WPA Key . . .
eg.

Code: Select all

52k>5#Tk_13z6qPDdG2d1Z)O?5sTqSV*#5t9<{Geu51t7XGjT}LHH|1:=iKcm_2
After inputting all that I would expect
to have the key to another universe . . .

You are gonna have to write down such complexity so here is how
http://passwordcard.org/
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#40 Post by Lobster »

This should keep you up at night if
you can not afford coffee

Popular websites you've recently visited
http://www.whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/

I suppose you could set your browser to clear
your cookies every time you leave the browser
or use private browsing if visiting naked sardine sites

However I have a better idea for a tin hatted programmer
- a cookie maker that creates innocuous, spurious
or call the 'internet police' cookies (various settings)
I rather like the idea of a honey pot powered cookie maker
- thing is I don't have the inclination

. . . but just maybe we can expect
a higher class of spam
if we generate a better
class of cookie to track? :wink:
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#41 Post by Sylvander »

1. "You are gonna have to write down such complexity"
I don't...
What I do is:
(a) Use Acerose Password Vault in its portable form, and use WINE to run it.

(b) Then copy-n-paste from inside the vault to the password window.
When using copy-n-paste, the length doesn't matter.

(c) Must remember to clear the clipboard afterward.
OR...

(d) I run a particular Puppy [Lighthouse] from an optical disk with a pupsave on a Flash Drive partition, only for things like internet banking...
AND...
Disable saves during the session.
AND...
Configure to be given the choice to save or not at shut-down.
Not saving changes loses all changes to the clipboard.
And any malicious changes too of course.

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#42 Post by looseSCREWorTWO »

G'day Sylvander,
thank you for the tips on:
- disabling Saves to USB Stick during a session
- making Save optional at Shutdown

I have added the last one to all of my pup_saves and I'm wondering why Puppy doesn't have this as a standard feature? Booting from CD, Puppy always makes Save optional at Shutdown. Why not the same with all Frugal Boots? including those from USB Sticks?
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#43 Post by Sylvander »

"I'm wondering why Puppy doesn't have this as a standard feature?"
Same here. :D

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#44 Post by Lobster »

Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Surf the Net
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/05/13

Hooray
Tin hats to maximum foil
Soon 'they' will know more about us then
those who 'know thyself' :roll:
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#45 Post by Lobster »

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I was in the security section of the forum
when one of my posts displayed as above
this cryptic line went on for quite awhile . . .

Now . . .
rather than believe this was a debug error of the forum (as it stated)
I will demonstrate tin-foil-hat thinking:

THEY (Government hackers, commercial penguin attack force, conspirators
from UFO - choose your favourite etc) had clearly encrypted and thwarted my efforts . . .

THEY=

The
Hated
Enemy
You-Know-Who :roll:
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#46 Post by Lobster »

Nothing to worry about? :shock:

Have no fear
here is some FUD:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 465#427465

Incidentally the only thing
known to consistently crash Puppy is
Adobe Flash (Steve Jobs may be right
to exclude them from the Ipad - though
other considerations are going on too)

For those who are trying to wean themselves off
the paranoid brain. Try turning off the firewall for an hour
(you can do it!) :?
Puppy ran for its initial years with no firewalls
and was safe. 8)
Without a firewall, what might happen?
The evil 'they' might not do anything . . .
Best not take any chances?
Reinforced tin-foil hats all around . . . :D

Lately I have been using a Puppy
that downloads files as a secured user (Spot)
into a secret location of my choice.
I can not tell you which version of Puppy
because then you would worry that your
version does not do that.
Hey - you need to worry to be a paranoid
So I will tell you
Puppy Fatdog64
Only works on 64bit computers
Oh you 32bit paranoids should be scared now . . . :roll:


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#47 Post by KF6SNJ »

I'd be scared if I had the time to do so.
The only windows I have are those on my home.

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#48 Post by Lobster »

Open Chromium
click on the spanner
under the bonnet
content settings
cookies
adobe flash settings

What is all that about?

Google is keeping an eye on you
Adobe Flash is a full programming language . . .
and 'they' are watching you
Looks like an advanced sort of cooky to me
(probably in preparation for GoogleTV)

Someone pass the bacofoil . . . :shock:
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#49 Post by Lobster »

Spyware for kiddies?
http://www.salon.com/technology/col/gar ... 5/brodcast

I was just phoned by a company 'Accident Helpline'
claiming an accident had been witnessed outside my home.
They reluctantly gave their address as 'Central London'
Sorry I need specifics before I talk to anyone
I am unsure of, they hung up as I was not cooperating with whatever scam script they were promoting.
Mind you I was kind to the Jehovah's Witnesses
who called this morning - telling them I was a Buddhist
rather than a Satanist. They were elderly and too much excitement might cause the end of their world. :wink:

As adults we can deal with these scams

Cyber vested interests are gaining access to
kids.
We have to be paranoid for them
as they do not have the capacity.

Keep your fledgling penguins safe.
Allow them to use Puppy.

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#50 Post by Lobster »

:)

I am happy (for our tin hats) to provide the Puppy IRC conspiracy
It probably does not exist but who knows?

I was happily using IRC in Puppy Lucid 5.1 (Beta3 509)
when I was kicked off (I think)
and could not get back in

I can no longer connect to the IRC Puppy channel
even with a change of software
Could it be part of this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 543#439543

It might just be a bug
but I think our tin foil hats deserve a real conspiracy
to get their worry beads into . . .

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