Duffy's Rant Netcast

Well, I knew it would happen sooner or later.

If you happen to have a Dell LCD monitor, don’t be too shocked if you find a padlock on your screen and alternately opens and closes.

that’s the OSD lock and it’s FUBARd!  Great engineering, Dell!  Anyhow, there ARE some fixes, but some are rather long and boring.  This one seems to work more often than not:

Go to the control panel (start, settings, control panel) and then click on display.  Now this is important.  change the resolution to the highest that the computer will let you do, click apply and then OK.

Go and chage the resolution back to what it was and again, click on apply and then OK.  If it doesn’t take the first time, do it again.

This should take out the padlock.  Oh, DON’T TOUCH THE BUTTONS ON THE MONITOR!!!!!  Do that and guess what comes back and, this time, may not be so easy to remove.

Techradar posted 25 nifty tricks and tweaks for your Blackberry!

<a href=”http://tinyurl.com/24hyv2d”>Blackberry tweaks</a>

Check out this story about what could be a world’s record for longest traffic tieup!

China’s massive traffic jam could last for weeks | abc7chicago.com

Okay, if you were in the market for security software, better look elsewhere.  Intel is going to buy McAfee.

<a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-us-intel-mcafee-acquisition,0,791505.story”>McAfee Bought</a>

this is just too funny.  repo guy in garage…owner of garage locks him inside.

Chicago Local News, US & World, Business, Entertainment | NBC Chicago

Congratulations to Justice Elena Kagan.

I remember when a security update from Microsoft would always be a big one.

Well, looks like, on august 10, they’re going back to the hugemongous patch day.

Here’s the dope from SANS:

 –Microsoft to Issue 14 Security Bulletins on August 10
(August 5, 2010)
On Tuesday, August 10, Microsoft will release 14 security bulletins to
address a record-setting 34 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows,
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and the Microsoft Silverlight
development platform.  Eight of the bulletins are rated critical; the
other six are rated important.  The flaws could be exploited to allow
remote code execution or privilege elevation.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-aug.mspx

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180210/Microsoft_slates_record_setting_monster_Patch_Tuesday_next_week?taxonomyId=17

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/05/microsoft_august_2010_patch_tuesday/

[Editor's Note (Skoudis): A record!  How exciting.  Actually... not.
Does it feel to you like we're moving backwards here?  It does to me.]

I agree, Ed.

Yes, good ol’ Snooki endeared herself to NJ police when she got busted for disorderly conduct.

Quote: “You can’t tell me what to do! I’m Snooki! Do you know who I am?”

I know just what the cops were thinking: “Yeah and you’re going to jail ’cause you’re a mope.”

She’s full of herself and needs to get un-famous in a hurry.

Then, as to firmly cement herself as a famehag and super-bimbo, she went right back to the boardwalk and then CUT TO THE FRONT OF A LINE on an amusement ride and this got caught on MTV’s cameras.

and whoever started THAT POS in Twitter should get what he deserves.

What absolute BS!

At one time, when the jury took forever to come to a verdict, that was a good sign for the defense.

Not so this time, as it seems Blago’s lawyer has a case of insomnia and nerves when it comes to what the jury’s going to do.

Blago’s going down on at least the count of lying to the FBI. Who know how many more counts he’s gonna get bopped on.

And, of course, there will be appeals (yawn!) but, in the end, he’s gonna take a vacation. Oh, and the ploy of bringing the kids to court? Wottanumbnuts. Who thought that up? Blago or his lawyers?