Year: 2018

This morning we had a mad as a hornet woman, she was on her way to work and someone parked in her way…

She had a tort and decided that smashing it on the window of the car blocking her was the best solution and as she got another ride, she tore the tort out of the box and whop against the window…

I had to smile, but since I was too near as it happened, I did not laugh, for she might have sent the tort straight at me… 😉

Life is fun in the city, unless your car is blocked as many are all over the place. people are really uncaring about how they park. Sveta and I have had many times of interesting fun trying to get out…

But I could have gotten out of this spot, she could not and she was mad as a hornet to boot….I found the situation too late…

Gotta love Russia….anyone hungry?

WtR

EDITOR’S CHOICE: Many Iranians observing the current US-North Korea nuclear standoff will wonder if their nation was not better off continuing its nuclear program and holding the Saudi oil fields at risk to deter a US attack.  Trump’s wild, inconsistent and often infantile responses on this issue are making matters murkier…and ever more dangerous.

Source: Trump’s Failed Coup in Iran

WtR

American special services supported by NATO initiated a special operation directed against the Government of Finland. In particular, the agents of the CIA and British intelligence in Helsinki began a campaign to discredit President Suomi Sauli Niinistö, in order to disrupt the neutrality policy of Finland within the anti-Russian course of the West and to spoil its relations with Russia as much as possible.

Source: CIA, NATO attack Finnish government due to DPR Representation opening

WtR

Back to the grind…

Actually today is still a holiday, but Svetochka, who is responsible for the servers in one of the largest banks in the world, needs to go in and see if the servers are happy and or sad…

Lets hope they are happy!

It has been nice for Boza and I to have our sweet girl hanging with us as we traipse the holidays fantastic. Svetochka has walked Boza several times and that was a help for me. I needed a break from Boza…like I need a small break from WtR…

I got the break and feel good again. Life gets dragging at times. Svetochka got a break from her busy schedule and we all got to spend time together…

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We have some Tiny Russia Village changes coming, but I will talk about that off in the future. Got to get back to the village, there is much I have to do and it does not get done sitting in Moscow watching the snow fall and melt…

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Svetochka said, “I like Linux!”

Phew! It was a hard sell job at first. Windows OS has that hold on people and people do not like new, they just want to start their computer and get to work….Sveta has found that Linux is as capable as Windows and even better in many aspects…

Lets get with Linux! It is really just a step toward freedom…

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Speaking of freedom…

Coffee and those Trivial Freedoms…

Have a nice free day…

WtR

MOSCOW, January 5. / TASS /. A recently discovered vulnerability in the processors by the Intel company may require corporate users of computers with such processors to make large-scale investments to ensure security and maintain the performance of their devices, Sergei Nikitin, deputy head of the computer forensics laboratory of the company Group-IB, told TASS

According to him, the hardware vulnerability affects almost all Intel processors released since 1995.

More: http://tass.com/economy/984065

Intel never again…

WtR

Lets start it off right….lets grab it by the “Russia Did It” crowd and read a book that is so full of crap, yet everyone wants it. Let Hillary lovers ring in the New Year reading a book at least…. Reading is good for you…

Fire_and_Fury_by_Michael_Wolff

I just had to get you a link to a new source. Wikileaks put it out there (not sure why?) Google has already shut down the link on Google servers. Saying, “Bandwidth exceeded, try again later!”

Twitter has shut down the Tweet Tweet…

New Trump book “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff. Full PDF: https://t.co/sf7vj4IYAx
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 7, 2018

Did not know that Google had bandwidth limitations? But I have always known that Twitter censors… Hmm…

My suspicions are that like many other things that have surfaced, this book was bought and paid for by The Clinton Foundation governmental services to make sure that you get nothing but the truth and I mean nothing but the truth….along with several other unworthy lies called news, in the last few many many years…

Now the whole planet can read it….The USA Chaos in its purest form…

WtR

MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. Fifteen independent applicants intended to participate in presidential elections in Russia, filed documents with Russia’s Central Election Commission, while 46 potential candidates initially claimed they would participate in the elections, according to Central Election Commission’s press service.

At midnight on January 8, the Commission has finished receiving documents from independent candidates. “Since the beginning of the presidential campaign, the Russian Central Election Commission received 46 notifications from citizens who decided to run in Russian presidenti46 c\al election independently, while only fifteen such candidates submitted their applications for consideration,” the Commission said.

Self-nominated candidates must collect at least 300,000 signatures of voters on order to be registered, at least 7,500 signatures in each Russian region. Candidates from non-parliamentary parties require 100,000 signatures, candidates from parliamentary parties do not have to collect signatures.

The stage of registering candidates began on December 27, 2017. The Russian presidential election will be held on March 18, 2018. According to the campaign schedule, candidates nominated by parties are obliged to provide documents required for nomination to the Central Election Commission before January 12.

More: http://tass.com/politics/984161

WtR

Russians are slowing down from the partying and fireworks every night…

It is almost fun to walk Boza during the day. People are resting and reading books (Russians still read books and books and more books!) and something else that I noticed; this year the dachas are able to be utilized. Normally it is frozen solid around here and trying to get to the dachas would be a death sentence, but this year people are spending holidays elsewhere and in their dachas is a good place…

It has made our Moscow world seem like it is summer, but cold. In the summer people stay in their dachas and life is better in Moscow, less people. This winter holiday has been that same way. Life is not bad for once. I even saw empty parking spaces this morning, that my friend is totally amazing. I counted four empty spots as I walked Boza at 5 a.m…

Svetochka just spent a few days staying at her mothers and she came home last night to her boys. Boza and I were glad our girl is home. She was tired and grouchy though… 🙂

Orthodox Christmas in Russia on the 7th of January

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and this is a big Orthodox Holiday. This is considered real Christmas in Russia, the New Year is the basic materialism holiday and the Christmas coming on the Jan. 7th is a very religious holiday…

Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Belarus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova and Montenegro continue to celebrate Christmas on January 7…

To me, I like it. I feel having a religious based Christmas separate from such an overwhelming materialistic Christmas is a good thing. We try to convince ourselves that Christmas is about Jesus, but in reality, our Christmas on the 25th is about commercialism and money…

Therefore, for two days I will not post. This time of the year has become special to me. I spent the last two winters in the Tiny Russian Village and this Orthodox Christmas time is special. We need more real special in the world and a whole lots less, “Special!”

Sometimes I feel the whole world has become, “So Special, as in Special Ed!” This is a saying we use to have in my younger years, I am sure it would trigger a few million (billion) snowflakes now!

I will see you all in a few days. I need a break. Last month I posted 70 articles. That is more than two a day and I only missed posting two day out of the whole month of December. This is very normal for me, but sometimes it needs to be cyclic broken. Then start again…

Read a book people, I am…

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one. ~ George R.R. Martin

or

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. ~ Lisa See

or

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

or

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. ~ Stephen King

WtR

Russian Sergey Lavrov has learned to smile in the face of adversaries, from Vladimir Putin: When asked about how he manages to keep a straight face and say, “Western partners” without laughing and or cringing out loud, Lavrov expressed that Putin has taught him to be diplomatic in his expressions…Besides Lavrov said, “He also uses this phrase,” Then he said, “I believe that, by and large, everyone we communicate with is a partner. But partners are contractual partners – and there are partners that are hopelessly incompetent, which is more and more apparent in the West.” said Lavrov…

I see that Russia is getting real tired of trying to be polite and courteous. This is the upcoming moments that I have expressed many times on this website…

The world has been accommodating, but there is a limit to how much a bully (USA) can push people around…

WtR

Months ago we got what was the start of updates to try to salvage a bad situation with Intel chips…

After several updates sneaked in when no one was watching, the computer started to crawl. Then I installed the savior of my system update and….The speed (not too good to begin with) dropped by at least 25% and more. The computer became a dog on a hot summer day, laying under a shade tree… (Bow Wow)

The flaw, now named Meltdown, was revealed on Wednesday and affects most processors manufactured by Intel since 1995.

Latest update:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html

Therefore, our computer had become a snail and was not really fun to operate anymore, but you are told, “Sacrifice speed for safety!” Merry Christmas is what I say…

It got so bad that Svetochka and I talked about what to do and how to get the money together to get a better system. Sveta kept saying the computer is slow and I saw and felt the same thing….I knew why to a point, but did and had nothing to salvage the situation….code writer I am not, for Intel…

I even went to the trouble to try to install a video card in a system that did not like the idea, just to help play a simple YouTube video again. The computer had gotten that slow….this lead me to doing things that I should not have done and I did those things that I should have not done and things that were forced upon me, because of Intel issues and flaws. Flaws that have been known about for a long time. I sent the turtle speed computer to an early grave. My bad….but I learn…

Honey I blew up the computer, so lets have coffee…

At least I found out it was not all my fault!

In all my work over several days on the computer, RIP, I inadvertently allowed the WannaCry Virus to sneak in. This added insult to injury and in the process of trying to salvage a computer that was on its deathbed anyway, I almost lost two hard drives of data. But I salvaged most of it. I salvaged the disks also…

Then I gathered parts and emptied the computer case and started from scratch…

Svetochka helped in areas that I needed patience and a smart girl and we succeeded. I take blame for allowing what happened to happen. I should know better! Guess I was lazy?

Then started the next round of issues:

The motherboard I had installed was a Windows 7 Gigabyte board and an AMD processor. We doubled our memory to 16 Gigs and I installed Windows 7. Ran like a stripped ass ape….But, even the updates (and a decidedly lack of care by Microsoft on updates, due to a non supportive Microsoft who wants Windows 10 to be installed), could not stop the onslaught of viruses coming at us left and right. This is the same thing that we found many years ago with Windows 2000 and the security venerabilities…

WannaCry found its way back and crippled the system for the second time…

Thus, I turned to Linux:

Now I had too become a We!

We both use the computer and Svetochka wants the computer to do all she could do with Windows installed. That means all programs that she used in Windows had to have a good or better replacement or be made to run under Linux. That left out my favorite Linux, Puppy Linux and it meant that I had to try to adapt one of the big Linux boys to our use…

Time to study and relearn some Linux data and I settled upon Linux Mint, a Ubuntu branch, a very supported branch. Since the computer was a we in the end. I installed Clam Av anti-virus scanner and activated the built in firewall. Then I grabbed “Wine” (No not a drink!) and installed what I could make work of Windows based programs and then found better software to replace what I could not make run. Svetochka the boss wants what Svetochka wants and if not, it better be better than what she had… 😉

Little more work:

I have to say, Linux if chosen correctly is main stream ready. Linux Mint is solid and stable and I will leave it at that…

More work than Windows to get up to speed, but worth it. Linux is just not an install and dance a happy dance as you play in the computer world. Linux still takes a little bit of effort and a learning curve, but Linux Mint as Ubuntu does, takes much of that away. It has become a very user friendly system for someone who desires to get all anti-Windows and all such…

Grandma would say, “Always good in the end!”

Everything just works. Plug in something to the USB and it just works. Eg….we have a external CD and in Windows you had to install a huge program to make it work correctly. In Linux it just works, no extra drivers, no extra software and plug and play. Also we have a Netis WiFi adapter and it was just plug and use. Just simply amazing. I guess all works out in the end…right grandma?

Bad Intel:

http://fortune.com/2017/11/21/intel-core-cpu-security-minix/

You have known about this issue and we have millions and millions of computers that are worthless now that issues are being exploited. If you get it sealed up, you slow your system down. But as the big boys say, “Suck it up baby!”

Good article below on what has happened and what they will do about it. In the meantime as always, some of us get taken for a ride…

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-management-engine-bug/

Hey, just buy a new computer! 😉

WtR