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TR Community scoreboard for June 15, 2012

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No, I didn’t forget about you all. 🙂 Here are the TR community stats for the past week:

TR members with the most total posts on the forums
Deadly Ernest – 54
Palmetto_CharlieSpencer – 50
JJFitz – 38
robo_dev – 29
dl_wraith – 25

TR members with the most Votes Up in the Discussions forum
Palmetto_CharlieSpencer – 42
Deadly Ernest – 36
Bob B. – 25
rob and dl_wraith – 18
charlie – 17

TR members with the most Votes Up in the Q&A forum
robo_dev – 5
OH Smeg – 3
Who Am I Really – 2

Spam busters
wizard57m – 22
Palmetto_CharlieSpencer – 12
Deadly Ernest – 3
rufwork – 2
ultimitloozer, glen.harris, and john – 1

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Welcome back, Sonja!

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Hope the vacation was a great one! 🙂

I missed this last week!

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I saw some of the pictures you posted. It looks like you had a good time, but I missed the scoreboard last week.

Thanks Soni

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Happy weekend everyone 🙂

Batck at ya, lady.

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I hope you enjoyed being away from us as much as we enjoyed being …

No, wait; that’s not it. 😀

LOL!

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Ohhh, Palmie… if I had a shovel …. 😉

it would go like this

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnQCMbeEzY4

Hey!

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That HURT!

Should have had

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the helmet, takes a little of the sting out of it.

Sorry but

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It’s only Pally who’s allowed a Helmet.

Due to the Brain Damage that he has got from all the girls slapping him around over the years. 😉

Col

G’day, I better get back to writting, it’s seems I’m a tad too busy here

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of late.

While I was away this last week or so, my e-mail address book

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got riffled, and all its extant contacts were spammed a malicious link from *me*. The only thing I did that could’ve caused it was logging onto the *free* wi-fi at a Days Inn last week. Now that I’ve ‘run off by myself’ in an RV w/car hauler, I’m going to think twice about using unsecured networks (such as hotels’, truckstops’, and the like), and fire up my new little 3G hotspot instead.

Ouch! That’s rough…

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seems we read of problems on “public free WiFi hotspots” quite often.
Best advice I’ve read is #1, only use SSL sites (those with HTTPS in the
URL), #2 keep your system patched, your antivirus/antispyware updated,
and your firewall on, #3 turn off file/printer sharing, #4 only use web based
SSL enabled email, or turn on SSL in your email client (if available) and
#5, maybe most important, consider using a VPN to handle the connection.

The worst part of what happened to you (so far as you know, anyway) is
maybe a bit of embarrassment due to the email messages sent. However,
if you entered any authentication credentials at non-SSL web sites, those
username/password combinations could be compromised. Might want to
change your passwords.
I haven’t had an opportunity to use free WiFi, but, I have used my old
Blackjack as a 3g modem! That’s one of the reasons I resist the “upgrade”
offers, hehe!
Good luck, hope your trip is a good one! 🙂
ps…there’s a TR Community Scoreboard for June 22, 2012 also,
here… http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-392768

variation of an old saying

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wi-fi access security is not as good as what you pay for it.

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