Sightings "in the wild"

renesm1 · Post by **renesm1** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:57 am

pelmut wrote:
Kirbstone wrote:Alas, the 'Travelogue' stuttered the whole way through for me,
Unfortunately Flickr has recenty 'improved' their system so that it no longer works properly on a lot of computers. Just to rub it in, they superimpose a banner telling you that your browser isn't good enough for their system. The morons who do that sort of thing should be sacked on he spot.

What browser does it no longer work in? Intrigued to know!

pelmut · Post by **pelmut** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:48 pm

renesm1 wrote:
pelmut wrote:
Kirbstone wrote:Alas, the 'Travelogue' stuttered the whole way through for me,
Unfortunately Flickr has recenty 'improved' their system so that it no longer works properly on a lot of computers. Just to rub it in, they superimpose a banner telling you that your browser isn't good enough for their system. The morons who do that sort of thing should be sacked on he spot.
What browser does it no longer work in? Intrigued to know!

Opera 12.16 and Firefox 16.0.2, the most up-to-date that my machine can use. I have also seen it also stuttering really badly on Google Chrome and an iPhone, but I suspect there may have been bandwidth issues in those cases.

partlyscot · Post by **partlyscot** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:39 pm

pelmut wrote: Opera 12.16 and Firefox 16.0.2, the most up-to-date that my machine can use.

Well, those are pretty old browsers. What is your machine? What OS? Those older browsers probably have horrible vulnerabilities, that could well be unfixable in any simple way.

Kirbstone · Post by **Kirbstone** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:37 pm

On the subject of computers and browsers & such like I am totally clueless. My laptop came with Windows 7 and that is all I know.

Tom.

renesm1 · Post by **renesm1** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:14 am

partlyscot wrote:
pelmut wrote: Opera 12.16 and Firefox 16.0.2, the most up-to-date that my machine can use.
Well, those are pretty old browsers. What is your machine? What OS? Those older browsers probably have horrible vulnerabilities, that could well be unfixable in any simple way.

I have to concur. Those browsers and, more importantly, the underlying operating system would be so riddled with security vulnerabilities that they are, most likely, infested with malware, viruses and the like. Your machine is very likely to part of a botnet, stealing financial information (including possibly your own details).

As someone who works in IT security, I would really urge you to consider upgrading your machine to a newer operating, such as, at least, Windows 7 or perhaps a Chromebook.

A lot of laptops now start around £150, so not an unreasonable cost.

pelmut · Post by **pelmut** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:28 pm

renesm1 wrote:As someone who works in IT security, I would really urge you to consider upgrading your machine to a newer operating, such as, at least, Windows 7 or perhaps a Chromebook.

It is a Macbook/OS 10.5.8
My office machine is a beige G3/OS 8.6 which has been running unprotected on the internet since 1999 and has never had a virus.

Reaper_Man · Post by **Reaper_Man** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:43 pm

pelmut wrote:My office machine is a beige G3/OS 8.6 which has been running unprotected on the internet since 1999 and has never had a virus.

how do you know it's never had a virus if it's running unprotected ( i assume by unprotected you mean it has no antivirus / anti malware type software)

not all malicious apps can be seen by the user to affect said users machine ... they just run in the back ground stealing information

pelmut · Post by **pelmut** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:35 pm

Reaper_Man wrote:
pelmut wrote:My office machine is a beige G3/OS 8.6 which has been running unprotected on the internet since 1999 and has never had a virus.
how do you know it's never had a virus if it's running unprotected ( i assume by unprotected you mean it has no antivirus / anti malware type software)

not all malicious apps can be seen by the user to affect said users machine ... they just run in the back ground stealing information

I've replied in a new thread in the "Off topic" section:
http://www.skirtcafe.org/forums/viewtop ... 41&t=17741

Kilted_John · Post by **Kilted_John** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:12 pm

deleted - off-topic post.

Post by **Uncle Al** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:13 am

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dillon · Post by **dillon** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:34 am

The wife and I were in Wilmington for a film this evening, and I saw a guy in a black kilt. He was a big guy, shaved head with a bushy beard, coming out of Front Street Brewery. I was wearing a black stretch rayon/nylon/spandex form-fitting, knee-length pencil skirt with a black print "Tommy Bahama" shirt and black flip-flops. I had changed my toenail color from the tomato-metallic "Crushed" to a shinier, lighter, metallic "Peach Daquiri". The sidewalk was crowded so I didn't attempt to speak to him; plus we were both with wives/lady-friends.

We were seated at a table outside, in a recessed portico which was shady and had a ceiling fan. Otherwise, at today's temperature of 97F, 105F heat index, it would have been unbearable. In my nearly two weeks in the southwestern desert, I didn't encounter any heat conditions that came close to being as uncomfortable as eastern NC. But the two Old Fashioneds I had improved my mood, plus the Cape Fear Raptor Center was out on the sidewalk with a couple owls, a barn owl and an eastern screech owl, which was pretty cool.

We saw "The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window And Disappeared." It was the funniest film I've seen in ages and I highly recommend it to all.

skirtyscot · Post by **skirtyscot** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:10 pm

In Christiania, Copenhagen, a man in a navy blue kilt. It had pockets on the outside on the front, and the seams were all in white thread to highlight them. It looked quite familiar: maybe someone has posted a pic of the same kilt here. Can't say I liked it much, TBH.

Christiana is a pretty "alternative" type of place, full of hippies and drugs, so maybe more likely than average to spot a kilt there. But even so ... A kilt in Denmark is a rare thing, I should think.

Didn't get a chance to talk to him, but that's life!

Couya · Post by **Couya** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 1:01 am

skirtyscot wrote:. But even so ... A kilt in Denmark is a rare thing, I should think.

Rare, yes, but it is also the home of one of our best advocates , Greg, who has a highly informative web site <dress2kilt.org>.

Martin

partlyscot · Post by **partlyscot** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:07 pm

Couya wrote:
skirtyscot wrote:. But even so ... A kilt in Denmark is a rare thing, I should think.
Rare, yes, but it is also the home of one of our best advocates , Greg, who has a highly informative web site <dress2kilt.org>.

Martin

Did you mean dress2kilt.eu ?

janrok · Post by **janrok** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 4:28 pm

This is the one and only correct link: http://www.dress2kilt.eu/
At your service

Jan.

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