Running Bear's January 2026 Coffee Shop
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Try Malwarebytes or ESET. Both are around $89 per year for 3 computers. I use both and no virus for 30 years or so.
These two are what I use and they work for me.
A friend of mine uses Avast and says he swears by it, however he had a virus issue about two years ago.....go figure.
Hope this helps......John
And always telling you how many thousands of ads they've blocked. Impossible to block their own ads. And it's not even a pop-up. It opens a new browser page all on it's own. I actually was able to block the ad, but I'm still trying to go through Windows settings to keep it from opening a new browser window. Since I've blocked the ad, the new browser window opens as a blank window.
I usually throw a couple of bucks a year at them. They do provide a great service and keep all these adds at bay. Plus it keeps the donation page from popping up for quite a while.
Every once in a while YT will flag me for using an Addblocker but if I close out and come back in it goes away.
I only mow a strip about 10' wide since the ditch is inaccessible. Sides too steep. The rancher across the road mows and bales his side, a distance of over 2.5 miles. He owns almost 7000 acres across the road to the east.
I'm all in for the Texans. They play my brand of football, Defense, Defense, Defense!
The Airport is ZRH = Zurich. But the Event that is upcoming is the WEF = World Economy Forum that is located in Davos. And the orange potato is according to the news attending. So they US Air Force has to bring in some stuff. But i think if it is like the years before, he will land in Rammstein (DE) and from there fly over to davos with Helicopter. i think last time he was here, they had a convoy of cars driving up to davos, and he was in a helicopter surrounded by 4 others so 5 helicopters so you cant know in which he really is.
btw
good morning. Fog allover, so till now no spotting at all because i only see white.
and iam not so much a plane spotter, because iam not really interested, and i see them on a dailie basis
cheers
Marco
Ooh, I must not have been feeling too good lately haha.
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santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Marco - Since our President Trump is going to give a speech, or just lead a US delegation at Davos next week, those two cargo planes were bringing in his limo and the security vehicles. I don't know whether his plane will land in Zurich or not.
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Well, howdy there internet peeps and those with big planes for big cars.
It's Troy again.
Thought I might get Mexican tonight since it's the lull between the storms. But... I might get Giordano's pizza instead. And I will have earned it.
Seems one of my nieces, the one that is mostly estranged from the family, but not quite all the way is in the hospital in our area. She's mid-30s in age... still married but long term separated from the first husband, with an on-again/off-again relationship with a girlfriend. We never know who she's with week to week.
When she was married to the piece of
hubby, they stole my mother's debit card, ran through her monthly SocSec money in two days, and racked up several hundred dollars in overdraft fees for Grandma... Wife and I bailed my mother out of debt... And Grandma pressed charges, though it broke her heart to see her granddaughter head off to jail.
Anyway, niece has severe Crohn's disease and ends up hospitalized at least once a year. This time, she's been sent to Parkview Hospital in our neck of the woods.
"Uncle Troy... can you bring me....." and a few things that are doable (coloring book and markers, reading materials)... the problem is, she now has my phone #.
A year ago she was hospitalized down in Indianapolis (away from her girlfriend, and my sister/her mother)... my daughter lives in Indy. One trip... sure, no problem.
Next day... more stuff needed....
The following day... more stuff, and
Niece: can you bring me food?
Daughter: No, you have crohn's .... you eat what the doctors tell you (greasy burgers aren't good for that)
Niece: But... they said I could... (daughter didn't fall for that)
That turned into her crying and trying to guilt trip my daughter... My kid won't put up with that, and blocked her.
I suspect, based on past behaviour, that I'll get at least three texts tomorrow. AFTER I tell her I'm not making the half-hour drive that will take even longer with the snow and winter yuck we're about to get.
We'll see how this goes. My hopes are not high.
Fortunately my sis, her mom is an hour-ish away and can do weekend duty for her.
It's Troy again.
Thought I might get Mexican tonight since it's the lull between the storms. But... I might get Giordano's pizza instead. And I will have earned it.
Seems one of my nieces, the one that is mostly estranged from the family, but not quite all the way is in the hospital in our area. She's mid-30s in age... still married but long term separated from the first husband, with an on-again/off-again relationship with a girlfriend. We never know who she's with week to week.
When she was married to the piece of
hubby, they stole my mother's debit card, ran through her monthly SocSec money in two days, and racked up several hundred dollars in overdraft fees for Grandma... Wife and I bailed my mother out of debt... And Grandma pressed charges, though it broke her heart to see her granddaughter head off to jail.Anyway, niece has severe Crohn's disease and ends up hospitalized at least once a year. This time, she's been sent to Parkview Hospital in our neck of the woods.
"Uncle Troy... can you bring me....." and a few things that are doable (coloring book and markers, reading materials)... the problem is, she now has my phone #.
A year ago she was hospitalized down in Indianapolis (away from her girlfriend, and my sister/her mother)... my daughter lives in Indy. One trip... sure, no problem.
Next day... more stuff needed....
The following day... more stuff, and
Niece: can you bring me food?
Daughter: No, you have crohn's .... you eat what the doctors tell you (greasy burgers aren't good for that)
Niece: But... they said I could... (daughter didn't fall for that)
That turned into her crying and trying to guilt trip my daughter... My kid won't put up with that, and blocked her.
I suspect, based on past behaviour, that I'll get at least three texts tomorrow. AFTER I tell her I'm not making the half-hour drive that will take even longer with the snow and winter yuck we're about to get.
We'll see how this goes. My hopes are not high.
Fortunately my sis, her mom is an hour-ish away and can do weekend duty for her.
boogietrain94
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anyone but the patriots lol
westtexjohn
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Norton and McAfee are at the bottom of the list for anti-virus.
Try Malwarebytes or ESET. Both are around $89 per year for 3 computers. I use both and no virus for 30 years or so.
These two are what I use and they work for me.
A friend of mine uses Avast and says he swears by it, however he had a virus issue about two years ago.....go figure.
Hope this helps......John
chadbag
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It’d be interesting to see where else he’d land. Zürich is probably the closest. Though I doubt he’ll take the railroad to get to Davos. If he did he could take the wonderful Rhätische Bahn we’ve had glimpses of in this forum and a locomotive from which I’m running in my test oval as I work on my software this week.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
I have used the free version of AdBlock Plus for years with no problems except they are frequently asking if you want to upgrade to their payable version. But I am also very careful where I browse and I rarely click on anything suspicious. My ISP also has some software embedded in my E-Mail server and together I am pretty safe...that according to their serviceman who has visited.
westtexjohn
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Good afternoon to all forum lurkers..........
Planning ahead for my trip to Plano Train Show on Saturday. I'll go Friday to Plano and spend the night with an old friend and hit the train show at 10 am on Saturday. Temps forecast in Plano : 57 for high Friday and 44 for high Saturday. I'm guessing the turnout for the train show will be low unfortunately due to the cold.
High for Friday in my neck of the woods in west Texas is : 55 for high Friday and 38 for high on Saturday with some light snow flurries but no accumulations, back to 63 for high on Sunday. Crazy weather.
Not much going on. Seems I've just been pi$$d off here for last several days and can't get over it. My property taxes went up about 25%. And where I live in the county, we get ZERO from the county for our tax dollars. No city water, sewer or any other utilities or services. They used to come by and grade the county roads in my little unincorporated burg about twice a year but that stopped about 5 years ago. Supposedly my property taxes can only be increased by 10% max with a homestead exemption. But that ain't the case. I'll go to the court house next week and raise hell but I don't expect any results. I have to mow the county road on the west side of my property (a strip about 100 ft long and 20 ft wide) because the phone company box, electric service pole and gas meter are on that side of my property and the utility companies need to have access to those areas. I should bill the county for this, after all it is their job to maintain road. On passed my property, the county road looks like the adjacent woods, as no one lives on the road. I'm just damn sick and tired of having to pay more for less and having the takers think I'm the one thats wrong.
Maybe spending money at the train show and getting out of town will make me feel better and then on to Discount Model Trains (where Willie buys vehicles.........HO type) and buy something new there. New BLI steam loco is supposed to arrive in late February......I already feel warm and fuzzy.
Take care all my tax burdened friends. We need a "virus protection plan" against that $hit.
John
Planning ahead for my trip to Plano Train Show on Saturday. I'll go Friday to Plano and spend the night with an old friend and hit the train show at 10 am on Saturday. Temps forecast in Plano : 57 for high Friday and 44 for high Saturday. I'm guessing the turnout for the train show will be low unfortunately due to the cold.
High for Friday in my neck of the woods in west Texas is : 55 for high Friday and 38 for high on Saturday with some light snow flurries but no accumulations, back to 63 for high on Sunday. Crazy weather.
Not much going on. Seems I've just been pi$$d off here for last several days and can't get over it. My property taxes went up about 25%. And where I live in the county, we get ZERO from the county for our tax dollars. No city water, sewer or any other utilities or services. They used to come by and grade the county roads in my little unincorporated burg about twice a year but that stopped about 5 years ago. Supposedly my property taxes can only be increased by 10% max with a homestead exemption. But that ain't the case. I'll go to the court house next week and raise hell but I don't expect any results. I have to mow the county road on the west side of my property (a strip about 100 ft long and 20 ft wide) because the phone company box, electric service pole and gas meter are on that side of my property and the utility companies need to have access to those areas. I should bill the county for this, after all it is their job to maintain road. On passed my property, the county road looks like the adjacent woods, as no one lives on the road. I'm just damn sick and tired of having to pay more for less and having the takers think I'm the one thats wrong.
Maybe spending money at the train show and getting out of town will make me feel better and then on to Discount Model Trains (where Willie buys vehicles.........HO type) and buy something new there. New BLI steam loco is supposed to arrive in late February......I already feel warm and fuzzy.
Take care all my tax burdened friends. We need a "virus protection plan" against that $hit.
John
RhB Michael
RhB Lokführer
And always telling you how many thousands of ads they've blocked. Impossible to block their own ads. And it's not even a pop-up. It opens a new browser page all on it's own. I actually was able to block the ad, but I'm still trying to go through Windows settings to keep it from opening a new browser window. Since I've blocked the ad, the new browser window opens as a blank window.
migalyto
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I usually throw a couple of bucks a year at them. They do provide a great service and keep all these adds at bay. Plus it keeps the donation page from popping up for quite a while.
Every once in a while YT will flag me for using an Addblocker but if I close out and come back in it goes away.
chadbag
Well-Known Member
I've been working on my throttle software for iPhone/iPad/Mac. It's still very much in development stage. The UI is just text blocks and ugly sliders and buttons. But I can enter multiple locomotives into the roster (though the images aren't working yet) and I create and assign a decoder for it, setting the address (only Long for now though the base is there for Short as well, the code that uses addresses assumes Long for now in some places), and the speed steps (14, 28, 129 [126]) and a name and model number.
You get a list of locomotives and can click the drive button and it gives an ugly screen with a slider (graduated in speed steps number of elements), an emergency stop, a truck power on/off, and forward/resverse button for now. And can give it throttle and the train will go. You can also operate multiple trains though I don't have a good UI for that. You can go back button and drive a new train and the old one still continues on with what it was doing.
Today I hope to finish passing back the DCC response to the throttle object connected to the train -- right now only the locomotive info response is handled with more than a print to the debugger (a set speed command returns a locomotive info response from the Z21 command center -- at l east my DR 5000). And I want to stick some function keys for lights etc on the throttle screen.
It saves the locomotives to "disk" right now though I will eventually use a cloud aware on-device database instead (at least for paying customers -- the free version may stay on device file only).
I also want to abstract some of the data used like the locomotive list -- abstract it into a Roster object... That sort of thing.
My track has been sitting here for a while and the locomotives sitting on the track. We don't have a lot of dust but there are a few places where they sometimes hesitate and sometimes when sitting at rest with throttle 0, when I give throttle, they don't move until I give them a nudge, or if I want 20-30 seconds they may try and go. I assume it is dirty wheels and track and stuff like that. I need to find my track cleaner and go over everything. When I had a similar problem on my 4x8 t test layout in the old house a god cleaning fixed stuff so I'm hoping that is my problem. I'm using N-scale Unitrack and it's possible some rail joiners need to be cleaned. The track has just been sitting in boxes until I got it out to make my test oval...
You get a list of locomotives and can click the drive button and it gives an ugly screen with a slider (graduated in speed steps number of elements), an emergency stop, a truck power on/off, and forward/resverse button for now. And can give it throttle and the train will go. You can also operate multiple trains though I don't have a good UI for that. You can go back button and drive a new train and the old one still continues on with what it was doing.
Today I hope to finish passing back the DCC response to the throttle object connected to the train -- right now only the locomotive info response is handled with more than a print to the debugger (a set speed command returns a locomotive info response from the Z21 command center -- at l east my DR 5000). And I want to stick some function keys for lights etc on the throttle screen.
It saves the locomotives to "disk" right now though I will eventually use a cloud aware on-device database instead (at least for paying customers -- the free version may stay on device file only).
I also want to abstract some of the data used like the locomotive list -- abstract it into a Roster object... That sort of thing.
My track has been sitting here for a while and the locomotives sitting on the track. We don't have a lot of dust but there are a few places where they sometimes hesitate and sometimes when sitting at rest with throttle 0, when I give throttle, they don't move until I give them a nudge, or if I want 20-30 seconds they may try and go. I assume it is dirty wheels and track and stuff like that. I need to find my track cleaner and go over everything. When I had a similar problem on my 4x8 t test layout in the old house a god cleaning fixed stuff so I'm hoping that is my problem. I'm using N-scale Unitrack and it's possible some rail joiners need to be cleaned. The track has just been sitting in boxes until I got it out to make my test oval...
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santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
At least my county mows once a year in early June, but only the county road and not the private easement road. I mow it directly in front of my house, about 250', and I do a strip about 100' to the south to provide visibility down the road when exiting the easement road. One neighbor mows the part of the easement road that I don't do, and occasionally does that part along the county road when he thinks I wait too long to do it!
I only mow a strip about 10' wide since the ditch is inaccessible. Sides too steep. The rancher across the road mows and bales his side, a distance of over 2.5 miles. He owns almost 7000 acres across the road to the east.
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Kusojiji
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It's a nice warm day today. It was 10C at 0800 when it was 4C yesterday and 1C the day before. It is now 27C at 1220. Went to the commissary and left my hoodie in the car.
Have the windows in the room open to get a good exchange of air and move the dust around while I can before the hayfever stuff starts.
Have the windows in the room open to get a good exchange of air and move the dust around while I can before the hayfever stuff starts.
Bruette
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I rarely root against any team, except for the Steelers on occasion.
I'm all in for the Texans. They play my brand of football, Defense, Defense, Defense!
RetiredinIowa
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Morning ladies and gents
Couldn’t sleep much… have a winter cold… easier to rest in the recliner
Couldn’t sleep much… have a winter cold… easier to rest in the recliner
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
Good morning! It's Friday, 21°F with a chance of snow.
Have a great day!
Have a great day!
traiNscale
Well-Known Member
You mix things up here.
The Airport is ZRH = Zurich. But the Event that is upcoming is the WEF = World Economy Forum that is located in Davos. And the orange potato is according to the news attending. So they US Air Force has to bring in some stuff. But i think if it is like the years before, he will land in Rammstein (DE) and from there fly over to davos with Helicopter. i think last time he was here, they had a convoy of cars driving up to davos, and he was in a helicopter surrounded by 4 others so 5 helicopters so you cant know in which he really is.
btw
good morning. Fog allover, so till now no spotting at all because i only see white.
and iam not so much a plane spotter, because iam not really interested, and i see them on a dailie basis
cheers
Marco
Kusojiji
RANK AMATEURS OF THE MODEL RAILROAD FORM MEMBER
That always makes me feel better...
Ooh, I must not have been feeling too good lately haha.
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