Re: Flash Player hack update 11.5 [message #35121] |
Wed, 30 January 2013 23:07 |
Michael McMurtrey
Messages: 27 Registered: December 2012
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Not working on the pbs.org History Detectives website. Haven't had a
chance to test others.
System info:
Model Name: Power Mac G4
Model Identifier: PowerMac3,6
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Processor Speed: 1.25 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.4.8f2
Serial Number (system): XB40905UQ6P
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-000A95CFC548
OS X 10.5.8
Safari 5.0.6
Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX
On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:10 AM, g3-5-list@googlegroups.com wrote:
> Today's Topic Summary
> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list/topics
>
> Flash Player hack update 11.5 [1 Update]
> Prepping a G4/10.5.8 for sale [3 Updates]
> US Java alert? [7 Updates]
> G5 Damaged in Shipping [2 Updates]
> OT redirected to l. yimg.com on Mac G4 [1 Update]
> Flash Player hack update 11.5
> Paolo Tassotti <paolo.tassotti@gmail.com> Jan 30 09:28AM +0100
>
> hi folks,
>
> this hack for flash player on PPC machines has just been updated up to
> version 11.5:
>
> http://scriptogr.am/nordkril/post/adobe-flash-11.5-for-power pc
>
> enjoy !
>
> paolo
>
> Prepping a G4/10.5.8 for sale
> kimtoufectis <kimtoufectis@gmail.com> Jan 29 08:44PM -0800
>
> Much obliged, thanks!
>
> On Monday, January 28, 2013 2:36:02 PM UTC-5, PH wrote:
>
> kimtoufectis <kimtoufectis@gmail.com> Jan 29 08:45PM -0800
>
> Good tips; thanks!
>
> On Monday, January 28, 2013 2:51:01 PM UTC-5, DaleH wrote:
>
> kimtoufectis <kimtoufectis@gmail.com> Jan 29 08:47PM -0800
>
> Each of you filled in a part of the puzzle for me. Thanks much!
>
> On Monday, January 28, 2013 3:04:04 PM UTC-5,
> joh...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
> wrote:
>
> US Java alert?
> Dan <dantearmok@gmail.com> Jan 29 03:53PM -0500
>
> At 3:12 PM -0500 01/12/2013, Dan wrote:
>>> Anyone knows more about this Java alert issued
>>> by US Gov (alert that include Flash as well)!
>
>> SSDD. Yet-another zero day vulnerability, yadda yadda yadda *yawn*
>
> And today's chapter:
>
> http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2013/01/just-turn-java-off- very-high-security.html
>
> LOL
>
> - Dan.
> --
> - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
>
> Bruce Johnson <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> Jan 29 03:00PM -0700
>
>
>>> SSDD. Yet-another zero day vulnerability, yadda yadda yadda *yawn*
>
>> And today's chapter:
>
>> http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2013/01/just-turn-java-off- very-high-security.html
>
>
> Here's the thing: anyone who can run a vulnerable version of Java on
> their Mac and has installed Apple's security updates has already
> done this. <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572> <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573
>> The last Java update Apple released went through and purged Java
> from the browser plugins. (As I found out, unpleasantly, when I
> tried to use a network-based KVM we purchased. Yet another
> 'Universal' devioce that is truly universal, it runs under Windows
> on Dells, on HP's, on Lenovo's…)
>
> (Apple's relesed these updates for 10.6, 7 and 8. 10.5 and lower is
> officially deprecated, and doesn't run the latest versions of Java.
> PPC machines CAN'T run the latest versions of java. I'm mildly
> surprised that they released the fix for 10.6.)
>
> Anyone else either deliberately went out of their way to re-enable
> Java or is not running a version that's vulnerable.
>
> Almost all of these new security issues with Java are the result of
> Oracles new code in the latest version.
>
> (and the appeal to 'Open Source' java just won't happen. As I've
> said before the entire impetus for Oracle to buy Sun was to acquire
> Java, which is Oracle's lifeblood, since so much of their database
> stuff is now written in Java.)
>
> Everything else (like hardware, VirtualBox, etc) was gravy for them,
> and Oracle is no more going to open source Java than they would
> Oracle Enterprise Database.
>
> --
> Bruce Johnson
> University of Arizona
> College of Pharmacy
> Information Technology Group
>
> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
>
> "W.Adrian D'Alessio" <fluxstringer@gmail.com> Jan 29 05:16PM -0500
>
> Sooner or later you will run into an online form that is important
> to you
> which will require Java be turned on.
> That's a fact.
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Bruce Johnson <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu
>
> --
> Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer
> fluxstringer@gmail.com
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/
> http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications
> http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/
> http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/
>
> Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> Jan 29 03:08PM -0800
>
>>> http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2013/01/just-turn-java-off- very-high-security.html
>
>> Sooner or later you will run into an online form that is important
> to you
>> which will require Java be turned on.
>
> ITYM Java*Script*, which has very little to do actually with Java, and
> assuming you are using one of the still-maintained PowerPC browsers is
> much more up-to-date.
>
> --
> ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/
> --
> Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser@floodgap.com
> -- The best things in life are sold out.
> --------------------------------------
>
> "W.Adrian D'Alessio" <fluxstringer@gmail.com> Jan 29 08:14PM -0500
>
> The DoD is telling people to turn off the Java plug in. While
> governments
> websites have forms that depend on it to be active.CNet says Oracle
> may not
> have a total fix for years.
> Turn off the Java Plug in and experiment. You tell me if it is a Java
> script or Java or any other distinction you want to make.
> I turned off the Java Plug in weeks ago and found online
> transactions I
> could not do. And this is after installation of a Java script blocker
> months before that which allowed the same forms to be active.
>
>
>
> --
> Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer
> fluxstringer@gmail.com
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/
> http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications
> http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/
> http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/
>
> Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> Jan 29 05:16PM -0800
>
>> I turned off the Java Plug in weeks ago and found online
> transactions I
>> could not do. And this is after installation of a Java script
> blocker
>> months before that which allowed the same forms to be active.
>
> TenFourFox has had Java disabled specifically in the browser since
> version 6,
> and I haven't found any form I cannot complete with my bank or
> billpay sites.
> If you have some specific URLs, I'd be interested.
>
> --
> ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/
> --
> Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser@floodgap.com
> -- Talkers are no good doers. -- Shakespeare
> ----------------------------------
>
> Dan <dantearmok@gmail.com> Jan 29 10:36PM -0500
>
> At 8:14 PM -0500 01/29/2013, W.Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
>> turned off the Java Plug in weeks ago and found online transactions
>> I could not do. And this is after installation of a Java script
>> blocker months before that which allowed the same forms to be active.
>
> Please give us a specific example of such a page.
>
> - Dan.
> --
> - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
>
> G5 Damaged in Shipping
> glen <glenstrek@yahoo.com> Jan 29 03:27PM -0800
>
>> G5 dual 2.5Mhz, June 2004, Radeon 9800 XT video. Model #A1047 EMC#
> 1969. M9457LL/A, liquid cooling.
>
>> Photo's
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenstrek/sets/7215763262463008 1/
>
> Thanks for the replies, my response will follow but first the latest.
>
> Monday: the damaged G5 ran for 3-4 hours with no apparent problems
> BUT when booting I would hear the fans start to rev up and a short
> pause rev down (< 1 sec) the a continued rev up and a successful boot.
>
> Left it sit overnight without power and the side cover off, exposed
> side down on workbench with tissue paper under the LCS to check for
> leaks. No drips or wet areas on tissue paper the next morning.
> Rebooted and checked back in an hour or so to find a panic screen.
> Now it no longer boots. No start up chime, the fans start to rev and
> then rev down (< 1 sec) and stay down, blank screen.
>
> Not good! power supply issue? Damaged CPU's? Any thoughts?
>
> I'll try to summarize my reply's to posts I can remember, both on
> and off list.
>
>
> First, I still can't remove the LCS cover as suggested. There was a
> plastic stud or rivet holding the cover in place. I shaved the top
> off with a knife but still I could not remove the cover.
>
> As far the damage as a result of shipping I tend to agree it may not
> be the source. There is little damage to the shipping box. A slight
> crush on one corner and a small cut on one side that did not
> penetrate to the inside. OTOH, the G5 was not double boxed and some
> random pieces of styrofoam used to to keep the 44 lb contents in
> place were broken.
>
>
> Regarding the idea of transporting the internals to another case, I
> agree that I will not trust the seller to ship the proper G5 case
> for this model in good condition. And as I suspected from two
> posters the process could be long and tedious. Perhaps a great
> retirement project but I still have at least a year to go and need
> the G5 now as I enter a greatly needed busy day job schedule.
>
> Probably won't get much trouble shooting time until weekend --looks
> like junk, thanks everyone --glen
>
> James R Knight <dr.james.knight@gmail.com> Jan 29 10:29PM -0500
>
> It sounds like you are drawing the same conclusion I am at this
> point. If
> it worked that would be one thing, but it doesn't. You paid for a
> working
> computer. Not another project, however fun. Send it back.
>
> -Doc Jimbo
>
>
>
> OT redirected to l. yimg.com on Mac G4
> "Jörg Duurkoop" <yawgie@gmail.com> Jan 29 04:10AM -0800
>
> Hi,
>
> Yahoo is useless on a G4 with Tiger. Lately all the links in my e-
> mails
> didn't work and longer mails were shortened. I switched to Gmail and
> everyting is more snappy and actually WORKS. Fuggetaboud Yahoo. I
> think it
> was sold and the buyers let it die a slow death ...
>
> Best regards, Jörg.
>
>
> Op woensdag 23 januari 2013 13:19:57 UTC+7 schreef Jonas Lopez het
> volgende:
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