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Re: Flash Player hack update 11.5 [message #35121] Wed, 30 January 2013 23:07
Michael McMurtrey is currently offline  Michael McMurtrey
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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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