Odds and Ends
There have been at least two folks ask me for help with recent “Patch Tuesday” updates for Win7. It’s mostly patches failing or borking something else. The few times I could stand to run Win7 on any of my machines, it was this sort of trouble that convinced me what a mistake it was. When patches fail for any reason, no one has a clue why. I’ve scoured the discussion boards, including those hosted by Microsoft, and the answers vary so widely I can’t even begin to guess. I’ve come to the conclusion that both the OS and the patches are far more complicated than MS developers can track. It’s the only OS I know of where patching is so very likely to break to stuff, and it’s been like that for years, all the way back to Win98, at least.
I don’t know what to make of Kaspersky being hacked, though I have no doubt it was Israel who did it. I suppose it’s typical of the crazy habit of never leaving well enough alone, but pushing for that last vestige of control, which they hardly know what to do with in the first place. Hitting the premier voice in Windows security was a stupid risk, and this time it will come back to haunt the folks who sent it. I’m not offering odds on how any of this will turn out, but I’m convinced it will get nastier than anyone now imagines. I’m not fearful, just watching the whole thing with some amusement, because there’s really nothing else I can do.
Not precisely sure, but our home rests inside a mobile home park that is easily near my own age. It’s been upgraded from the old days, and expanded somewhat. There are nearly 200 spaces now, but the roads have never been widened, of course. My home is 13 years old and was considered quite large back then at 16′ wide (4.8m). You won’t see mobile home towing trucks except on the highways these days. Now they have another way of dragging them down these narrow streets and through tight turns, then backing them onto the pad. This is a remote-controlled drone tractor. The operator simply walks along in front of it keeping an eye on clearances.
So far I’ve been unable to get anyone to explain why our park and some of the surrounding land has never been annexed into any municipality. We are under county jurisdiction. Sewage is now handled by Midwest City (boundary just to our west); solid waste by contract with poor service at times. Schools and mail are Choctaw. A couple hundred acres just north of us is also out in the county. Ten years ago someone plowed down street lanes, but development ceased at that and it has remained a private hunting reserve since. I get the impression none of the cities want this land, but there is much development all around us. This picture is the 3800 block of South Henney Road, just a mile from here. This time last year it was untouched fallow forest. This time next year the first houses will be occupied. New houses and developments are going up all the time out here, and some of the old ones are expanding. This is no buyers’ market out here; the economy here is pretty strong.
