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2016 May 27 — Why Now?
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Google defeats Oracle in Java code copyright case. This is round 2, with Oracle vowing to go to the Supreme Court because Google used some Java APIs in Android.

If you are running Windows 7 and are tired of being bugged about Windows 10, go to Windows Update and uninstall KB3035583. If they send another copy of the ‘update’, highlight it, right click and ‘hide’ the update instead of installing it. They issued a different version of the ‘update’ yesterday and I turned off automatic updates and uninstalled the sucker.

Adobe is continuing its pattern of every other update of Flash freezing your browser.

May 27, 2016   21 Comments

Tropical Depression Two

Tropical Depression TwoPosition: 29.0N 75.9W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [300°] near 12 mph [19 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [ 70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1009 mb.

Currently about 355 miles [ 575 km] Southeast of Charleston, South Carolina.

As a result of the investigation by a Hurricane Hunter aircraft this afternoon, Invest 91L has been declared a tropical depression.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Savannah River to Little River Inlet South Carolina.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

[For the latest information click on the storm symbol, or go to the CATEGORIES drop-down box below the CALENDAR and select “Hurricanes” for all of the posts related to storms on this site.]

May 27, 2016   Comments Off on Tropical Depression Two