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The post From Hartford to Vietnam: An Illustrated History of How Colt Brought the AR-15 to War first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.
It put yellow sticky notes with username and password on corporate laptops:
The company decided to take some old laptops and give them out to new users. To make life easy for the recipients, they put sticky notes – everyone’s favorite credential-sharing tool – on the laptops with the name of each employee and their initial login credentials on it.Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us. And remember - this was the IT Department that did this.
Let’s just stop for a moment to remark on how bad it is to put usernames and passwords on a piece of paper where the wrong person could see them. Even the IT department should not know your password, should someone in IT themselves turn rogue. So, even if the laptop stayed on a shelf in a closet that only the support staff had access to, having that sticky note would be bad.
However, our situation is even worse because the laptops in question were stored in a conference room while the facilities team finished readying the office for the move. During that time, anyone who had access to the conference room could go in and get multiple user account credentials.
And that's exactly what happened ...
Sigh.
This is why we can't have nice (security) things on the Internet.
Honey was her rescue name. A purebred puppy with bowed legs, left at a rescue as she wasn’t “perfect". After we brought her home, it hit me. What was I thinking? I’m 66; she’s a PUPPY, with no socialization, and the urgent energy of a furry Velociraptor. There were moments I wanted to say, "wait, I change my mind", but like that moment when that first labor pain starts, there's no calling it off.
Her first night was great; she cuddled with our senior rescue Lorelei, and she napped. As my younger husband left for another 5-day business trip, I waved goodbye and thought, "I can do this!"
It was the calm before the storm. I likened it to those long, late flights over the ocean when I was an airline captain - storms forecast but not yet visible, the engines humming in a drowsy sky, senses alert to what could be a sudden change in the weather. When the first spray of rain hit the windscreen as lightning flashed in the distance, you knew it was too late to turn back.
So, I well remember the first expression of small puppy teeth in my flank. Sunny had discovered that people have bottoms, and she could bite them. If I showed surprise, she thought it was a game. The next thing I knew, she was running and jumping off the recliner, launching herself at the couch like one of the Flying Wallendas, knocking over a plant in the process, while Lorelei looked on, taking notes.
The typhoon had arrived, and we renamed her "Sunny".
The coming months were marked by continued mayhem, including stolen tools and shoes, shredded rolls of paper towels taken from the counter, as well as one late-night trip to the Vet when a dew claw was torn in the Zoomie to end all Zoomies. There was laughter and later tears as we said goodbye to Lorelei. There were many days I would have gladly dispensed myself of the regrettable opportunity of "guess what I have in my mouth, Mom?"
In the mornings I’d approach her crate like it was the den of some wild beast, with bravery but some bluster. I'd open the door while singing the notes of "Ride of the Valkyries", and our day would commence, measured not in hours but by the kinetic energy of flying fur.
But, as with any storm, the skies clear, the winds calm, at least in the land of Puppy-Ville.
Even as storms occasionally blew through our lives, I took comfort as the shadows gathered again, with the little things of joy I had around me. I learned to appreciate the simple pleasure of a young dog. She did not know loss; she did not know the word "cancer". She was once as I was, living in advance of an end she will not fear coming, because she doesn't conceive of its existence, that beautiful continuity of joy that knows no limits and no introspection.
I wouldn't have traded this decision for anything.
Rochester police responded to the scene on Avery Street at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Monday after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots. The resident then called 911 to report he had fired upon a man who entered his house.
Arriving officers discovered the suspect dead in the kitchen. The individual reportedly gained entry to the home through a rear door.
The investigation determined that the man was walking on Seale Street earlier in the evening when a person he did not know attempted to rob him at gunpoint.
The man then allegedly pulled out his gun, which is when the other person shot him before leaving the area.
By Dave Workman ANALYSIS—While a columnist at USA Today on Tuesday hailed the heroic actions of an armed private citizen and off-duty Idaho state trooper to stop the mass shooting at the newly-opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, there has been silence as usual from the nation’s gun prohibition lobby, save for remarks of sympathy […]
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Moon came by today. He's an old friend that we used to shoot Cowboy Fast Draw with. He's retired from cowboy shooting due to health problems, but he stays active. He had some things he wanted to sell, stuff that the club could use, so we made a deal.
He was carrying an old Colt, a US Army 1911AA1 that was in very nice condition with matching numbers. It had the half-moon front sight. Very nice piece with matching numbers that is now his EDC.
More importantly, we got to visit with an old friend. He and his wife live on the Ouachita River, about 20 minutes south of Monroe, LA. He spends part of each day running trot lines in the river, where he harvests catfish and gar. Last week, he took 40 pounds of filet catfish to the church for a fish fry. Last year we wanted to do a fish fry for the club, so we called Moon and he brought 30 pounds for the club. All he wanted for his trouble was to sit and eat with us.
We did agree that getting old ain't for sissies.
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Tom Marshall shows us the latest RECOIL Cover Gun, the S5 Tactical, HK Parts SG36!
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When officials arrived on the scene, they said a man was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital and is last said to be in stable condition.
Preliminary information shows that the victim was shot while trying to rob another person.
A person was shot in the 80 block of Fallon Street at about 7:15 p.m., but was able to take the gun away and pistol-whip the shooter, police said. They were both then taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and detained, according to the Oakland Police Department.
I hope you remember College Girls Gone Wild! From The College Fix:
TRENDING: Libraries attach trigger warnings to historical resource catalogs
This may hurt to know but people in the past had no idea that some day, people who imagine themselves to be intellectuals would be so injured by language that today we consider hateful and offensive that even reading a description would be problematic.
A couple years ago, I used a small news clipping in an American History class that referred to a "Negro banker." I had at least one student who apparently thought the N-word was "Negro." I shudder to think what their reaction would be to the United Negro College Fund or the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
If you cannot read a catalog entry with some offensive antique words without blowing a gasket, maybe history or even academic study is not for you. Find a field more appropriate to you: unicorn breeding.
I love cast iron, cook on it every day. We have probably eight or nine skillets.
Several years ago I was at an auction and bought three cast iron skillets, simply because no one was bidding on them. One was a BSR one was a Lodge, and the one on the bottom was unmarked. I gave $20 for the stack. Got them home and understood why. That bottom skillet was a disaster. Rusty, warped and pitted. It looked like it was used as a dog bowl in someone's back yard.
I cleaned it up and seasoned it. Began using it on those occasions where I would not normally use good cast iron. Highly acidic food with lots of seasoning, stiff like that. And, like all my good cast iron, I treat it right. Clean it after every use, dry it over moderate heat, then re-season with good oil. It still has its pits, it is still warped, but I noticed a week or so ago that Belle made corn bread in it. Today I used it to sauté highly seasoned shrimp in butter.
Then I realized that old pitted, warped dog skillet gets more use than my highly seasoned "good" skillets. When I'm doing something sketchy, it's the skillet I grab, because I can't hurt it. And Belle's apt to grab it to make cornbread.
There is a metaphor for life in that skillet, if I can just figure it out.
Pro PRS shooter Dan Bertocchini takes us through what really matters when it comes to long range shooting! NRL: Hunter, PRS, hunting, or just on the range.Recently I made a major change to my home computing platforms with the addition of a PC running Windows 11.
My primary computer was and will remain a 2025 MacBook Air, which works splendidly, and it runs the OS with which I'm most productive. However, as I near retirement and may be taking on some consulting, I wanted access to a powerful PC that could run Windows 11 and an as-yet TBD Linux distribution for running local LLMs.
So, a few weeks ago I bought at MicroCenter a PowerSpec G732 gaming PC. It's a beefy rig that IMO gives you a lot for the money:
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (4.5GHz) Processor
- MSI PRO B850M-VC WiFi Motherboard
- 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Graphics Card
- 1TB NVMe SSD
- 5GbE LAN, WiFi 6E (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3
- Windows 11 Home
My old monitor was a 27" LG from 2019 which was built to work with the then-new MacBooks that had only Thunderbolt ports. It acted as my docking station proving power, audio and video, Gig-E and a decent built-in webcam. Unfortunately, it only works with Macs, not PCs, so I needed to replace it.
Microcenter had an LG UltraGear 27G640A-B.AUSQ 27" 2K QHD (2560 x 1440) 300Hz Gaming Monitor with built-in speakers but no webcam on sale for $300. While the old unit was 4K-capable I ran it at only 2K because at 4K everything was too small for me to see.
The new monitor lacks a webcam so I added a Logitech Brio 100 1080p Webcam which include a microphone.
I'm using my old Dell keyboard and Logitech mouse, both connected via USB.
My impressions so far:
The PC's build quality is excellent with nice interior cable management. Performance seems very good although the closest thing I've done to taxing it is to run Skyrim at the highest resolution. If I run it faster than 60FPS, though, the video spins which is apparently a known Skyrim bug. Obviously, I need something more modern to really stretch out the graphics, and after I get it setup for local LLMs I expect to put the NVidea card to real work.
The Logitech webcam was only $40 but apparently the video quality is nicer than the one built into my old monitor. I didn't get any complaints about audio from its mic on a Google Meetings call or a Zoom call.
The new monitor is sharp, displaying either text or graphics well. The built-in speakers are inferior to those on my old monitor. I may replace them with USB speakers connected to the KVM.
Windows 11 is DOGSHIT. I had to do a lot of tweaking to disable unwanted features (e.g. Copilot) but it seems to be running OK for now. I did make a USB recovery stick in case a Microsoft update breaks it. (As far as I'm concerned the best version of Windows for end user computing was Windows 7.)
The biggest problem I had with the PC was trying to get a PowerA brand USB XBox controller working with it. This should have been plug and play. Fat chance. I spent HOURS trying to get it to be seen by any applications or the Windows joystick control app, which included a ton of Googling and even troubleshooting with the aid of Google Gemini to no avail. Eventually, I returned the PowerA controller and replaced it with a Bluetooth Microsoft XBox controller that installed and worked with minimal effort.
The PC has two empty slots on its motherboard for NVME SSDs. I plan to populate one in the near future and dual-boot with Linux for running local LLMs. I haven't decided which version. I'm debating between Fedora, Alma, Debian, or Ubuntu. Stay tuned.
However, the new setup left me without the ability to connect the MacBook Air to the new monitor and my mouse and keyboard, so today I went back to Microcenter and got a UGreen HDMI KVM Switch (2 Computers, 1 Monitor, 4K@60Hz) model #15707.
Yes, I have too much crap on my desk. My Xfinity gateway (in bridge mode) is the white tower back left. In front of that is a Yaesu FT-2800R 2M/70cm transceiver. On the right you can see my MacBook Air in a cradle I bought around 10 years ago to use in my old home office, and finally the new PC. The WiFi adapter is connected to the PC but not in use since wired Ethernet > WiFi. Behind the monitor is a three-tier wire rack shelf holding my WiFi router on top, and below that my desktop switch and Intel Nuc, and on the bottom shelf my power strip.
The KVM is behind the Mac, with its remote control below the monitor.
Because the MacBook Air only has the Magsafe power connector, A/V, and two Thunderbolt ports, I have it connected with an older Anker USB-C hub/dock that has an HDMI port, three USB-A ports, and a Gig-E port, which is then connected to my desktop switch. Power to the Mac is provided by the OEM Magsafe charger.
I chose the UGreen KVM switch because of the mostly positive reviews at Microcenter and Amazon, and because it's noted as being compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows. A couple reviews noted instability when it was run off bus power, so I added a USB-A to USB-C cable for power, which I have plugged into my power strip.
A nice feature of the KVM is that it has a remote button for switching inputs. I need to stick it to the base of the monitor with some double-sided Velcro.
The KVM seems to work with both the Mac and the PC. I tested the webcam and it works on both machines in MS Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.
The main downside to the new setup is that due to limited desk space I had to give up the ability to use the laptop with the screen open, but I can live with that.
This new setup will allow me to retain the use of my Mac for most productivity and Internet activities while enabling me to run Windows 11 or desktop Linux when needed.
Looking to get started and not sure where you begin your plate carrier journey? We got you covered.Very quiet, very comfortable room. (It is a Hilton; it better be.) There is an indoor skydiving business across the street; if we had more time, I would go over there. I have always wanted to experience skydiving without the adrenaline rush of jumping out of a perfectly functional plane while wondering if my parachute is going to work.
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The AR15 is the most popular rifle in America today, and certainly the most controversial. I bet we all know someone who just bought their first one.An ideal companion to the rifle would be a book about its history and use. I recommend “AR-15: A Citizen’s Guide to America’s Rifle.” I’ve known the author, Frank […]
This Week in History: On August 4, 1873, while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the US 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (pictured), clashed for the first time with the Sioux Indian tribe near the Tongue River, killing one man on each side. — August 6, 1806, the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. It was described by Voltaire as “in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” Emperor Francis II renounced his title of Holy Roman Emperor, becoming instead the first Emperor of Austria. — August 4, 1900: An allied expeditionary force, made up of …
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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Some of the erroneous assumptions and operating principles that Western governments of today have been utilizing in their social planning schemes are these six stupid ideas: 1. The stupid idea that people and institutions can become perfect. The perfectibility of institutions and people is contrary to all natural law and historical precedent. People are imperfect by their nature and institutions which are composed of people are imperfect. 2. The stupid idea that economic output is everything which can be expressed as a regularly reported number which can be measured, and the number …
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The U.S. M1 bayonet is designed to fit the M1 Garand rifle which was the standard issue American infantry rifle during World War II and the Korean conflict. The M1 bayonet has a 10-inch spear-point blade that is 1 inch wide and has a tang that is around 0.25 inches thick. The blade is made of 1080 carbon steel. The grip panels are made out of black Durez or a similar plastic. The bayonet measures 14.25 inches overall. The 10-inch blade is long enough to make the bayonet somewhat awkward for everyday tasks like opening cans, prying open crates, or …
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Today’s graphic is a satellite image of Europe at night. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail image below is click-expandable. — If any SurvivalBlog readers have personally taken or otherwise hold the copyright to a particularly nice landscape photo or other photo of particular interest to preppers that is in a wide horizontal format (to match our blog template) then please send it in as an e-mail attachment, and I will consider posting it as a Graphic of the Week, or as a Top Note photo. I can of course credit you by name — or pen name — if …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Economics & Investing Links of Interest NYT: Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble? Bond yields at 19-year high send Warsh credibility warning. At Whatfinger: America’s Quiet Civil War: High-Tax Slave States vs. Free Market Freedom States. To file under “Socialist Stupidity”: Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies. Silicon Valley’s 24-Year-Old AI “Prophet” Just Lost a Fortune – The Hype Finally …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column: China’s robot warrior dogs. Robot Dogs are Training \With Soldiers in China Whatfinger.com reports: Robot dogs are no longer experimental in China. They’re training with actual soldiers, right now: …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — SurvivalBlog reader C.B. forwarded this news link: American Red Cross declares national blood crisis as type O supply drops to dangerous levels. Here is an excerpt: “The Red Cross is now limiting distributions of type O blood to hospitals, as the nation’s largest single provider of blood products now has less than …
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REDOUBT NEWS LINKS This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. In Spokane: ‘When the sun rises, we are going to be in shock’: Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city. Some other coverage: Apocalyptic Inferno in Spokane: Fast-Moving Wildfire Forces Mass Evacuations as Homes Burn and Hospital is Emptied (Videos). Idaho In-N-Out gunman died by gunshot wound after killing 3, wounding 7, Twin Falls police say. An armed citizen made the …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: Your Little Toe Does Have A Purpose It Makes Sure That All Of Your Furniture is Kept In Its Proper Place Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” – C.S. Lewis, as quoted in Cyril Connolly’s ‘The Unquiet Grave’ (1944) Chapter 31
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By Dave Workman UPDATE: An armed private citizen using a semiautomatic FN Five-Seven pistol fitted with a suppressor is being called a hero for opening fire on a killer armed with a rifle at a recently-opened In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho. Jordan Salinas, 35, is quoted by the Idaho Statesman stating, “There’s a […]
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Termite sent me this, and I had to look it up. LARPing is "Live Action Role Play".
So, that explains that.
Which reminds me, I need to order something for arifle.