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Absolutely, @GeorgeGlass!

Brilliant.  While I don’t quite have to resurrect my dead character, I’m doing it anyway.  He will come in handy later.

He may well be a “bridge” between the two principal characters of the “Yankee’s Nephew” series; David Dvorak and Harry Potter.

I’m resurrecting Paul Tarsus Rush-Cook Dvorak as I write this, on two platforms.

Cheers!

While you’re at it, don’t forget that “Once is happenstance.  Twice is coincidence.  Three time is enemy action.”  (Ian Flemming, Goldfinger)

I’ve also just realized that I might have to resurect a dead character almost six chapters into a story.  😐

I’ve seen some rather powerful fools in my travels...

Hopefully things continue to get better for you and yours.

For over $10 per bottle, it would have to be very good, even if those are two liter bottles.  We all have our own pleasures that others don’t appreciate, though.

“Only 364 more shopping days ‘til Christmas” is what they announce on my birthday.

My personal opinion is that while the Spirit of Christmas should endure all year round, that the Season of Christmas shall not start prior to the First Sunday of Advent, nor shall it persist beyond the Baptism of the Lord.  Your mileage may vary.

Happy Christmas!  😜

HI, @BronxWench

I’m running Firefox ESR for (obsolete) OSX.

With that browser setup, you can get a “clean” padlock, indicating a “full” SSL connection, or a padlock with a yellow triangle, indicating that you have a partial SSL connection, where Firefox only sees what it identifies as “passive” content being sent in the clear.  All of both the archives and forums sites appear with the yellow triangle padlock.

When running Google Chrome for the same OS, most of the site except for the areas you’ve identified show “full secure” with Chrome.  For the areas you report as “broken,” Chrome reports that they are very broken, giving the error code—NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

I hope that helps.

Hi, @BronxWench.

The SSL problem is actually happening systemwide as I discussed above, including both the archives and the forums.  I’m guessing that something’s “bent” somewhere in the SSL implementation, but I’m not sure exactly what is bent.  Your Root CA is valid, and to the casual observer the chains down to your actual servers appear to be set up correctly.  So, the “betting” money is on a small but significant typo somewhere causing the problem.

Thanks.

Yes.  Parts of the system(s) hosting both the archives and the forums are failing (or not even trying) to establish ssl connections.  So, whatever is being transmitted between your computer and those system(s) hosting AFF can be read or attacked in real time by nefarious (or bored) individuals.  It appears that only images are being sent in the clear between AFF and readers based on research.

@manta2g?  @Desiderius Price?

Your reasoning makes perfect sense.  Unless you loathe gambling, if you stop in a casino and you start gambling, it’s really easy to lose track of time, though the 51 hours you cite is rather extreme.  Then again, most if not all records are an extreme of one form or another, for good or ill.

Happy birthday, WillowDarkling.

If your computer started acting up without you doing some other change to it first, I wouldn’t have my hopes raised too high.  And if the problem stuck around on your main computer after a card swap, especially if the removed card worked on your other machine (you never said,) then I would be looking at something on the main system board.

If you did a software patch or driver update to the O/S recently, rolling that back will hopefully roll the problem away.  Otherwise, hope for something “cheap and stupid,” like a memory module or different accessory card starting to go bad and impinging on system resources needed by the video card for the video to work correctly.

Good luck, whatever it turns out to be.

I suppose that if you eat out that you go somewhere where you enjoy the food and the company, if you’re able.  I don’t mind “fancy” or gourmet (though my wallet sometime resents it,) but I try to avoid places where the chef goes “crazy-stupid” with the ingredients.  If the food’s good, I’ll also happily eat at a “family restaurant” or a fast-food joint.

For pizza, I’ll try to go to an actual pizza restaurant if possible, unless the “other” restaurant has a reputation for serving a very good pizza.

With rare exceptions, when sedation is offered, it’s like Yogi Berra’s fork in the road.  You take it.

Andy is really not happy with me right now.  He’s dyslexic, barely avoided being forced to join a monastery at gunpoint, and just got stripped naked and spanked almost hard enough to need medical attention in front of a yard full of people he’s barely met.  And he also got disowned by his father in front of the same people.

I hope you get to recovering soon.  I’ve had one gastroscopy.  Since they were doing it to put a stint into my bile duct, I was knocked completely out for it.  I can’t imagine having to have one without sedation of any kind, or having to drive home afterwards..

76k in only a month is damned good, even if that’s on rewriting.  [jealous sigh.]

My ‘Potter Story’ was a ‘antidote’ to very bad m/m Potter fanfics featuring questionable erotic interests for Harry, combined with a well written Ron unintended time-travel story.  It’s also jealous that I haven’t spent any serious time working on it lately.

Lincoln Way was a “pantser” from Jump Street.  Remember that it started out as a “anti-spank-o-wank” one-shot where questions got asked.