Events:
The 1969sFri Sept 3rd
La Grange
Dallas, TX
www.lagrangedallas.com
Map
The 1969s
Sat Sept 18th
Opening Bell
1409 South Lamar Street
Dallas, TX
www.openingbellcoffee.com
Map
The 1969s
Sat Oct 16th
(afternoon show)
Bill's Records
1317 South Lamar
Dallas, TX
www.billsrecords.com/
Map
The 1969s
Sat Oct 16th
(night show)
The Cavern
1914 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX
www.thecaverndallas.com
Map
ARCHIVE
The 1969s
Fri Aug 6 2010
The Cavern
1914 Greenville
Dallas, Texas 75206
Map
The 1969s
Sat 7-9-10
LaGrange - Dallas, TX
with The 1969s
The 1969s are playing with Soulcake
LaGrange
2704 Elm Street
Dallas, TX
Map
Damaged Faith
Sat 5-22-10
Skillmand Street Bar - Dallas, TX
with Damaged faith
Damaged Faith
Sat 4-17-10
Basement Reunion II
Lakewood Theater - Dallas, TX
with Damaged faith
49th Vibration
Tue 6-9-09
Opening Bell Coffee - Dallas, TX
Solo Acoustic Show
49th Vibration
Sun 4-19-09
49th Vibration (Troy and April)
Camp Tyler for the Earth Day celebration - Tyler, TX
David Harbour
2-21-09
Anderson Guitar Gallery
Acoustic show with David Harbour
Kelly Keeling
12-18-08
House of Blues
New Orleans, LA
- Not-so Itsy-Bitsy Spide
I took the trash out this morning and saw this bad boy (or girl). From what I can tell, it's a Garden Spider. Some sites say it's harmless to humans, but others say they can bite, and they do have venom. But all info says they are not aggressive and the venom is at a non-toxic level to humans. It's very cool looking and huge. It's about 6 inches long. I want find a grasshopper or some insect to throw in the web and watch it feast.
r- The 1969s playing at La Grange TONIGHT!
Tonight! The 1969s at La Grange in Deep Ellum, Dallas, TX. We are opening for Austin's Jungle Rockers.
The 1969s - http://the1969s.bandcamp.com/
La Grange - http://lagrangedallas.com/
Map - http://tinyurl.com/28wa7rx- New song - Please Use the Other Door
I finally finished a song that I started a few months ago. I wrote the first two verses and the chorus back in in January. It was for a weekly songwriting challenge Rob, Robbie, and I were doing. (We need to get the rolling again).
49th Vibration is back to rehearsing and I wanted to add this song to the repertoir, so I wrote a bridge, wrote another verse, and now we are good to go with a new tune.
I'm still tweaking the mix, EQ, compression,etc. I just can't ever get it perfect I guess. As soon as I mix it down and listen to it in my car, there's something else that I hear that needs fixing.
Just to be clear, this is not 49th Vibration playing on this . This is me playing guitar and singing, and it's drum samples and midi bass. I hope to have a 49th Vibration version of this sometime soon.
- My specialty
- Ready to get the line in the water
Robbie and I are going to drown some lures after work. Come on 5:30.
- 49th Vibration
49th Vibration has a little life. April and I have rehearsed a couple of times and it's really getting me excited. We have jumped right into working on new songs (The Other Door, Walking in my Winter) and it's sounding great. We hit a few of the songs from the old set and those pretty much fell right into place.
I hope Harbour will make it out soon.- Even at 7:39pm it's still 100 degrees.
I made my 3 miles, but it was rough. Now it's crunches, stretch, and home for a night of handy-manning.
- Advanced Flash class canceled three days before it starts.
WTF. I'm trying to get my learn on, but DCCCD backed out of the deal. I'm very disappointed.
- Tired, but good run
- dead in the water
Well, I've had my car a year now so I guess it was time for something to break. Won't start... Waiting for a jump.
- Katie playing Putt Putt
Katie, Courtney, and I played Putt Putt. I dominated.
- Katie, Lisa, and I having some food.
- Work
- New running shoes, but still old legs
- Another run
I've really been strugling running in the heat these days. It's been taking everything I have to get through a couple of miles. My goal is usually three miles, but lately I've only made it just over two. I do usually walk and run the last bit to make my three miles, but obviously my goal it run the whole way .
I gave it another try today. It was 93 degrees, but felt much cooler. It was overcast and actually sprinkled the last mile, so that was really nice. I did make my three miles, so I'm happy about that.
I bought some new running shoes this weekend, but I did not want to wear them in the rain just yet, but I'm hoping that will put a little spring in my step.
- Arbor Hills kicked my ass: The hills, the heat, and the hops.
- Virus/Spyware/Malware infestation. How I got it and how I removed it (I hope)
I aquired a virus yesterday and this is my journey. It might help someone else.
First, I am going to use the generic term "virus", but there are many types of programs that do all sorts of harm to your computer that have other titles: Spyware, Malware, Adware, etc.
The program I picked up pretty much took over my computer made it virtually unusable.
StumbleUpon
I have used a FireFox browser plugin app for a few years now called "StumbleUpon". It's a program that helps you find lots of cool sites that are related to topics that you define. The program adds a toolbar to your browser and there is a button you click called "Stumble" and it randomly brings up sites that fall under one of the categories you have defined, and the sites are ranked by other SU users, so they usually are pretty good, and many times they are great. You also contribute to categories by ranking sites that you Stumble on. You do this by giving the site a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" (literally). Besides finding many entertaining sites, I have found many useful sites that have helped me out professionally, and expanded my knowledge on so many topics I am intersted in (Web Development, Design, Fishing, Photography, Guitar, Recording, Politics, Religion, etc.).StumbleUpon is not to blame
My point of bringing this up is that I have used this program for years without any problems. Keep in mind that the sites you find by using SU come from other users, so SU is not responsible for where you end up. Anyone can add a site to the SU index, and of course that leaves open the door for Evil-Doers. I just want to be clear that I don't believe this is a SU issue, or that they are responsible for my issues in any way. It's the nature of the Internet.A few months ago I was Stumbling at work and aquired a similar virus from a site, and although it looked to be a different site and a different virus, it basically did the same thing, and cause very similar issues.
How I got the virus
So yesterday I hit the "Stumble" button and the music I was listening to in Windows Medial Player" stopped, and WMP popped up a warning message about a file that was attempting to play and that I should be sure I meant to play this and that it was a file from the Internet, and files of this type can contain viruses.... I am paraphrasing.I shut down WMP and then closed FireFox, but it was too late. A popup warned me that a virus was found and that I should click on the button below to remove it. Then another box popped up that ran from my Windows system tray that said something similar.
This was all to familiar. What a appears to be Windows telling me about a virus and how to get rid of it, is actually the virus itself, and God knows what would happen if I click on anything in those popup boxes.
Well then the browser windows stop popping up. porn.org, viagra.com, adult.com, porno.com, etc.
My computer has been taken over
At this point I am trying to run my virus protection and spyware protection programs, but nothing will run. I cannot launch any program. Not a browser, not Windows Task Manager, not Malwarebytes, not Avast, not the control panel, not Regedit.........nothing.I tried to restart my computer in "safe" mode, but this didn't work either.
Re-install anti-spyware program
What I found out the time this happened at work, was that I had to reinstall my anti-spyware program. I use a program called Malwarebytes, and I had the installation file handy, so installed the program and ran a scan.Malwarebytes found a malicious program called "Trojan.Dropper". I removed it.
This let me now use my computer, but what I have found in the past is that there is a program that installs the virus, and next time you reboot, it will be reinstalled, so I knew I still had some crap to get rid of.
I found a site with some instructions on how to get rid of this. One of the fake viruses the virus says it finds is called BankerFox.A. I don't know if this is even a program, but Googling that term led me to some info that was helpful.
The site I found had a list of things to try. First was adding a list of domains to your Windows host file. I did that. This blocks domains from connecting. Most of them had "Spy Protect" in the title. I don't think this is the virus I had, but I added them, as well as "porn.org, viagra.com, adult.com, and porno.com".
It also had a list of programs to uninstall using the "Add-Remove Programs" function in the control panel. None of the programs the site listed were in the list of installe programs.
It then had a list of registry entries to find and remove. I did not find any of the entries the site listed, but I did see a couple that looked familiar. They looked like the names I had remembered from the time I got crap like this on my work computer. These files had the string "tssd" in the file name. There were a couple that had those characters, so I removed them.
Virus maybe gone now
I also ran a program called CCleaner which let me access the Windows "startup" folder. I could have done that without using that program, but I also ran the program to get rid of any other crap. I found two entries with "tssd" in the name, and also saw a couple of things with "Malwarebytes" in the title. I deleted those also. Even if those were legit, I knew I could quickly reinstall the program if need be.Still no Internet
All seemed to be fine at this point. I could open programs, get to the control panel, etc. But I still could not connect to the Internet.I then used a thumb drive with a portable version of the Opera browser on it. This allowed me to access the Internet.
Proxy setting in browsers
I then checked the proxy settings in FireFox and IE, and they both were set to use proxy servers. I changed the setting to not connect using proxy servers. I was now able to connect. So the virus changed my browser settings to point to a proxy server. Sneaky.After four or five hours of messing with this I think I am finally good-to-go. I hope. I can how go outside and play.
If you are interested in any of the programs or info I talked about, here are a few links:http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://accs-net.com/hosts/how_to_use_hosts.html
http://www.spywarevoid.com/remove-bankerfoxa-pop-up-bankerfox-trojan-removal.html
http://portableapps.com/
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner- The 1969s rehearsal
- The 1969s rehearsal
- True meaning of the Second Amendment. [VIDEO]
- via wimp.com
- Troy's NFL preview... sort of
Training camp is about to start!!!!!
Considering they won the Super Bowl, the Saints did not lose much in the offseason.
I was glad to see Sharper resign.That potent receiver core is back... Colston, Henderson, Moore, Meachem, and Shockey. And with Bush and Thomas at RB, Brees has all his weapons in place to make another run at the ring.There is a lot of uncertainty in the NFC, which works in the Saints favor. A lot of the playoff teams from last year have made some changes.The Eagles (the team that gave Mike Vick a "Courage" award last year) traded Donovan McNabb, so they have a big question at QB with Kevin Kolb.The Cardinals lost their Hall of Fame QB and one of their big-play receivers with Kurt Warner retiring and Anquan Boldin leaving.The Viking, much like the Eagles and Cards, have a possible QB problem with Favre still on the fence. If Brett comes back, they are right back in it. That leaves us with the Dallas Cowboys. I am admittedly biased, as I am a huge Cowboy fan, second only to the Saints. But they had a solid year last year. The made it two rounds deep into the playoffs, and they were one of the very few teams to beat the Saints in the regular season. And they beat them soundly. They have most of their team coming back, and picked up a potential star receiver in the draft in Dez Bryand. With the emergence of Austin Miles and superstar TE Jason Witten, Romo could have his best year ever. So it's on. There will be a Turkey Day Throw Down in Big Deal this year.- I rode a couple of laps at Arbor Hills today. It was only 99 degrees. Will summer ever get here?
- An all-star lineup!
- Endomondo Running Workout
- Endomondo Running Workout
