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If you are, you’re not alone. According to wired.com about 3.5% of all desktops and laptops out there are still running XP.

A new vulnerability may change that number soon, I hope. According to the article, I’ll link it below, Microsoft is pushing out a patch for this new problem and including XP devices. That makes this the first patch for XP in a couple of years.

The only details here say it’s related to Remote Desktop Services, but that’s about it. It does say that Windows 8 & up computers aren’t affected by the flaw, but no mention of how Windows 7 may be impacted.

If you dig around a little, and watch in restaurants you dine at, you’ll see Windows XP used all around you and, if these businesses aren’t prepared to apply the patch, it could be a mess.

I’ll step out there and say that I believe it will be a mess before long.

Check out the full article on Wired Windows XP flaw

73 y’all, K5RFL

Southgate ARC will have an extreme sort of radio event in about a week and a half.

Parachute Mobile Mission 35 set for May 25

Make a successful QSO with one of the airborne radio nuts and get a one of a kind QSL card to remember it. Details below.

73, K5RFL

From spaceweather.com, “Three and possibly four CMEs are en route to Earth following a series of explosions near sunspot AR2741. The most potent so far occurred on May 12th when a filament of magnetism surrounding the sunspot became unstable and erupted. The blast zone was more than 220,000 km in diameter”

Celebrate #SpaceWxMonth by listening to solar storms as they strike Earth’s magnetic field. What do they sound like to you? pic.twitter.com/MJdXHckgsh

— NOAA NCEI Ocean Geo (@NOAANCEIocngeo) May 13, 2019

If you are an SWL, like myself, you will likely agree with Off Grid Ham’s Article.

It’s a good read, and I suggest that you check it out.

Check out this article from Phys.Org .

Hopefully something like this can scale up…can you imagine checking into a net with a “cold universe power” modifier?

Solar wind commonly blows 5,000 to 10,000 times faster than a Category 5 hurricane, defined by speeds >156 mph. Learn more for Space Weather Month: https://t.co/vbjqK6sLii #SpaceWxMonth pic.twitter.com/WL3Pw5LrOD

— NOAA NCEI Ocean Geo (@NOAANCEIocngeo) May 1, 2019