An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate may or may not be expensive. In my case, I simply contacted my website’s hosting company and they simply gave me one.
By the way, if you look at the URL (address bar) for any website, it’s the “s” added to “http” that implies that the site has the SSL certificate, as in “http” vs “https”.
DOW apparently does have the certificate. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Also note that there is a tiny padlock just to the left of the site’s address in the URL bar. If the padlock is closed, the certificate IS in place. If it is open, then NOT secure may show up.
Not having the SSL certificate really only makes for problems for you if a site you are visiting is selling something the YOU want and you have to give personal info during the buying process, as far as I know.
Right exactly, that’s why it’s redirected to the Square Store which is secure when you want to buy Premium or a book, I checked last night.
Morning All, I did have to leave for now, some woodgas possibles behind:
My barrels weather wall protecting my portable all SS/aluminum sawmill. Seen just peeking between the upper R.H. barrel and the carporter wall.
This 19 foot by 41 foot non-permanent shed-structure gets watched from the road a lot. IF I add the permanent end wall it will become a 4X higher taxable building. Adding a concrete floor over the gravel would trigger the same response plus an additional fine for not then getting a permanent building permit.
Anyhow . . . just 9 more months to say a permanent bye-bye to my birth dairy-forestlands county now gone just-like-California crazy. This big carporter will be disassembled and go with us too.
The boat? Melinda Wife’s fathers retirement 1964 lakes fishing boat. Only been ~$5,000-6,000 to new modern four stoke engine repower it; retop it; all new cables control upgrade it back in 2006-7. Then I would have been gone fishing 4-5 days out every week almost year- around.
I decided to do woodgas instead.
I tease my wife it is her Noah-boat for when the waters would rise up again.
S.U.
I have a boat that looks very similar to that. Got it when my dad died in 1999. Been sitting under a tarp ever since. I have it for the same reason you stated. Just covering all the bases.
Bought a new chain saw today. Echo CS 590. Took it out of the box and gassed it up. Wouldn’t start. Too much drama already today, so I stuck in on the workbench and I’ll trouble shoot it tomorrow. Some days are just like that.
We had a good day, today. Awesome weather and all the posts are in for the solar mounts.
One bank is up and powering the charge controller. I am running 100vdc with this setup.
I have tilted the bank vertical for the winter. Sassy dug and filled nicely for us.
The boiler roof looks like it needs a little lovin there bruce! Good to hear Sassy is puller her weight on the homestead 
Our 3 month drought ended yesterday
So far we have had 3” of rain in 2 days.
Rain is not something western Washington folks get excited about except to ask when will it EVER stop. But this one is very welcome
Just got done telling the wife im happy the rain is back, she looked at me like I was crazy 
I caint afford a new vehical, if i caint pay cash,i dont buy it, other than my home trailer, i barrowed 15.000 on the ballance toltal of 35.000. I just use thin tar on my rust proffing here and there, my old cars ware out before the wheels fall off usually anyway. :: 
I don’t know if anybody else subscribes to the tool bear. Does this thing every monday and I thought there were some interesting deals on this week.
There are a couple of places that were issuing them for free. The forum does not use SSL. I have a closed padlock with a red line through it. Which I probably -should- complain about because a lot of color blind people can’t see red.
The main issue is probably financial transactions, and -passwords- but that part could actually have a cert. there are also other attacks like sql injection that can happen because it is in plain text and if it is encrypted, it is harder to insert random garbage into the post request because it has to be decrypted and it won’t properly decrypt.
This guy has had a lot of time to think. Doing things his way…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUhZb60ABJs&ab_channel=FlatheadFun
Wow Paul! That one was right up my alley. How did I not find that video earlier?
It gave me a good chuckle when he was asked if he ever buys anything new. Nope! was his reply, but he emediately changed his mind and admitted he buys nails from time to time 
I liked the part where the video showed the bicycle. Then showed him using his charcoal gas powered truck rear boom-crane with a bicycle’s gears and chain in it’s mechanism. Vehicle battery electric powered. That charged up from the vehicles engine gasified.
So . . . add old bicycles to your possible collecting too. I do.
Popular womans attention here (Wife, elder Sister, younger visiting Sister, two foster girls) made me have to give-up on my stored back old washing machines and clothes driers. My mistake was not boning them out for just their guts and getting rid of all of that “white” metal paneling.
Steve Unruh
We actually do have SSL on the forum, but it looks like the http > https redirect is not working. Try this link:
Cody is correct that all financial info goes through the secure Square website, and always has. We will probably be adding SSL to the homepage soon, because it’s a good idea regardless. Certificates are basically free now, just additional complexity on the backend.
I entered it as https, and the padlock was clear for a moment and then got crossed out again. Very odd.
Hey Wayne, are you having problems harnessing the ol beast? Seems it tried to rear and tear loose 
Mighty fine bridge btw.
Yes JO .
The beast is old but still has a little life left 
Thanks, Chris! I updated my bookmarks.