Here is an article on computer viruses for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Lindsey Giddens Staff Writer Viruses are running rampant and are extremely contagious. But these viruses don’t attack your immune system–they attack your hard drive. The term virus is used to describe viruses, worms and trojans.…
A quote for posterity… “It’s like the naked leading the blind.”
Ahhhhh… my VSU personal web page is back. Means I can upload to the web server all the work I have not been able to send for the past couple days. That goes for the real work, not the personal home page which I have not really touched. Need a picture for my desktop… would be…
Archived today. Back to work and playing catchup once again. Seems that VSU is interested in building a football stadium finally. I guess dealing with the local city school in using theirs finally got to be too much. Guess what? I get to do the web page announcing all this. Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! Those…
VSU email and web are down. I’ve been out of the office so I can only surmise that this is related to the Denial of Service attack on Wednesday evening. Very strange that there was a test attack around 3pm and then consistent bombardment starting at almost exactly 5:30 pm. Like the person knew that…
I love the Onion, especially for articles like American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie.
Back to doing real work. Adding a validation extension to the “VSU Web Authors Database”. Should email us whenever someone adds a record and allow us to validate them. Hope to write or find one to mark a record as expired if the date is old. Of course, the owner of the record can extend…
Hmmmmmmm… got some new DVDs to watch. Stuff I already had on VHS already: 5th Element, Tombstone, and Wrath of Khan. This brings my DVD collection to 61 titles. Have never thought of myself as a PC repair person. I have done some stuff on my own home and office computers. Assisted Andrew Otapski with some stuff. He really…
Interesting that the people that love to forward every email have turned to praising firefighters and bombing Afghanistan. This is funny! Al Qaeda to cut at least 5,000 jobs Sun Sep 23 21:51:15 2001 September 23, 2001 KABUL (Voice of Sharia) — Citing worldwide reaction to last week’s terrorist attacks, multi-national terror network Al Qaeda…