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Perhaps because this site is correct?
If you visit the site, don't miss the picture of just a small part of the result of "god's" actions....

http://spl.haxial.net/viruses.html

Virii are based on flaws in the system that the common user doesn't know about but that doesn't stop them from spreading.

Actually, 'virii' is based on flaws in understanding the English language that common users don't know about. But that doesn't stop it from spreading...

http://spl.haxial.net/viruses.html

Reminds me of this editorial on the G5's testing by Veritest. http://spl.haxial.net/apple-powermac-G5/

20240/2200 = 9.2 Gflops/CPU max for Virginia Tech.
2048/256 = 8 Gflops/CPU max for UCLA.

Gee, I was off by 1.2Gflops/CPU.

Maybe YOU should't be such a delusional apple fanboy, and notice that even using virginia tech's numbers, 35 Gflops/xserve = 1.9*9.2*2. Notice the 1.9 in there, that would seem to indicate that a dual xserve does not get 35 Glfops, and that apple lied about 8.3 Gflops/CPU.

And there still is the matter of an dual xserve being 2/3 as slow as a 3ghz dual p4, while costing twice as much.http://spl.haxial.net/apple-powermac-G5/

The correct link is http://spl.haxial.net/apple-powermac-G5/ where it does document Apple's blatent lies.

Wrong, in no way is virii EVER correct. Notice the extra "i"? Is it actually "virius"? Have you recently checked the statii on your projects?

One could then excuse oneself by saying "viri" but that is already a Latin word -- for "men".

A sibling to your comment posted another good link: allow me to redund* http://spl.haxial.net/viruses.html

Note there that the dictionary includes "emoticon" and "smiley" but does not include virii - however viruses is there as a plural form. So the dictionary is evolving along with the language.

If you want to slog through the whole Tom Christiansen article, you'll actually see that in Latin, there IS no plural for virus.

* little joke there

VIRUSES

Were the GPL ever to be the subject of a legal battle, it would be ripped to shreds. There are other licenses available (or you can always have a lawyer draft one for you), but sooner or later, I think the GPL's poor wording is going to kick us in the butt.

FYI: Viruses

There is no such word as 'virii'

Dear Ikeme Otobamo,

Your story has touched my heart, and I am willing to help you get into possession of your so deserved stock sales. In the past I have been successfully helping persons that were in a similar position as yours, you can find a reference here.

My only condition is that you accept to add the Kdentu X11 interface to your Linux distribution as an option to Gnombolo.

I have provided a picture of my passport, as I appreciate you want to know who you are dealing with.

My friend, I expect to be hearing from you.

Sincerely,
JT Kirk

Dear Ikeme Otobamo,

Your story has touched my heart, and I am willing to help you get into possession of your so deserved stock sales. In the past I have been successfully helping persons that were in a similar position as yours, you can find a reference here.

My only condition is that you accept to add the Kdentu X11 interface to your Linux distribution as an option to Gnombolo.

I have provided a picture of my passport, as I appreciate you want to know who you are dealing with.

My friend, I expect to be hearing from you.

Sincerely,
JT Kirk

I know you were probably joking, but I thought I should point out this.

Of course, if you don't trust that website, how about ZDNet or even compare the numbers yourself. There's Veritest's Apple numbers, versus the offical published numbers from SPEC. There's also this site which goes into detail about the benchmark. They used -ffast-math on PPC, but not on x86, for instance. They explicitly turned off hyperthreading, which obviously hurt the Dell machine during the MP tests.

Then again, as the old saying goes, there's three types of lies. Lies, damn lies and benchmarks.

• Websites Fighting the Nigerian Scam/419
• Nigerian Advance Fee Scam
• US Secret Service on 419
• Break The Chain
• 419 Coalition (as noted in the article)

• 419 Eater
• Scam Joke Page
• ScamOrama
• the spam letters
• spl's soapbox

Slashdot | Apple Hardware VP Defends Benchmarks

spl is an idiot and known Mac community troll. Proof for the idiot part can be found here.

Oh, and here is what Luxology had to say benchmarkwise ...

However, their scores were inconsistent, even with the index scores stated by the SPEC folks.

...but all the studying of virii and attacks will become more useful.

Well, nothing can beat the guy who played with the scammer by posing as James T. Kirk, including a fake passport!

Well, nothing can beat the guy who played with the scammer by posing as James T. Kirk, including a fake passport!

The funniest Nigeria 419 scam of all time ?!

This was featured on slashdot a while back by another user on Slashdot Sunny Dubey

IMHO, it's the best one ever; without selling any punches, it ends in bloodshed :-)...