In the wake of Nimda I think everyone will agree that a few precautions need to be taken :
always apply M$ patches (who cares if they open new holes, as long as they close the old ones)
distrust emails from your friends (besides, who needs friends? your address book should be *empty*)
50+ connections in the space of 30sec from IPs in your subnet != good news
don't warn people that they're infected : they'll just send back an email containing the virus and saying "what do you mean i have a virus? i can't, i'm too l337, i run winXP beta which i downloaded from a k-rad w4r3z site!"
When I got to school this morning, I didn't at all expect what was going to happen. In History, my first class of the day (7:30-8:13) we talked about failures of government and chaos caused should anything happen. This eerily foreshadowed what happened soon afterwards.
I didn't find out till homeroom (after 1st and 2nd periods) about what had happened. My principal came over the intercom as usual to make the morning announcements (this was at 9:00) and then he proceeded to tell us that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
"Oh" we thought, and continued to 3rd period. Halfway through that class, though, he once again came over the intercom, this time telling us that the second plane had crashed.
My school is across the street from a National Guard armory with a parking lot that some juniors and seniors use to park their cars. The principal then said that anyone who had parked there needed to move their cars (as the national guard was going to mobilize).
At the end of the period (10:03) he told us of the Pentagon attack. At this point it still seemed surreal. The next period I had Computer Science and we spent the period trying in vain to access news sites to read about the disasters.
After this I headed home to have lunch and my dad said I should stay. There I did, and I watched the towers crumble, and the skyline be erased.
My next visit to New York will not be the same as my previous ones, and neither will my next flight.
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My dad just picked it up through a mail order catalog, and it's really well done.
If you want to buy it, there are two versions on Amazon:
this is the more expensive (US$56) "library edition" which i suspect is no different from this US$49 version.
I guess Macs aren't really any easier to use than other computers, despite what Apple says.
"In the computer? Ohhhh...."
PS didja catch the 2001 reference in that scene?
I saw the movie on Friday (opening night) and I couldn't stop laughing.
"Anyone could die in a freak gasoline fight accident!"
perhaps you're just an anonymous asshole with no respect for a culture other than yours.
and it's "King" not "Kind". Think about it : "Mac(k) without Donalds, King without Burger"... ever go to a fastfood restaurant?
i tend to agree with SilentChris on this one...maybe RTCW should have it's own topic, like quake does.
anyone have any more?
you didn't have to mod me down and kill my karma!!! i was agreeing with the second guy not the original poster.
agreed. time for some moderation, eh?
Do I need to say any more?
When I got to school this morning, I didn't at all expect what was going to happen. In History, my first class of the day (7:30-8:13) we talked about failures of government and chaos caused should anything happen. This eerily foreshadowed what happened soon afterwards.
I didn't find out till homeroom (after 1st and 2nd periods) about what had happened. My principal came over the intercom as usual to make the morning announcements (this was at 9:00) and then he proceeded to tell us that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
"Oh" we thought, and continued to 3rd period. Halfway through that class, though, he once again came over the intercom, this time telling us that the second plane had crashed.
My school is across the street from a National Guard armory with a parking lot that some juniors and seniors use to park their cars. The principal then said that anyone who had parked there needed to move their cars (as the national guard was going to mobilize).
At the end of the period (10:03) he told us of the Pentagon attack. At this point it still seemed surreal. The next period I had Computer Science and we spent the period trying in vain to access news sites to read about the disasters.
After this I headed home to have lunch and my dad said I should stay. There I did, and I watched the towers crumble, and the skyline be erased.
My next visit to New York will not be the same as my previous ones, and neither will my next flight.
I think it's "martial law"; Marshall Law was the character in Tekken.
That's why I drink tea!
Besides, I can't stand the taste of coffee, unless diluted (like a coffee coolatta, etc).
*BLEGH*
And hopefully by that time Cox and Comcast will have their new services set up, so you won't even need to search for a new ISP.