Welcome to Blackbeard's weapons emporium. You will see we have the finest collection of AK-47s, anti-aircraft missiles, and Airzookas. Oh, and over here we have wholesale zombie PCs.
It will take a company with enough influence like Google to really promote XML sitemaps, which could lead to a great thing... but what is to stop them from becoming like MetaTags where companies will just flood them with useless keywords and entries in an attempt to get better search rankings?
Here's an e-Mail that I got Friday that pretty much explains how my school, FGCU handled it:
Student Housing Residents:
As you know, network access to student housing has been unavailable for the past few days. We are working on containing and controlling an outbreak of a virus that has been crippling our network. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of virus traffic coming from student residences. We have created CD's that contain Microsoft patches, Anti Virus software (trial or freeware versions) and specific fixes for known viruses (free fixes). We delivered the CD's to the Student Commons building so they may be loaned out to anyone who needs it. We have included instructions on the CD to check for the virus, update the OS and install the Anti Virus software. Please install or verify that your machine has these Microsoft updates and has at least one of the Anti Virus software packages loaded and running as soon as possible.
We have restored access to several residence halls on campus (A, B,E,F,M,Parts of phase 5). However, we are still seeing a large amount of virus activity coming from the residence units we have placed back on the network. It is imperative that everyone check their computer for virus's, install the updates and install an anti virus software package. We may have to turn off individual rooms in the residence halls in order to be able to restore access to the entire university-housing complex.
Once network access has been restored, make sure your Anti Virus software is set to automatically update its virus definitions or that you manually do it the first time and then set it up for automatic updates. Please keep your Microsoft Windows machines up to date by using the Windows update feature, found in all current versions of Microsoft Windows.
We encourage you to purchase an Anti Virus software package and maintain your subscription to the updates. The university uses McAfee Anti Virus, however, any well-supported Anti Virus software should be fine. Many Anti Virus software packages can be purchased locally at various stores such as Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Office Max, Circuit City and many others. You can even purchase and download the software off of the web from the manufacturers web site.
The current virus does not affect Macintosh or Linux/Unix computers, however, it is still paramount that all computer users install, maintain and run Anti Virus software on their computers.
We hope to bring the student residence buildings back on line soon. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Charlie Weaver
Coordinator Computer Control Systems
Administrative Computing
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Ocarina of time at #2 and beating all the others in the series?
Rome: Total War is at #14? While Counterstrike is #71 and Final Fantasy VII is #88?
FFVII was below every other Final Fantasy on the list?
Thrilled to see Starcraft at 7, but no mention of any Warcraft or Diablo?
Welcome to Blackbeard's weapons emporium. You will see we have the finest collection of AK-47s, anti-aircraft missiles, and Airzookas. Oh, and over here we have wholesale zombie PCs.
Isn't everything Google still beta?
It will take a company with enough influence like Google to really promote XML sitemaps, which could lead to a great thing... but what is to stop them from becoming like MetaTags where companies will just flood them with useless keywords and entries in an attempt to get better search rankings?
I believe the biggest concern is that the lists of library books you check out will be used by government or other agencies for profiling.
Final Days? FFXI has more active subscribers than any American MMO, save WoW. I don't think they did too bad on that one.
Here's an e-Mail that I got Friday that pretty much explains how my school, FGCU handled it:
Student Housing Residents:
As you know, network access to student housing has been unavailable for the past few days. We are working on containing and controlling an outbreak of a virus that has been crippling our network. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of virus traffic coming from student residences. We have created CD's that contain Microsoft patches, Anti Virus software (trial or freeware versions) and specific fixes for known viruses (free fixes). We delivered the CD's to the Student Commons building so they may be loaned out to anyone who needs it. We have included instructions on the CD to check for the virus, update the OS and install the Anti Virus software. Please install or verify that your machine has these Microsoft updates and has at least one of the Anti Virus software packages loaded and running as soon as possible.
We have restored access to several residence halls on campus (A, B,E,F,M,Parts of phase 5). However, we are still seeing a large amount of virus activity coming from the residence units we have placed back on the network. It is imperative that everyone check their computer for virus's, install the updates and install an anti virus software package. We may have to turn off individual rooms in the residence halls in order to be able to restore access to the entire university-housing complex.
Once network access has been restored, make sure your Anti Virus software is set to automatically update its virus definitions or that you manually do it the first time and then set it up for automatic updates. Please keep your Microsoft Windows machines up to date by using the Windows update feature, found in all current versions of Microsoft Windows.
We encourage you to purchase an Anti Virus software package and maintain your subscription to the updates. The university uses McAfee Anti Virus, however, any well-supported Anti Virus software should be fine. Many Anti Virus software packages can be purchased locally at various stores such as Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Office Max, Circuit City and many others. You can even purchase and download the software off of the web from the manufacturers web site.
The current virus does not affect Macintosh or Linux/Unix computers, however, it is still paramount that all computer users install, maintain and run Anti Virus software on their computers.
We hope to bring the student residence buildings back on line soon. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Charlie Weaver
Coordinator Computer Control Systems
Administrative Computing
I'm trying to register my account right now... I just finished installing, but I get a 403 error on their site. Anyone else having this problem?