Sorry I Didn't Make It To The Club... -Sunday, February 01, 2004 -5:37 am-
...I was off practicing electromancy and becoming... well, tired mainly. Mich and I went to take Mary out for a while tonight before I went off to the club for the second night in a row. While we were being deafened at Scottie's, she mentioned that she needed my to come by and install ZoneAlarm. I remembered doing this recently, and I was a bit confused. Turns out she got a new laptop (the lucky bitch). Her new toy is a Sony Vaio PCG-V505DX (Picture). After finishing our drinks, we went back to Mary's house so I could pop her computer's cherry (it had come out of the box and onto the charger and she never booted it, I don't get it). the thing is god damn tiny. I've never felt like my PBG415" was huge before. On a stupid note, the 60GB HDD in it is formatted into a 5GB recovery partition, a 15GB C: and a 35GB D:. WTF is that shit? That's severely stupid with how quickly the system drive bloats. I'm going to have to ask someone how to get the whole My Documents\ tree onto D: without pissing off Windows. On a stupider note, it came with XP Home. I happened to have ZoneAlarm on my thumb so I got that up and running and then worked her through setup and WindowsUpdate. By the time I was done, it was about 2am, and the club was unappealing. I managed to get Mich and myself up off the couch at the same time and we headed home.
With the new month turning over, I was anxious to see how the stats package I'm running would cope. Thankfully, it's stateful and is perfectly ok with the old log files going away. Nicely, it also stores the results by month (with the option to sum them into year) so that the bad data created by setup and testing are now out of the picture. Now, some of you out there are scaring me.
For one, a lot of you are running old versions of Internet Explorer. This is really, really bad. Not patching and upgrading to the most recent version of Internet Explorer is irresponsible, it's the computer equivalent of walking around with waving a sword. Eventually, someone's arm is going to come off. Second, Internet Explorer of any any version has become unsafe. I'm serious this time, this isn't just the typical MS sucks line you hear out of me. If you don't feel like reading the article, it boils down to any website can get Internet Explorer to run any program it feels like on your computer without ever asking you. This is different than the traditional Spyware and Adware in which you had to be stupid and click yes to get infected. With this newly discovered hole, you get infected merely by loading the webpage. Once you've viewed the page, everything is possible. Anything stored on your computer is vulnerable. Banking history, account numbers, your address and other data people can use to steal your identity, your BuckID number, your drivers license number. Anything you've ever typed on into your computer, any personal data (bank account) you've ever viewed on the computer, could be stolen. Or it could just as easily all be erased. Please, please, switch to another web browser. Any other web browser. This is so important I'll even help you do it. I suggest a browser from the Mozilla Project. I, myself, use Mozilla Firebird because it's small, fast, and works well. Netscape and Opera are also options. Just switch, please.
The other reason the statistical results are scaring me is the search terms some of you are using to arrive here. For god's sake, I don't want to know why you were searching for Sawtooth Lap Dance, Duck Tape Party, and Roxy Hart Naked iSight -rugby. If you are responsible for any of this, please seek professional help immediately.
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