A
Four-Chain POV
Posted the last POV of 2000. She's
good stuff, hoss.
[MATRiX]
What did Santa see fit to give me this year? A nice fat
lump of that new-fangled MTX "supervirus". Those
unfamiliar can read about it right
here. Caught it x-mas eve whilst goin' all Snow King on a backlog of emails. It was an instance of my mouse
moving faster than my brain - the offending .exe file had been
double-clicked and executed before basic common sense had time to get its boots on.
I'm an idiot, apparently, and have paid the price for being
such.
Took
a couple hours to unglue it from the Station
Machine. Damn thing was smart enough to block anti-virus
sites. Couldn't even update virus software w/out crashing. Had
to roll up the sleeves and go toe-to-toe with the beast right
thar in my Registry. I hate foolin' about in the Registry.
Anyone
who writes these little virus programs should be slated for experimental,
exploratory surgery. They'll
Have to Make the Best of It, It's an Uphill Climb
Saw Cast Away over the weekend. Try and not like
Tom Hanks. You can't do it. It just isn't possible. Choked
a little at the end, but still worth checkin' out (about Seven
Chains). |