Virus'es

I get virus alerts quite often. I bet you do to. My WebTV doesnt have
enough IQ to get infected. But, today I heard of newun, called Elenor
Edge, or something like that. Quite frankly, I get amused at the
names of the various virus'es.......just lately, my sonNlaws PC, got so
sick, he had to take it to a PC Doctor. I think it was pronounced DOA.
Have a friend, and his PC, had to have a BYPass of some sort. He said
his PC, sometimes just quits, like taking a couple hours break, like
time off...He did say he could, turn it off and on, kinda slap it a
little,and this and that, and it might decide to come on.

<>haveAgoodDay-Bjay<>

 

I'm surprised! I heard that birds tend to roost on antennas and infect
webtv quite often...gotta call out the expert antenna cleaners for
something like that.

 

<>BJAY says..>>>>~~~~I get virus alerts quite often. I bet you do to. My
WebTV doesnt have enough IQ to get infected.
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THEN Brian says:<><>><<><>
I'm surprised! I heard that birds tend to roost on antennas and infect
webtv quite often...gotta call out the expert antenna cleaners for
something like that.
<>><<>><><><><<><><>><><><><<>>>
now BJAY says: <>><<>
Brian, what do you do when your real PC gets infected? I know, with your
$1000 Real 'puter, and all the "virus'' protectors, even yours gets sick
don't it?
I get ''alerts'', all time, but I just forward them to my 'puter
friends.....you see, this faux 'puter doesn't get sick, cause it dont
have enough sense to know when some turd has tried to shut me
down...along with all the ''fwds'', that cood be virus
infected....that's all I meant.

<>haveAgoodDay-Bjay<>

 

ah yes, web-tv.
because computers are expensive and difficult to operate.

 

Yeah.. ah well.. pity that the elite have to suffer the trauma of
"tolerating such nuisances" ..Bjay sure brightens up a lot of days for a lot
of people when he spins his homespun humor on this newsgroup, from that
"web-tv" rig.. Keep 'em comin' Bjay.. Always good to see you posting..

 

Two words:
"Install FreeBSD"!

I've never had a $1000 computer in my life...real or otherwise.

That's the best thing about FreeBSD...you can go find the computers
that people throw out and stick a $50 video card and a $5 network card
in it and you're good to go for running X. The workstation I am
sitting at right now is a Duron 1G. I have another Duron that's a
950Mhz which I use to watch DivX movies on (which is my most expensive
one just for the video and RAM that's in it). My wife has a 550Mhz
PIII that she uses to work on. I have two workstations in our playroom
that's a 450Mhz PIII and a P166. In my computer room, as if those
weren't enough, I have 4 workstations which are Pentium 200s. I have 1
server that's a P60, another that's a P100 and 3 servers that are 486
processors...as well as 1 AlphaServer. I have two cisco 2500 series
routers which separate the three networks within the house. A T1
crossover connects the internal and external networks via a DSU on
each cisco. Then I have a Lucent portmaster which is on it's own
network for dial-in/route-out connections. All of this is led by an
edge router tiered out and bonded to my provider. I've hosted other
networks which were low bandwidth and someone needed to just run smtp,
named or uucp from.

With all those, I still have a switch in two of my rooms which I can
hook up the other computers laying in the floor of the computer room
and under desks...to add on to the arp tables. With all the computers
online and everything working, you'd have to scroll the screen to view
the arp tables. In my computer room, when I turn off the monitors and
leave everything running I can turn off the lights and enjoy seeing
the blinking red and green lights illuminating the room. I've had
people come over and say "I've just got to see this computer room, to
see if it's real". I take them in there and show them what it's like
and they're like "WHOA, this is cool!". It's a trip!

I run FreeBSD on the servers and workstations in the computer
room...with one of the P200s running Solaris 8. Other than that, I run
either XP or NT.

But I've never had a $1000 computer.

I had my network up for sale a while back and several people seemed
interested, but no takers. A couple people wanted pieces here and
there and I wouldn't do it.

Unlike most people who would give you a hard time about it, I don't
have a problem about someone using webtv. I just like giving you a
hard time about it...because it's fun!

 

read Brian's reply to Bjay.
Perfectly capable older Pentium puters are readily available for very
cheap.
A brand new loaded Dell P4 running XP with LCD monitor is only $500.

Even an older G3/G4 Macintrash running OS-X gives you a BSD operating
system with very easy operation for those who don't want to deal with
configuring an OS and it's impervious to 99.9% of the malware floating
around.

Besides, dweeb-tv and AOHell are always on the receiving end of internet
poking. It's tradition. <g>

 

Speaking of "difficult to operate", do you think that you might sign
up for one of Nurick+Ass's instructions and learn to filter yourself
from tx.motorcycles? It sure would be nice!

Maybe save yourself the $200 for next year's waltz, because you sure
don't seem to get your money's worth.

 

You can put me on ignore or skip the post, your choice.

Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children certainly gets their money's
worth from the Waltz, over $60,000.00, and I've had a great time every
year I've ridden it.

 

Good! I'm glad you're into such charities. Since you're so "giving",
here's something that you might be able to get something back out of:
http://www.runtherock.com/

A 26 mile marathon from the AA Center to White Rock lake and back.
Benefits go to the Scottish Rite Hospital.

Since you can't seem to do any better than 547 miles on a motorcycle
in a day's ride on an "IB" ride, maybe you can last with something
like this. You might even drop a few pounds while you're at it.

I've never done the course they laid out, I just go around the lake
and up to Valley View in North Dallas and back. My course is a little
longer (about 12 miles) but doesn't have any streets involved except
in the parks.

My guess is that you'll start some more meely mouthed shit...after
almost a year of talking about how charitable you are and you just did
that waltz for the "charity" of it.

 

<><read Brian's reply to Bjay.
Perfectly capable older Pentium puters are readily available for very
cheap.
A brand new loaded Dell P4 running XP with LCD monitor is only $500.
Even an older G3/G4 Macintrash running OS-X gives you a BSD operating
system with very easy operation for those who don't want to deal with
configuring an OS and it's impervious to 99.9% of the malware floating
around.
Besides, dweeb-tv and AOHell are always on the receiving end of internet
poking. It's tradition. <g> anotherViewer
<>><><<>><><<>><><><><<>><><><
after reading Brians’ 101 The Tech of PC's ,, It reminds me, why, I
have dweeb-tv.... too many dell,g3x. BSD,OSX,
LCD this and that.......boy haddy.....
I seem to do okay, with the dweeb-tv, go here and there, save this n
that, get a little email, now and then, send out a few, shucks, I even
converse pretty well in this NG group.....hmmmmh.......And like you,
BRIAN, only have $99 invested, being doing it for about 8 years.....I
feel pretty good about....guys........cheerio

<>haveAgoodDay-Bjay<>

 

That's very nice but I've never been the track and field type. I hope
you can donate more to TSRHC than just the marathon entry fee.

As I've said previously, and you conveniently forget, last April I rode
the 500 mile/12 hour version of the Waltz, not an IB ride. The previous
3 years were all 1000/24 rallies which can qualify for documented SS1K,
as well as the 1000/24 group that ran this last time.

I'm not making any claim about being a marathon runner and never have.
Now your daddy was making bold claims about outriding others on
motorcycles. He opted not to back up his words when given the
opportunity to do so and ride 1000/24 in an organized rally. Evidently
his backing out on that continues to bother both of you, so you keep
bringing it up over and over no matter what the topic of any thread, in
this case, Virus'es. That's why I left this thread intact, so it is
apparent to any reader that it is you that switches topics.

 

for the vast majority of home uses, you are absolutely right. you don't
need the massive horsepower available to read email and do normal
surfing, except for some sites that are run heavily with Java scripts
and graphics or have hi-bandwidth streaming audio/video. The serious
gamers and those running advanced audio/video editing and cd/dvd
authoring proggies are the ones who eat up the processor cycles and big
cpu number crunching. the thing i've seen is that sites are getting
more advanced to take advantage of the general increase in computational
horsepower out there, and so there is a slow lifting of minimal
requirements to hit some of the more interesting sites on the web.
simultaneously, the available power keeps increasing while costs
decrease and it's worthwhile to take a step up every few years.

I have an old Radio Shack advertisement for a 386 with monitor and
ballpark 20 Mb of RAM for $2500.00. I'm sure it's a lovely doorstop
these days.

 

Here's another topic switch, wormy.. You still owe me.. The thread is
intact.. Your sleazy porn attachments, reference to my wife and the low life
comment about my son and grand daughter, comes to mind..

You've been invited to re-schedule any number of times.. Seems like you want
to ignore too damn much that you have spouted off about on this newsgroup..

 

<>><~~I'm surprised! I heard that birds tend to roost on antennas and
infect webtv quite often...gotta call out the expert antenna cleaners
for something like that.<>><~~~brian!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
It just dawned on Me. My wife is on line with a real 'puter, on MSN. It
hasnt ben that long, that she's had it, and I forgot. My point: I like
the use of email,10 times more on my webby, than on her pC. To me,
there's too much ''clicking' to get to the mail on her PC. (AND)
Ya have to read the email on a 15''monitor
(I think, it's that small)......and sit right there, within arms link,
to read stuff.
ON my Webby: I'm sitting in a rocker, about 7ft back, reading my mail
and typing this response, on a 25'' screen.
I can search, retrieve, and click, with a remote. I do have to type on a
wireless KeyBoard. I*'m just so dogGone use to the comfort in here, that
I forget we've actually got a real 'puter. She loves it.
Sometimes I have to send stuff to her, for me to go download, and look
at it, or read it, because of my webby's low IQ.

<>haveAgoodDay-Bjay<>

 

ROTFL.... There you go Bjay... I been tellin' everyone that I'm going to get
me one of those puppies.. You got the best deal, ol' buddy.. Wanna trade ?

Your friend in Irving
Bill Walker

 

you love to initiate insults, but you can't take them in return.

Those two friends of yours standing on Ector and San Jacinto for the
past few months were wondering if they could go home soon. They said
the accumulated salt really hurts their sunburns, their bikes are pretty
rusted and they hadn't heard from you in a long time. I told them just
to go on and not worry about it. They looked pretty relieved and
thanked me profusely.

BeemerBiker offered to let you ride with him and his son. It's very nice
of him to offer to teach beginners how to get around in a long distance
rally.

 

PUB CRAWL !!!!

 

X-No-archive: yes

I bet if you did a scientific comparison that a 25" TV, as viewed at
7', would appear to the viewer as smaller than a 15" screen at arms
length. Unless your arms were abnormally long.

--

Mark Johnson, Ft. Worth, TX
http://www.bikes-n-spikes.org
"Some days I feel like I'm limping away from the scene of a terrible
accident that left my youth by the side of the road in a tangled,
smoking heap." - Jerry Smith