Paragon wrote:

Another attempt to track the real-life equivalents of Otherlandesque happenings:

Crossbreeding Computer Viruses

I liked this bit...

Jack Clark, of another anti-virus company, Network Associates, says: "Klez is very infectious and CIH is very damaging. What you have in the end is a nasty piece of code."

Nasty indeed. Some how my dad got infected by the Klez and now Im afraid I'll get it coz he has my email addy in his address book..

*plays spooky music*

My poota is too young to die!

Jendaiya wrote:

I had Klez a couple of weeks ago.

*shudders*

Was it the mutated Klez? Or the garden variety??

Jendaiya wrote:

Hopefully just normal Klez. Hopefully. My system is clean now, I think. I hope. Ummmm, let me go and run another virus scan, 'kay?

*panics*

*hopes for a Klez free environment for Jen*
Try putting one that scans on boot up into your operating system. Im lucky coz my email addy is still part of Dads account and since getting Klez he has paid to have all of his accounts scanned from the ISP's end :O)

So free checking for me..

Binky wrote:

Paragon, there are several people round these parts who agree with my suggestion that you're an anthropomorphised search engine, like Nemesis.

How else do you do it?

Paragon sounds like a good name for that kind of search engine doesnt it... :O)

Better than Google or Altavista or some web browsing tools :O)

*thinks he knows it*

one day, the Xenodochium will be such an engine :)

Rimmersguard wrote:

*thinks he knows it*

one day, the Xenodochium will be such an engine :)

That too is a good name for a search engine :O)

Paragon was the name of a ship in Robin Hobb's books that Ive read. I only just remembered it the other day :O)

Fuzzanova wrote:

Paragon was the name of a ship in Robin Hobb's books that Ive read. I only just remembered it the other day :O)

I've heard this before.  I really should read those books so I can find out if I need to change my name or not.  This ship is sentient, no?

So, someone out there is toturing a sentient ship.  What can they do to it?  Haul it's keel?  Tangle its rigging?

Anyway, I think sharing a name with an insane boat is just fine :)

Paragon wrote:

So, someone out there is toturing a sentient ship.  What can they do to it?  Haul it's keel?  Tangle its rigging?

Anyway, I think sharing a name with an insane boat is just fine :)

They could always get Celine Dion to sing the theme when the movie rights are sold..

Paragon wrote:

*goes insane*

*Goes for a nice cup of tea*

Paragon wrote:

So, someone out there is toturing a sentient ship.  What can they do to it?  Haul it's keel?  Tangle its rigging?

Anyway, I think sharing a name with an insane boat is just fine :)

Yes indeed :O) I found those books to be quite original. And your name since you have not ripped it off Robin's book you are original too.

Fuzzanova wrote:

Yes indeed :O) I found those books to be quite original. And your name since you have not ripped it off Robin's book you are original too.

Why thank you.  Does that mean I'm as original as Hobb?