I almost never get headaches. But this last week? Monday? Headache. Tuesday? Headache. Wednesday? Headache. Thursday? Headache. I think it might have had had something to do with a trial I was involved in. Thankfully everything was resolved by last Thursday and on Friday I was recuperating. I don't know if being inside a federal court of law was reason I got the headaches, or if it was the fact that I was defendant in a ridiculous civil case. I will try, in the future, to avoid those conditions.
It is too bad that most computer users don't know enough in order to avoid the conditions that make their computers get sick. If they would just try to give their computers a blood transfusion - in the form of a Knoppix live CD try out. I am sure their computers would feel healthier!
eWeek has an article called From Melissa to Zotob: 10 Years of Windows Worms. It is interesting, not because of the trip down memory lane of the worst computer viruses ever, but it's implied message that we should have known better than to keep Microsoft Windows around. That drives me mad, sorta. Why do people keep choosing Windows? And then I remember, that most people don't. Just like Neo at that start of The Matrix, they don't see the reality in front of them.
It is when eWeek also reports that that authors of the recent Zotob virus where arrested that I get mixed feelings. These people have done wrong, I have no doubt about it. But arresting them is like arresting a symptom, when what should be done is to purge the system.
The information soldier is battle-healthy...
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