Archive for May, 2005

the wonderful world of email scanning

Friday, May 27th, 2005

here’s a story for you.

once upon a time this dude went out and bought a computer. so he took it home and it came with a 3 month trial of norton antivirus. so he uses it for 3 months, and when it expires he decides he doesn’t want to pay to continue using norton, so he downloads avg and installs that. heaven forbid a virus enter this “brand new” computer so he makes sure that windows firewall is turned on, as well as norton’s, email scanning options for both norton and avg are enabled, and just to make sure that everything is fine he decides to get the free version of zone alarm and click no to every alert that pops up. ah yes, his system is secure and nothing will be attacking him! hey wait, why can’t he check his email? norton never caused him any problems before! whatever could be wrong?

it’s a sad tale that is truer than anyone could ever imagine, and i hear it at least 5-6 times a day.

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tech support vs the 1337 h4×0r

Monday, May 9th, 2005

warez kiddies always love to blame the isp. warezdeluxepalacecraphole.com is down, but every other website on the internet works fine? must be your isp. your wireless router connected 2 closed doors and a floor away is only giving you 70kB/sec downloads on kazaa lite? well hey, that’s gotta be your isp! and they always play like you’ve gotta be really dumb and straight-laced, like i’ve never heard the term warez before, or i need to have the concept of file sharing explained to me, or i don’t know what irc is. oh of course! i’ve haven’t been using all this stuff since 1996 or anything, please explain to me what efnet is! i’ve never heard of it and i need some 17 year old kid in his parents’ basement to explain it to me. what was that? you disabled your firewall and it all started working out of nowhere? no kidding, i never would have guessed. you’re telling me you rebooted your computer and now you can connect to msn fine? woah! that sure was hard! so norton has never given you a problem before, has it? there’s a first time for everything buddy. there’s a reason i’m paid to do this, and it’s not because i’m stupid. the stupidest thing i do every day is assume that just because you know how to renew your ip address without me spoonfeeding directions to you that you might have some sort of an idea of what you’re doing. guess i was wrong.

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just to prove that no job is ever really finished, i updated my heracles 2 patch today.

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

it’s a pretty minor bugfix, but it also makes one of the more annoying parts of the start of the game more playable (as it was originally meant to be).

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