Hip, hip, two slow omis...
Aug. 12th, 2003 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockSometimes, not very often, but once in a while, I'm awfully glad to still have Win 98 on my work machine. Today is one of those days. I hereby declare a pox on all pimply-assed, no life, don't have a girlfriend and have far too much time on my destructive little hands hackers/crackers out there. Jesus, just fucking grow up already.
On a more positive note, I finally stopped finding excuses to miss class last night and had a great time. It's not even like I usually put the two hours or so committed to getting to and from and during class to any good use when I don't go. Far from it. And Pye was being so angelic yesterday that I thought he'd be ok on his own for it. He was released into the wilds of my room, which includes a nice window view, soft comfy bed and new places to hide and explore. He seemed quite delighted to be left in there last night so today is his first full day in the room. Will he maintain his good behavior? We'll see.
Alyne asked us to show off our veil stuff last night for some new folks and it reminded me just how rusty I really am. And of course I'm performing tonight. That'll learn me to slack off. Oh and let's not even discuss the drum solo. Poor Alyne kept trying to boost our spirits, but the sour faces we were all making to one another and at ourselves in the mirror were quite telling. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy, it's the only word that really describes what we all saw last night as we ran through the moves. Right now I'm cutting myself some slack until I learn all the footwork, that's the key and if I can nail that I can let my brain focus on what's going on above the feet again. It's just so bloody fast, I still feel rushed and panicked at points. I keep reminding myself Princess of Cairo was the same way for a long time and that this will be comfortable at some point too, but I'm not sure I'm buying it any more.
So to summarize:
Pye= }:)
Dance= }:(
On a more positive note, I finally stopped finding excuses to miss class last night and had a great time. It's not even like I usually put the two hours or so committed to getting to and from and during class to any good use when I don't go. Far from it. And Pye was being so angelic yesterday that I thought he'd be ok on his own for it. He was released into the wilds of my room, which includes a nice window view, soft comfy bed and new places to hide and explore. He seemed quite delighted to be left in there last night so today is his first full day in the room. Will he maintain his good behavior? We'll see.
Alyne asked us to show off our veil stuff last night for some new folks and it reminded me just how rusty I really am. And of course I'm performing tonight. That'll learn me to slack off. Oh and let's not even discuss the drum solo. Poor Alyne kept trying to boost our spirits, but the sour faces we were all making to one another and at ourselves in the mirror were quite telling. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy, it's the only word that really describes what we all saw last night as we ran through the moves. Right now I'm cutting myself some slack until I learn all the footwork, that's the key and if I can nail that I can let my brain focus on what's going on above the feet again. It's just so bloody fast, I still feel rushed and panicked at points. I keep reminding myself Princess of Cairo was the same way for a long time and that this will be comfortable at some point too, but I'm not sure I'm buying it any more.
So to summarize:
Pye= }:)
Dance= }:(
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Date: 2003-08-12 12:55 pm (UTC)It's pretty rare (if you're a civilian) that someone ends up shot, hence wearing a kevlar vest (if you're not a cop) around everywhere seems rather silly risk reduction technique.
Computer worms, on the other hand, are going to get written, and they're are going to go public. It's fairly inevitable in the world of computer security. So applying patches dutifully is not a silly amount of risk reduction.
Worm writers, when/if caught, ought to be punished harshly.
And yes, people have higher priorities, patching is not easy, and patching systems disconnected from the main network an enormous pain in the ass; I'm well aware of this.
But I have (very) little sympathy for companies or derelict IT techs who don't patch their systems and then (gasp!) get hit with the latest turd to crawl out of the Internet gutter, like it was a genuine surprise.
I have a lot more sympathy for computer lay-persons who get hit by a virus or worm, but I'd like to think they could be protected by some intelligent ingress/egress filtering by their ISP. Maybe that's asking too much, though.