That’s why I waited until you cruelly cast Cunctato’s thread on parking out of the pit and into the bland and anonymous obscurity of MPSIMS. I figured you would be sated.
AVG is sort of fun, especially when the PORT SCAN ATTACK box comes up. I keep expecting geeks in pirate garb to burst into the room, waving their cutlasses, sort of like when Scylla invaded Afghanistan. Arrrr!
And it’s neat when the firewall and antivirus and antispyware all start beating up on each other, blocking applications and furiously warning me that one or more of my bodyguards has gone bad. Who will win?
Some of these cures sound worse than the disease. For instance, one band of protectors is described online as “Port Scan Attack Detector (psad)…a collection of three lightweight system daemons”. Is it really a good idea to have daemons roaming your system, sacrificing bytes and conducting other weird rituals?
Why bother me with facts. I was just trying to praise the man. Next you’ll tell me that Bill Waterson retired too. But ha, I have seen his comics in the Sunday paper. 
(oops, I though he was still writing books and articles, perhaps Scylla could apply then)
Would this make them Great Old Ones on speaking terms with Cthulhu?
And while I’m on the subject, what’s up with that. Why does “I pit the moron who parked across the driveway last night,” have to go while “I pit fast food commercials” get to stay. Both are formulaic short and nearly identical OPs.
Personally, I can’t even bother to get angry over a food commercial, but blocking my driveway would really piss me off. Shouldn’t it be other way around?
Listen, bucko. You’re not umpiring a whitesox game here, you’re moderating the pit.
I say set the threads free, and stop imposing your personal value systems upon forum choice. Part of what makes this country great is that we’re all free to be who we want to be. If some guy is all upset about tight sneakers, I think he should be able to get it off his chest in the Pit. Who are you to say tight sneakers are mundane and pointless until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes?
(I have no idea where that came from.)
I happen to like fast food commercials. Dealing with food and the media doesn’t that belong in Cafe Society?
In what kind of world do we get all pissed off about fast food commercials but decide that blocking a driveway is pointless?
If I wasn’t busy threatening this bunny, I’d be tempted to leave my old beater pickup truck in your driveway for a week or two and see how mundane and pointless you think that is.
(usually I don’t hit “submit” now)
What’s even worse is when some asshole pizza delivery guy parks blocking your driveway while he runs over to the neighbor’s place to deliver a pizza, except he forgot to put the damn car exactly into park and it starts to roll just as you’ve come out to yell at the guy to get the hell out of your driveway before you call the cops and it rolls over your mailbox and gets hung up on the broken post with the trunk still blocking your driveway and the pizza guy comes back screaming and ranting and swearing because he’s got a dozen more pizzas and a chicken Caesar salad still left to deliver and he can’t get the car free and he punches out the side window in frustration and you’re suddenly enveloped in the aroma of fresh hot pizzas and a whiff of grilled chicken and your mouth is watering so bad you spit froth all over your shirt as you yell at the guy to get the damned car off your mailbox and all the while you’re sidling up to it and you try to reach in and grab a pizza without the guy noticing but he whirls around from pounding on the hood just as you reach in and screams at you and you jerk your hand out and cut your arm on the broken glass of the window and it starts spurting blood and you shriek at the guy to put a tourniquet on before you bleed to death and he bellows back that it’s your own damned fault for trying to steal his pizza and what the hell were you doing leaving a mailbox right where his car could get stuck on it and he threatens to punch your lights out if you don’t get his car free right now and you’re starting to feel faint from loss of blood and you sag against the car and your weight rocks it just enough that it lurches off the post and the pizza guy yanks open the door and jumps in and revs the engine and hurls a last burst of obscenities at you and peels rubber out of your driveway and as you sink to the ground you hear sirens approaching and the second last thing you think as you slump over is I wonder if he realizes his radiator’s punctured and the very last thought you have as you slide into unconsciousness is damn I coulda used a pizza right now even with anchovies.
Just an “amen,” with perhaps a “preach on.”
My dear Scylla, this is one of the few times you and I have been in agreement. I don’t much care about your bunny rabbit but the Norton ™ program is a real pain in the butt. I laid it on a few years ago when my machine commenced inexplicitly E-mailing rude jokes and poorly written sex stories to the chief justice of my state supreme court. The C.J. did not take it is the spirit of fun. Norton ™ fixed that.
Now it has taken to announcing by way of a pop up window that my machine may or may not be infected with some malady named for a bronze age city in Asia Minor or a popular condom. When I run the program to hunt the intruder down and kill it like a mangy dog a new window pops up to announce that there is nothing to see, nothing’s wrong, just move on in an orderly fashion, BUT THE GOD DAMN’D RED WARNING WINDOW WILL NO GO AWAY. It just sits there glowering at me and announcing the imminent loss of a small life time of collected writings and photo archives. In order to use the machine I have had to move the offensive window off to an unused corner of the monitor screen. Will no one relieve me of this turbulent warning window?
Back to the rabbit, at least you don’t have to dig a very big hole and you do have the option of eating it. You ought to see what is required when you have a dead horse on your hands.
I have just seen the Google ads on this thread - touting the usefulness and necessity of Norton Security Programs. Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?
Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit…
It’s the one for “rabbit out repellent” that does it for me. Add punctuation as you see fit.
There’s also one for rabbit repellant at the moment.
AVG Free here too! 7 machines, no hassles.
And on the subject of the Google ads, I notice one advertising a program with the sole purpose of removing Symantec’s insidious presence from a computer. When someone’s able to make money out of selling a way of removing your supposedly beneficial software from computers, you’re fucking up bigtime.
looks at the forum. Looks at the lack of mods changing it to a more **
mundane, pointless* forum. Sighs*
Damn, I was hoping for some Chicken-fried hasenphefer. Damn.
Same here. However, so that some lurker does not rush through the web page, and accidentally install the demo version, here is a link to the free version homepage.
I work for university tech support. Here at VT, we run Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition. It works great, without being fascist, but gods help you if you install it with another anti-virus program or, even worse, with Norton Internet Security already installed. The resulting mess from that situation takes me 30-60 minutes to straighten out.
What I don’t like about it in normal use is that it tries to scan for adware and sucks at it. MS Anti-Spyware, Spybot, or Ad-Aware does a much better job, IMHO. So yeah, hating Symantec and Norton is a regular part of my line of work.
AVG is good. Avast! is another good AV tool that happens to be free.
I get all the same kind of crap with McAfee as you are getting with Norton. Just saying.
This may be pathetic. I have no anti-virus software. I own two computers that I connect to the internet regularly. I was a student at a large American University for 3 of the last 4 years and regularly connected to the network with both of my computers. I have never had any anti-virus software. I have never had a problem…
I do have a firewall (Zone Alarm Pro version 2) that I bought about 5 years ago. I do set my security settings in IE (v6) very high. I should probably bite the bullet and get Symmantic or something, but it just does not seem important.
Oh Norton… been there, done that. After a couple of weeks using it you come to the conclusion that the only way to avert certain catastrophe is by unplugging your computer and never using it again.
Which even claims to work on (evil nazi) groundhogs. Think of all the agony Scylla could have saved had the Board adopted Google Ads sooner. (The ad I get on that page is for Groundhog Out, incidentally)
[Elmer Fudd]Kill the wabbit![/Elmer Fudd]
Save Toby!