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Well thst's as maybe, but in Amsterdam you can walk into a coffee-shop or pub and buy cannabis, stroll into a bookshop and buy one-handed reading material to whatever taste you desire, and on the way back to the hotel you can legally partake of any of a number of highly proficient whores. There are not too many cities in the world which offer a person that degree of freedom.
Oh, and in the winter you can often skate on the canals, and at other times of year you can ride on the canal boats, and any time you can visit some breathtaking museums and experience some fascinating campanology.
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In my experience, (capital) cities are pretty much the same the world (or at least, Europe) over: you get some broad boulevards, some statues, some big monuments. One might have an Eiffel Tower and another might have a Colosseum, but it's more or less the same. Even Valletta (capital of Malta), which has barely 8000 inhabitants, has an astonishing number of churches and palaces, given its small size and the extensive damage during WW2.
Amsterdam, however, doesn't have an awful lot of palaces, let alone statues of famous people. What it does have, though, is a practically intact 17th century centre, and whilst there are extravagant modern buildings, they're all outside the historic centre and the early 20th century area (architecturally important, but often overlooked).
The centre is a collection of not-so-very-big, highly individualistic houses bordering canals, that give it more a look of a large village than a capital city. If you'd have to compare to something, that would probably be Florence, although the centre of Florence is about a century older. Venice has even more canals than Amsterdam, but it also looks rather poorly maintained, and it's excessively expensive.
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What sort of virus scanner quarantine files but doesn't change the extension? Even crappy McAfee does that.
Calling BS. Just push the reset button and start things up.
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Read the rest of what I said. The email never gets in, the connection gets dropped as soon as sendmail checks that the IP address they are connecting from is on the dynamic block list. No disk space used, no backups, no processing time.
I've seen the two different scanners config used. I've also seen a virus get past both of them when a simple, "Hey the IP address doesn't reverse resolve" check in sendmail would have dropped it.
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According to mainstream news media, "hacker."
Well, you see, Transformers has had inconsistent characterization right from the start, even looking solely at the original 80s cartoons and comic books. Shockwave is Megatron's loyal right-hand bot or his major rival for leadership. Sometimes Optimus Prime will effectively execute Silverbolt for failing a mission, other times he'll commit suicide over having harmed NPCs in a video game. Either Fortress Maximus is a guy with a remote-controlled drone named Cerebros, or Cerebros is a guy with a giant mech named Fortress Maximus. Portrayals have only grown even more divergent in the years since--one version of Starscream was a genuinely nice guy who joined up with the Autobots for a while and hung out with some human kids, and at one point Inferno was a psychopath who turned into an ant. So claiming that the Michael Bay movies get the characters wrong is more of a personal opinion than an objective complaint.
Oh, wait, you meant explain the "plural of virus" thing.
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In Latin? Virus. In English? Virus or viruses.
Virus is only ever declined in the singular in Latin. In English it's an adopted word, so you can apply English rules or continue using the Latin ones, it's up to you. Just get it right, whichever one you choose.
You can have an argument over whether this means you can use the -en pluralization suffix instead, if you want. I would suggest no, because modern English doesn't decline words that way.
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TRWTF will always be Bayformers
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Let me lay some statistics down on ye:
The amount and degree of trolling has a direct correlation with the tardiness which articles are posted in.
C'mon Alex, get with the program.
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No, akismet, this is not spam.
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I once worked with someone who insisted that the plural of status was statii. I winced every time she said it.
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At least it wasn't actually pornography. That might have been worse.
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BTW, the best way to stop it once it gets started is to kill explorer.exe in task manager.
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Made-up story imo. Windows asks you if you want to perform operations on large numbers of files, did the poor lad twit twice and hit enter twice?
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Go on, then. Set up a mail server with a few hundred users and don't scan the mail. In either direction.
See how long it takes before you get your server/domain added to a real-time blacklist.
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The return of Rod?!
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(Hint: That question didn't appear until Vista and Server 2008.)
Also, you have no idea how legal and contract billing works if you think you can't work for several companies at the same time (one on-site, one calling with an emergency, and filling out paperwork for another one), and still get paid. As long as you don't abuse it too badly.
As for everyone else, the disk-thrashing and memory overflow of doing this far outweighs any possible embarrassment at the contents of the picture/executable. Done it more than once on my home and work PCs, when they were XP. Usually you can either walk away from an hour, or just pull the plug and start all over.
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Good job ignoring the other replies to your screed, buddy, but you're about 8 years out of date. Exchange has supported RBLs since 2003. I can truthfully say that in ten years I've yet to find one mail server across any platform that makes simple tasks simple without making complicated tasks painful, so I'm no Windows bigot.
That's on its way out, sadly. Since 2008 they've been shutting down brothels and cannabis cafes, and in May announced that by the end of the year, tourists will be banned from the remaining ones. Residents will have to show proof of citizenship to get in.Admin
presumably he opened the quarantine folder in a file manager window
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I agree, Amsterdam is an amazing city for many reasons. I was just pointing out that paid sex can be found everywhere in the world, with just the presentation changing. I hope the 'live and let live' of this country never dies, but I'm getting old, and tired about hearing "in Dam you can get baked and have paid sex with hot chicks, and it's all legal, hurray for Freedom". I 'd like to see more people share this comprehension of what freedom is about things they don't do (nor fantasize about doing) or agree with for their personal lifestyle.
Something like "I understand that wether or not a specific person can raise children is really not my (or the government's) business to decide, and even less based on sexual preferences when on the other hand douches have the right to raise as many as they want".
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What a shame. The political position of the whole world is moving to the right, away from the concept of individual freedom and responsibility. More and more people seem to believe that the "general public" can not be trusted. This, in my opinion, is an unwelcome move.
No doubt the pendulum will swing the other way, but if the politics of paranoia is allowed to continue to grow, it won't be until after a seriously nasty war.
See you on the other side.
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Came here for the inevitable goatse reference. Leaving relieved.
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+1 for embedding Cornify on the "CTRL-A" text! LOL
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The plural of virus is...
Viruses!
In Latin, virus is an uncountable noun.
Saying 'viri' as if it were a third declension noun would be just like saying 'a bucket of vomits'. Coincidentally, in Latin, virus was used like "revolting substance".
Since we use virus to mean something entirely different in a medical and computing sense, we make up an Anglicized plural: Viruses.
Lol, the captcha for this post was "validus" and we're talking about Latin.
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Actually, it could have been meant that way. To queue something means to place it in a line, such as queueing print jobs. In other words, "queue comments" might have been a sarcastic way to say "line up the Linux comments right after this one".
I'm not saying the author intended it (only they know for sure), but just because you see it as incorrect doesn't mean they're necessarily failing at word play.
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Wow, I was the one who submitted this story to DWTF, many years ago. I didn't realize it was published until today because I submitted anonymously and I only browse casually. . Anyways a few clarifications for the peanut gallery. This was 1999, no, the virus software didn't rename the files in the vault, no, windows NT didn't prompt you before executing a file on clicking enter, and for the person who called me a "Moran" ( learn how to spell) but no I didn't have an IT person, I was the IT person. I was a 3rd party, self employed, IT administrator who took care of several local businesses, I helped them make IT decisions, PM'd their systems, trained their people etc.. But none of them were large enough to really need a full time person so in a typical week I'd work maybe 10 hours and got paid whether I worked or not so I was making a very nice full time wage and rarely worked a full time week. I was very young and very green, this article was certainly not the worst of my mistakes at that time, it was just the most DTWF worthy.