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1/21/2004: Different approach to anti-virus
These Japanese businessmen are holding a service aimed at fending off viruses and glitches for their computers. It's a purification ceremony conducted by a Shinto priest according to Shinto rituals.
Beestie Wednesday Jan 21 12:37 PM
Oh, for a minute I thought you were going to suggest abstinence.
tjennings Wednesday Jan 21 12:37 PM
Why not. It's at least as effective as calling tech support.
I was a tech for Gateway for a while. It seems that my coworkers had 2 favorite solutions. Format and reload for any technical problem. Suspected virus: wipe hard drive, then format and reload. Seriously, many of them could have been replaced with a recording.
Skunks Wednesday Jan 21 12:41 PM
I can't help but notice that there's an iBook in that lineup.
Slartibartfast Wednesday Jan 21 02:48 PM
Computers are pure evil.
Blessing it is just going to make it angry.
And exorcising it is going to make the little demon inside go away thus causing the thing to stop working.
xoxoxoBruce Wednesday Jan 21 07:17 PM
Same as the priest blessing the fishing fleet.
MAdMoNKEY Wednesday Jan 21 07:39 PM
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast And exorcising it is going to make the little demon inside go away thus causing the thing to stop working. |
wolf Thursday Jan 22 01:54 AM
I do this. Not a Shinto Ceremony, but I got an arrangement with the gods of communications regarding my computer and other bits of necessary technology.
(I keep a big-ass piece of jet on top of the tower to keep it happy, in fact).
A friend of mine used to keep her car running with magick. Stuff would break on it and start working again with the proper magickal encouragment.
Timeless Thursday Jan 22 03:32 AM
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Originally posted by wolf A friend of mine used to keep her car running with magick. Stuff would break on it and start working again with the proper magickal encouragment. |
-- Timeless.
Slartibartfast Thursday Jan 22 08:28 AM
Rabbi Offers Prayer for Web Porn Browsers
Wed Jan 21, 8:25 AM ET
Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer to help devout Jews overcome guilt after visiting porn web sites while browsing the Internet.
"Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my work..., so that I shall be able to cleanse myself (of sin)," reads the benediction by Shlomo Eliahu, chief rabbi in the northern town of Safed.
Eliahu, quoted by Israel's largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said he had responded to a deluge of queries from Orthodox Jews worried that the lure of Internet sex sites was putting family relationships at risk.
The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when they log on to the Internet or even program it to flash up on their computer screens so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake.
ferkelparade Thursday Jan 22 11:13 AM
| whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake |
(I'm a catholic myself, so I know what I'm talking about
)jinx Thursday Jan 22 11:49 AM
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Originally posted by wolf A friend of mine used to keep her car running with magick. Stuff would break on it and start working again with the proper magickal encouragment. |
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Jan 22 04:00 PM
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Originally posted by wolf (I keep a big-ass piece of jet on top of the tower to keep it happy, in fact). |
Slartibartfast Thursday Jan 22 05:35 PM
Saint Isidore of Seville, patron of computer users, computer technicians, computers, and the Internet... This sixth century clergyman is credited with creating one of the world's first data bases- a 20 volume encyclopedia. Saint Isidroe was an 'indefatigable compiler of all existing knowledge' of his time.
Funny, some websites I find say he is the proposed patron saint of the Internet, others say he already is.
One site had the recommended prayer...
"Saint Isadore to you we pray, please make Windows go away."
quzah Thursday Jan 22 08:45 PM
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Originally posted by tjennings Why not. It's at least as effective as calling tech support. I was a tech for Gateway for a while. It seems that my coworkers had 2 favorite solutions. Format and reload for any technical problem. Suspected virus: wipe hard drive, then format and reload. Seriously, many of them could have been replaced with a recording. |
On an aside, tech support is supposed to do the usually as quickly as possible, because there is no money (for the company) in tech support. Thus, if the hardware is fine, wipe it clean and reinstall. Now your OS is fine too. Sure, you could hack the registry apart, pulling out all the lines that a virus has inserted. You could reextract all of the files one at a time by hand, to recover from the damage it's done. You could then hunt down whatever it's executable is called and delete it.
This takes hours. Or you could simply wipe the drive and use your recovery CD. Much much faster.
Most people don't care if their drive is wiped, so long as they don't have to spend eons on the phone dealing with it.
Quzah.
Elspode Friday Jan 23 12:46 AM
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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce Jet?
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http://www.greatrough.com/rough_jet.shtml
Torrere Friday Jan 23 04:09 AM
Oh. I thought she had a chunk of ruined airplane on her computer.
I wasn't sure how having a big hunk of failed technology (which had possibly crashed in it's failure) on a computer tower would help.
wolf Friday Jan 23 11:37 AM
Intimidation.
Slang keeps his computer running by reminding it what happened to "the last one."
headsplice Friday Jan 23 02:54 PM
Physical therapy
Sometimes a little 'love tap' is all my boxen need.
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