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11月8日 One man hardware destruction teamDear God, don't let me near any hardware this month.
Two weeks ago I changed over my Wireless card in the PC. It's not easy getting into it and when changing over (for the 5th time to check the signal strength issues), I saw the fateful stirke of sparks as the semi live motherboard (ATX boards never really go to sleep fully with a soft off switch) promptley shorted whatever the card had touched. Bios trashed, took me 30 minutes just to clear it then get it to take settings. OK so it ran and seemed to be OK. That was until it kept blue screening out.
A quick check reveals that the error is a Hard error from the CPU which neither the CPU nor Windows can handle. OH bugger. I feel a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, Graphics card and some SATA drives coming on. She's going to kill me......
Made worse by the fact that I have two drives raid0 and I need to get the files off but I have nothing big enough to get them off onto. One new 750 gig SATA drive coming up plus an install of ll12 so I can get the files off sensibly with crashes inbetween.
Then of course last Monday, getting out of the car my iPaq flew out of it's leather holder having defeated the magnets and threw itself on the ground. When it was found and returned to me, the touch screen is no longer accepting touches.
I seriously will not even touch the metal case of the AS/400 at work. I couldn't stand it... Famous Last Words... againOracle "Unbreakable Computing"
MAC Community "Get a MAC and forget about viruses"
Oracle seem to have weathered the wholly inappropriate Unbreakable Computing claim and now it seems normal that they issue as many security patches as anyone else.
Just recently we have seen a new Trojan which attacks both MACs and Windows. One wonders how well Apple will respond to the increasingly hostile Internet world out there? We may find that Microsoft, with much longer experience, does a much better job.
Also I saw a comment from a Domino friend of mine that some script kiddie had inserted some javascript into his comments and taken over his entire website. So the myth of Domino being completely impervious to attacks comes crashing down... The Domino Blog template was touted as totally secure....
The reality of the situation is that Nothing is secure and the most inviting target are the complacent.
My PC has suffered the odd attack from time to time, but in every case it was this two legged living breathing interface which let it in.
One supposes that as the PC communithy becomes more homogenous and moves away from MS domination, that there will be more ways than ever to attack systems but the security companies will have to fight on every front, diluting their benefit.
When the regulators have finally had their way and smashed the Microsoft monopoly (that we the user community gave to them by buying their products exclusively), we will all lose again.
It must be a dim dismal overcast day and I must be tired today. (Checks outside the window, yep it's dismal, checks self, head feels like it is descending into the body, yup tired). I need some happy vibes but I suspect that'll be a way away. |
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