Windows Security Checklist

Here are eight simple steps for securing your pc. If you use Windows, please… just do it. If you’re at Queen’s, you can get Symantec Anti-Virus for free from Packman.

  1. Run Windows Update regularly.
  2. Install ZoneAlarm (Firewall)
  3. Buy and install NOD32 (Anti-Virus)
  4. Install WinPatrol (Anti-Hijack)
  5. Buy and install AdMuncher (Ad and Popup Blocker)
  6. Install and run AdAware (Anti-Spyware)
  7. Replace Internet Explorer and Outlook Express with Firefox & Thunderbird
  8. Disable Autorun.

The list is completely ripped off from Everything Hurts.

Will Smith said it

On of my favourite quotes from an interview he did with Wired.

Alan Tudyk played Sonny, so he was there but had the tight green suit on. We kept calling him – and all the robots who had green suits on – the Irish speed-skating team.

I guess it’s really the concept of weird Irish Speed Skating team in my head. Apparently, if he got recruited by MIT but wanted to rap instead.

I would have made a billion dollars and been broke by now. I’ve always dreamed of a computerized classroom. You’d come in and the teacher wouldn’t have to take roll – every desk would have fingerprint roll. They could track you from one class to the other. Computer engineering would’ve been the only way for me to go.

It’s weird, I’d never really considered Will Smith as one of sci-fi’s champions. He’s done quite a bit of it though.

The Final

Gonna head down to a pub with Alanah to watch the final Euro 2004 game. On wednesday when we were watching Portugal win, there was an old English guy, an old Scottish guy and an old Irish guy sitting beside us. When the English guy left, the other two started mocking his mannerisms, it was pretty funny.

Haven’t posting much lately, guess I just haven’t been around the computer as much. Been doing a bit of work on the Conform Project and getting things ready to go soon.