DISCUSSION -- July 2015 75-word Writing Challenge

[Luiglin]

Um, pretty please. Could people be nice to my over-sensitive spelling bump (an essential in the pedant's qualification exam) by spelling David Weber with one 'b', as in the original Deutsch. As I slide my eyes down this thread it's like a series of speed bumps. I've learnt to accept Honour as lacking a 'u', but this keeps rising up and clonking me.

Crispy you should try writing HTML and CSS. It really grates on me having to type color, center, gray etc

 

[marmalade]

Comisserations Parson , I enjoyed your entry even though I was not familiar with the referece, better luck next month.
As for the spell check in the comment box, I tend to ignore it and spell everything in British English, old habits die hard .

 

[Remedy]

Um, pretty please. Could people be nice to my over-sensitive spelling bump (an essential in the pedant's qualification exam) by spelling David Weber with one 'b', as in the original Deutsch. As I slide my eyes down this thread it's like a series of speed bumps.

Sorry, Chrispy! I did say I wasn't familiar (with Webber or Weber)

 

[Dan Jones]

in a couple of hours I'll be at the aeroport, always a fertile region for reflection.

Couldn't agree more. The perfect site for a spot of people-watching - and you always get a good cross-section of God's rich tapestry of folk in an airport. I hope inspiration strikes soon, Chrisp!

 

[David Doherty-Jebb]

I always find that, for me, with a 75-word challenge, the idea either comes fully formed or not at all. It's like the striking cobra attack of fiction: one lethal movement with the minimum amount of expenditure to create the maximum amount of effect. I'm not sure I've quite got the knack yet, however.

 

[Droflet]

Um, pretty please. Could people be nice to my over-sensitive spelling bump (an essential in the pedant's qualification exam) by spelling David Weber with one 'b', as in the original Deutsch. As I slide my eyes down this thread it's like a series of speed bumps. I've learnt to accept Honour as lacking a 'u', but this keeps rising up and clonking me.

No, I have nothing written as yet, but in a couple of hours I'll be at the aeroport, always a fertile region for reflection. Fear not, all challenges will be fulfilled (even if by what is not entirely clear).

Aw, bad, bad Telford. It's been years since i've read any of WeBer's work. Still, no excuses. Telford hangs head in shame. Walks off wiping tears of intense regret from reddened cheeks. (Quickly finds somewhere to hide).

 

[Parson]

Mad Alice: Thanks for the nice words. I have more than one computer and its the old one that's giving me the problems. I did run a new virus scan and did not find anything, but some files like my flash player can't update, and now my Firefox seems to think it is running even when it is not, so you may be on to something.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Mad Alice: Thanks for the nice words. I have more than one computer and its the old one that's giving me the problems. I did run a new virus scan and did not find anything, but some files like my flash player can't update, and now my Firefox seems to think it is running even when it is not, so you may be on to something.

I'm having the devil's own luck getting rid of a virus in Mozilla, too - it's a malware that opens ad sites. It's not doing any harm - but I'm doing all my banking on the tablet instead, just in case - but each time it gets picked up and I think it's solved, it comes back. My 15 year old computer may finally have had its day.

 

[Mad Alice]

I'm having the devil's own luck getting rid of a virus in Mozilla, too - it's a malware that opens ad sites. It's not doing any harm - but I'm doing all my banking on the tablet instead, just in case - but each time it gets picked up and I think it's solved, it comes back. My 15 year old computer may finally have had its day.

It might be savagable, Jo. Do you have your operating system backed up on a disc?
Pull all your files off the computer, and store them on two different types of media, just so you have a backup in case that virus buggers up one. Photos, writing, pictures, and everything.

Run two different anti virals in succession.
Then reformat your drive.

Even an old computer should come up shiny and new after that.

You see the trouble with malware is that it starts rewriting your code. One little bugger I picked up as a tag from a reputable site started freezing my keyboard and sifting through my files and trying to upload things.

The laptop would have been a brick had I not already downloaded an extra antiviral that I hadn't set-up yet.

Any anti virals that are on your machine are being recoded by your bug to ignore its presence. That's why you can't uproot it.

 

[Parson]

It might be savagable, Jo. Do you have your operating system backed up on a disc?
Pull all your files off the computer, and store them on two different types of media, just so you have a backup in case that virus buggers up one. Photos, writing, pictures, and everything.

Run two different anti virals in succession.
Then reformat your drive.

Even an old computer should come up shiny and new after that.

You see the trouble with malware is that it starts rewriting your code. One little bugger I picked up as a tag from a reputable site started freezing my keyboard and sifting through my files and trying to upload things.

The laptop would have been a brick had I not already downloaded an extra antiviral that I hadn't set-up yet.

Any anti virals that are on your machine are being recoded by your bug to ignore its presence. That's why you can't uproot it.

Any more news to make my day miserable?

 

[David Doherty-Jebb]

I'm having the devil's own luck getting rid of a virus in Mozilla, too - it's a malware that opens ad sites. It's not doing any harm - but I'm doing all my banking on the tablet instead, just in case - but each time it gets picked up and I think it's solved, it comes back. My 15 year old computer may finally have had its day.

I had this problem with Chrome, Jo, and the only thing that worked was uninstalling it and then downloading it again.

 

[Bowler1]

I think the Mod that removed Parson may have some explaining to do when they see God.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Germinad -- Deception is often thought of as a weapon used by oppressors. However, it also possible for the oppressed to use it as a method of liberation.

 

[Mad Alice]

Any more news to make my day miserable?

Parson, think of it as your hard-drive confessing its malware sins and getting absolution. Yes it takes a while, but the road to righteous computing is not an easy path to follow. It is beset by many trojans offering a quick fix whilst making you pay with your PC's OS.

 

[Germinad]

Running a Linux OS is the safest bet by far. I run Windows along side my Linux system too, but I would never allow Windows to go online, it's too dangerous, too many...erm... windows of opportunity for hackers! Periodically re-installing your OS is a good practice too. Also when doing important stuff like banking, it is best all round to use a boot up non writeable 'live' dvd/cd OS, so that there is no chance the OS will leave any record of your activity should anyone gain access.

 

[TitaniumTi]

I think the Mod that removed Parson may have some explaining to do when they see God.

That inspired some totally irreverent (sorry, Parson) imaginings of God considering the relative merits of lightning and ray-guns.

 

[Germinad]

Zeus favoured the bolts, but I can see a solar deity going for the rays.

 

[chrispenycate]

Oh, stick to the traditional smiting. If we allow these new-fangled modern autosmiters we might be forced to find a divine respinsibility for Bowler 'Lord of the Gremlins', or software bugs, or something the oldsters had no need for.

 

[Dan Jones]

Oh come on Chrisp, it's not that new. Surely an old classicist like you should have heard of Opensourceus, the ancient Greek God of universally accessible, free-licenced software?

EDIT: not to be confused with Opensauceus, who was of course the Greek God of getting the lids off Ketchup bottles.

 

[Luiglin]

Or Ooyouraresaucyeus... the God of Innuendo (the one the Romans renamed Ohmatronus)