Sayonara

Yeah, I had the Latinese too. What fun. "Puella est in canem" etc.

BUT IT'S SO VERY WRONG Really

Also it's annoying as aether should be pronounced as either "aye-ther" or "A-ther".

lol Good answer! I'm inclined (like you) to go with the Greek man's pronunciation in modern greek words. Reciting the alphabet in Ancient Greek is another matter though, unless all the classics teachers in England need hitting with a slipper. Actually, thinking about that...

Please stop saying "virii" people. A hundred million dead Romans are laughing at you.

Errr... I didn't ask about the pronunciation, I asked who told you that. The reason being (as I was saying to Tesseract before chopping a load of posts out of this thread) that in 5 years of being taught Ancient Greek by two chaps with pedigree classics qualifications, and 7 years of physics/maths taught by similarly academically endowed people, I never once heard anyone pronounce it "fee". I was just wondering what sort of insight this source of yours had. It did just occur to me though that the pron. in modern Greek may have changed. [edit] Also I just realised (after looking at the link) you're talking about how it's pronounced in words, and I'm talking about what it's called.

Whenever we find some previously unknown quality of space, the aether hordes say "yeah, that's aether. Told you!"

Yahoo doesn't support PHP afaik. Even if they did they definately don't support databases for their members.

No, Pi is a completely different letter.

Huzzah and w00tage

Search the forums - this comes up a lot.

Damn you blike.

Who told you that? I'm pretty sure it's incorrect.

Yes, autopreview can run javascripts etc in mails which in turn can launch attached nasties. Turn it off from the 'View' menu for the folders that get raw incoming mails. Iirc there's a default setting in general mail options too. It's a good idea to go through all of Outlook's options and turn off anything you don't need. And while you're at it make sure macros are only run on request in your Office apps

All this time I thought we were discussing why the average Joe* opposes cloning * the inference being of course that you have put more effort into your doom scenario than the average Joe.

Jenab, a lot of what you are saying makes good sense but it is not evidence that cloning is a "bad thing". It's more along the lines of "this would be a bad way to apply cloning... for some people".

Depends entirely on the browser and settings. FEED ME INFO

Biodiversity - it has an effect on the local ecology, no matter how small or difficult to see.

Cookies can be called remotely by images. Sounds bizarre - let me explain: For technical reasons it's possible to specifiy a script as a location for an image, for instance instead of requesting "images/pretty_pony.jpg" an image tag could request "scripts/image_vault.php?id=34021", where 34021 specifies a row in an image table that relates to the same pony image. This means that the script has to be called to find which image the number 34021 relates to in the database, then find the image and echo it to the browser. Since a script is being run, this means you can do other things like download cookies from the server the image is stored on, or grab information stored in URL variables. So let's say nasty-ads.net is serving images to SFN, they could use this method to deliver and recover cookies, which lets them track your browsing habits, common search terms, whatever they like. The solution to this is to go to your browser's privacy options and customise to: 1) Block 3rd party cookies 2) Block cookies that are not from the originating server 3) If you are really paranoid, block images that are not from the originating server.

The problem is e-mail in general. A lot of viruses have double file extensions (for example .doc.pif), and with "show known extensions" turned off by default in windows explorer a lot of people don't see the last extension and will execute the file. Tbh though very few people would know that a .vbs or a .pif was a common virus format anyway. Outlook is fairly secure (as long as you have a good policy regarding preview panes - turn them off in junk mail folder and do not allow autopreview of unknown messages). Outlook Express is a security nightmare. It's a complete mess - full of holes and really stupid about what it will allow to run.

When did you last update the virus definitions?

I thought you said your Norton A/V expired? My best PC is an AMD Athlon 2200XP... about time I upgraded that I reckon. Has 512Mb DDR memory that I always promised myself I would double and never got around to it... it's time I took the old credit card for a spin I think. 48x CD burner, DVD-ROM, dual 120Gb fast hard drives, 256Mb super duper GeForce 4, 21" flatscreen CRT, yada yada. Dual booting XP Pro and Mandrake 10.

If you are having no problems at all, then carry on. But the kind of attacks you're vulnerable to are pretty severe so I'd back stuff up to CD-ROM occasionally if you aren't going to monitor your system at all.

No, 3 people. We have 6 pcs, 2 laptops, 1 Mac ibook thingy, 1 rack server thingy, the gateway thingy and a freevo thingy.