goats

[vin_petrol]

I SHAG GOATS!!!

I click on silly links so you don't have to :-) It's all jezebel_z's fault, although I didn't mind being associated with shagging goats :-) I've broken the link, although that raised a thought in my head. Is there a 'known', guaranteed web site name or page that will *never* be used?

Comments

[rainbowskye.livejournal.com]

You think I am clicking on that, Mister..?!

[vin_petrol]

You think I am clicking on that, Mister..?!

*giggle* of course not. I did it out of scientific curiosity :-) I suspected it was one of those auto-insert things, but it seems to be 'delayed action', so for the few minutes I was updating my own page it didn't appear. So I wandered off to do something else and *then* it appeared. So now my guilty secret is out. At least it's not in Russian...

Re: !!

[rainbowskye.livejournal.com]

I got caught by the 'this is interesting' one already (only I deleted it and did the 'bah' post instead!)
The russian sausage one is driving me mad..usually people put things like that behind cut tags but it seems to be slipping through on lots of journals!

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Yes, but do you use a condom?

[vin_petrol]

Yes, but do you use a condom?

No, I use Windows 98 so I'm immune to all modern-day trojans and viruses 'cos my OS is old and crap instead. Fast though...

[steer.livejournal.com]

I'm a windows 98 person myself and also in charge of passing on security warnings to the maths dept. I seem to pass on as many 98 security warnings as 2K and XP. I found a user still using IE 4 the other day - the machine hadn't had a security patch in about four years. It's a minor miracle that it was still running.

[vin_petrol]

I seem to pass on as many 98 security warnings as 2K and XP

Really? Eek, I'm kinda surprised.

Thing is, I've spent years sat in front of computers and been infected by a virus precisely once (and I'm pretty sure resyk just did that to me deliberately for a laugh - it was nVir on the Apple Mac in 1991). And I've always had a *very* cavalier attitude to virus protection, trusting rather to my innate sense of mistrust to avoid doing anything with files of unknown providence.

I *did* click on the above link, but I was prepared for the consequences. I thought it was all quite fun, although I can see nastier variants popping up very soon.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- I always have a pretty cavalier attitude to the whole thing. In more years than I count I've had one computer hacked into (an SGI indy hacked because someone persuaded me 'jam' was a sufficiently secure password and they couldn't remember anything more complex) and one under my control virused (bosses machine -- he never ever does security patches or anything like that). [The password was hacked due to a problem with a script standardly installed by an early web server engine.]

Mine occasionally gets adware or malware but it doesn't bother me too much. I tend to run my machines patched but as "open" as possible with minimal paranoia and have only had one problem on "my" machines and that was from doing something very dumb.

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

I've never had a virus. In the eighties I used firslt eight bit micros (mainly a Beeb) and then an Acorn A3000 for a few years. In about 1991 I also got a second hand 386 PC (it was a server from a company that had gone in to receivership) which I used to learn Windows 3.1 programming on. But my A3000 was always used for going on line (mainly Compuserve and BBSs) so there was no chance of getting what few virii there were around on the PC.

In 1994 I bought an

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I've never had a virus. In the eighties I used firslt eight bit micros (mainly a Beeb) and then an <a href="http://www.aceadvanced.org/computers/acorn/a3000.htm">Acorn A3000</a> for a few years. In about 1991 I also got a second hand 386 PC (it was a server from a company that had gone in to receivership) which I used to learn Windows 3.1 programming on. But my A3000 was always used for going on line (mainly Compuserve and BBSs) so there was no chance of getting what few virii there were around on the PC.

In 1994 I bought an <a href="http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1015>Acorn Risc PC 600</a> complete with the 486 second processor (BTW the sound card was wavetable not a synthesiser) which ran RISC OS (like the A3000) but also Windows 3.1 in a virtual machine. I sold the 386 PC at this point. I used the RPC ("Stormbringer") as my main machine until the late 90s (I still have it) moving from Windows 3.1 to 95 in 95. I did go on line with Windows from this machine but that was to test network applications I developed. Because Windows was so backward with networking in the early 90s I wrote a lot of my own utilities, some of which escaped in to the real world as shareware apps. Incidentally the RPC was <a href="http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~r_high/memorial/rocketship.html">rather expandable</a>.

In 1995 I put together a new PC ("Mournblade") but this never ran windows. It was my first Linux machine. I still have this one two as I continually upgraded it. Like Pratchet's axe it has none of it's original parts now (except possibly the mains cable) but is still the same machine. When I stopped using the RPC online I moved over to Linux. I also dual installed the machine at the same time but never used Windows online.

By the time I started using NT and then XP online I was behind a linux firewall machine (which was originally our autodialer for the house LAN and then became the router for the ADSL modem) and so virtually nothing can get in. I use Mozilla to browse the web and I read my mail on a Linux box just because I can telnet in to it and do it anywhere so I've never got a virus. It's not because I'm paranoid but just because by choice I don't use Microsoft operating systems because I find others easier to use. Some people hate Bill, I don't care one way or another really.

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

F*cking Javascript posting. I missed a tag out in the middle and when I used to do that I would delete the post and then hit back to go back and re-edit it. You can't do that now. It's crap.

There's a missing paragraph above which I include below.

In 1994 I bought an Acorn Risc PC 600 complete with the 486 second processor ("Stormbringer"). I also signed up to Demon around the same time. The RPC was my main machine up until the late 90's and, like the A3000 it ran RISC OS from ROM. It also ran initially Windows 3.1 and then 95 in a virtual machine. I always used RISC OS online except for the rare occasions I was testing Windows networking apps that I had written because Windows networking was non-existant at the time. Some of these even made it out in to the real world as shareware. The RPC was rather expandable.

[fritx.livejournal.com]

Aww man. I looked at the URL in the status bar (as I always do before clicking) and for one wonderful moment I thought microsoft.com had been defaced.

[owdbetts.livejournal.com]

Is there a 'known', guaranteed web site name or page that will *never* be used?

Anything with a domain ending in .invalid – see RFC 2606 for more details.

-roy