The Red Brick Times

On the road again. Went to Indianapolis, went to Florida, now Indianapolis again enroute to St. Louis. New job? No. Wanderlust? Not especially. Just riding along with my buddy Byron as he delivers Lexii to and from dealers and customers. I don't want to be a trucker. Bumpy, very bumpy. Boring, very boring. Nothing to do but watch the road roll by and play with the XM satellite radio and the often profane CB and the uncomfortable air-seats that act like pogo sticks on corrugated surfaces. What fun! See you later.
Posted 8:25 PM by Andy (1) comments

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During my trips, I got to borrow time on a Compaq Presario laptop. Large screen, DVD, network connections via dial up modem, ethernet RJ45 jack and built-in WiFi. The hotels we stayed in, with one or two exceptions, all had free wireless. As Russ has noted, these unsecured networks can be hotbeds of cyber pestilence and corruption. Without something to give you tight control of what comes into and goes out of your computer, anything is possible. I loaded Zone Alarm, Ad Aware and Spybot S&D on this computer to give it a fighting chance. I explained and showed this to the computer's owner. But the next time he powered it up he forgot what I had told him, didn't recognize the icons and desktop shortcuts, and deleted everything I had added. When I pointed out to him what he had done, and enumerated the consequences, he said he only used it for email so it didn't matter, and that he just didn't care. You just can't help some people.

# posted by  Andy : February 24, 2006 1:30 PM
 
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