I remember those, especially the polymorphic viruses.
edit :
Ran across the following viruses in my career :
Stoned
Fumble
Cascade
The KAK virus
Sasser
Original cryptolocker (luckily backups saved the day)
There may be others, but I can’t recall at the moment.
You know, I thought a lot about AI art. And I have to say that I wouldn’t have paid a dime for any of the images I’ve done on AI. I just wouldn’t have art of my Artificer gnome’s mystical 3d printer with extra crystals. And I’m good with that.
I have also bought art at the Artists Row at GenCon and paid for a couple pieces online. What’s interesting is that companies are fine paying someone to sit and fiddle with an AI image generator for days instead of paying for actual art. Does this mean that art has a consumption cost that is too high for some people to deal with?
Deniz Burnham is a drilling engineer based in Alaska, as well as a lieutenant in the US Navy. She continues to serve in the Navy Reserves and has spent the last decade working in the energy sector, with experience living on oil rigs in the Arctic.
Neil Patrick Harris is the new spokesperson for Ryze Mushroom Coffee. We need to get word to him that touting the benefits of cordyceps is not necessarily a good thing.
Now that I’m starting a new knife sharpening business at the market every weekend, I’m looking for a new job title.
I’m not sure I’m going with Edge Lord.
The Ovation network has a couple of TV shows I like, so I’ve been watching it more frequently. Leverage on Sunday and Tuesday nights, mostly. The commercials for their programming kept reminding me of A&E, making me wonder if Ovation was taking over for A&E.
The answer is yes. A&E is doing an MTV and is moving away from their namesake subject of “Arts & Entertainment”. Reality TV, crime TV, police TV and wrestling is their current lineup. They might just as well rename the network to “E&” for “Entertainment and whatever”.
Well, that was interesting. I get home, turn on the monitor and I see a blue screen with a DOS-looking “Enter your password” box. Uh, no. Hard power down and boot. Windows starts updating itself.
So far, nothing seems out of the ordinary, other than I now have Copilot and it looks like Cortana re-installed itself. Not exactly filling me with confidence that it forced an update when I specifically had updates pause, and I’ve lost the text files and graphic files I had open but hadn’t saved yet.
Update: Now I have to go searching for where three text files are that I did save. I don’t have a “research for CoG” folder so I put them in what I thought was a good spot. I will have to start using LibreOffice Writer for my note-taking so that when Windows forces a shutdown like this, I can use LO’s document recovery function.
Excuse me while I set the default program for text files from Notepad to EditPad Lite. It has an auto-recover feature.
Notepad++ FTW.
And this is why most of us hate automatic (enforced) updates, because It Tends To Break Things.
Hope you recovered from this Charlie Foxtrot and that your data is safe.
Which means I have to speed up my efforts on my retrocomputer thingy…
Oh hey, look who found his way back. Me!
Good to see you! What’s been going on in your life lately?
Yay! Noms is back!
does happy dance
/me wonders if Noms have a youtube channel…
It’s nice to be back 
@Ook hello! I don’t have a YouTube, not sure really what it’d be about besides the philosophy of survival…
@Nabiki things have been interesting; probably the best way to put it politely and succinctly is a CPTSD diagnosis and recently celebrating a year free from certain A Class narcotics.
The Noms who existed before Covidageddon is getting back on his paws. Older, wiser, grumpier 
While you were away, I created a Discord serverer for CoG, and you can access it here : Chronicles of George
Hope to see you there!
I’m glad you’re getting back on your feet. I hope you’re getting all the support and help you need. We’re here for some support if you need it!
Having 5 1 5 0 tattooed across your knuckles…well, that’s definitely a choice.
Ook > Hope you recovered from this Charlie Foxtrot and that your data is safe.
I got back the critical stuff, but wouldn’t you know? I get done with my latest round of MW5:Mercs, start to check on other things and the entire computer freezes. Happened a few times before, so I’m wondering if I’ve been stressing the video card too much and too often. GPU will hit 99% during some of the more intensive processes because while the game’s running, it’s also driving three other monitors. Just as standard desktop extensions, not a multi-screen BattleMech cockpit display.
But this time when Windows gets around to showing the BSOD with its “Watchdog Violation” as the reason, it’s followed by a Windows update.
Translation: Windows crashed because it was trying to start a forced update.
I mean, it’s a good album, but not that good.
Server 2016 using a Server 2012 RAID driver is asking for trouble - bluescreens galore.
Trying to repurpose old hardware is fun. At least I got an ISO of Server2012 from the Internet Archive… am sure I will succeed.
Will also be trying out openSuSE etc on said hardware - want to repurpose an old server as a NAS.
Now I don’t feel quite so put out that the birds are removing what they don’t like from the feeders and letting it fall to the grass. The squirrels are starting to forage in the grass and they’re finding at least some of it to their liking, so it’s not completely going to waste.
I had thought about putting concrete pavers around the feeder pole so it would be easier to vacuum up the unwanted seed and put it back in the feeder.