Posts by andrew

unreliable source?

Isn't all of history a matter of conjecture.

I don't believe for one minute that someone managed to walk on water for instance...

If you read an encyclopedia of 100+ years ago there's all sorts of tat in there - at least Wiki has a sporting chance of being reasonably accurate thanks to many eyes watching and adjusting it.

This is the reason why...

I have a plain old cr@ppy phone in my house. Along with Skype and fandango cordless jobbies running from a powered base station.

In the event of a powercut we can still have a phone to use.

Sometimes a technology solution isn't the answer.

Heart cos I do it for the family...

Plasma Cutter should do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cutting

Used one of these on an old BMW (years back). Cut through anything, and what's more it sounds mad too.

Been seen before...

IIRC wasn't the Blaster or Nimda virus (as I remember them being called) followed up by a 'fix' virus that attempted to remove it.

Working for IT support at the time the cure was as bad as the virus...

I'd say that viral fixes (or even targeted as this is) is a great idea so long as a proper support mechanism is in place - as essentially who knows what's on that user's machine. And of course who wants to be responsible for supporting upwards of 25,000 disperate machines which are, by merit of being infected, utter pants.

Personally I'd keep quiet, watch what's going on and going where and try and start to find out a little more about who's running the whole thing. Then use something with terminal force...