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There's a bad smell about this story.
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Yes, it stinks. But let's not jump to conclusions and poo-poo the man.
/ravi
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I knew a Major, who got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh! General Melchett, Black Adder Goes Forth
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I wonder if that is John's mayor? I do believe John is from Texas.
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Mic may not have been turned off, but everyone else was.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In lieu of flowers, please donate to your favorite charity.
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Holy crap! That brings back memories! Time to find my AARP membership card. 
/ravi
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Yes, it's everything COBOL was not meant to be! But like COBOL, I guess it continues to be used on account of its extensive legacy. 
/ravi
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I think it's mainly because no one has figured out how to convert the "database" into something reasonable.
Decades and decades of veterans' data, for instance, still sitting there in the file system. Even if we went to the front ends all being modern, all they'd be doing would be RPC calls to run M functions on the back end. 
Luckily, my job isn't to program stuff. It's just to point to something someone else wrote and say "Here's the problem. You need TWO spaces after an E."
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InterSystems have some decent stuff for getting at Mumps
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Yeah, we do the Cache thing, too. It makes it a bit easier to get at the data for external purposes.
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It has been years since I had any exposure to Mumps. I do like to hear about stuff like that still running and doing a job
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I caught it once when I was little, made my ears suffer like hell.
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APOD(Racer)[^]
Lame pun, I reckon. But it fits the theme of the day.
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Yes, we have been forced to the conclusion that McAfee might just be the biggest virus out there. Have any of you had issues like we are having, that McAfee causes about 90% of our PC issues (drive corruption, slowness, system hangs, lockouts while it does scans that aren't scheduled, blocking of reboots due to it's endpoint encryption, etc. etc. etc.). We are really, really struggling with this product and wonder if any one else is having the same issues. What are your choices for a better solution?
mvarey
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Microsoft essentials/defender/whatever the name it has today, and lots of care.
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Yeah, if you want to invite all viruses, spyware and malware out there to have their party in your computer. I thought people know by now that the essentials/defender is kind of scam.
They can't detect even the most obvious malicious code even if you show it to them.
The only place where this crap can detect/clean virus is in the published "research" of some "sponsored" computer labs, published in some "independent" computer magazines. 
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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I have been using it for two years now, and it did its job so far. (Here I set the timer for the answer that I know will come)
McAfee, as well as Avira, as well as AVG, in whatever flavor you may install them, are increasing your PC start-up time by 10,000% and are implemented as a pile of crap services that literally suck out your CPU. Never ever.
And you may notice I did not even dare to mention Norton, the Mother of all viruses.
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Rage wrote: I have been using it for two years now, and it did its job so far.
This is because you use a common cense when browsing. It was same with me, until my teenage daughter got a laptop and access to my computers and I got close encounters with all viruses on the net.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote: you use a common cense when browsing
Indeed, read my post, I wrote "lots of care", this was only partly ironical.
I taught that lesson to my MIL once by formatting her computer after she got it infected by a "you won the lottery - click on that attached executable" email.
[quote] "Sorry, this is the only solution. I told you to be careful." [/quote]
I told her only two weeks later that she did not lose all her pictures (I backed them up) *evil grin*
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Deyan Georgiev wrote: until my teenage daughter got a laptop and access to my computers and I got close encounters with all viruses on the net
For that use case : Try a virtual machine to run the browser.
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If someone else who you know isn't careful is on your computer - virtual machine is the way to go for anything they need. That is non-negotiable with my computer.
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no need for common sense (most people lack it while surfing online) ,just don't use the computer as administrator and never give administrator rights to teenage daughter.
If admin authentication pop-up appears when surfing websites or opening email, something is fishy.
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