Microsoft-oriented computer virus stories dominated the popular media in the past two weeks.

First it was the MS Blaster worm.

Then it was the SoBig.F virus.

Then it was the worm that exploits the same vulnerability that MS Blaster did, but does something nice: it wipes out MS Blaster, downloads and installs the Microsoft patch that fixes the vulnerability.

I was not affected by any of these nonsense, as has been the case for the last ten years. I use GNU/Linux. ;D

Oh, I did receive this amusing email:

From: Mary Dumas 
To: weiqigao@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: Thank you!
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:04:24 -1000

Are you trying to apply to the Executive MBA program?  I
could not open your attachment.  Please advise.  Thank you

Best regards,

Mary Dumas
Office of Student Academic Services
College of Business Administration
University of Hawaii at Manoa
(808) xxx-xxxx
http://xxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xxx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The school of choice for Asia-Pacific Business
Offering Hawaii's only AACSB accredited MBA/MAcc programs

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on August 22, 2003 10:50:14 PM CDT #

Overheard this on the ant-dev list:

I am suprised that there is no perl task at least on the core or optional tasks. Perl is very popular and run on multiple platforms. Do you know if there is any contribution group that provides such task?

Which beget this response:

For some twisted reason, Perl is not supported yet by BSF, only PerlScript on Windows (thru the ActiveScript integration which depends on a Windows DLL).

Do we really want to see perl in our build.xml?

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on August 22, 2003 7:31:46 AM CDT #