From The Sarasota Herald-Tribune website:
A computer virus crippled parts of the Herald-Tribune’s production equipment Thursday night, forcing the newspaper to print Friday’s editions without several of its local news, sports and editorial pages. The technical problems also caused papers to be delivered late.
We apologize to our readers and advertisers. Our technicians are working diligently to fix the problems that the virus attack created and to ensure that they are not repeated.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “No Squirt For You” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Their technicians are going to ensure that virus attacks are not going to be repeated? What are they doing, upgrading to Apple Macs?
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GREAT article on the struggle these PC weenies are having even with Vista and don’t want to admit it and switch.
Sometimes I think they all deserve each other.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2098770,00.asp
Windows for Warships nears frontline service (26 Feb 2007)
Everyone knows the differences between Windows and other operating systems. Steve Jobs has recently spent colossal sums telling us that most malware is written for Windows; also that using Windows is no fun and, even worse, seems to involve wearing a tie.
……….
In the final analysis, a working air-defence destroyer with its weapon systems live is by necessity a disaster waiting to happen, far more so than a Trident submarine. It’s questionable whether the UK needs this sort of hardware at all, especially at this price. But if we’re going to have it – and it seems we are – the kit needs to be controlled by the very best, safest and most predictable software architecture available. It’s hard to see Windows as fitting the bill.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/windows_boxes_at_sea/
Zune Nazi
Yeah, I play the game. Don’t know the score though.
(Ooops-back in the bag, kitty)
Also-my girlfriend works for a medium/small newspaper (avg 33k/daily) that has a mix. The business, personnel and circulation all use Windows and the creative departments-advertising, editorial, photo stuff etc-all use Macs, albeit G3 iMacs and eMacs.
Eric
WEHCO?
I read all my news on the web. No big containers to
take out to the trash. Recycling is a myth, I watched as the
garbage man dumped all the recycled containers and newspapers
in the same heap on the garbage burner floor.
Anywho just a thought –
TowerTone — WEHCO meaning the Arkansas Democrat?
And Eric — I was going to ask if the publishing system was from Harris Corp. I admin’d one of theirs at a daily in Las Vegas.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
Last virus I caught was after I brought that girl up to the room when I was in Paris last year. Oh, not that kind of virus. Sorry.
Welborn-yes
article here about Mr. WEHCO himself
http://libinfo.uark.edu/SpecialCollections/ACOVH/HussmanW/WHussmanDemocrat.pdf
RE “Recycling is a myth, I watched as the
garbage man dumped all the recycled containers and newspapers in the same heap on the garbage burner floor.”
True, but nobody’s fault. The market for recycled paper just is not large enough to swallow up the available supply of paper that could be recycled.
Recycling in theory is good, but in practice it often does not match reality
Reality eventually always trumps politics.
“Reality eventually always trumps politics.”
And Trump eventually plays politics with reality. Cheetos-colored hair freak.
“The full versions of the shortened or missing stories are available here at HeraldTribune.com. “
So, the virus “story” was just a ruse to promote their web site?
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