No sweat, Shane. "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with BS"... ..I know; it's hard to tell when I'm applying what (beat ya to it, didn't I Greg?)... Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison http://isatools.org Read the help, books and articles! ----- Original Message ----- From: "shane mullins" <tsmullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:59 Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know http://www.ISAserver.org Thanks for all the help in the past Jim, that is pretty funny. Shane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 2:15 PM Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know > http://www.ISAserver.org > > Speaking of phonetics, you've no doubt heard of the "Ebonics as a recognized > language" suit that came out of California a couple of years ago? > > Well, it appears that the Seattle Gay & Lesbian groups are following their > lead. > They've petitioned the courts to recognize Gaelic as their "official" > language (say it out loud). > Apparently, you have to be a certified cunnilinguist to teach it... > > > Jim Harrison > MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG > http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver > http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison > http://isatools.org > > Read the help, books and articles! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William Robertson" <robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 09:55 > Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know > > > http://www.ISAserver.org > > Well, I was going to try and defend my language skills, but Paul just said > it so well... Thanks Paul. > > Not from the western continents are we?!?!? Well can't blame them really as > Microsoft doesn't seem to cater for it either. Regardless of the dictionary > you use, MS Word still thinks Virii is not valid. > > Well, tomato, tomaatoe, potato, potaatoe (sorry, phonetics doesn't carry > well in the written form) > > Cheers > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Nuernberger [mailto:pen@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 30 October 2003 17:47 PM > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] > Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know > > http://www.ISAserver.org > > Try telling that to a medical (or classics) professor. > > The plural for 'virus' is 'virii'. Common US slang terms the plural as > 'viruses'. Dictionaries are often incorrect, especially when they bow to > 'common usage' without including an explanation of proper form and usage. > > It is a Latin-derived word, hence the (to US minds) strange pluralization, > and all the classics professors everywhere are shuddering because of it. > > Here endeth the language lesson for today. > > Paul Nuernberger > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenny Mann [mailto:Kennymann@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:04 AM > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] > Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know > > > http://www.ISAserver.org > > Plural for virus is viruses. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virii > <-- Can't find the word http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virus <-- > Lists the plural about it. n. pl. vi*rus*es > > I'm not trying to one-up you, the department I work in debated about it. > :-) > > Kenny Mann > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: William Robertson [mailto:robertson.william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > >Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:21 PM > >To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] > >Subject: [isalist] RE: Offtopic, but someone might know > > > > > >http://www.ISAserver.org > > > >Firstly, your plural of virus is virii... > > > >Don't know if it is of relevance though, but after applying > >the Blaster patch from Microsoft, and then again with > >KB824146, I found that workstations would create some *very* > >strange-looking directories on their own hard drives, as well > >as any shares that they Write Access to. The directory names > >were just long string combinations, eg > >Wekdjh987sevbncxv098kjh, and then sometimes they would > >actually have the update.exe in them as well. > > > >Anyway, managed to clean most of these up... > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Mark Strangways [mailto:strangconst@xxxxxxxxxx] > >Sent: 30 October 2003 04:18 AM > >To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] > >Subject: [isalist] Offtopic, but someone might know > > > >http://www.ISAserver.org > > > >I am noticing files that seem to appear in various folders > >they are always named "~" , and with no extension. I have in > >the past tried to find if they where related to a virus, but I > >have found no links. I am up to date with Norton Corporate > >Antivirus and it does not see any viri (is that the correct > >pluralization ?). 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