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From: "FromTheRafters" <[email protected]>


| I worked for a time at the Naval Radio Transmitting Facility in Dixon
| Ca. - next door was the Voice Of America transmitter site. My roommate
| (the one I helped with his Altair) and I went for a tour there. This was
| using some very old (eyecatching) mercury rectifier tubes to supply a
| walk-in FPA stage. 250 kilowatts into a 17db gain curtain antenna.

| I'm sure that you would have enjoyed such a trip. :o)

DEFINITELY. :-)

Would have loved to see that.

Its a good thing you didn't play with the Siemens laser transmitter tube. Probably would
have burned down the house :-)
 
From: "FromTheRafters" <[email protected]>


| Both the eye wedge style (on tuners for signal strength) and the linear
| (mostly on magnetic tape recorders for audio level).

| Okay, I've seen some awesome indicator tubes - some of my first computer
| experiences involved "Nixie tubes", and I worked for years replacing
| display tubes on high-end tuners (Sansui). Displays have come a long
| way. I guess you notice that sort of thing more when you start out
| interacting with a computer via an IBM teletype.


:-)
 
So any advice to get rid of this thing ?
Edit - Did it again, all of those problems above, spybot is unable to
get rid of.
Oh, and tried system restore, virus has got that covered too.
Only 1 restore point, and thats today - Got this virus about 3am this
morning.

Edit - Booted into safe mode sucessfully, spybot found the infections
again, and deleted all but 1, which was apparently running.
1 is in a folder c/windows/system32/lowsec
I could see the actul files in safe mode, tried to manually delete them
but I couldn't.
In normal mode they aren't visible.
Click to expand...

Update - Had to wipe the drive clean and reinsall OS.
Virus - 1
Me - 0
 
Did you pick one that isn't susceptible to such problems?
Click to expand...

I took a shiny disc, it said something like "Windows XP Professional" on it,
not sure.

Its not XP's fault that I like to take risks.
Lots of people write lots of malicious code for windows for 1 reason -
Because most people use it.
There must be a reason why most people use it, no ?
 
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