Good Morning, Vietnam
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanGeez, but I’m tired. Last night was busy, and I only managed to get my head down late, and then only for a few hours.
Tonight me and some of the boys are heading down to Saigon for some R&R; I understand there’s a new movie that’s been drawing them in, and breaking box office records around the world. The change will be nice, and I’ll get to meet up with some buddies I ain’t seen much of since I was posted north, past the DMZ.
And I need the rest.
Last night was one long, low-intensity fire fight; no matter where we searched, Charlie just kept hiding and popping up again in another location, under another name. Twice we went into the holding area and cleared it building by building. Each time, after a period of quiet, there he was again, popping up like a bad penny; he’s a wily one, all right. We searched all the regular haunts and cleared them out, too: Captain Norton sealed off the area, and we brought in the heavy guns; the boys over in Ops hit the area with two separate search and destroy missions, with us following up for the hand to hand wet work. After the first sweep, we counted over hundred or so gooks in quarantine. I don’t know what the Intel boys said or did, but the quarantine pens are empty now…
Later on in the evening, we were trying to chow down, when we intercepted Charlie’s signals over comms. The name had changed, and the ID, but it was clearly him; no matter how he tries, he can’t hide his MO.
So, back in again, to find the holding area still clean, but some of the outlying parts of the system showing signs of habitation again. We cleared out two more and did another sweep. He’s a clever one, is Charlie. He’s still out there, changing name and location. But there ain’t so many of his friends, now.
I hear there’s something called the exe offensive scheduled for the weekend. We’ve cleared it with Norton to bring in two more specialists, and then we’re going in under cover of DOS, if we have to, to get Charlie once and for all.
They say it will all be over by Christmas.
Tonight me and some of the boys are heading down to Saigon for some R&R; I understand there’s a new movie that’s been drawing them in, and breaking box office records around the world. The change will be nice, and I’ll get to meet up with some buddies I ain’t seen much of since I was posted north, past the DMZ.
And I need the rest.
Last night was one long, low-intensity fire fight; no matter where we searched, Charlie just kept hiding and popping up again in another location, under another name. Twice we went into the holding area and cleared it building by building. Each time, after a period of quiet, there he was again, popping up like a bad penny; he’s a wily one, all right. We searched all the regular haunts and cleared them out, too: Captain Norton sealed off the area, and we brought in the heavy guns; the boys over in Ops hit the area with two separate search and destroy missions, with us following up for the hand to hand wet work. After the first sweep, we counted over hundred or so gooks in quarantine. I don’t know what the Intel boys said or did, but the quarantine pens are empty now…
Later on in the evening, we were trying to chow down, when we intercepted Charlie’s signals over comms. The name had changed, and the ID, but it was clearly him; no matter how he tries, he can’t hide his MO.
So, back in again, to find the holding area still clean, but some of the outlying parts of the system showing signs of habitation again. We cleared out two more and did another sweep. He’s a clever one, is Charlie. He’s still out there, changing name and location. But there ain’t so many of his friends, now.
I hear there’s something called the exe offensive scheduled for the weekend. We’ve cleared it with Norton to bring in two more specialists, and then we’re going in under cover of DOS, if we have to, to get Charlie once and for all.
They say it will all be over by Christmas.
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Date: 2005-05-25 10:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-25 10:34 am (UTC)Brian...
Date: 2005-05-25 10:39 am (UTC)On a more serious note...
Do you play any particular games that require you to use M$ Windows (of whatever flavour you are using), or do you have any other esoteric software needs? If not, I heartily recommend a swift dose of the Software equivalent of Napalm and Agent Orange with regard to your jungle warfare problem - LINUX. Say goodbye to spyware and virii, say hello to hassle free computing and the added bonus of a feeling of moral rightness that comes with abandoning the path of Saint Gates.
(I would prescribe an Apple, but I know how well that might go down).
Seriously you can have all the convenience and usability that you are used to with Windows, even create MS Office standard documents in a lookalike WORD, EXCEL and POWERPOINT courtesy of OpenOffice.org, use Instant Messaging services like MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ and obviously do email and web, not to mention LJ and all for no money cost and no need to buy into virus software or run anti-spyware software. Most LINUX distros even come with Industrial grade soft-Firewalls that are realtively easy to configure - similar on Windows would cost at least £40-00. Then there's the Photoshop replacement called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, not S&M type thingy) and a million other cool things besides. I'd be happy to come over to The Athaneum Club one weekend and get it sorted for you, whilst preserving and backing up all of your data/emails/bookmarks etc to boot.
Give it some thought, then look back through your journal at how many posts are about Windoze fucking your life up, and then see if you can find similar from a user running LINUX...
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Date: 2005-05-25 03:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-27 04:43 pm (UTC)hehe, nice one.
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Date: 2005-05-25 05:56 pm (UTC)We pretty much wiped Charlie out, here at the company I work for. Not a lot of ways to get a toehold in our environment, though they sure TRY hard enough...
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Date: 2005-05-26 11:52 am (UTC)I actually sat down to write a grumble about self-propagating viruses and such, but somehow it wandered off into the killing fields instead...
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Date: 2005-05-26 08:30 am (UTC)