Archive for October 16th, 2009
MAC-ness
Posted by Bloggylife in UK, technology, thoughts on October 16, 2009
The computer services director was talking about the importance of installing an anti-virus software of personal laptops and the university can not provide one to their students for licensing issues but recommended some free ones, like AVG, which I have installed on my laptop.
One question was asked, “what is recommended for a mac?”
The director wasn’t aware of free mac software, but then this debate started that for a mac you don’t need an anti-virus!
“mac doesn’t need one”
“I’ve had mine for over 6 years, no anti-virus software installed and no problems at all”
OK this is madness 
anti-virus applications are now more than scanning and protecting the computers from viruses, these are the modules in my current AVG software.
I’ve disabled the resident shield because it’s scans, real-time, files you are working with, it’s annoying and if you are viewing a video, the experience is terrible.
Some argue that mac infections are low because not that many use them compared to windows and also because the majority use windows thus more hate it From an attacker point of view, target the largest market share.
My Team
Posted by Bloggylife in UK on October 16, 2009
We are four all together, one didn’t show up, two Chinese, an Indian and myself. I only remember one name “Kai” because it’s cool and I think the other is “Eric” that’s his English name.
All the Chinese people I’ve met and they are quiet a lot here, have two names, Chinese and English, because as one said, it’s very hard to pronounce our names.
We sat with our supervisor, he asked us to write down our home address, he looks at us and said:
“So you’ve come a long way from your countries, was it is straight forward or it took you a while to get here”
The Indian said: “Well I’ve been in UK for 5 years and living in London so it was straight forward for me and didn’t have problems moving here”
I was going to “أتحلطم” that getting the freaking visa was a nightmare, but it was “Eric’s” turn to speak.
Eric: “I came on a bike and he -pointing to Kai- walked”!!
Me trying not to FREAKING laugh LOL, maskeeeeeen, he understood the question wrong and was speaking of getting here from their dorm. The supervisor didn’t even correct him We just sat there in complete silence, I didn’t want to open my mouth 
…..
“OK, we’ll meet regularly …” continued the supervisor
Don’t know how I’m going to spend this year with the two of them Eric and Kai speaking Chinese all the time, I need to tell them to stop it. One more thing, they are all TALL, you see Asian people somehow short but masha’Allah all the ones here are TALL.
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