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[Alias]

| Alias wrote:
| >
| > | Practicing safe hex is the best "program" though.
| >
| > What is "safe hex"?
|
| You go to the local pharmacy and buy an extra large condom ... and ...
| slip it on over your computer ... you don't want to have unprotected
| communications with the Internet.
|
| Heehee. As Melissa said, safe practices. if you weren't aware, "hex"
| is short for, and a play on the word, hexadecimal, the base 16 number
| system.
|
| --
| -bts

I was wondering about the "hex" part. Thanks.

 

[Thomas G. Marshall]

Ian Kenefick coughed up:

One must ask why you subscribe to any of these newsgroups?

I suspect it is to learn, know of new products, and to help others, and to
become aware of anything that corrupts NOD32, so that she can be informed
for next time. Sounds reasonable to me.

 

[kurt wismer]

| Alias wrote: [snip]
| > What is "safe hex"?
|
| You go to the local pharmacy and buy an extra large condom ... and ...
| slip it on over your computer ... you don't want to have unprotected
| communications with the Internet.
|
| Heehee. As Melissa said, safe practices. if you weren't aware, "hex"
| is short for, and a play on the word, hexadecimal, the base 16 number
| system.

I was wondering about the "hex" part. Thanks.

it's a contraction of the word "hexadecimal"... it doesn't really
pertain to any particular activity, but long ago it was a common enough
term in computer related circles... especially with regards to
programs, as one could translate hexadecimal op codes to their assembly
language equivalents if you wanted to see what a program did or how it
worked... theoretically you can still do that now, but programs are
several orders of magnitude larger now and there are much better tools
for that so "hex" doesn't get the same attention that it used to...

 

[Ian Kenefick]

I suspect it is to learn, know of new products, and to help others, and to
become aware of anything that corrupts NOD32, so that she can be informed
for next time. Sounds reasonable to me.

You should re-read Melissa's post.


Regards,
Ian Kenefick
http://www.IK-CS.com

 

[Melissa]

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Hi Ian,

You should re-read Melissa's post.

Perhaps you should re-read it, Ian. Thomas' comments above are
just about spot on. In the past couple of years, I haven't spent
much time at all reading acv/aca-v, though I do still pop in now and
again. To quote myself from my previous post:

"Though I'm very grateful for forums like these, through which I've
learned so many useful, and in fact, necessary things over the years,
I wish I never felt the need to be here at all."

- --
Melissa

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