Luci Sandor’s blog

Well, I’m still under shock, so here it is… Recently I have scanned my PC with Trend Micro antiviral tool, freely available on their website. During the scan, I was invited to a quiz. May hoaxes be destructive? I said no, but they say yes. People may format their hard drives scared of imaginary viruses.

I heard that, during the earthquake, a scared boy jumped through the window seeking his way out. This earthquake was a hoax that may cost a human life.

I went out to buy cigarettes and almost nobody was out. Our campus seem to suffer from the TV sets deficit and the culture of fear cannot reach my neighbors. E.g., right now I am watching a astrologer-witch that puts the blame on the moon eclipse, saying that the night isn’t over, that we are under a sign which may bring other earthquakes in the next months, although the mayor Basescu asks her to shut the hell up and stop scaring people.

Someone says that, while she felt the earthquake, the USGS webpage was already updated. There I’ve learned that Dana was 115 km away and I was 145 km away from the center - the time difference and strength difference were my fault because my senses are weak. I have missed the previous one, I haven’t felt the other 5-degrees quakes, I haven’t feel any quake from 1990. I think that if Dana haven’t told me, I would miss this one too and now I would sleep.

But, no, I have a TV set, I would be learning ASAP. The culture of fear has me.

…And now the witch says her PC clock is locked at the time of the earthquake and the printer has changed its colors (?). She puts the blame on an EM shock. Is this even close to the truth?

Last week-end I went to my mother-in-law at Galati. There I reassembled my old PC and I had it connected to the Internet via modem. A painful experience, because I had never worked with a modem before this and because the specific ISP, Connex, force the users to run a buggy, non-standard program for connection setup.

I have left Galati Saturday evening and Dana stayed for some dental procedures. About 10 minutes ago, we were chatting through Yahoo! Messenger and she told me that there’s an earthquake. She was cca. 50 km away from the region where earthquakes produce here in Romania, while I am 150 km away, here in Bucuresti. I left my chair and I was decided to run out. I had about 15 or 20 seconds before the shock wave reached Bucharest. The darn door was locked and I was still in the dorm room when the only wave that was felt here did its job. Nothing fell, nothing was even moved. The dorm hall soon filled with neighbors, but I was the first, sitting where the door normally is (you may know, this seem to be the safest place).

Dana told me that she felt there about 6 waves and her mother saw on TV that the earthquake was over 6 grades on Richter scale. Although I’m one meter away from the TV set, I haven’t tune to a news channel, because I’m busy posting this and letting you know.

If you live in Romania and you read me soon, go out. The physicists said that 15 minutes after the shock, the Earth was still moving.

Google Desktop does not run for other users than Administrators (it can’t be installed by other users and it has to be run only on the account that installed it). It does not index Web browsing history unless you are using Internet Explorer.

From its help I’m happy to learn that If you share your computer and all users log in with the same Windows username and password, Desktop Search will make all users’ documents searchable. They seem to ask you to share your computer with administrative rights enabled.

Hence, Google invites you to a dangerous life. Thanks to Franci Penov.

You probably heard that this weekend there will bee so-called free elections in Afghanistan. I bet that the US puppet, Hamid Karzai, will win. For anyone willing to bet against him, I give you the option of all the other 18 "candidates" and a 10 to 1 quote on your bet.
I was watching CNN yesterday and I found their repeated ads about covering live the elections, the "free elections" at least shameless. How about the millions of Afghans that cannot use or reject or haven’t bought yet a TV set or a radio?