Sick Computer

I’m sorry, folks, but my computer was very, very sick last night and I spent all evening babying it, trying to get it well, and so I was unable to do any blogging.

I may be able to do a bit this morning, but can’t promise anything given how ill my computer has been.

I think it caught the flu from someone at Mass.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

17 thoughts on “Sick Computer”

  3. Get a Mac. It isn’t virus compatible.
    I personally don’t feel it’s usefulness compatible either, but to each his own! 🙂

  5. I am a Mac person, but I can attest that there is nothing inherently superior about their resistance to viruses. The truth is that Macs account for only about 10% of all computers in use. Virus writers don’t bother much about writing destructive programs targeting such a (relatively) small number of machines.
    If Macs suddenly surge in popularity, there will be a commensurate rise in the number of Mac-oriented viruses floating around.
    I therefore want to encourage all of you to stick with your Dells, Gateways, or whatever…
    I do love my Powerbook, though, with a love appropriate to created things. Even the name is cool.
    Book of Power.
    My own… my precious-s-s-s-s-s…
    BTW, is there a Patron Saint of computers? I will offer a prayer for your computer troubles.

  12. So, Jimmy–
    Why would you be taking your computer to Mass, in the first place?
    Just curious….

  14. “Why would you be taking your computer to Mass, in the first place?”
    Maybe Jimmy has started to liveblog the Mass.
    I for one would love to read Jimmy’s thoughts on the day’s sermon as it was delivered. 🙂

  15. Tim J. Very refreshing to hear a Mac user say that! *clap clap* The truth is, Macs are very nice machines … AND, what YOU said.
    I’ve got a Linux machine myself (I just like tinkering; I guess I could do a LOT of tinkering with the UNIX-like Mac OSX, but for now I’m happy with my cheaper, very nice SuSE athlon 64-bit setup. Anymore, we Mac and Linux users have similar machines, and similar threats, but keeping things patched up seems to be the main thing, just like with Windows.
    My husband runs Windows; I’d rather he didn’t, but he likes certain games. But he knows how to protect his computer and it works well for him. Lately I think my husband’s power supply is acting up, and on its last legs, but that certainly isn’t Microsoft’s fault. 😉
    DJ — I think I saw you post about DOS before. Has it been evolving? (If so, excuse my ignorance.) 🙂 Glad you’re happy with it. I’m just curious about the state of DOS these days because I know nothing about it. I would miss not being able to multi-task.

  16. Jimmy,
    Hmmm, did you by chance dip your fingers in the Holy Water Font?? Consider that everyone at the Mass did the same thing. Yucky Doo and the source of your computer’s virus Too.:)

  17. Lurker: no, DOS isn’t evolving in that way (as far as I know.) Its still staying in the realm of being a RT OS. I don’t know what the DOS community is doing, aside from freedos.org, which is plain old DOS. I just like to note that NOBODY is writing viruses for DOS 🙂
    You want DOS with multi-tasking, try Minix?

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