Hello Andrew and Everyone (who likes to use Ubuntu Operating System),
cc: to *Ern Williams* (my Dad in Victor Harbor, South Australia )
and cc to: *Ms Tracey Onyett* who works for an Organization called 'Wise
Employment Australia' and who has been trying to help me look for a job to
do part-time or on a casual basis.
and cc: *Alvaro GP* who an amazingly clever computer person good friend,
living in Malaga, Spain, in Europe.
Hello All,
My apologies for typing such a long message.
I think I should try to explain why I sent the email (yesterday) about this
virus called c-nile. Please pass the word around that in particular to
Micro$oft Windows users whom I suggest need to check for this very bad email
virus ;-(
My Dear Dad who is in his 80s (I get confused about his exact age), he was
born in 1926... So you can work out exactly how old he is. Anyway, Dad and
Mum live together is a lovely place house in Victor Harbor, South Australia.
They have been married for 51 years and are still very much in Love #GREAT
BIG SMILE#
Dad has an extremely modern computer with Micro$oft Windowz Vista Pro with
all the latest Service Packs and virus checkers, and spam checkers, and
trojan horse checkers etc etc etc.
My Dad (Ern Williams) loves to use his computer for all types of things. For
example: playing Mahjongg Tile matching games, web games (of many different
types), playing find-a-word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, viewing funny jokes and
seeing beautiful multi-media (of all kinds) of artwork of things like:
beautiful artworks (of all kind) and pretty graphics of flowers, landscapes,
animals, children etc etc etc.
Anyway, I digress (I apologize) - My father (Ern Williams) send me an email
warning me that his computer had been affected by this e-mail virus called '
*c-nile*'. It sounds horrible -- it still disgusts and appalls me at the
horrible e-mail viruses which these stupid and cruel people create and
infect people with !!!
Apparently my Dad has now removed the c-nile virus, however he was telling
me about it in his email to me... so, as I want to warn other people to
remove it. I think that a good anti-virus checker program *SHOULD* be able
to remove it!!! I hope it does!
I fully admit that I can tend to be *quite naive*!!! :-) I am an amiable
person and actually I like it try to encourage people to learn to use their
computers and not be worried about their computers playing up. E.g. I like
to help people to use their computer in a productive and fun ways!!! *Checking
for horrible viruses etc is far from fun!!! but it seems, unfortunately, a
necessity of life.*
Actually, when I lived in Canberra, ACT, I worked for the Royal Australian
Navy, in the Australian Federal Government Dept of Defence (eg the Public
Service). I worked there for 23 years and even tho' I became quite sick with
Schizophrenia, I still remained employed as a Draftsman (drawing with pen
and ink) and also with a wide range of CAD software.
I also became a Technical Officer and designed many many Databases and used
most of the so-called Micro$oft Office applications. And I designed Websites
for the RAN !!! I was also the computer help person for the Directorate of
the RAN in which I worked!!! So, I helped people to fix their computers when
they didn't like to use them or were having difficulties with them!!! I
generally found this to be both difficult and also extremely rewarding to
help people understand how to get the most from their computers and not be
afraid of using it!!! SMILE
In other words, I really enjoyed this because I found it to be greatly
rewarding and, although not easy, it was a Good Thing to do ;-)))
*Now please don't misunderstand me* *SMILE* Although I have used computers
for many years and I have become very productive at using them... I still
get very confused at learning Linux and How to do things like dual-boot
between different OSes.
I'm getting off topic... sorry about that. I am now using *Mint Linux
v5.1*with the Gnome desktop environment (I think that the correct term
for it).
It is performing absolutely rock-solid !!! eg. I'm using *Firefox* as my
web-browser and it has all of the latest updates. *I'm extremely happy with
it* !!!
My pc still has some teething problems... but that's life I guess *SMILE*.
My view of life is that the proverbial glass is half-full, not half-empty.
Now if only I could figure out how to get my repositories working
correctly, then that would be a big help! :-) For some reason my Synaptic
Package Manager (that's what its called) was NOT happy... I think that I had
typed in the wrong repository server addresses!?!?! ( I'm trying to use the
correct terminology... but I'm not too sure of the correct buzz-words and
jargon to use -- I still regard myself to be a beginner at Mint Linux
;-)
Yours Faithfully and With Much Love,
(wishing that your computer works well
and doesn't give you head-aches!!!)
Pete the Poet from Oz,
Fond Regards,
Peter Eric (aka 'pew
