Excitement and such

[rhyll]

I am somewhat pleased with how my paper is going. Admittedly, I am up to editing page six of eighteen, and I suspect it will get more incoherent as I go on, but it's not as bad as I thought it was. At least I more or less know what I want to say.

It's also made more pleasant by open office, which I am enjoying greatly.

Also, I've been speaking to an Indian woman working for a women's NGO who dropped in that if I send her a list of my interests she might be able to find funding or some kind of support for me to do some research in India. (Excitement!)

Questions for the internet:
1) Do I need anti-virus software, do you think?
2) Is there good open source anti-virus software?

(Whispers: I am somewhat amazed by the magic of technology, and the fact that I can just kind of plug stuff in and it all goes. No explosions or anything.)

Edit [5:25 am]
Wh00t! The football! Hip hip hurrah!
Wh00t! The paper! Hip hip hurrah!

I look forward to sleeping soon!

Comments

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

You certainly need antivirus software for your MS-Windows partition; and Spyware protection as well.

I recommend Grisoft AVG for antivirus and Spybot to kill the spyware. Both are available for free as in beer.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 and
http://www.spybot.info/

You really don't need either for the Linux partition. There is a tiny handful of Linux viruses in existence (mostly at the server level). There is one "in the wild".

cf., http://librenix.com/?inode=21