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Messages - Mark Rainey

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Current Talk '04 I / Re: Rosemary's Baby and DS
« on: June 26, 2004, 08:13:14 PM »
SPOILERS:
The Sixth Sense was a very well-crafted film, and I enjoyed it immensely the first time through. I don't have a lot of interest in seeing it again, however. All the hints that Bruce Willis is dead are there; but one would have to be a very astute viewer to pick up on them until they all come together at the climax. I bet the filmmakers were sweating it when they showed it to the very first audience, to see whether they had pulled it off with just the right balance. One clue too many or too obvious, and the whole thing would be spoiled.

The Others similarly struck me as a beautifully made movie, although I guessed the characters were in their "afterlife" the moment Nicole Kidman went into the fog and couldn't get away from the house. Having seen The Sixth Sense not that long before, it was fresh in mind and I had a feeling The Others was going for the same kind of effect. The similarity did not diminish either film for me, though. If anything, I enjoyed The Others even more on my second viewing of it.

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Current Talk '04 I / Re: Art Wallace's "The House"
« on: June 26, 2004, 04:07:37 PM »
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Mark...any relation???

Not that I know of. Interestingly, Ford very closely resembles the males on my mother's side of the family. But they aren't Raineys.

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Current Talk '04 I / Re: Rosemary's Baby and DS
« on: June 24, 2004, 01:06:33 PM »
The Ninth Gate didn't receive much favorable press, but I really liked it. Johnny Depp was typically excellent, and the mood is just right for those of us who find old and rare book interesting as hell. Frank Langella really hits the mark too. Give it a look.

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: New item for moderators?
« on: June 24, 2004, 01:03:37 AM »
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I noticed something new tonight - at the bottom of one of my posts was a series of numbers, highlighted like a link.
That's your computer's IP address, being reflected back at you -- not sure why, but it's kinda like your computer's fingerprint left at the scene of a crime. ;)

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: IE Bug Invites Phishing Attacks
« on: June 23, 2004, 03:08:36 PM »
Right-click on the file or folder you want to scan and see if you don't get the option to scan it with your resident AV program. Otherwise, in most cases, when you select scan your computer in the AV program, it'll give open a window with a list of your folders (just like any other Open or Save As menu) and you select what you want to scan. What AV program do you have?

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: IE Bug Invites Phishing Attacks
« on: June 21, 2004, 01:00:04 PM »
Vlad -- Sure, if your friend's computer is infected, even if she doesn't know it, an attached file could transfer a virus to your machine. Hopefully, she's running a virus check on outgoing mail and you're running one on all incoming. If it's an MS Word file, there are macro viruses that can infect your Word documents, so it's important to scan document files too.

The probability is lower, but you can always get spoofed emails that appear to come from a friend too. The one time I caught a virus a few years ago was when I was expecting a file from a friend; it arrived, or so I thought, and I opened it. Wham. Bug in my system. It wasn't the file I was expecting, nor was the email really from my buddy Bob. Just by coincidence, I had received a virus from someone else with email address spoof so it appeared to come from Bob. (I should have known something was up when the attachment wasn't a .doc file, but I was hasty.)

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re: OT: I'm Leaving Again!
« on: June 20, 2004, 09:39:45 PM »
Sounds like a great trip, Gerard. No point in telling you to enjoy yourself, as it sounds like a given. ;)

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: IE Bug Invites Phishing Attacks
« on: June 18, 2004, 04:51:24 AM »
It's very important to keep all your security software up to date too -- and activated. Occasionally, when I'm running a flight sim or something, I disable Norton AV while I'm playing to improve the game's performance. A couple of times, I've forgotten to immediately reactivate Norton after I've quit playing. Yesterday, I did a Google search for a certain writer, went to one of the sites in the list, and boom. Norton pops up and says my computer has caught a trojan, apparently from the site, which had been infected. I'm running Mozilla, so the trojan didn't auto-activate (as it might have with MS Internet Explorer); but if I'd been browsing without the AV enabled, I might very well have been caught flat-footed. (Hopefully, The Cleaner, which is always active no matter what, would have caught it before it could do any harm.)

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: IE Bug Invites Phishing Attacks
« on: June 15, 2004, 08:22:43 PM »
Phishing is the attempt to gain your logins, passwords, and other personal information by making an email or Web site appear to be something other than what it really is; for example, you may receive something purporting to be from Ebay or Paypal that looks very authentic, but it's bogus; the sender is hoping to acquire your personal info to hack your account, steal your credit card, etc.

Fully patched means all the latest Microsoft security updates have been installed on your machine.

To remove icon in the task bar, you must determine what the name of the program is that it belongs to. Then go to the start button, to RUN, type "msconfig," and click the START UP tab. Then find the program, uncheck the box beside it, hit OK, and restart your machine.

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re: Lara Parker movie coming up
« on: June 08, 2004, 09:52:18 PM »
Race With the Devil is what I consider perfect drive-in movie fare for its day. It's full of action, if fairly predictable, with occasional eerie moments, and Lara Parker playing a scared, helpless female. No Angelique here. :o  I'm no fan of Peter Fonda, but Warren Oates is a folk hero, no two ways about it, and any movie with Warren Oates is worth sitting through. It's a fun movie, and I enjoy the hell of out of it; it's almost what one might consider a guilty pleasure. ;)

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re: Lara Parker movie coming up
« on: June 05, 2004, 02:29:10 PM »
They show a lot of their movies letterboxed, too, which I like a lot. Much of the stuff they show isn't particularly appealing to me, but when they come through, they really do. Very worthwhile channel.

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey/dsdreams.htm

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re: OT-The Geek Test
« on: June 01, 2004, 12:11:00 AM »
I was directed there the other day by another board and scored 20.5282 -- Geek. But I have a damn hard time buying that I could be geekier than MB. The system is rigged!

--M
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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re: Happy Memorial Day
« on: May 31, 2004, 03:04:15 PM »
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Hasn't this weather been absolutely crazy, Vlad?  We also had a huge thunderstorm roll through last evening and I shut everything down and disconnected my computer in case of lightning strikes.

I hear there were tornadoes aplenty this weekend in the Midwest. Guess they were dropping in to catch The Day After Tomorrow.

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey/drealms.htm

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re:Blair Brown images from Law & Order: SVU
« on: May 30, 2004, 03:43:25 AM »
I am definitely a Law & Order junkie. Saw one a while back with Joanna Going playing a defense lawyer. She's still my favorite, like, ever. ;)

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / 1966 Season Topic locked?
« on: May 29, 2004, 03:12:22 PM »
Did I miss something? The reply option for the 1966 Season thread in General Discussion has gone wayward.

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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