I run XP SP3 in my corporate environment, and also run McAfee. We were not affected! It must be a special set of circumstances that caused the agent to go beserk.
I haven't heard from our international offices if anyone's been affected.

I still print photos for albums. Granted, it's not of every digital photo I've taken, but it is a lot. I especially print photos of special trips/holidays or occasions that I want to share.
It is much better than viewing them on a big screen TV or even on a computer screen.

One trip, for a once in a lifetime family reunion, I printed over 400 photos! Twice, because I needed to send a copy of the photos to the grandparents!

6 years ago, I went on a quick round the world trip for 6 weeks, stopping in 5 countries. I had a Pentax 35mm SLR. I took close to 600 photos which cost a fair bit to print. I was very very consious not to waste frames when it was not needed.

Since then, I have bought myself a digital Canon SLR, and it certainly has improved my photographic skills, simply because I can experiment more. I also take a lot more photos. A recent birthday party, between myself and everyone who borrowed the camera, it ended up being 300 photos!
Digital tends to make it better to "capture the moment" because you can be more spontaneous. I usually don't delete any photos from the camera until I've viewed them on a computer. Occasionally, even photos that are blurry or "don't look good" end up being really good when viewed enlarged.
Like someone else's post said it, out of the 5000 photos I might've taken last year, maybe 10% of them I would rate high quality. 80% are "general" or "average" and about 10% pretty bad. In other words, digital has increased my output of high quality photos.

I have a similar situation at my employers:

You get a choice of Nokia E series or Windows Mobile phones (usually HTC). The reason being they both support MS Exchange email.
The company pays for the plan, and the phone can be used for personal calls becuase we're on a hight corporate plan, and unless you're a heavy user (we have people racking thousands $ in monthly bills because of roaming) then your bill will be reasonable.

This is the reason why when I joined the company, I signed over my phone number to the company so I don't have to carry two phones. The company has no qualms about signing over the number again if you decide to leave (seen that with other employees who have left)

I want as much of my body to be used for organ donation. I have a government ID card (and registered on the national database) and is also listed on my driver's license.
Apart from that, I couldn't care less what happens to my body, although I expect my family to give me a normal burial. After all, I'll be pretty dead and feel nothing!

While studying engineering I did quite a few progeams in FORTRAN 77, but when Ileft uni we didn't go any further. I tried learning C, but because it was just a hobby, I didn't go far either.
I did a lot of scripting, so I reckon between assignments and the few "fun" projects and the many scripts I'd be well above the 1000s mark, but how high? I don't want to dust the old backup floppies and ZIP disks.

Besides, is productivity now measured by number of lines?

You should stop using the degauss button on your monitor.

I'll start with a disclaimer: I am not a Muslim, but I will correct some of your and the parent's perceptions.
Religion has in the past played a role in discrediting science. This is a true statement.
Religion has in the past played a role in fostering science. This is a true statement.

The fact that at one time Religion (either christian, or muslim or any other in the past) played a role to discredit or foster science is completely lost on some people. Most slashdotters seem to focus on what religion did to destroy science forgetting that they also fostered it as well.

Islam: Once they had settled their empire expansion, in about the 7th or 8th cebntury AD, they went on to start the most advanced research endowment ever and both gathered and generated science all the way from India to Andalusia. (heard of algebra)
They seem to have lost the plot when the empire started crumbling. They haven't recovered because their cultures are still not in a stable state. Give them time.

Christianity: throughout the centuries, Christians, both ordained (priests, monks whatever) and lay were instrumental in many fields of science (heard of Euler, Descartes, Pascal?) The sciences were both attacked and fostered as the status of Empire changes in Europe opver the centuries with the dark ages as the best example of "darkness" but even then the Church was quite involved in on of the main sciences: medicine

Both Christian churches and Muslim mosques were centres of education, and many current famous universities were established by religious orders: Cambridge, Al Azhar etc

It is not religion that is discrediting science but rather the focus of the people in power, whatever religion (or non-religion) they hail from.

I agree. I think uniforms (or rather badged shirts) make my life much easier. At my place of work (an engineering company) I am the only IT guy, and I don't interact with customers, so I rarely wear a dress shirt to work.
The other staff can wear anything as long as it is "professional", and at times they do wear the company badged shirts.

I would say, don't worry about it and enjoy it.

I used to buy the magazines with the distros included on CDs (and later DVDs). I've also ordered a couple of "retail" copies from Mandrake and from Redhat. Once I started working for HP with their own internal FTP site, I started downloading from that, then from my own broadband connection.

All in all, I have "downloaded" less than 10 ISOs, but I'd say I've probably tried about a dozen flavours/versions.

Now I'm using Ubuntu at home (can't remember the version, but I haven't upgraded in a year) and at work I use fedora.

Thanks for the Link to the article.

Maybe you should've also included the following in your "summary":

The Declaration starts by forbidding "any discrimination on the basis of race, colour, language, belief, sex, religion, political affiliation, social status or other considerations". It continues on to proclaim the sanctity of life, and declares the "preservation of human life" as "a duty prescribed by the Shariah". In addition the CDHRI guarantees "non-belligerents such as old men, women and children", "wounded and the sick" and "prisoners of war", the right to be fed, sheltered and access to safety and medical treatment in times of war. If affirmed, this would indicate that acts of terrorism are violations of human rights.

The CDHRI gives men and women the "right to marriage" regardless of their race, colour or nationality, but not religion. In addition women are given "equal human dignity", "own rights to enjoy", "duties to perform", "own civil entity", "financial independence", and the "right to retain her name and lineage", though not equal rights in general. The Declaration makes the husband responsible for the social and financial protection of the family. The Declaration gives both parents the rights over their children, and makes it incumbent upon both of them to protect the child, before and after birth. The Declaration also entitles every family the "right to privacy". It also forbids the demolition, confiscation and eviction of any family from their residence. Furthermore, should the family get separated in times of war, it is the responsibility of the State to "arrange visits or reunions of families".

Don't single out Muslims for this. I am not a muslim, but an evangelical christian, but I do recognise hypocrisy when I see it (usually). Having something in writing (and signed) does not mean that it is being followed. So, as you can see, it seems a lot of muslim countries don't follow their own stated declarations. But, believe it or not, neither some bastions of freedom in the Western World.
An example is the US and their segregation laws which contravened the UN UDHR or South Africa's Apartheid regime which flouted a few provisions. Or maybe the Australian goivernment denying citizenship rights to their indigenous population even after being signatories to the UDHR.

From the UN Charter (the treaty that established it in the 1940s) as a successor to the League of Nations:

This is from Wikipedia

Chapter 1, Article 1 of the UN Charter states

The Purposes of the United Nations are[1]

      1. To maintain international peace and security, to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
      2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
      3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
      4. To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.

Chapter 1, Article 2 of the UN Charter states

The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles:[1]

      1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
      2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.
      3. All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.
      4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
      5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.
      6. The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security.
      7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.

Two phrases: 1- "Peace and Security" and 2- "the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members." define and determine why it is so slow to act and is usually ineffective when it comes to "sovereignty" issues. It's technical arms (which usually don't threaten any sovereignty) tend to be quite good.

At 10:20am (Sydney time)Friday 13th November, I have:
2x Desktops
3x laptops
1x Monitor
The monitor is hooked up to a KVM. I use one laptop as my primary PC (dual screens)
One desktop is a test PC (running Windows 7)
One desktop is currently being configured for a user.
The other two laptops are also being configured for users.

Someone mentioned VMs in an earlier post. In my situation, this is not an option (unless I wanted to test Win7, but I have a spare PC, so why not?)

At work: My personal (FF) home page is yahoo's search page, and I'm usually satisfied with the results 90% of the time. Besides, a bit of competition to google is a good thing. IE is set to show the company's home page (which in my opinion is not a good idea)
At home, it is blank.

I'd say, Aim for Mars and you might get the Moon along the way.

Aim for the Moon and Mars will always be a long ways away.