[afraidfortherepublic]

I lost a lot of gadgets on this computer last week when I was hit by a virus that I was trying to clean up. I may not even have Real Audio anymore. My computer is still not back to normal, and I may have to reinstall everything. :(

[Sacajaweau]

Found this in a government paper on the OKC bombing.

And Democratic representative Charles Schumer urged Republican leaders to delay plans to vote on a repeal of the assault weapons ban in light of the Oklahoma tragedy.

"It would send the wrong message to paramilitary extremists on one side and ordinary people on the other," Schumer said in a letter to Dole & House Speaker Gingrich.

Why didn't he use the term "terrorists" rather than limiting it??

[backhoe]

I lost a lot of gadgets on this computer last week when I was hit by a virus that I was trying to clean up. I may not even have Real Audio anymore. My computer is still not back to normal, and I may have to reinstall everything.

It won't help now, but in the future? When you get it restored, clone the drive to a spare HD. All the HD makers I'm familiar with offer free software that includes some sort of drive copy feature. The spare naturally has to be big enough to hold all your data, but that said, this is the fastest way to recover from disaster. I clone mine routinely.