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...best computer toy I ever lost was a demo disc of PC viruses I came across about a decade back. The software was a sort of digital rogues' gallery, intended to "educate" the user by demonstrating how certain bugs behaved. Activate the "Cascade" demo, for instance, and letters would pop out of your text like rotten teeth and collect in a pile at the bottom of your screen. These domesticated viruses weren't infectious like their cousins in the wild. If you just removed the floppy from the PC, the mischief would cease...
...service work? The setup experience was definitely promising. I signed up for an account, and McAfee quickly uploaded a small program to my machine and installed it. The process was faster than it would have been by disc and took up a negligible amount of drive space. Every morning when I came to work, McAfee delivered a bug report that detailed any new plagues that had broken out overnight and then inoculated my software automatically...
...work, and it makes sense for me. Why? Sometimes I forward mail without looking at the attachments; in this case I would have spread a digital disease. A McAfee spokesman told me the company would fix this problem. In the meantime, I've got to find that virus demo disc. It will really spook my wife. Find a new product review every day at www.timedigital.com Questions for Josh? You can e-mail him at jquit@well.com
Fresh off the release of Warning, their poppiest-and perhaps most mature-album yet and first since 1997's Nimrod, the Berkeley trio wasted no time in plugging the disc, opening with its first single, "Minority." From there, though, the band shied away from a greatest hits type performance, something eminently possible, in favor of a friendlier, all-request format. This slapdash approach was a stroke of genius-it drew the audience into the set and the interaction gave the group a reason to keep going...
...Nimrod. While it's not an album full of heartfelt "Good Riddance"-style ballads, it's still a punk purist's nightmare: mid-tempo strum-alongs with the trademark Green Day melodies but a distortion level of nil. First single "Minority" is probably the punkest song on the disc -and that's not saying much...