Word: drives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovery of a huge Windows NT virus that wreaked havoc in the computer networks at MCI WorldCom over the weekend the first manifestation of a new era of cyber-paranoia? This at least was no urban legend of virus-bearing e-mail that will trash your hard drive if you read it: As ZDnet reports, at least 10 sites and thousands of servers and workstations at MCI were crippled by a bug that disables executable files and locks users out of .DOC and .XLF files. And although the origin of the virus remains unknown, the fact that it was timed...
...class launched a fund-raising drive, pouring dimes and quarters from their allowances and the proceeds from lemonade, toy and T-shirt sales into an old water-cooler bottle. "It makes me really angry that these people could be traded just like pets," said Doni Taipalus, 9, who chipped in $6 he earned from household chores. Each time the children raised enough to free one person, a brown-paper cutout was pasted on the classroom wall...
...damn the expense. I require video and 3-D cards to run the coolest games...er, spreadsheets; at least 96 megabytes of RAM so I can keep half a dozen programs open at once; a 17-in. monitor so I can see it all and a 10-gigabyte hard drive to store it. Also, stereo speakers with a subwoofer that rumbles like the voice of God, just to annoy my cats...
...conspiring to help the defeated Confederacy rise again. If Clinton were to channel Johnson, the two men--each born in poverty in the South, raised by a widow, elected Governor before he became President and tormented by Republican foes--would have a lot to talk about. The drive to impeach Johnson, the only President to be impeached and tried in the Senate, was really about the politics of post-Civil War Reconstruction. The Radical Republicans who controlled Congress took a hard line toward Dixie. Johnson was no Confederate; he was the only Southern Congressman not to secede when his state...
Busy, literate people have long employed audio books to get the most out of their drive time. In January they can go digital, searching an online archive (at audible.com of more than 16,000 hours of audio books, radio broadcasts, lectures and daily summaries of the Wall Street Journal, then downloading selections to the MobilePlayer-PLUS from Audible in Wayne, N.J. The $300 pocket-size device comes with headphones and holds eight hours of content...