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configure
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:06 pm
by Bailey
con·fig·ure (kn-fgyr)
tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures
To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: a military vehicle that was configured for rough terrain; configured the computer by setting the system's parameters.
[Middle English configuren, from Old French configurer, from Latin cnfigrre : com-, com- + figrre, to form (from figra, shape; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots).]
sounds close to conficker.
B. but will I see you tomorrow?
Re: configure
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:18 am
by Slava
sounds close to conficker.
As nothing's happened so far, perhaps this is all a joke? Note the date.
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:51 pm
by Bailey
I guess that's why they are doing this today.
B.
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:17 pm
by Slava
And therein lies the rub. Are they doing it today as a joke, or NOT doing it today as a joke?
I do hope it's the latter.
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:45 pm
by Bailey
rub? I'd say it was more like "to be or not to be". It isn't really irony but inconsistancy.
B.
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:27 am
by skinem
...the virus author was just a poor speller.
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:39 pm
by Bailey
and apparently was so proud of himself that he advertized the virus so much we were all prepared for him.
hubris- therein lieth the the seeds of disaster.
B.