Best virus for music makers?

1ntelligent Fraud · Post by **1ntelligent Fraud** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:50 pm

Herpes means you've made it big

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:10 pm

1ntelligent Fraud wrote:Herpes means you've made it big

i guess its not as good as HIV. After all, freddie was the biggest and best star of all times.

Atomikat · Post by **Atomikat** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:43 pm

Virus?...Do you mean ...like a Worm getting in through your back door?

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Wait...I'm talking about computers...ehem...

adventurepants_ · Post by **adventurepants_** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:45 pm

ive always been partial to a bit of W32.Netsky-D.

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:48 pm

are crabs considered a virus or a parasite?

1ntelligent Fraud · Post by **1ntelligent Fraud** » Tue May 27, 2008 11:54 pm

Could wearing a Trojans protect you from Logic Bombs?

muthafunka · Post by **muthafunka** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:00 am

this one

http://www.troika.uk.com/virus.htm

roby · Post by **roby** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:21 am

hard to say. i recommend getting a copy of Kazaa and trying to download zip or rar files. there's a whole selection of viruses (virii) to choose from. they are free but i think Kazaa itself cost money. it's like iTunes for viruses (virii)... iVirus

good luck

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:53 am

Virii is not actually the correct pluralisation of virus.

Virus originally meant something like 'poison', and as far as anyone knows it was a 'mass noun' like air, or stuff. So saying virii would be like saying stuffses .

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/fa ... e/g63.html

I dropped out of Latin classes pretty damn early, but I get corrected on this stuff by my colleague who actually knows how this stuff works.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:20 am

what is the correct pluralisation? In denmark we have something in the range of "Vira", but since in modern language you can't always take account for original languages its hard to judge. I know my dad who is a cand. scient biologic and chemist, with a master in microbiologics call them "Vira". But he isn't a language expert either (he know most plants and such by their latin name though)

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Wed May 28, 2008 12:17 pm

Actually I heard that Vira could be considered correct if virus itself was a second declension noun (I have to say I have no real idea what that means), but Viruses is actually best. In the same way that Status becomes statuses.

of course there are 'popular' and 'modern' uses of all these old words, but usually they follow our own grammar - the problem with "Virii" is that it attempts to follow old latin grammar by just guessing. It was cooked up based on a misunderstanding.
If you could learn a language by guessing, what a happy world we would live in

BTW - I don't really know much Latin,I just know the bits that interest me because I find etymology fascinating.
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thefool · Post by **thefool** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:06 pm

i think we actually agree on the subject

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:31 pm

Angstrom is right.

(mark your calendars!)

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:31 pm

And I actually thought this thread would be about virtual analogue synths...