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dyreshark "you know you're in LUUG when... the last thing you mounted was a partition, the last thing you touched was a file, and the last thing you blew was your laptop with an air canister" dyreshark "when the last head you received was from an HTTP webpage" dyreshark "and the last thing you fingered was a computer on your network"
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<Summary of all Coeus arguments> coeus | I am a huge Linux fanboy and will be deeply offended if your opinion differs from mine coeus | I also read a few articles on economics and politics way back coeus | So, I am a very knowledgeable individual on the fields of both economics and politics. coeus | In fact, I probably know more than the experts. ????? | uhh... coeus | SHUT THE FUCK UP DICKFACE NO ONE CARES
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// Ben and Matt are demoing an IRC bot in ECE 2524 and dkm puts #vtluug on the projector to show what IRC is bwr | hi ece2524! +mutantmonkey | HELLO EVERYONE IN ECE2524 +microcosmus | lol +NaCl | HELLOW ECE2524 +wallmani | You all must be wondering why i brought you here +wallmani | See, this world is a dangerous place +wallmani | You need protection sometimes +wallmani | From things you can't really comprehend +wallmani | Like mutantmonkey, for example. +wallmani | So join our club and we will teach you how to defend yourself and your data against people like mutantmonkey -
+xunil | when I was the CS lab UNIX admin, we literally lost a server +xunil | we could ping it, and SSH to it, but we had no idea where it was physically located wallmani | check the walls +xunil | we eventually found that it had been walled in by contractors +xunil | VT had contractors convert one of the old proctor rooms in McBryde into just an empty space, and the server was in there but the contractors just assumed it was garbage +xunil | we had to get a student to climb over the wall through the false ceiling mhazinsk | why would you convert a room to an empty space? wallmani | "we weren't explicitly told what this is so let's assume it is whatever involves the least work for us" +xunil | mhazinsk: it was too expensive to tear down, but they didn't want the room to exist b/c it required administrative overhead. so they just removed the door and window and dry-walled up the holes +xunil | didn't remove the eletrical or networking +xunil | large institutions do stupid shit; news at 11 Timelord | they couldn't just leave the door closed? +xunil | the hilarious end to this story is we actually left the machine where it was b/c after going to all that effort to find it we realized we didn't have a spare port for it +xunil | Timelord: the door had one of those button locks on it, and *all* the button locks on that floor shared the key combo +xunil | so every time they changed the combo (every semesters), they'd have to change that door's combo, too +xunil | we eventually moved the server out of the space once we freed up a port
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<echarlie> 03>mfw 'image description field' is required in gobblerconnect. <echarlie> 03>there is no image description field <-- Southern_Gentleman has quit (Remote host closed the connection) <echarlie> like, I turned off my adblocker, and *nothing* <lukas> it's a test for the computer clubs <lukas> if you pass you get the root password to the gobblerconnect servers <lukas> unhide that element!