I'm sure I've seen some /. article asking this question, but I'm too lazy to find a link, and my readership is small but sufficiently geeky that I'm sure someone will track it down and post it. Here's my take on it, fresh from IRC:
Note: Read the comments I'm wrong about what “exempt” means.
<> yeah, [...]
If your backup Solution involves your Unix systems administrator not sleeping functionally for about thirty-six hours around the time of the full/level 0/call 'em what you like backups, you might want to reconsider precisely what it is that this Solution is solving.
You dirty, rotten, pig-fucking assholes.
Cross-posted to .
From: “Loretta User” <LUSER@employer.dom>
Subject: Addition
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:41:55 -0500
To: <root@ftp.employer.dom>
Hello
Can you please add my name to the distribution list asap? Thank you.
luser@employer.dom
Loretta User
Senior Account Manager
XXX-YYY-ZZZZ
Fax PPP-QQQ-RRRR
luser@employer.dom
That's [...]
… it took you upwards of five seconds to remember the password.
Not because it's new. Because you're drunk.
And do I care? Nah! I'm the super-drunk-user!
Over in .
This:
sub strdec($) {
return (split(/ /, $_[0]))[0] . ” ” . ((split(/ /, $_[0]))[1] - 1);
}
seems like a good idea.
Kill me now.
And do I go back and rip it out to do things in a sane way?
No, of course not. I add this comment:
# I'm not sure I want to admit to the horror [...]
I wanted to see which of SpamAssassin's tests were actually catching spam for me, statistically speaking. Comparing that to which catch ham, and then modifying the weights of those rules, is my next step after Bayes. This is a continuous battle: whenever the amount of spam in my inbox gets to averaging more than about [...]
09:30 <seanius> dude, the bandwidth in the 64 subnet is amazing
09:30 <seanius> i downloaded the latest knoppix iso in like 5 minutes
09:30 <seanius> it took me longer to burn the cd than it did to download it
09:31 <seanius> i could have piped wget the the stdin of cdrecord
09:38 <raf> the 64 @ [REDACTED]?
09:40 <gr> SHIT!
09:40 [...]