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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stryke 9 on March 18, 2003, 04:12:49 pm

Title: Bah
Post by: Stryke 9 on March 18, 2003, 04:12:49 pm

Between the inexplicable system outage (everything works just about fine, I just have to reboot everything three or more times to start up most any program, and my DSL connection works but doesn't work to the extent that I can actually connect to anything), and the amount of work I'm likely to get soon, I'm probably not gonna be able get around much or do anything for the next week or so (depending on if I can get everything somewhat functional any time soon). This is just to let all the project leaders know, since I really don't feel like tracking them all down with the limited net time I have right now.

In summary, the NSA Illuminati terrorist aliens did it. Short of massive and well-concealed incompetence on the part of a certain system administrator, the only possible solution.

Title: Bah
Post by: Fineus on March 18, 2003, 04:24:54 pm

Intelligence gathering patrols have been dispatched, results coming in now.

Stand by.

Title: Bah
Post by: Stryke 9 on March 18, 2003, 04:30:38 pm

[Freeman]Arr, 's a good thing I gots that Y2K bunker still![/Freeman]

I AM kinda curious as to how you can **** up a modem so that the company can't tell it doesn't work anymore, though. As well as how something so infinitely stable as RDS on a system that's too good for it can start ****ing up only after you install it properly, instead of just copying it from hard disk to hard disk...

Title: Bah
Post by: elorran on March 18, 2003, 04:33:47 pm

The warranty ran out just last week probably :shaking:

Title: Bah
Post by: Fineus on March 18, 2003, 04:34:52 pm

Intel reports are conclusive, our findings indicate:

(http://www.film.warka.pl/images/magia/gremlin.jpg)
Gremlins.

Title: Bah
Post by: Stryke 9 on March 18, 2003, 04:38:10 pm

Warranty on a modem with all the technological complexity and delicacy of a rock, or on a 10-year-old souped-up raytracer made for Windows 95 whose company tanked years ago (as opposed to the even older previous version copied off a scratched CD which I'd used to backup a failing computer that was finally virused to death after a series of hardware problems, which ran perfectly fine)?

I'm starting to suspect all the third-party plugins, but they weren't any problem at all before, and they're too damn useful to get rid of, so...

Title: Bah
Post by: elorran on March 18, 2003, 04:38:28 pm

Oh no.  I see that Icefire has been feeding Bobboau after midnight again.  This does is not good Stryke 9's server ;)

Title: Bah
Post by: ZylonBane on March 18, 2003, 05:32:27 pm

I find Stryke's thread titles informative and a valuable aid to the decision-making process of whether or not to click on them.

No, really.

Title: Bah
Post by: Turnsky on March 18, 2003, 05:35:26 pm

well gremlins are a damn sight better than some roaches

(http://www.machall.com/index.php?do_command=show_strip&strip_id=182&auth=01101-10010-01010-10101-11111)

Title: Bah
Post by: DragonClaw on March 18, 2003, 05:41:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ZylonBane
I find Stryke's thread titles informative and a valuable aid to the decision-making process of whether or not to click on them.

No, really.

Mmm, I thought Thunder(I'm not even trying to spell that name he uses now) warned Stryke about doing that awhile ago, if he wouldn't stop... = sw0n3d

Or was that a diff admin...

Title: Bah
Post by: Knight Templar on March 18, 2003, 05:56:04 pm

That was Shrike. Guess he hasn't seen it yet... :(

Title: Bah
Post by: Stryke 9 on March 18, 2003, 06:15:29 pm

Anyway, connection did one of those damned "fixed itself" things. I hate when that happens.


Anyway, yeah. That's just the connection.