The only thing rotten is the mellon inside your skull...
This is someone playing around with domains in the whois database so that
when you search for slashdot.org it comes up with that as well... Another
example is from microsoft.com, one of the results is:
MICROSOFT.COM.WHOIS.RESULTS.MAKE.A.GREAT.HUMOUR-LIST.COM
The levels of stupidity generated when slashdot is up are bad enough, lets
not try to set new records while it is down.
The only thing rotten is the mellon inside your skull...
Having a bad day ?
This is someone playing around with domains in the whois database so that
when you search for slashdot.org it comes up with that as well... Another
example is from microsoft.com, one of the results is:MICROSOFT.COM.WHOIS.RESULTS.MAKE.A.GREAT.HUMOUR-LIST.COM
The levels of stupidity generated when slashdot is up are bad enough, lets
not try to set new records while it is down.
Yes, I've been reading this list daily for a few years. I know it's just funny
to watch what happens on some of the other lists 
Flame away if you don't have a life
my lawn mower won't start... it must be exodus.
/rf
Be careful Rich, the next thing that happens is 15% or your technical
expertise gets retired early.
boys and girls. this is not a good time for the industry, and is likely
to remain poor [0]. the karma from picking on a provider which is having
a bad season at the moment may come back to haunt you next season.
randy
Whoever stopped investing in guns? [oops, did I say that outloud?]
Deepak
Whoever stopped investing in guns? [oops, did I say that outloud?]
Funny, I was looking at a stainless Mini-14 .223 this morning
and thinking $499 is a good price. (Gun Show's are great on Sunday AM)
Yes, our NOC has a large well equipped gun safe in it, it's also handy for
backup tapes/CD's and expensive licensed software.
But the most important part of this thread that was painfully obvious
is our increasing addiction, if not outright dependence upon certain
websites sponsored by well meaning companies (corporate sponsers)
that may not be able to continue this financial support.
Our business has a large open source centric software development
angle, and it has actually impacted the way we do business, even over a
weekend. It's Sunday AM, and there is a small team of geeks working on
projects, at least CPAN, Sourceforge and other sites are up.
As for routers being repossessed, we are spending this weekend setting
up servers for some new clients that can not get into some other colo
facilities because the landlord padlocked the doors to the NOC they were
renting space/bandwidth from.
Dispite all of the technical expertise available, many of these companies
are suffering from financial realities that technology can not solve.
Was technology really supposed to change every aspect of the way we live in
such a short period of time, when in most cases what was driving acceptance
was just expenditure of money and NOT actual paradigm-shifting technology?
I have a hard time believing any geeks voluntarily get up on a Sunday AM, so
I am assuming you/they were up all night.
Guns in your operations center.... hmmm. brings new meaning to the term
"access terminated" eh?
Deepak Jain
Whoever stopped investing in guns? [oops, did I say that outloud?]
Deepak
I diversified a few months before Y2K. I'm now into guns (no S&W, Ruger,
or Colt), ammunition, and a few memberships to various RKBA/Pro Second
Amendment organizations for the family.
Regards,
Andover has posted something about slashdot and other sites being down at
http://216.136.171.207/
Bill Sehmel
Just wanted to drop a note saying that the OSDN network seems to be in
operational mode.
-Bill Sehmel
maybe there should be a nanog range day
Off-list there has been some emails flying about
comparing various gun(s) in the NOC issues.
Apparently lots of us work strange hours in
bad places. Perhaps we can haul some hated
junk equipment to the range and use it for target
practice? So long as 'Going Postal' does not become
'Going NANOG'.
maybe there should be a nanog range day
Mmmm... well, there's certainly a history of pre-NANOG field trips, and
the next NANOG is in Oakland... Not to say that Oakland is a free-fire
zone or anything, but it would certainly be easy enough to arrange for the
use of a range the Sunday before the next meeting.
-Bill
Am I the only one that thinks it is a bad idea to get people on this list
together with firearms? 
North
American
Network
Of
Gun slingers
Or, maybe this is way to resolve disputes? With targets of course. 
jas
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...Perhaps all peering disputes should be settled on the range?
Matt
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Peering agreements get resolved so much quicker, and almost no one mentions
the word "lawyer".
Or, it supports the idea that the Internet is still the wild west.
Deepak
There was at DC-Nanog, about 10 of us went out to Chantilly..
I'll pay the range fees. (If you shoot at my range!)
Sounds like one of ESR's "Geeks With Guns" events in the making I tell ya.
D