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I was talking about late-90s campus network safety and how I got in trouble for “running a server”

Still working on my full post about using the Internet in the #1990s, but I found an old blog entry from 2004 where I was talking about late-90s campus network safety and how I got in trouble for “running a server” because I used Linux to avoid all the pranks and hacking going around with everyone’s Windows 95 computers.

Original blog post:
K2R: Internet Security Perspective

Imported to my Gemlog:
Gemlog: Internet Security Perspective

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Funny how in 2004, seeing 3 wireless networks in the building seemed like a lot!

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Does anyone remember what dedicated #gopher clients were around in the early 1990s? I remember …

Does anyone remember what dedicated #gopher clients were around in the early 1990s? I remember using Netscape & Mosaic, but I could swear I used *something* gopher-specific at the school computer labs, or maybe there was an application in the collection of internet software that the school offered to students.

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Plumbing snafu (followup)

So, this is the dining room right now.

The best part?

There are no pipes under that part of the slab.

It turns out the leak was in the next unit over, but didn’t show up there. (Yes, the plumbers checked there before arranging with the owner to start digging.) It ran under the wall and cabinets until it seeped up into our floor.

Now we get to have a big hole in our floor until it all dries out and they can patch it.

An empty room with the carpet peeled up revealing a concrete floor with a 1.5x1.5 foot hole in the corner and a pile of dirt next to it.

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So far it’s not as bad as the mold infestation in the kitchen a few years back where they had to rip out half the walls and we had a plastic sheet across the kitchen door that we walked through to get at the refrigerator. We did a lot of cooking in the microwave and an electric skillet.

Though I guess it’s going to depend on (a) how long the room stays like this and (b) whether they need to rip out the cabinets too.

Plumbing snafu

Looks like we have a leak in the pipes under the dining room floor. Our apartment has a concrete slab foundation. And the pipes are embedded in it.

Yay 1970s (60s?) construction.

Fortunately (no really) the leak seems to be continuous, because that means it’s probably a supply line – which they can bypass. If it’s the drain line they’ll have to jackhammer out the dining room floor 😬

Also that means the carpet’s soaking in *clean* water.

Plumber’s coming tomorrow morning.

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Is there a more monotonous song for backup singers than “Sympathy for the Devil?” Woo wooo! Wooo wooo!

Is there a more monotonous song for backup singers than “Sympathy for the Devil?”

Woo wooo! Wooo wooo!

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Neighbors are listening to a Rolling Stones collection and this is the only part of the song that carries. It’s like there’s an insistent owl next door.

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It doesn’t help that my wake up alarm is currently set to an owl-hoot sound, so in the back of my head I keep thinking I need to dismiss an alarm

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So tired of alleged USB cables that use proprietary connectors. It’s like…you were so close…

So tired of alleged USB cables that use proprietary connectors.

It’s like…you were so close. You used a standard USB charger. With a standard USB connector…at one end.

But I still need your special cable with it’s special connector to actually be able to charge this damn thing.

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How the heck does a balloon survive a fondue fork but break against a popcorn …

How the heck does a balloon survive a fondue fork but break against a popcorn ceiling?

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Related question: how the heck did we end up with a fondue fork in the first place?

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It has to have been a gift but I can’t remember who it was from or what for or when or anything.

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