This story isn't unique to any single one of us. Reply inanely here if you too have had a cleaning lady pop a core something (switch|router|something better) to plug in a vacuum cleaner. There's at least ten of you. Come on.

We need to give this cleaning lady (ok, or cleaning man -- no -- cleaning person) a name, like "Reboot Bertha", so that we can just call her this from now on. Alliteration counts.

The object of the preposition was plural. My choice was correct.

You can't convince me the same doesn't occur each morning you wake up -- that the previous instance of you wasn't destroyed while you were asleep and a whole new 'new' simply has the memories of the old.

10 is an even number. There's no duplicates. None of them are filler.

I don't understand how this happened.

Did someone plan this before they wrote it? What gives?

This is EXACTLY what the machine has been tailoring for THOUSANDS OF YEARS (yes capital letters GET YOUR ATTENTION as they are the BASTION PILLARS OF TRUTH)-- Scientists for thousands of years have been performing careful CAD manipulations in an attempt to brainwash the common masses (that means you and me but not your grandboss).

Folks, (I call you folks because it establishes a connection between us as meatspace), You are being persuaded to analyze why artificial human faces are creepy, but the seedy underbelly is that we are REALLY being asked to publicly verify that they are getting CLOSER to HUMANOID PERFECTION. In a nutshell, the people that paid slashdot 5 million bucks for this link are ensuring that YOU (second person you) are ever so slightly just a little eroticized by these computer generated faces. And with that slippery slope comes the coleslaw wrestling of digital whoredom.

Folks, watch out for a nefarious bleak future where computer generated faces are the new future. Because before you know it, you will roll over in bed and that computer face will be YOUR WIFE.

Thanks for listening, and you all have a Merry Christmas. Now get back to running the clock down on your last day before a three day scotch melee. (I started mine a day early)

the buzzing! life isn't supposed to imitate art! I gotta keep moving west or my head will explode!

Wow, someone who's brave enough to stand up for what he believes in is also brave enough to say what he wants in a woman. We're pissed because sometimes he succeeds, apparently.

BTW, this slashdot story is an example of the things media is doing wrong:
http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/there-is-something-to-see-here/

"....Julian Assange is not that important. Don’t give him a Nobel Prize. Don’t demonize him. Don’t line up in solidarity behind someone who may or may not be a serial rapist. Don’t demand the conviction of someone who is only accused of a crime, and needs to be presumed innocent until he is convicted. Demand justice for him — and don’t pretend you know what that is, unless you’re one of the three people who do — but don’t fall into the trap of thinking his conviction, in the long run, has very much to do with the whole host of really important issues that the Wikileaks revelations have brought up. Don’t make him more important than he is.

Wikileaks is only a single part of something that is, on its own terms, very important. They’ve given us a great deal of knowledge about exactly how the American state actually acts, proof that many of the state department’s secrets are simply a way of avoiding democratic oversight, that our diplomatic corps secretly does horrible things in our name. We already had a lot of knowledge of that, but now we have a lot more, and much of it utterly and uniquely damning. Julian Assange is a smart man who’s done some brave things in service of a good cause — and we owe him a debt of gratitude for the gift he’s given us. Thank you, Wikileaks. But that’s all we owe him, and them.

Which is why I want to say this, as clearly as I can: it’s exactly because Assange and Wikileaks are relatively unimportant (compared to the gigantic scandal of the anti-democratic security state in which we now live) that the media has made him into a superstar, has tried to make the entire story about Wikileaks and a single eccentric and interesting character, rather than about the United States government’s actions as a system. The more we focus on him – and I’ve contributed to that, which is why I particularly want to write this post — the more we take attention away from the real story, the substance of the things Wikileaks has revealed....."

I worked with Paul a long time ago at a mom&pop in NH. And I know that he personally did the drive trick and it worked. It was a 9 gig scsi drive with an smtp mqueue on it. He was extremely elated that it had worked, and his portrayal of the story to a wide-eyed netadmin noob (me) was one of those late-night, sipping coffee at the Red Arrow while the raid rebuilds sorta memories that you'll take to your grave.

Sincerely,
Person with a Ph.D. in EE who has worked with hardware development for 15 years.

Aw, that's rough buddy! Hit me up and I'll teach you how to create a login. It's not that bad!

Honest question here. Heck, I would love to know the answer personally. Can you legitimately weld in a 9x15 foot room?

If the answer is actually yes, what equipment do you need to make it safe?

And the final question is, with that equipment, can you legitimately weld in a 9x15 foot room?

You will already have the core things you need 90% of the time. Go install your desks in an ergo way, then give your core tools a nice spot to live. Don't worry, they will get lost, borrowed, and misplaced quickly. Soon you'll have three of each, and you'll always know where one is.

The rest will evolve organically. Let it flow in as each project evolves. The most clever configuration will be the one that is flexed from the inside out, as your frustrations permanently solve yet another configuration issue. In a few years, people will wonder how your tech feng shui is so strong.

Eventually people who visit your hackerspace will coo at the random junk bottles of parts, odd CAD lamp lighting, and floor stains, completely oblivious to the purpose, but envious to their shallow cores at the shininess. You will be envied in your organic nerd pile.

Didnt everyone hate 'the wall'? Just as much?

way too far from wall street. speed of light counts.

Why do all of us technophiles act oblivious when it comes to allocating someone else's bandwidth?

They sold a product, it got attacked and took down everyone else's site in the shared resources, and they got rid of it. If you are supposed to be a profit, and are not, why would they keep you? And their contract allows this.