Mr. Gus - Slashdot User

Comment: Another Blizzard 404... (Score 1) 166

by Mr. Gus on Tuesday June 28 2011, @03:47PM (#36602996) Attached to: 30 Creative 404 Error Pages

In Silent Hill 2, the main character wanders through a forest into the town of Silent Hill. Once in Silent Hill, if you enter a certain building, you're greeted with the following:

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/56/258639-sh2_neelybar_hole_super.jpg

If you happen across a 404 on Battle.Net's wow forums, you're greeted with the following:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/d

MIT Tracking Campus Net Connections Since 1999 125

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 18 2009, @06:44PM
from the why-assume-otherwise? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MIT has been monitoring student internet connections for the past decade without telling them. There is no official policy and no student input." The Tech article says, though, that the record keeping is fairly limited in its scope (connection information is collected, but not the data transferred) and duration (three days, for on-campus connections).

Comment: Lab Computer Scheme (Score 1) 1397

by Mr. Gus on Monday February 02 2009, @10:01PM (#26703531) Attached to: Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do?

And admin here proposed naming our lab computers with the following scheme:

lab[lab #][computer a-z]

So... that way the first one would be lab1a.