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Fantastic word game

Reruns of Perry Mason have been airing on KPTV every day at noon since at least the early 1970s.

[size=8pt]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPTV#The_institution_of_Perry_Mason_at_noon
Indeed, it's literally possible to watch the entire series several times over during one's lifetime via KPTV. Yes, including the one and only episode filmed in colour. (I've seen that one at least twice, myself.)
 
So there in the previous sentence in my haste to make another TFWG contribution I did type "there" instead of "their" which normally would not be that big of a deal but since I'm filling in for the Game Czar all week while he vacations in Florida, I need to set the example for the rest of you so as a penalty, I will impose upon myself a time out and two demerits.

Good catch, Darth...you da' man!
 
dmargalotti's error completely escaped my notice, but then anticipating the annual report of heading to the tri-state area for the holidays, just like that first year, was on the horizon, so everyone there gets to ignore it all and just have a swell time while lurkers lurk in their rentals or loaners.

Who knows? Maybe they'll report that they are really there to keep an eye on things because they were asked to, so they elicited assistance. We want some hand holding on a casual walk, and some going outside for the morning paper in robe and slippers, a visit to the coffee house; you know, all the simple things that normal people do without hearing the details come back at them another day, because somebody told them to find out all the details about you, in case that person would like to get to know you, all about you.
 
It should already be a well-known fact that Fred Meyer's store-brand milk tastes fresher and better than that which Safeway sells under its store brand Lucerne.

[size=8pt]And that's why my cutie Bev serves only Fred's milk in the cafeteria!

F.Y.I., I just had a big bowl of cereal and all I had to put on it was Lucerne milk. Tasted like it just came straight out of the cow (that's how my Dad describes it, anyways. He'd know, having grown up a farm boy.) Yuck.
 
Lucerne sounds like something we did not serve at this time last year, this year, or next year, and in fact we will probably serve nothing if that's what it is.

I may have to ask the IT guy to have a look at this mess that showed up on the library's computer and cell phone spam screens. Of course, recognizing that we have special privacy settings on the staff lines, that is what makes it so odd over the past three weeks. MikeyKlickup, BarbaraCameron, The King of Tops, all sending e-mail with the subject line "omg!". LOL, and then on the cell phone, one of my personal, tender favs, just "Tom". ROFL It'd like to have made the silk in my hat fray. I've saved them for posterity. And, of course, good ol' names with the "a" at the end have also sent some, just in case, I reckon. Sing the chorus, children.

So, you see, you were not alone in having freaks on the horn, Darth_vader.
 
If that's what it is, it probably means something's screwed up somewhere.

[size=8pt]I'm heading to the University to-morrow, so I'll have a look at it. If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say probably one of the guys in the Window$ Lab opened up their firewall which let some sort of anomaly in to the system--definitely shouldn't be happening otherwise. (I was planning on taking wgnet down for a several hours for maintenence anyways.) I can tell you, in all likelihood, it didn't have to do with our moving equipment to 130/141, as that was strictly a hardware issue!

As for the cell f0nes, I can't do anything about that myself as I only service the PBX and computer networks. The cell phones are handled by the phone company. The most I can really do is file a trouble report with them and see how long it takes for them to get around to fixing it.
 
Something's screwed up somewhere, but it is within the network itself, and is undoubtedly a team effort intended to get attention, but that is why we have a spam/junk "folder".

No worries, the appropriate parties will be duly punished.
 
"We have a SPAM/junk 'folder'", quipped Miss Silkie, which shows how new she is to computers because none of the file systems on wgzoo/p-w-03 nodes and terminals have "folders", they have "directories".

[size=8pt]Nope, not even on the handful of MACs scattered about the network. Just directories. "Folders" are what you find the papers in the computer centre's vertical files being stored in.
 
They have "directories" at the reference desk of the library, but when we need any bit of information or listing, we are already hooked to the UNIVAX through the FWG smartphone app.
 
The FWG smartphone app, or "programme" as the more educated amongst us call your "apps", is another venture I'm not involved in (refer back to the bit about the phone company), and it certainly wouldn't be able to access Univax, because that system existed at U.C. Berkely and to the best of my knowledge, it hasn't been re-activated in almost 25 years.

[size=8pt]Yup, UCB really did have a DEC 11-780 called "Univax", and the last I've ever seen anything about it was in a printout of a 1988 Usenet/UUCP logical map in my Dad's files that lists it as a node on UCB's "Berknet" network. (But you probably meant to say "UNIVAC" didn't you, Quad? ;o)

Oh yeah, I figured "what the hell" and went to the University to figure out what was going on. Running a traceroute on one of the SPAM messages proved my theory to be correct: it was malware originating in the Windows lab (the only node on wgnet where that could happen--everything else is on *X/*SD, VMS or OS/X.) So I ended up wiping the server (it too is BSD, but I wiped and restored it as well "just in case"), wiping all the boxes on it remotely, and got the whole thing back up in a matter of hours. Amazing how efficient restoring 85 Win2KSP4 boxes all at once from an image on a central server is, compared to doing them all individually! ;o)

So when any of you log in there next week and have an account on it, your files will all include your work as of one week ago. Of course, being responsible wgnet users, I trust that everybody keeps regular (recent) backups of all their work.....!!! (And next term I'm having that entire fleet replaced with thinclients and feed them from a centrallised copy of Window$ on a locked-down server native to the Winlab. The current setup's just too risky as it is.)

F.Y.I., the library server is called "fwguncvxcc" and actually homes on p-w-01. It ties to wgnet through the branch nodes "media-01", "silkie" and "kfwg". I'll be posting a logical map on here within the coming week or so, once I finish it.
 
It hasn't been re-activated in almost 25 years here on the main campus but anything is do-able here at TFWG so if there's a way to do it, we'll do it.


It might mean quadruple overtime for Darth and the boys in IT but I know Darth and they boys are always willing to go the extra mile and a half for us. We'll discuss it at tomorrow morning's meeting. I leave here in a few hours, I'll be home tonight.
 
We'll do it every time a bot, whatever form it takes, buzzes and hovers, pushes buttons and mosies anywhere near our systems, because my cast iron skillet has a reflex action that is unsurpassed in the digital world.

It is often helpful, even fun, to make them swarm and herd themselves into a position of offering comfort to the others when they are caught in their own "web", making the announcement that if one doesn't see the intended victim it probably just means it is away from the system for a few minutes. We do our part here in the fun department.
 
A reflex action that is unsurpassed in the digital world will result as people come in from all corners of the FWG when Megan McCormick visits us for a spell.

Nah, I meant UNIVAX Darth. I just noticed your security clearance hasn't been updated since your promotion, so you might not have been apprised as of yet. :)
 
When Megan McCormick visits us for a spell, I'll be sure to be there to meet her and discuss how her work can be of any value to our band campers but I hope any future visit isn't tomorrow (technically today) because I just got home six hours late (stupid airline!) so I won't be at my best on Monday and may have to keep dmargalotti in the corner office for another day.

I'm very sure he won't mind picking up my slack.
 


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