I was going through the spam report mailbox and found this. It's cleaned a bit — the removes of the company name are mine, the redacted is AOL (yea, it makes it a pain to track them, thus why I had a bunch piled up from earlier this week and only saw this today).
Subject: Email Feedback Report for IP <removed>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:26:03 EST
From: scomp@aol.net
To: <removed>
This is an email abuse report for an email message received from IP address <removed> on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:47:50 -0500
<generic stuff removed>
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Feedback-Type: abuse
User-Agent: AOL SComp
Version: 0.1
Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:47:50 -0500
Source-IP: <removed>
Reported-Domain: <removed>
Redacted-Address: redacted
Redacted-Address: redacted@
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Subject: [redacted] <removed> Closing at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday Due to Winter Weather
From: cmannounce@<removed>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:42:58 -0600
To: redacted@<removed>, redacted@<removed> redacted@<removed> redacted@<removed>
CC:
<removed> will close at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 1, due to the severe weather. All <removed list of programs> classes scheduled after that time are cancelled. Employees may also leave at that time.
I guess if they want to stick around and work, attempt to go to classes, or whatever else (I don't know the person's status with the institution, and I'm not going to look it up either), they can do so. It just gave me a bit of a laugh (even though I speculated when it first went out that at least one person would probably do this).
I noticed this on the welcome center window while driving into work this morning. I wonder if someone decided that shooting at security may help get them past the checkpoint. It does leave the question of whether whoever was in there didn't notice or didn't care (given that it has been stuck there all day today).
So I'm a bit behind and this is sorta old, but Charlie Brown Christmas - Performed by the Cast of Scrubs.
And you always thought those Windows screenshots of that were a joke...
This was posted to Resnet-L yesterday (went through today) by Adam Ward. List archives are closed, so you can subscribe to see the thread/full attribution, but here's the funniest story in the thread so far.
Just be careful who is around when talking about Freezing drives. I had an interesting call towards the end of last year. A young lady had her hard drive go bad. Her boyfriend overheard a few of the CompSci students talking about freezing drives to recover data. Well, he decided to freeze her's to give it a try.
Her boyfriend called and left me the following voicemail.
I put the drive in the chest freezer over the weekend. When I went to get it, it was cold, so I put it some cold water to defrost it. Well, it was still cold about 10 minutes later, and she really needed her paper, so I decided to use the microwave to defrost it. I don't think that worked. How is someone supposed to defrost a frozen drive? Should I put it in the oven? Oh yeah, any reason why this would cause my microwave to stop working?
I wish I was only joking about the above, but I tell that story every year to the student workers, to remind them to be careful of what they say around non-techie students, especially when they are on the job!
The Blogger's Dictionary. It includes some general Internet/technology related things too. Browser: An application used to receive error messages from a server.
"I am a troll on the chat.... Watch how-" /ban
One of the funniest things I have read recently. Note it's not clean, and if you don't know Firefly/Serenity well or get the IRC format, it probably won't make sense.
Screen shot from our problem tracking system. And why exactly is this a server team problem and why the heck are a bunch of comptuter geeks supposed to be able to resolve it? :) It's actually an unfortunate abbreviation.
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