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"can you update that file for me again?"
"I've given you sudo access. work away... hey! where's my server gone?"

He claims it was tcpdump that did it.

While Global Frequency on VCD makes for some fine watching, it's not a particularly good boot disk.

This weekend saw the Monaco Grand Prix, the high point - stylistically speaking - of the Formula 1 season. George Lucas and some of his recent directees were present, and two of the cars - from Red Bull Racing, nee Jaguar, nee Stewart - were reliveried as Star Wars cars complete with laser burns, etc. on the, er, hulls.

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So I was working on some config stuff late at night, and did one of those "sawing off the branch you're sitting on" moves. As a result, I had to get up at godawful o'clock to intercept the staff in the office where I'd sawed off the branch, and get 'em to glue it back on again. And now I'm exhausted, and still have to go to work.

I just read possibly the funniest non-technical thing I've seen amidst jwz's writings, and it brought to mind the following conversation:

Ralph: how d'you take your coffee?
Waider: Black, no sugar. Student coffee.
Ralph: same way as JC's keyboard, then!
Waider: *much laughter*
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We had the Chicken of Dubious Provenance at lunchtime today. I guess I get to find out if my toxin-resistant stomach (developed in college) is still capable of defeating wee beasties.

Having successfully gotten around the fact that the phone salesman had neglected to include my new PIN in the random assortment of doco I acquired at the phone shop, my new phone resolutely refused to switch itself on.