I've been using the caliber of firearms that I own to name my machines, 9mm,
380auto, 357mag... I'm waiting to build the mega-powerhouse machine so I can
use 12gauge.
-BA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Glidden" <dglidden@illusionary.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Misc. Annoyances (Hostname/DNS, Samba and Gnome)
>
> I had a little lab network set up for a while with systems named Byron,
> Carrera, Darrian, Jameson, Jeremy, Holmes and Lords. Believe it or not,
> nobody ever got the reference without my having to explain it.
>
> (And just for posterity, it all started when the machine to become
> Holmes was so named because the only power cord I could find for it at
> the time was an unusually long 12-foot cord. The rest just kind'a
> followed.)
>
> "A. Harry Harrison" wrote:
> >
> > I guess you intellectual types go for the greek mythology and
artsy-fartsy
> > stuff... I personally have Homer, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and Moe.... true
> > Americanism :-)
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > A. Harry Harrison
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > >my boxes are cleobis and daedalus
> > > > >
> > > > > Cool! my laptop is Icarus :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Seth
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.opendvd.org/
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
>
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