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The Winchester (remember those?) hard drives had a very musical quality to them.

The boot sequence on my old Laser Turbo XT would boot with (I swear) the opening tones of the "Night Court" theme song. It would play "whirrr-thunk", "whirrr-whirr-thunk-thunk-thunk". I was always disappointed that my drive didn't start into the rest of the song.

You can hear the Night Court theme song here. Just try to imagine those first bassy notes as a loud Winchester drive.

I'll let Daffy speak for me.

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"I curse you with the theme music for Gilligans Island, The Odd Couple, and last but not least Sanford and Son"

And just to be fair, for the other half of the slashdotters who don't have those songs permanently embedded into their brains, here you go:

Gilligans Island
Odd Couple
Sanford and Son

Hope the site survives a slashdotting.

"I curse you with the theme music for Gilligans Island, The Odd Couple, and last but not least Sanford and Son"

And just to be fair, for the other half of the slashdotters who don't have those songs permanently embedded into their brains, here you go:

Gilligans Island
Odd Couple
Sanford and Son

Hope the site survives a slashdotting.

"I curse you with the theme music for Gilligans Island, The Odd Couple, and last but not least Sanford and Son"

And just to be fair, for the other half of the slashdotters who don't have those songs permanently embedded into their brains, here you go:

Gilligans Island
Odd Couple
Sanford and Son

Hope the site survives a slashdotting.

Somehow I am always reminded of this character when I hear about MS's next OS naming system.

You're supposed to use the Q-36, Marvin.

Dehydrated martians? Yeah, I can work with that.

Audioedit: This bunny yelling " Run for the hills, folks! Or you'll be up to your armpits in Martians!"

K-9 wants steak?

I used to be on the networks team at a very large corporation, where we implemented SecurID and PIN for offsite dial-in.

We did everything right, got the clock sync working, got all the managers to buy lots of pricey SecurID cards, found and forcibly removed insecure dial-in boxes scattered around, did all the right audit and test of firewalls, etc.

But the sales group had a bunch of pooled laptops, which sales people used to take out to customer sites. So they would store a SecurID card in the bag, along with a yellow PostIt note showing the PIN code for that SecurID.

That way, not only was the SecurID compromised, but since they were effectively using shared SecurIDs and PINs, we wouldn't even know which idjit sales droid had compromised it.
Doooo, ya stupid idjit rabbit!

State-of-the art tech is no match for the apparently limitless stupidity of users.

In the end, we did the only sensible thing, and revoked offsite dial-in for that group.

What we need is a Foghorn Leghorn proxy! Too bad there isn't a Google Translator...

Nah, that's just residue from the Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator...
Which is completely different from the Illudium Q36 explosive space modulator.

Don't you mean your Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?

I found some as wav files, if that helps. Dr. Who Themes scroll down the list for the Dr. Who themes.

D. Duck, 1970-something, duelling rehearsal

"My God, it's full of money!", he said, shortly before going insane with greed.

"My God, it's full of money!", he said, shortly before going insane with greed.

I've been to other places in the world, but I fell asleep on the plane, so I have absolutely no proof that they didn't circle for 12 hours and land me at the Euro-Simulator in bum-fuck Nebraska. :)

Of course, I believe California was a creation of the media til I drove out here. 2000 miles due West will really remind you that maybe you shoulda hung a left at Albuquerque. :)

I think he still drives an old beat up car and lives in the same tiny house he bought in the 1950's.

We had a local little old lady who trundled about the place in rags with a shopping trolly, doing stuff like picking up cans and generally acting like a bag lady. One day she died, and a friend of mine who does a lot of stuff for the local Catholic church was one of two people tasked with sorting out her estate (she'd left everything to the local Catholic church).

She'd lived in a very old house in the middle of what is now very expensive real estate (but probably would have been twenty pounds a block when she bought). In the course of going through the house, these two men stumbled across caches of money here and there adding up to thirteen million dollars (AUD) in cash. This does not count any other assets at all. Evidently she continually felt poor, and continually responded by accumulating money.

I guess her house and land was worth an additional million or two, and a lot of her chattels were well-kept antiques which probably brought in another few million for their age value alone. Nothing was said about jewelery or investments. You and I might have trouble understanding why she or Ballmer act this way instead of hitting Phuket, DisneyWorld or Vegas, but a surprising number of people are like that, and a surprising percentage of those use that most cursed of justifications for whatever they do: "the end justfies the means" - or, to quote Daffy Duck, "Consequences? Schmonsequences! As long as I'm rich!"

In a way, I can relate to the "same tiny house" - if a house works for me, I see no reason to have to learn new paths to blunder through in the dark (e.g. when a child wakes up or nature calls), new dance steps to organise a meal in the kitchen, and so on. New for new's sake doesn't ring any bells for me. OTOH, my wife just froths at the mouth for "new" all the time. Between us, we strike a reasonable balance.

a.) link...

b.) jeez, d00d, calm down. you're so very angry