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A Valentine for your Box
j1mmy writes "The people at totl.net have put together a Computer Dating Service. You enter some vitals about your box and can match it up with other people's boxen. Even machines should find true love." And for those of you who've forgotten your flesh and blood valentines, you just have time to pick up some chocolate and flowers on the way home.
My Linux box (2.4.1) is compiled with many cool features (gotta love usb) and iptables is right among them. Thats right; my packeting firewall is handled by my system itself. I can hear many of you think 'yeah, what else is new'. Well; think about it... I've set it up manually and its pretty 'paranoially' setup.
Now, I'm going to use this service and my box will find another box and gets totally crazed about it. What would be the number one thing to do in order to get contact through the box?
Think about it... I *knew* it would be a bad idea getting packeting firewall support into the kernel :)
Ok, thats enough nonsense for me today :)))
Sigmund Freud wrote a book on interpretations of dreams, I think a box in that book means a vagina.
Try this:
http://www.psychwww.com/books/interp/toc.htm
You can't handle the truth.
box on box action, 2, 3, 4 boxes at a time. you've never seen cluster action like this before.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Hi, I'm an older but energetic lady looking for a young stud. I'm a 486-66 DX/2 with 20MB of RAM (in 30 pin SIMMs), 256kb cache, VESA local bus SCSI and VESA local bus video! I live in an original IBM AT desktop case (a fixer-up), and I direct traffic for a cable modem and two pentium boxes in a residential neighborhood.
... I channel through other computers on occasion.
I've got 4GB of storage, but I only have 84 keys on my keyboard - no jokes about hitting F11 or F12 keys, ok? I don't have a monitor either
Interested? Just finger me! Today I can be found at 204.73.163.16.
To "Dual Booting". Hey baby I can be whatever you want - sweet little linux box, naughty Win2K machine, what do you like?
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
It's got remarkable "uptime" though. ;)
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
Oh sure, it sounds nice and funny to think of computers dating. But have you considered the other side of that? Computer breakup? Do you really want to console your machine for months on end as it does nothing but sob about its hurt feelings and download romantic movies just because it was left for some slut with a bigger hard drive? As if they're not needy enough as it is....sheesh.
*Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute. Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life*
Hey wait, I did build you yesterday, switch to runlevel 1 now missy your not ready for this yet.
If Godzilla did not exist, man would have had to create him.
SEE ALSO:
baby(1), celibacy(1), choad(1), condom(1), dream(1), echo(1), lsd(1), sex(6).
-- Stanislav Shalunov
but not you
Je t'aime Stéphanie
I hate valentine's day
root@localhost# finger @mylove.net
[connection refused]
Poot.
root@localhost# logout
Maybe next year...
"We have the right to believe at our own risk any hypothesis that is live enough to tempt our will."
http://gabrielcain.com/
Yea but finding a match is only the start...what will your computer do to dress up for its date?
Clean out all the dust, wrap the cables... tie things down, a few new stickers and put the case back on? What if its cords are a mess? Humm. My computer was never a pretty computer like a Mac is...its kindof plain...grey box, purple buttons. It will have to find an understanding box, or one without a cam to see it with....
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Aren't people worried about their computer getting an STD (SMTP-transmitted Disease)??
Can Linux Boxen ever get along with Windows, or is the book, _Linux is from Finland, Microsoft is from Seattle_ the end?
And, seriously, what about problematic relationships and their ends? Core dumps can be nasty.
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
Looking for alternative net appliance or loadbalancer willing to play masquerade and be submissive to an app server.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Hi! This is the Sig, blatantly attached to the end of this comment.
And what can we say about the temperment of something prone to BSOD? or can they even legally mention handicaps and diseases like that? (Or would It be Prejudice?)
even though there is not too much danger of transmitting a virus or something like that between species (Mac to Wintel, for example) do we have a morality police who will make it its'job to to maintain an appropriate level of purity?
For that matter, when was the last time YOU took a purity test?
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
My girl ignores my pleading call
dropping my queries at her firewall.
She said I'm just a horny toad
'cause I left eth0 in promiscuous mode.
You can specify rules for who matches your computer based on everything from age to storage(permanent and RAM) and even assign _importance_ to these factors. Then the results come back with scores. I met my match in "geek" What a suprise.
But I really love these options.
(select your interests)
HTTP
FTP
Telnet
SSH
DNS
CVS
Networking
File Serving
Databases
Word Processing
Music Making
MP3s
Graphics
Desktop Publishing
Games (3D)
Games (2D)
Games (Text)
Games (Online)
Games (MMORPG)
Code Hacking
Naughty Hacking
Warez
Pr0n
Web Surfing
I'm going to put in one of the servers at work and show it's only interest as Pr0n and see how many matches I get.
Steven
-- I have marked myself unwilling to moderate-- I don't have other accounts to artificially inflate the karma of
There is a free site for _human_ dating at http://www.othersingles.com/ for any of you social hermits who happen to be feeling lonely at the moment. There are a few other sites like friendfinder and a MS affiliated one (who's name slips my mind currently) that have quite a few people on-board, but I believe they are charging.
Anyone know when a GNU Open-Dating project is going to be started. It seems like they have their hands in everything else (pun intended).
G. Waters
~sigs cause cancer~
They forgot to ask what sex the boxes are. I don't want my box to get get hooked up with another little-endian box, I don't think it could take the embarassment. And just think of the horror of taking out a nice big-endian PPC box only to have it switch on you unexpectedly when you get home! Darn transbytesexual processors...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I read the internet for the articles.
I told my girlfriend that I had a valentine for her box and she got mad at me.
All your events are belong to us.
The picture ruins her true description. `8r(
I'm very blue, i'm very thin, i'm very cute, and I'm lit up like a xmas tree! I have lots of sensative buttons on my front, with an LCD panel to see my 'status'. I'm looking for another rack mounted CPU so that we can 'stack'. I'm also fully mirrored, so redundancy is a plus!
With her luck, she'll get paired up with a gimpy looking desktop. `8r( but she so wants to find a slick looking machine of equal speeds...
--
Gonzo Granzeau
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
1st base: anonymous ftp.
2nd base: user account and shell.
3rd base: NFS, all_squash.
Home run: NFS, no_root_squash.
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Even if my box is lonely, it can still have fun with its Palm.
So, what are the "three bases" in terms of computer dating, and what's a home run??
Any takers?
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Accountability on the heads of the powerful.
Power in the hands of the accountable.
SEX /seks/
[Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus. See also pubic directory.
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