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.

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click here for hot cluster love

[deft]

box on box action, 2, 3, 4 boxes at a time. you've never seen cluster action like this before.

Old lady missing some keys seeks younger processor

[DigitalDreg]

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'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 ... I channel through other computers on occasion.

Interested? Just finger me! Today I can be found at 204.73.163.16.

Re:I was going to submit my computer....

[atrowe]

It's got remarkable "uptime" though. ;)

Time Flies

[sonofepson]

Ahh, my little linux box. It seems like I built you only yesterday, and now here you are dating (dataing?)
Hey wait, I did build you yesterday, switch to runlevel 1 now missy your not ready for this yet.

Even your box can get laid

[SpanishInquisition]

but not you

hmm..

[Niac]

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."

Re:hmm..

[aidoneus]

The hard drives in my system have been mounted more time in the past year that I have been in my lifetime... It's just not fair... ;)

SWM (Single-processor Windows2000 Mid-tower), seeking SLF (Single-processor Linux Full-tower) for distributed processing, file serving, and cd-burning. Willing to shared dedicated T-1, and lloking for someone to run fingerd. Interested? Please ping 192.168.1.1 for more information.

getting ready for the date...

[azephrahel]

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....

Social Problems.

[griffjon]

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.

Re:Social Problems.

[dattaway]

Can Linux Boxen ever get along with Windows,

No, windows boxen are the inbreds from the Redmond campus and their code doesn't fork.

Re:Social Problems.

[PCGod]

> Aren't people worried about their computer getting an STD (SMTP-transmitted Disease)??

That's why it's important to use protection. All the ports on my box (must be female) are filtered, so no STDs can get through. All incoming connections are monitored for just that kind of thing. It's also useful in the prevention of unwanted child processes. You know how it is. When two machines get together, they just wanna fork().

Interests...

[selectspec]

Looking for alternative net appliance or loadbalancer willing to play masquerade and be submissive to an app server.

Psychological profiles

[Alien54]

Do they screen these machines for Stability, and the like? the last thing we need is a bunch of Stalker boxen in the pool.

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?

Network Blues

[Erasmus Darwin]

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.

Human Dating

[G. Waters]

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 left out a very important statistic

[jandrese]

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 don't know why, but...

[po_boy]

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.

Computers are doin' it for themselves

[Ukab the Great]

Even if my box is lonely, it can still have fun with its Palm.

Computers can do it too

[Ryu2]

from the Jargon file...

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.