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Re: Vista default Startup and Shutdown sounds finalised

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 11 August 2006 12:07 \__
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>>> This bring to mind: ...there was once an article featured in
>>> Slashdot, which showed how to hack tinyurl and use it for mass
>>> storage

>> ???

> Googling 'tinyurl hack slashdot' and hitting the fig leaf coughs up
> (Ghost's phrase) the following:

LOL! Is that the naturists equivalent of "I Feel Lucky"?

> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/25/0350222
>
>         TinyDisk, A File System on Someone Else's Web App

I get it. Nice.

Now *that* is ingenious. Bet he employed a bit of lateral thinking on
that one.

>> I've been on Usenet since 1959.

> How did that work? Must have sounded like a network of drug-selling
> gangs at the time.

We used paper cups connected with string.

You have *no* idea how hard it is constructing a Beowulf cluster of
those things.

>> Well actually I had my dinner first, then finally went online at
>> about 2015.

> C*ap. My system clock is unaligned again.

Actually I lied, it was my breakfast.

I'm burning the candle at all three ends. Insomnia is a bastard.

But hey, I finished Star Trek Voyager. I'm back onto The X-Files
... again. Must be why I'm in such a weird mood.

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