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|    mark lewis to Al Kaiser    |
|    Where's all the traffic    |
|    09 Dec 16 10:20:42    |
      09 Dec 16 09:54, you wrote to me:               ml>> perhaps you could simply send an areafix for this area with a        ml>> rescan command?               AK> Did that also for B5, Trek and Taglines, lets see what shows up.              probably not much since they are pretty quiet these days... quiet as in maybe       a post or two a year unless something pops up like an episode discussion or       the noting of an actor's passing...               AK> Hope is did it right I'm not that used to doing command things much. I        AK> just keep plugging along the way I've been going.               :)               AK> Every once in a while see an older moive find a good tagline and from        AK> it and edit my tagline files.              i grab tag lines from all kinds of places... even taking some good statements       or phrases and chopping them into tag lines...               ml>> Always Mount a Scratch Monkey               AK> Never understood or knew what Scrach Monkey is?              kinda like having a scratch piece of paper while taking a test... something to       scribble on without messing up the original... in this case, uncle google is       your friend...              https://www.google.com/search?q=Always+Mount+a+Scratch+Monkey                     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey       Scratch monkey is a term used in hacker jargon, as in "Before testing or       reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise       caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices.                     http://edp.org/monkey.htm       [...] So five monkeys were fitted with caps intended to sense brain waves, and       the caps were attached to various A-to-D and D-to-A converters [...] connected       to the VAX. This connection was piggybacked on a disk drive [...] mounted       read-only--the read-only button was pressed and taped over with a warning not       to remove it. [...] The room containing the monkeys was several stories       removed from the computer room. [...] the VAX crashed. It was on a service       contract, [...] The Digital Field Service engineer came in, removed the disk       from the drive, figured it was then okay to remove the tape [holding down the       read-only button] and make the drive writeable, [...] monkey brains are not       designed to handle the electrical signals they received. You can imagine [...]                     http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Folklore/Al       ays%20Mount%20A%20Scratch%20Monkey.html       or tinyurl - http://tinyurl.com/h5p8mhf                     http://www.acme.com/jef/netgems/scratch_monkey.html                     some stories say the machine was a PDP11 and i've also seen mentioned a       PDP12... the system in question was a VAX and the monkeys affected really were       affected... one, named Mabel, had even been trained to swim underwater with a       mouth piece like scuba divers use... but i'll let you read the above links...       i'm sure you will understand more about the statement when you are finished       reading ;)              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... I have responsibilities; so many people rely on me for fun. - Neekha       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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