anyone wanting a chuckle, run a traceroute on ThePirateBay.org :)
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'Sleeper'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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evil jimi - Jun 23, 2006 4:06:55 am PDT #8355 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
DXMachina - Jun 23, 2006 4:54:49 am PDT #8356 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The traceroute is timing out for me, but I do know that if you go to their home page, the title of the browser window is now "The Phoenix Bay."
(And the traceroute finally worked. Heh.)
Jon B. - Jun 23, 2006 5:46:46 am PDT #8357 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
How do you run a traceroute?
Tom Scola - Jun 23, 2006 5:48:42 am PDT #8358 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
From the command line, type "tracert ThePirateBay.org", or on Linux or a Mac, "traceroute ThePirateBay.org".
The punchline can also be discovered by typing "nslookup 83.140.176.146".
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2006 5:51:40 am PDT #8359 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In Windows, open a DOS window and type 'tracert thepiratebay.org' or whatever.
In Linux, Unix and OS X, open a terminal window and do the same, except I think you use 'traceroute' instead.
eta: x-post. I shoulda' known it took me way too long to find that out....
Jessica - Jun 23, 2006 6:28:05 am PDT #8360 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Interesting article about VoIP services.
The BBB says it has collected 1088 complaints against Vonage (which operates the largest Net phone service, with 1.6 million customers in the United States and Canada) in the past 12 months. During the same time period, Verizon fielded 1039 complaints filed against its landline service--though it manages 48.8 million phone lines nationwide. Another VoIP provider, BroadVoice, is the eighth-most-complained-about company in eastern Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont, according to the BBB office serving those areas.
Jon B. - Jun 23, 2006 6:37:39 am PDT #8361 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thank you, Toms!
Jessica - Jun 23, 2006 7:12:09 am PDT #8362 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2006 7:14:55 am PDT #8363 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It needs Bluetooth.
tommyrot - Jun 23, 2006 10:36:58 am PDT #8364 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Can anyone recommend a clock for Windows XP? Preferably translucent.
(I miss the clock that came with Windows 3.x. You could make the clock as big as you wanted - at one job I had a second computer that I almost never used, so I just made the clock fill the whole screen and left it that way.)