Mr. Fusion says:

#20, Jimy Heel,

a “Your worship is noted” shirt would sell better

Naa, it would attract too much fecal matter. But if fecal matter is your thing, …

RBG says:

Probably one of those technically obscure GIGO issues.

RBG

Mister Mustard says:

#24 – Z-Bitch

There’s nothing wrong with my computer, my browser, my ISP, or me. I access dvorak.org slash blog (when I can) from an XP PC, a Vista PC, or a Mac, using IE, Firefox, Chrome, and occasionally, Safari. Same result every time.

Right now, when it’s working, I get

Pinging dvorak.org [65.49.42.100] with 32 bytes of data:

Ping statistics for 65.49.42.100:
Packets: Sent=4, Received=4, Lost=0 (0% loss)
Approximate round trip time in milli-seconds:
Minimum=128ms, Maximum=130ms, Average-129ms

When it’s not working, I get 100% loss. And if I can’t get on for 4 hours, there’s a magical 4-hour gap in messages posted by OTHER PEOPLE, so I don’t think I’m the only one afflicted by the problem.

I only got the ping timeout after I tried pinging dvorak dot org. I usually just get the same useless error message from the browser about “connection reset while accessing database blah blah blah”, “this page is not available blah blah blah”, or something else, depending on the browser.

Mister Mustard says:

#26 – John C Dvorak

It must have blown up, shrunk back down, and blown up again, because the problem has been intermittent, rather than continuous. In any case, no mention was made of the blow-up.

I still wish that Mr. Curry would STOP SAYING “pokki-STAHN”, “frawnce”, and “JAGG-you-wahr”.

Mister Mustard says:

#28 – Cubie

>>For your homework Mustard tell me 10 ways to
>>view a text file from a Unix command line
>>without using an editor.

Ooooh! A macho Unix command line guy, huh? ROAR! Son, I was pinging on PDPs and VAXes (or “VAXen”, as the more pimply-faced and socially retarded geeks used to call them) when you were shitting your diapers.

I haven’t used Unix in a long time, because I have actual work to accomplish with my computer, rather than engaging in digital masturbation. The same reason I don’t use assembly language. Nonetheless, cat, less, head, tail, more, and pg come to mind. I guess that’s only six, so you must have won. Kudos, stud!!

In any case, wtf does how many Unix commands I can remember after all this time have to do with the fact that the web site was down without explanation? That would seem to be only common courtesy, considering the for-profit nature of the site.

Rick Cain says:

The shirt needs to be prisoner orange.

Mister Mustard says:

#32 – Z-bitch

>>could it be to do wi

wtf does that have to do with anything? The server was down (or “blown up”, if you will). I made my point, that something was fucked up. And not for the first time.

>>I appreciate how Adam Curry correctly
>>pronounces certain words though

I wouldn’t call affecting a chi-chi foreign accent as one approaches mid-life crisis an example of “correct” pronunciation. The guy’s from Washington DC. They don’t talk like Prince Charles in Washington DC. They don’t even talk that way in “frawnce” or “pokki-STAHN”, fer chrissakes.

Mister Mustard says:

#34 – ‘dro

>>What does Unix has to do with PDP’s, Vax’s &
>>mini Vax’s? Enlighten us, please.

If you had done what I suggested, ‘dro, and STFU and done some research, you would not only know what a tautology is, but you would know what PDPs and VAXen have to do with Unix. (I never mentioned mini VAX, but the same principles apply).

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie wrote the first Unix OS for the PDP-7 (later PDP-11); the first commercial release by AT&T (System III) also included support for the VAX-11. Back in the day before every pimply-faced jerk-off could fiddle with Linux on a PC in his mama’s basement, Unix only ran on PDP and VAX platforms.

You should read some of those “Whatever happened to…” articles on the right side of the screen. You might learn something about the history of computing.

In the meanwhile, STFU.

Mister Mustard says:

#36 – ‘dro

>>So, you rather run unix on a vax than VMS?
>>figures.

‘dro, you’d be well advised to take my advice, and STFU. Unix was available years before VMS.

And regardless of that, while you may be the CTO of Kuzconia, I’m not. I didn’t decide what operating systems to use, I just used what was available to me at the time.

As to your piss-poor putdown of me for not using VMS (or RT/ RSX), I’ve used RT-11 and RSX-11 too, as well as VMS and OpenVMS. Along with Multics, OS/2, BeOS, CPM, OS/360, DOS, DR-DOS, Windoze, Windoze NT, Solaris, BSD, Linux blah blah blah. Whatever takes to get the job done. I am not a holy-rolling OS fetishist, as you seem to be. An OS is a means to an end, not an end unto itself.

>>I bet you really ran DOS and are saying you
>>ran Unix to make yourself important.

‘dro, if you think that by claiming to have used Unix I’m trying to “make [myself] important”, you REALLY need to STFU. Right now.

Mister Mustard says:

#38 – jwilliams

ditto!