Wednesday, Debtember 10, 2008
beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
2:17 am and I'm still waiting for that server to finish fscking. It
wouldn't be so bad except for two things:
- the server is in single-user mode, so I have to stick around until it
finishes running the
fsckto kick it into multiuser mode (which brings all the services like mail and web back up) and - this incessant beeping that a piece of equipment here keeps making. Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep … it's driving me insane!
So, until next time … beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep …
Beats
You know, after three and a half hours the beeping has strong beat you can dance to.
Debeep beep beep beep. Debeep beep beep beep. Debeep beep beep beep. Debeep beep beep beep. Debeep beep beep beep. Debeep beep beep bop. Debeep beep beep bop. Debeep beep beep bop. Debeep beep beep bop. Debeep beep beep bop. Debeep beep bop bop. Debeep beep bop bop. Debeep beep bop bop. Debeep beep bop bop. Debeep shabeep bop bop. Debeep shabeep bop bop. Debeep shabeep bop bop boom. Debeep shabeep bop bop boom. Debeep shabop beep beep boom. Debeep shabop beep beep boom. Debeep shabop beep beep boom. Debeep beep beep beep.
Can you dig it?
It only took 5 and a half hours …
5:27am. The recalcitrant machine is back up and running. The lights in The Data Center hate me though—apparently, fluorescents don't like doing that whole rave party thang.
Thankfully, I can leave the beeping.
It might help your case if you actually owned the item before selling it …
This just landed in my email:
- From
- Dan Johnson <dan@domainguardsystem.com>
- To
- sean@conman.org
- Subject
- XXXXXXXXXX.com for the owner of XXXXXXXXXX.org
- Date
- Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:02:38 -0600 (CST)
Hi,
The domain
XXXXXXXXXX.comhas recently become available for us so we are offering it to you, because you are the owner of its.orgversion.Domain Guard System is intended to assist our clients with their promotion on the Internet. We use many methods to increase the effectiveness of a client's presence on the Web. Securing
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.comis of great importance for any domain holder:
It's in the essense of Internet:
.comis most popular and widely used, and the typical user usually supposes that he/she will find you atXXXXXXXXXX.com.A lot of companies and organizations who use other extensions as primary (
.netfor Web services or private sites,.orgfor non-profit organizations etc.) are securing.comsnot to lose the visitors who are seeking them there.With
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.com, you will be sure to stay #1 in your own name space.If you are interested in this domain, please act quickly, as we soon intend to bring it to the auction where the acquisition cost will be higher than now.
Please use the link below to discover the current cost of the domain, read more about the advantages of owning a .com and get information on the details of the purchase and domain transfer procedure:
Secure
XXXXXXXXXX.comnow![link deleted —Editor]
Best regards,
Dan Johnson
Domain Guard System
mailto: dan@domainguardsystem.com
Oh really?
I decided to see if they had a parked page on XXXXXXXXXX.com and no, no website. Heck, there
didn't appear to be any DNS
information for the XXXXXXXXXX.com
domain. I checked to see of the domain in question was even registered, and
well …
[spc]lucy:~>whois XXXXXXXXXX.com [Querying whois.internic.net] [whois.internic.net] Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. No match for domain "XXXXXXXXXX.COM". >>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:25:08 EST <<<
Now it's getting interesting. Let me check with my registrar to see if I
can register XXXXXXXXXX.com … well,
how do you like that? It's available! I can register it right now for
$15.95 (yes, I know, not the cheapest registrar out there, but I've been
using them for years now and never had a problem with them, and if it ain't
broke, don't fix it).
So, how much is Domain Guard System asking for it?
Here's How To Buy
The price for XXXXXXXXXX.com is: $99.00
Please click on the “PayPal—Click Here To Buy” button below to make payment via PayPal.
Payments made through PayPal are Safe and Secure. You can pay by credit and debit card, or using your PayPal account. Please note, that the credit card information you submit is only viewable for PayPal.com and not for us.
The refund will be issued on your payment in case of any problems with the domain transfer.
Once paid, your domain name information will be delivered to your email address in next 15 to 30 minutes.
Please read our FAQ if you have more questions concerning purchase procedure and further domain management.
$99? And Domain Guard System isn't even squatting on it?
Sometimes I think I'm in the wrong business.
