Multitasking: Screwing up several things at once... (Skynet Sigs: Robert Early: rob) % Linux - A Thousand Pronunciations, One dream (Skynet Sigs: Stephen Mulcahy: stephen) % Keith Ahern - Live 3D Development - Virtual Reality Modeling Language KAhern@netscape.com - keith@skynet.ul.ie - skynet.ul.ie/~keith (Skynet Sigs: Keith Ahern's sig: included coz we're proud of him) % ...it doesnt matter what happened, we have logs (Skynet Sigs: David Airlie) % Human behavior changes only under the impact of new technology (Paraphrase of Moon's First Law, from Schrodinger's Cat by R.A. Wilson) % Certitude belongs to those who have only lived in a place where everyone believes the same things (The Earth will Shake by R.A. Wilson) % mv brain /dev/null set timeout_message = "I'm sorry, hugh's brain isn't in right now but if you leave a message after the beep he'll get back to you right after the next apocalypse" echo ^G (Skynet Sigs: Hugh) % she cannae take no more captain, it's gonna segfault! (Skynet Sigs: Rob Early's Sig) % Please Remember - do not run MTA's as root, do not make any directories in /usr ( use /u ) and stay away from strange men in skirts (Skynet Sigs: Rob's sysadm's motd Mon Mar 3) % So much insanity, so little time... (Skynet Sigs: 5:00am QuakeFest in intellab) % D: I can never remember popclient's syntax, so i just telnet to the pop server's port, and use the protocol. (Skynet Sigs: dave (hard man) airlie reading his mail) % you know your doing too much work when you type fyp skynet.ul.ie (Skynet Sigs: harted) % And of course I would like to thank the dolphins who sent me telepathic answers while asleep during those feverous moments of lucidity in the middle of drunken dreams. (Skynet Sigs: harted's fyp acknowledgement) % I don't want people looking on and John getting more and more excited ! I just want to be in and out in 10 mins...... Darryl on his FYP Demo... ( I hope ! :-) ) Nicky.. (Skynet Sigs: nicky on darryl, thats john nelson btw) % "chug chug...startinrowser..." (Skynet Sigs: mellodym, now you know what to call that starting up netscape experience) % Darryl: The General Election's on... airlied: THe General Election for what..oh..for all the taoiseachs and stuff..? (Skynet Sigs: Dave showing his knowledge of democracy) % "I am convinced I am Zorro" .. (Skynet Sigs: mellodym paraphrased by K. L.) % "as and when they present themselves I shall have my velcro gloves ready" (Skynet Sigs: mellodym) % "If a published bug in an MS product survives 3 versions of the product then it's not a bug but the correct behaviour" (Skynet Sigs: mellodym slighty paraphrased to fit it in) % You're trapped in a maze of twisty little UNIX variants, all similar. (Skynet Sigs: noone said it but i like it) % Remember most geeks are anal and they get stressed about details which appear insignificant. (Skynet Sigs: noone said it but i like it) % This may come as a shock to some, but Unix does have its good points. (Skynet Sigs: Keith Lynch in response to questioning of his lack of attention to a operating systems module) % Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature (Skynet Sigs: isles) % "Will uninstall Windows 95 for food!" (Skynet Sigs: shabba) % A)bort R)etry I)nfluence with large hammer. (Skynet Sigs: harted) % "I shall explain this by waving my hands about in an appropriate manner." (Skynet Sigs: Cambridge University Math Dept) % telnet skynet.csn.ul.ie 25 220 skynet.csn.ul.ie ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:17:09 GMT requiescat in pace Jon B. Postel (Skynet Sigs: skynets sendmail welcome message) % "[I may not be a programmer], but, since I am a sysop, I do have the potential of becoming a being of pure energy some day". (ILUG Quote: Carl Fleming, tinet sysop) % windows gives a general protection fault.. demon> Ah shit.. I have no condoms.... (Skynet Quote: demon) % mental picture: man glowing with an unholy nimbus of light, a look of concentration on his face. his left hand rests gently on a pristine shiny new 10GB hard drive, his right hand slightly above some charred and shattered debris upon which the blackened letters Microp.. can just be made out. A flow of electrons passes through this gifted individual, small fragments of data are recreated from knowledge gained in a brief perusal of a tripwire report several weeks old. (Skynet Quote: martin, re: recovery of data from a micropolis drive) % >learning VI. How long does it take to say 'use emacs instead'? about as long as it takes to say "join the dark side luke." (ILUG Quote: kevin dunleavy replying to Niall O Broin % [I may not be a programmer], but, since I am a sysop, I do have the potential of becoming a being of pure energy some day. (ILUG Quote: Carl Fleming, tinet sysop) % Jennifer, is it ok if I go over to Ken's place next week to play with lego? (ILUG Quote: Kevin Lyda, while hosting an installfeist) % PF: "Did anyone ever explain to you in school about rhyme and meter?" KL: "i went to school in the states. we didn't use the metric system." (ILUG Quote: Peter Flynn & Kevin Lyda) % AC: "There are no kernel hackers in Ireland. They spend all their time in the pub" JL: "It's a fair cop" (ILUG Quote: Alan Cox and John "Kate" Looney at Intersocs '98) % There's a playstation next my sparc, and me and one of the other programmers here decided to have a game of Gran Turismo. We were playing away having great fun for about 20 minutes when the CEO walks in. He comes over and I was mentally saying 'Fired after less than a week'. He said: Oh wow, GT...have you seen this on the NextGen ? The rendering is amazing...especially when you watch the reflections off the cars in the replay, and continued on his merry way. (Skynet Quote: Martin Gallwey at work (the first time he was caught)) % Board of directors of Argo's umbrella company walked in on the pair of us playing Gran Turismo. Comment: Typical techies...do you have quake ? (Skynet Quote: Martin Gallwey at work (the second time he was caught)) % Where's my 20MB of space? i'm after having to delete a rake of shite 'cos the feckin' paper clip told me to!! (Skynet Quote: Padraig Devery requesting a skynet account due to MSWord) % I have a wonderful proof of that theorem, but this line is too small to show it %