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So my padawan learners, what happens when you type "ukink / var/adm/crash" instead of "ulink /var/adm/crash"?  Any clues? 

Your day goes to %$#@*& is what happens.  The you have to either boot off a rescue CD and relink everything by hand (NEAR IMPOSSIBLE) or reload the OS from scratch.  How would Master Opie know this?  He just freaking did it again.  Second time in 15 years.

So todays lesson is........Don't unlink root!!!!

As if the traffic wasn't bad enough this morning I woke up to find the ceiling in my kitchen falling in because the water heater went mental in the middle of the night and dumped itself out all over the upstairs of my apartment.  I may  leave here and never come back to the god forsaken city.

It's finally happened.....

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/19/lcd_tvs_outship_crt_tvs_for_the_first_time/

http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords

http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/416/the_game_industry_salary_survey_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeUhSjuhQYE

Even Andrew can make more than this....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/09/leeds_nhs_gig/

SCHOOL DAYS 1947 vs. 2007

 Scenario:

 Billy goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.

 1947 - Principal comes over, looks at Billy's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Billy.

 2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Billy hauled off to jail

and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

 ********************

 Scenario:

 Johnny and Mark get into a fist-fight after school.
1947 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.

2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge

them with assault, both expelled even though Mark started it.

 ********************

 Scenario:

 Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

 1947 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal.
Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

 2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

 ********************

 Scenario:

 Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

 1947 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

 2007 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster

care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom

has affair with psychologist.

 ********************
 Scenario:

 Sheri gets a headache and takes aspirin to school.

 1947 - Sheri shares an aspirin with a student.

 2007 - Police called, Sheri expelled from school for drug violations.
Car
searched for drugs and weapons.

 ********************

 Scenario:

 Pedro fails high school English.

 1947- Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

 2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state.. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum.

Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because

he cannot speak English.

 ********************

 Scenario:

 Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1947 - Ants die.

 2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security and FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

 ********************
 Scenario:
 Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Heather. Heather hugs him to comfort him.

 1947- In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

 2007 - Heather is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.

She faces 3 years in state prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy..

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Who knew that in-fact yes you can overclock a bacon sandwich.  Lets us see how the experts at Toms Hardware work this miracle of modern day science.

http://www.tomshardware.com/site/flash_videos/overclocking_a_bacon_sandwich.html

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/11/03/microsoft_novell_linux_windows/

The world may come to an end soon.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the1500s:
 
 
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
 
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..
 
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying . It's raining cats and dogs.
 
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
 
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.  Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a thresh hold.
 
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
 
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old..
 
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.  When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.  It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat..
 
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
 
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
 
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
 
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a ..dead ringer.
 
And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring!