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WTF is going on???

Posted on July 1, 2004 By admin 2 Comments on WTF is going on???

I can SSH and email, but I can't reach any website and my MSN barfed right in the middle of a really fun chat with [info]raspberrysalmon.

SHENANIGANS, I say!


Edit: well, it's not just me. I just spoke with a friend who's also on videotron and he's also having weird connection problems. Some websites load, others not, and MSN is also dead. *shakes fist at videotron*

It was funny though. Before we parted ways, I'd managed to get back in touch with Tia by SSH'ing to one of our office servers, forwarding the X-display over SSH tunnel to my home desktop's X server and using a web-based chat client through Mozilla. Now for most of you, this will sound like gibberish. For those of you who understand that last sentence, yes, I can hear your teeth gnashing. It was heavy, it was clunky, it had the lag from hell, but at least it worked :)

Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: it's a holiday here – I'm still pre-coffee
Tia says: LOL… oh dear!!
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: brb – coffee went boing
Tia says: hm… is it supposed to do that?
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: yes it is
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: on my machine anyway
Tia says: *trying to imagine coffee going boing*
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: well, it's not really boing
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: it's more gurgle-gurgle-gurgle-fssssssssssssssh
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: but boing is faster to type
Tia says: ROFL
[…]
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: and what did your folks think of you getting a stack of DVDs from some unknown canadian?
Tia says: well, first of all, they were warned
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: warned?
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: I now merit a warning label?
Rc – wielder of the 12-gauge pillow of doom! says: danger may cause recently-ingested fluids to exit through nasal orifices?
Tia says: YUP
Tia says: you DEFINITELY merit that one!

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Comments (2) on “WTF is going on???”

  1. straysparrow says:
    July 1, 2004 at 4:45 pm

    SHENANIGANS, I say!

    BWA HA HA HA HA!!

    (http://livejournal.com/users/straysparrow)

  2. talisker says:
    July 2, 2004 at 2:56 am

    what can I say, you've been a bad influence on me :)

    (http://livejournal.com/users/talisker)

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