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by JoshTriplett 4289 days ago
Good time to revisit some of the classics that have propagated into general geek culture:

The origin of "hunter2" as a password: http://bash.org/?244321

Sysadmin problems: http://bash.org/?5273 (Ever had a server accidentally walled up into an inaccessible space, but it kept working?)

"The keys are like right next to each other": http://bash.org/?5300

IRC pong: http://bash.org/?9322

Boolean awesomeness: http://bash.org/?10958

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I've had that sysadmin problem.

Somewhere in the two six-storey buildings of a tv broadcaster. Additional fun: the system was running spam-filtering software that relayed all incoming mail and was failing. Still ping-able though. And since nobody had any passwords, I needed physical access to get in.

Finally found the likely suspect in a small, locked 19" cabinet. No keys... Only time I needed a hammer and a screwdriver to restart a daemon.

  <djahandarie> dont mind me while i emerge my ownage
haha, emerge. remember when Gentoo was a thing?
Those were the days... =D

I used Gentoo on my desktop for about three and a half years. I loved it. But then several things kind of added up. First, while a lot of the software was kind of bleeding edge, they took forever (more than a year IIRC) to support Python 2.5. Then POE broke, on which I had built a couple of scripts I used on a regular basis back then. All of a sudden, some of the coolest programs I had written back then stopped working. :(

And then, I was kind of offline for about a year. When I had Internet access again, the first thing I did was try to update the system. Gentoo went on a compilation spree that lasted about 36 hours, then something broke. I thought rebooting the system might help, only to discover that my system had become kind of not-booting.

So I installed Debian and haven't seen or heard much of Gentoo since. A while later somebody told me that stage-1 installs were no longer possible and was quite sad. But none of the Linux distros I use nowadays allows you the kind of control over your system that Gentoo gave you.

Still is. Chrome OS is based on Gentoo and Portage.
"Hey, you know what just isn't cool?"

"lava?"

Man, remember back when the web had stuff that was just... you know...fun?

Not monetized, not ad-driven, not commercialized, not social--just people dicking around and having a good time?

The old internet is still there, you just stopped visiting.

Here, have a random MUD: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/mud_random.cgi