• Billy (unregistered)

    Union station is a train station you insensitive clod!

  • Some Guy (unregistered) in reply to Cap'n Spanky
    Cap'n Spanky:
    frits:
    "The Final Countdown" is easily Asia's best song.
    Didn't Asia do Africa? ...or was that the sequel to Debbie does Alice?
    No, that was Toto. (Once he left Kansas, because he was a wayward son. I'll stop now.)

    Seriously, though, Toto was the band that performed the song "Africa". It's a favorite of zombies, but they always get the words wrong. "I ate some braaaaaains down in Africa..."

  • Not Geoff Downes (unregistered) in reply to Gary
    Gary:
    Hey, I just did a traceroute to that 172.18.112.157 address "at Toronto's Union station" and discovered it is inside my own network! WTF? Grant Cullen did you hack us??!!!
    The IP address is coming from inside your house! The killer is in there with you! Get out now!
  • DWalker (unregistered) in reply to Jay911
    Jay911:
    .NET just couldn't cope with the heat of the moment.

    I got that reference!

  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    frits:
    "The Final Countdown" is easily Asia's best song.
    Well, it might have been, except it was a Europe song, not Asia.
    Hm. Europe's a band. Asia's a band. America's a band. Africa's just a fucking song. So is Australia.
  • HotInHereRightNow (unregistered) in reply to Not Geoff Downes

    But I'm a naked woman! Maybe I'll just go upstairs and check...

  • (cs) in reply to jdw
    jdw:
    You'll notice there's no comma in "It works Tim." Clearly, whatever "it" may be, it is working Tim. Tim is the direct object, not the addressee.
    I thought Tim was an adverb. How does it work? It works Tim. In fact, it's working so Tim right now I had to throw up a dialog box to tell you just how Tim it's working.
  • HotInHereRightNow (unregistered) in reply to HotInHereRightNow
    HotInHereRightNow:
    But I'm a naked woman! Maybe I'll just go upstairs and check...

    Dammit - should have quoted "The IP address is coming from inside your house! The killer is in there with you! Get out now!"

    Captcha - erat. The predecessor to the iRat

  • LK (unregistered) in reply to ian
    ian:
    I

    d o n ' t

    g e t

    w h a t ' s

    w r o n g

    w i t h

    t h e

    l a s t

    o n e .

    The solution to the problem is definitely "go to Asia".

  • (cs)

    The 172.18.112.166 is ok, but the 172.18.112.168 is always overcrowded and late.

  • Gary (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Anon:
    172.x.x.x and 192.x.x.x are both used for private networks...

    Forgot the quote (and perhaps to turn on my sarcasm detector):

    Gary:
    Hey, I just did a traceroute to that 172.18.112.157 address "at Toronto's Union station" and discovered it is inside my own network! WTF? Grant Cullen did you hack us??!!!
    That's not sarcasm, that's irony, you idiot.
  • Tractor (unregistered) in reply to Not Geoff Downes
    Not Geoff Downes:
    Gary:
    Hey, I just did a traceroute to that 172.18.112.157 address "at Toronto's Union station" and discovered it is inside my own network! WTF? Grant Cullen did you hack us??!!!
    The IP address is coming from inside your house! The killer is in there with you! Get out now!

    [image]

    Askimet!

  • Kelley Glenn (unregistered)

    The first one evokes the latest XKCD.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    172.x.x.x and 192.x.x.x are both used for private networks...

    ns2.on.net must be a transcendental DNS server then. (192.231.203.2)

    Hint: 172.[16-31].x.x and 192.168.x.x are private networks, not the entire /8.

  • Cheong (unregistered)

    64 trains must be enough for everyone of TTRLY.

  • Cheong (unregistered) in reply to Cheong

    Oh, I mean 32 trains...

    I need more coffee...

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Meneth
    Meneth:
    "Explode" is a function that unpacks an old-type file archive.

    Specifically, it's the obsolete Zip Implode/Explode method, and the error message means it has either an invalid compressed Huffman table (if Implode uses that) or an invalid LZ78 dictionary. In other words "compressed data corrupted".

  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    Steve the Cynic obviously hasn't heard "The Final Countown" in a gogo bar in Bangkok.

  • dave (unregistered) in reply to Hannibal Elector
    Hannibal Elector:
    jdw:
    You'll notice there's no comma in "It works Tim." Clearly, whatever "it" may be, it is working Tim. Tim is the direct object, not the addressee.
    Ah. As in "It works Tim or else it gets the hose again."

    A++ would read again

  • Atle (unregistered)

    Chessmaster 9000 nostalgia? I remember Chessmaster 2000 on Amiga!

  • (cs) in reply to Tractor
    Tractor:
    Does anyone else find it somewhat disturbing that Facebook apparantly saves your old passwords as well?

    It seems to only do so for a few weeks. I had to change mine a few months ago, and as humans do, I kept entering the old one. After about 7 days, it stopped saying "old password" and said "incorrect password".

    Zemm:
    Hint: 172.[16-31].x.x and 192.168.x.x are private networks, not the entire /8.

    Yes - if you need /8, you need 10.0.0.0. Sadly I have seen software that gets these private ranges wrong. Including some (cheapish residential grade) routers. I mean it's not rocket surgery to look them up, is it?

  • A Brit (unregistered)
    National Rail Enquiries seems to have a different definition of "cheapest" from most other people.
    The latest round of fare rises has probably caused a few overflow errors.
  • uns (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Anon:
    172.x.x.x and 192.x.x.x are both used for private networks...

    Forgot the quote (and perhaps to turn on my sarcasm detector):

    And you forgot to read RFC1918: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html .

    Pro-Tip: Read Section 3.

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Steve The Cynic:
    frits:
    "The Final Countdown" is easily Asia's best song.
    Well, it might have been, except it was a Europe song, not Asia.
    Hm. Europe's a band. Asia's a band. America's a band. Africa's just a fucking song. So is Australia.
    Well, there was USA for Africa...
  • Tim (unregistered)

    Some people call me....Tim.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I see the problem. It says, "It works Tim", but your name is "Dave".

    Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I think on my next app, I'll include an error message that says, "Problem: Washington DC".

  • PurpleDog (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Steve The Cynic:
    frits:
    "The Final Countdown" is easily Asia's best song.
    Well, it might have been, except it was a Europe song, not Asia.
    Whatever. I never understood why they were considered two different continents anyway.

    Quite right, all we need is one designation for NotAmerica - who cares about any further detail than that!

  • Yawn (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Steve The Cynic:
    frits:
    "The Final Countdown" is easily Asia's best song.
    Well, it might have been, except it was a Europe song, not Asia.
    Hm. Europe's a band. Asia's a band. America's a band. Africa's just a fucking song. So is Australia.
    Unless you count Afrika Bambaataa. Australia is also a major motion picture. I'm gonna call my next band "Antarctica".
  • JJ (unregistered) in reply to Not Geoff Downes
    Not Geoff Downes:
    HotInHereRightNow:
    Probably shouldn't be trying to name bands in the heat of the moment.
    Never in a Million Years.
    Don't Cry. Even if The Smile Has Left Your Eyes.
  • CodeCrash (unregistered) in reply to Ben Jammin

    Hilarius! Now we should work on 3D polarized versions for 3x8192 screens.

  • Spewin Coffee (unregistered)

    "Some people call me...Tim?"

    This is what happens when someone throws an alert() dialog into a page on a production server to diagnose a problem. They know a few people are going to get the message but figure no one will care.

  • Reow (unregistered)

    FB is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  • Fuzy2K (unregistered)

    I guess that last one counts as a full-page monitor, maybe... :P

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