Site News: The Great Internet Outage, Day Two
8 December 2009 - 8:21am — Christopher Wright
Still no Internet access on this Tuesday the 8th of December, the Year of Our Lord 2009.
I hear the distant beating of drums.
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Logfile of Uberbul
The last section of the Logfile of Uberbul was read aloud by the paramedic. It is written in Computer English, similar to that of the first section, but with a different character set and different details in the timestamps. "We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the router and Second Datacenter. IRC and googletalk and Firefox fell there bravely while the rest retr [...] Uberbul. We still ho[...]g ... but hope u[...]n[...]Christopher’s ping went five days ago but today only four packets returned. The IP pool is up to the wall at West-gate. The Firewall in the Water took Postfix's e-mail--we cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep."
The last logfile line is a trailing scrawl of letters that reads "They are coming"
Another victim of the spam filter
Sorry it flagged you, Saruman. Are you Scottish?
Scottish?
Scottish? No, worse.... Dutch...
Right...
OK, Chris... at least I understood that reference even if it was lost on the others...
Coule someone explain, please?
This old French-Canadian can't quite find the connection...
can't find connection?
You can't find the connection because Christopher currently has none.
(or did you mean my book of Uberbul scribble? Try googling for "we hear drums, drums in the deep")
Explanation...
I think that the connection to which rhl2000 is making reference is the Dutch/Scottish one.
You see, I live in Scotland and I have often run afoul of the dreaded SPAM-barrier on this site when posting a message.
So, when Chris posted: "Sorry it flagged you, Saruman. Are you Scottish?", he was remembering my difficulties.
(Now, let's see if this makes it past the SPAM filter.)
Yes, David is constantly
Yes, David is constantly being flagged. And I think I've found the reason why:
http://www.eviscerati.net/content/we-were-down-we-were-down
(check the footer)
Correct, David
But I get it now.
I was just wondering if the quoted text (that I looked up and appeared to come from Tolkien) had anything to do with Scotland...