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list Kent Brodie · Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:04:43 -0500 ·

It's port 1984 (Big brother (now hobbit), get it?)


Oh for crying out loud.   Why I never saw that and made the connection
is beyond me.  I must be getting old................    I have GOT to
start paying attention to detail :-)

 
Kent C. Brodie - user-da7f7d5174c0@xymon.invalid

Department of Physiology

Medical College of Wisconsin

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list Ralph Mitchell · Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:22:24 -0500 ·

▸ quoted from Kent Brodie

On 7/21/06, Brodie, Kent <user-8fbf1c81e97c@xymon.invalid> wrote:

 It's port 1984 (Big brother (now hobbit), get it?)


Oh for crying out loud.   Why I never saw that and made the connection is
beyond me.  I must be getting old…………….    I have GOT to start paying


attention to detail J


Talking of paying attention to detail, I recently had to replace some
hardware in my Big Brother/Hobbit server, and while doing so I noticed
that our hardware people had stuck a tracking number on it -
Jxxxx1984.  I'm fairly sure they don't have any clue what that box
does...

Ralph Mitchell

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