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Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by sdwr »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #258
ww520 wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The one program truly blew my mind at the time was Netrek - the first networked multi-player realtime graphical space fighting game. I've wasted so much time late into the nights playing the game in the lab instead of doing coursework. The admin came to the lab from time to time and said we're hogging the workstations with the game and banned the game during daytime.

I remember ca. 2000 my best friend busting into my office, pushing me aside, logging in savagely to something and having a sight of relief. He managed to send back a fleet or something - it was a real time game where you needed to do stuff at the right time (after sometimes a few hours). I do not remember the name of the game but it was fashionable for some time (not sure if it was text based or not)

Those games are still kicking around. Played Neptune's Pride a while back, would not recommend, seems designed to devour your waking (and what should be sleeping) life.

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by amichal »

craig_s_bell wrote: post #268
amichal wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did a summer program at MIT around then and remember a program that let you send popup messages in xwindows to other users or to a channel. You could subscribe to any channel and use wild cards. I remember being hacked by someone to subscribe "*" and being unable to use my terminal for a while until i figured out how to unsubscribe without being able to see what i was typing under the wall of messages. I thought it…

You might be thinking of Zephyr, which was part of Project Athena. My school was using Athena, and I occasionally received zephyrgrams from people at MIT. http://web.mit.edu/sipb/doc/working/izephyr/html/izephyr.htm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_(protocol)

That was it! Thank you for the references

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by shadowgovt »

DonHopkins wrote: post #211
shadowgovt wrote: post #158

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The point of the joke is that it's a bandwagon joke.

I disagree that it's a joke, because they're absolutely nothing funny or clever or original about it, but you're right that the point is to jump on a bandwagon, and it's intentionally ironically disrespectful of everyone's time and attention, which is also the point. It's really just a spammy childish 4chan troll. All Due Respect: Press F for Farce. Recently, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare became roundly mocked when…

It makes strangers type seven paragraphs when someone uses it.

That one letter to seven paragraphs ratio is pretty funny when it happens.

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by aflag »

johnisgood wrote: post #10
seanhunter wrote: post #4

Thank goodness. That was a terrible message. I remember my very first experience with unix was setting up Red Hat 3.0.3[1] at work for a small internet company in like 1997 and getting that message and just not knowing what on earth to do. There was noone in my company who could help me and all I had was a unix book from my local library which didn't even cover linux (but I sort of thought it would be helpful). [1] W…

"This incident will be logged" may have been better.

"Your system admin will remember this."
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