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by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 11, 2001 6:21pm PDT

Well the server is finally back up. A disk failed early this morning and brought down the box. Fortunately for us the UGO admin had absolutely no knowledge of Unix so that was a lot of fun for Andy who had to manually talk him through it. But hey its all better now. Will post some news in a little bit.


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    ON THESE DAYS!
    AUGUST 11

    On this day in the year 1984, during preparations for a radio broadcast, president Ronald Reagan picks up a microphone and says: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today, that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." Unfortunately, Ronnie had failed to notice that the mic was already on, and that his little "joke" was being heard by thousands of pants-shitting Americans, who'd been rendered beat-dog flinchy by the hyperbolic, exaggerated rhetoric of the dying days of the Cold War.

    AUGUST 12

    According to the show's creator - and included in the script of a birthday episode - it was on this day in the year 1757 that the hideous, be-warted muppet-alien known as ALF was born... or hatched... or whatever. Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALF, you deservedly-forgotten piece of shit, you!

    AUGUST 13

    On this day in 1928, New Jersey radio station WRNY becomes the first to broadcast a television image: a woman's face on a video "canvas" about 1.5 inches square, which was maintained for ten minutes. So, basically, there was the same amount of quality programming on the air back then as there is now.
    Aug 11, 2001 9:46pm PDT