• Archive for June, 2009

    IMAP Creator vs. UW: The Hidden Tale?

    by  • June 20, 2009. 12:00 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    From: [redacted] To: Alpine-info <Alpine-info@u.washington.edu> Sub­ject: [Alpine-info] The saga of Sir Crispin vs the UW (maybe) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:14:58 –0600 (MDT) Sender: alpine-info-bounces@mailman2.u.washington.edu User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23) I was read­ing a Slash­dot RSS arti­cle enti­tled “Extract­ing Mean­ing From Mil­lions of Pages” which turns out to be about Googles con­tri­bu­tion to […]

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    Mythological Battle for uw.edu

    by  • June 19, 2009. 11:57 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    As seen on the tech-support mail­ing list: uw.edu? [redacted] Thu Jun 18 22:18:53 PDT 2009 Once upon a time, there was waged a great bat­tle between Edu­cause and (then) C&C, the result of which was the acqui­si­tion of uw.edu. There was much hem­ming & haw­ing and mad twin­kles in mad eyes. Win this one vic­tory, it […]

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    “Bigfoot? How about I transfer you to the primate lab”

    by  • June 19, 2009. 11:54 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    A male in his 50’s calls in. Me: Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton. How may I direct your call. Caller: I’d like to talk to né of your sasquatch pro­fes­sors. Me: Sasquatch pro­fes­sor? Caller: You should have one or two of them. What is their num­ber? (I dit­fully type in sasquatch into the search data­bases) Me: I’m not get­ting any […]

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    “My LAN smells funny”

    by  • June 19, 2009. 11:44 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    The Intro­duc­tion One of the sec­ondary duties of my job is to han­dle main­line oper­a­tor calls for the UW. It’s usu­ally fairly mun­dane, with calls that are gen­er­ally wor­ried stu­dents ask­ing for admis­sion, or alumni try­ing to donate more money to ath­let­ics. Occa­sion­ally a caller might be rude, and yes, a lan­guage bar­rier will some­times rear its […]

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