HHH Comic Series Week 8-1

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anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:04:16 GMT

"open source relationship"

Insert Eliot Spitzer jokes here.

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linux_style — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:26:41 GMT

Wow... so wrong on so many levels... he married his wife after she had an "open source relationship" with him and 3 other guys?

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Fly — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:13:48 GMT

And like it was expected, there is no hint of an explanation of the brilliant technical solution that a technical audience would like to know about... I believed this was a comic about IT Pro's FOR IT Pro's... Or I am wrong?

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Art Redwood — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:13:56 GMT

And the message of AIDS and STD's must have been inadvertently sent to and then subsequently deleted from their spam folder.

Or are the writers going for a deeper meaning , that using closed source software is akin to a monogamist relationship (close, personal, intimate), and open source software is akin to picking up the local hooker from down the corner, that everyone's had a go at...

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:57:26 GMT

Gez I didn't think Merry was a skank... she seemed like such a homebody...

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anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:23:46 GMT

<i>And the message of AIDS and STD's must have been inadvertently sent to and then subsequently deleted from their spam folder.</i>

Maybe they were using Macs or Linux back then, so they didn't have to worry about viruses.

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anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:28:39 GMT

"open source relationship"

Or maybe he meant "open sores" relationship?

OK, that was so wrong and childish, but I couldn't resist. And I'm sure it will be part of some future Microsoft FUD campaign against open source.

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anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:34:51 GMT

"And like it was expected, there is no hint of an explanation of the brilliant technical solution that a technical audience would like to know about."

Isn't it obvious?

They re-routed the tachyon beam through the main deflector dish while oscillating the harmonic frequency of the shields, thus creating a sub-space anomaly which allowed them to exploit unused portions of the electro-magnetic hyper-spectrum that were being broadcast by a competing television station's satellite.

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The OCD keeps me reading, it's not very good... — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:01:26 GMT

Quote: anonymous - "They re-routed the tachyon beam through the main deflector dish while oscillating the harmonic frequency of the shields, thus creating a sub-space anomaly which allowed them to exploit unused portions of the electro-magnetic hyper-spectrum that were being broadcast by a competing television station's satellite."

Pft. Amateurs.

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:39:37 GMT

SUMMARY OF THE STORY TO DATE.

WEEKS 1 & 2. At the start Merry was selling a bunch of crap on eBay, Steve didn't bother to give her a decent computer & he can't find the rootkit on her decrepit computer (and he's meant to be a genius). Steve & Toad are IM'ing each other. Then Toad picks Steve up by helicopter, leaves his smoking hot wife and kid without so much as a kiss goodbye to fix a rootkit. Right. He was picked up in a helicopter then magically he's in a private jet eating pizza. Chen appears looking mightily foxy I must say :)

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:40:23 GMT

WEEK 3. We find out Merry’s computer is a 486 (WTF?). The rootkit is the last known copy in the wild (rootkit of the century?) and instead of using it for shotgun practice they all decide to FIX a rootkit which doesn't need to be fixed (charging by the hour or something). Toad wants to play fancy dress.

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:42:00 GMT

WEEK 4. They go visit Emil who despite having a satellite dish on his hut is running a cable up to a radio tower. A bear chases him for several days. Yawn. He throws away his Windows Mobile Nokia E61 because seemingly his thumbs are far too big for the keypad. Yada Yada Yada. Emil runs some kind of co-location NIGHTMARE. Why he was running a cable to the radio tower we don't know, maybe he's maxing out a Wi-Fi link with all those servers or something (good luck with that BTW).

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:43:06 GMT

WEEK 5. Emil's hut WITH satellite dish is now a barn WITHOUT a satellite dish. A satellite dish magically appears on the radio tower which is actually smaller than the silo where all the servers are placed. They leave to go somewhere and go to the airport.

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:58:21 GMT

WEEK 6. Steve gets arrested for trying to fix something he shouldn’t. Emil and Chen get arrested for nothing. Toad saves them and they work on fixing the Internet which is down because of a router. Steve asks Toad is he, you know, it’s just the fixation with clothes and not being able to hold a steady girlfriend. No reply. Chen no longer looks as foxy as she once did :( They drive away FROM the airport after going TO the airport to go somewhere (WTF?). Chen gets moist at the thought of Russinovich.

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:00:23 GMT

WEEK 7 (1). They apparently drive to ANOTHER airport to take a private jet to Argentine. Steve has not contacted Merry AT ALL. Merry will just have to use her sybian I guess. The only copy of the rootkit on Merry's computer is now in Argentine taking a pay-per-view soccer feed down somehow. Emil is no longer Canadian but a gangsta. Santiago appears looking like he played IN the soccer match playing for Brazil NOT Argentina (WTF?).

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:02:09 GMT

WEEK 7 (2) Some disparaging references to Argentine running a beta of Wi-Fi which would offend many Argentineans are made. The artist is apparently from Argentine. Viewers are using a beta of Wi-Fi to view a pay-per-view TV subscription (WTF?) Fans flood the streets of Buenos Aires when games end, in anger for some oddball soccer stereotype reason. Some more disparaging references to Argentine running aging 1990's infrastructure which would offend many Argentineans are also made.

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:03:32 GMT

WEEK 7 (3) Santiago wants to wipe the network after the second outbreak of the rootkit, which is what Steve, Toad, Chen & Emil have failed to do so far. Chen would like to do an impact study for some reason (charging by the hour or something). Steve asks for an external hard drive and seemingly boots it up with ubuntu. The problem is now fixed, no details are given but presumably a format and installation of ubuntu occurred and the viewers got their pay-per-view feed back somehow. A soccer match lasts 90 minutes and in that time Steve and Co have landed by private jet and fixed the entire problem. Kudos.

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Say What? — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:07:34 GMT

WEEK 8. Steve and Chen chat about Toad. Steve is staring at him as he sleeps. Freaky. Steve says Merry was Toad's girlfriend when they were in college under a tree with two other guys. Merry dumped him and they had an 'open source relationship'. Merry is now Steve's wife, the mother of Steve's child with whom he has not spoken to in several weeks.

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Jon L — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:38:11 GMT

rofl @ Say What?'s recap.

That sounds way too funny when it's put down like that. XD

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warrior_s — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:25:20 GMT

Artwork looks good again :) Did you guys changed it back? Keep up the good work? Where is the comic for 19th? Don't feel let down by negative comments..