Last Mile: Blaster Worm; Geek signatures

Lame Excuses given by Blaster Worm suspect
11)I was tired of seeing those Trustworthy Computing ads. Not so trusting now, are you, Bill?

10)My science teacher got this grant from the Torvalds Foundation to develop a Windows self-perpetuating algorithm, and I thought, "Sounds like an easy A!"

9)The "Do-It-Yourself Sobig.X Virus Kit" just didn't do it for me

8)While at a frat party, someone dared me to "Do the worm"

7)"Master Blaster runs Barter Town!"6)I was jealous that Star Wars Kid was getting all the attention

5)Orrin Hatch told me to destroy all computers downloading files from KaZaA

4)My 15 minutes of fame, and I didn't have to kill anyone

3)I had decided not to send it when all of a sudden my dog Spam jumped up and hit the send key

2)I was just following the Windows design parameters1)That's not what a "Hello, World" application does?

Thanks to Jeff Anders, Ihaab Dais, Randall Huey, Dan Kwitchen, Chris Lucht, Wayne Maurer, Michael McComber, Jeff Murdoch and Brian Webster for their submissions. | View the rest of the entries online.

Geek Signatures
Here's our favorite sig file found on the Network Computing editors' e-mail distribution list:

=====================Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan?
That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
=================

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Who's Online

Naming test servers is not so much a necessity as it is an art form, as evidenced by the following exchange between a systems analyst and his manager, submitted by Network Computing reader and writer Lee Ratzman.

Analyst: You know all the network components. Tell me their names.

Manager: They give servers nowadays very peculiar names.

Analyst: You mean funny names?Manager: Well, let's see, we have by segment number: Who's on the first segment, What's on the second, I Don't Know is on the third ...

Analyst: That's what I want to find out

Manager: Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third.

Analyst: Well, then, who's on the first segment?

Manager: WhoAnalyst: The server on first

Manager: Who

Analyst: The server on first

Manager: Who is on first!

Analyst: I'm asking you who's on firstWith thanks and apologies to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y. You can read Lee's complete text.

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