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Boo.

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Moar!

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Moar.

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Blah blah blah

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Hot.

If you need me, I’ll be in my bunk.

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I felt a great disturbance, as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Crap, someone spilled beer in the Fark router? That’ll do it.

The SOTU thread went to “lots” :/

That, Fark could handle. Running traceroutes to Fark and other IPs on that subnet fall off the intarwebs.

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I felt a great disturbance, as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Crap, someone spilled beer in the Fark router? That’ll do it.

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Um, guys, the *only* captions for this contest are win, fail, or “I like where this thread is going”. THere aren’t supposed to be titles or other descriptions. Those of you with other other stuff need to repost without.

No other descriptions at all?

From earlier:

Posting normal pictures and typing the caption above/below was the original intent, but it might be funnier to PS it into the image itself. Thoughts?

Thats fine, but as olavf suggested, photoshopping must be limited to only one of the three options. For that matter, any captions in the posted should also be limited to one of the three. The point of the event is to focus on the comedy of the picture, not to wax eloquent. OBO notations are also ok.

I thought it was clear enough 🙂

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Moar samples of the concept:

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Can we add one-word descriptors like “epic” or “geometry.”

I’d rather not– its more difficult to police. Keep it simple. If it’s truly an epic fail, or refers to something, the picture should speak for itself with only the basic caption.

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Posting normal pictures and typing the caption above/below was the original intent, but it might be funnier to PS it into the image itself. Thoughts?

Thats fine, but as olavf suggested, photoshopping must be limited to only one of the three options. For that matter, any captions in the posted should also be limited to one of the three. The point of the event is to focus on the comedy of the picture, not to wax eloquent. OBO notations are also ok.

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Now, on to the update. Thanks to the assistance of one of Elsinore’s Fark contacts, we DID find an embedded iframe linked to gcounter.cn, just as google was saying. The kicker is it only showed up if you did NOT have a browser cookie from farktography.net. It has been removed, and a request submitted to google to rescan the site to get rid of the ugly red ZOMG FT’S BEEN HACKED page that firefox splashes up. So hopefully that aspect will be taken care of soon.

I’ve been able to narrow down when it happened — the modification was made sometime between the Monday night backup at 11pm eastern and the Tuesday night backup (also at 11pm). I’m still trying to determine if the hack occurred through our site to see if we’ve got a problem, or if the host itself was compromised and we were hit from inside.

What does this mean? Well, if you’ve been logged in the entire time from before 11pm on Monday, you’re completely safe. That is also probably why bucky_bacon didnt see anything with SiteAdvisor. However, if you’ve had to log in, visited the site for the first time, or signed up since Monday night at 11pm, you may be at risk, and I would strongly recommend running a virus check on your machine. It looks like gcounter.cn also dropped a browser cookie, so that’s a quick way to check (but not necessarily definitive). If you have a cookie in your browser from gcounter.cn, run an AV scan ASAP.

More to come, I’m still digging through logs.

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Thanks bucky_bacon, but it’s definitely not over yet — at the moment we’re tied. Hang in there 🙂

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Since orionid said ixnay on the unsetsay, I’m putting that in the difficulty.

Add sunrises to that too. You KNOW someone will.

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Doesn’t FC10 load on most everything quite nicely? We’ve got it here on 6 or 7 systems of various makes and models, and haven’t had a hiccup yet. Other than the power supply that erupted into a shower of sparks and a possible flame or two, but that’s hardly the operating system’s fault 😉

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