It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times....
Spring, 1999
On a dark and dreary Tuesday, sometime in April maybe the 7th, I'm not too sure and its often to painful to try and remember, Vuser the Heart and Soul of the Virtual Consortium suffered a massive HeartDrive Attack, rendering it useless. It remained on life support for a week, as those closest to the machine held vigil at its side, but in the end no more could be done, and the life of vuser came to end. BUT, Through a modern miracle known as cryrogenics, VU's life might have been able to have been saved, none were too sure, we hoped for the best as we began the defrosting process. To our astonishment Vuser slowly came back to us. AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOYCE. But wait, said the doctor, the process is still a little experimental, although vuser, has lived to walk again, its been setback almost 6 months in its memory, and still there was some rejoyce, "but where oh where did my little birds go", yelled one vigil holder, and still there was a little rejoyce, "and what about my collection of non-copyrighted mp3 files?", yelled another, and there was a bit of rejoyce. VU had been saved, why not rejoyce? And there came one final yell from the crowd, "What about my resume?" And the rejoycing ended, swiftly the crowd pummeled poor doctor Hagopian, and mercissly beat him with sticks, and dragged him though the streets. "Its a damn shame," one man was heard saying "that it all had to come to this. If only he had backed up."
I have been sitting here watching vu count with utter fascination for almost two hours now, its like watching some really lame sporting event on ESPN, I think I may have issues. I just wrote on the white board with permanent marker, don't worry though, I wiped it off with my hands, I guess I should go wash them off now, I was thinking if we crucify rob on Friday, and he rises on Sunday, does that mean he is the messiah? And Therefore would his blood be on our hands for all of time, something to ponder.... -MK
Shut up mike...Shut Up...no one is going to crucify me.. -RH
We could use the coat rack and these skis. -AF
If he rises you should rename vuser to Lazyrus - LS
Rob, Jay is all shitfaced and he is pissed about losing his senior project he's on his way down to kick your ass. -MK
Fix Vu, or Die - Anon. (On the door of tardis)
Maybe we should just chop it up, and leave miscilaneous parts in the mailboxes of all vu members -RH
I wonder if this all goes back to the bad karma? -NOYB
Hey Mike, look, Spitzer and Simon crossed out everyone's usage on the
Disk Hog Chart, and filled it in with all zero's.... -DB
"The masses are coming to kill us!"
"Hehehe...Peek's ROMS are gone!"
"I don't remember seeing ciclops pics, do you?"
"The birds are dead!"
"mmmm....yummy senior projects"
"...and you thought the .mp3's were safe!"
"Boy, how stupid are you guys staring at me for hours on end."
It died for our sins, If thats not reason enough to join I don't know what is.
Stoned, Nailed to a cross, and left for dead, but we still won't go away.
Back from the dead, and better than ever!
I, just as those who signed up, am a user of VU, and should have a say in this matter -- hey, some of my money goes to support VU! Every student who is present at Union pays a fee to Student Activities, and VU, I presume, falls into that category. Even though maybe $1.50 of my money goes to VU, it is still important to realize that it is there. There should be a committee formed (of current members and/or applicants of VU) to help decide what to do next. That is, whether to format or not. It is important to do this, since much user data is at stake. Perhaps, we should plug in a known version of the OS (w/o a "bug") and recover the system sequentially, without loss of data on the HD. Is the data ALREADY lost? Or, is it just INACCESSIBLE? Maybe, we should try to get EXTERNAL help. Every student has a little money (and time) invested, and they have all a right to be part of any decision to pull the plug.
COMMENTS: Can I offer you a glass of shut the hell up. Maybe if this
school didn't have so many committees, for instance, the committee on
committees then people would do things instead of talking about doing
them...read the AFCA...we should reserve the right to stop people from
speaking....
Hey, why can't we back up virtual with a Jazz Drive. -Name Withheld