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August 19, 2005

Laurence - Firewall

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I don't remember dreams. I wish I could, but I can't.

You see, Symantec was beta-testing a firewall product, and I fell asleep with my face on the keyboard. Somehow, my brain downloaded the firewall, and I blocked my dreams out with an iptables rule.

Oh, they're still there. Just blocked.

So I called Symantec, and forty minutes later I'm talking to some Indian:

"How am be helping you?" he says.

"I firewalled my brain," I said. "I'm blocking my dreams now."

"My dreams dot com?" he asks. "Dot net? Dot org?"

In the end, I was told to reboot.

Comments

But told Very Politely.

Posted by: Stacy at August 19, 2005 07:37 AM · Permalink · Rate It: + / -   Current Rating: 0

"Answer hazy, shake again"

Posted by: Laurence Simon at August 19, 2005 12:08 PM · Permalink · Rate It: + / -   Current Rating: 0

The India outsourcers are thicker than fresh sludge, but unfailingly polite.

Posted by: Ted at August 19, 2005 03:20 PM · Permalink · Rate It: + / -   Current Rating: 0

Whoops, that was actually Stacy replying up there...

Posted by: Ted at August 19, 2005 03:21 PM · Permalink · Rate It: + / -   Current Rating: 0