In article <9no7a2Ffd6U2_at_mid.individual.net>, ceed
 wrote:
> J G Miller  wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 18th, 2012, at 08:33:53h -0600, Cybe R.
> > Wizard wrote:
> > 
> >> To me, that isn't a protest.  A protester actually protests,
> >> doesn't just disappear.
> > 
> > Go to Wikipedia and it gives a proper description of why the usual
> > pages are not available.
> > 
> > Go to Linux Mint page and it appears to be a dead site.
> > 
> >   "The server at linuxmint.com is taking too long to respond."
> > 
> > So how do we know that the server is down due to the SOPA protest
> > and it is not just a technical problem?
> > 
> > Did Linux Mint actually say that they were going to disappear for
> > the day?

> It was said on their IRC channels. I do not know how "official" that
> is. It would be kinda funny if they simply had an outage today! :)

I've got an outage today that's kinda funny. I turned my computer on
this morning to hear an awful grinding noise from the fan which had
been whining for some time. Switched off, waited a while, then switched
on again and there was no noise whatsoever. I thought the fan had gone
completely so took the computer to the repair shop to get a new fan and
a clean and the second hard drive I'd been promising myself for months.
the fellow there opens it up and switches it on: and the fans are
running perfectly and silently - including the big case fan at the back
that's always been noisy. That's kinda funny.

So, I'm Mintless and Ubuntuless for a day or two (and the lack of
Wikipedia bothers me not).

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Dev

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