December 5, 2012
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Plaintext question – Googling/yahooing/duckduckgoing/etc forbidden.
What medium connects:
On the first day of Christmas, technology gave to me: A database with a broken b-tree (what the hell is a b-tree anyway?) On the second day of Christmas, technology gave to me: Two transceiver failures (CRC errors? Collisions? What is going on?) And a database with a broken b-tree (Rebuild WHAT? It's a 10GB database!)
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All the world's a net! And all the data in it merely packets come to store-and-forward in the queues a while and then are heard no more. 'Tis a network waiting to be switched! To switch or not to switch? That is the question. Whether 'tis wiser in the net to suffer the store and forward of stochastic networks or to raise up circuits against a sea of packets and, by dedication, serve them.
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Twas brillig, and the Protocols Did USER-SERVER in the wabe. All mimsey was the FTP, And the RJE outgrabe,
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla , Rogi , rickde and Logik
Answer:
All poems published in IETF RFCs
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