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Old 25 November 2014, 20:05   #1
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The guru is still alive

I visited a danish IT news site today and go this message:



I had to look up some info on the message. According to Wikipedia the author of Varnish was a developer at Commodore

I wonder where he got his inspiration from
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Old 25 November 2014, 20:59   #2
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Old 25 November 2014, 21:51   #3
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I have this on my hard disk, I must have found it originally as some site's 404 page...
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theguardian.com,

I wonder if it's an in-joke that The Guardian, which is well known for spelling errors, has mis-spelt meditation
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Old 27 May 2015, 23:14   #5
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Mediation, as used in law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution, a way of resolving disputes between two or more parties with concrete effects.

Maybe someone wanted them to take the site down. ^^
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Old 28 May 2015, 07:40   #6
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I have this on my hard disk, I must have found it originally as some site's 404 page...
Try Lemonamiga.com. For example http://www.lemonamiga.com/a.htm
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I'm sure there's a joke in the concept of Guru Mediation.....
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theguardian.com,

I wonder if it's an in-joke that The Guardian, which is well known for spelling errors, has mis-spelt meditation

I think its actually the varnish cache server that produces the guru messages
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