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I really thought this thread would be about this. I recently tracked down a copy of the CD, specifically to see if I could export these pre-gap tracks. (No luck so far, but I've only tried modern stuff; I probably need to look for a more retro drive and ripping software.)
Volume. 1GB of data per day is rounding error. If you have tens of thousands of servers, each generating hundreds of gigabytes of data per day, tail -f and grep don't scale especially well.
If you carefully review the other volumes, you'll find a series of clues that, when combined, yield a map that leads you to the lost volume 5. It just says "told you cartography was awesome" over and over for 400 pages.
In 1995 or so, I wanted to play with something not-Windows, but wasn't yet advanced enough in my degree to have access to my school's AIX setup. Bought a Slackware disk set, and a BSD (probably FreeBSD, honestly don't remember), took them both home. Slackware had drivers for my weird non-IDE CD-ROM drive, the other one didn't, and it's been nothing but fun since then.
Without Slackware, I would not have learned how to build a web server, wouldn't have learned about UUCP (which thankfully I haven't needed to use in about 20 years)... basically the entire course of my life would have changed.
(Entirely random aside: I returned the opened BSD disks for a full refund. Remember when you could do that without them assuming you copied the disks?)
"we need to talk about parallel universes" always gets me
I presume your company is using Cisco Umbrella DNS? (It's blocked for me too, and that's why. Umbrella has a "feature" that automatically blocks any newly-seen domains for the first few hours of their lifetime. Presumably they do some extra scanning of said sites, and assuming they're safe unblock them after a few hours.)
It's always DNS.
Sorry, soon as I saw the line that disables the startup chime I knew everything here was wrong.