Best April Fools tech joke this year?
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:thumbsup: to NoScript for FF. Seems it saved me yet again - Mika's link just timed out and I didn't try again. It's a bit of a pain having to OK the good guys, but it's kept a lot off nasties out of my patch. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
No script is way more of a PITA than I'm willing to deal with. Even compared to restoring several hundred GB of data over 100Mbit eithernet (my gb switch died a few days ago). Current ETA is 12.5 hours; but WHS appears to use win9x install time since it was less than three hours earlier.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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No script is way more of a PITA than I'm willing to deal with. Even compared to restoring several hundred GB of data over 100Mbit eithernet (my gb switch died a few days ago). Current ETA is 12.5 hours; but WHS appears to use win9x install time since it was less than three hours earlier.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Dan Neely wrote:
WHS appears to use win9x install time
Salvador Dali made straighter clocks than Microsoft! ;P Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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FYI: your link triggers detection of the JS/Agent.NEZ trojan by ESET NOD-32 anti-virus :suss:.
Software Zen:
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What's the best April Fools joke this year? My vote: 8-bit Google Maps[^]
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
Took me slightly too long to figure this one out: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/telegram[^] :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Took me slightly too long to figure this one out: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/telegram[^] :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Arming your telegram's messenger can help prevent 504 error :D
FILETIME to time_t
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Took me slightly too long to figure this one out: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/telegram[^] :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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No script is way more of a PITA than I'm willing to deal with. Even compared to restoring several hundred GB of data over 100Mbit eithernet (my gb switch died a few days ago). Current ETA is 12.5 hours; but WHS appears to use win9x install time since it was less than three hours earlier.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Dan Neely wrote:
Current ETA is 12.5 hours; but WHS appears to use win9x install time since it was less than three hours earlier.
... or maybe not. ETA was unchanged when I went to bed a few hours later, and has only moved up a single hour overnight. Doesn't really matter though; it's still "after I get home from work".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Seeing as it was on the weekend. I remember I used to pick up a colleague for work everyday. So this Saturday I organized with his wife to pull up in the morning and toot the horn. I couldn't help myself, I went in and watched him freaking out getting ready. Jumped in the car and and asked him if he knew it was April fools day. ;P
"You get that on the big jobs."
That is top notch! 5+
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What's the best April Fools joke this year? My vote: 8-bit Google Maps[^]
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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What's the best April Fools joke this year? My vote: 8-bit Google Maps[^]
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
Agreed, Google Maps' Quest view rocks. Mashable had a funny story about Virgin Volcanic creating a digger to take people to the center of the Earth. Namecheap.com visitors were shown a very old version of their site that claimed to be a redesign. It was painful but kudos to them for an idea that probably didn't take much effort but generated a lot of notice. I couldn't resist joining in the fun on my own site about job search, where I claimed that a new startup's software will make recruiters redundant.
--- All Together Now http://jobmob.co.il/
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Gary's AV detecting something incoming. Mine didn't, and about 5 minutes later a fake smart tool virus annouced its presence. 13 years of perfect security down the drain. ELEPHANTING SUNSHINES!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
I'm really sorry if the link I posted caused trouble! I don't know why for example I'm still not getting any problems with the site and I'm not getting any information about fake tools etc. Could it be that for example the ads are different or something similar... Nevertheless, again my apologies! Mika
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I'm really sorry if the link I posted caused trouble! I don't know why for example I'm still not getting any problems with the site and I'm not getting any information about fake tools etc. Could it be that for example the ads are different or something similar... Nevertheless, again my apologies! Mika
Tainted ads would be my first guess as well; what hit my computer was different than what tried to infect Gary's machine. Since I was browsing via Opera I'm 99% sure I was infected via a flash/java exploit; not javascript. Also, I got a new version of flash this morning at work following the Monday morning boot; my home PC was probably up since patch Tuesday. I've never heard of anything targeting O in the wild; security via obscurity might be philosophically poor but often works in the real world.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Didn't receive any alerts, but I removed the link to be on the safe side. Have to wonder, was it April the 1st still at your timezone :)
In Spain is the 28th of December. The day of "saint innocents"
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In Spain is the 28th of December. The day of "saint innocents"
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Took me slightly too long to figure this one out: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/telegram[^] :doh:
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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No, AFAIK there was no temporal singularity. But it is so, the day of the fool is the 28th.December in Spain. Don't ask me why, it is just like that.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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No, AFAIK there was no temporal singularity. But it is so, the day of the fool is the 28th.December in Spain. Don't ask me why, it is just like that.
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
I KNEW that! (From your post, not prior knowledge) I really did!!! :laugh: I also DON'T know why April 1 is celebrated here. I'm sure there is an extensive background on the web, but I sure wouldn't have looked it up yesterday. (Day before yesterday for you? UTC will be there in about 2.6 hours.)
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Agreed, Google Maps' Quest view rocks. Mashable had a funny story about Virgin Volcanic creating a digger to take people to the center of the Earth. Namecheap.com visitors were shown a very old version of their site that claimed to be a redesign. It was painful but kudos to them for an idea that probably didn't take much effort but generated a lot of notice. I couldn't resist joining in the fun on my own site about job search, where I claimed that a new startup's software will make recruiters redundant.
--- All Together Now http://jobmob.co.il/
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--- All Together Now http://jobmob.co.il/