IT Olympics

Darrell Estabrook wrote to us about IT Olympics, a satirical look at what the Olympics would be like in the IT world. Pretty amusing - and timely, although listening to some of the Olympic announcers is comical in its own right. [Update by nik] I've s/com/org/ in the URL. And on a related theme, the Usenet Olympics are always worth a laugh, ditto the Spam Olympics.

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My Favorite

[Tower]

"The DLL Recognition event was
canceled due to a GPF in the
scoring server"

Whoo-hoo!
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Any bets?

[interiot]

My bet is that they get 36 hours before being served a notice from the IOC.

Slashdot: 7/14/2000 - Olympic Committee Cracks Down On Domain Owners

Not to be the devil's sidekick. Just that any organization that can change US laws to gain exclusive use of a particular word in trademarks seems very evil. And given their past track record, they'll surely go after this one, right or wrong.
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Wrong link

[Tairan]

ITOlympics.com is a placeholder for someone's Cobalt. Try www.itolympics.org

Event One: The Server Press

[zlite]

Tougher than it sounds, if this site's performance after being /.ed is anything to go on.

Are these the coolest errors ever, or what?

[askheaves]

They may not be able to handle the traffic, but you gotta love those error messages:

HTTP Error 02931
Cannot complete requested action. There must be
some reason, but who knows why.
Please try again

HTTP Error 834
This is the error that broke our servers
back. We will now have to go back and
reboot everything.
(Thanks a lot)

HTTP Erro
Microsoftie OLE DB Provider for ODBC
Drivers error "80040e30"
[Microsoftie][ODBC SQEL Server
Driver][SQEL Server]What do you mean
"hyperlink"?

/article.asp, line 19

Unknown
An unknowing error has unknowlingly
been accessed. Please go back and try
again.