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Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying
tiny69 writes "According to Microsoft, a Person's hair turns grey if there are more than 500 users in a User Group. Supposedly, the grey hair does not affect the functionality of the User Group. Microsoft claims to have a solution to fix the problem. How many people do you know that have hair that has turned grey? This web site has a large collection of links to humorous Microsoft Knowledge Base articles."
Myself, I like Calculator Does Not Reliably Subtract Two Numbers in Windows
Then what's the point of using a calculator in the first place?
It's because some browsers (like my Firefox) use google.com to search for the typo, and sure enough, www.microsoft.com is the first link if you search http in google.com.
If you enter "imoou" in the Firefox address field (without anything else, just imoou), you'll get redirected to the first link as if you search the same term in google.com.
Using Firefox 0.9.1: It looks like it does a Google search for "http" and sends you to the first result for "http", which is www.microsoft.com. Why that is, I don't know.
Oddly enough, Konqueror gives me an error about the url, but Firefox does send me to microsoft.com Strange but true. Changing your default search engine might change the page you end up at.
Well, in Firefox, if you type in a URL without a domain (.com, .net, etc.), it will search Google and give you the top result. The top result for "http" is Microsoft.
It will do that for any gobbledegook you type in.
(gobbledegook will take you to startbusiness.co.uk)
Why would the mythical Joe Sixpack be managing a computer or domain with 500 users, and further, be bothered enough by the different icon color? A company with 500 windows users damn well better have an experienced windows tech.
It's probably there to help some poor geek in a fortune-500 whose PHB declares, "fix that" and makes him waste a week on it so the department looks busy.
Please help metamoderate.
Apparently some people think that MS-DOS never used the mouse for anything, or something like that. I remember lots of DOS programs that used the mouse, and one of the neat features of both the Windows and OS/2 DOS shells was that you could use the mouse in a shell without having to squeeze a mouse driver into the 640k + himem alloted the DOS session.
A lot of those links weren't funny at all, the only one that got me to laugh was a fake geocities page on the intricies of how to RTFM.
As many have pointed out, Microsoft has nothing to do with this. (Please remove foil hats before moderating, people -- they may block government mind scanners, but they also seem to prevent intelligent thought.) In Opera, it becomes http://www.http.com/www.ebay.com, which seems to be owned by SearchMachine.com (it's one of those stupid advertising sites masquerading as a portal or search engine.)
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
The icon hair color changes from dark to gray in order to indicate that the statuses aren't going to be queried in advance of the user wanting to see details on the group... it's not really an easter egg, it's a feature. Gray is the color in the computer world to indicate such inactive states, isn't it?
Seriously, get real for a minute - it's purely a convenience thing, not something intended to be a full-blown replacement for your HP-48 or whatever. People who need full-fledged scientific calculators probably already have one to begin with, and therefore just about nobody is going to care that you can't do arctans in the Windows calc. And the very few who do demand such things on their desktops can readily find more advanced calculators elsewhere.
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
DOS Shell was an early GUI for DOS. Why is it funny if your mouse dosen't work? And my mouse also works just fine on the freeBSD command line, so why not DOS?
Look on the top left of the calculator in scientific mode. There is an "inv" tickbox and a "hyp" one. To get arc-trig, tick the inv box, then click sin. Likewise, sinh can be performed by ticking hyp then pressing sin. Not the most obvious solution but not too bad either imho.
Yes, that's a handy function. But it's usually a good idea to call is_computer_on() first to make sure the return value is valid...
For a commercial OS BeOS is actually quite full of small humorous details like that. Just check the thread names(e.g. psycho_killer) color definitions, etc.
You forgot RFC 1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers. Then there's 748 and 1097 for amusing TELNET options, 1605 for SONNET to Sonnet translation, 2324 and 2325 for managing coffee pots, etc. RFC 1924 is one that's a bit more subtle in its humor. A google search for "amusing RFCs" will get a more complete list, since it's difficult to remember them all. :)
I know I've spent less on hardware than you have because I get fine performance from less than "top-of-the-line" hardware. I have one machine that's better than 1GHz and nothing taxes me so much that I feel the need to use it more often than I use a well tuned 650 MHz Athlon slot machine that I bought five years ago. If you've been ISA free for six years, you threw away hardware that I did not have to.
My software also costs less, despite your educational discount. I pay nothing, $0, for Debian and all that it comes with. I'm happy to say that I give the Free Software Foundation $10/month, but two year of that is less than I paid for one educational discount compiler I bought before moving to Linux. "Top-of-the-line" commercial software is very expensive and M$ does very little without it.
If I really have some serious computing to do, I could probably convince the owners of Super Mike, an LSU Linux cluster, to give me some time. Linux does much better when it comes to submitting "serious work" to University computing services. It's more likely, however, that I'll just leave the process running on my own machines. They stay up long enough to do useful work.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.