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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."

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  1. Re:Myself, I like... by unixbum · · Score: 5, Informative
    Myself, I like Calculator Does Not Reliably Subtract Two Numbers in Windows
    Probably get marked troll for this but, taken off the supplied link.
    The information in this article applies to:
    Microsoft Windows 3.0
    Microsoft Windows 3.0a
    Microsoft Windows 3.1
    Microsoft Windows 3.11
    Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1
    Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11
    This bug only affects Windows 3.0-3.11
  2. It's not really a joke... by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?

  3. Re:Calculator - Missing Sqrt, Arc-trig functions by TwistedSquare · · Score: 5, Informative
    how do you do arc-trig functions? ... No hyperbolic trig functions, either.

    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.