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Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-far-fetched dept.

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 Biogenesis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Woulden't that happen sometimes because of floating point errors in the FPU anyway?

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  2. many are not even remotely amusing by SuperBanana · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This web site has a large collection of links to humorous Microsoft Knowledge Base articles

    Um, no, they're really not.

    Sampling:

    • Article about how an IBM flat panel monitor causes interference with the MS wireless mouse. Hahahahaaha. Not.
    • Article about how the user group ICON changes to one with grey hair. Not some amusing article about user groups(as in LUGs) as was implied. It's also not "spontaneous", it happens at exactly 500 users. Every single time. It's a small feature, really, that probably confused some MCSE's.
    • broken link to a supposed "pandora's box program" article.
    • the ages old, stupid "keyboard not present press F1 to continue"(WHEN YOU HAVE PLUGGED IN A $#@!ING KEYBOARD, when will you people understand it's not even remotely funny)
    • Article about how you can't eject a laptop from its docking station if one of the docking station ports is in use. HAHAHA. Not.

    I like geeky humor as much as the next slashdot reader, but many of the "funny "articles aren't even remotely funny- many of them describe some unusual problem, and that's it.

    There are a few gems(How to Read the Fucking Manual is amusing in that it's even there), but in general, they REALLY stretched the definition of "funny" on many of these submissions.

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  3. Re:...and the obligatory Windows bashing. by jebiester · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You have to edit the freaking registry to change a simple icon's color?? How in the world do you expect the mythical "Joe Sixpack" to manage that? Every time you have a less-than-wizard user poke around in the registry you risk absolute ruin.

    Neither this knowledge base article, no the registry, are there for 'Joe Sixpack'. Microsoft isn't expecting everyone to stop the icon from changing haircolor, and it's harly a 'bug' that's going to cause anyone problems.

    Sure, poking around the registry can be dangerous, but so can poking around the files in /etc. It seems much the same thing. I think trying to criticise Microsoft for something like this that's harmless is really streching it.

  4. Re:...and the obligatory Windows bashing. by deranged+unix+nut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1) This is a feature in Active Directory Users and Computers, not normally used by Joe Sixpack, to give administrators a quick and easy way to see which groups have a bunch of users in them.

    2) Joe Sixpack, while he might be able to with Windows Server 2003, isn't likely to spend the time to deploy DDNS, Windows Server 2000 or 2003, configure Active Directory, and then add his closest 500 friends into a single group and then wonder why the icon for the group changed color.

    3) Out of 1000 administrators who would even hit this and be aware enough to notice it, how many do you expect would be disturbed enough by this feature to want to dig in and turn it off? My guess is that it would be in the single digits.

  5. Re:Clearly an easter-egg "appeal" to young coders by cujo_1111 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think many of these articles are meant to be funny (not that many of them are funny anyway). Some of them are completely valid issues that when read out of context seem funny. So leave MS alone on this one and have a go at the people who think they are funny.

    I guess you didn't read the articles or else you would know that. I shouldn't be surprised really.

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  6. Re:Calculator - Missing Sqrt, Arc-trig functions by Vonsrdmn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And you can get square root without doing the x ^ 0.5 by using the "Inv" mode! Click inv and then do (x^2) -- presto! square root. Inv reverses the sense of most of the operations.

    Also, there are (useful) keyboard shortcuts for all the functions, so sqrt is "i (inv) + @ (square root)".

    I know that this is /. and all, but people really could RTFM once in a while. [Just right click a button, and select "What's this?".]

  7. Re:Myself, I like... by HokieJP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whoa there. Are you saying that there exists a number that's rational in base 10 but irrational in base 2? 'cause if you are, you need to stop and think about that one some more.

  8. Re:Calculator - Missing Sqrt, Arc-trig functions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So I have this 3000 dollar 64bit 3ghz random bit number manipulator sitting on my desk and you're saying it's no good for computing an arc tangent. The morons building Windows operating system couldn't bring themselves to use fortran for the calculator and just tossed out some novelty to look cool and suck cpu cycles instead.
    Could there be a lamer os EVER?