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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 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.