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Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup
An anonymous reader writes "April 1st is the ultimate holiday for a geek — a little hands-on DIY, a little hacking and a lot of sub-par humor. Popular Mechanics and Instructables have teamed up for five pranks you can build in the office (including a stripped-down version of Gizmodo's CES TV blackout), while Wired has its top 10 practical jokes for nerds, Lifehacker is toning it down with 10 harmless geek pranks, and Slate gets you ready for the receiving end with an April Fools' defense kit. What's your best prank?" Be safe, head for the bunker on 4/1 and just assume everything you hear is a lie. Everything.
Be safe, head for the bunker on 4/1 and just assume everything you hear is a lie. Everything.
Does that mean there *won't* be cake?
Dammit.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Slashdot wont be worth coming to tomorrow... see you all on the 2nd...
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
*Significant other rolls over and looks deeply into your eyes*
"I love you."
*Thinks for a moment* "just assume everything you hear is a lie. Everything."
"I KNEW IT! LIAR!".
(speakers on, detach mouse for best effect).
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Feh.
I'm looking for "10 spectacularly fatal geek pranks".
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
I once announced to our department that because black toner was so expensive, we were switching our printers to black paper and white toner. I put a sign next to the printer saying to only put black paper in the printer. Someone actually bit, and asked me in all seriousness where in the store cupboard the black paper was.
On another occasion I sent an email to a stats software mailing list saying I'd written a package to implement not the Normal distribution, but the Paranormal distribution. Its mean value was the number you were just thinking of.
...do we get the OMG Ponies! Skin tomorrow? Please say yes!!11
For the most complete list of jokes head over to this site: April Fools' Day On The Web : 2008
Belive in Technology and AMAZE yourself. -- RIP ZDTV/TechTV
This was way back in high school, but I'm fairly certain it will work well in any large, densely-populated building.
1) choose the victim building
2) get 3 pigs
3) paint very prominent digits -- '1', '2', and '4' -- on the pigs
4) release pigs in building selected in step 1
Watching folks round up the 3 pigs is fun enough. But it's hilarious to watch the long, futile search for pig #3.
I like basketball!!1!
All of us here are waiting for Google to do it's thing. Last year, it was very unimpressive, TiSP. I hope they come up with something better this year, probably something more real, related to the search engine or GMail.
RutSum.com
Hilary will give up her presidential bid
Bush will say Iraq was a big mistake
RMS will announce a new project The Torvolds Barnyard
Comcast will give 50 downloads from iTunes to each of it's customers
It will be declared bittorrent day in Iceland
Jenna Jameson will buy Maxim and rename it Angry Inch
Countrywide's Executive team will return their golden handshake money
Jesus will be spotted in the snow on the side of Mount McKinley
- He'll be wearing Nike branded ski gear
Support NYCountryLawyer RIAA vs People
I sneak in at night and paint my neighbor's cubicle pink, decorate with construction paper hearts, and tie a real pony to his desk. He always comes in the next morning and say "OMG PONIES!"
Never gets old.
What's your best prank?
Tricking the editors into posting really crappy april-fools stories each year on the 1st. I've been doing it for almost 10 years straight and they still haven't caught on.
Please help metamoderate.
Back when I was in high school my friend did the old screenshot as desktop to our us history teacher and put a foam mouse in place of the real one. She eventually did figure out that the mouse wasn't real, but got so frustrated that one of us "broke her computer" that she called down the vice principal to lecture us. No matter how long that guy lectured it was still hilarious and I remember it 6 years later. I may just have to try that reversing the fridge handle thing in my office and see what happens.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. indymedia
Showed up for work on time, clean-shaven and in nice clothes.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I work in a Class Society. Tommorow I will be handing out various work packets filled with drawings of the Bismarck. They're bring it back into class.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
I heard that April Fools Day was cancelled this year.
Way to get to the point in a timely manner...
Slashdot needs a "spam" moderation category. These posts are becoming more frequent and pretty soon "off-topic" won't do it -- there won't be enough moderators with mod points to kill these off.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Frankly, that's not a bad way to approach the other 364/5 days of the year here also...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
For people who have more electronics knowledge than I have:
Make a circuit that beeps every 30 seconds or so. Add a photoresistor that turns on and off the beeping, so it beeps when it's dark. Put in victim's bedroom.
Laugh at the though that when they go to bed, it will start beeping, frequently and quietly enough to be annoying, but infrequently enough that it's hard to find. But when they turn the lights back on... the beeping stops!
...ponies !
Or will it be daffodils this year ?
Slashdot: stuff for news, nerds that matter, matter for news, stuff that nerd
Presumably, ISO will announce that MS-OOXML has passed as an interna[tiona]l standard tomorrow.
Replacing a co-worker's desktop wallpaper with a screenshot of the red and white "Windows has shut down your Active Desktop... did you recently add a new program?" error message is always good for some juvenile yucks - especially if it's the computer of a real "power user".
No matter how old we get, guys are always suckers for sophomoric humor - I think it's genetic.
"Life is not magic." Dr. Ron Weiss - "If we don't play God, who will?" Dr. James Watson
I had a professor handing out assignments today regarding a openGL 3-D program. It's implementing how openGL does everything we've done manually...
anyways, the due date was tomorrow till he realized he had the dates wrong.
import system.cool.Sig;
A quick summary of the list (omitting details to avoid unwanted carnage).
10) Acid
9) Pringles
8) Explosives
7) Old Newspapers
6) Toiletries
5) Electricity
4) Adhesives
3) Feral cats
2) Dry Ice
1) Neutrons
Special mention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
All deadly funny, but do not try these at home. You have been warned.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
are a "major" publication's weblackies worse than most amateur bloggers?
"in vein"?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
I hope my mod points are good for tomorrow! Its a no-brainer! Everything is +5 Offtopic!!!!
...and it should be known by now
These guys have a good summary of stuff to do to protect you & your network from 4/1 shenanigans.
http://www.itprotips.com/defence/NoPrankZone/
Save the Music; Save the World at http://www.TuneTriever.com (Our latest Android game)
Once when I was still a newbie to slashdot, back in 1998 if I'm not mistaken. I read a story of bill gates adopting gifted kids, and wiring probes directly to there brain in the hopes of finding a successor. I believed it hook line and sinker and forwarded it to every co-worker. Suffice it to say I still get mocked to this day about 'Cris's Cranial Clicker' I think they even made me one out of a bowl and some silly string. So thank you slashdot, I will nto be here tomorrow
This one is especially good if you have a roommate:
Pop the M and N keys off of their keyboard and switch them around. Then, download a keyboard remapper and remap the M and N keys so that they correspond with the new arrangement (ie, the M key gives you an M, and the N key gives you an N, but their positions are switched). Pop the M and N keys off of your keyboard and switch them as well, but don't remap them.
After repeatedly mistyping (nistypimg?) things, they'll take a good long look at their own keyboard and then have a look at yours, just to compare (and of course, you've anticipated this and switched your own keys around too). With any luck, they'll be convinced they're going crazy.
"Someone put a fish in the percolator!"
I actually did this several years ago - three people took coffee before one came back and dumped the pot.
you must give credit, at least as far back as we can remember. for me, that's the 3 stooges.
writing a paper letter: "PS: if you didn't get this, let me know and I'll send it again".. or to that effect.
its not clear if the howards+1 invented this joke or not. but I'll give it to them, on the liklihood that its theirs.
(still a good one; just pointing out how old it is).
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
That's halloween you're thinking of.
I told everyone we'd have a day of zero dupes on /.
Bark less. Wag more.
Moral of the story:
1) Get it in as early as possible: chances are by the end of the day they probably are more suspicious.
2) Know your victim: my father knew how much I hate getting up early in the morning, he would find it really hard to believe I would wake up before I had to.
3) Make it plausable: We all have at some point screwed up in setting our alarms, the scenario I created could have very well actually happened. Be mindful of details.
4) Don't be cruel: Let them in on it after it is apparent they fell for it before they start really acting on what you fooled them with. Don't make them afraid for their life or anything crazy like that.
My father is a smart man that isn't easily deceived, I have spent many years refining my technique.
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
Who here has a project deadline on April 1st? I've noticed patterns where deadlines are on holidays such as Oct 31, Sept 11, Easter...etc
M
April, 2003. I was living in a large tent, on the Persian Gulf coast, in northern Kuwait. I returned to my cot after a hard days work, where I was greeted by a fake plastic snake. I was not surprised, due to the fact I noticed Spc Harris fighting laughter while keeping a watchful eye on me as I entered the tent.
I am one for vengence, so my mind immediately began cooking up a scheme. The roof of the tent was made of a double layer of thick canvas material. It was sloped, at about a 45 degree angle. Harris slept with his head pointed towards the side wall, and feet pointing towards the center of the tent.
I took my trusty knife one afternoon, and cut a slit in the bottom layer of canvas, above Harris' head, on the roof of the tent. I left the slit there, in plain sight, for two weeks thinking he would be suspicious of it at first. After the two weeks were up, I constructed a fairly large fake spider out of electrical tape, pipe cleaners and black paint. I used fishing line for it's silk. I put the spider in the roof of the tent, slightly past the slit I had cut. I then ran the fishing line over the slit, out and down the side of the tent, and finally back into the tent near my cot.>/p>
That night after lights out, as Harris layed on his cot, watching a movie on his portable DVD player, I put my plan into action. I pulled slightly on the fishing line, causing the spider to move over and fall through the slit. I then slowly let out slack, causing my home-made monster to descend on it's web. The alignment couldn't have been more perfect, because the spider descended into the space between the portable movie screen, and Harris' face. Harris' reaction was priceless, too. Too scared to scream, he jumped from his cot, flung the DVD player across the room, knocked over a bunch of his crap, and wound up sprawled across the floor babbling "holy shit holy shit". The lights in the tent then went back on, and there was much laughter.
FOXTROT UNIFORM CHARLIE KILO
who you can trust.
My office has more than a dozen conference rooms, which can be reserved for meetings through our Microsoft Exchange/Outlook system. We're very heavily reliant on this system. We also have way too many meetings.
A month ago, I went into the system and booked *all* the conference rooms for the entire workday of April 1 (8am to 6pm). My set of fictitious meetings was called "Productivity in the 21st Century: An Interactive Meta-Analysis of Resource Allocation." A handful of other people were in on the joke.
Last week, one of our executives came to me with a senior person in our facilities department (who ultimately handles room management). They did not find it funny, and insisted I un-book all the meeting rooms. In all seriousness, the facilities guy offered to show me how to book a meeting that didn't consume all the rooms for the entire day. Right. I unbooked them. *sigh* They had a couple of good reasons for it (like scheduling meetings on April 1 with a set of federal officials) but still... the humor was totally over their heads.
$nice = $webHosting + $domainNames + $sslCerts
Here's a good one to pull on your least favorite C or C++ programmer (or which can be applied suitably to other languages) -- find a critical, though little run for loop and locate the cursor just after the closing parenthesis ')'. next, hit tab about 20 times. Finally, enter the following "; // loves teh cock!!!1!
bonus points for depraved creativity of the comments following the semi-colon.
This works best if you can do it from their station while they're away or if you have "raw" access to the file, because version-control (check-in/check-out) logs will betray you :)
Make a "joke" corporate web site with false bios of the management, etc. Redirect everyone from the internal office to the joke site but leave the real site up for everyone else.
Program a co-worker's computer to play funny sounds whenever certain keys are pressed. Make sure the sounds have a delay of a few seconds before a sound plays so it's hard to identify which keys are doing it.
Apply packing tape across the exit of the bedroom door, or entrance to the bathroom door.
More packing tape - tape the toilet seat to the toilet lid and wait for the splash.
Why would we need to head for the bunker on january 4th?
What a bunch of jerks. I bet next year they'll tape over the IR port when the presentations are going...
I once worked at a manufacturing company, and one of the products they made was called the 5100. They needed to replace it, and there was a big debate over whether to make a software package that could run on a standard laptop, or to make another standalone device (the 5200). In the end they decided to make the standalone 5200. One of my coworkers, we'll just call him B, was strongly in favor of doing the standalone 5200; he was guy who would do the software development for the 5200, it was his baby.
Well, I brought my laptop to work (it was a TRS-80 Model 102 if you care). In the text editor, I made a banner that spelled out "5200" in asterisks or something. I went into the lab, and pushed B's 5200 prototype to the back of his work area, and set up my laptop in its spot, turned on and showing the "5200" banner. Then I went and found B and innocently asked if he would show me the 5200 prototype. Actually, I think he was amused by the gag as well.
Right after I was hired there, another of my co-workers tried to convince me that they had this really cool super-ELIZA program that was actually intelligent. He sat me down in front of a dumb terminal to try it out. I figured right away, correctly, that they had just set up two terminals and that somewhere else in the building, some human was impersonating ELIZA, so I tried to ask questions that would be easy for a computer to answer but hard for a human ("What's the square root of 12345?"). If only he'd had the foresight to keep a scientific calculator close at hand.
Neither of these were on April 1. Why limit this sort of fun to one day per year?
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
I once deleted my roommate's MBR on his hard drive. It was pretty funny, until he started punching me. In hindsight, it's funny from a geek standpoint and not a College Jock standpoint.
One year I sent an email to everyone telling them that because of continuing complaints about the line quality of the phones, a company was coming in to clean the phone lines. I advised everyone that they should place a tissue over the mouthpiece and earpiece of the phones, as they would be blowing compressed air through the phones lines, and dust could be ejected through the handsets. It was fun walking around at the end of the day to count up the number of people with the handsets covered with tissues.
"Information wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, the same guy who said "Information wants to be free"
You almost took a bullet behind the ear for that last one, though.
We simply popped off the "m" and the "n" keys and switched them, without remapping. He was not the most tech-savvy, and typed using his two index fingers.
Turns out he has a web demo to perform, and trying to log in with credentials "techmology"... The long and the short of it, the joke never got old, and we frequently spoke in his presence as "Good day, gentlenem. Lumch plams?"
He also got mad at his keyboard, figured what's what, and used a pencil to pop the keys off. Jammed it in there real good. Broke the laptop keyboard. Blamed it on us. Then a couple of weeks later we all go out for lunch to meet another of his friends. He (the sales guy) gets so animated in describing the funny prank that he forgets we're right beside him, and says how he just jammed the pencil in there and broke the keyboard. Then with a dumb grin on his face, stops at 3/4 of the sentence and looks at us. It was priceless!
Needless to say, we were all good friends and had a good laugh about it.
Especially on the internet.
I like the fridge door and the fake "filled your cube/office with packing peanuts", but the others didn't really appeal to me much.
The two that I've done for which I am most proud:
As the webmaster of a small dotcom a few years ago, I mocked up a fake This site has been closed by the federal government on suspicion of aiding and abeding terrorism. I then changed the INTERNAL DNS entries so that although the outside customers got our normal site, our employees got the "shutdown" one. There was a good 5 minutes of confusion and near bowel movements before someone realized the date (04/01)
However, the best and most geeky prank I ever played involved one of those Staples "Easy Button"s. I had a co-worker who had one at his desk. Every now and then (couple times a week) someone would get the urge to press it. I bought an Easy Button at the local Staples, and a small "record 20 seconds of digital audio" circuit boards at Radio Shack. I then dremmeled the hell out of the inside of the Easy button till I could make the Radio Shack board fit in and replace the original, and drilled a small hole for a paperclip so I could hit the record button. I also disconnected the small crappy speaker from the Radio Shack board and wired it into the one already in the Easy Button. It was a really tight fit, and it took a bit of fiddling, but I eventually had a "Please do not press this button again" Button.
I swapped out the button for his, and just waited till someone hit it. I really got a priceless reaction, though the fact that I had used my own voice precluded any attempt to feign innocense. Still, the button became the hit of the office... I showed them how to record other stuff and they kept changing it and waiting for others to come hit it. Finally, it settled down on "Hurry UP!!!" That co-worker has since left the company, but he has the button with him to this day.
The Digital Sorceress
Hrm...what about the snapshot classic? Back in highschool we used to take a snapshot of our friend's desktop (printscreen), paste it into paint and save as JPEG.
From there, drag all their icons off the screen, close/hide the start menu and taskbar, and set the desktop background to the screenshot. Playing a bit with the monitor settings helps conceal the very top of the taskbar when you can't drag it all the way off. For extra bonus, remap the keyboard, and leave one or two icons in place so that *some* icons appear to work.
I seem to recall getting one teacher to actually curse in our programming class with this technique...
Of course, we have have used the old dos 0xff character trick to create explicitly named folders on said desktop too...
Look no further.
Your forgot #0, when you watched a buttload of 80s movies back-to-back.
A prank I played on my roommates (I had three of them at the time), was putting shaving cream in their towels (which were hanging up in the bathroom). However rather than not putting any in mine, I did mine and didn't do someone else's to make the illusion that he did the prank. It worked quite well. One roommate showered first, got full of shaving cream, noticed the one towel without shaving cream, got pissed, then went to that person's room and sprayed shaving cream all over the place. It was quite funny.
What's your best prank?
Tricking the editors into posting really crappy april-fools stories each year on the 1st. I've been doing it for almost 10 years straight and they still haven't caught on.
The only thing I really care about tomorrow is Google.com. I always expect something something funny from Google.I know of a perfect joke for them but they wouldn't do it.
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Poor silly mortal. Have you forgotten the International Date Line? April Fools is already here!
Stories emerging from the other side of the planet:
A NEW Google program powered by artificial intelligence allows internet users to search web pages 24 hours before they're created, the company said today.
Yahoo! Confirms MS Merger, Name Change
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
If only we had an HP with a large display, I'd set it to
"It puts the toner
on its paper or it
gets the hose again!"
I just used "OUT OF CHEESE", "MOTHER?", and "FEED KITTEN" on 3. *grin*
home
My boss has just today returned from five weeks of holiday, so we've figured he's not really back into "work mode" yet. So we've decided that all 15 or so of us are going to hand in our resignations tomorrow, and see how many he has to read before he realises he's been had.
If this plan backfires, I promise I'll log on from the unemployment office and let you all know...
I usually go on a date with a het girl. Never gets old.
I always get a chuckle out of the April Fools RFCs, though there haven't been many the last few years.
Our standing joke around the office for a long time was RFC 3514 RFC 3514, The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header. RFC 2324 is probably my personal favourite. RFC 3252 may have been too clever for its own good, and some people may not have gotten the joke.
...laura
We rewired the computer lab so that all the computers were wired through one of two clappers, which were on extension cords, hidden up inside the lowered ceiling beside a vent. We left one clapper turned on and one turned off and both of them on the most sensitive setting. So any time there was much of a noise, half the computers in the lab would suddenly shut off, and the other half would simultaneously turn on, but there was no way to have more than half of them on at a time, and which half was on kept changing based on random noises in the lab. Teachers who taught computer classes gave up early, but half the lab was for kids on study hall, etc, and no one really warned them, so a hellacious amount of work was lost that day when people's computers suddenly turned off. They'd swear for a while, try to turn it back on, give up, and move to one of the other computers that was now on... repeat process. Of course, that wouldn't work these days, because most computers don't start themselves up when the power comes back on, but these had hard power switches, so simultaneously half the computers would go dark and the others would emit a chorus of Mac startup sounds.
We also put some annoyance programs on them, like a program called "boing" that made your mouse pointer behave, in relationship to how it should behave, as if it were attached to the actual mouse location by a spring. We also installed a background program that would make computers randomly, at various times, start singing "99 bottles of beer on the wall." Except that we used "99,999 bottles of beer on the wall." In a really painful early 1990's Macintosh voice.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
We discussed doing this to a manager at a past company once, but the logistics of getting ten thousand crickets past security defeated us in the end.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
When land line telephones had a receiver you could unscrew this was a good prank. Get a pound of lead shot. Take a small plastic bag and put in an ounce of lead shot. Disassemble Prankee's phone and add weight to the receiver. Make sure it doesn't rattle around and spoil the fun. Every day add another ounce of weight to their phone. Try not to laugh while waiting for them to notice.
-- Programming with boost is like building a house with lego. It's a cool but I wouldn't want to live in it
I set up my server with a TFTP server. All of my friends are going to get custom ringtones.
Achy Breaky Heart for the single guy.
Material Girl for the guy that always has to have the coolest stuff.
etc
And when they go to change the ring tone back, all it will have is everyone else's ring tone (so they can hear what other people got).
Then I'll give them the corporate TFTP server so they can 'reboot' their phones.
I once heard about a joke message to put on an answering machine. I tried it, but had to stop using it. The message says: "Sorry I'm not able to take you call right now. If you want to leave a message, press 1. If you do not want to leave a message, press 2. If you want to be accidentally disconnected, press 3." Instead of messages, all I got was a series of beeps punctuated by curses.
The president needs to wear his aluminum foil helmet more often.
I think that is kind of the point of the joke(?), or maybe it was just over your head.
I was downloading the Blue Screen Wallpaper for April fools, but I got a real blue screen instead.
Two words,
Physical Inventory
Thanks
Phil
Laugh, it's good for you!
Easy: IT security and system administrators.
The latter is easy: Thousands of office workers thinking it's hilariously funny to rewire their peers computers, make a desktop screenshot and use it as the background pic (folks, it gets old after the first 10 or so, ok?) or just mess with their computers. Well, guess what? The joke is on your IT admin department! Those guys get frantic calls from people whose computer "acts weird" and they come and try to find an error that is none, but a prank. A halfway good admin will come in and yell "OK, if anyone here messed with this computer he'll tell me now or feel my boots on his face!"
You'd be surprised how well that works!
And the other ones that suffer from Apr1st are the IT sec guys. With the billion of hoaxes that clog our inboxes these days, either "warning" us of a new trojan that can spread over to your coffee maker or, from the "smart" kind of user, asking us whether something like this is possible.
People. In short: PLEASE abstain from making jokes your IT department has to suffer from. It's NOT funny to fiddle with a computer for half an hour four times just to find out that the "odd behaviour" is some coworker who installed remote control software. And neither is clicking through a thousand "trojan warning" mails that are none.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Get a screenshot of your coworker's already-turned-on desktop computer. Grab a notebook, display the screenshot. Attach the monitor cable to the laptop external display output and hide the notebook so he can't see it. Remember to disable the screen saver of the notebook.
When He/she comes, he/she'll move the mouse. The pointer won't move. The keyboard won't work. Ctrl-Alt-Delete won't do it. Not even reseting the computer or unplugging it will make the still screen go away.
Back in the old DOS days I wrote a little start up message for a computer illiterate friend that said "Press Any Key To Format Hard Drive" when it booted up. He wasn't amused.
I tied one end of a bunch of pieces of fishing line to a bunch of my step-sisters stuff, I tied the other ends to the blades of her ceiling fan. I rigged the door to flip her fan/light switch on when it was opened.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Seems that Google has theirs up already... Google Custom Time (in your gmail). I can't access the link yet though.
How many fulltime jobs can one man have?
I had a buddy of mine do that to me. Made it fun logging in. I pulled two pranks on his NextStep computer. One I changed his language preferences to Chinese and the other was putting a "dot" before his Home directory renedering everything after invisiable to the browser. He got revenge by putting tape over my headset so the customer sounded muffled. He has also called an unsuspecting number and transfered it to my phone.
OK, I have to get this away from my system. Clicking on the above link nearly forced me to kill firefox (it's a javascript trap!), and it reminded me of a "annoyance vulnerability" I've always hated, and that is present in Firefox: Whenever you want to close the webpage, a javascript message pops up. Unfortunately, the alert messagebox prevents me from closing the window/tab.
Any idea if this is going to be fixed in FF3?
You want fun, go home and buy a monkey!
I just sent an email attempting to rick roll my girlfriend. I told her that Obama has a cameo about thirty seconds in (the bartender) and Hillary has been citing this video in recent speeches as reason we can't take Obama seriously. She's a Hillary supporter, so with any luck, it will get forwarded to all her friends!
where the comment ends and sig begins
A few years ago, my brother bought a big, new flatscreen monitor just a few weeks before april fools, and was guarding it jealously. So on Apr Fools, I went and modified his desktop pattern slightly- just added a few dead pixels here and there.
It didn't take him long to figure it out, but he had a good panic attack before he did.
In other news: Duke Nukem Forever is release as of April 1, 2008. Really, look at the release date.
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
I tried getting webpages to display upside down but I couldn't get it working.
I installed squid, changed it to "transparent", to run on port 80, and pointed url_rewrite_program to the script from the article. Everything else is at the default settings. I then stoped apache, started squid instead and ran iptables to redirect everything to the proxy (I had to add -t nat to get it working). But I only get "Access Denied" from squid. I've never used squid before so I don't know what to do.
Any ideas?
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
and is here to help!
Our wealth breeds emptiness
Add /break to the end of the arcpath in the boot.ini file
/fastdetect /break"
/break command, no damage done.
"...\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
This only works on systems without an installed debugger. If the debugger is installed, mileage may vary. In short, it tells the boot sequence to break and engage the debugger. No debugger = Instant BSOD. As long as you have a way to connect the drive and remove the
I remember back in college when we didn't like our RA. We put the wires to the stereo speakers so they crossed the top of the door, cut the wires at that point, and made it so that the connection worked when the door was closed. Then we cranked up the volume and left.
He went back to our room at least five times and used his key to open the door. Every time he flung the door open the stereo would cut out. He would look around confusedly and then take off trying to figure out where the music had come from.
I worked with a guy who actually did that, and yes he was serious.
This man was mind boggling stupid. He also printed out ALL emails, 'just in case'.
Just in case of what you ask? well so did we, and he said 'Just in case I need them'.
I know, it seem so stupid you think he just got us good, but I assure you I worked with this person for 3 years. For a while we would ask him questions just to see what he would say.
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I was hopeful that www.tiobe.com would do a "Programming Community Index for April 1, 2008" page, but it didn't happen.
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Something like this:
1. Rebol
2. Eiffel
3. Dylan
4. Caml
5. Objective-C
6. Forth
7. ML
8. Haskell
9. Smalltalk
51. Cobol
52. RPG
101. Visual Basic