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UF/BeDope/Segfault Shutdown!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-no dept.

Well, after doing some checking around today, it appears that as yet unknown entity has managed to shutdown BeDope, User Friendly, and Segfault.

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  1. Enough is enough by Hemos · · Score: 2

    At Rob's behest every author will be posting it.

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  2. NOT FUNNY by maelstrom · · Score: 2

    If this is truly an April Fool's joke it is about as funny as the story last year about JWZ passing away in a car wreck.

    I fail to see the humour.

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  3. Ack! Enough April Fools by Squeamish+Ossifrage · · Score: 2

    This is just annoying. Yes, it's April Fool's day, and yes humor is good, but a lot of are still looking for the same real information that we always are, and that gets hard when the jokes outnumber real stories 2 to 1.

  4. Get over it. by Enucite · · Score: 2

    It was a well planned and stupendously executed prank.

    It was great watching so many people fumble around worrying about the status of Segfault/UF/BeDope

    I know I've had fun today. :-)

    It's people like you that make this such a great joke.

    It's the fools that get upset over April Fool's jokes.

    Sorry that you didn't get it right away and missed out on all the fun.

    It was just a little to coincidental (three sites, shutting down on April 1?) for me to believe.

    It's funny, laugh.

    ~enucite~

  5. go here to see.... by Zebulun · · Score: 2

    http://perl2000.com/Webmaster/Support/

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  6. it was a joke. by Zebulun · · Score: 2

    check the support site.
    i was had.

    -Z

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  7. I have my own conspiracy theory... by humphrm · · Score: 2

    I can see the CNNfn story now...

    "Microsoft stock fell sharply this morning in brisk trading on ill-fated rumors that it was the 'yet unnamed' source of litigation against several web sites. Although there is no legal precedent or even advantage for targets of litigation to withold the names of aggressors, these sites set up April Fools schemes involving alleged lawsuits by 'unnamed' companies that most Linux advocates assumed to be Microsoft."

    "Upon realization of the prank, traders brought Microsoft stock briskly back into the black, and it's currently trading at about 2.5 points above it's open."

    Any alternate theories? :-)

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  8. Great Research, Hemos. by SEWilco · · Score: 2

    Don't criticize his "doing some checking". It's a lot of effort to travel to his two major libraries, check his periodical archives, wade through six web search engines, and skim DejaNews. He did get the news here after confirming it's not a trivial rumor.