Another fun prank from the DOS days: A TSR program that hooked in the keyboard interrupt, and if it detected that it was called from Turbo Pascal, and that the sequence for compilation was called, it would locate the editor buffer and randomly change a couple of semicolons to colon.
This was both annoying as hell (plenty of syntax errors), and difficult to positively blame on mischief as:
Colon and semicolon are on same key, so easy to blame on typo (phat phingered the shift key)
On those crappy monitors that we used back then, it was really difficult to tell colon and semicolon apart
The TSR was called <shift-space>.com and so a cursory perusal of the autoexec.bat would not reveal its presence, as shift-space just looks like a normal space (... but can be the name of a command)
IT spend an entire day trying to re-install Turbo Pascal, and the problem still persisted... (because it was in an independent TSR, not in the Turbo Pascal app itself)
Then, the next day, re-install of the entire system.
Another fun TSR one was the annoying keyboard beep. The TSR had a timetable of the classes build in, so that the keyboard click would be very short and almost unnoticable at the beginning of the class, and then gradually grew longer and longer during the class (first a faint click, than a more obvious click, and by the end of the hour an annoying beeeeeeeeeep). Fun thing is, as it was gradual, nobody really noticed when/how it started, but eventually that background noise was "just there"...
My calculations show that a million bots doing 10 simultaneous requests a second would take 8 months to use up all the 62-char combos between 1 and 8 digits.
Not to mention that after a while, google blacklists your IP for a while. So it's more like 126 requests per 2 or 3 hours per IP (or whatever time it takes for the block to expire).
No, for 8 digits, exhausting the space is not feasible. For 4 digits, on the other hand...
Imagine "owning" all the links an being able to change where the server redirects each one...
Once submitted, you can't change it, unfortunately. Just imagine the fun that would be. Post a serious goo.gl link to a forum, wait until it gets duplicated onto a couple of other places, and after a few days, suddenly the beef becomes a goat...
goo.gl shortens goo.gl url's as well! No, I will not write an evil script. Someone has to do the 'No Evil', right?
... and you'd hit browser redirect limits real fast. However, goo.gl shortens URL with different # suffixes (ignored by the web server) to different short urls. And pastebin has a script
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This was both annoying as hell (plenty of syntax errors), and difficult to positively blame on mischief as:
The TSR was called <shift-space>.com and so a cursory perusal of the autoexec.bat would not reveal its presence, as shift-space just looks like a normal space (... but can be the name of a command)
IT spend an entire day trying to re-install Turbo Pascal, and the problem still persisted... (because it was in an independent TSR, not in the Turbo Pascal app itself)
Then, the next day, re-install of the entire system.
Another fun TSR one was the annoying keyboard beep. The TSR had a timetable of the classes build in, so that the keyboard click would be very short and almost unnoticable at the beginning of the class, and then gradually grew longer and longer during the class (first a faint click, than a more obvious click, and by the end of the hour an annoying beeeeeeeeeep). Fun thing is, as it was gradual, nobody really noticed when/how it started, but eventually that background noise was "just there"...
A, those were the days of highschool pranks...
Two days to run wireshark? LOL.
It was a Windows shop.
Actually, the string decodes to the number 5993, which is the id number of his goo.gl blog
Moo!
You there. In that overpriced german Mercedes tank.Speed limit is 55mph. You're not on the Autobahn here!
And what's that kangooroo doing there on the innerstate?
Wow Estonian junk heaps plowing down on I797. Careful, this one lost his left hind wheel!
... I guess the queen will not be amused when her subjects keep looking at this smut! Be ashamed!
Can we hear from Denmark please?
Looks like a Canuck just crashed into the Californian wall... Oopsie :-(
An amazing remake of GTA, and all free!
You like cows? You like cow-themed games? Then click here!
Now where did that pain4 image go?
It weights 95 Kg. You're welcome.
2530? But that's the combination to my luggage!
My calculations show that a million bots doing 10 simultaneous requests a second would take 8 months to use up all the 62-char combos between 1 and 8 digits.
Not to mention that after a while, google blacklists your IP for a while. So it's more like 126 requests per 2 or 3 hours per IP (or whatever time it takes for the block to expire).
No, for 8 digits, exhausting the space is not feasible. For 4 digits, on the other hand...
Imagine "owning" all the links an being able to change where the server redirects each one ...
Once submitted, you can't change it, unfortunately. Just imagine the fun that would be. Post a serious goo.gl link to a forum, wait until it gets duplicated onto a couple of other places, and after a few days, suddenly the beef becomes a goat...
How many times did you submit that before you got it right?
About 2500 times... No, I didn't submit those manually, but instead used this
Obviously google only censors certain words from their list of banned short url expressions. How long before we see 0xDEADBEEF and 0xCAFEBABE?
hehe... but it'll take a while until the 4 letter character space is full, never mind reaching 8 letters...
Can we get spam? sp4m? Any other variant?
... is not in yet... But I'll keep you posted once it (or variants...) show up...
Lot's of cow-themed paintings: http://goo.gl/beef
Just remember, its "mill" spelled backwards and the two middle letters upper-cased.
How awfully complicated... I prefer to just remember beef, spelled normally, all lower case.
Remember: if you want a goat, ask for a beef!
I definitely dont want to give out Case Sensitive shortened URLs - Seems wrong fundamentally.
So, just use a pronouncable all caps URL. Of course these are not free, but 50 cents/URL is not exactly expensive either.
flab.... hehe... poor choice of acronym for this picture...
who the hell pays for an URL shortener in the first place?
Well, apparently companies such as Roberto Cavalli (sunglasses and other fashion accessories) do: http://goo.gl/372S
Case in point, Roberto Cavalli bought a custom short URL for his TARGELIE 372S Sunglasses.
I guess that only leaves unpronouncable mumbo-jumbo such as http://goo.gl/X7Cy for us commoners... :-(
I tried http://goo.gl/zmsm , and got someone's MSN mail box. Weird.
As in "let's do some bubbybinky tonight...". How fitting!
goo.gl shortens goo.gl url's as well! No, I will not write an evil script. Someone has to do the 'No Evil', right?
... and you'd hit browser redirect limits real fast. However, goo.gl shortens URL with different # suffixes (ignored by the web server) to different short urls. And pastebin has a script