Not quite as severe, but fun anyway...
In Windows 3.1 days, I had a nifty "driver" that would take any sounds, and pipe them through the 2" PC beeper-speaker. (Back before we all had sound cards!)
The down side was that it stole all of the processor time while it did this, so the rest of the machine was worthless until the sound file was done.
I recorded a Monty Python sound... in the cave, Sir Bedevere says "OOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOO!" (to which Lancelot replies "No, no, arrrrrgggghhh at the back of the throat).
I put the sound on a friend's computer in the sales department, and set it as the default sound for Novell "you have a message".
I then wrote a quick QB program that would "net send" a message to him every 10 seconds. (The message was, "it is now ", followed by the time.)
I started the program, and ran up to the sales department.
Every ten seconds, his machine would lock up and go "oooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo".
Salesmen have no sense of humor.
The California-based parent company of a production facility I worked at in Ohio decided the best way to handle the network for Ohio, was to load all 35 PCs with (can't remember the actual software) a remote-desktop program. All 35 machines went through a pair of switch boxes, to a central PC running Win NT, it in turn was connected to a phone line via 56K modem. All 35 users in Ohio were running remote desktops on a PC in California that was logged in to the parent company's network. About half the time, the "system" would be down on Monday morning; it wasn't until 8:00-9:00 CALIFORNIA time that they even realized there was a problem; by the time someone at the parent company figured out that they needed to reboot the "Ohio PC", it was almost time to go home!
I set up a computer at the company in Ohio with Win 2K; plugged it into one of the switches, and had it continuously download engineering files during the off-hours. I put everything into the same directory structure it came from in California, then set up file sharing for the Ohio users. It took one day for every engineer to set drive letters to the now-local files and begin using that system exclusively. It took the company president two weeks to figure out what I had done, and then it took him about 30 seconds to realize how much faster things were running. And even though we had our own design department, and NONE of the files on our new network was used outside of our four walls, it only took the parent company an hour to fax the Ohio Company president a nasty-gram, demanding that we adhere to an obscure document control policy... and everything got put back like it was.
I've been an Opera fanboy since way back when it still fit on one floppy. In the past 3 months, I have dumped Opera and started using FF. To be honest, it was the smartest thing I've ever done, browser-wise. Stability, functionality, ease of use... things Opera still struggles with. Yes, Opera has been "first" with a lot of nice features, but they've been so obsessed with being first to market that they have cut corners to get there. A nice feature Opera has is "edit site preferences". It allows you to set Opera to pretend to be IE (or FF) so it will work correctly on a lot of sites. IMHO, that is a feature that should be turned "on" by default, as I found myself having to pretend to be using IE ALL THE TIME! I've had no problems with FF. If memory is an issue, then keep in mind... memory is cheap. (My first PC was when RAM was $100 / Meg)
They build a computer model "based on a new translation of Einstein's general relativity equations" so that they "can test Einstein's theory and see whether or not he was right."
They're going to use his equations to verify his theories?
I want to publish an equation that says "7=13" and then theorize that "7*2=26".
Won't building a model based on an equation automatically prove a theory that is based on that equation?
Maybe we should hope Darwin was right... if enough 19-year-old cell-phone-toting bimbos are killed in crashes, then they won't breed future generations of inconsiderate clones of themselves.
Likewise, I say seatbelts should be optional... let's thin the herd of people prone to endangering themselves and others!
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Not quite as severe, but fun anyway... In Windows 3.1 days, I had a nifty "driver" that would take any sounds, and pipe them through the 2" PC beeper-speaker. (Back before we all had sound cards!) The down side was that it stole all of the processor time while it did this, so the rest of the machine was worthless until the sound file was done. I recorded a Monty Python sound... in the cave, Sir Bedevere says "OOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOO!" (to which Lancelot replies "No, no, arrrrrgggghhh at the back of the throat). I put the sound on a friend's computer in the sales department, and set it as the default sound for Novell "you have a message". I then wrote a quick QB program that would "net send" a message to him every 10 seconds. (The message was, "it is now ", followed by the time.) I started the program, and ran up to the sales department. Every ten seconds, his machine would lock up and go "oooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo". Salesmen have no sense of humor.
The California-based parent company of a production facility I worked at in Ohio decided the best way to handle the network for Ohio, was to load all 35 PCs with (can't remember the actual software) a remote-desktop program. All 35 machines went through a pair of switch boxes, to a central PC running Win NT, it in turn was connected to a phone line via 56K modem.
All 35 users in Ohio were running remote desktops on a PC in California that was logged in to the parent company's network.
About half the time, the "system" would be down on Monday morning; it wasn't until 8:00-9:00 CALIFORNIA time that they even realized there was a problem; by the time someone at the parent company figured out that they needed to reboot the "Ohio PC", it was almost time to go home!
I set up a computer at the company in Ohio with Win 2K; plugged it into one of the switches, and had it continuously download engineering files during the off-hours.
I put everything into the same directory structure it came from in California, then set up file sharing for the Ohio users.
It took one day for every engineer to set drive letters to the now-local files and begin using that system exclusively.
It took the company president two weeks to figure out what I had done, and then it took him about 30 seconds to realize how much faster things were running.
And even though we had our own design department, and NONE of the files on our new network was used outside of our four walls, it only took the parent company an hour to fax the Ohio Company president a nasty-gram, demanding that we adhere to an obscure document control policy... and everything got put back like it was.
Ahhh, yes... "epistemologically". My wife had one of those when our son was born!
Wow. The new firefox looks just like an error box!
firefox.exe - Entry Point Not Found
the procedure entry point JS_DHashtableoperate could not be located in the dynamic link library JS3250.dll
This is truly a wonderful improvement.
How do I go back to the older version?
I thought they were done beta testing it?
I've been an Opera fanboy since way back when it still fit on one floppy.
In the past 3 months, I have dumped Opera and started using FF.
To be honest, it was the smartest thing I've ever done, browser-wise.
Stability, functionality, ease of use... things Opera still struggles with.
Yes, Opera has been "first" with a lot of nice features, but they've been so obsessed with being first to market that they have cut corners to get there.
A nice feature Opera has is "edit site preferences". It allows you to set Opera to pretend to be IE (or FF) so it will work correctly on a lot of sites. IMHO, that is a feature that should be turned "on" by default, as I found myself having to pretend to be using IE ALL THE TIME!
I've had no problems with FF.
If memory is an issue, then keep in mind... memory is cheap. (My first PC was when RAM was $100 / Meg)
Yeah... Googol is the number... I just googled it.
They build a computer model "based on a new translation of Einstein's general relativity equations" so that they "can test Einstein's theory and see whether or not he was right." They're going to use his equations to verify his theories? I want to publish an equation that says "7=13" and then theorize that "7*2=26". Won't building a model based on an equation automatically prove a theory that is based on that equation?
Maybe we should hope Darwin was right... if enough 19-year-old cell-phone-toting bimbos are killed in crashes, then they won't breed future generations of inconsiderate clones of themselves. Likewise, I say seatbelts should be optional... let's thin the herd of people prone to endangering themselves and others!