http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 07:03:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19552/Torvalds_Gets_Sense_of_Humour/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19552/Torvalds_Gets_Sense_of_Humour/ Linus Torvalds has a sense of humour. "Youtube no workee - Fedora 9 not usable for wife." So begins a bug he filed on Fedora's Bugzilla. "I didn't try a lot of videos, but I couldn't find a single one that actually worked. And what's the internet without the rick-roll? Some just show a light gray background, some give the play buttons etc, but show only a black screen even when the red ball at the bottom moves along. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install current Fedora 9; 2. Rick-roll!; 3. No profit!" Thanks to Fefes Blog and dr_evil in #haiku for pointing this one out. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:36:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19154/Mommy_Why_Is_There_a_Server_in_the_House_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19154/Mommy_Why_Is_There_a_Server_in_the_House_/ It has been making waves on the net for a few days already, and I don't want to keep anyone deprived from this utter piece of brilliance. "Mommy, why is there a server in the house?", a children's book made by Microsoft to 'help your child understand the stay-at-home server'. "Big people have a server at the 'office'. The office is a big place where people go and do boring things." Not everybody will appreciate the twisted humour, but I sure do. Utterly brilliant, this. Update: There is more! Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:22:21 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 49 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/17139/Allchin:_What_Comes_Next/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17139/Allchin:_What_Comes_Next/ Jim Allchin, who officially quit Microsoft after 17 years of service Wednesday, posted on the Windows Vista Blog about how he thinks his day will look in the near future. "3:15 PM: Went to drive the afternoon carpool run. Spent 20 minutes waiting in line behind other parents whose kids weren't even outside yet. Need to write paper about Next Generation Carpool Queuing solution (NGCQ) that integrates Windows Live Presence with the driveway scheduler. Must get appointment with school principal when it's done." Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:45:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 39 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/14883/Watch_the_World_Cup_in_ASCII/ http://www.osnews.com/story/14883/Watch_the_World_Cup_in_ASCII/ Sometimes, while browsing the net for news, I come accross things I just cannot not post. "Some enterprising Austrian Über-geeks [have created] a Telnet stream with, believe it or not, live ASCII footage of matches being played [at the World Cup Football]. Simply fire up a command prompt and type 'telnet ascii-wm.net 2006' and you'll find a live 'video' stream from 10 minutes before kick-off (or should that be boot-up?)." I also look forward to the Wimbledon version that resembles Pong. Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:14:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 54 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/14113/Oklahoma_Town_Threatens_to_Call_FBI_Over_Renegade_Linux_Maker/ http://www.osnews.com/story/14113/Oklahoma_Town_Threatens_to_Call_FBI_Over_Renegade_Linux_Maker/ The heartland turned vicious this week when an Oklahoma town threatened to call in the FBI because its web site was hacked by Linux maker Cent OS. Problem is CentOS didn't hack Tuttle's web site at all. The city's hosting provider had simply botched a web server. This tale kicked off yesterday when Tuttle's city manager Jerry Taylor fired off an angry message to the CentOS staff. Taylor had popped onto the city's web site and found the standard Apache server configuration boilerplate that appears with a new web server installation. Taylor seemed to confuse this with a potential hack attack on the bustling town's IT infrastructure. Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:16:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News Tyr. http://www.osnews.com/story/13911/Its_Official!_Windows_XP_Boots_on_Macbook!!!!1/ http://www.osnews.com/story/13911/Its_Official!_Windows_XP_Boots_on_Macbook!!!!1/ It took some time, but someone finally made it happen: Windows XP boots on a Macbook Pro! Screenshot included! Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:40:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Humor 72 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/13756/Worlds_Largest_Windows_Error_Message/ http://www.osnews.com/story/13756/Worlds_Largest_Windows_Error_Message/ Times Square has seen the largest Windows error message ever. One of the many machines controlling one of the many electronic billboards crashed, displaying a large DirectX error message. The billboard is two stories high. Adam Gaffin happened to be at Times Square and took some pictures of the world's largest error message. Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:04:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 49 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/13404/Flying_Car_Captured_on_Google_Earth/ http://www.osnews.com/story/13404/Flying_Car_Captured_on_Google_Earth/ "Here's a question for you: what have the Nazi wartime test facility at Peenemunde and the Australian city of Perth got in common? Well, the first thing (and just about the only thing, truth be told) which springs to mind is that they are both next to large bodies of water. This is useful if you're going to test things which might go bang. Like V-2 rockets and - wait for it - flying cars." Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:18:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 31 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/13313/Jobs_Suggests_Dell_Should_Eat_His_Words/ http://www.osnews.com/story/13313/Jobs_Suggests_Dell_Should_Eat_His_Words/ When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Micheal Dell was asked what he would do to fix Apple. Dell replied: "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." Following Friday's news that Apple had surpassed Dell's value of $71.97 billion, Jobs wrote an email to his staff: "Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today." Who said capitalism is humourless? Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:55:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 82 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/12932/The_Inqs_Little_Difference_Awards_2005/ http://www.osnews.com/story/12932/The_Inqs_Little_Difference_Awards_2005/ "Every year the Inquirer announces nominations for awards but with a little difference. Often the nominations are there because products or strategies have made just that, little difference. This time round we've invited nominations from our team of worldwide hacks and those who could be bothered have come up with a list of contenders for the Gongs of Little Difference." Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:47:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/12587/Is_MS_Windows_Ready_for_the_Desktop_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/12587/Is_MS_Windows_Ready_for_the_Desktop_/ LinuxFanBoy writes: "A very funny article by a European Linux guy who approaches the subject with humor. He's someone who has never used Windows and has only Gentoo Linux." Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:04:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Humor 46 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News LinuxFanBoy http://www.osnews.com/story/12208/If_Microsoft_Never_Existed.../ http://www.osnews.com/story/12208/If_Microsoft_Never_Existed.../ This humorous article depicts the computing world without Microsoft-- Apple has the biggest marketshare (15%), HP bought Commodore, IBM thinks text-based interfaces are the best thing for customers, and hardware-accelerated 3D is a no-go because all the various parties cannot agree on a standard. And Microsoft? Aren't they selling BASIC? Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:43:33 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Humor 82 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News sean batten http://www.osnews.com/story/11855/Suns_Sense_of_Humor/ http://www.osnews.com/story/11855/Suns_Sense_of_Humor/ Never let it be said that Sun Microsystems, who are promoting their new Opteron-based "Galaxy" server line, are subtle. A recent post to the Sun website displays several "rejected" ads. Says the website, "At Sun, we're the radical engineers that build 'ass-whoopin' technology - we're not Miss Manners and we never want to be." Ads that did make the cut were revealed as well. Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:01:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Humor 51 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/11722/Five_Reasons_NOT_To_Use_Linux/ http://www.osnews.com/story/11722/Five_Reasons_NOT_To_Use_Linux/ Linuxwatch.com is running a great story called "Five Reasons NOT To Use Linux." It includes a nice list of reasons why one might want to steer clear of Linux, along with a nice comparison to how easily these reasons are addressed in Microsoft Windows. Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:37:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Humor 232 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News http://www.osnews.com/story/11581/Macs_Are_Too_Expensive/ http://www.osnews.com/story/11581/Macs_Are_Too_Expensive/ In Virginia, patrons waiting in line to buy county school surplus iBooks for $50 started a riot when the doors opened, with an old man getting trampled, people crushing a baby stroller, and someone trying to run people down with his car. One iBook hopeful admitted that he used his folding chair as a weapon to fight off people who were trying to cut in line. Take a lesson from Steve Jobs, Henrico County: make them a little more expensive, and prevent the bloodshed. (Editor's note for the humor-impaired: no, I don't really think Macs are too expensive. I'm making fun of people who do) Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:10:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Humor 94 http://www.osnews.com/topics/30 News