- April, 2006
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one ring
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
One ringThe one ring is available cheap now
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funny quotes
Original Jesus Official Random Quote (TM)
Why do people keep asking, "What would Jesus do?" How the hell should I know? I died for you, damnit! Haven't I done enough for you already? Pop gave you free will for a reason; make your own decisions!
— 'Original Jesus on the tribulations of being Himself.This is taken from some blog
"Where do you see yourself in five years time?"
"I don't know - I don't have any special powers like that."Defined tags for this entry: humour - February, 2006
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RFC 1984
RFC 1984 is Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet.
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a principal of good user design
I am quite sure this guy is talking about emacs and vi war
Similarly, I have heard people argue against a tool that they ignore based on the fact that it can do too much. Too much functionality in a tools is a problem only if unneeded or unwanted functionality somehow makes it harder to use the needed and wanted parts. I have heard people argue about the amount of memory a particular tool requires, whereas the additional memory required might represent a cost equivalent to a few hours of work at most. A favorite idea is to label a particular tool with a name suggesting what it ought to be doing, and then arguing that it is doing more than that. For instance, a text editor that is capable of automatic indentation would be accused of being a ``kitchen-sink'' tool because after all it does much more than allowing the user to just edit text.
Defined tags for this entry: humour - January, 2006
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Too may Steves in the house ?
< awormus> the funniest thing just happened < awormus> we're having guests and my wife asked me what I'm going to wear < awormus> so I said I was going to do the "Steve Jobs" thing < awormus> she looked a bit puzzled and then said "You mean like ... " and started jumping around the room < awormus> and I said "No, that's Steve Balmer"Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff, humour - November, 2005
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A witty saying proves nothing
And a witty error message does not look funny if it happens 5 times in 5 minutes.
and while I am in a ranting mood, what is the big idea in showing birthdays that have already elapsed
The above screenshots are from orkut - if you fail to recognize them that is
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Rage against the machine
Originally posted Sat, 18 Oct 2003
This news article at BBC has a list of things that cause loss of data. The list reads more like The Foolish Things we do with our computers.
- Laptop shot in anger
- PC thrown out the window to destroy evidence before police arrived
- Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry
- Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts
- Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river
- Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner
- Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt
- Computer thrown against a wall
- Latte-covered laptop rescued
- Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off
The article also asks its readers to share how they lost their data. The stories are funny. My favourite
My mother was so infuriated that she couldn't get something to print, she proceeded to completely rip the keyboard and mouse out of the sockets and throw them out the window.
The worst I treated my computer was when I once kicked it to make it go faser. I realized later that a better way is to simply switch from using Windows to Linux Defined tags for this entry: humour
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