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Funny stuff around the world
I found this signboard on one of the university in Malaysia. It seems that here, Solaris is more than a merely operating system but a distro bistro! Wonder if Sun Microsystem will take action if this bistro is located in the United States?
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Is it really true that today is a special day where the date coincide with the number of the beast? (ie 06/06/06 = 666).
IMHO, if you see that date in your pc right now, then you’re pretty f*cked up, because you may be using a non-Y2k compliant software. Truncating the number to 2 digit is a damn bad practice :p
I found this while looking for some worthy and random blog to read as I’ve written my blog for the day. Malaysian is capable of anything, including trying to cash-in the recent magazine’s popularity in Indonesia.
Enough said, you get the idea – Bharian, #fakap blog
I read the recent Microsoft plan of tatooing illegal copies of Microsoft Windows XP at various places over the internet. From what I read, the process involved putting a pop-up dialog box that will appear on the Windows login screen, informing the user that his copy of the OS is counterfeit and that he should get a genuine copy.
Another message will permanently be affixed at the user’s desktop, “This copy of Windows is not genuine. You may be a victim of software counterfeiting”, the reminder can’t be removed (tattooed).
Finally, a ballon-style popup will appear randomly in system tray reminding you that you’re using an illegal copy of Microsoft Windows. The only way to stop the messages from appearing is to replace the OS with a genuine copy. Though some unofficial sources claimed, that there’s a crack to circumvent all the warnings.
These ‘nagulator’ (not my word), is somehow related to another business model, called shareware or nagware, which constantly reminds you to pay for the software you use randomly. IMHO, if Microsoft were to really discourage software piracy, it should impose a stricter way to prevent people from using illegal copies of it’s own products.
Instead, they create a specially crafted dialog box that is used in common nagware/shareware to deter “piracy”. Has Microsoft turned it’s own operating system to a shareware now?
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After a long hiatus, my favorite online comic (written by apz) is back online! It came back online somewhere around February 2006, I just realise it today!
ICCL is geeky comic about computer technician, and it’s story focuses around Simon Freeman and Deirdre. I like ICCL because I feel like the character Simon close to myself as both of us prefered to be slackers (I mean, voluntarily unemployed). It’s an entertaining comic. Actually, the comic inspires me to switch to Debian GNU/Linux after I fail to use Fedora Core “properly”.
Read it at http://iccl.fi
New readers should start reading from Chapter 1/Genesis
Last night at about 3 am I logged in my blog account, and saw this announcement at the WordPress Dashboard :
On behalf of the WordPress community, I?m proud to announce a merger we?ve had on our minds since the first time we saw Dean Allen?s dog ? WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern. ?WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.? As with any great union, there […]
So I went to to a simple-looking website claiming that wordpress and Textpattern has been merged to produce a better CMS platform. So I went straight ahead to the download section to take a peek on what kind of improvement they had.
I sounds fishy enough that I haven’t heard about any “merging” efforts before, but I was compelled to download the tarball package. Seems my instinct was right, the tarball contains some two lame files, yeah a WordPress team very own April Fools joke.
ROTFL