Configuring Display System. May take a few minutes...

Configuring Display System. May take a few minutes..., originally uploaded by moonhouse.

Beauty!

The System Error Blog is my child

...full of funny computer errors!

Linky.

YouTube and Newgrounds alts

• YouTube - HolyTux1 
• Newgrounds - tuxaudio55 

Cool.

Had fun with Windows 2000

It was quite fun. I installed Office 2000.

Some stuff here

• I created a new song. Download here.
• I am working on a port of XBill to Flash, called FBill. Get tasty snapshots of XBill I will use here and here.
  

Finally Fast… supporting Mac?

Just saw their commercial come on, and now with a twist.

They support Mac now?!

A myth about Finally Fast solved: they still hide the Apple logo (but it supports Mac), and it looks like they still can’t solve the fact that they still hide the Gmail logo. (Because the email service looks like Gmail)

Now, that’s weird…

We need to archive the entire Pirate Bay

The measures from the menaces of the Dutch BREIN is too bad.

The Pirate Bay must be archived.

I’m helping by submitting the site to be archived by the Internet Archie (or is it there?)

It's Halloween.

...and these photos show how it gets celebrated.

Happy Halloween!

I don't care!!!!!

Twitter Lists

I got excited when I logged on to Twitter today.

It’s the beta of Twitter Lists.

Basically, lists are a list of people you want to see.

They have the concepts of Followers and Following.

Here’s a screenshot:

Nice, Twitter.

Mafia Wars and a funny photo

I have leveled up to level 9 on Mafia Wars (on MySpace).

Otherwise, here's a funny photo:

Linus Torvalds likes Windows 7, LOL!

Spamming Twitter... again!

So, today I stumbled across this @reply which was by @AlysonMccarty, and also was unintended:

So I expanded the URL using LongURL and guess what?

...it points to "SexyKat21's Blog".

Also, a whole bunch more on your way: users wimping about it and more spam users:

Holy shoot.

Translating Facebook into 1337 sp34k

It's cool.

I created a Twitter client

It's called perltweets, and yes, it works.

Ohloh Labs HACKED!

How many tweets are made within 5 minutes?

100,287 tweets are made every 5 minutes.

I created 2 tweets within a 5 minute period, and the tweet IDs were 5127525520 and 5127625807. I subracted and that's the answer.

Mine!

Mine!, originally uploaded by heather.

It's mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The FriendFeed default icon is quite weird

It looks childish.

Flock - close to fail

Ugh...

Geek quotes

• There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't
• If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0
• I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly
• My software never has bugs. It just develops random features
• Roses are #FF0000 , Violets are #0000FF , All my base belongs to you
• In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
• Hand over the calculator, friends don't let friends derive drunk
• I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code
• Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
• The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed LINUX
• A penny saved is 1.39 cents earned, if you consider income tax
• Unix, DOS and Windows - the good, the bad and the ugly
• A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila
• The code that is the hardest to debug is the code that you know cannot possibly be wrong
• UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity
• Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny
• C://dos
• C://dos.run
• run.dos.run
• You know it's love when you memorize her IP number to skip DNS overhead
• JUST SHUT UP AND REBOOT!!
• 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
• Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive
• How do I set a laser printer to stun?
• There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer
• Concept: On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape button
• It's not bogus, it's an IBM standard
• Be nice to the nerds, for all you know they might be the next Bill Gates!
• The farther south you go, the more dollar stores there are
• Beware of programmers that carry screwdrivers
• The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers
• If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture
• COFFEE.EXE Missing - Insert Cup and Press Any Key
• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
• LISP = Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses
• The beginning of the programmer's wisdom is understanding the difference between getting program to run and having a runnable program
• Squash one bug, you'll see ten new bugs popping
• Everytime i time i touch my code, i give birth to ten new bugs
• boast = blogging is open & amiable sharing of thoughts
• We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again
• Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted
• If it weren't for C, we'd all be programming in BASI and OBO
• Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner
• Bad or corrupt header, go get a haircut
• Unrecognized input, get out of the class
• Warning! Buffer overflow, close the tumbler !
• WinErr 547: LPT1 not found - Use backup - PENCIL & PAPER
• Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
• Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes
• Best file compression around: ...rm *.*“ = 100% compression
• Hackers in hollywood movies are phenomenal. All they need to do is ...c:> hack into fbi“
• BREAKFAST.COM Halted - Cereal Port Not Responding
• I survived an NT installation
• The name is Baud - James Baud
• My new car runs at 56Kbps
• Why doesn't DOS ever say ...EXCELLENT command or filename!“
• File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
• Cannot read data, leech the next boy's paper? (Y/N)
• CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/n)?
• Does fuzzy logic tickle?
• Helpdesk : Sir, you need to add 10GB space to your HD , Customer : Could you please tell where I can download that?
• Windows: Just another pane in the glass
• Who's General Failure & why's he reading my disk?
• RAM disk is not an installation procedure
• Shell to DOS! Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS!
• The truth is out there…anybody got the URL?
• Smash forehead on keyboard to continue...
• E-mail returned to sender - insufficient voltage
• Help! I'm modeming and I can't hang up!!!
• All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
• Once I got this error on my Linux box: Error. Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue
• Once I got this error on my Linux box: Error. Mouse not attached. Please left click the 'OK' button to continue
• Press any key to continue or any other key to quit…
• Press every key to continue
• Helpdesk: Sir if you see the blue screen, press any key to continue. Customer : hm.. just a min.. where's that 'any key'..
• Idiot, Go ahead, make my data!
• Old programmers never die; they just give up their resources
• To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so
• (001) Logical Error CLINTON.SYS: Truth table missing
• Clinton:/> READ | PARSE | WRITE | DUMP » MONKIA.SYS
• (D)inner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza
• Computers can never replace human stupidity
• A typical Yahoo! inbox : Inbox(0), Junk(9855210)
• (A)bort, (R)etry, (P)anic?
• Bugs come in through open Windows
• Penguins love cold, they wont survive the sun
• Unix is user friendly - its just selective about who its friends are
• Artificial intelligence usually beats real stupidity
• Bell Labs Unix - Reach out and grep someone.
• To err is human, to really foul up requires the root password.
• Invalid password : Please enter the correct password to (Abort / Retry / Ignore )
• FUBAR - where Geeks go for a drink
• I degaussed my girlfriend and I'm just not attracted to her anymore
• Scandisk : Found 2 bad sectors. Please enter a new HD to continue scanning
• Black holes are where God divided by zero
• Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
• Thank god, my baby just compiled
• Yes! My code compiled, and my wife just produced the output
• Windows 98 supports real multitasking - it can boot and crash simultaneously
• Zap! And there was the blue screen !
• Please send all spam to my main address, root@localhost
• MailerD(a)emon: You just received 9133547 spam. (O)pen all, (R)ead one by one, (C)heck for more spam
• A: Can you teach me how to use a computer? B: No. I just fix the machines, I don't use them
• PayPal: Your funds have been frozen for 668974 days
• 1-800-404 : The subscriber you are trying to call does not exist
• 1-800-403 : Access to that subscriber was denied
• Error message: ...Out of paper on drive D:“
• If I wanted a warm fuzzy feeling, I'd antialias my graphics!
• A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light
• ...Mr. Worf, scan that ship.“ ...Aye Captain. 300 dpi?“
• Smith & Wesson: The Original Point And Click Interface
• Shout onto a newsgroup : It echoes back flames and spam
• Firewall : Intruder detected. (A)llow in (D)eactivate the firewall
• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language
• Warning! Perl script detected! (K)ill it , (D)eactivate it
• Firewall : Do you want to place a motion detector on port 80 ?
• Helpdesk: Sir, please refill your ink catridges Customer : Where can i download that?
• All computers run at the same speed with the power off
• You have successfully logged in, Now press any key to log out
• Sorry, the password you tried is already being used by Dorthy, please try something else.
• Sorry, that username already exists. (O)verwrite it (C)ancel
• Please send all flames, trolls, and complaints to /dev/toilet
• Shut up, or i'll flush you out
• Cron : Enter cron command \ Now enter the number of minutes in an hour
• We are experiencing system trouble, do not adjust your terminal
• You have successfully hacked in, Welcome to the FBI mainframes.
• I'm sorry, our software is perfect. The problem must be you
• Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurling down the highway
• Webhost livehelp: Sir you ran out of bandwidth, User: Where can I download that?
• If Ruby is not and Perl is the answer, you don't understand the question
• Having soundcards is nice, having embedded sound in web pages is not
• My computer was full, so I deleted everything on the right half
• You have received a new mail which is 195537 hours old
• Yahoo! Mail: Your email was sent successfully. The email will delivered in 4 days and 8 hours
• I'm sorry for the double slash (Tim Berners-Lee in a Panel Discussion, WWW7, Brisbane, 1998)
• Ah, young webmaster, java leads to shockwave. Shockwave leads to realaudio. And realaudio leads to suffering
• What color do you want that database?
• C++ is a write-only language, once can write programs in C++, but I can't read any of them
• As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code
• earth is 98% full, please delete anyone you can
• A typical yahoo chat room: ...A has signed in, A has signed out, B has signed in, B has signed out, C has signed in, C has signed out..“
• When someone says ...I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,“ give him a lollipop
• Warning! No processor found! Press any key to continue
• Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product
• NT is the only OS that has caused me to beat a piece of hardware to death with my bare hands
• Warning! Kernel crashed, Run for your lives !
• NASA uses Windows? Oh great. If Apollo 13 went off course today the manual would just tell them to open the airlock, flush the astronauts out, and re-install new one
• JavaScript: An authorizing language designed to make Netscape crash
• How's my programming? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL
• Yes, friends and neighbors, boys and girls - my PC speaker crashed NT
• root:> Sorry, you entered the wrong password, the correct password is 'a_49qwXk'
• New linux package released. Please install on /dev/null
• Quake and uptime do not like each other
• Unix, best if used before: Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 GMT 2038
• As you well know, magic and weapons are prohibited inside the cafeteria — Final Fantasy VIII
• Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labo
• Unix is the only virus with a command line interface
• Windows 95 makes Unix look like an operating system
• How are we supposed to hack your system if it's always down!
• God is real, unless declared integer
• I'm tempted to buy the slashdot staff a grammar checker. What do they do for 40 hours a week?
• Paypal : Please enter your credit card number to continue
• It takes a million monkeys at typewriters to write Shakespeare, but only a dozen monkeys at computers to run Network Solutions
• Please help - firewall burnt down - lost packet - reward $$$
• If Linux were a beer, it would be shipped in open barrels so that anybody could piss in it before delivery
• Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle
• Perl, the only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption
• Norton: Incoming virus - (D)ownload and save (R)un after download
• I had a dream and there were 1's and 0's everywhere, and I think I saw a 2!
• You sir, are an unknown USB device driver
• C isn't that hard: void (*(*f[])())() defines f as an array of unspecified size, of pointers to functions that return pointers to functions that return void

The BEST ERROR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to play Monopoly!

Monopoly is one of my favorite games.

Now welcoming more OpenIDs

May I welcome:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewsteinborn
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/tuxme2
https://me.yahoo.com/sleeper5865
https://me.yahoo.com/andrewz111
https://me.yahoo.com/a/ajTXkMUSk_DxR.0y1yl.rJf90Jllo38-
to my ever growing list of OpenIDs.

Funny langauges on Facebook

This is the "Select language" screen.

˙ɥsılƃuǝ "uʍop ǝpısdn" sı sıɥʇ ˙sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ ʇ,uɐɔ ǝɹns noʎ

Arg! This be Pirate!

Twitterfeed news: Facebook publishing, better infrastructure, real-time updates and Google Analytics

Alrighty, from the mail:

Faster, more reliable publishing

Dealing with such a flood of traffic on a service meant that Twitterfeed has had reliability issues; at times the system would simply get overwhelmed. Over the last few months we've been building a completely new architecture designed to handle the millions of posts we publish to Twitter and beyond each day.

We're starting to roll out this new architecture today and this means that Twitterfeed should be able to publish feeds much faster than before. It will take a few days for us to move all the feeds over safely, but the result will be your posts reaching your audience when you want them to.

Pubsubhubbub real-time feed publishing

Twitterfeed now works with Pubsubhubbub. This means that sites enabled with Pubsubhubbub, like Typepad and Blogger sites, will be able to see their posts published in real time! We'll shortly be announcing support for RSScloud too, so that wordpress sites can also be published in real time. You can find out more about pubsubhubbub here.

Publish to Facebook!

You can now automatically publish to Facebook from Twitterfeed. What's more, you'll see statistics for each post showing you just how many people clicked on posts from Facebook vs those from Twitter. You'll be able to better understand just where your social media strategy is working. 

Google Analytics Integration

Twitterfeed now adds special 'UTM' tags to each post that it publishes. Google Analytics can read these tags and integrate the information into its reporting. You'll be able to understand how people clicking on your posts from Facebook differ from those clicking from Twitter and track the complete path of their visit to your site.

Bored...

...yawn... I am bored...

Facebook Problem!

XP FAIL, use Linux

Funny computer quotes

The only thing worse than X Windows: (X Windows) - X

Feeling amorous, she looked under the sheets and cried, “Oh, no, it’s Microsoft!”

“The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected.” — The Unix Programmer’s Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972

Old musicians never die, they just decompose.

“Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night hacking (and/or conversations with God).” (By Matt Welsh)

LOL…

Gaming consoles...

Fun!

I have an Nintendo 64, PSP (1000 (broken), 3000, and soon PSP 2) PS2, PC, Wii, the original PlayStation and Game Boys (Color, Advance, Advance SP, Mini).

Losts of games to go with that! ;-)

HOWTO: Create a Google account without SMS verification

I created my Google account back in September 2006. My little brother needs one. I sign up normally - FAIL - SMS!

Sign up for YouTube (with a fake birth date if under 13) and elect to make a new Google account. Verify the account via email and tada! Google account w/o SMS verification! (You can later cancel the YouTube account)

JSNES snapshot

JSNES JavaScript NES emulator running under Google Chrome 3 beta.

Comparing blogging services

…shall we?

Blogger:
Pros:

• It’s free :)
• From the search-engine giant Google
• The control panel never goes down when your blog breaks
• Supports custom domains
• Highly customizable
• OPENID!

Cons:

• You’ll need a Google account (Which registering one is a royal pain in the butt than it was in 2006)
• Every amateur blog is at blogspot.com
• Not standalone

WordPress.Com:
Pros:

• Free!
• Brought to you by the makers of WordPress
• Required for Akismet…
• OPENID!

Cons:

• Many things cost $$$
• Every amateur blog is at [domainname].wordpress.com
• Evil Automattic moneygrubbers :-(

Posterous:
Pros:

• Free!
• Email, SMS and web posting

Cons:

• Every amateur blog is at [domainname].posterous.com
• Only 1GB of space

Tumblr:
Pros:

• Free!
• Email and web posting
• Fully customizable!

Cons:

• Every amateur blog is at [domainname].tumblr.com

If you're too social on Facebook...

...you'll end up like this.

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How to get a rogue on Twitter:

1. Sign up for Twitter.
2. Look at the trending topics and click on every random link out there.
3. Serve computer with Linux CD.

To be safe…
1. On microblogging social networks, use the LongURL Mobile Expander. (snapshot above - link points to Windows PC Defender rogue)
2. NEVER look at the trending topics. DON’T click on them. Period.
3. Get off microblogging services period.

Thrillville superglitch

I was playing Bumper Cars in Thrillville. Guess what my score is.

That’s right, 3,528,100 was my score.

Guess how many times I hit? 3,574 times.

It’s a superglitch.

Blogging photos on Flickr if the owner disables blogging

Here it is:

1. Go to the photo page and select “All Sizes”.
2. Copy the location of the image, like htt p://farm1.static.flickr. com/187/408568450_813a5665bb_o.jpg (wanna use sample photo? Remove the spaces) for a funny image I want to post to my blog.
3. Add a image in your blogging software using the URL you copied.
4. Enjoy! (Just remember to credit the creator by linking the photo to it's page)
   

Woofer and Squeaker

I’ve Joined the Company. Again.

Their 2 parody sites of Twitter (wow) are called Woofer and Squeaker.

Woofer is the first one, allowing 1,400 characters or more.
Squeaker, the second, allows only 14 characters.

Cool, isn't it?

Command-line tip

Don’t know how to spell a word?

You can use aspell/ispell’s pipe mode to help you.

For aspell:
echo word | aspell pipe
For ispell:
echo word | ispell -a

For example:
Correct word:
andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ echo “air” | aspell pipe
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6)
*

Misspelled word:
andrew@andrew-desktop:~$ echo “zugar” | aspell pipe
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6)
& zugar 21 0: sugar, cigar, Zukor, Gar, gar, sugars, sugary, Zak, Ziggy,
agar, Sega, saga, scar, cougar, Hagar, Luger, auger, augur, huger,
sager, sugar’s

The command line is cool.

Hello!

Well, I switched (again). I couldn't repost everything from Tumblr. Oh well...