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I started writing this on my
other website but the server there seems to be overloaded.
Here're some gems
Yeah right. So don't run any applications on it. Use it as a doorstop.
Have you met people who really want the web to be a book? Well, for nostalgia
show them the http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/
website.
Recently, many people have nearly fallen off the edge of the web. Go no
further than http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
Know a guy called Reggie Moore? He's one of BMC Software's VPs. He's been quoted
to say:
"If this is Cinderella,'' said Reggie Moore, BMC's vice-president of
technology planning in service management, "we want to make sure we're
the escort.''
referring to IBM's z/OS plan to go for subscription payments. He also says:
"This isn't a PC,'' BMC's Moore said. "You don't drop in a new
operating system and go.''
Microsoft writes really good KB (KnowledgeBase) articles. Here's one:
Q281923
- Hair Color of the Person Icon for a User Group Becomes Gray If the Group
Contains More Than 500 Users
Steve Ballmer's never seen HAL.
In Microsoft
to unveil .NET software for non-Microsoft platforms, Steve is quoted:
Asked whether he was disappointed that the world has yet
to see a real HAL, the menacing yet highly intelligent computer in Stanley
Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," Ballmer made an unlikely
confession.
"In the spirit of frankness and directness of the
21st Century, I never saw the movie," he said. "To most people at
Microsoft, HAL stands for hardware application layer."
In Q295279
- Web Proxy Service Crashes If URL Requests a Specifically Malformed Argument,
Microsoft states:
"A supported fix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only
intended to correct the problem described in this article and should be
applied only to systems that are determined to be at risk of attack."
Yeah, this isn't any Web Proxy, this is your Microsoft Internet Security and
Acceleration Server 2000! Of course it will be at risk from attack.
In Q276304
- Error Message Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot
Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
"Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any
of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a
password that meets these requirements in both text boxes."
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