Well that’s annoying…one thing Google doesn’t do intelligently is languages. I am logged into my account, they KNOW I speak English as a preferred language, but when I go to my iGoogle [google.com] page on my iPhone whilst I’m in Belgium it insists on displaying everything in Dutch.
That was annoying enough…but now the dashboard is doing the same, even when I visit the page from my laptop.
Google, you KNOW I speak English, stop overriding my account setting for my language with demographic data based on my IP address. When I’m traveling it doesn’t make me fluent in the local language…
*slaps the company on the nose with a rolled up newspaper* Bad Google, bad bad portal!
– Pete. (c) Comment
That’s one of the reasons I love Slashdot – proper way of commenting the things! 
Oh, yeah, about Google Dashboard – yep, it’s quite handy and useful!
Google, Links
Humor, Quotes
/*
TOP SECRET Microsoft(c) Project:Longhorn(TM) SP1
Estimated release date:2008
*/
#include “win95.h”
#include “win98.h”
#include “leopard.h”
char chew_up_some_ram[10000000];
void main () {
while (!CRASHED) {
if (first_time_install) {
make_10_gigabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
search_and_destroy(FIREFOX | OPENOFFICEORG | ANYTHING_GOOGLE);
hang_system();
}
if (still_not_crashed) {
basically_run_windows_xp();
do_nothing_loop();
}
}
if (!DX10GPU()) {
set_graphics(aero, very_slow);
set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
}
// printf(”Welcome to Windows 2000?);
// printf(”Welcome to Windows XP”);
printf(”Welcome to Windows Vista”);
while (something) {
sleep(10);
get_user_input();
sleep(10);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(10);
flicker_led_promisingly(hard_disk);
}
creat_general_protection_fault();
}
Heap
Humor, Vista
Here is a Linux Virus scanner for you:
!# /bin/bash
echo Linux virus scanner
sleep(1)
echo Scanning now...
sleep(10)
echo Still scanning...
sleep(10)
echo Almost done...
sleep(5)
echo Drum roll...
sleep(3)
echo No viruses found!!!
sleep(1)
echo Done
References go to Ubuntuforums
Updates: First add-on for Linux Antivirus released, just add few lines at the bottom of the code:
eject
play tada.wav
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Humor, Linux, Personal
It’s already 8 years, when the first movie from Matrix trilogy came out. After a couple of times, watching it with friends at the beginning I liked it. Some interesting ideas, scenario approaches, story line.
Comparing it with those movies released in 1999, Matrix was awesome. But I’ve never thought of the facts like:
- Agent Smith looks like a typical garbage collector with AI encapsulations. Could you imagine this utility with some humour and irony nowadays.
- Neo. A tiny bug in the system with machine learning capabilities. Of course, later on we’ll understand that’s not just a simple bug, however knowing the story in full, looks a bit amusing.
- Piphia, or a lady with a vase. Statistical path analyser. Looks like a Best-cost algorithm with some sophisticated evaluation functionality and a sense of humour. So you shouldn’t worry about the vase!
- Cypher, or a bad good guy. A very very greedy bug – impossible of being fixed – thus, rewritten from scratch or simply deleted.
- Switch,or the only girl in white. Very small and fast transition from “enable” to “disable” states in the movie!
- Mouse, or lady-in-red boyfriend. C’mon, there should be at least one kid hacker, otherwise that’s not a hacker movie!
Waiting to watch the Matrix Reload, hopefully, so more amusing computer alternatives will appear which I didn’t noticed back to its premier.
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bugs, Humor, Matrix, Movies