Here’s a fun piece of software by SysInternals: BlueScreen. It does what the name implies:
Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens seen during a system boot.
* On NT 4.0 installations it simulates chkdsk of disk drives with errors!
* On Win2K and Windows 9x it presents the Win2K startup splash screen, complete with rotating progress band and progress control updates!
* On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it presents the XP/Server 2003 startup splash screen with progress bar!
Now that’s cool! :-)
Matti Humor, Windows bsod, screensaver
Or so says google’s robots.txt. Good one. :-)
robots.txt
User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains
Happy Halloween!
Hats of for finding it: GoogleWatchBlog & Blogoscoped.
Ps; if you don’t get it, read more on robotstxt.org.
Matti Humor google, robots.txt
This has got to be one of the weirder features ever made:Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play “Fur Elise” or “It’s a Small, Small World” seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer’s BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on.
How do you come up with this stuff?!
Matti Humor, Windows bios, debug, fur elise, lol, Windows
Here are some (really) good ones (the layout can get messy from time to time, but they’re still viewable).
*Edit; this has been getting a bit more attention than I anticipated, and wasn’t ment to be this “popular”. A lot of the comics were found on StackOverflow.com, where I added some of my personal favorites. Read more…
Matti Humor comic, dilbert, lol, programming, xkcd
Combine the following; a broken coffee machine, a long day at work and the sudden need to rush home, but quickly finish off one task. (but too bad, they fixed it already!)
You get a regular expression that replaces “\\t” instead of “\t”, and it produces a silly website for Cisco. Notice any “T”s missing on that website? Read more…
Matti Humor cisco, lol, regex
Sounds confusing? No worries, it’s really not. Here are some standard HTTP headers from a random website.
[root@vps ~]# curl --head http://www.mattiasgeniar.be
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:58:15 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6
X-Pingback: http://www.mattiasgeniar.be/xmlrpc.php
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=sudpae35dbuesipfiouipcbue0; path=/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Nothing special about it, perhaps the X-Pingback is a bit odd – it’s added by wordpress to allowed automatic pingbacks to certain articles. You have your typical date, server, connection & content-type shown to you.
Some sites however … like to add some special things. Slashdot for instance adds a new Futurama quote with every page you load. It’s hidden to 99,9% of the users out there – only the geeks who actually look at the headers will see this.
[root@vps ~]# curl --head http://slashdot.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:02:27 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005001217
X-Bender: They're tormenting me with uptempo singing and dancing!
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Note the X-Bender: They’re tormenting me with uptempo singing and dancing! quote in there! You’ll also find quotes by Leela & Fry.
- X-Bender: I only know enough binary to ask where the bathroom is.
- X-Bender: Gimme your biggest, strongest, cheapest drink.
- X-Leela: This is by a wide margin the least likely thing that has ever happened.
- X-Leela: This toads the wet sprocket.
- X-Fry: You mean Bender is the evil Bender? I’m shocked! Shocked! Well not that shocked.
- X-Fry: I must be a robot. Why else would human women refuse to date me?
It’s probably been known for a while, but it was knew to me. Kinda cool – now I’m looking at ways to add fancy headers for this server as well … :-) You can read more about it on this Fun With HTTP Headers article!
Edit: turns out it is incredibly easy to add a custom http header to apache. Just enable the use of .htaccess and you can add all the headers you like. Add the following line, to create a “X-Who-Rocks”-header!
Header set X-Who-Rocks "Mattias Geniar"
This is what the headers for this site now look like! Muchos better! :-)
[root@vps httpdocs]# curl --head http://www.mattiasgeniar.be
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:23:48 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6
X-Pingback: http://www.mattiasgeniar.be/xmlrpc.php
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=ibmsf43qjjnkc6h6fudfok0sp5; path=/
X-Who-Rocks: Mattias Geniar
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Yarrr!
Matti Humor, Security curl, header, http
How could I not post the infamous “All Your Base Are Belong To Us”, when I stole to exact phrase to give this blog a title?
It originated from the SEGA Genesis game “Zero Wind”, launched in 2001. The intro to the game was created in Japanese, and mistranslated. Somehow, this managed to cause quite the hype throughout the internet. Read more…
Matti Humor all your base, aybabtu, hype
It’s got to be a sign :-)
Matti Humor ajax, image
Some of these are just brilliant :-)
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Matti Humor
No, in Antwerp, Belgium they found a new way to be cruel: placing a speed-indicator next to the road during rush hour. Just to rub it in …
It took me 60 minutes, to travel 6 km …
Matti About me, Humor antwerp, bollocks, traffic
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