Its scrabble night. Now it is Isabel's turn to play. This word is for arky and she forms the word 'linux' on the board. :) 
Showing posts with label geek humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geek humour. Show all posts
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Just found out that this expensive piece of hardware has turned into a brick because it wasn't charged for a while (Damn!).
Why do we buy this shit anyway?
Allow me to vent my anger with this yet another great news clip from the Onion News Network .
Friday, 30 May 2008
Early this year I blogged about The IT Crowd, the show by the geeks for the not-so geeks. If you missed watching the first two series then don't worry. Star TV India is running this show in India every Thursday at 8 PM and 2 AM and repeat on Friday 10:00 AM.
Meanwhile watch the clips of the TV on You Tube and Get Hooked.
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
An old LG (#45) post, never fails to amuse me after so many years
UNIX Airways
Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building.
Air DOS
Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again. Then they push again, jump on again, and so on ...
Mac Airlines
All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look and act exactly the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you don't need to know, don't want to know, and everything will be done for you without your ever having to know, so just shut up.
Windows Air
The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.
Windows NT Air
Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.
Linux Air
Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the Seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"
The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a treasure trove of information on everything related to the Internet. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) , an open forum oversees the development and standardization of the technical aspects of the Internet.Any new technical ideas are first issued as Drafts, after much discussion, arguments and IETF meetings these are released as RFCs.
The purpose of the RFCs is not only standardization, but they often document and provide an in-depth analysis of common workings of existing technologies.Though RFCs aren’t meant to be handy guides for learning for lay computer users,but they do offer crisp and authoritative information.
If you think that RFCs are just rambling of technical mambo-jumbo that’s not meant for lowly mortals, think again. Don’t be surprised if you come across Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol or The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite and widely known Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol which was implemented by Bergen Linux User Group using carrier pigeons and it works too!!.
Often released on April 1, those RFCs make a wonderful reading.
- RFC527 ARPAWOCKY
- RFC748 TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option
- RFC873 The Illusion Of Vendor Support
- RFC968 `Twas the Night Before Start-up
- RFC1097 TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option
- RFC1121 Act One – The Poems
- RFC1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
- RFC1216 Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts
- RFC1217 Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR)
- RFC1313 Today’s Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio
- RFC1300 Remembrances of Things Past
- RFC1437 The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium
- RFC1438 Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs)
- RFC1605 SONET to sonnet translation
- RFC1606 A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9
- RFC1607 A View from the 21st Century
- RFC1776 The Address is the Message
- RFC1882 The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas
- RFC1924 A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses
- RFC1925 Twelve Networking Truths
- RFC1926 An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM
- RFC1927 Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents
- RFC2100 The Naming of Hosts
- RFC2321 RITA —The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent
- RFC2322 Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp
- RFC2323 IETF Identification and Security Guidelines
- RFC2324 Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
- RFC 2325 Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2
- RFC2549 IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
- RFC2550 Y10K and Beyond
- RFC2551 The Roman Standards Process — Revision III
- RFC2795 The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite
- RFC3091 Pi Digit Generation Protocol
- RFC3092 Etymology of ‘Foo’
- RFC3093 Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP)
- RFC3251 Electricity over IP
- RFC3252 Binary Lexical Octed Ad-hoc Transport
- RFC3514 The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header
- RFC3751 Omniscience Protocol Requirements
Alright, if you haven’t ever heard of User Friendly stop reading right here.
This is London and in the bowels of Reynholm Industries lie another world. Yes, my dear listeners we are now on the holy ground of the nerds, its the IT department. Its here the social inept, sexually confused step onto the righteous path of enlightenment. (Its however another matter than the light of day never reaches into these dingy basement offices) This is world of The IT Crowd
For my brethren in gnu/Linux world, don’t miss out the show’s opening title sequence animation depicting a gnu/Linux kernel panicking during a Fedora Core 4 installation.(easily mistaken for a Windows blue screen of death, amen!). Hey you need to watch real close to find a lot geek lore on the sets, old hardware, t-shirts you would kill for and a lot more listed here on the Wikipedia page of show
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