I was recently pointed to the English and Polish pages for the MS Business Productivity. The most striking thing about the difference between the pages is that one depicts a white individual in place of a black individual. What could be the purpose of altering the image, surely it isn’t racism, after all the Chinese individual is still in place.
Strange what goes through the brain of MS Business Productivity.
Polish Alternative
English Alternative
So I came across a great game a few days ago. It is one of those puzzles that turn up now and then that make your brain pop. Fantastically simple but frustratingly tough. Finishing this on your own would be nearly impossible. Fortunately the creator of this puzzle added the ability to merge puzzles with your friends, genius!
I highly suggest that you give it a go first on your own and see how far you get. I was completely stumped on some of the stuff and others quickly sliced through them.
Have a go at the Funny Farm puzzle.
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I recently came across this caused me to smile if not giggle.
ENOTOBACCO Read on an empty pipe
EBEFOREI Invalid syntax
ECHERNOBYL Core dumped
ECRAY Program exited before being run
EDINGDONG The daemon is dead
EFLAT System needs tuning
EGEEK Program written by inept Frat member
EIEIO Here-a-bug, there-a-bug, ....
EIUD Missing period
ELECTROLUX Your code could stand to be cleaned up
EMILYPOST Wrong fork
END.ARMS.CONTROL Silo overflow
ENOHORSE Mount failed
ENONSEQUETOR C program not derived from main(){printf("Hello, world");}
EWATERGATE Extended tape gap
EWOK Aliens sighted
EWOK Your code appears to have been stir-fried
EWOULDBNICE The feature you want has not been implemented yet
Not to be out done, a new signal:
SIGNUKE Nuclear event occurred (cannot be caught or ignored)
I am a constant user of screen and it always suprises me how many people use it and barely know how truly powerful it is. Here is a short list of some very neat tricks.
| Starting a new session |
screen |
| Reattach to a session |
screen -r |
| Leave a session |
^A d |
| Open another window |
^A c |
| Change to a window |
^A number |
| Change to next window |
^A space |
| Change window via the window list |
^A “ |
| Add a split region |
^A S |
| Jump between split regions |
^A tab |
| Close region |
^A X |
| Close all the other regions |
^A Q |
| Enter “copy mode” (useful for scrollback!) |
^A [ |
| Watch for silence |
^A _ |
| Watch for activity |
^A M |
| Protect screen with password |
^A x |
As always looking through info and man pages can provide a raft of information about tools and sometimes uncover tricks that you might of otherwise not known about!
So I have got access to the new look Gmail. I have to say that I am impressed, it is an obvious improvement in the overall look and feel of using Gmail.
This is the new minimalistic theme, Wonderful! Good job Google.
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