Oddities page 2
Not everything that is funny is a bug. Sometimes, intention is funnier than error.
The first screenshot is one of my favourite examples of the absurdities of 8.3 naming. wifeman.dll is some sort of component that ships with Windows 2000:
Besides, to be a Windows wife, you would have to first pass the stage of Bride of Windows. I think I would rather settle with Frankenstein myself.
I suppose I should be glad that my computer is actually a computer and not something really horrid:
Also, apparently my PC has no idea where it is. I suppose that’s a good thing as when it phones home, the Feds won’t learn its whereabouts either:
Imps
? I did not know that we had any imps at work. Although that might account for a lot actually, thinking about it.
Ah, everyone loves the following picture: the sad iPod, given to me by Strider years ago.
I have to assume that the following window caption (for the SessionSaver Firefox extension) is quite deliberate, but I also have quite no idea what on earth it is supposed to say:
I found this suggestion from Winamp to be rather amusing, and very true too. Yes, no use trying to run Winamp without fitting a sound card first. Duh.
You may not be able to tell, but the part of the line in question is black: the unit was switched on during that period and taking readings; the dark grey part of the line is estimated. Note also the steady increase of battery current (the grey line) to noticeably above normal usage? Did I just change the laws of physics?
Even stranger, is BBEdit the first program to break the rule of plurals, by not saying 1 occurrence(s)
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Finally, looky, Microsoft gave nslookup an icon! How cute.
