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“Funny things I found while browsing the web” post

gpanther — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:26:00 +0000

The Geek/Nerd/Dork/Dweeb Venn Diagram (via Joel Esler’s blog):

BTW, here is a quick way to convert JPEGs which should be PNGs or GIFs (because they aren’t photos!): simply use a photo editing software (like the GIMP or IrfanView / Paint.NET) and reduce the color depth without dithering. This should pretty much get you there. You might want to play around with the number of colors to retain.

The second one is Pixels by Patrick Jean (via Wondermark):

MC Frontalot released his newest album Zero Day (via the Veracode blog):

Funny pictures post :-)

gpanther — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000

About DRM (this is floating around the interwebs, I’m not entirely sure about its origin):

The second one is from a webcomic (added to my reader :-)) which I discovered via Bruce Schneier’s blog:

And finally, for all the programmers out there (found it via The Reinvigorated Programmer’s blog):

Security vendor’s “top-threat” list proof for their less-than-perfect performance?

gpanther — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:52:00 +0000

Here is something I’ve been thinking about lately: most (all?) security vendors publish their “top-threats” periodically. Those lists are made up by centralizing numbers reported by their clients. While it is safe to assume that the majority of the enumerated threats are blocked straight-away – before they can execute a single piece of code – there is a certain percentage which is after-the-fact detection (ie. the machine gets infected, a signature comes out later on at which point – if you’re lucky – the security program will block the malware).

Now I have no idea about the relative size of this subset (or if the companies have it, or how they can collect it for that matter), but I find the idea that marketing material put “out there” can backfire amusing :-).

Picture taken from tigger1fic’s photostream with permission.

Bohemian Bankruptcy

gpanther — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:43:00 +0000

Via Naked Capitalism

Spot the error

gpanther — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:08:00 +0000

C++ compilers are notorious for giving error messages which point you in the wrong direction. However even simpler languages can have issues. Can you spot the real problem with the java code below?

There is a comma missing between the parameters! Nice, ey? (To be fair, on the sidebar Eclipse shows two errors, one of which correctly identifies the problem, but I still scratched by head for a few moments).

Some fun timewasters :-)

gpanther — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:01:00 +0000

Found this one via h-i-r.net:

And the following one is from friends (these are in German, but many of them can be enjoyed even if you don’t know the language):

Some of the highlights from both of the channels:

A must see southpark video

gpanther — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:01:00 +0000

Via ZeroHedge. Usually I find Southpark videos a little too preachy / childish, but this too funny. You can watch the full episode here.

After it you can enjoy some Pink Floyd

Heavy Metal Band Names Etymology

gpanther — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:28:00 +0000

Found it via the Comic vs Audience blog. Created by Doogie Horner:

Cool epoch counter

gpanther — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:49:00 +0000

As probably many of you geeks already know, today the epoch counter (AKA unix timestamp) will reach the value 1234567890, which is cool I guess because it is in the order the keys are on your keyboard. You can find a countdown here. You can use the following perl snippet to find out when the event will occur in your timezone (apparently the timestamp is to be interpreted in UTC/GMT, which I didn’t know):


perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"n";'

From Abstruse Goose:

Update: as seen also on the PostgreSQL stuff blog.

Update: a more detailed article on O’Reilly.com. Found it via use Perl;.

Time travel – by Yahoo!

gpanther — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:40:00 +0000

Today I was greeted by the following error message on Yahoo mail: