Cuppabits Tuesday 11th
by WaltJuly 11th, 2006: The last day that Windows supports Windows 98
Some say they quit supporting Win98 many years ago, but today is they day Bill Gates and friends formally stop ignoring complaints and formally start laughing at customers that haven't upgraded as yet. This also includes Windows ME. This includes about 70 million users.
The good news if you're still running Win98 or WinME? Most of the latest spyware and most recent viruses are too complicated to actually infect your machine! The old protection you have on your antique machine are probably good enough to protect it from any new infections from existing bugs.
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In terra related news, the Russian version of Osama, Shamil Basayev, got himself blown to smithereens. Initial reports have a convoy of explosives he was moving to a new attack site went off while everyone was stopped, just standing around. Uh, yeah... Apparently, the Russian version of the FBI were on the case so fast it made the local police think that the Russian feds were closing in anyway. Locals thought the explosion was an earthquake.
Shamil Basayev was responsible for most of the horrific terra attacks in Russia, including the capture of the packed theater in Moscow and the deadly school capture in Beslan. Nobody is going to miss this guy.
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Someone hotlinked a file off of our server yesterday to a very highly trafficked forum. Nobody on the server was responsible, but it did cause a bunch of bandwidth issues along with a slowdown. Sorry about that.
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Trading a giant red paperclip for a house. Oh, there was a few steps inbetween. Including trading down to a snowglobe depicting the band called KISS.
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Magic Mushrooms really are magic. Hey! I have news for you guys! This isn't really news! However, after stating how "mystical" and wonderful the participants thought it was, the article goes on to say that the researchers warned NOT TO TRY THIS AT HOME! I did think that part was funny.
As a matter of explanation, magic mushrooms DO grow quite near very poisonous mushrooms, and of course there's the concept of getting shot while trespassing on land where those mushrooms grow... The magic mushrooms I know of grow on cow poop. Some areas are more populated with this mushroom than others. And to prevent poisoning, always get someone who knows which version is good from the version that can kill you.
Cuppacafe is not responsible if you pick wild mushrooms that destroy your liver, killing you in a most painful manner.
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Just in case you don't visit Smart Bitches daily, more cover art snarkery.
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Two Wild Grizzly Bears Fighting [YouTube] Watch closely and you'll see bear poop fly out of one butt in the middle of the contest.
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Heh. It's a bad joke, so you're not required to click.
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And finally, It's Hard Out Here To Be A Pimp: Genius Division --
Apparently, Albert Einstein had affairs with many different women, and detailed the affairs in hundreds of letters. Many of these letters have just been released.
Science gets 'em hot.
July 11th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Seriously, I know some folks who are still running Win 3.1
We also—by the by—are not responsible for you accidentally smoking cow poop.
Don’t smoke this either. By the way Walt Ol’ Buddy, I want to thank you for bringing this to all of us, and I’m not sure which of us has more time on our hands, you for finding this, or us for watching it.
Wait, this is a girl's bike, right?
Which of course brings up the old story about how Marilyn Monroe propositioned Einstein. “We should have children,†She said,, “With my looks and your brains, they will be perfect.â€
To which the scientist replied “What happens if they wind up with my looks and your brains?â€
Needless to say, Marilyn didn’t get the joke.
The Perfessor
July 11th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Hey, they're just poor little links, with nobody to love them.
July 11th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
people actually run ME?
well you could always stick to hydroponically grown mushrooms.Apparently you can buy, from overseas, hydroponic grow kits and magic mushroom spores. no cow poop worries.
http://www.potseeds.co.uk/mushrooms/index.htm#MM00011
i doubt they would sell them to you but the worse case scenario is some customs official has a nice trip, legally you really can't be held responsible for some random person shipping you precursors. obviously they could just start watching you though.
July 11th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
people actually run ME?
I LOVED ME when I had it on the first laptop. LOVED it. Never had a spec of trouble.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:15 am
I still run ME on my desktop---something like 5 1/2 years now. It just won't die. But I'll sure miss the support of Bill Gates and his friends.
I think the most fun I've had with ME is when I had a problem with an upgraded Messenger and received about 200 emails from XP-running friends telling me all I had to do was revert the system to a previous restore point.
Even smoking cow poop would have helped at the end of that day.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:49 am
Personally, I had nothing but trouble with ME when I was running it. Upgraded to XP as soon as I was able to do so.
In regards to “...smoking cow poop...†I always hate to advocate drugs or liquor, violence, insanity to anyone. But in my case it’s worked
The Perfessor