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05-29-2005, 11:36 AM
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#1 | | Need coffee. Need coffee. Platinum Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Alamogordo, NM USA
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| Is it possible.... For a pun/joke to be so horribly bad that it crashes a computer? I think I was the last poster on another computer forum, it was a really, REALLY bad joke... and the entire computer [hosting the forum] crashed afterwards....
I think that is a new record for me... not sure how I can top it.... 
__________________ And now, Grandfather, I ask you to bless the White Man. He needs your Wisdom, your guidance. You see, for so long, he has tried to destroy my people, and only feels comfortable when given power. Bless them, show them the peace we understand, teach them humility. For I fear they will someday destroy themselves and their children, As they have done so Mother Earth. I plead, I cry. After all, They are my Brothers.... ~ Prayer ~ |
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05-29-2005, 12:21 PM
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#2 | | Need coffee. Need coffee. Platinum Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Alamogordo, NM USA
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| if codeproject.com ever comes back online from crashed servers you can judge for yourself... something about why did the chicken cross the road....
__________________ And now, Grandfather, I ask you to bless the White Man. He needs your Wisdom, your guidance. You see, for so long, he has tried to destroy my people, and only feels comfortable when given power. Bless them, show them the peace we understand, teach them humility. For I fear they will someday destroy themselves and their children, As they have done so Mother Earth. I plead, I cry. After all, They are my Brothers.... ~ Prayer ~ |
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05-29-2005, 04:51 PM
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#3 | | Barbarian Artist
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville
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|  Yep, I believe it to be possible, you've posted some pretty lame things.  *Kidding*
When I worked for Interplay, me and my friend discovered a bug with Lotus mail, if you sent an e-mail with a "re:"+(super long number), it would instantly crash the recieving users e-mail if they opened it. So I sent a goodbye e-mail to everyone in my department when I got transfered to a sister company.
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05-29-2005, 08:17 PM
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#4 | | Need coffee. Need coffee. Platinum Contributor
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by JackAxe  Yep, I believe it to be possible, you've posted some pretty lame things.  *Kidding*
When I worked for Interplay, me and my friend discovered a bug with Lotus mail, if you sent an e-mail with a "re:"+(super long number), it would instantly crash the recieving users e-mail if they opened it. So I sent a goodbye e-mail to everyone in my department when I got transfered to a sister company.
<]=) |
This was one of my REALLLY bad groaners....
That has been one of my points with software and trying to evaluate security. There are bugs in almost anything, you stumble across them randomly or some hacker gets lucky and stumbles across it in code.
I still remember an old auto-play robot I built for an atari planetary conquest game. It was my first use of the name SamuraiCat, I gave everyone on our team a script to play their turn, it would play using the best known techniques at the full speed of the modem. Unfortunately the programmers of the game never figured that a full team of 10 people would be able to produce the absolute maximum number of turns possible (real-time) in an hour's turn. The result was devistating, as we sent our moves against other Bulletin boards across the nation, they crashed one by one. Since my robot identified itself with a message to the receiver of attacks, it was deemed a computer virus. Which was eventually cleared up.  my robot continued to wreck havok even after the bugs were fixed because our team always produced more operations per hour than anyone else. 
__________________ And now, Grandfather, I ask you to bless the White Man. He needs your Wisdom, your guidance. You see, for so long, he has tried to destroy my people, and only feels comfortable when given power. Bless them, show them the peace we understand, teach them humility. For I fear they will someday destroy themselves and their children, As they have done so Mother Earth. I plead, I cry. After all, They are my Brothers.... ~ Prayer ~ |
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05-30-2005, 05:33 AM
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#5 | | *** The Angel Defends ***
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Trans-dimensional Limbo
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| That must been on helluva chicken - I heard that about Lotus Notes ... You should see the network I use - do anything and everything crashes 
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