Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
Linux is holding our children back
Linux – Stop holding our kids back at Blog of helios
Some people shouldn’t be allowed access to computers…
iRack
iRack (including bloopers) – hilarious satire sending up both Apple product announcements and the American Administration’s attitude to the war in Iraq.
Novell ‘Get a Mac’ spoofs
Found via port7:
These cracked me up, especially the one about which items of clothing to wear. Interesting to see Linux played by a woman as well, presumably that’s Novell’s way of saying it’s ready for everyone rather than just male IT geeks. 
Mrs. Wordpress
I’ve just found out about Mrs. Wordpress, a site which sends up the “Mr. Wordpress”—the imaginary figure who is the first person to post a comment on every new Wordpress blog. It’s rather amusing, though I don’t know how long the author of the site will keep updating it.
UK ‘Get a Mac’ ads
Apple has finally released some adverts targetted at a UK audience, so hopefully some of us will actually be able to recognise the actors in them. I particularly like the pie chart video, but all the adverts are good at getting Apple’s message across. I’m not sure how effective they will be at converting users from PCs to Macs because a lot of people have significant amounts of money, time and effort invested in the PC platform and won’t necessarily switch to another platform just because it’s perceived as being a little bit more reliable.
One thing I have noticed is how Apple equates PCs with Windows, and therefore all the problems that they relate with the PC platform are actually issues with Windows software and not with the hardware. I know that this doesn’t really matter to most people because the vast majority of PCs run Windows in some form, but it annoys me a little bit that Apple implies that all PCs are unreliable because of the software that a lot of the machines run. They can hardly claim no knowledge of *nix given that they are always showing off how OS X is based on BSD. I suppose that if they mentioned Windows by name in the adverts then Microsoft might have their lawyers breathing down Steve Jobs’ turtleneck, although I doubt that would worry Apple too much.
You can watch all the videos at Get a Mac on Apple’s web site.
Make me a sandwich
New Mac ads
New Mac ads poke fun at Windows at Niall Kennedy’s Weblog
I think the new Apple Get a Mac campaign is rather amusing. They include a variety of television advertisements featuring a guy in a suit (representing Windows) and someone in casual dress who is presumably meant to show that Macs are “cool”, highlighting issues such as the number of viruses that affect Windows as opposed to OS X. It’s all clearly Windows-bashing on Apple’s part, but a good laugh nevertheless.
First use of a common computer protocol
Found in rec.arts.comics via chapter 5 of The Art of Unix Programming:
“Everyone knows that the concept of computering devices goes back thousands of years to the abacus and the like. But it’s a lesser known fact that the first use of a common computer protocol was in the Old Testament. This, of course, was when Moses aborted the Egyptians’ process with a control-sea.”
Computer girls
Posted by Jimmy on UNaXcess 2 (message ID 1426583 until it expires).
“Here is a list depicting various types of ‘computer girl’:
Hard disk girl
She remembers everything, FOREVER.
RAM girl
She forgets about you, the moment you turn her off.
Windows girl
Everyone knows that she can’t do anything right, but no one can live without her.
Screensaver girl
She is good for nothing but at least she is fun.
Internet girl
Difficult to access.
Server girl
Always busy when you need her.
Multimedia girl
She makes horrible things look beautiful.
CD-Rom girl
She is always faster and faster.
E-mail girl
Every ten things she says, eight are nonsense.
Virus girl
Also known as “wife” – when you are not expecting her, she comes, installs herself and uses all your resources. If you try to uninstall her you will lose something, if you don’t try to uninstall her you will lose everything.
USB girl
They like it in every slot.
Broadband girl
Enjoys a fat pipe, but every time you try to use it she gets all coy and caps your usage.
The SLI girl
Has an identical twin sister but, when you get hold of it, it’s slightly disappointing.
The Linux girl
She’ll let you do anything so long as you make available a full video copy of the action.
The Firewall girl
Overly protective and doesn’t like you playing games.
Pure genuis, couldn’t stop laughing when I read it. Here’s some I came up with, though perhaps not as funny:
Perl girl
Insists on each date being different and on communicating in sentences that are as short as possible. Easy to make mistakes that don’t manifest themselves until later, but if you push hard enough she’ll point out exactly where you’re going wrong.
PHP girl
Very inconsistent, and will change her mind about what is the best way to do things every five minutes, resulting in all your previous ideas for dates suddenly failing to get her attention.
Assembly girl
Likes you to move as fast as possible, but can only date one particular type of guy.
ADSL girl
Likes her guys to live nearby, flat out refuses to do long distance relationships. Will always ask for your phone number before agreeing to go on a date.
Cable girl
Lots of fast action, providing you don’t mind her dating every other guy on the street at the same time.
Blog girl
Will insist on boring you to tears with every little detail of what happened to her in the last week and will be dump you if you don’t reply to every single point.