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| Thread ID: 21916 | 2002-07-07 06:57:00 | Now THIS is an error message you just have to see! | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 60497 | 2002-07-07 06:57:00 | Found this while surfing. The page I wanted didn't appear, but instead of the usual IE kiss-off, this little epistle appeared. Seems the Webmaster is a fan of the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Universe! Enjoy :) :D :^O Cheers Billy 8-{) :D :D Hello. This is Speedcorp.net's server. I was unable to find the document you requested! I searched the directory, Nothing helped. I'm really depressed about this. You see, I'm just a web server... -- here I am, brain the size of the universe, trying to serve you a simple web page, and then it doesn't even exist! Where does that leave me?! I mean, I don't even know you. How should I know what you wanted from me? Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry. And then where would we be, I ask you? It's not pretty when a web server cries. And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway? I'm so depressed... I mean, I'm gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway? What kind of a life is that? I'm really sorry to burden you with all this, I mean, it's not your job to listen to my problems, and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you. I'm so sorry. Believe me! Maybe I could interest you in another page? Two weeks of information overload, and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash._ What kind of a life is that? Now, please let me sulk alone. I'm so depressed._ ?:| :( :_| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 60498 | 2002-07-07 07:02:00 | Forgot to mention, to add to the effect the server types it out quite slowly, line by line. You have to wait a while to read the whole message and only 5 or 6 lines are visible at any time. Tickled me, and I don't get a lot of tickling these days. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 60499 | 2002-07-07 07:17:00 | Yeah, well, of course... what do you get if you multiply six by nine? | Heather P (163) | ||
| 60500 | 2002-07-07 07:25:00 | um...54 | Sam H (525) | ||
| 60501 | 2002-07-07 08:30:00 | Yeah, I stumbled on this one quite a while back, thought it should be made the standard "page not found" response. :^O | cadifan (286) | ||
| 60502 | 2002-07-07 08:40:00 | Well, you would have to give them full marks for originality or doing something different. ;-) | Susan B (19) | ||
| 60503 | 2002-07-07 10:23:00 | lol fantastic! | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 60504 | 2002-07-07 10:58:00 | For those that want to see it happening go here (www.speedcorp.net) | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 60505 | 2002-07-07 11:32:00 | No one has spotted Sam's error? The answer is, of course, 42 |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 60506 | 2002-07-07 11:43:00 | Of couse it's 42 . Shame on Sam for getting it wrong . Why did he assume base 10, when we all knew it was base 13 For the literal-minded and those unfamiliar with terms like "base thirteen," this is a number system in which the number 10 is equivalent to our more familiar decimal 13 . A base-13 number 42, therefore, is the same as four 13s plus 2, or decimal 54 . So "six by nine" (six times nine) or decimal 54 is, in base 13, 42 . For the mystically inclined, 42 in base 13 is the same as 110110 in binary (base 2) . |
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