What's up with kernel.org ? • Hacker News Board

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by DrJokepu » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 12:18 PM UTC

ricardo_sdl wrote: post #8

How they did it?

Unicode has upside down versions of most characters, most of them for the phonetic alphabet. A simple algorithm can replace the characters with upside down versions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_of_text#Upside-d...

For a demonstration, see http://www.sevenwires.com/play/UpsideDownLetters.html

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by DrJokepu » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 12:20 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #9

ricardo_sdl wrote: post #8

How they did it?

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If you look at the HTML source you can see that characters are flipped in the HTML as well, so it can't be simply a CSS style.

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by imajes » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 12:21 PM UTC

Yawn.

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by DrJokepu » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 12:23 PM UTC

tvon wrote: post #4

Welcome to the worst day of the year to use the internet.

I can only quote a tweet from Miguel de Icaza:

"Your consistent denouncement of Apr 1. always marks the real spring for me"

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by earcar » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 12:49 PM UTC

tvon wrote: post #4

Welcome to the worst day of the year to use the internet.

The normal page is still there: http://www.kernel.org/index-normal.shtml Or click "Normalize Page".

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by tzs » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 12:51 PM UTC

Looks like they are testing an anti-iPad mode. On a regular laptop or netbook, you could just turn the screen upside down. No go on the iPad.

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by earcar » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 12:55 PM UTC

tzs wrote: post #16

Looks like they are testing an anti-iPad mode. On a regular laptop or netbook, you could just turn the screen upside down. No go on the iPad.

The iPad now has a screen rotation lock switch.

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by CraigBuchek » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 1:05 PM UTC

Ooh - if I click that up-arrow icon, do I get to upload a version of the kernel?

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by twobar » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 1:37 PM UTC

See the normal page in webkit browsers ;)

javascript:document.body.style.webkitTransform="rotate(180deg)";

Re: What's up with kernel.org ?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 1:39 PM UTC

twobar wrote: post #19

See the normal page in webkit browsers ;) javascript:document.body.style.webkitTransform="rotate(180deg)";

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