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Post by mben »

avinassh wrote: post #127
faizmokhtar wrote: post #47

Gentoo website makeover. https://www.gentoo.org/

Looks slick! Are there any templates/libraries available to build such site? The initial loading of text looks pretty nice.

Check this bootstrap theme: https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by wz1000 »

creshal wrote: post #120
wz1000 wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to have something like that if it ran bash or even Powershell.

Android has shells, and you can put arbitrary distributions in a chroot, if it's rooted.

But this gives access to regular phone functions, including contacts, calling, text messages, photos and other stuff.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by touristtam »

manojlds wrote: post #58

Clippy is open source on Github - http://thebeebs.github.io/OfficeAssistant/

    https://www.smore.com/clippy-js

    I then uploaded the result to the gh-pages branch of a Git Repo
    as I felt this would trick the average user into thinking that
    the code was a genuine GitHub Project.

    Happy April the 1st :)

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Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by vacri »

BetaMechazawa wrote: post #133
mmahemoff wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You wouldn't take Google seriously? I'm sure they didn't fork out just for today, they will be using it for their products at some point. In a few years, it will probably the standard domain for big corps. iphone.apple, macbook.apple, etc. It looks weird now (or an intranet address at best), but once people get used to it, it will be recognisable as a domain just as any.com is now. Not to mention, an explosion of TLD…

The fact that a company needs their own gTLD is silly. Sites like google have a perfectly good domain. Why use iphone.apple if apple can already do iphone.apple.com or apple.com/iphone? At the end of the day the consumer will not start guessing what domain he/she has to use to get what they want. The average consumer uses a search engine and types in "apple iphone". They don't care about iphone.apple they just want t…

Well, it's not about need. It's about a story that goes like this:

    ICANN: Hey, has anyone noticed that our wallets aren't
           very heavy?
    Google: We have a bucketload of money just laying around
           that will fill your wallets, and wouldn't mind
           our own gTLD. It'd be cute.
    ICANN: You had us at 'bucketload of money'
We needed more gTLDs anyway. So what if a few mega-companies get their own versions?

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by mseri »

BetaMechazawa wrote: post #145
Argorak wrote: post #97

lobste.rs sports a full terminal interface with working chat and slowly updating lines. http://lobste.rs

Username/password to log in? Or is this a real service that put up this site just for today and requires an actual account?

try user: guest
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