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List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by emmanueloga_ »

pimlottc wrote: post #111
maaaats wrote: post #20

MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft... Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/ Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85... Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input…

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 Ah, the memories...

dos4gw.exe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G

univbe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE

oh my!

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Post by dEnigma »

keithpeter wrote: post #287
LukeB_UK wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was simply a case of someone getting the systemdaemon name on github. It's not the systemd project.

The article is a fairly amusing April Fool's joke. Real quote from LP (on his blog from months ago) mixed in with quotes from a fictional developer. Googling the fictional developer's family name comes up with mysteriously few results...

And the fictional dev has "Gotya" in his name ;)

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by theophrastus »

The effort to fork Debian (Devuan) capitulates: starting here: https://devuan.org/ follow "BREAKING NEWS: Ultimately, we give up. Read here in detail" to here: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150401.095603.4a3a1e... at least i think it's an April fools joke (not a super funny one at least)

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Post by thekaleb »

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.

Or a fakechroot[1] if it is not rooted.

  [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/fakechroot

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by kedean »

CydeWeys wrote: post #493
josteink wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or .Sony, except there is no guarantee Sony corp actually registered that TLD.

Sony does own the .sony gTLD: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/request-2014081-... More generally, as part of ICANN's gTLD approval process, if the gTLD being applied for is a trademark, then it can't go to anyone else besides the trademark holder. So there's actually a lot more assurances that you are dealing with who you expect to be dealing with with gTLDs versus random domain names on .com.

Honest question, trademarked according to who? The Internet is a global thing now, so who wins if there's two entities that happen to both have valid claims to a trademark?
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