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Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion 93

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 14, 2010 @10:56PM from the it-takes-braaains dept.

danielkennedy74 writes "Newsweek.com becomes the latest in a long list of sites that will reveal an Easter egg if you enter the Konami code correctly (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter). This is a cheat code that appeared in many of Konami's video games, starting around 1986 — my favorite places to use it were Contra and Life Force, 30 lives FTW. The Easter egg was probably included by a developer unbeknownst to the Newsweek powers that be. It's reminiscent of an incident that happened at ESPN last year, involving unicorns."

Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll 239

Posted by timothy on Friday May 14, 2010 @09:24PM from the one-million-billygoats-gruff dept.

Amigan writes "Over on Groklaw, PJ is reporting that an actual demonstration of the Amiga OS (circa 1988) on an Amiga A1000 may have been the turning point in the lawsuit of IP Innovation v. Red Hat/Novell."

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Comment Cabling (Score 1) 1907

by Nucky on Friday May 21, 2004 @12:10AM (#9211685) Attached to: Worst Explanation From Tech Support?

The network engineer where I work was trying to get CommunistCast to acknoledge that his cable modem had died...

After going through the basic turn it off/turn it on again/turn it off, but for longer now/turn it on again while standing on your head that he knew to do before calling, the tech thought for a minute...

"Okay, take the ethernet cable out of the modem and the computer, reverse it, plug it in, and then let's try it!"

On the other hand, when I was at CompUSA as one of their cash-office yahoos, we had a cash register (NT based) die. It would POST, and NT would get as far as saying go to hell in hex (.2 seconds post-POST). Store support in dallas kept trying to get us to unplug/plug cables and "then try it! I still can't ping..." We eventually told them call us back when they had a clue, and when they called back... they had us leaving it unplugged for longer before turn it back on.

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