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colinstu 03-23-2007 12:01 AM

Probably why you don't use windows
 
http://www.guzer.com/videos/misspell_google.php

:P

Edit: what happened to gator? I remember that being a huge problem years ago, bonzi buddy is something you never hear of either.

Mega Man X 03-23-2007 12:08 AM

Damn... now that is one infected piece of junk :D.

dasy2k1 03-23-2007 03:11 AM

all from one misspelling!

easuter 03-23-2007 03:46 AM

Hehe! awsome clip :D

nx5000 03-23-2007 06:05 AM

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
Ahah I have to watch it again :)

alred 03-23-2007 06:15 AM

whoa ... my life is getting more and more colorfull and vibrant each day and i didnt know that mplayer is such an advance thing until now ...


//thanks a millions colinstu ... ^_^


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Hangdog42 03-23-2007 07:01 AM

Man, that is going to leave a mark......

alred 03-23-2007 07:09 AM

nice to watch these people doing their things , i learn quite a lot from them but i just cant be too fast like them ... i am a conservative ... ok i know , terrible excuse ... ^_^


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Hitboxx 03-23-2007 07:50 AM

Cool video, haha.

But I couldn't see it in Firefox, had to download it and then see.

alred 03-23-2007 02:05 PM

i think you can see it in both seamonkey and firefox ... not to mention opera ...

the point is whenever i want to watch these sorts of things its a bit tedious for me and i dont click on everything(nothing to lose actually) but since it was colinstu's thread , so i gave it a try ...


//thanks again ...


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hand of fate 03-23-2007 03:41 PM

What's this got to do with not using Windows?

As far as I can see the answer is "absolutely nothing"!

lurko 03-24-2007 03:14 AM

I used the MediaPlayerConnectivity extension to open the video in MPlayer. It doesn't work at broadband.discoverychannel.ca (my present hate-it-the-most-because-it's-totally-incompatible-junk site), but it worked great for this clip, which was quite a good laugh. There's probably a host of other extensions that do similar jobs.

In those situations, CTRL+W is always better than trying to click the X in the corner. Better yet would be running The Proxomitron and never having to deal with crap like that, ever. Runs on WINE too, but I've since found the NoScript and AdBlock extensions. :D

hacker supreme 03-24-2007 08:23 AM

Heh heh... A pretty good excuse for blasting windows off that one remaining Windows PC...

hand of fate 03-24-2007 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hacker supreme
Heh heh... A pretty good excuse for blasting windows off that one remaining Windows PC...

How is it an excuse?

St.Jimmy 03-24-2007 04:58 PM

... sorry, but what is the vid about? I can't see it, stuck on dialup

colinstu 03-24-2007 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by St.Jimmy
... sorry, but what is the vid about? I can't see it, stuck on dialup

Someone mispells google, goggle and it opens up popups and virus' etc. Some antivirus attemps to remove them but winlogon.exe is somehow terminated resulting in a bsod.

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winlogon tells ya what it does, I've heard terminating it is lethal.

Mega Man X 03-24-2007 05:44 PM

Is it only me who actually don't understand what hand of fate is trying to do?

St.Jimmy 03-24-2007 06:09 PM

thanks, collin! Now I m,ust try to download this!

colinstu 03-24-2007 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by St.Jimmy
thanks, *colin! Now I m,ust try to download this!

Lol, np. (too short)

hand of fate 03-25-2007 07:08 AM

This video isn't even real.

I tried visiting the site "goggle.com", and all that happens is a site loads with one single popup window (which is successfully blocked by Opera anyway). Nothing like what the video shows really happens at all!

This has got nothing to do with Windows anyway (as I said before). If there is a rogue site that opens a load of popup windows (which as we've already established it doesn't really do anyway) then it will behave in exactly the same way in the same browser on any platform!

colinstu 03-25-2007 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hand of fate
This video isn't even real.

I tried visiting the site "goggle.com", and all that happens is a site loads with one single popup window (which is successfully blocked by Opera anyway). Nothing like what the video shows really happens at all!

This has got nothing to do with Windows anyway (as I said before). If there is a rogue site that opens a load of popup windows (which as we've already established it doesn't really do anyway) then it will behave in exactly the same way in the same browser on any platform!

Oh, I know it isnt real, and I'm not sure if things like that can really happen. All I use is windows and that never happens to me. 1) I use firefox 2)Google is my homepage :P


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