Gizmodo points out that controlling TV’s is fun. And who can disagree? But let’s not forget history here…
If I rememeber correctly, woz was the first to resort to this type of trickery. Woz being the practical sort of joker used to use a TV jammer to mess with people. Read all about woz’s TV jamming (find the part that mentions “TV jammer”)
Say what you want about Steve Jobs, but the other Steve just plain rules…
A while back I mentioned Windows uptime, and we actually put it to use today. I alerted our server admin to one of our IIS servers that had puked on us. He usually kicks it and it gets going again. This time no good. So, as I often suggest when Windows is involved, I say “reboot?” and he is reluctant, but says “sure” but not before wondering about uptime. So I ran the uptime.pl script for Windows, and lo and behold, it had this to say: up 49 days 16:50 (since Wed Aug 27 22:33:24 2003)
Wow! Alert the media! Call those Guiness folks! I did mention this was a Windows server, right?
Oh BTW, the reboot solved whatever was ailing the poor box.
