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The code worked differently when the moon was full (www.hanselman.com)

submitted 9 months ago by learnbyexample to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here..."

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I love these stories! There's also,

And now that I've gone searching for these I see that they've all been helpfully collected on http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html

[–] Pantrygheist 5 points 9 months ago

Those are great stories, thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, back in the days when a hard drive was the size of a clothes dryer, some enterprising engineering students would hack the device drivers so they could make the thing gradually scoot itself across the room using nothing but well-timed drive head thrashing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's awesome. What a student thing to do, as well!