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Brian Uitti Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Sep 04 United States Project Blue Book Credit: 4,573.7 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Sep 9, 2004 Verified: Mar 4, 2010 Punishment: Canon Fodder	Message 7376 - Posted: 1 Apr 2008 \| 14:29:47 UTC
wheeeeehoooo!!!! Happy 04/01 ____________
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Very funny. :D :D In France, it's "poisson d'avril". (avril fish) ____________ Boinc : Signature Never believe what you’re told. Always double check. Surcouf, roi des corsaires !
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A good funny surprise :-D I like the avatars!! Is Flaming Black Orangon Kalessin not supposed anymore to fly? ____________ Peter .-)
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I like it. A lot of work roark ____________ May you always have clear skies, Following seas And the wind at your back.
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I've tried to change my Primate name. Since then it's empty. (Am I not a primate anymore?)-: I hope the stats sites will get crazy for a day or two! ____________ Peter .-)
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Now Flaming black Orangon Kalessin lost his primates Name but stopped flying. Oh what a nice feeling to stay on the ground for a while! ____________ Dragons can fly because they don't fit into pirate ships
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Wow, you went kinda far in converting the page to Primates@Home. Even old forum posts were modified! EDIT: Who the HELL changed my nickname to Knuckles??!!?! EDIT2: there we go
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Kalessin Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Jan 06 International SETI.Germany Credit: 44,825.1 RAC: 0.00 Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Verified: Jan 11, 2009 Dubloons: 3 Pieces of Eight: 7 Punishment: Mess Duty	Message 7414 - Posted: 1 Apr 2008 \| 20:37:17 UTC
Hey Cornelius, I have to say I do really enjoy this first of April. Up to noon I just thought this was a poor thing to rename the project and do nothing else but make the server unreplying. But this is really a gigantic good and nice joke, which I like immensely. What a lot of work! Great praise from the fat orange Orang Utah without wings! ____________ Dragons can fly because they don't fit into pirate ships
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[SG-SPEG wrote: Kalessin]Up to noon I just thought this was a poor thing to rename the project and do nothing else but make the server unreplying. Sorry for that. The site was up&running since 5am CET, but apparently only for Cornelius and me. We already wondered why no one came along... it was just that you didn't see it. ____________ Jord. The BOINC FAQ Service.
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MERCI de ce GAG. I think I was hacked !!!! OlaV+++ ____________ riding too fast on highway to stop smoking
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A wonderful April treat Cornelius...just be careful of those rather dull-witted humans. They are dangerous! ____________
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Most excellent! One of the better treatments that I've seen. ____________
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What tha.......... ____________
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Pepo wrote: I've tried to change my Primate name. Since then it's empty. (Am I not a primate anymore?)-: After return from the planet of ...err... Primates, I can again set my Primate ...err... Pirate name. But I'm obviously stil a primate..... (The transformation possibly did not work as expected. Or it was intentional, LOL) I hope the stats sites will get crazy for a day or two! I've just noticed one confusing message on BoincStats: 2008-04-01: Pirates@Home - Server crash The Primates@Home server crashed around 10:30PM EST on Jan 5th, and was brought up just before 9AM the next day. The cause of the crash is unknown. The site got possibly hijacked by Primates? Or their observing zoologists. ____________ Peter .-)
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When we break things, we break them thoroughly. ;-) The avatars are still around as they are part of the filter that was put over the site. I don't think Eric took everything down, yet. He is also trying to preserve Primates. As for the idea of Primates? A simple chat a couple of months ago: [15-Feb-08 1:03:05] Jorden says: and um... lately I read Pirates@Home as Primates@Home... perhaps the name for the next BOINC project. [15-Feb-08 17:29:25] Eric Myers says: "Welcome to the Monkey House, Mr. Rosewater" [15-Feb-08 17:29:56] Eric Myers says: That would be a good April Fools trick - redesign the web site as Primates@Home :) [15-Feb-08 17:30:01] Eric Myers says: Shhh! [15-Feb-08 17:30:15] Eric Myers says: I'll need a monkey screen saver.. ____________ Jord. The BOINC FAQ Service.
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[quote=Ageless] [15-Feb-08 1:03:05] Jorden says: and um... lately I read Pirates@Home as Primates@Home... perhaps the name for the next BOINC project. [15-Feb-08 17:29:25] Eric Myers says: "Welcome to the Monkey House, Mr. Rosewater" [15-Feb-08 17:29:56] Eric Myers says: That would be a good April Fools trick - redesign the web site as Primates@Home :) [15-Feb-08 17:30:01] Eric Myers says: Shhh! Yes, thanks to Jord for planting the idea for this little prank. We also have to give him credit for a lot of the work. He was responsible for finding all the monkey avatars, creating the slide show, changing the wiki main page, and he helped me test the site and the cutover mechanism before we made the switch. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Nicolas wrote: Wow, you went kinda far in converting the page to Primates@Home. Even old forum posts were modified! Nice trick, eh? It was actually really easy. I just had page_head() turn on output buffering, and page_tail() then get the buffer, make the substitutions, and output that. Viola. The wiki was even easier, since MediaWiki already uses output buffering for its rather aggressive caching mechanism. I just had to insert the substitution step. The forums provided one challenge: some of the pages are pretty long, and would fill the output buffer. I fixed this by processing the page one post at a time. The "who has the gold" thread proved to be a good test for this. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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The primates@home day definately was fun plus a good test of the scripts as well. Thanks for the laugh as I needed it yesterday! Too bad some of the primates here yesterday couldn't handle their primate avatar and switched back to their old avatar. No fun in that. ____________
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Ageless wrote: When we break things, we break them thoroughly. ;-) The avatars are still around as they are part of the filter that was put over the site. I don't think Eric took everything down, yet. He is also trying to preserve Primates. While the domain name is available, would it be feasible to still apply the filters on texts and avatars, when looking at the Primates@Home project? ____________ Peter .-)
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RDC wrote: Too bad some of the primates here yesterday couldn't handle their primate avatar and switched back to their old avatar. No fun in that. You may be jumping to conclusions: I, for one, had my username changed—but my usual avatar remained without any intervention on my part. ____________ Was that a Siren I heard?
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Pepo wrote: While the domain name is available, would it be feasible to still apply the filters on texts and avatars, when looking at the Primates@Home project? I thought about doing this, but I see one problem: copyrights. The avatar images belong to whoever we "borrowed" them from. Some were traced to the San Diego Zoo, but many came from other sources. And the project logo, in the upper left of every page, is Timmy the Monkey from ThinkGeek.com. Now I doubt they even took notice of us, but if they did then they kindly held off on sending me a DMCA takedown notice. I doubt that they, or the San Diego Zoo, or anybody else we borrowed from, would be so kind if we left the site up. Though maybe ThinkGeek would like the idea. They seem like a fun lot. And if they also were making money out of it....? I for one will probably by a Timmy t-shirt from them (and maybe add a Primates@Home iron-on to it?). If we somehow linked to them and encouraged people to buy t-shirts...? But I doubt we could work something out with all the sources of the images. So like many things in life, this event is something that happened, and is to be remembered, but it's now past. ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Wormholio wrote: I for one will probably by a Timmy t-shirt from them (and maybe add a Primates@Home iron-on to it?). And if you find a little something else to buy, to push the total over $20, you can also get a free t-shirt (said to be the 2008 April Fools' shirt). ____________ -- Eric Myers "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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Odysseus wrote: You may be jumping to conclusions: I, for one, had my username changed—but my usual avatar remained without any intervention on my part. Many apologies are issued in that case and I accept the punishment of cannon fodder ____________
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wheeeeehoooo!!!! Happy 04/01
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Very funny. :D :D

In France, it's "poisson d'avril". (avril fish)

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A good funny surprise :-D

I like the avatars!!

Is Flaming Black Orangon Kalessin not supposed anymore to fly?
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I like it. A lot of work
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I've tried to change my Primate name. Since then it's empty.
(Am I not a primate anymore?)-:

I hope the stats sites will get crazy for a day or two!
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Now Flaming black Orangon Kalessin lost his primates Name but stopped flying.
Oh what a nice feeling to stay on the ground for a while!
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Wow, you went kinda far in converting the page to Primates@Home. Even old forum posts were modified!

EDIT: Who the HELL changed my nickname to Knuckles??!!?!
EDIT2: there we go

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Hey Cornelius, I have to say I do really enjoy this first of April.

Up to noon I just thought this was a poor thing to rename the project and do nothing else but make the server unreplying.

But this is really a gigantic good and nice joke, which I like immensely.
What a lot of work!

Great praise from the fat orange Orang Utah without wings!

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Kalessin]Up to noon I just thought this was a poor thing to rename the project and do nothing else but make the server unreplying.

Sorry for that. The site was up&running since 5am CET, but apparently only for Cornelius and me.

We already wondered why no one came along... it was just that you didn't see it.
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O-o-o-oo-ooo-ooooo-eee-eeee-eeee-aaaaaaa! Argh!
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A wonderful April treat Cornelius...just be careful of those rather dull-witted humans. They are dangerous!
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Most excellent! One of the better treatments that I've seen.
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Pepo wrote:

I've tried to change my Primate name. Since then it's empty.
(Am I not a primate anymore?)-:

After return from the planet of ...err... Primates, I can again set my Primate ...err... Pirate name.
But I'm obviously stil a primate..... (The transformation possibly did not work as expected. Or it was intentional, LOL)

I hope the stats sites will get crazy for a day or two!

I've just noticed one confusing message on BoincStats:

2008-04-01: Pirates@Home - Server crash
The Primates@Home server crashed around 10:30PM EST on Jan 5th, and was brought up just before 9AM the next day. The cause of the crash is unknown.

The site got possibly hijacked by Primates? Or their observing zoologists.
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When we break things, we break them thoroughly. ;-)

The avatars are still around as they are part of the filter that was put over the site. I don't think Eric took everything down, yet. He is also trying to preserve Primates.

As for the idea of Primates? A simple chat a couple of months ago:

[15-Feb-08 1:03:05] Jorden says: and um... lately I read Pirates@Home as Primates@Home... perhaps the name for the next BOINC project.
[15-Feb-08 17:29:25] Eric Myers says: "Welcome to the Monkey House, Mr. Rosewater"
[15-Feb-08 17:29:56] Eric Myers says: That would be a good April Fools trick - redesign the web site as Primates@Home :)
[15-Feb-08 17:30:01] Eric Myers says: Shhh!
[15-Feb-08 17:30:15] Eric Myers says: I'll need a monkey screen saver..
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[quote=Ageless]

[15-Feb-08 1:03:05] Jorden says: and um... lately I read Pirates@Home as Primates@Home... perhaps the name for the next BOINC project.
[15-Feb-08 17:29:25] Eric Myers says: "Welcome to the Monkey House, Mr. Rosewater"
[15-Feb-08 17:29:56] Eric Myers says: That would be a good April Fools trick - redesign the web site as Primates@Home :)
[15-Feb-08 17:30:01] Eric Myers says: Shhh!

Yes, thanks to Jord for planting the idea for this little prank. We also have to give him credit for a lot of the work. He was responsible for finding all the monkey avatars, creating the slide show, changing the wiki main page, and he helped me test the site and the cutover mechanism before we made the switch.

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Wow, you went kinda far in converting the page to Primates@Home. Even old forum posts were modified!

Nice trick, eh? It was actually really easy. I just had page_head() turn on output buffering, and page_tail() then get the buffer, make the substitutions, and output that. Viola. The wiki was even easier, since MediaWiki already uses output buffering for its rather aggressive caching mechanism. I just had to insert the substitution step.

The forums provided one challenge: some of the pages are pretty long, and would fill the output buffer. I fixed this by processing the page one post at a time. The "who has the gold" thread proved to be a good test for this.

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The primates@home day definately was fun plus a good test of the scripts as well. Thanks for the laugh as I needed it yesterday!

Too bad some of the primates here yesterday couldn't handle their primate avatar and switched back to their old avatar. No fun in that.
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When we break things, we break them thoroughly. ;-)

The avatars are still around as they are part of the filter that was put over the site. I don't think Eric took everything down, yet. He is also trying to preserve Primates.

While the domain name is available, would it be feasible to still apply the filters on texts and avatars, when looking at the Primates@Home project?
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Too bad some of the primates here yesterday couldn't handle their primate avatar and switched back to their old avatar. No fun in that.

You may be jumping to conclusions: I, for one, had my username changed—but my usual avatar remained without any intervention on my part.

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While the domain name is available, would it be feasible to still apply the filters on texts and avatars, when looking at the Primates@Home project?

I thought about doing this, but I see one problem: copyrights. The avatar images belong to whoever we "borrowed" them from. Some were traced to the San Diego Zoo, but many came from other sources. And the project logo, in the upper left of every page, is Timmy the Monkey from ThinkGeek.com. Now I doubt they even took notice of us, but if they did then they kindly held off on sending me a DMCA takedown notice. I doubt that they, or the San Diego Zoo, or anybody else we borrowed from, would be so kind if we left the site up.

Though maybe ThinkGeek would like the idea. They seem like a fun lot. And if they also were making money out of it....? I for one will probably by a Timmy t-shirt from them (and maybe add a Primates@Home iron-on to it?). If we somehow linked to them and encouraged people to buy t-shirts...?

But I doubt we could work something out with all the sources of the images. So like many things in life, this event is something that happened, and is to be remembered, but it's now past.

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I for one will probably by a Timmy t-shirt from them (and maybe add a Primates@Home iron-on to it?).

And if you find a little something else to buy, to push the total over $20, you can also get a free t-shirt (said to be the 2008 April Fools' shirt).

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You may be jumping to conclusions: I, for one, had my username changed—but my usual avatar remained without any intervention on my part.

Many apologies are issued in that case and I accept the punishment of cannon fodder

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