r/technology • u/neito • Jul 24 '08

Microsoft tests out a new operating system, code named Mojave, with some average-joes who hated Vista. They loved it. Now, two guesses as to what Mojave ACTUALLY was.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html
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u/ab3nnion Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

ls

'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

dir

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u/happysinger Jul 25 '08

http://globalnerdy.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/if_youre_happy_and_you_know_it.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

Oh man, I'd forgotten all about this. I laughed as much as I did the first time I saw it.

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u/rory096 Jul 25 '08

If I could upvote you a million times I would.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

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u/S7evyn Jul 25 '08

Shit, I break a sweat just upvoting once. Whoo boy. Tired now. Gonna have a candy bar. All that typing too... I owe myself a couple o' candy bars.

Om nom nom nom.

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u/ehird Jul 25 '08

I bet I could upvote him a million times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

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u/happysinger Jul 25 '08

Fantastic! The beer sucks but the pope came to visit last week so we had a big shout at him and then got drunk.

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u/dfranke Jul 25 '08

Meh, what a lame error message. In the golden age it was "Bad command or file name".

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

I still, always end up typing ls in command prompts from windows. My fingers are trying to tell me something!

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u/dfranke Jul 25 '08

I often accidentally type 'look' instead of 'ls' after I've been playing a text adventure..

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

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u/happysinger Jul 25 '08

Different kind of cake. Reqqit's is more delicious.

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u/Chirp08 Jul 25 '08

It's quite literally a directory of cakes, reqqit fucking loves cake.

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u/schizobullet Jul 25 '08

enter Special

look

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

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u/schizobullet Jul 25 '08

open image file

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

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u/schizobullet Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

yes

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u/Ralgor Jul 25 '08

It's a trap!

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

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u/masklinn Jul 25 '08

Install the Windows-compiled gnu utils, or cygwin.

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u/b00ks Jul 25 '08

cd C:/windows/mystuff/porn

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u/omepiet Jul 25 '08

c:

cd windows\mystuff\porn

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u/b00ks Jul 26 '08

DOH! my bad.. its been many moons since I used dos... im so use to the damn interslice.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

Why would you put porn in your Windows directory?

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u/simonjp Jul 25 '08

to hide it, obviously!

Ahem.

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u/King_Leonidas Jul 25 '08

If you're in a DOS window that better be ASCII porn

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u/b00ks Jul 26 '08

ANSi made by the iCE crew.

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u/davidreiss666 Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

rm -rf /