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- By Greg Shultz (Looking back at Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Easter Eggs)
- Although entertaining....... this is yesterday's, no, last century's news.And your point is?Those of us who are older than about 20 have tech memories that stretch back, if you can believe it, more than ten years. Sometimes even more than that. So as an example of an IT guy in...
- Tags: sperry@..., Microsoft Corp., Q-Basic, Windows 95 Easter Eggs, Bananas, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Easter egg, Microsoft Windows 95
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Simplifying copy and paste operations in Windows XP
- Simplifying copy and paste operations in Windows XParticle rootHuh!So, which is _really_ harder, holding down the control key and hitting one other key which is probably an automatic action for most people anyway, or moving my hand from the main part of the keyboard up to the top, remembering which...
- Tags: bananas, data entry, gorillas, hardware, keithc, keyboard, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, mouse
- Discussion threads 2006-03-02
Additional Resources
- Bananas In Space (exe)
- A very cool 3D screensaver featuring Bananas. Let your inner monkey rejoice. Includes music playback option and comprehensive program group shortcuts, including a help manual. A 3D Wonders production. Version 1.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
- Tags: 3D
- Software downloads 2006-03-29
- Banana Run (exe)
- Help Harold the monkey. He must reach the farthest platform in order to win the Banana Run for points. Obstacles await Harold as he must run quickly and avoid falling into the deep river below. As you run and jump your strength will weaken. You must collect bananas in order...
- Tags: Strength, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-05-02
- El Airplane (exe)
- This game is a spoof on popular scrolling shooters. You are to pilot the most unusual airplane in the world. Actually, the flying chariot is a more appropriate word. Your goal is to get to the finish, destroying the enemies on the way. Your ammunition will consist not of bullets,...
- Tags: Enemy, Airplane, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-11-30
- Darwin The Monkey (exe)
- After having his bananas stolen by a nasty tribe of jungle frogs, Darwin must venture deep into the jungle to kick some frog butt and reclaim his dinner. Game features: 30 handcrafted levels, six varied gameplay types, and lighthearted family friendly gameplay. This version is the first release on CNET...
- Tags: Jungle, Rock Solid Games, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-06
- Microsoft sticks with Hotmail name
- Thankful For Seeing The Hotmail LightI too am a faithful consumer to the Hotmail name, as I have grown to like the inspiration I get and give with the symbol that my mail is important and hot to the touch. Also there is just to much unwarranted change to things...
- Tags: MSN Hotmail, donaldcoe@..., e-mail, Microsoft Corp., Hotmail Name
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Bananas (CAB)
- Take Filbert the monkey on a journey through the jungle to find the five Totems of Power...This original action puzzler will take you through 24 levels in which you'll have to combine Filbert's agility with your quick thinking to save him from a deadly squashing on the screen border!The principle...
- Tags: Screen, LYGUE, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-07
- Toysight Gold (dmg)
- The games featured in ToySight Gold run the gamut from Sky Diver, in which you freefall through the air and try to land as close to a target as possible, to PieSight, where the challenge lies in monkeys with custard pies before they can throw bananas at you. You can...
- Tags: Toy, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-01-09
- Boom (zip)
- Boom is a game for two players or one schizophrenic player in which each player tries to hit his/her opponent with such dangerous exploding objects as sandwiches, dead rats, bananas, bones or honeycombs depending on whether he/she is a human, vulture, gorilla, dog or bear. The players take turns in...
- Tags: Player, Landlubber, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-05-15
- The TechRepublic "new post" counting monkey wants more bananas!
- :^0UpdatesDate ---------- Action06/29/2007 49 new posts to the discussion Symantec offers compensation for update fiasco06/29/2007 19 new posts to the discussion A challenge to the Linux Users of the World06/29/2007 278 new posts to the discussion The last word on the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design debate:06/29/2007 10 new posts to...
- Tags: Absolutely, new post
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- India getting expensive says SAP
- it appears that now india is costing too much for software development for SAP. competition from other major players like ibm, microsoft, and local companies is driving up salaries. Sap is now looking to easter europe and china. they were wary of china, possibly because 92 %...
- Tags: Outsourcing, monkey, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2006-01-30
- Sound driver driving me batty!
- What can possibly be affecting the driver for the VIA AC 97 Audio Controller WDM on my machine?A few days ago I woke up the computer to find noise and distortion on the sound. No great problem ... I went to Windows Update, installed the latest driver and all was...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, baz@...
- Q&A 2005-05-31
- Geek Trivia: The never-ending pastry
- Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automaticallysign up today!Believe it or not, April 6 is the 75th birthday of perhapsthe most popular packaged snack cake ever seen in the face of the Earth—theTwinkie. On this day in 1930, Chicago bakery manager Jimmy Dewar concocted...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Twinkies, Jimmy Dewar
- Technical articles 2005-04-05
- Death by printing and political maladies
- HereÂ’s a dilemma thatÂ’s frustrated many an IT pro foryears. If we truly are in the electronicage and everything is becoming digitized, why, oh why, are we spending so muchtime troubleshooting and accommodating printing issues? Printing is the bane of our existence, alwaysrearing its ugly head when we...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., itÂ, printer, printing
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- VIRUS PROB CONTINUED
- i also found out on the processes tab of the task manager that some system processes had been replicated and running as local sysytem processes---a process like SERVICES had been replicated...WMM.. something had also been replicated with 2 other ones. Trying to end this processes is futile as they cant....
- Tags: AVG, Norton Co., virus, rubsmong@..., windows, pictures folder, antivirus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus
- Q&A 2006-06-06
- A sort of cure
- 1) Cut one large bit of rind of a bit of bacon - smokey bacon is optional, but you want a good bit of rind2) Take the rind and roll it up, then tie a bit of string around it. Have the string about 2ft long and the rind tied...
- Tags: alcohol, dehydration, hangover, nausea, off-topic, rind, sleepin'dawg, vitamin
- Discussion threads 2005-03-18
- friday yuk
- friday yukIs there some order or something to who creates these things?Well I thought I would share these with the TR.1. Men are like ........Laxatives ...... They irritate the shit out of you.2. Men are like ........ Bananas ...... The older they get, the less firm they are.3. Men are...
- Tags: Men
- Discussion threads 2006-02-16
- Exterminating the dreaded earworm
- EarwormsFound myself whistleing one such tune. Must have really annoyed my coworkers because two of them got together and sang the chorus, barbershop style.I sat under my desk for the rest of the day (well, wanted to)The opposite to earworm I guess is when you play a cd in a...
- Tags: philip_jones2008@..., Kung Fu Fighting
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- Windows Vista SP1 geared towards security and reliability
- Would you upgrade your home machine to Windows Vista sooner?Would you upgrade your home machine to Windows Vista sooner?No.Will I upgrade...I admit that I have only used Vista a little but this will not influence me to upgrade. Price, performance, ease of use and compatability will all make me wait.Not...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, paulmah@..., security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-10-07
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