Re: http://www.cpan.org
by thelenm (Vicar) on Apr 01, 2003 at 00:57 UTC
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Oh no!! Will PAUSE become MOUSE (Matt's Own Upload Server)??
-- Mike
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Re: http://www.cpan.org
by submersible_toaster (Chaplain) on Apr 01, 2003 at 00:13 UTC
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Laugh - I almost went into arrest. Now to go play april fool with
the web proxy
500The internet has exploded and it's all you fault, you could
try emailing the proxy administrator (for all the good that will do). Chances are
he is on his way to 'visit' you right now.
I can't believe it's not psellchecked
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Re: http://www.cpan.org
by iguanodon (Priest) on Apr 01, 2003 at 03:08 UTC
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First I totally fell for that. I was really pissed. Then I laughed so hard I blew boogers all over my keyboard when I realized how badly I'd been had. | [reply] |
Re: http://www.cpan.org
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 01, 2003 at 00:21 UTC
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If Matt Wright is out for revenge and has expansion in mind, someone better check the expiry on the Monasterys domain names fast:>
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke.
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Re: http://www.cpan.org
by krujos (Curate) on Apr 01, 2003 at 00:13 UTC
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While looking i discovered that if you click on the link titled "Matt's Free Perl CGI Scripts" it will take you to the old cpan index page http://www.cpan.org/index2.html. I did a quick check and the links from this page still look right. search.cpan.org is also still its normal self.
update...
nevermind... doh | [reply] |
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Pretty much all the links on that page point to the actual frontpage.
Just a tongue-tied, twisted, earth-bound misfit. -- Pink Floyd
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suckage :(
by LD2 (Curate) on Apr 01, 2003 at 00:03 UTC
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Ouch. I hate to say this, but how could they forget to renew their contract??!! Usually they give ample warning, before the domain expires - I know, I have a couple.
Hmm, the question is what to do now. Unfortunately, most Perl programmers have that link mapped to a link - somewhere or another. I guess the best bet is besides posting it on this site, post it on every major Perl site (i.e. Perl.com, Perldoc.com, etc.) that the CPAN site has moved and it's no longer Cpan.org. Major suckage. :/
I can't believe Matt Wright or whoever does his site would do that. Maybe that just goes to show what a...(oh, nm... calling him names won't help anything).. obviously they sunk to new lows - to get hits. | [reply] |
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Oh man!! that sucks! I totally forgot about April Fools!!!
hehehe..
Although.. it's not April 1st here YET
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Re: http://www.cpan.org
by nefertari (Chaplain) on Apr 01, 2003 at 20:11 UTC
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This thread is cited by heise.de in their (german) list of April's Fools Day jokes. | [reply] |
Re: http://www.cpan.org
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2003 at 11:19 UTC
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Nicely done, but my homepage has Anti-April fools day technology (size 6 red font saying APRIL FOOLS DAY) built in, so you didn't get me ;-P
I hope nobody who lives close to Matt Wright got taken by this... for Matt Wright's sake ;-)
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Re: http://www.cpan.org
by feanor_269 (Beadle) on Apr 02, 2003 at 19:06 UTC
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Dur, I just use cpan.perl.com, so I missed out till it was posted in the cb. :) but great prank nonetheless.
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Re: http://www.cpan.org
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2003 at 11:21 UTC
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An Awesome April fools joke and a free shot at DDoS'ing Matt's Script Archive. It doesn't get any better!
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And very unlikely to work, considering how virtual hosting works.
Abigail
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