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OMG...I can't un-see that!]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
Yea, thanks Engadget!
]]>Feb 5th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
Long chin, parasite, must be Jay Leno... ]]>Feb 6th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/I want to know too!]]>Feb 5th 2010 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/]]>Feb 5th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
Right-click --> View Image --> "Prehistoric Bug".

I guess it's some sort of prehistoric bug. ]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
http://www.uglybug.org/07dex.shtml]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/07/they-bite-ugly-bug-faces.html

found using http://www.tineye.com
]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/damn! beat me too it. i love tineye, this is the first time i got so many results!]]>Feb 5th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/For those who've just discovered TinEye - there's also a Firefox extension that adds a 'Search Image on Tineye' entry into the right click context menu
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8922]]>Feb 5th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/cheers dude! :)]]>Feb 7th 2010 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
And DOS, how I miss you on my old butter-fly keyboard IBM.

Where art thou, buried within mine Windows 7 Kernel. I know you still shine.]]>Feb 5th 2010 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YacG59Ec_l4/SivMlG-7iiI/AAAAAAAAAR4/Lhj3AMBWTyo/s400/micro_10.jpg


Here is it's cousin.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
I'm completely consumed with jealousy at the fact that you had a butterfly-keyboard ThinkPad 701... if only I had been wiser (and wealthier) at the age of, er, 5 (in 1995), I would have bought one.]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
I also think it's a SEM image, but I can't figure it out!]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://tinyurl.com/6fdcxk

Apple doesn't need to patch OS'es from '93 because MacOS X has little to no relation (in terms of code) to MacOS Classic. This bug might be part of an ancient code-base, but nevertheless exists in modern Microsoft Windows releases.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.uglybug.org/]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
Thats a neat website though. ]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/




ZIIINNG!]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Shots fired!! shots fired!!
Hurry rush Nitesh to the hospital!!!! Seems like your ex found ya @_@]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
Well actually a command prompt and dos aren't the same thing.]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/For the record, Hong Kong resident here.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/
Echo y|del *.*>nul

... my favourite :)]]>Feb 5th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/Feb 5th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/ancient-dos-bug-gets-squashed/I mean it isn't exactly old, but I'm not sure it's been around since 3.1!
(for those who don't know, you can use the at command from a command window in a guest account to open a command window with system level priviledges).
I fixed this where i worked by using a GPO to prevent access to the at command for anyone but admins. Seems it's pretty trivial to bypass security in windows!]]>Feb 5th 2010 11:05AM