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will_bushman
Boot
the flea jumping huhn, just out of curiousity, could this be similar too the appearing links to piece together the SPDR/PF interaction that resulted in SPDR's death. In other words, the SP talks about climbing a tower to where M and PF are hanging out, maybe these PF quotes are bread crumbs leading us up that tower, if we can figure out how to follow it.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:50 pm
RMG
Greenhorn
Since we're talking about randomly changing parts of the site, the background GIF (http://ilovebees.com/BEEBACKG.GIF) seemed to inverse itself for a bit. This was universal to all parts of the site, but corrected itself in a minute or so.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:19 pm
will_bushman
Boot
interestingly the text can be active on several pages at the same time, ie. two receipes can have PF text on it at the same time, so the text isn't exactly "jumping". But it is not really random either, because once the text is on a page it stays there for some amount of time before disapearing, seems to be a sety amount of time, not sure how long exactly. Keeping my thinking cap on.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:22 pm
Framed
Boot
RMG wrote:
Since we're talking about randomly changing parts of the site, the background GIF (http://ilovebees.com/BEEBACKG.GIF) seemed to inverse itself for a bit. This was universal to all parts of the site, but corrected itself in a minute or so.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:40 pm
SuperJerms
Unfettered
Isn't it absolutely fascinating that PM's figured out a way to have a live and scampering PF in the website?
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:57 pm
tenshukain
Greenhorn
honey re-check the honey page, this might be trout-riffic, but i just found this on top of the flock of "seek the" truth bull:
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:21 pm
Raveneyes
Boot
Ten, look a page back ^_^ that's the SP trying to get you to make a mistake in the uri(url) so you can talk to her!
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:38 pm
Flashbolt7
Greenhorn
Does anyone else think that maybe Pius Flea might stand for something else. I did a little research (google) and found a poem about fleas with some religous references which got me thinking that maybe
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:45 pm
sniperomega
Greenhorn
is there an area where all of the flea's spouts are logged? either on-site or somewhere on this forum?..
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:59 pm
WhiteGulls
Unfettered
will_bushman wrote:
the flea jumping huhn, just out of curiousity, could this be similar too the appearing links to piece together the SPDR/PF interaction that resulted in SPDR's death. In other words, the SP talks about climbing a tower to where M and PF are hanging out, maybe these PF quotes are bread crumbs leading us up that tower, if we can figure out how to follow it.
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:10 pm
will_bushman
Boot
I'm not sure if this will end up helping, but the fleas quotes seem to load on a single page for thirty seconds, or keep loading rather as you refresh. To my knowledge this is the first aspect of the website that loads for a certain period of time, all the old elements seemed to load randomly. Also, the switch between background colors seems to be timed, but I haven't timed that yet.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:43 pm
HitsHerMark
Unfictologist
Avatrix wrote:
I almost didn't post this part, cause I thought it would be trout, but muses.gif is changing too. I couldn't find a message embedded at all, but i have a copy if someone thinks they can find a steg in it.
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GirlInFocus
flickr
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:52 am
ABoxInABox
Decorated
Re: The coding nitty-gritty behind variations in the site...
jitterBox wrote:
Based on the nature of the server error messages (not in game) that appeared during the 8/24 flood of visitors to ILB, we can conclude that the ILB site is actually built with ASP.NET --not unexpected since Microsoft has an interest here. Thus, despite the fact that the pages have .html extensions and might seem to be static, the desired effects of the hacking and corruption are achieved by using the dynamic web-serving features of ASP.NET (perhaps through a custom ISAPI filter).
Quote:
The designers/coders can cause (and have caused) random, or seemingly random variations of content to be sent with every page load, if they so desire. This includes text sizes and colors, image and HTML element sizing on pages, causing different data to be sent out on multiple requests for the same file...any characteristic of a web page is under their control, obviously (and frankly, I'd like to see how they did a lot of it once the game's done--it would be fascinating to us programmers
[EDIT] Faulty quote tag.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:06 pm
jitterBox
Boot
no...sorry...it's ASP.NET Sorry aboxinabox, I've been a web coder for 8 years--this isn't speculation, it's fact. The server error page that was encountered when the user load was extremely high on 8/24 is one only served by ASP.NET. A statement like "ASP is too slow..." is naive and shows a lack of understanding of the technologies involved. First of all, it's not ASP that we're dealing with here, it's ASP.NET, which is far and away the most performant dynamic web serving technology available. I program pages in it every day whose contents change on a per-hit basis and handle simultaneous user loads in the hundreds or thousands. But that's not the point.
dynamically coded to introduce certain randomizations into the content that is returned. The exact methods used are deliberately hidden since it needs to look like a hack or inadvertent corruption, and only HTML is returned, but Microsoft technologies are behind it, without question. It's a shame the PHP-based Wiki hasn't held up as well under a lesser load than the ILB site has encountered.
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:58 am
truegent
Veteran
META META META META META We have gone a bit META here, but I think this can be answered easily with no technical knowledge needed.
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:58 am
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