{"id":111,"date":"2007-11-13T01:43:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/13\/mbr-love-note-responses\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T17:46:08","slug":"mbr-love-note-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/13\/mbr-love-note-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"MBR Love Note Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to say, I didn’t quite expect the wide variety of responses to my “MBR Love Note<\/a>“. And… it was on the front page of Digg and BoingBoing, among other places. Which, has driven a ton of random traffic to the site. \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’m not going to bother posting the Digg comments, a lot of them were so far off base and yet wildly amusing.<\/p>\n

Cory Dotorow<\/a> classified it as a “Scary MBR-nuking program.. “.. I don’t know if I would go that far, thats a bit of an exaggeration.<\/p>\n

Brandon<\/a> said “it was a [real, non-script kiddie] hack”.. thanks. \ud83d\ude42
\nGameboy genius<\/a> filmed installation and booting of the love note and put it on YouTube… you can see it at his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CustomPC<\/a> wrote that “an expert assembly code programmer writes an app to make your computer greet you with a note when you switch it on”. Expert, eh? Really, its not all that hard…<\/p>\n

As an aside, it really is quite trivial to uninstall the program. Look at the comments section for a hint if you really don’t have any idea. Though, you probably shouldn’t install it if you don’t have an idea. I don’t feel like dealing with thousands of people screwing their computer up. It probably (most likely) won’t destroy your computer by any stretch of the imagination..<\/p>\n

My roommate Jon<\/a> provided the text, which I believe he did get from ThinkGeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and yes, I did know the answers to the quiz when I made it. The only one I wasn’t 100% sure about on #3, but I was right when I looked it up. And the quiz is mostly for fun, but anyone who has messed with MBR’s and such should be able to get them right. And I would say a great deal of people *should* be able to get #1 right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to say, I didn’t quite expect the wide variety of responses to my “MBR Love Note“. And… it was on the front page of Digg and BoingBoing, among other places. Which, has driven a ton of random traffic to the site. \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42 I’m not going to bother posting the Digg comments, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}