Dennis Toy wrote:its your home computer number, its used to check to see if the network is at fault or your computer.
try this....
go to command prompt
at c:\ type ping 127.0.0.1
or try "ping localhost"
It is used for a shitload more than checking the network.
try typing "netstat -ano" in a command prompt, you vill see a lot of 127.0.0.1 there.
[img=right]http://hem.bredband.net/b217293/warsaban.gif[/img] "Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus
Fear is the mother of all gods.
Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius
*slowly claws way back to table after rolling around on the floor laughing my fucking ass off*
Got more then a few weird looks from the rest of the people in the lab. One even came over and asked what was so funny. I pointed, now HE is on the floor desperatly trying to breath because he is starting to choke on laughing so damn hard....
i love to fuck with idiots like that. a few years ago when i was actually using aol's chatrooms, i told some dimwit to hit ctrl alt del to see a neat trick, which incidentally wound up closing down his isp (which of course was aol as well). though this is far more amusing.
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
Man that's even better than that kid who wanted to play Counterstrike and asked everyone to join his game at 192.168.0.14 (the funniest part about that was the other kids who wondered why it didn't work).
"Nippon ichi, bitches! Boing-boing." Mai smote the demonic fires of heck...
The best one I saw was in a chat room where some guy was convinced he was being hacked because his modem lights were flashing. He was told to do various things, leading up to being told to go to a command prompt and type "deltree C:". He vanished a few seconds later
Destructionator XIII wrote:Or in Starcraft: "Alt+f4 then x is god mode, press it really fast!!!!111!!oneone"
In Half-Life 1&2 and the daughter mods, whenever someone asks what button to use for any command, you should answer "F10." It's fun to do that and see how many people drop from the server.
"I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war."
--The Lord Humungus
The funniest thing I've ever done was when Team Fortress Classic was updated to the new models. A bunch of people on the server was bitching about them and asking if anyone knew a way to change them. I told them to press f10. Half the server signed off at once. 'Twas great.
"Whilst human alchemists refer to the combustion triangle, some of their orcish counterparts see it as more of a hexagon: heat, fuel, air, laughter, screaming, fun." Dawn of the Dragons
White Haven wrote:Also, if your network is borked, you can try pinging 127.0.0.1. If it fails, you KNOW the problem is with either your NIC or your TCP/IP stack. Useful troubleshooting tool.
Actually, on a Windows box you can successfully ping 127.0.0.1 if you have no NIC installed, as long as your modem is working or you have firewire.
If there are any otehr network interfaces present, it will really only tell you if the TCP/IP stack is hosed.
Yep, but that's still a valuable piece of info. Then there was the time when some asshat had IPv6 installed...but let's not get into that asshattery.
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Out of Context Theatre, this week starring Darth Nostril.
-'If you really want to fuck with these idiots tell them that there is a vaccine for chemtrails.'
What a dumb little script-kiddy piece of poser shit. I hope he wet his pants when he realized whose pc drives he actually erased. 
