Common Things In General

This page is for things that can be commonly found in various pages, HW, and ROMS.

Websites

General

• Many websites have these comments:

  <!--[if lte IE 6]>

  <!--[if IEMobile 7]> 

  <!--[if IE 9]>

  etc.
• The country flag changes depending on where you live. Sometimes, the site's logo contains a version with both a Latin/English name with an Arabic, Chinese, Russian, or Japanese approximation.
• Any site using Squarespace's hosting services will contain "This is Squarespace." in an HTML comment.

robots.txt

A lot of websites use this to regulate bots crawling certain webpages. Some have messages that are plain and simple, like the one you see here:

#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://www.frobee.com/robots-txt-check

Other sites that use WordPress have this in them:

# If you are regularly crawling WordPress.com sites, please use our firehose to receive real-time push updates instead.
# Please see https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/firehose/ for more details.

Now if the website's robots.txt doesn't look like either of these, feel free to add them. Otherwise if you're not sure, ask divingkataetheweirdo on the wiki, the Reddit or on Discord.

Applications

• Virtually every app that can't run in DOS will show "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." or a similar message if one attempts to run in DOS or through the command line.

Demoscene

Any demo using PMode will have the following messages hidden inside the executable at 0x70 (Example from Drift by Wild Light (1995)).

386 or better not detected!!!
$Not enough low memory!!! (180KB beeded)
$System is already in V86 mode, and no VCPI or DPMI found!!!
$Not enough extended memory!!! (1400KB needed)
$Couldn't enable A20 gate!!!
$Extended memory allocation failure. (weird eh???)