My toilet had crashed:
@dangeRuss said in What users say versus what they mean:
@Karla said in What users say versus what they mean:
@dcon said in What users say versus what they mean:
@Karla said in What users say versus what they mean:
@levicki said in What users say versus what they mean:
"You must complete all fields before clicking Submit" almost every web form -- why not just tell me which ones I missed in order?
I tried to register for a website and I got an error that my email address was invalid.
Since it was something I needed I emailed them from my invalid email address with a screenshot quoting my email address (which I did double check and triple check to make sure it wasn't a typo).
I wonder if you'll ever hear back... Since it's "invalid", can they email you back?
To their credit, they responded in less than 24 hours. They created the account and I was able to log in.
Samsung products will say your email is invalid if it has the word samsung in it. Apparently samsung@mydomain.com is not valid email.
Sam.Sung@mydomain.com is all good though.
I can't register for a certain PCB fabricator because my email address has cursor
in it. On a hunch, I then tested update
, drop
, select
and it's quite obviously some pants-on-head SQL-injection prevention.
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Filed under: I made a rainbow colored logo.sys back in the day
My father used to always harp on about waiting for the safe-to-turn-off screen on his precious computer, so (being a smart-arse) I edited logos.sys
so that it said It is not safe to turn off your computer
. My father left the computer on that screen for a whole day until I told him. Some screaming occurred.
I've been trying to sign up to EuroCircuits since yesterday and I keep getting to email verification and getting:
So, I contacted support...who haven't got back to me. Taking matters into my own hands I tried test@gmail.com
for an account:
Hmm. I tried test@mydomain.com
, broken. I then noticed the URL had the email address in it as an ID. After a lot of poking I found what it didn't like was cursor
in the email address.
So, does that mean...
No worries though, it's just a simple text match, so a bit fooling allows SQL injection just fine. Idiots.
Well, this was a giant pile of fail.
WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) is the way you centralise the download and deployment of Windows updates on an AD Domain so you don't have each individual machine chewing up internet bandwidth.
There was recently a series of updates to WSUS itself to support the Win 7/8/9 -> Windows 10 upgrade packages which appear in the 'upgrade' channel in WSUS. I already had the Upgrade channel selected so had been seeing these packages well before that but no machine was calling for them so I hadn't approved any for installation on the clients.
Earlier this week machines started calling for them so I approved the packages. 160 GB of stuff started to download onto the WSUS server. Came back a bit later and it was showing a download segment at 100%, and then later still 100%. The queue was jammed.
I tried everything reasonable including unapproving the updates, restarting WSUS, restarting BITS, clearing the BITS jobs manually (they re-added, downloaded and then froze again at 100% ) and running the server clean-up wizard which completed cheerfully but otherwise did nothing useful.
Now I had machines waiting on a hell of a lot of updates because the queue was throughly wedged with the broken Win 10 upgrade packages.
The Event Log was very helpful:
Event 10032, Windows Server Update Services
The server is failing to download some updates.
A quick look online showed that as I had the Upgrade channel selected from the start the Win 10 upgrade packages had set some metadata in my WSUS database when they first appeared...before the hotfixes that added WSUS support for them. This corrupt metadata had broken everything when they finally got approved. The hotfix only helps if 'upgrades' is synced after the hotfix.
One SQL script from a kind soul on MSDN to fix my database later and everything should be OK? Nope, turns out while they won't break everything now they won't actually deploy to the clients as WSUS 3.2 is not supported for Win 10 Upgrades.
I'm forced to use WSUS 3.2 as I'm on Server 2008 R2 which is supposedly still in support until next year.
I've never sent a thank-you note for an interview, that's ridiculous. If they email anything then I'll respond with some pleasantry even if I have nothing to say, but that's just so they know the message was received and read.
Edit: I'd find it weird if I received a thank-you note. I'd suspect some sort of slimy, try-too-hard personality.
Some excellent writing from the Times here:
Status: The accident information board in our main production area fell off the wall onto someone's head.
@dkf said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
@Atazhaia said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Well, for a thoroughly poisoned well all you need to do is to kill all the demons around its water source and the water will instantly go fresh again.
No, you need to find someone with a glowing
!
over their head nearby first. Then you can kill the demons to clean the well…
@hungrier said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Have you ever felt like your degree was worthless?
Oh dear, people will start off with a PhD and six months later it'll be down to an A-Level.
If you have retail Office SKUs then you have to add the keys to your account at Office.com. If you aren't an individual then you'll probably have a lot of keys.
This is fine, Office.com displays them with the key and the date you added them. You can click on an individual license to download an installer. Except the installer isn't associated with the key you clicked on, so you then get this clusterfuck when you first launch anything on the machine:
How should I know which fucking one it is!? If you're thinking 'well, you have enough licences, so just click on any' then you are 100% wrong. If you accidentally get one that's already been used then you get a failure to activate and have to use Microsoft phone activation which requires you to spend 15 minutes entering ten mile long verification numbers:
Yes, that 'telephone activation is no longer supported' is displayed in spite of it telling you that you can only activate by phone. You have to Google random forums for a working telephone number.
They wonder why people pirate
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Cursorkeys Color me unsurprised by his stupid "medicine didn't save you, The Lord did" arguments.
It reminds me of the joke about the man about to drown, who kept declining help because 'god will save me'. When he gets to heaven god says 'I sent you two boats and a helicopter, what more did you want?!'.
@Polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@blek there are people on this planet that care if their shoes are "block chain certified"? The next Nazi-esque regime will rise because of nonsense like this. We are so far down the rabbit hole that eugenics is the only reasonable answer at this point.
The heat death of the universe cannot come quickly enough.
@El_Heffe said in Rejected Emojis:
@Cursorkeys said in Rejected Emojis:
How did they get a picture of my neighbour. Bill, David, Simon...Chap?
I had a neighbor like that. I just said : Hi, guy". In an amazing stroke of luck, it turned out that his name is Guy.
A couple of houses back I had a neighbour that I didn't have a clue what his name was. One day we were both outside and he goes 'sorry buddy, I don't remember your name, it's...?', I magnanimously let him know my name and said it wasn't a problem at all, then walked off.
I remembered about a millisecond later that I didn't know his, so I did the responsible, and adult, thing and actively avoided him for then on.
Edit:
Looks like it is actually something that existshttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-real-connect.html
, what is wrong with that language. It even ruins jokes.
I don't know how this happened
Means: I know exactly how this happened, in detail. But, it was a truly stupid mistake and now I'm embarrassed.
So, you'll now have to take extra time to figure stuff out and will hate me twice as much as if I'd just told you.
@blek said in Internet of shit:
What on earth is happening here. Can’t remotely unlock the house for my Children. UPDATES URGENTLY needed please.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I have no idea. My brother, who's a QA tester and should know better, just got stupid IoT lightbulbs for his office. It has a little extra keypad that you stick to the wall below the realantique and so-uncool analog lightswitch. But that's a small price to pay so that he can now control the lights from his phone! Except that his desk is literally to the side of the old wall switch...I guess he now has the new functionality that he won't be able to use his lights when the cloud service is down though
@Zerosquare said in Best anti-SQL-injection protection:
Please don't break that website, I need it for work.
Don't worry. I'm not going to touch it. I gave the work to a competitor that I can actually get an account for.
I usually use a fantastic company here in the UK, but I don't need a whole panel of this design so I'm trying one of these pool services.
Just for curiosity, what are you building?
A functionally-safe throttle-by-wire system for a Rolls Royce Olympus 593 jet engine. Basically just a potentiometer at one end and a precision high-force positionner at the other separated by an isolated half-duplex RS485 bus.
The functional-safety part is really the only interesting bit. An engine that can produce 14 tonnes of thrust (very roughly 115 thousand horsepower/80 megawatts) suddenly becoming uncontrollable would be...not-optimal...
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Atazhaia One of you has a cat, the other has a shredder. Join forces and it sounds like problem solved.
My mum ended up in hospital because of those two items becoming combined.
They had a Maine Coon with a really floofy tail and an automatic shredder. One day she managed to dip her tail into it and get it to start. Cue one gigantic cat orbiting a room at maximum velocity with a (now disconnected) shredder firmly attached to its tail.
My mother's plan was to go get a blanket and smother the cat before removing the shredder, and that would have probably worked nicely. But my brother decided to "help" and grabbed the cat, while trying to stop him getting eviscerated my mum got a large chunk of her leg sliced open.
The cat was absolutely fine, save for some lost fur.
@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
One of ours uses RJ45 connectors for power and RS485 (both non-isolated). I'm just waiting for the first customer to plug it into a POE ethernet network
Heh, we make a lot of products for an industry that's all standardised on 24VAC (isolated transformers). The number of products we get back where traces/components/large-section-of-the-PCB are missing...
The story is always the same:
Your product arrived broken!
Did you connect it to the mains?
Of course not!
Then why is the inside of the box covered in vaporised copper?!
its_a_mystery.jpg
<arthur_dent>Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'optional' that I wasn't previously aware of</arthur_dent>
@blakeyrat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@djls45 Boats are small enough to be carried on ships.
You can also carry ships on ships. As shown by this ship-shipping ship shipping ships:
@stillwater said in I hate fashion and I hate progress:
chairs that require a tutorial before you can use them.
My cat has discovered he can pull random levers under my office chair to make me pay attention to him. So the pull-everything-and-hope approach can apparently pay dividends too...except when it's the 'descend' one and squashes him.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
smart toilet promises a ‘fully-immersive experience’
Just found this in some code I wrote, it's been there a while...
success:
return E_GENERIC_FAIL;
failed:
return E_NOERR;
}
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You never had an emergency and needed to bring someone to the hospital ASAP and couldn't wait for the
Has been held in court to not be a reason to speed. The only legal way to speed, other than in an emergency vehicle, is under police escort.
Well you'd got a police escort as soon as one caught you speeding!
Not pictured: me subtly editing out most of the background because I'm self-conscious about what I include in screenshots
That's what you thought, I made a GUI in Visual Basic and got it back again. It was just as I suspected!
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Scientists in Britain
Bob, what are you working on?
A CD4+ modulator for fighting this rare cancer.
Simon, your project?
This machine that sucks you off!
Finally, a nice news story about incredible success against adversity:
Of course, the world is just full of gits so that didn't last long:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
and mystery words are critical to knowing the most basic of concepts to describe the box.
Oh, like Git? I get it now
I find it helpful to set up a mental substitution file for all this devops wankery:
The Cloud -> Other people's computers
Serverless -> Other people's computers but in a better disguise
Docker -> Like a VM but not as good
Kubernetes -> No-one knows
@atazhaia said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@dcoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
So 1% of a token gives 0.01 bitcoins, 0.04% of a token gives 0.5 bitcoins and 0.02% of a token gives 1 bitcoin. Seems a bit backwards...
Surely that's wrong, there should be Lambos in there somewhere:
My Honeywell industrial thing is broken, the distributer is long gone. But Honeywell have an RMA portal, note you can select 'customer':
And we're....Oh:
This
is a 10 page PDF quiz, so I got Accounts to complete it. Send it off....and:
Arrg, more waiting. I need this thing fixed quick. One day later:
You dirty rat-fuckers!
Oh, well that's fine then. It's not like websites can show dynamic text of, say, a notice about access in your selected region. That problem has sadly never been solved.