@jetcitywoman said:
Funnily enough, this particular manager was also the one who wrote memos in Excel. Yep, all the text in cell A-1. I saw it myself.
At least he wasn't using MS Paint. I saw that once!
@jetcitywoman said:
Funnily enough, this particular manager was also the one who wrote memos in Excel. Yep, all the text in cell A-1. I saw it myself.
At least he wasn't using MS Paint. I saw that once!
@SuperousOxide said:
I've seen people put <b> tags inside of title tags a lot, which every browser I know of renders as "<b>title</b>"
Not every browser I know of :)
With old versions of Netscape (ones that used bookmarks.html) bookmarking such titles would cause the HTML to be parsed, giving you bold titles in your bookmarks list.
@danixdefcon5 said:
Isn't it 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3 ???
Dear Sir,
there is a fire taking place.
Mos.
(PS nice screensaver!)
@merreborn said:
there is no 555 telephone number prefix. All those 555-xxxx phone numbers on television shows? THEY'RE NOT REAL!
That's another US-centric view of the world! :)
Around here there are plenty of normal phone numbers beginning with 555. And 911. Although we do have 8-digit local numbers so your numbers wouldn't work anyway...
Back ontopic I agree that IPv4 IP addresses shown on TV/movies should have the first octet starting with a number between 256 and 999, just to avoid collisions with "real" IPs. I'm assuming that in the case of the OP the show's writers/producers/whatever heard about IPv6 and half-implemented it, where there are possibly 8 sets of 4-digit numbers.
All I get is: <font class="size48 Helvetica48" color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">By his wounds we are healed ISAIAH -53</font>
Is it meant to do anything else?
With my ISP 3am-9am is "off-peak" which gives me a separate download limit. (40GB peak + 110GB offpeak on ADSL2+ for AU$70/month is about the best value in Australia!)
So yes, I do a lot of downloading "off-peak" :)
@Spectre said:
@Squiggle said:A handle is used for lifting or pulling. You don't need one when all you have to do is push.Meh, I think handles are convenient for pushing as well.
Isn't it meant to be horizontal handles for pushing and vertical handles for pulling?
@Spectre said:
@Michael Casadevall said:I'm suprised that would work, I've never heard of @ as a way to pass a subdomain.Uh, that is because the part before @ is the username (sometimes, with password), not a subdomain.
Further adding to the confusion of email address vs web address. I think Opera 5+ warns when going to a URL with a username attached, just because of the phishing attack.
BTW WRT the tag for my post last night, teach me to post just before going to bed and not checking it! This site has told me enough times that you can't trust anything computer-related to work as expected...
Oh well, back to lunch
I remember there was some company that was selling email addresses and web addresses that were both phonenumber@theirdomain.com.au.I can't remember the actual domain and I have since Googled and couldn't find it so I assume it is dead. So you could use 04xxxxxxxx@theirdomain.com.au as the email address and http://04xxxxxxxx@theirdomain.com.au would bring up "your" webpage.
Of course this was before the spammers figured out http://www.bank.com@baddomain.com looks like http://www.bank.com/
Well I'm at work now and I downloaded it here. FF2 is the company browser, soon to be FF3 when I get around to making sure it still works with all our extensions :)
It's 10pm on "download day" (my time, so I assume the World has rolled over to the 17th by now) and they don't make it easy to participate:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
I still see a "pledge" button instead of a "download" button.
Even the download page still calls FF3 a "sneak peak"...
@joemck said:
WTF HOW U DO DAT???
<font style="flippedUpsideDown">like this?</font>
¿noʎ ɹoɟ ʇsnɾ ʍɟʇs oʇ ʇuɐǝɯ ǝʍ ǝɹɐ
@joemck said:
The resulting system does most of what TinyMCE does, can be explained in a few simple sentences, and when users screw it up the result is still quite readable.
Just like Wikicode? :)
I'm just sick of the rendering bugs in IE. Hacks upon hacks to make it work. And then the hacks start back-firing...
For example, I had some CSS which had display:relative in the body tag to fix another rendering bug. Problem was putting this CSS into an iframe would cause the iframe to disappear in IE sometimes. Resizing the window would bring it back until you moused over a certain area. This bug took two days to figure out! So this meant separate CSS files for different pages. Luckily most of these weirdnesses could go into the conditional comments for IE so that normal browsers would only get the one CSS file.
@Sir Twist said:
IE7 requires fewer CSS tricks and no js tricks to render properly,
IE7 still doesn't support PNG completely. :-( My cool icons are being converted back to GIF so they look half-way decent although the PNG versions are sweet in the non-IE browsers I test in.
@lolwtf said:
@bstorer said:@gms8994 said:Even if the matching part is '0'?Actually, it returns the matching part, try it:
perl -e 'print "123.Michael" =~ /^(\d+\.?\d*)|(^\.\d+)$/'
123.perl -e 'print "123%\"&%/)=" =~ /^(\d+\.?\d*)|(^\.\d+)$/'
123Which means that the if succeeds.
zemm@bambi:~$ perl -e ' print "0" =~ /^(\d+\.?\d*)|(^\.\d+)$/ ? "win\n" : "fail\n";'
win
zemm@bambi:~$ perl -e ' print "0" =~ /^(\d+\.?\d*)|(^\.\d+)$/;'
0zemm@bambi:~$ █
@KattMan said:
@Zemm said:
@savar said:
p.redBox {
bg-color: blue; // customer wants the box to be blue instead of red
}
FWIW:
It's background-color not bg-color.
CSS uses only /* C-style comments */ not the // C++ style comments.
Whatever, you missed his point entirely.
He's stating that a lot of designers call things by what they look like rather than what they mean. The fallicy he demonstrated was that the class was called "redbox" and later changed to blue. It should have been called, Content_box or menu_box or something like that, color means nothing here, what is important is what this box does.
Just because I didn't explicitly mention getting the point doesn't mean I missed it. :-P
I was just pointing out some minor CSS mistakes.
I have been guilty in the past using what something "looks like" instead of what it "means" for the class name, but that was some years ago before I discovered the semantics of design. I've inherited some fairly dodgy code (HTML/CSS/PHP/etc) myself and have been working to clean it all up.
"penis" is not censored on the indiatimes site for me... Bah I'm going to have to post as there is no preview button...
(I've changed what I wrote, as no-one mentioned "penis" I assumed TDWTF was censoring it!)
@savar said:
p.redBox {
bg-color: blue; // customer wants the box to be blue instead of red
}
FWIW:
It's background-color not bg-color.
CSS uses only /* C-style comments */ not the // C++ style comments.
Should really be individually emailled out per user, with a different randomly generated password for each user!
@Lingerance said:
My complaint is advertising a product from said product, like watching a trailer for a movie before the movie itself.
That's happened to me before; I can't remember which movie it was but it was some years ago in a then-new small-city theatre: obviously a mistake on the part of the projectionist. This cinema had only recently been upgraded from 1 screen to having 4 screens.
@belgariontheking said:
I call the 00's the naughties
Should really be the "noughties", as in "noughts and crosses"... Or is this just a US vs rest of world spelling issue?
Occasionally I've found a situation when I click on a task button it just starts flashing orange. I had a once screen shot when they were all flashing.
I did that a few weeks ago but got an email bounce back so I never tried again.
@dtech said:
"The internet" is often a synonym for "browser" or "internet explorer".
Blame Microsoft: That's how it appears in the Start Menu.
I usually turn that option off (Move and resize existing windows) in Firefox but for some reason it was left on - I blame a workmate who was trying to tell me that
self.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight);
is a good thing...
TRWTF is 34 posts and no-one mentioned St Tib!
@jasmine2501 said:
and only using Internet Exploder.
If I couldn't use Firefox & Firebug (and a few other things) then I wouldn't be a web developer. Using IE only would drive me insane.
@mendel said:
The user task associated with a car is "get in, drive, get out" with "drive" meaning "accelerate, brake, turn, use lights". Anything else is just added complexity,
Like changing gears (and/or using the clutch)? So many people can't drive a manual tranmission, including my wife... I'd never owned a auto car before we married, now we own two!
@belgariontheking said:
I have a friend who's credit card was cancelled because he always paid off the card every month (ie they never got to make finance charges).
Meanwhile my sister is $30k in debt and they keep giving her credit cards. :( I try to help her but she just keeps spending.
If databases "crash all the time" then all you'd need to say is Windows crashes all the time. Rivendell looks interesting as it runs on Linux.
@method1 said:
Which image/site are you referring to?
SpComb was the OP of the WTF screenshot of the School friends ad.
TRWTF is imdb. Their ads got blocked in Firefox's built-in popup blocker, but turning off the blocker still doesn't show any more ads. (I had to clear cookies to get the ad to appear)
I'm not even in South Australia (I'm in Queensland), we don't have "middle schools".
@OperatorBastardusInfernalis said:
What is so bad about GIMP? Apart from people trying to "sell" it as Photoshop replacement, which it isn't.
I use it as a Photoshop supplement! I've found even "Save for Web" in Photoshop still produces images bigger than a normal Save in the GIMP. And Photoshop often tries to be smart with colour correction so images don't match properly with HTML colours, whereas in the GIMP they do.
@Cap'n Steve said:
What always gets me is when all the links use an onclick event and just have "#" as the href. Is there some reason they don't even want to use "javascriptwhatever();" as the URL?
It's worse when the onclick function doesn't return false so the page scrolls to the top. (eg onclick="doSomething(); return false;")
BTW Ctrl-Enter should submit this form!
@Daniel15 said:
Whirlpool.net.au, by any chance? :)
Yep, but I had already linked to it from another post recently so I didn't want to whore it too much. :)
@vt_mruhlin said:
As for the "in reply to", I nevevr really liked the feature. Like I remember which post was numbe 182310.
The system should really link the quotee's name to their post. One other forum (hand-crafted) I frequent does this. If the quoted post is on the same page it Javascript-smooth-scrolls to the post, otherwise it jumps to it using the #r1234 form.
@dhromed said:
Our library's phone validator rejects anything that doesn't start with 0, for example. It spits on 1234567890.
I used to work at a pizza delivery place, where the computer system was a P120 running SCO OpenServer with 8 Wyse serial terminals. It had some "cool" ideas when it came to phone numbers.
Here in Australia, we have 0+one digit+eight digit phone numbers, but before 1995-1999 it was 0+one or two digits+seven or six digits. The conversion formulas were all fairly straightforward.
The areas where I worked all phone numbers were in the form 07 46xx xxxx. The system allowed a 6-digit number (ala pre-8-digits) to be typed in and it would add the 0746 on the beginning. But I suspect the "phone number" field was an integer field in the database as typing in, say, 21 would cause the phone number to be 07 4600 0021. Reports would also print out the number without the 0 on the beginning, but delivery dockets always had it in the correct formatting. If one typed in a >6 digit number the initial digits would be stripped and replaced with 0746.
One exeception made was for mobile phone numbers, which all begin with 04. However, initially it only supported what was common: mobiles beginning with 040 and 041; If you tried to insert 0438123456 the system would "correct" it to 0746123456. This was eventually fixed.
Finally, there are valid numbers beginning with a 1, as in 1800 and 13 numbers. These would also be corrected to the 0746 format. I remember one time the army ordered some pizzas and (correctly) gave their number as 131901, but the delivery docket showed it as 0746131901 which could be a real phone number! (In fact the exchange prefix 46131 was valid in that area) I remember this because I tried to call and got no answer. I was about to give up the delivery then a guy came out and took the order, so it was all good.
This system was eventually "upgraded" to 14 computers each running Windows XP. So it takes 14 P4-class computers running Windows XP to do the work of one P120 running some sort of Unix! They were only upgraded because USA head office decreed: Virtually all Australian stores were running the Unix software from a local software maker.
@dhromed said:
I keep wondering what oddities people have on their computers that makes things not work in FFX. It works. I can't help it. It just works.
And if you select some text then hit quote it only inserts the selected text as the quote. In fact I didn't realise you could just hit quote as I've been selecting quotes for years on the Whirlpool forums.
@m0ffx said:
1) Developers on systems written in the 70s-90s to have predicted ISBN-132) You to convert the barcode on every BOOK in a large bookstore or library from ISBN-10 into ISBN-13
My comment was on having to read "X" (As a potential check digit in an ISBN) as part of a barcode. Every book I have access to right at the moment (which admittedly is only a few: most of my books are at my weekend house) has an ISBN (either 10 or 13, depending on the age) and a barcode which is the ISBN-13.
For example "Ring" by Koji Suzuki (English version) has "ISBN 0-00-717885-9" and barcode 9780007178858, which is also its ISBN-13. A newer book, "Please Explain" by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki has "ISBN 978-0-7322-8535-7" with the barcode the same.
So (2) has already happened hasn't it?
@m0ffx said:
Also, don't forget that ISBNs sometimes get released with invalid check digits, when the publisher makes an error and doesn't catch it. So you can't assume that a checksum error automatically means an invalid ISBN (-10 or -13) has been entered.
Well if they release an invalid ISBN-13 no barcode scanner will read it. If they have an invalid ISBN-10 then the check digit will be recalculated when the barcode is made.
I heard on the news the US was heading towards a recession but that is ridiculous (sanity checks? We don't need them)
@El_Heffe said:
I don't remember the number, but somewhere up in the billions the program would crash rather spectacularly.
Somewhere at or about $2,147,483,648? :) (I'm assuming 32-bit signed integer, so overflowing it causes the player to suddenly have negative 2 billion dollars, which it doesn't know how to handle)
@James Shields said:
Nearly forgot. Since many stores now sell books, they must deal with ISBN numbers. An ISBN number may legitimately contain an "X". Note: "ISBN number" is just the terminology used by those who deal with them. Yes, it is technically not a number-number, but, that's what they use.
No they don't. Convert the ISBN-10 into a ISBN-13 which is the same as the EAN-13 (Add 978 to the beginning of the first 9 digits, and recalculate the check digit)
@medialint said:
For all the convenience, cost savings and environmental considerations the occasional delay for me is not so bad.
I've just bought a house 600m from a train station with the view to use it to get to work (instead of driving)
@djork said:
... For example, the pre-sliced deli meat in one corner of the store may be priced per ounce, whereas the actual deli counter has it priced per pound. It requires a pad of paper, ...
And people defend the US system of measurement? I have never in my life seen anything in the fruiterer/butcher/deli areas measured in something other than per kilogram. (Ignoring the "each" items, of course.) If the prepackaged meats are listed in grams it is very easy to compare with the sliced meats in the deli counter.
And they didn't invite the former employees? I just had my work Christmas party and former employees were there (although there were only 25 people there in total). This was at the boss's house.
@Daniel15 said:
Yes, occasionally a MySpace server will return a 404 on that request.
Isn't that just normal IIS?
I've had my own experiences with IE. Floated divs STILL don't work quite right like they do in the other browsers I tested with (Firefox, Opera and Safari). So I resorted to using a full-page table:
<table id="ie_sux">
It got picked up by the client. Wups! I changed it to ie_bwa (=bug work around) but now the other people in the office refer to this kind of thing as a "ie_sux moment". But I would never put actual swear words anywhere a client might possibly see (and that includes server-side source even if we are hosting it for them).
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
umm... last time I checked 9/11 happened in September. Not November.
You could be wrong, you know, according to some random people on the street!
[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SpK6RipZkMs[/url]
LOL!
@dhromed said:
I am saddened by the fact that someone thought it necessary to visiblize the Whitespace "Hello World" example.
A certain DOS-based browser did that for a few versions (deleted files in %TEMP%) until a non-technical person ran it using a default install of MS-DOS 6.22 (IIRC). That sets TEMP=C:\DOS. Of course most people would change that to something sane like C:\TEMP.