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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
So yeah, given that second step in this sequence, maybe Windows just decided to decline my request to turn off fast startup. OTOH, all the shenanigans happens before any WIndows screen is shown so I was thinking that this is all done by the EFI firmware.
Most likely the latter, probably due to their implementation of Secure Boot.
That being said, WTF, are you using a Server/Workstation motherboard? Holy shit, even my crap doesn't take two minutes on cold boot to even start loading the OS bootloader!
I don't think it's two minutes, but my machine does take a bit to get to the spinning circle thanks to all the drives I have hooked up. The BIOS UEFI's gotta check each and every one to see if it's bootable, especially those external USB hard drives that don't spin up until requested.
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@izzion said in Visual Studio WTfs:
I wouldn't want to be on either side of the bet that Framework 4.8 is going to be available in Windows 12.
I can fairly confidently bet that it won’t be; if it ships with the OS it’ll be 4.8.1 or later.
(It will be… interesting… if they put .NET Framework 4.x on the standalone-component train like 3.5 but not the VB6 runtime.)
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@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites:
@boomzilla That's merely a little mix-up of Big Endian and Little Endian.
It's just the latest standard™. After slot, tri-point, Philips, Pentalobe, Allen, double-square and 12-point, behold: the InfiLobe!
@Ice^^Heat said:But all that PHP software for hobby-sites, always seem to be so WTF'ed. All that PHP stuff for every hobby site I have ever been on (Forums, Clan-Sites, News Scripts) have been hacked.Have you tried SMF (www.simplemachines.org)? SMF is very secure, its code is quite nice (well set out, easy to understand), and presentational logic is seperated from business logic (business logic is in files in the Sources directory, presentational logic is in the Themes directory) :).
@asuffield said:The grammar in this disclaimer is quite impressively whacked, too. It is quite interesting how the participant agrees that the guy who wrote the site can receive awards from the show. The rambling (run-on?) sentences are a different story.
@GettinSadda said:It has to be said... If you register with Big Brother's website you probably deserve what you get!
Yeah. I sort of agree... But you'd think with the money they make off it, a decent programmer would be affordable.
I hate those people. My boss sent a jpg to someone and they sent it back asking if it could be put into a Word document. I've never wanted the ability to do terrible things to people over the internet more than I did that day.
@MichaelWojcik said:@SuperousOxide said:@foxyshadis said:@joe.edwards@imaginuity.com said:"Thirty-one" rhymes with "alone"? I guess you have to either say "thirty-woan" or "alun"...They're called slant rhymes, if I'm remembering high school literature correctly. They're meant to be "visual" rhymes instead of audible ones; I agree it's a totally stupid poet cop-out, but English teachers seem to love them.I imagine that in many cases the words did at some point rhyme, but shifting of English pronunciations destroyed the rhyme. Then later poets copied it, thinking the missed rhyme was intentional.It's also possible that employers of inexact rhyme (who need not be poets, the former being neither necessary nor sufficient qualification for the latter) are sometimes addressing audiences with aesthetic sensibility just [i]slightly[/i] more sophisticated than that of a three-year-old reciting a nursery rhyme.I'm surprised all the top prosody scholars here didn't address that possibility. Perhaps some posters are merely airing their half-assed opinions on subjects they have never studied in any depth? Why, I can scarcely credit the notion!Could be that as far as I'm concerned the book reading of poetry is usually a degenerate activity, and only find poetry recital entertaining in the slightest, whether it's slam or a cozy sit-down reading. But I suppose that's much too physical an activity for someone of your obvious intellectual acumen. (I know others find visual poetry interesting, that's fine for them, but 'aesthetic sensibility'?)
I don't understand why people have to get so sanctimonious about this. Okay, the guy's an unabashed dick and plagiarist, and has been since long before this incident. Being all self-righteous about it isn't going to make the guy apologize, and it does a lot less to sway peoples' opinions than cracking a simple joke about it.
@iwpg said:@RayS said:Calling people who've never even been outside the borders of the US "African Americans"?Or inside, for that matter. And a person born and raised in America can be an "African America" but somebody like me, who was born in Iceland, is "white." Why are whites the only people it's appropriate to call by the color of their skin, anyway? I'm getting so tired of the "circle your race" lists that say things like: African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Hispanic, Native American, White.
I've actually been methodically working my way through snopes.com in the past week (instead of the usual visit strictly to debunk an e-mail) and encountered that page on Monday.I think once I get back to feeling normal, I'm going to make it a hobby to make up composite pictures and stories, then let them loose and see how far it goes (including if it makes it to Snopes). I'd already thought of making up fake, but believable, blog entries before that.<CENTER></CENTER>
@MichaelWojcik said:@Reweave said:@joe.edwards@imaginuity.com said:
Can you dereference a void pointer like that (especially an uninitialized one)? This looks like the infamous "undefined behavior" I'm always hearing about.
You can't, which is why the compiler throws an error, there's no undefined behavior here.
Dereferencing a pointer-to-void has implicitly undefined behavior, because of the definition of the indirection operator. ISO 9899-1999 6.5.3.2 #4, which defines the result of the * operator, only covers pointer-to-function and pointer-to-object types as operands. "void *" is an incomplete pointer type, so it is neither, so the behavior is not defined.Shows what I know. I thought it was not valid, thanks for correcting.
@PhillS said:I don't know what it's like in other countries, but if you've ever been on a train in England (particularly the London Underground), it's an unwritten rule that everyone has to pretend none of the other occupants of the train exist. Violators are frowned upon (although never confronted directly). That's the unwritten rule on every mass-transit system everywhere in the world, except for the hallowed tradition of sneering or lecturing some brat's mother. And has been since the original era of cross-country trains, if my 19th century novels are anything to go by. It's not just a British or American thing.
@asuffield said:@tster said: when I say "most powerful" I don't mean largest % of world power. If such was the case I would probably be inclined to think that the Chinese (and then the Mongols) were the most powerful empire ever. No, I go by actual power. If the British empire at their hight went to war with the United States now, it would be a massive slaughter. Technology is key here.
Okay, then the modern Chinese have got the US thoroughly beaten on that one - their military is approximately three times larger on all fronts except operational aircraft (which is about even). A lot of the Chinese equipment is older, but any military strategist will tell you that you're just as dead when you're shot with a 20-year-old gun as you are when shot with a modern one - the US equipment is a bit more efficient and reliable, but that's no help when they're hopelessly outnumbered. There are no fundamental differences in the technology they're using.
They also have the notable advantage that the Chinese leaders are willing to engage in tactics like this:
Non-Military Intelligence
Kudos on the OOTS reference :)
@Daniel Beardsmore said:7-Zip is a bundle of WTFs ... Most of which seem to be already reported, but nothing is ever getting fixed.
I much prefer StuffIt's way of working (including wrapping the contents of an archive in a folder if needed), but 7-Zip is faster and more reliable. Back to the old problem of rival programs that never get everything right ...You could say "just fix it yourself", also, but it's actually been done before and ui patches rejected because the ui wasn't important enough to review and test, and had to be kept "simple". That got me to switch back to winrar and never look back.
@duckie said:He catches the exception, but he doesnt handle it anyway. Then why do it? And by saying Throw Exception, he removes the Call-stack. He should simply have written, throw, even better, he shouldn't have catched it in the first place
He also used exceptions for logik, which is a no-go
See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229005.aspx
I like it... :)
@dhromed said:I lament the absence of draggable analogue knobs.
All surveys should look like beat machines.
And the knobs should actually work so that you get music as you drag the knobs. I'd fill out the surveys if they did that.
I run a site with a phpBB forum and I was getting quite a bit of spam, so I modified the registration process to do some extra checks and reject suspect users. I get e-mailed details of who was rejected, and a large proportion of them claim an e-mail address ending in @phpbbspam.org. I am so tempted to make it do something [i]special[/i] for these cases!
Reminds me of an SP we had at work. It was supposed to run every minute to delete data, but was taking 8 minutes to run and causing huge locking and timeout issues on data being inserted. A quick rewrite made it execute in 1s....
@Spacecoyote said:@Isuwen said:Um. What? There's nothing on that page about a scanner.
Apparently they fixed the screenshot already. The part where it reads "GPU" used to read "HP ScanJet".Still says "HP Scanjet" in the release notes PDF.http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/158.18/158.18_ForceWare_Release_Notes.pdfRefer page 43
@luke727 said:Who cares? Show us your boobs!It's rude to say this because you're all take and no give.We need to see cock first. Or keyboard on your head.
@MrBester said:Perhaps "the world's local bank" whose acronym expands to "The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation" could explain why they don't have a branch in Hong Kong or Shanghai?
Hong KongShanghai
@Faxmachinen said:It's not really that difficult.
char * strlcpy ( char * destination, const char * source, size_t num )
{
strncpy(destination, source, num);
destination[num-1] = '\0';
}
And strncpy makes perfect sense if you're using static char arrays, but nobody cares about that extra byte these days.You might as well do num-1 in the strncpy call as well - you are about to overwrite the numth character anyway!
@TDC said:@newfweiler said:The coffee stain reminds me of the way Prof. Peter Schickele establishes the dates of P.D.Q. Bach's compositions. (As described in his book on P.D.Q. Bach.)
P.D.Q. Bach liked to do his composing in taverns, always with a big stein of Nibelungen(tm) beer, his favorite brand. Usually he'd put his stein down on the page, so just about every manuscript of his has one or more beer rings. (In German this is technically called a "Ring des Nibelungen.")
Over the years the tavern owner saved money and cheated the customers by replacing the beer steins with slightly smaller steins. You can measure the size of the ring, match it to the size of the stein and determine the exact year of composition.
This way of dating manuscripts by stein size is known as the Stein Way.Hehe, I bet Wagner would not be amused about that terminology ;pOn the contrary, I [i]am[/i] rather amused by it.
@RayS said:You do have the right to cancel that at any time you realise?Not in my bank, I was told that if I cancel a direct debit and the company keeps making requests under it, I get hit with penalty fees. So effectively, only they can cancel it any time. I love banks.
@djork said:When it comes to the standard ISO country list, it's pretty simple. You should use UK and leave out Great Britain and England.That's because only the UK is actually a country. The other two are things that seem a bit like countries, but are in fact not countries in their own right.
Consider yourself fortunate that the system restarted when you plugged it back in. A frightening number of long running embedded systems don't. Taking them down to test that they come back up is not something anyone wants to risk. Except during commissioning, and then its often forgotten.Mark.
clearly here you forget a big step.. REBOOT!, and in your case you have to reboot your pc, your server, isp server, isp technician notebook, your girlfriend notebook, and your microwave...
@rbowes said:@sibtrag said:@rbowes said:To insert the picture, did you try clicking on the little picture of a tree (the 11th icon) above the message?A tree is used to indicate "insert picture" ?! That shows how deeply the wooden table jokes are embedded into this forum.It's not just a tree, it's a picture of a tree! Well actually, an icon of a picture of a tree! Or something... It's used in Adobemacromedia software, anyway.And it look hella prettier than that stupid abstract yellow landscape of MS Office.
I used H&R Block E-File and I thought it was wierd when I first saw it, but obviously it's designed to help prevent entering incorrect information. Not a WTF in my opinion. I just hope that prince in Nigeria comes through.
This manual looks sensible to me. I wonder why this is marketed as something new. Aside from the ridiculous "Windows Vista tone" thing, I would recommend any UI designer to read it. However, this also looks a bit like a manual on how to hide the fact that Vista is essentially some nice-but-not-groundbreaking features sunk into a giant pile of braindead content protection / DRM / trusted computing crap.
depends on which glyph is replaced :)But i would guess either first or last.The real problem would be for the online banking. It would be a real bitch to remember the unicode/ascii code combination to insert your name :)
I work with a buggy development environmentI was wondering what environment you were talking about, and being slowly lulled into your story, watching, waiting for the punchline, biting my nails, fidgetting on the edge of my seat. I read through your code line by line, to see if I was clever enough to spot the subtlety of the WTF. Then I found it:iisreset /startYou started IIS instead of Apache...
@Faxmachinen said:The best part is where they put .passwd_root_neodownload in a subdirectory of the login script, for easy access with any browser. Yeah i seen that, but at least they didn't store the passwords as plain text.
Awesome.That's one really poorly designed sign. Until I read the comment, I had no idea that it was supposed to say "THE". I don't know if it's just the angle or not though.
@Saladin said:@chrismcb said:I once worked in a small shop that was using DBase. It was buggy and slow, so I wrote my own database. I had a few bugs in it, but it was several magnitudes faster, and as far as the company was concerned it was free.
Not to disparage your (possibly quite high-quality) database, but employers using homegrown things like "Bob's custom database software" have led to so many heinous WTFs on this site that it defies description (think: The Customer Friendly System). I trust that by "a few bugs" that you mean it wasn't quite so WTFish? :P
No offense taken. I wouldn't call the DB high quality, but it would never make it to this site. I don't remember the bugs that were there, but they were nothing compared to the problems we had with DBase.
An no I wouldn't do that again today. Give me MySQL or YourSQL or anyone's SQL and I'd be happy. Shoot I'd take Access over writing my own DB today.
@Zylon said:@newfweiler said:Having lived through the 1960's, when "off" was a verb meaning "buttbuttinate" (as in "Off the Pig!")
What. The. Fuck.
"Buttbuttinate" is an "inside joke". Another thread here was talking about filters that change "classic" to "clbuttic". Get it?
"Off" was slang for "assassinate" in the 1960's. "Off the Pig!" was a slogan that advocated the killing of police officers. (Nobody advocates the killing of police officers anymore.) So "helping my uncle, Jack, off horses" could refer to assisting in equine assassination.
@pacohope said:Of course, at my piddly investment sizes, that earned me enough to eat lunch at Taco Bell for a week. I shudder to think of where you would have been eating without that investment return.
@Jojosh_the_Pi said:About 48% of AA's travelers are women, which doesn't seem too unusual. They seem to need to try capturing more female business travel traffic (only 30% of their business travelers are women--this is surely below average, but I don't know by how much).Well if the male/female ratio is about even overall, but men more than 2x outnumber women in business travel, then surely they're missing out on male clients in some other category! They clearly need to produce a site to attract non-professional males. Perhaps a site that implies that beer and sports TV is supplied if you fly with them is called for?
@fennec said:
From your message text, I'm not able to discern whether you realize this, but I'll spell it out here anyway. =)
The real WTF arises from the fact that static char *RANGECODE_DESC[128] does not declare an array of 128-byte strings, but rather declares a static array of 128 pointers to char of which only two are used here. (Since he is pointing to string literals, there is no real 128 character limit - he could point to the text of the US Constitution in there if he really wanted to, really.)
A static char *RANGECODE_DESC[] = { ... } would serve him better, or possibly a static char RANGECODE_DESC[][128] = { .. } (if he reaaaly wanted 128 bytes each, but that's actually probably not necessary for a message table.)And let's not forget that a 128-byte C string can only store 127 characters.
@m0ffx said:@zip said:@Harsh said:@Volmarias said:Boy, those vaginal warts! Ha ha! Those sure are The Real WTF! And don't get me started on Bush's foreign policy! Thank you, folks, I'll be here all week! Try the buffet!
Hey. Fine. I will leave the sidebar to the experts for now on. Bye the way. You are really funny and did a great job of illustrating your point. Did you ever think of trying to write comedy proffesionally? You should because of how funny you are. Are you 12? You're really bad at communicating. Since when has a few errors ("for" instead of from, "bye" instead of by, "proffesionally" instead of professionally) equated "really bad"? I rather suspect you yourself are really bad at comprehending, or recognising sarcasm. Look at the big picture. Every post he's made displays an utter lack of maturity and an inability to relate to other TDWTF posters.. Ok, so if he's not bad at communicating, what's he bad at? The internet? I was trying to be nice...
@Volmarias said:If you're concerned about the interest rate, there's a variety of other things you can do that aren't savings accts.
If you don't mind a little risk, and want to keep the liquidity of your savings acct, try a money market acct.
Wachovia's money market accounts (in my area) earn... .03% for <$5k, .13% <$10k.... you can finally get 1.5% at $10-$24k, scaling up to 3.06% if you have half a million dollars are more.
If you're pretty risk averse, and don't need as much liquidity, look into something like a CD. Those offer rates of ~4% right now.
Wachovia does offer CDs with 4% APY. They're for a 60-month term and $100,000 or more. For 12-month entry-level tiers, you're looking at 3%. ING Direct offers me 4% interest on a checking account, and can do 5.10% for a 12-month CD.
Speak to a bank employee about your options.
I did that once. It's not that Wachovia has no options. It's simply that they just all, um, suck. I maintain an account there simply because I get free withdrawals from the ATM on campus and don't usually have enough money to make a difference (it has a tendency of getting funneled into my tuition/housing pretty quickly). This will change when I move to the San Francisco area and start my job at the beginning of June. (I think I'll get a free checking account with Wells Fargo, stash the major funds online with ING- or HSBC- or Citi-Direct, and start looking at my long-term investment options.)
@CapitalT said:BTW: what's that trapezoid thingie next to the close button?The extra button is part of Madotate, a program that lets me make 3D windows.