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In case you haven't heard already, Slashdot just had a little integer overflow problem in their database...
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So what? There's no "wtf" about forgetting to update a table, and they're not handling it in a "wtf" manner.
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The same happened to me fairly recently on another website, though not quite at the 24-bit level. When coding an ASP-based message board, it never really occured to me that a VBScript CInt() would convert the string to a 16-bit integer ... nor that the site would ever reach 32,768 messages. Whoops.
Easy fix though ... just S/R CInt() To CLng() ...
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[quote user="edifyyo"]So what? There's no "wtf" about forgetting to update a table, and they're not handling it in a "wtf" manner.
[/quote]I agree, this isn't a wtf. They made the initial change well in advance, overlooked making it in another location, and are now handling it in a simple, straightfoward manner.
Tell me, if this is the wtf, how would you change it and make it a non-wtf?
(Oh yes, and I don't actually read slashdot, so I'm not just being some overly-defensive fanboy.)
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If anything that's quite the achievement. 16 MILLION visitor comments in their database? Wow!
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Not a WTF, agreed (OP)
Point taken - I guess it was more of a "even the best of us screw up sometimes" example than a real WTF, but I thought that there might be some here who might appreciate it.
And while I haven't overflowed an integer of quite that order of magnitude, I also have been bitten by CInt vs. CLng in ASP, like Alex, so this echoed an early WTF of mine.
/cowboy_k goes back to lurking
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/set lurk="off"
heh - apparently I wasn't the only one to think "WTF?" about the /. situation...
/set lurk="on"
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"2^24 comments ought to be enough for anyone" -- CmdrTaco
Haha!
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The last comment before overflow was:
Are you sure about that?[...]
^_^
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[quote user="dhromed"]
The last comment before overflow was:
Are you sure about that?[...]
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Actually, 92% of all Slashdot posts start with that... :)
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[quote user="R.Flowers"][quote user="dhromed"]
The last comment before overflow was:
Are you sure about that?[...]
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Actually, 92% of all Slashdot posts start with that... :)
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92% of /. posts start like that, but 99% of them end with one of:
I for one welcome our new integer overflow overlords
1 Integer overflow
2 ???
3 Profit!In soviet russia, integer overflows YOU
