@Brendan Kidwell said:
Looks like it was printed... too small... with an ink jet printer
Ooh ooh! Bonus points if you can recover the yellow dots code and prosecute the sucker!
@Brendan Kidwell said:
Looks like it was printed... too small... with an ink jet printer
Ooh ooh! Bonus points if you can recover the yellow dots code and prosecute the sucker!
I like the part where they say the FBI is already involved. It would be great if this turned into a CRIMINAL matter. If not, Revision3 should slap their ass with a civil lawsuit.
And technically, isn't is a Denial of Service attack and not a Distributed Denial of Service attack if only one source network is involved? Mr. Louderback, the author of the blog post, never says DDOS.
I'm sorry, Access, what were you asking me? Oh oh, okay. I almost missed the question among all that jabbering.
<hints id="hah_hints"></hints>So I sit down at my desktop today and connected to a Windows VM I left running all night. "You're running low on virtual memory..." What? Apparently winlogon.exe is taking 80% of CPU time and has about 400MB of memory in its task. -- WTF #1
After rebooting and verifying that the problem did not continue immediately, I started googling for answers... WTF #2: The second result has a "*" in the domain name. How did that ever get indexed like that?
http://www.google.com/search?q=winlogon.exe+high+memory+usage&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
@MonkeyCode said:
And this beauty: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1263379&SiteID=1<hints id="hah_hints"></hints>
That doesn't make it any less funny of course.
equalsolved, you need to get your application tested by REAL testers in your company or hired as consultants, who don't know anything about how it was developed. As it is, the application comes off as half-baked, with virtually no error handling, and no allowances for different web browsers. You must either 1) declare that you only support IE, and thoroughly test everything in IE or 2) declare that you support "any modern browser" and THOROUGHLY TEST everything in at least 6 common browser setups on more than one OS.
Here is an error that I came up with after some very cursory poking around. Go to http://www.eggheadcafe.com/AdvancedXL.aspx?anonymous=true&surveyid=33a893ce-60bd-4c1e-86f1-1dba028bd5ee "EggHeadCafe's Programmer's Hemispheric Brain Dominance Test" demo page. Fill out Questions 1 - 10 and go to the next page. Fill out the second page and leave one blank on purpose, and then attemp to continue. The system redirects you back to the first page ("Questions 1 - 10"). Click "My Results". Again, you are redirected to the first page. The application completely fails to tell you WHY you can't continue; you simply can't continue. Find and fill in the missing question and then you are allowed to move on to "Results". I was using Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Ubuntu Linux.
That's all I've got for constructive criticism. Now for some unconstructive criticism:
This application sucks! I would never even think of recommending it to anyone! You'll get much better results, quicker, signing up for an account at a survey hosting web site, and uploading your questions in a plaintext file.
<hints id="hah_hints"></hints>I agree that it's quite amusing, but TRWFT is that you must enter a password to use it but the password is posted on the wall. Clearly the control panel does not need to be secured (presumably the room is reasonably secure, etc), so why does the password even exist?
@H|B said:
testedit.exe? Looks like an "evolutionary prototyping" project.
Likely it also has no source control and practically no project management. I vote that this is the worst WTF of the 4 that Alex M suggested. The software is clearly of the variety that is impossible to hand off to another developer, or to revisit after 6 months of no active work being done on it. It's not likely something you can trust handling financial transactions.
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
In Access 97 I would have used the ActiveX calendar control. Not sure why you were opposed to activex controls, but doesn't really matter, and this will be a bad place to argue the point.
It didn't come packaged with Access 97, and I couldn't count on my users having it installed, nor did I want to deal with getting it installed on their desktops. ... and I'm done kvetching now. :^)
Don't get me wrong with all my cynical comments here. I love Microsoft Access (and I'm a Windows hater). I've never found a desktop database app that is remotely as useful as Access 2000 for hacking data and prototyping data-bound forms.
I'm still keeping an eye on OpenOffice.org Database and Kexi. I need to do some work in them and see how good they are. Has anyone used either of these two programs?
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
Would have been nice to have that 5 years ago when I was restricted by external forces to developing simultaneously for Access 97 and Access 2000. Apparently, over a decade after Access was first introduced, they finally included a Calendar dialog WITH Access. (This doc says it applies to Access 2003.)