SQL Reporting Services.
Nuff Said.
(If you're running SQL Server, anyways).
Posts made by Blue
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RE: What's so bad about Crystal Reports?
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RE: Read Me, Read Me Not
Fair enough... I guess my brain is stuck in the pattern "open source
=> written for free", which of course is not neccessarily true.
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RE: 1'm b4b0, w4tch m3 hax0r
I don't know of any tool that does it, but if you know the image
filename, it should be quite easy. Do an egrep using a regular
expression that either includes all lines with that image filename, or
to be more specific, lines with that image filename and a 404 result.
HTH
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RE: Read Me, Read Me Not
I would imagine that the individual who is not getting paid to do this couldn't be bothered to remember :)
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RE: Moved: Offtopic Discussion w/Katja
Re: David Beckam
I suppose your point would be valid if all men were just like Mr.
Beckham. This, however is not the case. There are plenty
of women with loose morals (which seemed to be the point of your
reference) as well! I can name a few names and therefore "prove"
mens' superiority too.. :)
I agree that you (women in general) secretly control us, which I
suppose can equate to "strength". But it could also be described
as "manipulative". [*-)]
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RE: Moved: Offtopic Discussion w/Katja
Also, regarding the soccer-ball / golf ball metaphor, I believe there
are some men out there who can match that. Just using a different
golf-ball sized opening. And not only do they not complain, I think they actually enjoy it. [:O]
I don't happen to be one of them, thankfully. (no homphobism
intended - I am a live and let live kinda guy. It just isn't for
me.)
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RE: Moved: Offtopic Discussion w/Katja
I guess I can understand the no-man-in-the-house rule....
My other comment was not about the specific movie you watched, but the
fact that you all took pleasure in the fact that all or most of the men
died, and women generally triumphed. :)
Men are quite strong too. Want proof? We have the
capability of LIVING WITH females who have gone through the
soccer-ball/golf ball process (and think they don't complain much)!
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RE: 1'm b4b0, w4tch m3 hax0r
You're lucky in that regard - my script kiddies spoof their IP address, so I have no idea who to complain to...
About 6 months ago, I saw some that did appear to reverse-map, and did
complain. Never got a single response from any of the ISPs I
contacted. (none were major ISPs)
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RE: 1'm b4b0, w4tch m3 hax0r
As far as server logs go, I used to look at my apache log with
amusement, seeing many entries like the one mentioned above. I'm
pretty confident in my apache install, so I really don't even look at
that file anymore...
The other entertaining log is the SSH connection log. On a daily
basis, 1 or more people using spoofed IP addresses attempt to log in
with a static set of about 20 usernames and passwords. Same 20
every time. It has to be part of some script kiddie toolkit or
something, since I can't imagine the same person trying the same
combination every day to see if maybe I finally DID create a user named
"admin" with a password of "password". This has been
ongoing for over a year.
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RE: 1'm b4b0, w4tch m3 hax0r
Also, it is possible with many web services (www, smtp, whatever) to
put whatever "banner" string they want for incoming connections.
So therefore, people have IIS installs saying they are apache, and vice
versa. As a result of this, port scanners and script kiddie tools
generally have options to ignore host banners and attempt all known
exploits of ANY provider on that port.
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RE: Moved: Offtopic Discussion w/Katja
Katja, are you and your roomates a bunch of man-haters or what?
First, the no-man-in-the-house rule, now it's "this movie was great
because the men all died and the women won the battle!"
What's up with that??
:)
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RE: WTF Gear Is Here!
I think you're making a few unwarranted assumptions there... I won't point them out. :)
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RE: WTF Gear Is Here!
Oops, I did mispell it. Sorry Katja!!
I don't think anyone intended for the tank tops to have anyone's
picture on them, more that we were talking about pictures of them (the
female members) being photographed while wearing them.
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RE: Crystal Clear Errors
We are here too, for which I am most grateful.
What are you using instead? We went with SQL Reporting Services. I'm pretty happy with it so far (6 months now).
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RE: WTF Gear Is Here!
On CPound's behalf:
All calendar pictures must feature Katja with WTF thongs and
tank-tops. Background images and code snippets are
optional. (And I suppose, so are the thongs and tank-tops.)
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RE: Midi
If you read the thread, you can see exactly how this happened:
from:
midi files on web pages and how it indicates porn sites (which I
disagree with - to me it says "I'm looking at a site hosted on
GeoCities written by a 10 year old!")
to:
midi files compared to other ways of storing/presenting music
to:
how crappy midi sounds in general
to:
when midi doesn't sound crappy by using soft synths (but uses lots of CPU)
I apologize that noone went in the "porn" direction you were hoping for. Better luck next time.
Hope this helps clear things up. [:D]
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RE: (VB).Net question
Gotcha, so therefore it's an IntelliSense WTF rather than a VB.NET WTF. :)
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RE: Midi
Agreed, some soft synths are more efficient than others. The
Roland GrooveSynth that comes with Cakewalk Kinetic is a total dog, and
is the one I'm specifically bitching about. Since Kinetic doesn't
appear to want me to route MIDI Out to anything BUT the damned
GrooveSynth, I'm stuck on this issue. (If anyone knows
differently, please school me!)
With prior cakewalk versions, I've used Retro AS-1, which I love.
Haven't tried using more than 1 or 2 instruments with it, which is why
I may not have noticed if it IS a hog or not.
I'm currently using an ancient P4 1.4 (Alienware), that is in dire need
of upgrading. Otherwise, I'd probably care a little less about
this. Also, I intend to share it with friends who have lowly
e-machines, and know that some of the stuff I end up making may not
play well or at all on their machines.
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RE: (VB).Net question
Drak, you must be looking at VB6.
VB.NET (1.1) defines it as:
Public Overridable Function CompareTo( _
ByVal version As Object _
) As Integer Implements IComparable.CompareTo
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RE: WTF Gear Is Here!
Ok, waiting for C-Pound to come and assist in the tank top effort.
Oh wait, it's KATRINA, not KAJTA.
My Mistake.
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RE: Midi
You bring up a point I've been thinking about lately. Soft
synths/samplers. Regardless of processor speed (unless you have
the uberbox I suppose), cpu usage severely limits the number /
complexity of what you can use, of course. If you use even
1 softsynth, you are sacrificing performance for realtime audio mixing
and processing, and will likely get "stutters".
In my opinion, they are only good for sharing projects since two people
with the same softsynth will hear the same thing, and isolates users
from having to have identical hardware.
Sure, it's nice to have better-sounding synths than your sound card can
produce natively, but if you're that into music, and not trying to
share projects, go buy some actual hardware synth modules!
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RE: Midi
Well, MIDI is kind of like a PDF file with non-embedded font
references. It may or may not sound (look) good, depending on if
you have the right (sound)fonts installed...
They sound like total crap on most machines, with the on-board (5.1 Surround, woo hoo!) sound cards...
SBPro/Live/Audigy are definately in the upper class, though, I'll
agree. I tinker with music a bit, and really like the
quality of sound / synthesizer module and having the front-panel
connections (RCA, 1/4", SPD/IF, Optical, 1394, and MIDI).
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RE: Phear my m4d sk1llz
I think some of it is also due to the poor spelling and grammar skills of those using it.
I know I'm not the only one who has noticed the decline in "today's youth".
(At least here in the US)
Respect, morals, some knowledge of history of their country, being able
to spell / write correctly, all going right down the tubes.
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RE: Google adsense ads on TheDailyWTF..
I think it is really funny how my thread on adsense is generating even
funnier adsense... People are going to start posting stuff just
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RE: Comma Separated Parameter.
RE: "Unless of course you're looking for the record named " '; EXEC 'DROP DATABASE ' + @@CURRENT; --".
Fair enough, but that would only work on specific DBs. Not all define @@CURRENT, or have the same meaning for it.
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RE: Comma Separated Parameter.
Good point. I wish my company did.
Unfortunately, frequently employees need to login as external users,
and need to find out their passwords in order to do so.
Gotta love it!
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RE: Comma Separated Parameter.
SQL injection attacks (and their prevention) interest me as I develop a lot of web apps...
Unless you are outputting whatever came back from the table to the web
page in your code (ie a table of results), there is little that can
really be accomplished in a well-written app by returning all rows
instead of one row.
The scary thing is when the SQL injection performs an INSERT or UPDATE
query, and modifies table data. (Changing product prices, giving
themselves undeserved access levels, etc). This would require
that they have some knowledge of the DB structure, or are really
persistent / good guesssers.
Using parameters is definately key. Virtually every query
in my shop doesn't select based on text values - it's nearly always an
integer row ID field, which can be converted to an int in code before
being passed as a parameter or used otherwise in queries...
Certainly, in the case of auth tables, you will often be selecting
records based on username, or username and password, and there of
course is where one must be most careful! I prefer to validate
the password in code rather than in SQL. I could be totally
offbase, but I feel I have more control in the code to check it and
less worry about clever injectors doing strange things.
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RE: Coming Soon ... The New New TDWTF!
Looking forward to the new forum software (I think! God knows it can't get any worse!)
Things I'd like to see (in no particular order):- Non-broken quoting
- No more microscopic fonts
- Ability to edit your posts, perhaps with an "edited" indicator so
that when the replies don't make sense, we can tell that the post was
edited.
And, the kicker: - All of the above working regardless of browser type (assuming it's a
recent browser, etc etc.. Yes, I pretty much mean it works in FireFox
as well as in IE.)
- Non-broken quoting
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RE: Comma Separated Parameter.
Yep, you're catching on just fine...
To add to the comments above, sprocs are also desirable over inline sql
for statements that get executed frequently (inside loops, due to high
server load, etc), because most SQL DBs will precompile their stored
procedures, so they don't have to determine an execution plan every
time the code is called.
Unless, of course, you choose to implement dynamic statements (via exec
or whatever mechanism you choose), at which point the compiler is
unable to generate and store an execution plan since the result of the
"dynamic" part is obviously unpredictable.
Our shop uses about 90% sprocs, and 10% inline. 0% dynamic.
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RE: Where is char-supporting String funcions!
Re: "
not talking that it's stupid it won't work for not-English words"
Do you mean due to unicode issues? If yes, I agree completely. If no, what do you mean?
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RE: Phear my m4d sk1llz
Definately would have caught my eye.. I wonder if it was a case where
the driver developer had a good sense of humor, or clueless management
picked it out without realizing...
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RE: Not as bad as a Drop Down List
After STFW about this, it appears that the default Java 2 "look and
feel" is called "Metal", but to me it looks like straight motif.
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RE: Google adsense ads on TheDailyWTF..
For some reason, when I post from home (Firefox / cable modem), it
often just sits there until the browser times out.... I'm now in the
habit of copying my whole post to clipboard to be prepared for
retries... Is anyone else experiencing this, or is my home
machine just messed up?
torpedo, those are excellent links!
It's really hard to say which one had me laughing more. The Time Cube
IMHO.
probably is the funnier of the two, having paused before posting this
to consider it further. It still pales in comparison to
Perhaps we need a forum for WTF websites (that aren't related to code),
Alex? I know there's a bunch out there, but one for/by us might be
nice.
I find many entertaining ones currently from www.memepool.com , FWIW to the rest of ya.
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RE: KoFFiE's Avatar...?
And I wonder, what were you searching on that led you to that picture?
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RE: Not as bad as a Drop Down List
yes, linux using the motif widgets.. same difference...
although I guess the gnome/kde stuff looks similar as well. I'm
not enough of a linux geek to know if that uses motif also.
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RE: Google adsense ads on TheDailyWTF..
Damn, I wish I could edit. Yes, I know there is Preview, but
sometimes you only see it after you've looked at it a second time.
Alex, will the new forum software have that feature?
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RE: Google adsense ads on TheDailyWTF..
Too bad I was too lazy to actually click think link. Then I could
have made a nickel for Alex, and found out what kinda magical stuff
this import-text-file-into-access-wizard thingy does...
I just can't see what it could possibly do to improve on the simple art of importing data from text files.
Maybe it's for non-programmer types who just want to read in their
recipes and have no idea how to use access, and somehow think they need
this in order to accomplish it. (Ie, if there is an advertised
product to do this, there must not be any way to do it without such a
product.)
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RE: The "I hate SOAP" club.
He does sorta have a point CPound, however rudely put.. You do tend to start up Katja discussions in several threads.
This particular case is debateable, as it does sorta follow the topic thread...
It depends on whether you interpret it as:
Soap -> Bathing -> French -> Other Cultures
or
Soap -> Bathing -> French -> Katja
or
anything else that I didn't list above that comes to mind.
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RE: PBS Advertisements...
So no referral, no per-click, just a per-month, eh?
Oh well, I'll stop randomly clicking on your ads then. :)
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RE: The Results Are In
Yeah yeah, CPound, we know you're only p***d off cuz it involved
Katja. If it had been Bustascool's avatar (or anyone else who
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RE: PBS Advertisements...
I order just about all my stuff from NewEgg, so I'll make sure to click through from here so you can benefit, Alex.
Too bad that link didn't appear last Friday, I just ordered a new 21" monitor... I'll be ordering more stuff soon, though..
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RE: Google adsense ads on TheDailyWTF..
I just got an adsense ad (while in the main forum) for a wizard to help
import text files into Access databases... I've only had limited
dealings with that horrible wannabe database, but I find it hard to
believe that it didn't come stock with the ability to import text files!
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RE: Not as bad as a Drop Down List
Good observation, that might be SWT with the "motif" look and feel.
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RE: Not as bad as a Drop Down List
Your response is duly noted. [+o(]
BTW, I have no actual Mac experience other than struggling to help
friends figure theirs out occasionally, and being semi-involved in
porting a commercial app from windows->mac. It wasn't
pretty. I could easily be completely wrong about their UI
guidelines, especially since the advent of OS X.
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RE: C#
I've been developing in C# / .NET for a little over a year now, and I
must say it is the best environment that I've come across in my career
(~15 years). Very few gripes at all, and the ones I do have are being
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RE: Lets get a Logo
In case you hadn't read, the polls are closed, and the logo is chosen!
Nice graphic, though!
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RE: Moved: Offtopic Discussion w/Katja
I myself brush teeth first - why prolong "morning breath"? Even if you live alone, it is a horrible thing....
This diversion reminds me of a George Carlin skit, in which he
discusses the minimum body maintenance needed for the average man.
"Asshole, armpits, hair and teeth. Get those covered and you're
set for the day. You can even save more time if you use the same
brush!"
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RE: The Results Are In
I will definately order a rubber stamp with the new logo when they become available!
(I bet you would sell more if you made a Katja version though)