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Posts made by Bob
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RE: I though this was a photoshop.....
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RE: BMX bikes from £59.40! (but I wouldn't want to enter a motocross tournament on the cheapest one)
BMX Bikes
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Prices from: £59.40
Um:
Starting from £128.24
Prices from: £59.40
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RE: A Viagra ad on the front page?!
@Ice^^Heat said:
Wait 'till they see my flash drive!!! Yeah baby!!
It's got ReadyBoost, you know what that means right??!! Bigger and faster!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwy4R8DfOT4
Doesn't it mean earlier failure?
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RE: Bad code as art form
@Arancaytar said:
Does "continue" even get through the compiler outside of loops? I thought it was the Java equivalent for Fortran's "cycle", but I might be confusing it with PHP.
But it's in a for loop...
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RE: Large webpages are all the rage
Anyone got a copy of the orignal anywhere?
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RE: What would you have done in this situation?
Similar feelings:
Send them an invoice for the hours work done.
Send them a contract offer, at "benficial" rates if you so desire.
They declared that they didn't need you, and were wrong.
If I leave a company of my own choice then I would also feel somewhat honour bound to provide some support - if it's going to take much time then I'd probably offer a somewhat discounted rate for the work - but I'd be training the next guy, not working... -
RE: Blue Thing Problems
Ah the joys of an FAQ where they just copy, verbaitm, all questions they get...
There are so many of them around, and it's so irritating that they can't htink to generalise, although oftne they make a hash of trying to anonymise... -
RE: Computers need AC? Who would have thought.
Depends on whether you believe google's recent white paper or not.
Temperature didsn;'t have too much effect - don't get me wrong, it had an effect, but not that pronounced. -
RE: Not what you want to see on your internet banking site...
What's really scary of course the is "C:\1" implieing that they use winblows for what manya would consider an application where security is critical...
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RE: A few WTF screenshots
@CapitalT said:
How was the screenshot taken?
Presumably with the print screen function.
Dumping it into paint for later tidying isn't beyond the realm of imagination either, I've done similar blind (second machine next to me to get the cammand sequence off...)
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RE: Google - "Results 1 - 10 of about 1"
And now it finds this page too :)
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RE: One liners that make you giggle
Just after typing the following code line in perl I laughed, then added the comment - it was easier than renaming the variables everywhere else, besides it does make perfect sense...
Just try explaining it, in words - without stumbling over the word array (or what you're referring to)
[code]
$arrays[$array{'array'}]=%array;
# Probably better understood as:
# $raid_arrays[$this_raid_array{'raid_array_id'}] = %this_raid_array
# But that's no fun ;)
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RE: MySpace signup form
The US still thinks it's influence is expanding then...
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RE: Please use caps only
They don't even do any verification - I just submited a combination of lower case, upper case, whitespace and punctuation.
I also gave completely garbage for the address (asd for the postal code and house number???) -
RE: Working Picture-of-a-webcounter CGI
He must have oiled it again - after all it's clicking over at quite a rate right now (yes it's back online)
A truly ingenious solution to a problem that never existed - although at least his hit counter won't get lost when the PC crashes ;) -
RE: Airbus A380 - press WTF?
And also saying, in the same sentence, "...new superjumbo, which dwarf's rival Boeing's 747..."
So, which is it? Comparable size or dwarfism? -
Airbus A380 - press WTF?
On the dual landings for the A380's in the US... (From The Age)
"Airbus, the French-based airline maker, ensured maximum publicity for the US debut of its new superjumbo, which dwarf's rival Boeing's 747. ....... The A380 will bring a lot of benefits to the customers," Mariani said. "It's quite fuel-efficient, less noisy and environmentally it is more friendly than aircraft of a similar size."
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RE: What is the sound of one hand ClapPasswordg?
@wgh said:
@codeman38 said:
My favorite example of this sort of thing is the numerous people who attempted to change the color scheme of their web site with a global search and replace, as demonstrated by these three Google searches:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=consideyellow
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=consideblack(Naturally, in each case, the color being replaced was red.)
That is hilarious!
WTF - Has noone heard of CSS?
It has been said that an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will eventually recreate the entire works of shakespeare. Thankfull the internet has proved, with minimal cruelty to monkeys, that this is not the case.
Bob
Can't recall where I got that from...
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RE: What's your biggest screw up?
Has to be the time I was workingo n chroot jails.
I wanted to clear one down before reentering it to see what I needed:
"rm -rf /bin /usr /etc"
What I meant to do was that without the slashes.
A few seconds later I though - Oh that's a bit slow, then spotted what I'd done - on a main company build/dev server (in no way a test box*), with root priv...
Oops - a few hours later it was back up and running again...
Bob
* My manager had told me to use that box because what I was doing wouldn't hurt it... and we were out of test kit... -
RE: "Just Daisy Chain"
@reptar said:
When I worked at the superb Australian carrier Telstra, -48V was the most common supply voltage in the exchanges. Of course, Telstra isn't normal, so I don't know if that counts elsewhere.
-48V is pretty standard - along with big banks of batteries.
IIRC running at -48v helped reduce corrosion on the earth contacts...