@vt_mruhlin said:
"call 512-417-5191 for the secret to making millions" sounds a little bit less phony than "go to cheap-meds.f24sxc923jfas.ru and make money today."
Sounds pretty 'phony' to me... ;)
@vt_mruhlin said:
"call 512-417-5191 for the secret to making millions" sounds a little bit less phony than "go to cheap-meds.f24sxc923jfas.ru and make money today."
Sounds pretty 'phony' to me... ;)
@derula said:
@viraptor said:
One of those probably:Or probably not.
But the ones which go to mindex probably don't specify it, since it's the default.
@DaveK said:
@rox_midge said:I just inherited a codebase which contains the following little gem:
/* Misspelling kept for backwords comptability */
The misspelling they're actually referring to is "UploadLeaglDocument", which should be "UploadLegalDocument" and which is called from exactly one place.
Hooray!
Are you sure the misspelling they're actually actually referring to isn't "backwords"?
I thought it was "comptability" myself.
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
TRWTF is that it appears you have your phone number (or someone else's who will be similarly pissed) in that photo album. You should probably censor that image.Actually I think it's much more likely to be a date in seconds past the Unix epoch...
$ perl -e 'print scalar(gmtime(1193077713));'
Mon Oct 22 18:28:33 2007
(Okay, I just realised what was meant - that there was *another* picture in that album showing a number. My mistake, sorry.)
Автор Будучи увлеченным читателем WTF он приложит все свои усилия, чтобы повеселить и надоумить нынешних «профессионалов» от ИТ, переводя статьи на немецкий язык.
Now, it's true that I don't understand Russian, but this line is in the Russian TDWTF and both Babelfish and Google tell me that the word "немецкий" (second to last word) actually means "German", and that this line is saying that these are translations to German.
The line is also in the same part that would normally tell you who posted the WTF and in what category it was posted. Is there something I don't understand about this version? (apart from Russian, I mean :P)
Okay, look, here's the deal. FileMon - at least the FileMon that was available before the Microsoft acquisition of SysInternals (I haven't had the chance to test any prior versions) - probably *does* install something to the Windows system folder. However, it cleans itself up afterwards. Let me explain how I believe this is true.
I used to run it on the computers at the college I went to. I was just an ordinary student, and the college computers (running NT 4) were set up so that there were no write permissions to the Windows folder, *especially* the system folder. Don't get too cocky on reading this - the program refused to run normally. It just wouldn't start.
However, I did notice that on computers where it *did* run, it extracted a file to the current directory, which was removed very quickly. This file - which I have on my USB drive - is called filem.sys and has an md5sum hash of 5888bb7122cb80babf3a849189bee679. At least, the version that was extracted did. I got the file by having a batch file continually running which attempted to copy the file to another directory repeatedly. Not the best or most efficient way to do it, but it works.
Now, when this file is in the same directory as the EXE and the program is run on a system with write permissions denied to the Windows folder, it works. I'm not kidding.
My best guess here is that the program attempts to use the SYS file, and if it can't find it, it extracts it to the current directory, moves it to the system folder, and then tries again. The system folder is probably used because that's the canonical place for such files. But it would explain why it doesn't work when it's not extracted, and does when it is.
Now can we stop the argument now?
Maybe I'm the only one to see this, but I get the feeling that what spxsa was complaining about was it sounding like he was part of a support group. (it has different connotations normally)
I could be wrong, of course, but that's what I'm seeing from it...
@niteice said:
Right now we just insert them after the opening <body> tag or before the closing </body> tag. I think I'll add tags users can put where they want ads to fit with their layout - if the ad script doesn't find the tags, then do it the generic way.
What happens if the page source doesn't have <body> tags? Because you know that someone is going to figure out that the ads are placed like that, and are going to abuse the way browsers handle broken HTML.
Thanks for that! The checkbox is great. :)
One thing I've found is that the pages are basically too grey - so I played around with Stylish for a bit and came up with this, which I hope helps others too:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("thedailywtf.com") {
.CommentHead {
background-color: rgb(208, 208, 240) !important;
padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px !important;
border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(176, 176, 208) !important;
}
blockquote.Quote {
border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128) !important;
padding: 5px !important;
background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) !important;
}
blockquote.Quote blockquote.Quote {
background-color: rgb(224, 224, 224) !important;
}
blockquote.Quote blockquote.Quote blockquote.Quote {
background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208) !important;
}
.CommentContainer {
border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;
}
.Home_ArticleSummaryContainer {
border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128) !important;
}
.Home_ArticleSummaryContainer h2 {
padding: 4px 4px 4px 8px !important;
}
.Home_ArticleSummaryContainer .subH2 {
border-top: 1px solid rgb(128, 128, 128) !important;
border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(192, 192, 192) !important;
padding: 4px 4px 4px 8px !important;
}
.Home_ArticleSummaryContainer .ArticleFooter {
border-top: 1px solid rgb(192, 192, 192) !important;
}
#ArticleFull {
border-color: rgb(128, 128, 128) !important;
}
}
It increases readability quite a lot, I think. Hope people find it useful. :)
[quote user="MasterPlanSoftware"]As far as the DoPostBack functionality... while you may not choose to implement a website like this, you are not dealing with a small website written in html...
When you click a link, the portal engine does many things, including counting access to the pages, and logging them to SQL. This is considered very important to some portal users to gain statistics on their sites. There are also a number of other things this functionality does, but I don't have the time right now to look through it. ( I am about 8000 miles away from home...)[/quote]
All of these things can be done without using JavaScript, because they are server-side operations. At least, I freaking well hope that the JavaScript isn't interacting with the SQL database directly. If it is, then that's an even bigger WTF.
On another note, from the way DNN is being described, it reminds me of the version of Community Server that this very website was based on before.
[quote user="mrsticks1982"]who made this site? check out their online application for the credit in Firefox 1.5.
https://www.alienware.com/financing_pages/OnlineFinancialApplications.aspx[/quote]
Wow. That's... horrible.
[quote user="bobday"]If your key is as long as the message and consists of randomly chosen letters, is it then secure? I'd be inclined to believe yes, although choosing a key and getting it to the intended recipient could be a problem.[/quote]
That's known as a one-time pad, and if done correctly, yes, it would be secure. As evidenced by the name, though, you'd need to only use the key once, and then never again. The characters would also have to be truly random - no pseudo-randomness allowed.
One-time pads, if done correctly, are impossible to crack since you could 'decode' the message into every possible sequence of letters - 'oijxeoinsxiomsxd' *could* mean 'attackarmyatnoon', but it could equally mean 'weadorechocolate' or 'aflyingpigishere'. ;-)
Hmm. It didn't link it automatically. Let's try that again.
I saw something similar at one point... not sure whether it was a Google ad but it certainly had the same style as most Google text ads:
http://matrix.theblob.org/blank-ad.png
Hi there,
I'm a new poster here, but I've been reading thedailywtf.com for quite
some time. Like other posters here, though, there are some things about
the site that annoy me a little, so I hacked up a quick Greasemonkey
script to "fix" them.
The script is here: http://theblob.org/wtf.user.js. It specifically changes two things: