My toilet had crashed:
I'm an Electronics Research & Design Engineer. Which means I get to do hardware and software. Keeps things exciting.
I've done things for Telecoms, Consumer products, Military, Lighting and the Beverage industry.
If you are in the UK you will almost certainly have (indirectly) used one of my simpler but very successful products, it has a tiny little 8-bit processor in it running lovingly hand-crafted assembler :)
I'm crew chief on that lovely jet dragster in the background picture. I have a bit of an obsession with gas turbines.
@dangeRuss said in What users say versus what they mean:
@Karla said in What users say versus what they mean:
@dcon said in What users say versus what they mean:
@Karla said in What users say versus what they mean:
@levicki said in What users say versus what they mean:
"You must complete all fields before clicking Submit" almost every web form -- why not just tell me which ones I missed in order?
I tried to register for a website and I got an error that my email address was invalid.
Since it was something I needed I emailed them from my invalid email address with a screenshot quoting my email address (which I did double check and triple check to make sure it wasn't a typo).
I wonder if you'll ever hear back... Since it's "invalid", can they email you back?
To their credit, they responded in less than 24 hours. They created the account and I was able to log in.
Samsung products will say your email is invalid if it has the word samsung in it. Apparently samsung@mydomain.com is not valid email.
Sam.Sung@mydomain.com is all good though.
I can't register for a certain PCB fabricator because my email address has cursor
in it. On a hunch, I then tested update
, drop
, select
and it's quite obviously some pants-on-head SQL-injection prevention.
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Filed under: I made a rainbow colored logo.sys back in the day
My father used to always harp on about waiting for the safe-to-turn-off screen on his precious computer, so (being a smart-arse) I edited logos.sys
so that it said It is not safe to turn off your computer
. My father left the computer on that screen for a whole day until I told him. Some screaming occurred.
I've been trying to sign up to EuroCircuits since yesterday and I keep getting to email verification and getting:
So, I contacted support...who haven't got back to me. Taking matters into my own hands I tried test@gmail.com
for an account:
Hmm. I tried test@mydomain.com
, broken. I then noticed the URL had the email address in it as an ID. After a lot of poking I found what it didn't like was cursor
in the email address.
So, does that mean...
No worries though, it's just a simple text match, so a bit fooling allows SQL injection just fine. Idiots.
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Honey? Honey? Are you ok?
Are you OK honey?
You've been vibrated by, a smart criminal (with an SSH exploit).
@kazitor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
or stick with a plain B&W where the black is intended to look black.
Yeah, I'd had enough of inkjet shenanigans, so I got a mono laser for home. It's still on the toner cartridge that came with it and I think it's at least 5 years old.
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Cursorkeys said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
We should re-enable animated avatars.
That would re-introduce the @tufty problem. The animated lemon was OK but the one before was not.
TBH I prefer it if, generally, things don't animate on webpages.
Edit: Ohhhhhh, I see now
just out of curiosity, what was the @tufty problem?
I can't actually remember what he had before the lemon. It was an animated thing, but it wasn't good. Lotus seed pod maybe?
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
It's actually quite a bit of a problem for, say, clothes / shoe sellers as their return rate may approach 50%.
One of the reasons for a high return rate there is when people are uncertain about what the sizes really are when shopping online: I used to have a colleague who would always get two pairs of shoes at two adjacent sizes and then just immediately return the pair that didn't fit.
I had to get some steel toecap boots recently to be allowed on a set, I'm normally a size 11 shoe. I ended up with size 9 boots, I ordered a load of sizes and just stayed in Screwfix to try them on in the end, then returned the rest. The guy there said that happens a lot.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Nissan Note.
Duh.
At least it wasn't one of these:
First time I saw one on the motorway I laughed so hard I nearly crashed. It's the car version of the Short Skyvan.
@loopback0 said in Coworking spaces WTF:
They're all too young for most of you
It'd be interesting to know the demographic of TDWTF (including the lurkers). I'm guessing the median is mid-thirties. Most of the people in their twenties haven't yet had that innocent joy in engineering beaten out of them and started to suspect something like TDWTF might even exist.