I can't wait to try some delicious Menu Dish Name 7, but can I get that with a side-order of NULL?
Posts made by DaveK1
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RE: Well that sounds delicious!
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RE: Am I TRWTF?
@whiznat said:
I have been in the same situation and I can tell you, no, you did not make a mistake.
They were taking the first steps to fire you. Go to any career website and look at what HR people are writing. Every post about getting fired will tell you that a PIP is the first step to being fired, and they have never seen an employee who went through such a plan, even if completed "successfully", who did not get fired later.
And TBH, you did exactly what they hoped you would do. You saved them a lot of bother. Never mind the fact that loads of software never got delivered. Now they have someone they can blame. And shifting blame may have been the plan all along.I was put on a PIP once, and was indeed immediately convinced that it was a combination of blamestorming and an attempt to constructively dismiss me.
Being a stubborn bastard, I stuck it out, did everything they said exactly by the book and with documentation. At the end of the plan duration, they were forced to agree that I had performed to required standards and took me off it.
I stuck it out another couple of months until I was well past the PIP, just to prove the point, and then completely surprised them by slapping my resignation on my managers'(*) desk one morning, just after fixing yet another management-led fuckup.
I reckon that was the best I could have handled the situation, and I could see the whole place was only going to get worse, so I call that a win.
(*) - Yes, that apostrophe is correct. There were two managers (neither with really clearly-defined roles, and often pulling apart rather than together) working from one big extended desk arrangement.
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RE: Excel errors? Gotcha covered boss!
@morbiuswilters said:
@Zadkiel said:
if I said 'El_Heffe doesn't eat horse manute' am I implying that El-Heffe should eat horse manure?
Perhaps. Is "manute" different than "manure"?
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RE: So... about that Heartbleed
@mott555 said:
I bet DaveK is one of those guys who thinks it's okay for Obama to be a bad president because Bush was a bad president.
Obvious troll is indeed obvious, but what I was actually arguing was actually that Obama bring a bad president doesn't somehow prove that Bush was not one.
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RE: So... about that Heartbleed
@blakeyrat said:
@DaveK said:
Of course, Blakey can't be expected to prove a negative here (particularly without access to the source for auditing purposes!), but if past experience is anything to go by, it's fairly likely that SChannel has bugs.
I didn't say anything about SChannel in this thread, what the fuck are you talking about? Jesus, you people need pills.
I mis-remembered the source of the quote. It was Morbs who said that, and my comment should have been directed at him. Sorry.
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RE: So... about that Heartbleed
@derari said:
Aside from that, yes I think that SChannel has severe security bugs. Feel free to prove me wrong.
Of course, Blakey can't be expected to prove a negative here (particularly without access to the source for auditing purposes!), but if past experience is anything to go by, it's fairly likely that SChannel has bugs. Let's just refresh our memories:
[quote user="https://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2010/2010-057.cfm"]A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft SChannel which could allow an attacker to take complete control of a vulnerable system. Microsoft SChannel, or Secure Channel, implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols. SSL and TLS are commonly used to implement secure communications for web browsing and other network services. Exploitation may occur if a user visits a web page which is specifically crafted to take advantage of this vulnerability. If successfully exploited, the attacker could gain SYSTEM level privileges and install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights. Unsuccessful attempts to exploit this vulnerability will likely result in a denial-of-service condition.[/quote]
[quote user="http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2009/03/10/assessing-the-risk-of-the-schannel-dll-vulnerability-ms09-007.aspx"]MS09-007 resolves an issue in which an attacker may be able to log onto an SSL protected server which is configured to use certificate based client authentication with only the public key component of a certificate, not the associated private key.[/quote]
[quote user="http://www.symantec.com/security_response/vulnerability.jsp?bid=24416"]The Microsoft Windows Schannel security package is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. This vulnerability occurs when processing and validating server-sent digital signatures by the client application. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by convincing a victim to visit a malicious website. Remote code execution is possible, but may be extremely difficult. In most cases, denial-of-service conditions will occur.[/quote]
[quote user="http://cvedetails.com/cve/2010-3229"]The Secure Channel (aka SChannel) security package in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7, when IIS 7.x is used, does not properly process client certificates during SSL and TLS handshakes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (LSASS outage and reboot) via a crafted packet, aka "TLSv1 Denial of Service Vulnerability."[/quote]
There you go. Remote privileged code execution, authentication bypass and DoS conditions.
Of course, Blakey won't point to these as proof that all proprietary software is bug-ridden shit, because his arguments are not based on logic, but on inconsistent emotional knee-jerk responses prompted by his arbitrary and irrational hatred of FOSS.
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RE: So... about that Heartbleed
@blakeyrat said:
FOSS programming tools usually break on Windows if you install them in the correct location, because "Program Files" has a space in the name.
What, like this well-known shitty FOSS tool?
@blakeyrat said:I find this both shocking and amusing because the OS these tools were built on allows spaces in folder names. So either these tools are completely busted on their native OS (most likely), or the "port" to Windows somehow introduced a devastating regression they haven't fixed in years.
You're a complete fucking cargo-cult coder Blakey. If a FOSS tool receives a path with a space in it as an argv entry and passes it to fopen(), nothing goes wrong. Of course, shitty user scripts that don't quote the args they pass to tools correctly exist, just like shitty .bat files that don't quote their args correctly also exist, but that's not the fault of the tools. You are spouting some half-remembered mish-mash of unrelated facts and pointing the finger in the wrong direction when it's really just a PEBKAC/GIGO issue. You're probably also thinking of the CreateProcess guess-where-the-spaces-go dance as a good thing, rather than the stupid attempt to second-guess the user's intentions that leads to shit like the "C:\Program.exe" vulnerability that it actually is.
In short, your complaint reflects only your incompetence, and not the supposed flaw with FOSS that you imagine it to show.
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RE: So... about that Heartbleed
@aristurtle said:
@Buttembly Coder said:
I like how they seemed to just chuck anything they could find that looked randomish into the RNG.
I laughed at that first one hard enough that co-workers looked at me funny. Oh man.
You mean this commit?
@cvs commit message said:
Do not feed RSA private key information to the random subsystem as entropy. It might be fed to a pluggable random subsystem…. What were they thinking?!
I would imagine that they were thinking that anyone with sufficient admin rights to install a malicious random subsystem could far more simply attach a debugger to the process and just read the keys straight out of RAM, without even having to figure out how to trigger the rare error condition that would lead to that codepath being executed.
They'd already be on the other side of the airtight hatchway, to use a Chen-ism.
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RE: The things people do for money...
@El_Heffe said:
@skotl said:
I particularly like the statement "Are there any restrictions to your use of OCS Inventory? The GNU GPL grants you the freedom to use the software for whatever purpose you see fit.", followed by a list of restrictions on what you can do with it.
That's the problem with Stallman and his followers. They talk a lot about "freedom" but their definition of freedom is very Orwellian. You are free to do whatever you want, as long as you only do those things we approve of.Agenda much? It takes a pretty special kind of chip on your shoulder to describe fundamental concepts of fairness and reciprocity as 'Orwellian'. The only thing you can't do with GPL'd software is deny anyone else the same freedom you had with it. It's not your private property, so don't try and act like it is.
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RE: Secure FTP access
@Algorythmics said:
My company has an FTP site for transferring large files to and from our customers (we deal in complex measurement data which gets big quite quickly, so email doesn't work).
Write access to this FTP site is strictly controlled. No one is allowed access without being set up by IT. Access must be through one specific FTP application (which has a firewall exception set up for it) and through one specific account. We are not allowed to know the password.
IT must attend our system (remotely or physically) and type in the account details for us, to be saved in the application for future use as and when we need it. Once that process is done we are "set up" to use the FTP site.
Yes, you are correct, the password is stored in plain text and easily accessible.And even if it wasn't, you could sniff it off the wire. Or set up a local netcat listener and redirect the ftp server's name to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file.
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RE: This.... from a bank.... I'm.... WTF?!
@mahlerrd said:
@morbiuswilters said:
So you'd be taking the output, xoring it with the next part of the password and then feeding that back in as a new key. That makes me really nervous.
This just has the same feel as reusing a one time pad, doesn't it? Maybe it isn't - I'm certainly not Bruce Schneier - but it still feels icky.
No, it isn't. It's CBC mode.
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RE: Smells like success!
@HardwareGeek said:
@DaveK said:
@flabdablet said:
Chrome doesn't display them either. I missed it entirely, even after looking at the full-sized image; I had to search the page source for the alt text before I got it. To be honest, I still don't get the significance of why they are in groups of two, or the number of groups., , , , , !
, , , , , , , !
YES!I don't get mouse-hover alt-texts on the mobile browser I'm using right now, so I wouldn't have got that at all if the comment about the images being browser-scaled hadn't made me try looking at one full size.
It's because Ballmer said "developers, developers, developers...[etc.]", not "developer, developer, developer...[etc.]".
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RE: Smells like success!
@flabdablet said:
, , , , , !
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YES!I don't get mouse-hover alt-texts on the mobile browser I'm using right now, so I wouldn't have got that at all if the comment about the images being browser-scaled hadn't made me try looking at one full size.
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RE: "Beta", eh? I can see that.
@anonymous234 said:
@Shoreline said:
@El_Heffe said:
... 000webhost.com...
TRWTF.
But it's "better than paid hosting"! Also I see they promise "Unlimited Disk Space" for <font class="box_newprice">$4.84/month</font>... if only Dropbox, Google and Microsoft knew about those guys, they wouldn't have to spend so much on hard disks!
I noticed this bit:
[quote user="http://error404.000webhost.com/cpu-limit-reached.html"][/quote]Wow, that really sounds like 'Who wants to get suckered twice?' to me....
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RE: Smells like success!
@El_Heffe said:
@martijntje said:
Don't know why, but somehow I imagine that smelling like an old, sweaty guy.
+1 internets.
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RE: A Celebration Of Windows XP: 2001-2014
@oheso said:
@DaveK said:
A hardware or driver bug is the only plausible explanation.
On the contrary: a similarly plausible explanation is that his graphics sucked.
No, that is not plausible. Snooder described the laptop as 'moderately new'. It is not plausible that a 'moderately new' laptop would have a graphics subsystem from the '90s.
@oheso said:Or that transparency and scaleable live window-in-window effects now constitute the bar for writing crap on the internet.
The software stack that produces these effects starts at the DWM, which was written by MS, and descends through the non-MS video driver to the non-MS video hardware. If the flaw was in the MS part, it would crop up on many systems, not just Snooder's. So that too is not plausible.
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RE: A Celebration Of Windows XP: 2001-2014
@Snooder said:
@blakeyrat said:
@Snooder said:
Except, my laptop wasn't broken.
Yes. Yes it was.
This is like the opposite of the Linux thing, where Linux users put it on a laptop then go around crowing about how "everything works", then you ask, "what about sleep mode?" "Oh that doesn't work." "What about the volume key on the keyboard?" "Oh that sometimes fails." "What about external monitors?" "Kind of works!"
Except you have a computer which demonstrably had a hardware problem and are in complete denial of it. It's kind of infuriating really.
Again, the laptop was working fine. It didn't have a hardware problem. It was simply a cheap laptop with shitty integrated graphics that couldn't handle a heavy graphics load. Which is fine. It wasn't supposed to be a graphics powerhouse, and I was fine with it not working for things it was intended to do. What I wasn't so happy with it, is having Microsoft include "open a new window" and "tab between windows" as things that stress the graphics rendering power of the laptop. That's not on the hardware or the video drivers, that's on Microsoft for fucking up basic functionality by adding cruft.If you think that things like blitting, scaling, blur convolving and alpha compositing constitute 'a heavy graphics load', you are utterly ignorant of graphics programming. They are some of the most trivial operations that any kind of GPU can be called on to perform and not a fraction of the load of even the simplest 3d rendering. A hardware or driver bug is the only plausible explanation.
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RE: Long Life bug : Do not use the letter 'j'
@morbiuswilters said:
@Mason Wheeler said:
OK, not being a C++ coder, I must be missing something here. It's supposed to break on '\j', but it breaks on 'j' instead?
The "j" is a typo; presumably it was meant to be '\r'.
I thought of another possibility: the original dev had a brain fart and got conceptually confused between an escaped character and a control character. Noticing that the code wasn't detecting all line-end characters, thought 'Oh, maybe \n is translated to CR because of DOS-style line endings, I'll just check for LF (aka Ctrl-J) as well.'
After all, 'j' and 'r' are pretty far apart on a QWERTY layout.
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RE: A Celebration Of Windows XP: 2001-2014
@Buttembly Coder said:
@Snooder said:
Back in 2008 I instructed my broker (Lehman Brothers) to buy 500 shares in MSFT';DROP%20DATABASE--.@Lorne Kates said:
Seriously, fuck Micro$oft!
Honestly, at this point I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't just buckled to pressure and renamed themselves with the $ included. I mean, the symbology implies that they're rolling in dough, which is a good thing for any publicly traded company, no?For bonus points, they can change their stock symbol to include special characters or non-Ascii, just to see what breaks.
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RE: Save me from shit UI (you can't be saved)
@blakeyrat said:
Lorne, have you ever posted anything on this forum that wasn't bitching about UI changes? Ever? Because goddamned it's tiresome. Take up a hobby, please. Like self-mutilation with power tools. That's a good one.
You owe me a new irony meter.
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RE: Your AVG Protection.
@db2 said:
@DaveK said:
@db2 said:
@DaveK said:
@db2 said:
Did you have a Windows 2.0 dev box back in 2000? Because Windows 2.0 was newer then than Windows 2000 is now. Unless you're developing for industrial control systems that need bizarro legacy hardware, bin it.
What part of "The machine that you write software on doesn't have to be the machine on which the software you write runs" do you fail to understand? All of it!
Did you also run Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 2.0 14 years ago? Did they even ship that version on 5.25" floppies?
If you ever had a point, you've left in far behind in your pursuit of inanities. The machine I use runs the tools I need to run in order to write software for the targets on which I have to deliver software. Nothing's broke, yet you feel I should be fixing something.
I think we have different definitions of "broke", because I would include in the definition being almost a decade out of mainstream security patch support, API releases, dev tool updates, etc.
Wow. So misunderstanding. Very errors. Let's get the factual ones out of way first:
- Security patches ended in 2010, that's not a decade ago. Not that it matters, since the security of my dev box is unrelated to the security of the apps I develop on it. It doesn't run any internet-facing services, and I'm not about to start downloading and installing random software on it. Also, I have backups.
- "API releases" are perfectly available to it, all I need is the relevant import lib and headers to be able to develop against newer APIs.
- All the dev tools I'm using are up-to-date; I'm not using MS dev tools.
@db2 said:
Until I know what your targets are and get confirmation that you're forced to develop for outdated embedded/vertical market hardware from a defunct vendor using dev tools from another defunct vendor (which refuse to work on anything newer than 2K), then this sounds like Old Man Yells At Cloud to me.
Now you're just being a moron. (I will at least give you credit for being a persistent and consistent one). As I've pointed out over and over, there is no relationship beween the platform I'm using to develop on and the platform I am developing for. Everything I'm developing works on everything up to and including Win 8. I'm not the one yelling at anything; I'm just using a fully functional system to get on with my work, while you're the one yelling at it for not being as bleeding edge as you feel it ought to be. You're just distracted by the new and shiny for its own sake.
@db2 said:
I'm almost afraid to ask,
You scare easy.
@db2 said:
but... you're running this as a sandboxed VM, right? Or is it actually some old Packard Bell?
False dilemma. Neither of those statements is true, revealing the limitations of your thinking.
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RE: Your AVG Protection.
@db2 said:
@DaveK said:
@db2 said:
Did you have a Windows 2.0 dev box back in 2000? Because Windows 2.0 was newer then than Windows 2000 is now. Unless you're developing for industrial control systems that need bizarro legacy hardware, bin it.
What part of "The machine that you write software on doesn't have to be the machine on which the software you write runs" do you fail to understand? All of it!
Did you also run Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 2.0 14 years ago? Did they even ship that version on 5.25" floppies?
If you ever had a point, you've left in far behind in your pursuit of inanities. The machine I use runs the tools I need to run in order to write software for the targets on which I have to deliver software. Nothing's broke, yet you feel I should be fixing something.
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RE: Your AVG Protection.
@The_Assimilator said:
@Buttembly Coder said:
@db2 said:
@DaveK said:
@LoremIpsumDolorSitAmet said:
@db2 said:
@blakeyrat said:
Would you like to purchase a copy of our company site? All of the above, plus a charming classic ASP VB front-end, all newly-written just last year, by the finest Indian devs around!@db2 said:
@DaveK said:
On my main W2k dev box
Wat
Hey man, there's a large market for software time travelers can use when they go back to 2002.
And all of it written in VB 6 and C++, with a healthy dose of COM to tie it all together. Available for purchase on fine ASP 3.0 sites everywhere.
Almost forgot to mention, you'll get a bonus Java applet for free.
Look at all the people who don't know the difference between host and target.
Or between forward and backward compatibility, for that matter.
Did you have a Windows 2.0 dev box back in 2000? Because Windows 2.0 was newer then than Windows 2000 is now. Unless you're developing for industrial control systems that need bizarro legacy hardware, bin it.
You guys are all missing the point, he said it's his main win2k dev box. Meaning he has more than one.
Now I know what's more terrifying than a Win2k dev box. Thanks.
You terrify easy. Wuss.
Edit: Just to clarify, because I did word it ambiguously: I have one dev box, which is W2k; for that reason it is also my main box. I have other boxes using other versions of Windows that I use for test and debug rather than dev work.
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RE: Your AVG Protection.
@db2 said:
@DaveK said:
@LoremIpsumDolorSitAmet said:
@db2 said:
@blakeyrat said:
Would you like to purchase a copy of our company site? All of the above, plus a charming classic ASP VB front-end, all newly-written just last year, by the finest Indian devs around!@db2 said:
@DaveK said:
On my main W2k dev box
Wat
Hey man, there's a large market for software time travelers can use when they go back to 2002.
And all of it written in VB 6 and C++, with a healthy dose of COM to tie it all together. Available for purchase on fine ASP 3.0 sites everywhere.
Almost forgot to mention, you'll get a bonus Java applet for free.
Look at all the people who don't know the difference between host and target.
Or between forward and backward compatibility, for that matter.
Did you have a Windows 2.0 dev box back in 2000? Because Windows 2.0 was newer then than Windows 2000 is now. Unless you're developing for industrial control systems that need bizarro legacy hardware, bin it.
What part of "The machine that you write software on doesn't have to be the machine on which the software you write runs" do you fail to understand? All of it!
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RE: Your AVG Protection.
@LoremIpsumDolorSitAmet said:
@db2 said:
@blakeyrat said:
Would you like to purchase a copy of our company site? All of the above, plus a charming classic ASP VB front-end, all newly-written just last year, by the finest Indian devs around!@db2 said:
@DaveK said:
On my main W2k dev box
Wat
Hey man, there's a large market for software time travelers can use when they go back to 2002.
And all of it written in VB 6 and C++, with a healthy dose of COM to tie it all together. Available for purchase on fine ASP 3.0 sites everywhere.
Almost forgot to mention, you'll get a bonus Java applet for free.
Look at all the people who don't know the difference between host and target.
Or between forward and backward compatibility, for that matter.
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RE: Your AVG Protection.
@steenbergh said:
@DaveK said:
I stopped using it ...
Out of curiosity, what do you use now and are you paying for it?
On my main W2k dev box, I don't use AV at all. I rely on NoScript and FlashBlock to avoid getting hit by drive-bys, and I don't open spurious attachments.
On my toy home-use/games Win7 box, I have MS Security Essentials, just because it was offered by Windows update.
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RE: I sense a mouse
@Mole said:
@Zemm said:
@Mole said:
When I investigated, I found out that Windows opened the COM port at 1200 baud and if it got data which "looked" like position data it assumed a mouse. Of course, the USB driver we are using doesn't care what you set the COM port baud rate to (as it never converts to a "real" serial port), and just delivers all data anyway, so Windows very quickly thought we were a mouse., watch in amazement as Windows thinks your product is a mouse and then your pointer goes completely nuts.
From memory those com port mouses use magic strings to identify themselves to the os/driver. Obviously your product sends just the right string to trigger this behaviour.
That's happened to me too. I very quickly learned to unplug debug connections from dev kits when rebooting my PC, or to power down the dev board and not turn it back on until Windows was fully up and running.
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RE: Your AVG Protection.
@Zemm said:
@LoremIpsumDolorSitAmet said:
From the reviews I see, AVG still ranks among the top three for everything. Norton, on the other hand... Ugh.
So they removed their ddos code? I stopped using it when it killed all my favourite websites due to it preemptively scanning every link on every page, increasing load on many websites by orders of magnitude.
That was back in 2008, and they killed the feature just a few months after it went live, owing to the massive protests. (Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/avg_stems_fake_traffic/)
I stopped using it because it turned to the dark side, i.e. became a constantly-self-advertising attention-seeking marketspeak-spewing bloated monster, like Norton or McAfee.
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RE: Firefox, now with Ads!
@rad131304 said:
Mozilla has apparently decided advertising on the "new tab" page is going to go over well with it's users .... http://www.techtimes.com/articles/3379/20140212/mozilla-to-deliver-ads-in-firefox-browser-if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em.htm
Already under discussion in the 'Pre-emptive fuck you to Mozilla' thread.
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RE: Takes the screenshots fo the websites
@Ben L. said:
For absolutely no reason, I decided to try browsershots.
Ooh, I hadn't heard of that before. I'm going to try feeding it the URLs of as many online browser fuzzing test pages as I can find... ;-)
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RE: I sure hope Mozilla doesn't hire this guy
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
@anonymous234 said:
Remember this thing? I really wish it had gone somewhere:
Yes, you can emulate it with a tablet or touchscreen, but it's not the same as actual keys.
Those are Cherry ML switches. You may consider this a blessing or a curse; a lot of people complain about off-angle binding with those (the wider key spacing won't help here), and they're pretty scratchy, (although I'm one of the few people who quite likes ML switches). Some lube should sort that out …
Dhromed-purple-dildo-joke incoming in 3....2....1....
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RE: I sure hope Mozilla doesn't hire this guy
@El_Heffe said:
@Maciejasjmj said:
@barfoo said:
What, no foot pedals?
Why not throw in the whole drum set while we're at it?
Needs more cowbell.
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RE: Seagate hard drives have 120% failure rate
@Ben L. said:
@Nexzus said:
Filed under: *Debt Collections, if you're wondering
Community Server put your tags in the right order.
There's a unicode comma you can use that CS won't recognise as a separator. Don't remember the code point off the top of my head, but I keep some lying around in a text file on my desktop for when I want to use a phrase with a comma in it as a tag.
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RE: Chrome on Windows 8 is a trainwreck
@blakeyrat said:
@DaveK said:
Pietrek agrees with him.
God forbid I disagree with someone named "pietrek".
God forbid you actually know what you're talking about before you run your mouth off, you mean. If the topic is Windows architecture in the '90s and you don't know who Matt Pietrek is, you clearly weren't there at the time and haven't researched it in any depth since.
@blakeyrat said:@DaveK said:
That program was something to run from within Windows, not before it was booted, so you appear to be assuming that a program run after Win95 finishes booting could travel back in time and fuck up DOS before Win95 finished booting.
It could certainly fuck up the NEXT boot.
I'd be interested to hear how you think it could do that, since the BIOS doesn't need a running DOS in order to be able to boot DOS.
@blakeyrat said:This is the first I've heard mention (implication, really) that this "DOS screw up Windows thing" screws up Windows immediately, and not upon the next boot.
Well that clearly demonstrates how uninformed you are about the subject upon which you are pontificating. Maybe you should quit while you're behind?
@blakeyrat said:@DaveK said:
No it doesn't. It instances it, and then uses that instance as the basis for all subsequent VMMs.
It doesn't "instance" it, it only keeps a very small amount of data tracked by DOS. Raymond describes this process with the name "sucks the brains out".
It keeps the code around too, hooks and bypasses some of it, uses other bits of it. That's not remotely the same as "100% unloads" it.
@blakeyrat said:@DaveK said:
As pointed out by others, Chen also says you're wrong.
No he does not. Boomasszilla completely misread that paragraph.
As pointed out by others, what he actually did was continue reading to the end of the article and pay attention to [i]all[/i] of it, not just lose concentration after cherry-picking a single quote that appeared, when taken out-of-context, to support his argument. You should try being more intellectually rigorous sometime.
But you won't, because you are the worst of the worst.
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RE: Chrome on Windows 8 is a trainwreck
@blakeyrat said:
@DaveK said:
Pietrek agrees with him.The author of "Unauthorized Windows 95" disagrees with you:
Yeah, well he's wrong.
@blakeyrat said:
Maybe that's why he couldn't get authorization.
Or maybe it wasn't. You certainly have no evidence for your buttumption.@blakeyrat said:
@DaveK said:
[quote user="http://oreilly.com/centers/windows/brochure/isnot.html"]That overwriting MS-DOS from a DOS program brings down the
entire system means that Win95 can't survive without working DOS code
underneath it -- even if you never run a single DOS program. DOS is gone
from Win95 in only the most superficial and meaningless sense that it's
also gone from Windows 3.x Enhanced mode.Well remember it uses DOS as a bootloader, so it's quite possible that if you fuck up DOS, Windows 9X won't be able to boot properly.
[/quote]That program was something to run from within Windows, not before it was booted, so you appear to be assuming that a program run after Win95 finishes booting could travel back in time and fuck up DOS before Win95 finished booting. Oh Blakey, you really are the worst of the worst.
@blakeyrat said:
Once it's booted, it 100% unloads DOS from memory,
No it doesn't. It instances it, and then uses that instance as the basis for all subsequent VMMs.
@blakeyrat said:
unless your computer has a hardware device without a Windows driver, or until the user purposefully loads it. Which means in practice, in 99.9% of all Windows 9X computers, DOS was only a bootloader and remained unloaded all the time.
As pointed out by others, Chen also says you're wrong.
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RE: Seagate hard drives have 120% failure rate
@too_many_usernames said:
People thinking there are legitimate arguments that the probability of an event can exceed 1...
It's no wonder we live in a world where people and governments can't balance their budgets.
No, they think that there are legitimate arguments that the probability of an event [i]per unit time[/i] can exceed 1. I won't be voting for [b]you[/b] any time soon!
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RE: What is this "script" you speak of
@Ben L. said:
My mom told me to look at my university's website. So I did.
<div class="hpm"> <div class="slides"> <!--179 JSON parsing failure at character 1:'<' in <!-- AddThis Button Begin --> <InvalidTag type="text/javascript">var addthis_product = 'wpp-262';
Well OK, but she didn't [i]insist[/i] that you use lynx, did she?
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RE: Chrome on Windows 8 is a trainwreck
@blakeyrat said:
@flabdablet said:
The author of "Unauthorized Windows 95" disagrees with you:98SE: turn off Active Desktop and it's actually not bad, given it still has fucking DOS underneath. Best of the DOS-based versions by a country mile.
Windows 9X only used DOS as a bootloader, and as a virtual machine to run non-Windows drivers. It's a huge stretch to say it has "DOS underneath".
[quote user="http://oreilly.com/centers/windows/brochure/isnot.html"]That overwriting MS-DOS from a DOS program brings down the
entire system means that Win95 can't survive without working DOS code
underneath it -- even if you never run a single DOS program. DOS is gone
from Win95 in only the most superficial and meaningless sense that it's
also gone from Windows 3.x Enhanced mode.[/quote]
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RE: Is that even possible o_O
@anotherusername said:
@anonymous234 said:
@anotherusername said:
The SSID doesn't have any specific encoding type, so you might think that the default encoding would be ASCII
Why would you think that? Nothing made after 1995 should use ASCII as a default.*shrug*
[quote user="2.2.1.1.7 802.11 SSID"]SSID_String (variable): The ASCII representation of the SSID for the basic service set with which a wireless responder's wireless network interface associates.At some point, someone at Microsoft decided that the SSID should be ASCII. Some other systems treat it as UTF-8.
[/quote] I looked this up when Doctor Who did the wi-fi thing episode. The original release of the 802.11 spec just said that SSIDs were 32 arbitrary octets and made no mention of encoding. There was an updated release of the spec a few years later where they amended it to specify that it should be interpreted as UTF-8.
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RE: Seagate hard drives have 120% failure rate
AFR = 120% => Expected drive lifetime = 1/1.2 yrs.
Simples.
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RE: Chrome on Windows 8 is a trainwreck
@TheCPUWizard said:
Nothing works faster than Anadin!@blakeyrat said:
@DrakeSmith said:
No one is infallible.
I think that was implied by my "sometimes they don't".
I once saw "no one" fail...this means that even no one is fallible!!!!!!
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RE: Chrome on Windows 8 is a trainwreck
@blakeyrat said:
@TGV said:
I was thinking it was more Orwellian:@dfcowell said:
choice is bad
I'm going to put that on a tile and put it up in all the public spaces.[color=black;text-align:center;font-size:24pt]
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
CHOICE IS BAD[/COLOR]
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RE: Chrome on Windows 8 is a trainwreck
@Master Chief said:
[ . . . ] when I really wanted to use the Metro UI for any reason [ . . . ]
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RE: Nazis aren't good with data types
@OldCrow said:
In the long term, no drug-user has ever been able to hold on to a job for long
@OldCrow said:
OK, now I'm sure.Based on statistical evidence, the most effective way to cut drug-use anywhere is to make it punishable by death.
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RE: Nazis aren't good with data types
@DaveK said:
@blakeyrat said:
Heh. Hey Blakey, here's a question for you: What's the secret of good comedy?Timing!
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RE: This Slashdot article
@blakeyrat said:
This Slashdot article is The Real WTF. (Although the first thread, at time-of-writing, is actually pretty good, I have to admit.)
Some example comments:
Oh, puh-leese. Stupid comments on a Slashdot thread? Who evar woulda thunk it?
Next you'll probably discover that some Youtube comments are less than entirely well thought out.
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RE: I have a lot more confidence in Bitcoins now
@El_Heffe said:
The biggest Bitcoin exchange is Mt. Gox. I always thought that was a strange name, especially since it is in Japan and that definitely doesn't seem like a Japanese name. Then I found this.
Mt.Gox is a Bitcoin exchange based in Tokyo, Japan. Mt.Gox was established in 2009 as a trading card exchange. Its name was originally an initialism of Magic The Gathering Online eXchange when it was an exchange for Magic: The Gathering Online playing cards. However, the site abandoned Magic in 2010 and became a bitcoin exchange.
That 'Mt.' prefix is meant to look like the abbreviation for mountain, but I've always preferred to pronounce the two letters separately, so: M T Gox, to rhyme with "empty box", because odds are when you open it up you won't find anything in it.
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RE: How to make Global Payments even worse
@fire2k said:
I am intrigued by your notion of a password reset link that requires knowledge of the password.@TGV said:
Well, let's hope this doesn't get on the internet.
O wait...
I'll give you one more (Python). Choose an appropriate length and characters and you're done:
import urllib
gen = itertools.combinations_with_replacement(characters,password_length) for password in gen:
urllib.urlopen('
https://swd.globalpay.com/swm/login.do?method=forgotPasswd&push=true&id=' + password + '&vip=0 ')
You do know the difference between a password and an email address, right?