@Scarlet Manuka said:
Shhh! It looks like this thread may finally be dying a natural death. Maybe he'll post a new thread!
I havent read this forum in at least 6 months. Came by today to see if the thread was still running.
@Scarlet Manuka said:
Shhh! It looks like this thread may finally be dying a natural death. Maybe he'll post a new thread!
I havent read this forum in at least 6 months. Came by today to see if the thread was still running.
@Lingerance said:
@Nyquist said:I like how the IA (if you can call it that) of the tutorial is structured around Back buttons. That really fucks with my head.What do you mean by IA?
IA = Information Architecture.
@PSWorx said:
For the lazy: (musicsgonnagetya.js, xpi-turned greasemonkey script, will execute each time a page is opened.)
// ==UserScript==
// @name Music's Gonna Get Ya
// @namespace here
// @description We all need a little more magic in our lives.
// @include *
// ==/UserScript==
if(Math.random() > 0.98){window.location.href="http://www.ed-lewis.com/rickroll.html";}
sooo... any good friends at your computer lately? :P
Awesome.
TRWTF is that the OP hasn't noticed the random rickrolls?
I'd recommend using noscript but I'd go with the theory this is the work of a friend too. Thanks for giving me something to do on April 1.
@RHuckster said:
@Kharel said:
3. You're wrapping the Javascript alert function with your own function. Really? As if the functionality of alert() might somehow suddenly change?In the context of this simple code, it makes no sense.
I get why they've done it - just to demonstrate the syntax of a function. The jQuery docs have a similar example in the section on 'Launching code on Document Ready' but at least it's clear that the alert is for testing purposes only.
All a bit complicated for the "Total non programmer" though.
I like how the IA (if you can call it that) of the tutorial is structured around Back buttons. That really fucks with my head.
As for the guy at the top of the page, its simple. He jizzed in his pants.
@dhromed said:
@Nyquist said:
that's the one where all the lost tourists have to change to get from Schiphol to elsewhere isnt it?Hey, the Netherlands are small, but not that small. Consult the map, plx.
Perhaps I should have been more specific - changing trains from Schiphol to Utrecht. I'm talking about 15 years ago so my memory is hazy, but I remember some very lost tourists trying to find their way around Sloterdijk.
@dhromed said:
In the Netherlands, we have (ta-tadadaa) Amsterdam Sloterdijk.
Go to it. Find platform 10.
I knew that place rang bells. I was a student in Utrecht many years ago... that's the one where all the lost tourists have to change to get from Schiphol to elsewhere isnt it?
hahahahahaha.
@galgorah said:
@Someone You Know said:
or South Station a few years back when they were still renovating...@b_redeker said:
(madness)
And I thought Downtown Crossing was annoying...
Its changed yet again since I was living there but I don't remember a time when Kings Cross St. Pancras didn't have building works.
@dhromed said:
@derula said:
Seriously, why don't you guys use this? It's so much more easier and beats your photoshop skills by far.You are hero.
+1
now I can have a matching Courage Wolf sig.
@dhromed said:
In the Netherlands, we have (ta-tadadaa) Amsterdam Sloterdijk.
Go to it. Find platform 10.
haha. Yeah shades of London's Kings Cross / St. Pancras tube station. I'd like to see those guys change trains there.
@dhromed said:
@Nyquist said:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/soundcloud-vuvuzela-competition
I just got round to listening.
My fucking god, isn't that just some of the most fucked-up ridiculous shit music out there.
I'm debating on whether to upload mine. Been tormenting my neighbours with it this week.
@OzPeter said:
I listened to the top 5 or 6 and some of them sounded pretty good to me. Can't stand the vuvuzela in the world Cup, but I can applaud the creativity of the DJs
Yeah. That latest electro house one wins it for me. The dubstep one is pretty damned funny too and the 'Vuvuzelacore' for sheer annoyingness.
They make a horrible noise but its amazingly easy to feed them into a sampler, add a few filters and get something useable out of them.
@dhromed said:
I like that idea even morer.
To eaches his own:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/soundcloud-vuvuzela-competition
@blakeyrat said:
2) RedHat 6.2. Fine; maybe Corel was just a bad choice, let's try this. Installed after much struggling. Sound card didn't work. Checked the "supported hardware" list, it lists SoundBlaster 128s, but hey guess what? It lied. About 3 hours of back-and-forth on my (working) Mac with friends over the internet before I got a fucking network connection on a bog-standard DHCP configuration.
I interrupt and necro old bits of this thread to bring you a major nostalgia moment from something like 2000.
That's how I got started with Linux... using a RH derivative which had the same problem. Turned out RH 6.x had a major bug with auto installation of sound and networking - if it did the networking first, you wouldn't get sound. I can't remember exactly what the cause was as it didn't show up as an interrupt conflict or anything obvious, but the trick was to uninstall network, install soundcard, reinstall network.
I found THAT out after something like 6 months of configuration, kernel recompiles etc. Should have just switched distros but at least the learning process was worth it.
Ahh those were the days... of head-to-desk-banging wtf frustration.
@SpectateSwamp said:
You look like me! Lucky you.
Huh? Not all portraits are self portraits, Swampy.
+1 to dhromed for artistic excellence though.
@RHuckster said:
so you'll have to figure this stuff out on your own, or go to 4chan
Oh my god. I would like to see this.
Swampy, yeah why don't you try 4chan. I think they would understand and appreciate your unique talents.
@bstorer said:
@Lingerance said:
@toshir0 said:Building grammatically-correct sentences using Markov chains is extremely difficult for anything other than the simplest sentences.Totally sane demand. I want to compare mine to the existant ones, if there are any known references in that kind of things, to see if my little off-time toy is something correct or just a little off-time toy.Lookup Markov Chains.
Speaking of the simplest (or stupidest) sentences, I can't believe we've neglected to mention Xyro's Swampy-speak generator.
I also can't believe that I've been away for something like a month and the Swampy thread is still going.
@Zecc said:
But now that you mentioned the word "portal" you gave me an idea.
It's still a bit rough, but I'll make it better some other time:
Aww nah, keep the turtle. Turtles are awesome when they're pissed off.
@morbiuswilters said:
@belgariontheking said:
@morbiuswilters said:
And I can't drink it, anyway, because they use fish as an ingredient.Vegetarians make me laugh.Well, I know I do, but what other vegetarians have you been having tickle parties with, huh??
Crap, I didnt know about that. No more Guinness for me :(
@bstorer said:
Do pigs often what? Come with tits?
TRWTF of this thread is that none of you have seen The IT Crowd, except dhromed.
@El_Heffe said:
"Computer advice and Psychotherapy"
Haha sounds like my job. Except it also needs 'General fix it person when everyone else breaks it'.
Oh fail someone on data entry copied and pasted from MS Word.
@mrspandex said:
SpectateSwamp is enough to drive me to drink, does that count?
@derula said:
@Nyquist said:Filed under: Payment Required, lern2learn, コック, SwampSearch use cases, SpectateSwamp's just an idiot.I ♥ my script. I think this proves its intelligence. Especially コック.
I'm convinced it has developed sentience.
@El Disposo said:
@dhromed said:@Nyquist said:
Can't resist posting: Esc+Ctrl+P+Alt+Foot (at 5:25)I love Eddie Izzard.
Best Izzard clip on Youtube is Cake or Death. "You must get up very early in the morning!"
Epic. Although, If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid
[edit: and thanks for the linking tip]
@DaveK said:
Here's my contribution of the day: To start the Open menu in Windows, type Alt, F, O.
Can't resist posting: Esc+Ctrl+P+Alt+Foot (at 5:25)
@SpectateSwamp said:
Hope some of you SpenkSwamp, SpenkSwampDaddy BarionTheKingSwamp and MasterPlanSoftwareSwamp would show up over at channel9 CoffeeHouse. Where I'm battling Stupid.
I think you owe me some more of that coffee, because I just splurted mine on my screen.
I guess we're screwed then...
I've had to sit next to a woman who talked - very loudly - in an open plan office about her bra collection. She wasn't young.
@derula said:
@Nyquist said:fail troll is failI completely understand the point you made there; however I get a highly irritating and confusing impression that the automaton which would under normal circumstances detect any sarcastic allusions for you in other people's posts might be due to a repair.
Eh, probably. Too much work has that effect.
@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:
@dhromed said:;Ubuntu (perhaps any distro?) can't play an mp3 out of the box."Whaddya mean I have to open the box and install it on a PC? The guy at the store told me it would work out of the box!"
No only Macs can do that.
@Zemm said:
The errors probably aren't really his fault, he just has that "energy" that causes computers to go haywire! (I tend to have the opposite energy in that when I approach a computer it magically fixes itself, at least initially)
He's not a designer is he by any chance? Our designer is the only one that can BSOD his machine on a regular basis.
@dhromed said:
Ubuntu (perhaps any distro?) can't play an mp3 out of the box.
That's only due to Frauenhofer's patent, if the distro is sticking to being Free as in Not Beer.
And you can hold me responsible for the flamewar this thread is now going to turn into just because I mentioned the word patents.
@Zemm said:
I'll just go back to my XXXX now then. (Or exchange it for some Bundy, The outlook is not good for the apple growers on the rain calendar.)
I'm in pain now. Pass me some of that Bundy...
@C4I_Officer said:
@derula said:
What I saw was the most perfect, circle-round, light-colored, polished shiny elastic Oil Drain Plug Gasket I've ever seen in my entire life! Never before I've ever seen anything remotely comparable in beauty, form and style. Everything about it was so completely amazing that I forgot the time just staring at the item.I don't know how much time passed until I regained consciousness. And I regained it only because the gasket fell out of my hand and back into the package. I knew I wasn't able to get it out again without completely losing my mind.
Perhaps you needed some more, you know, time alone with the gasket? :-)
Well don't get too excited and blow a gasket... oh wait.
@blakeyrat said:
@Zemm said:
I just thought of a meeting WTF at my work. One of the juniors was booking (sales) meetings for the boss interstate. That state is in a different time zone (stupid daylight savings) so he'd book the meeting and each side thought they were in local time. Unfortuneately the boss had already booked some meetings, properly, so there were clashes. Hilarity ensued.
Let me guess: Lotus Notes?
Nope. Queensland.
/southerner ducks and runs.
Clbuttic.
He's probably seen TSMOE.
Ugh... Derula's script seems to be developing sentience. Or some spooky kind of synchronicity with my posts.
@El_Heffe said:
@derula said:
@DescentJS said:@Nyquist said:@derula said:That poem is so@El_Heffe said:Well this is just the stupidest thing IThen you must not have heard ofWriting a poem
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic
That's probably because all Haiku are
Not al Haiku are
But some
I just accidentally
@derula said:
MOST OF THE PAGE CONSISTS OF CSS! WHY DO THEY STILL HAVE TO SET TABLE ATTRIBUTES IN THE HTML?
Yep and thats only WTF #1.... WTF #2... the stupid that burns so bad is doing a table border by colouring the background of the table, then nesting another table inside it with a white background.
When the rest of the page is fucking CSS so you'd think they'd know how to do border: 1px solid #999.
/facepalm.
@derula said:
@El_Heffe said:Well this is just the stupidest thing IThen you must not have heard of
Writing a poem
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic
@derula said:
@blakeyrat said:@derula said:@SEMI-HYBRID code said:Some people do that as a really, really retarded way of "protecting" their source code. "Oh, I did View Source and the window is blank... I guess it doesn't work on this site!"-kind of thing going on.not sure if this is a known fact, but the amazon page source looks quite wtf-y to me...What's your problem? My HTML validator shows less then 1000 errors or warnings, and there's only 36 newlines in front of <html>.
If that was the case here, then they failed miserably. Even with half the window blocked by the validator it's still not blank.
And everyone uses Firebug anyways.
Speaking of... this table styling (or lack of) gives me tooth pain. The stupid, it burns.
@Zecc said:
The thing about browser navigation buttons is they can make history repeat itself.
Does this mean that the solution to the end of the world in 4900AD is Outlook Web Access?
@dhromed said:
Yes they should. Without guidelines and restrictions who records things where, any nut can come in, record some shit, publish it without review, and rip events out of context, producing a vastly skewed view on matters.
But I'm mostly just posting to get the tag in.
You're not testing Derula's script too? I notice a suspicious duo of tags in your posts.
@blakeyrat said:
Aren't Macs Unix now? (i.e. 1969 epoch?)
You'd think - but there's a bug in Snow Leopard that is causing people's folders to show as created Feb 1946. Happened to a friend who sent me a screenshot - I'm not enough of a mac person to know what was causing it other than the reports I've found online of corrupting when using a mounted SMB shared drive.
@blakeyrat said:
They used to have an 1904 epoch, because that saves a line of code when calculating leap years (the original Mac developers had to fit a *lot* in 128k of memory.) Of course, you need that line they saved when 2000 came along.
There's also another default date on various early macs (LCIII, Quadra etc) that would default to 1956 (google cache as the page has since been password-protected). It was an easter egg - according to that page, under 'Related Trivia' (which also covers the 1904 epoch):
So why do different Macs reset to different dates?
Most Macs reset to Aug 27th, 1956. As it turns out, this is the birthdate of one of the designers, Ray Montagne, who apparently designed the CUDA microcontroller. This chip controls the PRAM and ADB on many models. Peter Werner found that information on the Nov 95 MacUser Help folder.
By the way, Steve Jobs was born in 1955, so the date is not his birthday. Other Macs reset to the default date - the date that the clock shows when the clock registers are filled with zeros. The date is Jan 1, 1904.
Rick Holzgrafe tells why some Macs reset to that odd year - the question was "What is the default date if the clock contains all zeros?" His answer:
It's midnight, Jan 1, 1904. This was selected because the original Mac's clock (which counts in seconds) can encompass a period of about 136 years. Selecting 1904 as the start means that the 136-year period covered by the clock (1904-2040) includes the birthdate of nearly every Mac user, and extends well past the expected lifetime of the Mac OS. It also means that the simplest rule for leap-years can be used (every fourth year has an extra day), which simplifies day and date calculations. They didn't choose the year 1900 because it was not a leap year, and so would have complicated matters.
Except this doesnt explain the 1946 epoch that is being seen on corrupted files in OS X 6.2 - the only thing I can think of from 1946 is the invention of ENIAC.
@blakeyrat said:
The best branding move EVER was to rename "rapeseed oil" as "Canola oil".
But yes, rapeseed is an actual plant, and its oil it quite possible. You probably just know it as Canola.
I'm surprised this actually got rebranded in Australia. Here we have such unpolitically correct brands as Coon cheese and 9/11 bottleshops.
@Kyanar said:
No, you can assume that the date you display in your image is the Unix epoch in GMT-6. Seeing the epoch in strange places isn't a WTF any more, it's a shrug and a sigh.
Someone explain to me then the Mac Snow Leopard bug that's going
around where people's folders get corrupted and say they were created in February 1946. I know the Mac epoch works differently but I've forgotten exactly why they chose 1946.
@SpectateSwamp said:
Robustly proactivating ( jamming it).
Thats slightly more information than I needed to know.
@morbiuswilters said:
@lolwtf said:
You should never ever be using WAVE files online anyway. Use FLAC for lossless encoding, OGG for lossy encoding, zip or 7z if you need them in .wav format and won't likely have a decoder installed.BWAHAHAHAHA!
+1 rolling on the floor
@lolwtf please learn something about audio online thesedays and go visit soundcloud.com. No self respecting musician zips their audio files (in case they corrupt) and if you want to have an audience of 0 go ahead and use ogg. Same with FLAC, nice idea, no uptake excepting the occasional Linux nerd. You want the music, you suck up the bandwidth. You talk like we're on 56k modems.
The standard for mp3s is 320kb/s by the way, if you're distributing music online. But a lot of DJs will distribute as 24 bit wav, or use soundcloud if you live somewhere like Australia and want to offer people a preview without the large download cost.