So many real WTFs here.

First off FruityLoops.   

Second windows having such a screwed up sound driver that it is unusable for low latency realtime audio.

Third needing ASIO4ALL to fake an ASIO driver to a windows sucky driver because you don't have a real sound card or external converter that comes with antive ASIO drivers.

Just remember all this software for making sounds and music.......  none of it has a talent button or plugin.

@calloatti said:

 It's pretty accurate, you have to do the math. Speed of light is  299792458 meters/second. A geostationary orbit for a satellite is at around 36000000 meters,and the radio signals of course travel at the speed of light, so:

  36000000 m / 299792458 m/s = 0.120 s or 120 milliseconds per trip. Since you need 4 trips to start a request, that is about 480 ms of delay between the first request and the first packet back, 

 Usual ping times for satellite are about 500-1200 ms

It's twice these numbers because one "trip" is an up to the bird, then a down back to earth.  That mean just to get that first SYN packet to a server takes close to 240ms.  And this of course is best case if you were directly under the sat. Your slant range distance is even longer.

Your problem was thinking a few hundred miles, it's 22,000 or so miles for geo sync.

BUZZZZZZZ.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Do the math.

Or deal with a system on an off shore oil rig that has a sat. link.

Or listen the echo on a phone call over sat.

Just give them a few years and Hughes will have dumped the business.  They used to make all kinds of things, like terminal servers, and since they were part of the GM family for a while everyone had to buy those POS things.  The only way to change the adderss fo it was to take the top off, and pull a chip for 5 minutes, then power it back up and configure the whole thing from scratch.

Then a year to or two latter they got out of selling them, leaving zero support.  A year later, Hughes makes an access control system, think card swipes, gates, doors, etc.  Again everyone is forced to buy from within the family, then they dump it with again no support.

If you are going to get on the guy for his coding, the least you could do in your code is prevent sql injection the RIGHT way.  Bind vars.  Learn it, Love it, Use it.

This might not be too much of a WTF.

It very common, at least on UNIX to setup FTP accounts to be chroot-ed.  This means that the default dir you drop them in now becomes / and they can't go any higher.  It keeps people from getting into places they shouldn't be.  The only problem is a lot of FTP servers on UNIX at least exec out to run the ls command.

 But the ls command is in /bin and you can not longer get to the real /bin.  So into order for it to work you have to make a copy in a bin directory under the chroot point.  And on top of hat if ls requires any shared libs, you need them also.

I've seen plenty of places were ftp is used to pickup or push a file with a known name, ls would not be needed.  If the sysadmins set the account up to be chroot-ed, and didn't follow up with making copies of ls into all the accounts, then you would get exactly what was seen, no WTF at all.