This: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Stalled-Server-Room.aspx
Was talked about on Wait Wait Don't Tell me on NPR this weekend. TDWTF wasn't cited as a source, but it was the exact same incident.
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TDWTF article mentioned on NPR
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RE: Forum Guidelines Discussion
@Rotary Jihad said:
@Physics Phil said:
Several of the newbies, as well as long-time lurkers, have complained about the lack of guidelines about posting, but I felt it would be a good idea to keep discussion of guidelines to a separate thread from the discussion of existing moderation. Putting this thread here in General Discussion seemed like a more appropriate location as the rules are not meant to be a WTF. I feel the guidelines for posting should be in 2 parts, covering the forum software and the etiquette.
If this is felt to be a good idea, then a sticky thread can be created with the results of the discussion.Forum Software
This forum uses community Server, which has some strange quirks, so to minimise our pain and yours, some basic instructions are below
- There are many flaws with the standard and enhanced editors, which require Javascript to run. If you prefer to use the plain text editor, this can be set in your profile.
- In some browsers, particularly IE, newlines are not properly converted to HTML. You should therefore check the preview tab on the post page and edit the HTML manually if necessary before posting
- In Firefox, the comment field is not spellchecked by default. To turn it on, right-click in the field and select "Spell check this field"
- the edit time-out is very short, so use the preview function and think before you post.
- In the editor, if you click on the quote button without any text selected, the entire post is quoted. If part of the text is selected, the selected text is quoted.
Posting Etiquette
- Do not quote the entire OP.
- If you are replying to anyone else, please quote the relevant excerpt from the post to provide context.
- Each reply should be to one post only (so that the comments appear in the correct place in the threaded view)
- We know that you can post arbitrary HTML. Please don't abuse this, it isn't funny any more
- If you believe someone is calling you out unfairly, please PM them, or take the matter to the IRC channel: irc://irc.slashnet.org#TDWTFMafia
- Not all of the forum users are native speakers of English. Please be polite to them.
- Some people have non-functioning sarcasm detectors. Please tag sarcastic comments as such
- Conversely, please do not post an incoherent mess. If we can't understand it, at best you will be ignored
Please remember that these are guidelines, not rules: even if this doesn't say you cannot do something it doesn't mean you won't get banned for it. In short, don't be a jerk.
Does anyone think anything should be added?
Does anyone think this is redundant?Please keep this discussion civil, and try to stay on topic. This thread is simply meant to come up with useful information for newbies, not to argue about past events. The idea is that if we have such a guidelines thread, people can point newbies to it and if they disagree with what they read they can discuss the matter there, leaving the rest of our threads unpolluted.
As for the forum software, deal with it. Either get your ass to Cleveland and become Alex's personal assistant and redo the site or deal with it. Given the subject matter on TDWTF, its expected for the readers to either have some IT background or be in the middle of learning it.
You're never going to be able to enforce politeness.
TDWTF has a history and a lot of its own meme's (thus quoting the entire OP), its amusing. Again deal with it. God forbid the modern internet generation have to read and filter information for themselves.
Almost forgot. I use Opera so you're going to have to deal with my line breaks.
I'll wait until the thread gets back on track then derail it again by posting in my medicore German.
Oh I almost forgot. Wrap everything I say in sarcasm tags. Or ~'s whatever the fuck it is we're supposed to use to indicate sarcasm.
- There are many flaws with the standard and enhanced editors, which require Javascript to run. If you prefer to use the plain text editor, this can be set in your profile.
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RE: Forum Guidelines Discussion
@Physics Phil said:
Several of the newbies, as well as long-time lurkers, have complained about the lack of guidelines about posting, but I felt it would be a good idea to keep discussion of guidelines to a separate thread from the discussion of existing moderation. Putting this thread here in General Discussion seemed like a more appropriate location as the rules are not meant to be a WTF. I feel the guidelines for posting should be in 2 parts, covering the forum software and the etiquette.
If this is felt to be a good idea, then a sticky thread can be created with the results of the discussion.Forum Software
This forum uses community Server, which has some strange quirks, so to minimise our pain and yours, some basic instructions are below
- There are many flaws with the standard and enhanced editors, which require Javascript to run. If you prefer to use the plain text editor, this can be set in your profile.
- In some browsers, particularly IE, newlines are not properly converted to HTML. You should therefore check the preview tab on the post page and edit the HTML manually if necessary before posting
- In Firefox, the comment field is not spellchecked by default. To turn it on, right-click in the field and select "Spell check this field"
- the edit time-out is very short, so use the preview function and think before you post.
- In the editor, if you click on the quote button without any text selected, the entire post is quoted. If part of the text is selected, the selected text is quoted.
Posting Etiquette
- Do not quote the entire OP.
- If you are replying to anyone else, please quote the relevant excerpt from the post to provide context.
- Each reply should be to one post only (so that the comments appear in the correct place in the threaded view)
- We know that you can post arbitrary HTML. Please don't abuse this, it isn't funny any more
- If you believe someone is calling you out unfairly, please PM them, or take the matter to the IRC channel: irc://irc.slashnet.org#TDWTFMafia
- Not all of the forum users are native speakers of English. Please be polite to them.
- Some people have non-functioning sarcasm detectors. Please tag sarcastic comments as such
- Conversely, please do not post an incoherent mess. If we can't understand it, at best you will be ignored
Please remember that these are guidelines, not rules: even if this doesn't say you cannot do something it doesn't mean you won't get banned for it. In short, don't be a jerk.
Does anyone think anything should be added?
Does anyone think this is redundant?Please keep this discussion civil, and try to stay on topic. This thread is simply meant to come up with useful information for newbies, not to argue about past events. The idea is that if we have such a guidelines thread, people can point newbies to it and if they disagree with what they read they can discuss the matter there, leaving the rest of our threads unpolluted.
As for the forum software, deal with it. Either get your ass to Cleveland and become Alex's personal assistant and redo the site or deal with it. Given the subject matter on TDWTF, its expected for the readers to either have some IT background or be in the middle of learning it.
You're never going to be able to enforce politeness.
TDWTF has a history and a lot of its own meme's (thus quoting the entire OP), its amusing. Again deal with it. God forbid the modern internet generation have to read and filter information for themselves.
Almost forgot. I use Opera so you're going to have to deal with my line breaks.
I'll wait until the thread gets back on track then derail it again by posting in my medicore German.
- There are many flaws with the standard and enhanced editors, which require Javascript to run. If you prefer to use the plain text editor, this can be set in your profile.
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RE: Scientology on The Daily WTF
The real WTF is your image host:
"BayImg Free Uncensored Image Hosting"
Followed immediately by a link "Report Image".
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RE: And in the "Just because you can doesn't mean you should" department...
Wonder what'd happen if he had just scanned the CD...
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RE: Best Price Per Inch?
@morbiuswilters said:
Your mom usually pays me $150, so that must be something like $10 an inch?
Alas, another goatse.cx diehard finds that its just not the same anymore...
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RE: Chgrp: Not owner
Too add to what viraptor said...
The first reason for doing this was probably to prevent users from getting around disk quotas. If you transfer a files ownership to a different user or group it would be counted for that entities quota and not yours.
The other reason is so that the sysadmins don't need to go digging very far to find out who owns what viruses, porn, or other programs that annoy them.
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Odd login/GUID/cookie usage
I'm hacking out a bash script to help my wife find jobs as a substitute teacher. The district uses Aesop for thier assignments. Of course it doesn't support any sort of email notification or RSS feed. You either sit there and hit refresh or let the robot call you with a random job at 6 in the fucking morning. A random job is a teaching job it picked from the list, not paying any attention to your specialties, location, or other preferences. Which is just about the only way to find subs for some of "those" classes.
They're using some sort of ASP form for a login. I thought it was pretty standard until I looked at what gets set after a login. It submits the login form via POST to a url with GET parameters. The form target is something like https://aesoponline.com/login.asp&GUID=<some GUID>&paswd= . Yes the paswd param is blank. The GUID in the URL matches the GUID I get given with a cookie. Thats the first unusual part. Anyone know why you'd have a GUID in the URL and in a cookie? Is it some hack to support people who don't want a simple session cookie from a site that gives them paying jobs?
I started filling things in with curl and grep to snag the submit URL and had some problems simply passing the user and password in. I dug around again and saw that there were several blank hidden fields in the form and one field called 'foil' that appeared to be set to some random 6 char alphanumeric string. The login wouldn't pass without that string. Anyone familiar with that technique? I have no idea what that would do other than annoy someone trying to script the login and search for open jobs since the provider can't be deigned to provide a simple RSS feed or email notification. -
RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@belgariontheking said:
@SpectateSwamp said:
The source works for the PC. Now I just need some Mac, Linux and Java desktop search enthusiasts to take up the challenge. I'll help all I can!
Java is not an OS. Thanks for playing.
However, Java would be a good shot if you wanted to make your code portable to other platforms with minimal effort. In Java, you can even write a program that'll run on a cell phone.