Pic:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/7uuvP.png[/img]
[url=http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=Goatse&thumbnailUrl=http://goatse.fr/hello.jpg&albumName=A%20man%27s%20distended%20anus]Link (NSFW)[/url]
Apple has a feature where you can display images on their site using the URL!
@AndyCanfield said:
They had a password expiration policy here. After a year and a half my Windows password is "linux3". I don't log in very often.
My most secure password is NOT the network sysadmin password. It's my bank password.
It should be "GNU/Linux3". That makes it more secure, as it contains capital letters and a slash, and furthermore it keeps rms happy.
@belgariontheking said:
Finally, they thought of those who can't afford a real browser.
Wait, what? IE, Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome -- the main browsers -- are all free as in beer, as is telnet/netcat, which is what "real programmers" would use.
@morbiuswilters said:
You're right about "generalize" being spelt incorrectly because -ize is etymologically correct, but "colour" is a valid variant <sarcasm>even though it is mainly used in evil Communist Socialist countries like Canada</sarcasm>.@TwelveBaud said:
They also didn't like "colour", "generalise", or "Manichean guilt." Until I saw them in published texts, I thought they were wrong too, as I had been taught.You spelled "color" and "generalize" incorrectly.
@dtech said:
Does not. Here I present the worlds smallest bug-free and self-replicating code (it outputs itself to stdout). not invented by myself btw (see ioccc)
Here it comes:
It does not compile with gcc. The ioccc entry just chmodded it executable in the Makefile. Plus I already mentioned /bin/true which could be implemented by a blank file.
@CDarklock said:
@Howi said:
All software contains bugsFTFY
What about the UNIX 'true', 'false', 'echo', and 'cat' programs? Actually useful and easily possible to write without bugs.
@campkev said:
LIMBAUGH: In addition, they have reformatted the bill -- they've made it a PDF file when they posted it. Now, for those of you that don't use computers, basically what that means is that it cannot be keyword searched. A PDF file is essentially a picture of a page. And, so, you can read every page, but you cannot keyword search it. It's not a text file as legislation normally is as posted on these public websites. They don't want anybody knowing what's in this; they want it happening as fast as possible so nobody can know what's in it.
There are a lot of WTF PDFs which are scans of a printed page as an image, so someone might be confused, but he should have looked at the PDF and tried searching.
@DOA said:
I don't understand why people bash IE, when in fact it's an invaluable tool. I mean how else would you download Firefox? :)
Command line:
a) netcat
b) wget
c) curl
d) ftp
Linux:
a) Order an Ubuntu CD via shipit and use it to install both Windows Firefox and Ubuntu.
b) Download Ubuntu ISO using IE and use it to install both Windows Firefox and Ubuntu.
c) Download any Linux distro that includes Firefox and install it
Getting a new PC:
a) Order Linux PC from Dell, etc. with Firefox pre-installed
b) Get a Mac and then use Safari to download Firefox
Misc.:
a) Get binary from another PC, copy using flash drive, CD-R
b) IP over avian carrier
c) Print source code from other PC which has firefox, scan it in, compile it
d) Print hex dump from other PC with firefox, scan it, unhex.
@danixdefcon5 said:
Now my bank insists on sending me big ass-e-mails as advertising, and one of the low fare airlines insists on sending me offers that I can't read on my blackberry, as I need "Javascript" enabled.
Wow, IP over anus?
I've heard of Fucking, Austria but not Fucking Zimbabwe.
@Spectre said:
PPPoE setup in windows is very easy and doesn't make you worry about anything other than username and password (and the connection name).
Ubuntu has pppoeconf which is mentioned in the built in help.
The point is that the computer sold to her is fucking defective. It does not perform how a "normal" computer should by any stretch of the imagination and it seems no support was provided to her. Then FOSStards jump in and try to blame her.
How is this supposed to be fixed? Installing WINE out of the box (for Verison Config app and MS Word)? There would still be some Windows-only apps that do not run 100% perfectly.
Verison might be able to have provided manual configuration steps if asked for them and word processing can obviously be done on Linux but no one told her about how to set up any of those things.
The problem is that
1) A person ordered a computer with Linux even though they had no idea what Linux is.
2) The Dell support person told her to use Linux rather than just sending her the Windows discs or otherwise replacing it with a Windows computer.
@Spectre said:
@tster said:Among them is an "Operating System" list which includes Vista, XP, Free DOSWait, what? Why would you want to buy a computer with FreeDOS preinstalled?
MS does not allow Dell to sell computers with no OS.
@morbiuswilters said:
Microsoft doesn't need to directly support the OS as much because most people make sure their hardware, software and services work with Windows. If Ubuntu wants to compete, then they have to do some of that legwork themselves. As I said above, it's not like Ubuntu doesn't work with this stuff. Hell, plenty of people have spent many, many hours writing software and debugging stuff just to make sure Ubuntu and Linux do work with a wide range of technologies. However, they can't simply expect end-users to know this nor can they expect Verizon or whoever to spend money supporting customers using a very, very minority OS.
The point is that the Internet is an OS-neutral technology and that ISPs should not require an OS-specific CD to configure the internet when Internet setup can be done with a standard web browser.
a) Why did she order a PC with Linux on it if she didn't know what Linux was?
b) Why didn't Dell support tell her to install Wine to use MS Office. (also Ubuntu comes with OpenOffice)
c) The Verison CD is probably unnecessary; config might be possible using web browser and accessing modem with e.g. http://192.168.1.1
@dtech said:
No, it's "free*". He just forgot the asterisk.
No, it's obviously libre rather than free as in beer. So you can
0. use it for any purpose
1. study how the it works, and adapt it to your needs
2. redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
3. improve it and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits
with your Sirius/XM
@bartleby84 said:
I've only just started working on this large existing code base, so admittedly, maybe there's something I'm missing about this, but something tells me this may be a bit excessive.
/* Generate a _very_ random number */
$unique_id = md5((md5(rand(0,100000))*rand(0,100000)));
Clearly, they should have used the one true RNG:
@jetcitywoman said:
But after getting the BASICA logic flow.. I don't really need to know why. It's trash.
TRWTF is your boss used BASICA. Why did he use a line-number BASIC?
@Mole said:
Just checked the [b]blowjob[/b] of a parcel on FedEx's website, but the path of delivery seems a little strange...
CN->HK->FR->GB->TN ? The best part being the FedEx vehicle which travelled from GB to TN in just over 6 hours.
Is this normal for a FedEx delivery?
[url]http://ww.thedailywtf.com/Articles/Status,-Please.aspx[/url]
Fixed it for you.
@morbiuswilters said:
@Lingerance said:
As an employee of a company generally referred to as Big GreenYou got a job with the Jolly Green Giant? O_o
No, IBM or "big blue:"
or so one of the presentations I attended called it due to our "greenness", we actually go by a different primary colour
@morbiuswilters said:
He was probably referring to the DMCA which makes it illegal (in the US) to crack DVD encryption. AFAIK (and I may be completely wrong) there are no licensed DVD players for Linux which means you have to use software that cracks DVD encryption (and hence is illegal) to watch DVDs.
In the US libdvdcss [used in vlc] is legal and covered in section 1201(f) of the DMCA. So, for instance, if you own a legally-purchased DVD and are trying to play it on your own computer with Linux, using libdvdcss is legal because you are merely exercising the license that you acquired when you obtained the DVD. However, if you use libdvdcss for the purpose of circumventing copyright protection, such as for file sharing or redistributing the content, libdvdcss would be classed as an illegal 'circumvention device'.
Also, in Europe, playing DVDs on Linux as well as backing them up is legal.
@morbiuswilters said:
He was probably referring to the DMCA which makes it illegal (in the US) to crack DVD encryption. AFAIK (and I may be completely wrong) there are no licensed DVD players for Linux which means you have to use software that cracks DVD encryption (and hence is illegal) to watch DVDs. I thought the EU had similar legislation, but quite frankly we've been bombarded with so many bizarre successful and failed attempts at IP laws from every governing body on Earth for the last 15 years, so I may be remembering incorrectly.
If you buy an Ubuntu PC from Dell, you get licensed DVD playback from Cyberlink. Just like you get if you buy a PC with Windows OEM.
@tster said:
streaming video
Flash 10 works in Linux so you can watch videos on Youtube like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
@tster said:
playing DVDs
I can play videos just fine on Linux with VLC. If you're talking about the DMCA, there is a version of PowerDVD for Linux.
@tster said:
playing games
Run windoze games with wine.
@tster said:
burning CDs/DVDs
What? You can burn CDs on Linux just fine.
@tster said:
creating spreadsheets that do more than simple arithmatic and statistics?
If OpenOffice can't do this then MS Office works with Wine.
@PhillS said:
@stewieatb said:
The basis of christianity maybe a little shaky (the more fantastical stuff is a WTF of its own) but Jesus was probably a genuinely wise person, who had some good things to say. Just not the son of god.I'm sorry, but that's just begging for a C.S. Lewis quote. Strangely enough I came across this quote earlier today in an article I was reading:
<FONT size=+0><FONT class=f color=#222222 size=2>I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. - Mere Christianity</FONT></FONT>
That logic is flawed: it could be that Jesus never claimed that and the gospel writers put that in the Bible for some reason to support their own beliefs. Or Jesus never actually existed.
@MiffTheFox said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Now, zero-based indexing is stupid (as noted in previous threads)Flamewar, GO!
I propose a compromise: 0.5 based indexing.
Seriously, different tasks call for different conventions (e.g. dates and strings should porbably be one-based)
@Donald Knuth said:
Who are you? How did you get in my house?
@TwelveBaud said:
Mozilla doesn't want people using Firefox to refer to anything but Mozilla's official builds, because they want to make legally liable people who maliciously modify the source code to send credit card numbers to an e-mail address and still call it Firefox. Mozilla wants to avoid damaging the Firefox name.
Speaking of, the copy of Iceweasel on your computer has the credit card stealing patch I snuck in. Debian can't do anything to me for making that change, because Iceweasel is "free". Gotcha! :P
Do you really think people who steal credit card numbers care about violating trademarks and copyright? Mozilla tries to use its copyright licence to "clarify" the trademark situation, which makes it a "non-free" copyright licence.
This leads to interesting situations. For example he always carries his ergonomic keyboard [b]together[/b] with his 17" laptop (with the windows-logo peeled off and slackware installed) wich is quite the sight during colleges or practicals.
How is he using Slackware if he is using Iceweasel, which is [b]Debian[/b]'s version of Firefox? I thought Iceweasel is just Firefox with different branding and ports for other architectures.
@prophet6 said:
Perhaps he also should have run the HTML validator on his site before linking to it.
I would say that he probably wrote a valid XHTML website, linked to the validator, then modified his site and forgot to escape an ampersand, making the website invalid XHTML. Except that on the other links, (which are broken because he did not add .html at the end), he used a center tag and did not close an image tag.
He also used XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Usually people who care about validation also use the Strict doctype and use CSS instead of <font>, etc.
Favicons need to be in .ico format, so you need an image manipulation program capable of saving to that format. Basically, he's charging $4.95 for a program that converts images to ICO (or maybe an image editor that saves in ICO).
I bet the software is actually open source (which is why you get free distribution rights) and he's just repackaging it.
@InternetGuy said:
Simple solution is to just right click and open with Internet Explorer, make sure to check always open this file with this program.
Or install the IETab extension (http://ietab.mozdev.org/) and then add a filter for xps extensions or modify the mht filter to read:
/^file:\/\/\/.*\.(mht|mhtml|xps)$/
@Daemo said:
whois information for hewsoft.com
Tech Name............ Microsoft Office Live
Tech Address......... One Microsoft Way
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Redmond
Tech Address......... 98052
Tech Address......... WA
Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
Tech Email........... support@officelive.com
Tech Phone........... +1.8665915483
Tech Fax.............
Name Server.......... ns1.officelive.com
Name Server.......... ns2.officelive.com
Well they obviously got a free domain through Microsoft Office Live and then used MS's Site builder to make the website. That or Microsoft made a crappy website to promote their XPS viewer LOL.
Also, their "Windows Vista" guide includes guides on MS Office 2007 and IE7, which are separate programs.
@CodeSimian said:
Pressing "retry" didn't help. In fact, when I had other applications open (e.g. gimp, mspaint, firefox), the installer listed every single one of them in the list of apps to close. I'm pretty sure none of those apps runs on .NET, and neither does the installer itself. Talk about covering all the bases....
Maybe try clicking ignore.
@tdb said:
And what if they say that if the store displays any other products in the window, they can't carry Snapple's product? Or that if they even carry any competing products, they can't carry Snapple's? Now suppose that Snapple has a 95% market share - the store can choose to either ditch all competitors' products, or lose 95% of its sales in that category.
Dell sells computers with Ubuntu Pedanticyak stroke Linux and M1cro$oft Windoze and also FreeDOS. I have an advertisement from Dell that has a laptop with Ubuntu GNU stroke Linux advertised on it as well as one with Microsoft Windows.
@tdb said:
Considering how computers are almost forcibly pushed into every home, regardless of people's technical knowledge, how large a percentage do you think is even aware of alternatives? If Windows Update popped up one sunny day with a message "Please enter your credit card information for your Microsoft® Windows™ subscription payment. If the payment is not completed in 15 days, your computer will become inoperational." what do you think people would do? What would you do?
Several things you could do:
a) Download a crack
b) Sue MS for violating their own license agreement
c) Use GNU stroke Linux (with WINE if you need to use Windows programs)
d) Make a GUI Interface with Visual BASIC
e) ...
f) Profit!
Gee, I hope Bobby Tables doesn't visit that site...
@TwelveBaud said:
Now, as regards samanddeanus, the OP, yeah the font size is small, but the font used is Segoe UI, which for some reason does not have regular hinting, only ClearType hinting, and you will need to turn on font smoothing to read the text. Obviously not a configuration the testers thought of.
I did have subpixel smoothing (LCDs) enabled in my Ubuntu GNU stroke Linux in which I was trying to install MS .NET in WINE. Is .NET allowed to be installed in WINE or does the EULA only allow it to be used on Windows
@Qwerty said:
The problem with software is that virtually any software could be used to produce weapons - even terrorists must have accounting software if their organisation is big enough.
OK, how are you going to use these software to produce weapons:
I know new fortran (i.e. Fortran 90), but:
Question: What is the difference between FORTRAN-IV and FORTRAN-77?
FORTRAN 77 has a block IF statement. This means that I could program in FORTRAN 77 if I used CONTINUE instead of END DO and put six spaces in front of every line (and also didn't use recursion and all the other stuff Fortran 90 added), but I would not want to use FORTRAN IV to write stuff in.
Question: What is the difference between FORTRAN and COBOL?
FORTRAN becam Fortran 90, which is a language I might actually use. COBOL still sucks.
Question: What does IBM stand for? (This was to catch people thinking it was a trick question.)
International Business Machines.
Question: Who invented FORTRAN, IBM or Microsoft? (Obvious idiot weed-out here...)
John Backus at IBM
Question: What is the difference between one's complement and two's complement?
@boomzilla said:
One very prominent, recent example being the sort of so-called environmentalism that results in bans of DDT.
What? The Dynamic Debugging Technique for the PDP is banned?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_debugging_technique
@ekolis said:
I personally prefer foo, bar, narf, poit, chez, BOOM - "baz" is so close to "bar" that could be mistaken for "bar" :P
According to RFC 3092, it is bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud.
foo, bar, baz, quuux, quuuux, quuuuux, etc. allows an infinite amount of metasyntatic veriables
foo, bar, barfoo, barbar, barfoofoo (binary with foo = 0, bar = 1) also allows an infinite amount.
Zork (Dungeon) mentions Bletch:
Welcome to Dungeon. This version created 1-Oct-94.
This is an open field west of a white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
A rubber mat saying "Welcome to Dungeon!" lies by the door.
>foo
Well, FOO, BAR, and BLETCH to you too!
>
@alegr said:
You just failed Voight-Kampf test. Stay where you are to get retired.
Ooh. Time for some xkcd references.
These ones are also related:
@belgariontheking said:
@shakin said:
Stop using Windows.You say that like there are other things out there that do what Windows does. I know for a fact that these other OSes (Linux is one) cannot run unless Windows is running under it. They simply cannot perform the low level disk and CPU tasks themselves. Only Windows can.
Linux is not an OS, it is a kernel, upon which Linux-based systems such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian GNU/Linux are based A kernel performs the low level disk and CPU operations. Windows 95/98 is a DOS shell and not an OS so it can't perform low level disk and CPU tasks -- only DOS can. Windows XP and Windows Vista are complete OS's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_kernel
@cconroy said:
Shh, you'll hurt Wakko's feelings.
That's nothing. I can make a piece with zero notes.
Wow. I can install Ubuntu in C. Also, C is called "No localization" in C. I wonder if I can get Ubuntu in other programming languages like Fortran, BASIC, Javascript, Perl, Python, and Java.
@DaveK said:
Unfortunately, Windows is both inconsistent and retarded*. Sometimes it treats the extensions as gospel; other times it ends up sniffing the file format (aka 'deep inspection') and parsing it as what it thinks it is.
Linux* doesn't use only magic numbers either. docx and zip files are handled differently on my computer, both in Linux and in Windows. If Linux used only magic numbers, it wouldn't be able to tell the difference between docx and zip and would not be able to have them open in different applications.
* Linux is really just the kernel and it is the file manager which stores open with settings using file extensions
You can just check inv and then click x^2. On TI's calculators sqrt is put as shift-x^2 the same way.