Posts made by Spacecoyote
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RE: Columbia shuttle data recovery
Also older chips are proven bug-free and come in version that can withstand radiation. What if NASA had decided to go with a AMDK6-2 back in the day...
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RE: How does your marketing department come up with great ads?
Thats why Vista was the example...the upside of marketing is they make you look good, the downside of marketing is they make you look too good.
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RE: I hate cmd.exe
@morbiuswilters said:
bash might not be as primitive as DOS, but it's still a pain in the fucking ass.
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RE: I hate cmd.exe
cmd.exe is the product of years of laziness and back-burner development at microsoft.
DOS started out a clone of CP/M. Microsoft didn't bother with multitasking or even anything above primitive batch processing, and instead just threw BASIC on there as DOS's "killer app". Oddly enough, both the IBM PC and BASIC took off, carrying DOS with it. By then MS had a more fully featured Unix clone called Xenix (based on Version 7 Unix), but DOS had become so big and Microsoft were looking at OS/2 so Xenix was abandoned by Microsoft (SCO picked it up and went on to become infamous).
The Macintosh was doing big things for Apple, and threatening to slowly but surely kill the IBM PC. It seemed almost too late when Microsoft stepped in and released Windows 3, their first offering to even come close to the user friendliness of the Mac, with DOS as sort of a glorified bootloader. But due to the sheer size of the IBM PC market Windows took off. So the big thing was GUI and Microsoft didn't make any noteworthy improvements since to the command prompt. Recently Microsoft has released Windows Powershell, a more more fully featured shell than cmd.exe, but non-standard (unless you call vbscript a standard) to say the least.I say screw both of them. BASH ftw!
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RE: Information Week's history of "pwn"
Its a stupid typo that originated from one of the maps of Warcraft 1.
I hate it when people say "pone", it makes me want to stuff them in the trunk of a volkswagen bug and pay someone to drive it far far away. Is it a different word than own? No. Should you then pronouce it differently? Hell no.
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RE: Soda company to put LOLcats on bottle labels
Christmas Tree and Christmas Ham are probably the worst novelty flavors they made. But I really like Green Apple. As for the lolcats, I imagine that Jones spamming them all over soda cans will be the one last thing that makes the lolcat fad go completely passe.
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RE: Lenovo trifecta in play?
Reminds me of a HP flatbed scanner I once purchased. The driver on the CD was required. It installed through a Flash applet. The TWAIN scanning dialog rendered its GUI through HTML, and all of the widgets were stored as BMPs. The driver took up over 100mb. I lost the CD and had to download the driver when I plugged into a different computer. It was uncompressed, so it was also over 100mb. It hadn't even been 6 months and the damn thing died.
I won't point out what's so bad about any of this, I think you can see. Also, that scanner's not the only HP product that has been very bad to me. The moral of the story: Never buy HP.
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RE: Flags: The easy way
Reminds me of some code I once wrote. But *I* was writing on a TI-82 calculator, which has no bitshift operations, and I also had to unroll loops due to speed issues. This guy however has no excuse of course...
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RE: Bottled Spring Water WTF
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RE: What has the UK ever done for you?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Internet yet...
I guess its a USA invention...we do act like we own it. The .gov TLD is US only, we bogart all the .coms, the IANA is located in California (as well as the Internet Archive, and Google), and the US ARPANET is often credited as the Internet's predecessor.
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RE: Contradictory requirements
Perhaps he just wants something cross-platform.
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RE: Departing to... End program
I hate it how nearly everyone thinks that everyone has broadband so crap like huge webpages/images and Flash are no big deal. Meanwhile, I'm stuck in rural Oregon (thanks to my parents...) with dial up that can barely accomplish 33kbps.
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RE: Side bar WTF on the WTF side bar
Curious Perversions in Information Technology
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RE: Judge convicts dude to dump Linux and use Windows
Yeah. A few years ago this guy would not have been allowed to use a computer at all.
Then again, if I were him, I would borrow someone's Windows disc, install the spyware during the 30 days that Windows lets you use it without registering, then uninstall Windows and reinstall Linux. Our government would never know, because they don't pay any attention, unless someone rats you out.
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RE: Geek Squad advertizing on TheDailyWTF?!?
With their apparent level of incompetence (which I know personally) they should end up on the front page any time now.
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RE: Great Project Management
Rather than complaining about the PM, you could perhaps make duplicate classes under different names, modify those to suit you, and then make sure your form uses them... Then again you didn't say what platform you're working with so I could just be talking out my ass.
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RE: Sometimes I leave presents for myself to find later:
W = 4
Th = 5
F = 6W
MAC
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STORE
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hehe.
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RE: Worst Products on the Internet
Pay wifi
Wrong on so many levels-
- People actually buy it
- You have to send you credit card infos over an unsecured connection
- You don't really have to buy it, you can find an open connection if you look hard enough.
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RE: Make noise when something fails
Reminds me of this story:
[QUOTE user="Ping Website"]
The best ping story I've ever heard was told to me at a USENIX conference, where a network administrator with an intermittent Ethernet had linked the ping program to his vocoder program, in essence writing:
ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder
He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up
the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting
"Ping, ping, ping..." once a second,
and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet
connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the
intermittent failure.[/QUOTE]
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RE: How to make sure it worked
@dhromed said:
@merreborn said:
The real WTF? The boss hired these guys anyway. 'cause hey, they write bad code that doesn't work, but they'll do it for $5/hr!
Woes I'm very familiar with.
We get intern-level code, but hey, it's cheap.
Yes.
Yes it is.
I would hope interns could do better than that.
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RE: Enable/disable controls the stupid ways
@bstorer said:
Also, he creates new objects and drops them out of scope on every iteration of the loop. If nothing else, that's a bit of bad form.
Its also a memory leak waiting to happen.
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RE: String contains
@Quinnum said:
@Welbog said:
/*
* true is the source contains the pattern
*/That's comment GOLD
I think I got that in a fortune cookie once.
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Automated Wooden Table
Okay so I guess this doesn't really belong in the sidebar but nobody reads the forums so I put it here for the greater good.
Today a made a little gadget that I use to digitize art faster (and at worse quality) than a scanner. It is a somewhat elegant implementation of the standard wooden table + camera pattern.
Here is my instructable
Enjoy!
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RE: How do you pronounce that again?
Just an encoding glitch. It says "Daniel Brühl".
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RE: This website is a trademark infringement
No, they're infringing on IBM and the US Postal Service. Who own dark and light blue, respectively.
...and Styrofoam is a genericized trademark.
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RE: ...words fail me.
WTF's are supposed to be about accidentally malignant horrible code. This code is benign...sure it does some things that are hard to keep track of, and some things that are just unnecessary, but I don't see anything dangerous.
We need more real WTFs.
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RE: Pop-up Potpourri 13: 011011110110110101100111011101110111010001100110
Ironically, Flickr doesn't want to display images either. Try imageshack.us
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RE: Has Harvard Dental School never heard of novocaine?
And the website itself was clearly designed by idiots, it uses tables for layout, the picture at the top tiles (as in "HarvardDentalCenter Harvar") when its not supposed to, certain hunks of text are images for no good reason, no doctype, several malformed/nonexistant attributes, and no image alternates. Hooray.
Sadly, I've seen a lot worse, but I didn't expect this from Harvard.
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RE: Big FAT32 Hard Drives
EXT2 or EXT3 might be a good choice. They are backwards/forwards compatible and support is built into linux. Fairly good EXT2 drivers (which are of course compatible with EXT3) exist for Windows and Mac as well.
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RE: Symbol madness
Aaagh, another WTF came to mind--Recursive code servers...a code server that requires server code from another code server.
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RE: Uninstall the Uninstaller?
FF inherits this from 7-Zip. Go bug Igor Pavlov about it if you wish...
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RE: Wait, what was I installing?
@Isuwen said:
Um. What? There's nothing on that page about a scanner.
Apparently they fixed the screenshot already. The part where it reads "GPU" used to read "HP ScanJet".
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RE: Wait, what was I installing?
Apparently the person who took the screenshot for the instructions didn't want to actually install Forceware so he installed his scanner instead.
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RE: W3Schools WTF
They should finally put that user agent trickery to rest...
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RE: Dreamincode.net
Well my favorite code help forum is thescripts.net. But I hardly ever go there because I'm not a noob.
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RE: Google - "Results 1 - 10 of about 1"
Also, the code estimates how many results there are rather than counting. This is not a WTF, its simply so that the server doesn't grind to a halt when someone types in "britney spears xxx".
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RE: What is the sound of one hand ClapPasswordg?
Google shows 1 result for conbufuctor
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RE: Still worried about y2k 7 years later.
The problem is there are people who don't know what a browser is yet they use one every day...
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RE: This woman just makes me SICK
The lawsuit is over. The judge pretty much agreed that her case is bullshit.