As far as Textbook writing goes, Cracked already did an article on it. Here it is for you guys: 6 Disturbing Things I Learned Writing Your Textbooks
Steeldragon
@Steeldragon
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RE: Your friendly local neighbourhood digital textbook industry
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@El_Heffe said:
HAHAHA AWESOME!
from what i've read so far, that is quite the accurate response. hell, even the code in my sig is better
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RE: Frist! And Welcome
I agree. There's no signature guy. I liked the buggy old thing.
Latest posts made by Steeldragon
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RE: Your friendly local neighbourhood digital textbook industry
As far as Textbook writing goes, Cracked already did an article on it. Here it is for you guys: 6 Disturbing Things I Learned Writing Your Textbooks
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RE: Frist! And Welcome
I agree. There's no signature guy. I liked the buggy old thing.
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RE: Had this bug come back to me and dug further
The thing you rae looking for is a ClueByFour. *Hands trog one as it is made of nice oak wood.*
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Applebees Fail.
Got this while filling out a job application at applebees.
Just to clarify, here's the full code below.
Server Error in '/' Application.
<h2> <i>String or binary data would be truncated.<br>The statement has been terminated.</i> </h2> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif "> <b> Description: </b>An unhandled exception occurred during
the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace
for more information about the error and where it originated in the
code.<br><br> <b> Exception Details: </b>System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: String or binary data would be truncated.<br>The statement has been terminated.<br><br> <b>Source Error:</b> <br><br> <table bgcolor="#ffffcc" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td> <code>
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current
web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the
exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <br> <b>Stack Trace:</b> <br><br> <table bgcolor="#ffffcc" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td> <code><pre>[SqlException (0x80131904): String or binary data would be truncated.
The statement has been terminated.]
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +404
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning() +412
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +1363
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) +6387805
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async) +6389506
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result) +538
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe) +689
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() +327
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.Database.DoExecuteNonQuery(DBCommandWrapper command) +394
Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.Database.ExecuteNonQuery(DBCommandWrapper command) +104
AppleBees.JobHistory.Save(Int32 orderID) in D:\Work\Applebees\Applebees 2.0\trunk\development\legacy-applebees\Legacy Applebees\WorkWithUs\JobHistory.ascx.vb:112
AppleBees.Application3.cmdNext_Click(Object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e) in D:\Work\Applebees\Applebees 2.0\trunk\development\legacy-applebees\Legacy Applebees\WorkWithUs\Application3.aspx.vb:48
System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.OnClick(ImageClickEventArgs e) +187
System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +165
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +3707
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <br> <hr color="silver" size="1" width="100%"> <b>Version Information:</b> Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.272 </font><p></p><p>Among the WTFs I can see is an unsanitized SQL call and it expecting to find stuff in a local path. <br></p><div id="swiffout"></div>
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RE: Why should I close my HTML tags?
Works perfectly fine in Pale Moon 19, AKA forked FF19, provided the text becoming as large as possible is normal.
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RE: We need to monitor the heap size
@Evilweasil said:
Nah, a mop has too many threads. they'd get lost trying to put it in the bucket.If they fail to comprehend parallel processing, perhaps they should only be entrusted with one thread.
Or maybe a mop. You can tell them I said that, too.
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RE: Ubuntu and TRWTF... this time...
Mint is rather nice and sane with stuff. I use it on my better computer.
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RE: Need your opinion
I lurk here quite a bit, but do read every sidebar every day, and yours are some of the most enjoyable reads. I say go for it, the more WTF's the merrier, and you'll be making positive change both in money and in your company.
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RE: I-hate-Symantec
@Ben L. said:
@El_Heffe said:
@error_NoError said:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH184002
"If all disk drives found in a physical server are unsupported, a normal, Simplified System Protection (SSP) enabled backup job will display an alert "Failed to load the configuration xml file."Right. Because that makes so much more sense than an a message which says "all disk drives found are unsupported".
The obvious answer is to have a dialog pop up:
ErrorThere was an error.That dialog box is more informative than the original error.