Am getting a 403 too
Posts made by tchize
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RE: "Creative Terrorism"
For the safety of US citizen, it has been decided that September will now contains 31 days. The day of the week of that 31th day will be the same as the day of the week following September the 10th, same year. At 23:59:59 on September the 10th, all clocks will be fast forwarded of 24hours 2 seconds. To compensate for this, september the 31th will contains 24 hours 1 seconds and the leap second (61th second of last minute of last hour) that is adjusted beween December 31th and January the 1st will be removed. This does not affect the occasional 62th second of December the 31th, 23:59.
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RE: "Creative Terrorism"
OMG, next they will tell you you can't have cheese at home because it's full of nasty biological elements and you can't drink belgian beer because they contain bacteries (yeast). This poor guy discovers his wife dead and within a week he got prosecuted, seen as a terrorist, gets all his books and computer stole by governement. Very bad day for him. And for other citizen, considering the time and money waste on a stupid common bacteria.
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Will they get CVs
I received by email, coming from one of my former computer university teacher, an annoucement for a position.
I won't get in details, but these 2 requirements highilight the kind of environment the applicant must know:
- knowledge in office programming (vb)
- administration of windows environments
Ok, but the full text was in a format i never met before (add to that is was renamed by mimedefang): rtfd.
According to wikipedia:
RTFD (due to its extension), is the primary document format of TextEdit, an application native to NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X which has also been ported to other versions of Unix. In contrast to RTF, RTFD is not portable to Windows, for the simple reason that hardly any Windows applications support the format.
See the problem?
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RE: Worse Than Failure Questionnaire WTF?
@AbbydonKrafts said:
@PSWorx said:
All I got was a "For quality control purposes, please leave this question blank"
I was tempted to select "file not found", but decided against it.
Did any of you try to select "A well-reasoned, humorous, and insightful reply" as the answer for what you'd do if you were first in commenting?
Yes, first stage of not pron contest, get over that javascript popup to reach level 2 :)
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RE: How to resign
FYI, in Europe, there are rules your must follow. Am quite surprised you can quit a job "without telling anyone". Here the rules, depending on how much time you worked for the comapny varie from 3 days notice (if you are still on evaluation period, that is mainly first month of work), to more than a month of notice. Usually it's around 2 weeks for Belgium. Other rules might have been decided upon work contract signature, but there are legal limits...
Well, thecnically, you can leave without notice, you will be only fine a few months worth salary by your employer!
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RE: Object programmation is a powerful concept
@pnieuwkamp said:
Or is that kicking in an open door? (<- Literal translation of a Dutch saying).
Works in french :)
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RE: Object programmation is a powerful concept
@merreborn said:
There's a single quote in this thread on webmaster-talk that was just too priceless not to share:
"Object programmation is a powerful concept, but totally different of sequential programmation."
Et le peuple anglophone forme le centre culturel du monde :). L'erreur de particule est tout à fait compréhensible de la part d'un francophone, la langue française utilisant dans tous les cas "de". Quand au mot "programmation", qui semble inapproprié dans ce contexte, c'est simplement un terme que l'auteur a oublié de traduire. La phrase reste tout à fait compréhensible en l'état il me semble.
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RE: Feed TSA officers pie for Thanksgiving
@WeatherGod said:
Not a wtf, but the following phrase had me imagining interesting conversations at the metal detectors:
"Note: You can bring pies and cakes through the
security checkpoint, but be advised that they might be subject to
additional screening."TSA Officer: "Well, what do we have here?"
Traveler: "Just a fresh pumpkin pie I baked."
TSA Officer: "Yeah, well, we are gonna have to take a closer look at it" -- Takes pie -- "Hey, Jimmy, help me screen this pie!"
For this you get some bonus point if you comes from outside of US. It's strictly fobidden to bring even an apple, crisps or whatever food from you homeland to us country. Everything gets destroyed at the entry of country. I'll never understand why.... I can't bring typical food from Europe to US friends, not that i actually have us friends :)
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RE: 'null' != null
@GateKiller said:
I've never met anyone with a surname of Null.... I'll keep an eye on for them!
It also stands to reason that they never tested the form to make sure that their code worked.
http://www.distantcousin.com/SurnameResources/Surname.asp?Surname=Null
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/null-family-crest.htm (I think i'll keep the coat of arms)
http://genforum.genealogy.com/null/
http://names.whitepages.com/Alabama/last/Null
And that wtf for the fun: http://www.whosdatedwho.com/celebrities/people/list/celebrity-categories.asp?FD=lastname&ID=NULL
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RE: Wufoo Negative Forms
@Lingerance said:
@GateKiller said:
I've currently got 1 form and have -2 left out of 5. This make a total of 8 :)
//Compile me, I'm C
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int num;
num = 1 + (-2) + 5;
printf("num = %d\n", num);
return 0;
}#patch me, i'm a unified diff --- test_old.c 2007-11-14 16:27:25.265639105 +0100 +++ test.c 2007-11-14 16:26:53.263815386 +0100 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ int main() { int num; - num = 1 + (-2) + 5; + num = 1 - (-2) + 5; printf("num = %d\n", num); return 0;
I think you've ruined your reputation :D
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RE: Way to turn BSOD off..
I loved this reply:
q56_monster: Isn't there a way to tell windows not to shut off on BSOD?
Csimbi: Probably the same way one turns off the tax system.
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RE: Cash is SO not cool anymore
@Random832 said:
Cash has no inherent security either, why don't you require an ID for those purchases? And how would a signature on the back provide security in any case?
Because if you get your wallet stolen, it probably contains nothing more than 100$ unless you are ready to get stolen of more money. If you get your card stolen, user could use ut to your limit, which is probably around 2000$. And anyway, the merchant get the money for his selling, so at his point of view, everything is ok. If the card gets used, the merchant must check that the card is used by it's owner. Otherwise, is card is stolen, visa won't pay the merchant and the merchant lost money. In case of pin, typing in correct pin number grant merchant you are allowed to use card, so he gets his money. Otherwise, he must use the "signature" way and check signature is same as the one on CC, if both are equal, visa assume user is owner of card without further checkin of ID. Asking ID because there is no signature on card is then a normal operation to do, if you want visa to pay you your money as merchant!
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RE: Cash is SO not cool anymore
The video is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhNZvpiWb1U
This can look a bit homophobic but am not sure about it, The guy looks more like a "full of money dady's child spending time playing golf and squash with awfull clothing habits". It's proably the idea to say "common people have access to technology that rich don't have access to", or perhaps "pay even if you don't have money?"
What amuse me in this is the fact the "paper money" transaction take 3 seconds more (from moment he hands out cash to moment he get his return) than sliding a visa card.... Er wait, all those visa reader always end their transaction by "processing...." ? Am not sure, but that all we see in the video. Sure the 10 seconds waiting for approval during a rush day was not to be shown, nor the 2-3 second to type in pin....
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RE: We Sell Knickknacks on the Internet
I type knickknacks on google and i find a small wtf :)
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RE: ItHasToBeOneWord
@asuffield said:
@apetrelli said:
@tchize said:
- either a Public/Private cryptographic key authentification system
Do you want to expandify your vocabulation? :-)
He has a (poor) excuse, since that's the French spelling, and Belgium is approximately French.
Yes, am French speaking, could someone explain what my mistake(s) is(are) in this sentence please? Thanks.
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RE: Password WTF
@Siloria said:
The new "strict" requirements mandated that the password could be no more than 8 characters long.
Looks like a simple DES password algorithm is used for hashing, like on some configurations of HP-UX (which can be cracked as such a lightning speed :D)
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RE: ItHasToBeOneWord
Why can't that be as much fun in Belgium? :(
The security system goes generally
- either a Public/Private cryptographic key authentification system (private key being on local hard disk protected by local password)
- or a variant of the electronic independant calculator where you enter the server provided numer, your pin and you get a result
My bank don't even know what my mother's maiden name is!
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RE: Ajax examples
@Avenger said:
http://www.panic.com/goods/ has drag-and-drop, what do I win?
And it fails awfully there :D. The 2 first items i drop in cart get counted in the total amount but not displayed :D
I can also drag and drop sold out items. They cost nothing but are present in cart :D
And, it seems, it can check them out (went to the credit card form for 0$ :D)
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RE: Halloween candy - wife wtf
@snoofle said:
So the kids have done their trick-or-treating, and brought home about twenty pounds of assorted chocolates. The wife lets them each take a handful or two, and makes me take the rest to the office so it's out of the house so she doesn't get tempted to pig out. I'm on the bus this morning, loaded down with a large bag-o-candy when she calls me on the cell phone: don't give it all away, I have a craving - bring it home tonight.
Um, if I bring it home, then I'm a) simultaneously listening and not listening to her and b) enabling her to pig out and get fat; if I don't bring it home, I'm not listening to her.
Anyone got a spare room?
By flowers, and don't bring candies, or maybe just bring one :D
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RE: You can't do any better than that?
@djork said:
In geek terms: It's like breaking into someone's house to steal their eMachines desktop running Windows 98.
I would kill for a stable windows :D
Ho wait, i still own a windows 95 licence....
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RE: You can't do any better than that?
Could you explain where the fun is. I see a bunch of text and numbers, and don't understand what it means, nor what is funny in this report....
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RE: Colorado Rockies world series tickets debacle
Reminds me the french pools for the president. A belgian television site was putting results online before the french law officially allowed to diffuse result in France (because polling offices were not yet all closed). As a result, lots of french people where reloading their browser to get the partial result on the belgian television website. Now It's calibrated to handle traffic of Half of belgian country (about amount of people speaking french in Belgium), not calibrated to handle the full traffic coming from France..... The owners spoke about a DDos attack coming from France :s
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RE: Banner Ads - are they even trying anymore?
@dhromed said:
@Anteater said:
@phelyan said:
I don't even see the banners anymore, all I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Nice allusion to The Matrix.
I should have gotten that.
My nerd is failing.
Can you explain? I saw matrix in french and am not sure this allusions works in french :/
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RE: Call off the guns
They use the same for for all their website, (pixmania.uk, pixmania.be, etc), i guess some site have more than one country they can deliver too... perhaps not. But the wtf with pixmania is actualle the poor quality of their support. Don't even ever try to contact them to get a single bit of information on a command or repair :)
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RE: Self-Destructing Websites
No crash with firefox 3.0 alpha9 prerelease , including java 6 plugin.
However, for first page, it's carzy they use such an mermory consuming thing that java applets are just to.... :hover a button :s
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RE: Please amputate my data
Please explain to a poor non english speaker, but where is the wtf? It just tell user you can't operate on this data for now :/
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RE: (Li|U)n[iu]x admins collected and own WTFs
@joe_bruin said:
I found out the hard way that on Solaris, the killall command does not take any arguments.
My new cowoker discovered it the hard way on a production server a few weeks ago too :) Are you sure your name is Joe?
Personally,
deleted partition table with important datas. I knew the partition layout (first reiserfs, then swap, then ...) but not the exact sizes. Challenge was to manually set partition table, checkfs, on error, try othe boundaries, etc. When you have a 512 byte granularity and know the size at about 500Mb, how much tries does it requires? Had to manually apply efficient search algorithms
seen it:
While using a priviledged user account on ancient company, sudoed root added a new account for future access, changed his password, to discover he had change the root password of a server he does not own and should not be using anymore. Not knowing the original root password, the computer was left for a few month with NO root password :)
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RE: Wash hands after handling
In the same area, i'm trying to guess what's in my Garmin GPS:
Warning: this product, its packaging, and its components contain chemicals known to the State of california to cause cancer, birth defect, or reproductive harm. This notice is being provided in accordance with California's Proposition 65. If you have any questions or would like additional information, please refer to our Web site at http://www.garmin.com/prop65/
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RE: Some sponsor might need money
the spam is from toady, but it seems sf.net is still being paid by microsoft to advertise on 2005 products.
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Some sponsor might need money
As quite a lot of you probably heard, today the european court confirmed sanctions against a big american software company. Funny enough, i go this spam in a spam polluted mailing list am subscribed to:
If you have your own business and require IMMEDIATE ready money to spend ANY way you like or need Extra money to give your business a boost or require A low interest loan
...snip...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.
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RE: At least it's encapsulated
i can't imagine the client if he sees the GUI telling him
"Some error occured, server throwed FluffyKittensIntoBlender: no bag or river found"
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RE: You WILL print this page.
@seventoes said:
Not sure if this is a firefox problem or what, but i was linked to the printer-friendly version of a wired.com article, and this nice dialog popped up
Nice,
i suppose for soem reason, the top panel of the dialog (where you choose printer options) and the right panel (containing the cancel button) could not be created, leaving you with this :D
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RE: Messy installation
@benryves said:
(To the op - FAT32? Why?)Mainly because i partitionned on linux first, creating 2 fat partition (no choice for a mkntfs if i remember well). Then windows installer created at my demand a ntfs partition on drive D: (where i installed windows). But then it also installed on fat32 C: (without giving me a change to format it) the nt boot loader. Am stuck with a C: which is a fat32 originally meaned to store my few games and now the nt bootloader. Note that because bootloader is there, it refused to format it to ntfs just after install :/
And to question, why install on D? because i wanted to install on "first windows partition on first hard driver, which got assigned "D:" letter.
Now, because all i do in windows is gaming, no need for anything else... -
Messy installation
Trying to install a commercial OS on a drive that is also used by linux, i get this strange letters assignation logic:
I understand why C and D are FAT partitions. I also understand why E and F are reserved for my DVD drives, considering other partitions are 'unknown type'. What i don't understand is why C: is on second drive, D: on first,G H I J on first and K L M N on second drive... Anyway, looks liek a funny mess to handle, my OS is now installed on drive D: (first fat partition, first drive)
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RE: Exit please
@RoadGrader said:
For the curious / bored, here's the post in question...
You your be ashamed to quote expert-exchange. It is indeed full of newbie questions and strange answer, that you can only read by deactivating css (or paying, but who would pay for that?)
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RE: Shame on the majority of the internet for not building in support for the character ҉
firefox, Kubuntu feisty fawn:
See how browser title is broken, as long as source file. Btw, test on brother PC, a windows XP with firefox, the page displays properly.
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RE: Xcode, the very friendly tool
Ok, probably someone can explain then why this symbol looks so much like a power symbol. And since i have an ibook, the only key that looked like the symbol on or arround the keyboard was the power button :D
Seems i made a fool o myself on it. Makes 2 weeks i wonder why they choose option-power as a shortcut :)
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Xcode, the very friendly tool
Mac os x comes with lots of stuff made to increase the number of apps running on mac. This mean developper tools (named XCode 2) are free to use, qualified by apple of powerful and easy. One of the major feature i like in ide includes codes highlighting, errors marking and, of course, autocompletion. Being a java developper, i started learning C++ "for fun" :). I installed xcode and tried the first examples/exercices in the book. I looked for autocompletion and found a very nive auocompletion menu:
So far so good, you hit ctrl-space like in eclipse to get autocompletion and ... Er wait, it's not ctrl-space sorry, it's
The ^ symbol represent ctrl, that could be ok (exept on french keyboard, you need an additionnal shift to reach the dot), but the second one! The double angle bar is the "meta" key of mac keyboard. Easy to reach. But the Circle one.... It's the power button. Could you imagine coding by hitting every 15 seconds "meta - power" ?!
Very user friendly indeed, and easy to use :D
I can only imagine a desktop developper hitting meta with one hand and reaching his tower powxer button with the other one :D
PS: this shortcut fails, which makes it even worse
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RE: Rebellion Against Rebellion Against Advertising
Want to argue with site owner ?whois result:
Registrant:
Danny Carlton
19724 E Pine St
Suite #149
Catoosa, Oklahoma 75015
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: WHYFIREFOXISBLOCKED.COM
Created on: 06-Aug-07
Expires on: 06-Aug-08
Last Updated on: 06-Aug-07
Administrative Contact:
Carlton, Danny godaddy@DannyCarlton.netThere is even a nice picture on his web site and lots of links to commercial stuffs :p
Ho, and his site is not blocking firefox :D
He also manages quite a lot of domains: http://dannycarlton.net/11.htm
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RE: Worst Products on the Internet
The "author" of Right Click Revenue seems to be arguing on a forum. See it:
Right Click revenue is not secure, it's designed to make revenue
See the "Web Guru" guy. :D
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RE: Windows Live Messenger WTF [ + Microsoft rant ]
@asuffield said:
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
I wonder, do any of the X11 file managers get all this right?
Anybody who's serious about using a unix platform doesn't use them for file management - the shell is just so much better at it than any GUI created so far. As such, all the X11 file managers are designed for immigrants from windows and macosx, so they tend to duplicate some of the insanity.
Try to use command line to manage a webdav folder :D
i particulary like the konqueror feature to filter content. Very usefull to manage content of /home/tchize/*.png and dont get bothered by other files :D
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RE: Pixmania gets the money and keep the stuff?
I did not, it's a family member that did the order this time. I warned them that they support was very bad, they ordered anyway. But because it's online purchase and am the IT guy in family, it comes back to me when there are troubles. People tend to, unfortunately, just look at the price. Personnaly, i just get the price of that store, then go to a local seller and ask them to make me same price :)
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Pixmania gets the money and keep the stuff?
Hello,
Some of you probably know this web site: http://www.pixmania.com, an online technology stuff seller. I already mentionned their Happy Serialization in a previous post.
I had, a few months ago, problem with GF laptop bought there. We asked to pay by wired transfert. We followed procedure, the procedure gave us a bank account + reference number. A third party company is taking the money for them and does the automated update of transaction for them. We paid to bank account with correct number the same day. Next day, i wanted to know if it was already done... Crap, there is no current buy in progress? No number, nothing? Let's go to contact form.... Ho, i must select the command number, there is none for the command i ask. I take another and explain problem. Because i take another number (i writed down *why* in details) i get first a 'it was shipped 6 months ago' answer, then i get a 'you don't have a current command', then i decide to call, after 10 minutes with music (paying the music)
i get a clerk that says "there is no command, maybe you did not get to the end of procedure",
i say "i had screen with payement instructions i followed"
-Sorry, no command
-Refund then
-You didn't pay
-i made a wired transfert, money went to you
-Fax us proof of payment, explain what the problem is and give your bank account number for refundI fax them, send a mail for confirmation of refund ask. Next day i receive a mail saying they will refund as fast as possible. Next day i receive a mail saying my order is shipped. Would have been fun if they shipped and refunded, but they seem to never refund.
Today is just another day with lots of crap at their customer service. One family member ordered a few stuffs there, for the first time in their life. For easyness, the delivery will be at her job office. She paid with credit card, received an 'everything is ok' email, and waited. Every day, status was "in progress" (the status before "packaging").
Since it was supposed to be a 2 days delivery, after 1 week, contact was made with online form (the one of Happy serialization). Return mails said 'we will contact you within 24h'.
By that time, the credit card is billed.
Two days later, a phone call is made at a high price rate belgian phone number, around 17h00 to know wtf is happenning. An answering machine said they are closed for the day, opening hours being between 10h00 and 18h00... (perhaps they are not aware of day light saving in western europe?)
Next day, a call is made midday to same phone number. The clerk answer they sent an email asking to provide a copy of credit card and proof of living at delivery address (they think we live at our job location??). email we never got.Question is, assuming they do this last one as a security measure (i doubt they have security measures), to not bill stolen credit cards... Why the hell do they bill the card before asking additional proofs? Pixmania seems to be making money from overcharged customer service phone number than on selling itself.
I will update this post on information as soon as i get news from the order :)
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RE: I wonder how that course is like...
@rdrunner said:
In the German language are very few words with the letter "Y", so it does not deserve a good location on your keyboard...
I can live with german end english ones... But the "azerty" ones from Belgium REALLY drive me nutz... To type a number, you need to use shift+Number, since they have so many "odd" letters there (I dont know how those are called... )
That's funny because am belgian. Am used to type number with shift hold down. It's not like if i typed number more often than uppercase letters, so it makes no difference to me. Concerning the "odd" letters, let's say that, for us, the german Eszett is a strange letter :D
And we have unfortunately quite a good amount of characters more than english alphabet has. Example words:
Où, hôpital, maïs, çà, prêtre, père, félure,
When i use an english QWERTY keyboard, am getting crazy of those numbers not requiring shift, i always, as reflex, press shift at same time :DNow, i don't think any historical keyboard is very handy at all, they are all derived from the typewriting machines, that were designed with physical mecanism issues in mind, something does not exist on computers.
If you want name of letters:
ù <- "u accent grave"
è <- "e accent grave"
ê <- "e accent circonflexe"
é <- "e accent aigu"
ç <- "c cédille"
ï <- no idea what's the french name of that letter :D
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RE: War on right clickers, tides have turned!
The worse is the testimonials pointing to websites. Those site are made only to sell the right click secure product. One of them is interresting. It *protects* such images:
[img]http://www.pmcgregor.com/images/lazarbar.gif [/img]An other one is simply not using the tool :D
Except a banner that appear behind the popupmenu et selection forbidding, it does not work much :) (and of course, disable javascript ....)
The problem with right click is when you have a really good reason to have your custom menu on some item (like a javascript tree item where various actions are possible) and browser does not disable default context menu :D
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RE: ...words fail me.
@Morbii said:
@untalented_newbie said:
I found this little gem in a J2ME app here (method and var names have been altered slightly to protect the guilty):
- The second method is a copypaste of the first with the addition of a yellow rectangle; they could have just been one method with a parameter that controlled whether the fillRect() happened or not. (DRY rule)
- The `anchor' parameter is never used.
- The creation of the temp variables 'w' and 'h' is unnecessary, since all they do is get copies of NumberWidth and NumberHeight. and these never get changed.
- The colour really should be declared as a static final int somewhere up top (or, if you like, a ${to_be_filled_in_by_ant_at_compile_time}) but not a magic number.
1) Yes, this is somewhat of a wtf. It might have also been ok to have two functions with the second one calling the first. I think two-three functions would have been best - one for the text, one for the rectangle, and optionally one to do both. This way you can always make rectangles and text, heh...
2) I don't really see this as a wtf at all - sorta forward looking in a way (assuming that the values are already defined).
3) This is definitely not a WTF. You may know that NumberWidth and NumberHeight simply return an int, but in theory they could be doing tons of processing also, which you wouldn't want to have happen several times.
4) probably should be static, yeah.
Read a bit more the code, for your (3). NumberWidth and NumberHeight are fields, not methods. So they surely don't do any processing. It they where, they would be methods (getNumberWidth()) and as such it would be ok to store them as locale variables.
Anyway, this code is clearly far from perfect. The thing that hurts me the most is not using java convention to name fields (lowerCamelCase) and constants (UPPER_CASE). But this is however reasonable code.
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RE: Worst computer game ever made by mankind discovered
@PSWorx said:
(Make sure to watch the video as well)
A link to video? To download i need to register on gamespot, which refuses mytrashmail account. To view online i need some windows only plugin...
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RE: JavaScript Works on TV Now!
@Mal1024 said:
Another WTF is that the error says "SyntaxError: syntax error". Isn't one syntax error enough?
Why would a TV need JavaScript anyway?
It's just that the code
<script>
Syntax error
</script>
Contains a SyntaxError