My son is 30 and he left the house long time ago. Now what do I do in these situations? sigh
Posts made by TheRider
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RE: Following the Memo to the Letter
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RE: Translation WTF
@Felix C. said:
the acronym "PSAT" was used.
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RE: Now with 95% more Web 2.0ness
@wildkard said:
Ouch! You could have warned me that they start playing some pretty loud music immediately on opening the page. Cough!Feel free to try the website of my local pawn shop. I assume it's 2.0 because it's inaccessible. I think the designer just hates people.
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RE: "We know you've got a licence, now prove it"
@Helix said:
I think this is a very valid WTF. Whether anyone is able or willing to do anything about is, of course, a completely different story. The fact that this kind of WTF is pretty widespread, particularly in bigger companies, and the fact that we all have to cope with it somehow, doesn't make it any less of a WTF.Admins, please delete this tread, not a very good WTF
I usually try to correct the system if it doesn't make logical sense, too. If it turns out to be immovable, then, of course, I will play along. Maybe, like the OP, trying to have a little fun with the rigidness of it.
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RE: Can you play itunes on anything other than a pc/laptop?
The Laptop: "it used to be on a mdf wooden desk but it heats up really badly"
Pleese send mee teh pics
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RE: Outlook+Exchange to Lotus Notus.
And I thought, everyone is migrating away from Lotus Notes...
OTOH: I am working with both email systems at different customers, and those installations all run smoothly. Couldn't complain about either one except a few minor quirks. I guess as long as the admin guys know what they're doing, all is well.
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RE: Binary is . . . difficult
What I find most astonishing is that this product goes under the heading "T-Shirts":
Home > ComputerGear Site Map > ComputerGear Tshirt Shop - find hundreds of T-shirts here! > Math and Binary > T-shirts > Binary LED Wall Clock
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RE: It's Full
@campkev said:
Am I the only one that's never had a problem with the forum software?
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RE: Extreme Box
Does that mean that the box contains 100 pieces of "Extreme Generic" items?
I want one. Looks promising.
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RE: Text... image... what's the difference?
the "content" text exists in three variants there:
- drawn on the main image
- part of the <title> tag
- part of the main image's alt="..." attribute
addendum: oops sorry, that was on the "order my..." page -- there at least the email-link works in the middle of the page. Astonishingly
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RE: World's most clingy boss
@donniel said:
I'm getting more and more paranoid. You guys watching me over all the time? Good golly! Can't I take a shit on my own? I think I give my two weeks notice to TDWTF forums.Maybe we should ask him to "check in" with us after he logs into TDWTF and "checks out" when he logs out? We do value communication around here.
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RE: Woop woop - moron alert!
@yourmom said:
"Side Bar" WTF
<div class="CommonDescription">Because more things make us ask WTF than just code</div><div class="CommonDescription"> </div><p></blockquote> You registered just to say this? Wow!</p><p><nitpicking-mode></p><p>I don't know what the general public thinks of this, but my personal interpretation of "Side Bar WTF" is that the creator of this site, Mr. Papadimoulis, encourages his lowly visitors to post their own "Curious Perversions in Information Technology" at their leisure. He publishes similar stuff on the front page whenever he feels like it. I *don't* think that "Side Bar WTF" is meant for arbitrary WTF things. For those, there are plenty of other places on the internet. </p><p></nitpicking-mode> <br></p>
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RE: Woop woop - moron alert!
@Welbog said:
@ab2283 said:
I alsofind this video to be a good laugh. But: In what aspect does it represent a "Curious Perversion in Information Technology", qualifying it for a post on this site? Please fill me in.some stupid chick isn't grasping the concept of rainbows and believes the government or whoever is putting substances in her water which create rainbows. (because according to her, those are limited to the sky)
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RE: One transaction at a time, damnit
@SQB said:
@ooblek said:
Seconded
I vote to move this to the frontpage right the fuck now.So, out of spite, I put about 2MB worth of garbage in one of the fields and posted it to their test system. The test system was unreachable the rest of the day.
I burst to laughter several times, but this one hits it really.
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RE: Canoo Ultra light client?
Sorry for not having seen this before. My response is maybe too late, but other readers may still profit, so here goes:
Yes, I have used ULC before. I actually liked it very much. I don't use it these days because I'm a contractor and there aren't any ULC contracts at hand right now. I would use ULC any time again, though.
I am not exactly sure what you mean with ULC "automatically does something that a developer typically does". ULC is, by concept and design, somewhere between a fat client (such as VB or Java Swing) and a thin client (such as your standard HTML web application). So, you basically have a rich client application (it is using Java Swing on the client side) without writing the client side code. The GUI (or a representation of it) is constructed on the server side. Once the ULC libraries have been installed on the client (and there are various means to to that) nothing further has to be done to run any kind of rich GUI application.
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RE: Anchor tags are for wusses
@TheDude said:
TRWTF is that they do, or did so in the past.@stuckinmemphis said:
MPS and Morbius, this is my first post so I quite expect a flaming. :)
TRWTF is that it's now expected that MPS and Morbius will flame people.
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RE: Low level programming using system() calls
@Spectre said:
@TheRider said:
I am working mostly with CRLF (Windows) based text files. I am also quite accustomed to CR-delimited text files from the Unix world. But just one or two months ago I stumbled over files that were LF-delimited, supposedly produced by a Mac. I can't tell whether it was OSX or MacOS or whatever generation of Apple operating systems. This is why I am talking about three types of text files.TRWTF is that Apple decided to use different text file line endings than Unix.
OS X, which the OP is talking about, is Unix-like and uses Unix line endings. Still, the solution is obviously a WTF; the proper one, I suppose, would be to either use a CRLF-delimited input on Windows and LF-delimited on Unix in the first place, or use LF-delimited files on both systems and open the file in binary mode.
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RE: Low level programming using system() calls
@Arancaytar said:
Methinks, *that's* the WTFthe code is atrocious, but...
On the other hand, TRWTF is that Apple decided to use different text file line endings than Unix. Not to mention PCs line endings are different, too. Three different line-endings for no good reason. Uck!
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RE: It's Yes! Hurray!
@Merkidemis said:
and many of you know who this company is
Initech? -
RE: Anyone want a domain?
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
ROFL@Zecc said:
(also, I mystiped 'access')
Oh the irony.
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RE: Anyone want a domain?
@MommyitBurns said:
Needless to say their services will no longer be in use by our company.
I don't see where the problem is. Mutual trust is the fundamental basis of all successful and growing business. There still are places in this world where not every contract or order has to happen in writing and needs to be signed manyfold in order to be executed to the letter by the contractor and be paid to the penny by the customer. Abuse of trade secrets (such as usernames and passwords) will be the end of your business in those countries.
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RE: The beginning of the end
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
The joke (if it is one) may be lost on me because I come from another culture and english is not my first language. But morbiuswilters' post appears to me to be very sexist and inappropriate.@TheRider said:
W.T.F.?!?
What do you not understand?
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RE: ImMovable Type
@WWWWolf said:
Except for the fact that the WordPress export/import functionality actually works.
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RE: Evolution of Not
@fbjon said:
What's so magical about 1.4 anyway?
Nothing. It is just still being in use in some products that I develop for. Such as IBM WebSphere Application Servers version 6. And my employer usually only upgrades if there is no other way, such as no more support from the manufacturer.Therefore: I hail you all who can use all of these nice new features of Java 1.5 and beyond. Only, it is not for me, at least not until some time... Autoboxing? I can do without. Templates? tough luck.
Well, yes, it might be TRWTF to use WebSphere. But in some shops, you just can't upgrade whenever you feel like it. Such a step might cost millions in retesting, or may require changing code or configuration. Not something you do overnight.
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RE: Are comments read-only?
@ActionMan said:
I tend to say that, too. But not because nobody might need comments, but rather because very often, comments are out-of-date almost as soon as you finish typing -- and, worst of all, are very rarely revisited and corrected (well, the compiler doesn't care about misleading comments, right?)Bah, who needs comments anyway?
The code is the documentation!
I particularly hate comments that are automatically generated by some IDE such as// Method Xyz:insert witty description of the purpose of this method here
because these comments tend to NEVER be replaced with witty descriptions of the purpose of said method...
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RE: Childlike sense of wonder
I particularly like this note on the main page (remove the /blog/ part from the link posted by the OP):@Important notification said:
After a lot of effort i have finished my personal web site. It was not easy for me as i loose interest very quickly. But Thanks to Almighty , i have finished it.
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RE: Please contact our support.
Looks like you should call them up instead of sending them an email.
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RE: WTF on wheels
@Random832 said:
<<removed xkcd comic>>
yes, yes, we know we are all bad, bad boys. Punish us!
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RE: Auto Increment is for WHIMPS!!!!
Don't get me wrong. I ain't saying Oracle is the best database on the market. Just that I like its implementation of sequences best. Thats all.
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RE: Auto Increment is for WHIMPS!!!!
@Nelle said:
Ok, I fold.MySQL :
SELECT @order_id = LAST_INSERT_ID();
TransactSQL:
SELECT @order_id = SCOPE_IDENTITY();
So what exactly is the problem ?
TRWTF is, then, that there is no standardized way to do it (like, in a SQL standard) so that every db maker had to roll their own. And I still maintain that MySQL and TransactSQL's way is more quirky than Oracle's.
@Ragnax said:
I'm hoping the Oracle guys were smart enough to increment the ID the moment it is requested, because otherwise: race conditions ahoy!
Yes, they were. That function is not implemented as a simple SELECT MAX(id)+1 FROM TABLE. Thanks, ammoQ, for more in-depth. -
RE: Auto Increment is for WHIMPS!!!!
@PJH said:
Yes, I do@TheRider said:
The problem is that you don't know what id has been assigned until "after the fact".
Given a reasonable database schema, I'm failing to see the problem.Do you have a live/contrived example where you feel this is a problem?
Imagine the following two tables:
table ORDER, with fields id (autoincrement), customerid (foreign key to CUSTOMER), orderdate
table ORDERENTRY, with fields id (autoincrement), orderid (foreign key to ORDER), articleid (foreign key to ARTICLE), itemcount, price
To enter a new order with an order entry into the database, you have to do something like:
insert into ORDER (customerid, orderdate) values ('cust-1234', current date);
insert into ORDERENTRY (orderid, articleid, itemcount, price) values (?!?, 'article-5678', 5, 99.95);
==> what is the number that you insert into the orderid field? You cannot reliably find out what id was assigned to the new ORDER row, particularly if, for example, two orders have been entered for the same customer on the same date. Except, of course, if there is some mechanism like the one AbbydonKrafts is describing here:
@AbbydonKrafts said:
@TheRider said:
and thus you are able to use the new id both for inserting the row in table 1, and use that id as a foreign key to table 1 in a new record in table 2.
Some other databases have a query for retrieving the last ID generated, such as SELECT @@identityI don't know by heart, but in oracle you would do something like this:
select new-sequence-number for table ORDER -- the exact syntax can surely be found in the Oracle manuals...
==> this would return a new uniqe key for said table, such as 4711.
insert into ORDER (id, customerid, orderdate) values (4711, 'cust-1234', current date);
insert into ORDERENTRY (orderid, articleid, itemcount, price) values (4711, 'article-5678', 5, 99.95);
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RE: Auto Increment is for WHIMPS!!!!
I needed to implement several of these auto-incrementing algorithms. Of course, most of current database systems offer some way of automagically assigning unique ids ("sequencing") to new rows in a table, but only some of them are useful, at least in some contexts.
As far as I know, sequencing is implemented in Access and IBM DB2 such that you define a field in a table as being the unique index and auto-indexing, and when inserting new rows, you just leave out that field, and the database fills it in automatically. The problem is that you don't know what id has been assigned until "after the fact". If you don't have other unique field combinations in that table, then you don't have an easy way to find out the exact id assigned to the last row inserted. Which means that you can't easily insert rows in several, linked tables at once.
Oracle is the only database I know which has a way to find out a new id *before* adding the row, and thus you are able to use the new id both for inserting the row in table 1, and use that id as a foreign key to table 1 in a new record in table 2.
So, yes, I implemented sequencing mechanisms in several different projects several times, simply to be sure that whatever underlying database we use, this will always work, not only under Oracle. In that sense: No, I don't consider this a WTF.
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RE: WTF on wheels
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
2. There are no girls on the internet. (I wish you would learn this, tired of repeating it)
Sorry, MPS, I'm not trying to be picky. I simply don't understand what the problem is. Would you mind explaining that sentence to a naive foreigner like me?
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RE: Would you...
I made that decision 6 years ago. I asked my boss for a reduced workload. Working 80% now (i.e. got a free friday) and, of course, made 20% less money. I can afford it. And the increase in life satisfaction is immeasurable. Changed employer 3 times since, was able to keep the 80% employment rate. Am currently back to the employer I had 6 years ago, albeit with another company.
It turns out that having an official workload of 80% means working 80% -- instead of the 120% that "normal" employees usually do...
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RE: Wooden table #9548123
I don't understand either. Appears to be a good candidate for a mug.
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RE: ClearCase WTF
I vote for Serena Dimensions to be the worst revision control system on the planet. Had to work with it for two years, hated its guts. Used CVS before and loved it.
- Have to check out and specify a given change request for every file.
- interweaving changes for different change requests on the same file would simply not work (do change A on file X, do change B on file X, fix bug in change A on file X <== Uh-oh, can't do, have to create a "bugfix change for A" first to be able to do that. We ended up in creating a "changes for next release" change request and doing all source changes and that change request.
- Synchronizing projects to the latest revisions is a drag. It requires clicking away dozens of dialog boxes ("files updated:", "files added:", "files deleted:", "files updated on both sides" -- for every workspace project)
- Terrible performance: Checking out a single file could take up to 40 seconds.
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RE: Lame PHP Screen Scraping
@Eternal Density said:
Sides? I don't even clearly understand what sides there are to choose from.Okay, anyone who isn't actually on the same side, please raise your hand. Just so the rest of us can see what's actually going on here.
I only know I feel with morbius, so that's probably taking a side here.
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RE: Return of "What's worse than your web host failing to keep your site up?"
at least the titlebar looks promising: "...and Reliable Hosting"
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RE: SQL injection madness
BTW, this is what they report under "Aktuell" == "news":
In der Nacht vom Sonntag, 20. April auf Montag 21. April 2008 wurde sleep-in.ch Opfer eines Hacker-Angriffs.
Dabei wurden alle Angebote der über 2800 Gastgeber und Gäste gezielt gelöscht. Sleep-In konnte mit wenigen Ausnahmen alle Inserate wiederherstellen (Stand Sonntag Morgen). Sleep-In entschuldigt sich bei seinen Gastgeber und Gästen und arbeitet mit Hochdruck daran, dass sich dieser Vorfall nicht wiederholen kann.
Aber natürlich sind wir verärgert und enttäuscht.
Trotzdem: Auf eine gfreute Euro08!Translates to
During the night sunday, april 20 to monday april 21, sleep-in.ch has become the victim of a hacker attack.
Now, what do we say!Thereby, all offers of more than 2800 hosts and guests have been deleted on purpose. Sleep-in was able to restore all ads with only a few exception (status of sunday morning). Sleep-In is apologizing to all hosts and guests and is working with high pressure to not let this incident repeat itself.
But of course, we are angry and disappointed.
Still: Enjoy a happy Euro08!
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RE: SQL injection madness
I just noticed this page in the search results:
http://www.sleep-in.ch/suchergebnis_gast.php?zoneid=10&katid=&minpers=&lang=d&Anfangsposition=40&abfrage=SELECT+i_id%2Ci_name%2Ci_vorname%2Ccb.bez+as+cod_bez%2Csubstring(value%2C1%2C20)+as+l_value%2Ci_max_personen%2Ci_zeitraum_von%2Ci_zeitraum_bis%2C+zb.bezeichnung+as+z_bez%2Ci_bemerkung%2CUNIX_TIMESTAMP(i_mutiert_am)+as+mutdat%0D%0A+++++++++++++FROM+inserate%2C+codes+co%2C+codebez+cb%2C+countries+c%2C+zonen+z%2C+zonenbez+zb%0D%0A++++++++++++where+i_rubrik_cod_id+%3D+100%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+i_typ_cod_id+%3D+200%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+i_status_cod_id+%3D+900%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+i_kat_cod_id+%3D+co.cod_id%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+co.cod_id+%3D+cb.cod_id%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+cb.spr_id+%3D+'d'+%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+i_land+%3D+c.id+%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+i_z_id+%3D+z.z_id%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+z.z_id+%3D+zb.z_id%0D%0A++++++++++++++and+zb.spr_id+%3D+'d'+and+i_z_id+in+('3'%2C'11'%2C'12'%2C'13')+order+by+cod_bez%2C+UNIX_TIMESTAMP(i_mutiert_am)+desc+&PHPSESSID=3b40f967208e224666840320c4a51273
and now I remember having read about that site in the local newspapers a few days ago. They were reported to have lost records last friday, and the operators restored to the last backup. Shall I help them test their backup/restore procedure once again? :-)
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RE: Localized at
You guys may not know, but Microsoft translated its embedded programming constructs, such as the functions in Excel, for many versions. Not sure if this is still the case with the latest versions. Anyway, it made you write cell functions such as:
=WENN(E32="B";"some_text";"some_other_text")
(where "WENN" actually means "IF" in german. Makes baby jesus cry)
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RE: Random Pictures WTF
Great pictures!
But it would be of great help to us if you didn't take a full screen shot each time, but concentrate on the relevant section on the screen, such as the window in question. Alt+PrintScreen usually does a great job of that. It may even help to reduce the window size to the relevant parts first.
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RE: ITunes discrimination
@Welbog said:
In my case, the collection developed over the course of several years at my workplace, where I set up a "Music server", and a team of coworkers and I ripped and mp3-encoded the CD collection each one had at home. When I left that company, I took that hard disk home. I was almost the last one of that team leaving, anyway. Plus I recorded all of my LPs, cassettes and minidiscs. In the end, about a quarter of the full collection is my personal music which I know very well, the rest stems from former colleages, which I still meet from time to time over beer or two, by the way.You guys have so many songs. Where do you get them all?
So, yes, this is all perfectly legal. Nothing downloaded through peer-to-peer networks, as far as I can tell. But I still have a lot of music to discover :-)
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RE: ITunes discrimination
@belgariontheking said:
I happen to have just about the same amount of music. Its around 80GB, 23'000 tracks. I gave up on trying software music library management. Instead, I invested quite a bit of time in a nice directory structure. Now I usually find my music very fast (as on my NEO35 120GB-harddisk-based car MP3 player). Prerequisite: One needs to know ones collection.As mentioned, I have 23000 songs, but I'll be the first one to admit that I may never listen to it all before I die. 70000? Fagetaboutit. How useful is an app that manages files you may never even USE?
Back when my list was a mere 2000 songs, I considered Winamp to be quite useful.
Thumbing through a list of 1000 artists or 2000 albums (as on my diskless-networked-MP3-player which requires tags navigation) isn't really inspiring. Neither is going through the list of genres and other shit. That info is never up-to-date or decently filled-in.