• Pirate pants provide minimal data (unregistered)

    FYI... "the seat of ones pants" is utilized when flying, not sailing.

    I like pirates and all, but they generally do their sailing whilst standing up, thus they don't receive any feedback from the clothing around their ass being in contact with some kind of seat.

    Mixed metaphors don't really work.

  • (cs)

    When I read "pirates", I thought the article was going to be about something different.

    Damn metaphors.

  • Tired dev (unregistered)

    tsirf

  • (cs)

    You could choose from "No conversion" or "Binary conversion".

    What? Ahab invented FTP?

  • (cs) in reply to Mcoder
    Mcoder:
    > You could choose from "No conversion" or "Binary conversion".

    What? Ahab invented FTP?

    No, duh, Lyle invented FTP.

  • Indifferent (unregistered) in reply to Mcoder
    Mcoder:
    > You could choose from "No conversion" or "Binary conversion".

    What? Ahab invented FTP?

    Not much else to do on those long, cold journeys.

  • Michael (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Mcoder:
    > You could choose from "No conversion" or "Binary conversion".

    What? Ahab invented FTP?

    No, duh, Lyle invented FTP.
    Only after Al G. invented the internet.

  • GWO (unregistered)

    Note to self: familiarise myself with basic plot/themes/characters of Moby Dick before attempting a painful analogy based on the book...

    NB: The first line, one characters name and the fact it involves a whale might not cut it.

  • (cs)

    I'm missing the part where Ahab's leg was torn off by a bad conversion.

  • facilisis (unregistered) in reply to Michael
    Michael:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Mcoder:
    > You could choose from "No conversion" or "Binary conversion".

    What? Ahab invented FTP?

    No, duh, Lyle invented FTP.
    Only after Al G. invented the internet.

    Which he did so that the Staines Massive could send each other e-mail.

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to Pirate pants provide minimal data
    Pirate pants provide minimal data:
    I like pirates and all, but they generally do their sailing whilst standing up, thus they don't receive any feedback from the clothing around their ass
    Well, for pirates that may be true, but if you sail a race in a small boat, you tend to "stand" somewhat horizontally facing the clear blue sky... meaning your bottom, in this situation even being on the bottom, is not far away from the water.
  • (cs) in reply to facilisis
    facilisis:
    Michael:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Mcoder:
    > You could choose from "No conversion" or "Binary conversion".

    What? Ahab invented FTP?

    No, duh, Lyle invented FTP.
    Only after Al G. invented the internet.

    Which he did so that the Staines Massive could send each other e-mail.

    +1. I read it as "Ali G" too :)

  • (cs)

    snoofle, don't let them get to you! Some of us prefer your posts which simply set out the WTF to the painfully exaggerated literary references which the house style seems to promote.

  • (cs) in reply to pjt33
    pjt33:
    snoofle, don't let them get to you! Some of us prefer your posts which simply set out the WTF to the painfully exaggerated literary references which the house style seems to promote.

    I don't suppose he will. Anyone who has to put up with the shit Snoofle does is going to have a hide like a rhinoceros' arse!

  • Anom nom nom (unregistered)

    TRWTF is thedailywtf.com I miss them good ol' days

  • GWO (unregistered) in reply to pjt33

    Did you even read this one, or did you just not pick up on the painfully exaggerated literary reference?

  • (cs) in reply to GWO
    GWO:
    Did you even read this one, or did you just not pick up on the painfully exaggerated literary reference?
    I did pick up on it. Hence the plea. Only the few couple of paragraphs were seriously affected, so there's hope yet.
  • belzebub (unregistered)

    There is potentially one good story about the Ahab guy, who made everybody his bitch, who ruled as a tyrant, but who turned to be a total n00b in some incident exposing his lame code and this had some consequences, which could've been told.

    But sadly, we only got 4 pretty week stories. They were written in one article, so they may be related:

    1. Story about how some Ahab guy took over some rookies team
    2. Story about really bad data processing and obfuscated naming choices
    3. Story how the Ahab guy left for vacation and nobody else had admin access.
    4. Story about poor authentication code.

    Still better than Hanzo, though.

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to belzebub
    belzebub:
    1. Story about how some Ahab guy took over some rookies team
    He didn't. He just dissed David's team.
    belzebub:
    3. Story how the Ahab guy left for vacation and nobody else had admin access.
    Nope. It was David's boss who left for vacation.
    belzebub:
    4. Story about poor authentication code.
    "Weak obfuscation - the next big thing in cyber security!"

    "After the government agency's numbercruncher had toiled away for a full day without decrypting the authentification token, an operator had a sudden idea: 'They, they,... they couldn't have just spelled the name backwards, now, could they?' 'Nah, nobody would do that, that's just to weak for security. Give it another couple of hours on it.'"

    belzebub:
    Still better than Hanzo, though
    Yup. And I don't want to see one worse than Hanzo.
  • Brin (unregistered) in reply to slipstream
    slipstream:
    When I read "pirates", I thought the article was going to be about something different.

    Damn metaphors.

    Especially after the previous article mentioning DRM.

  • TheSoftwareDev (unregistered) in reply to Pirate pants provide minimal data

    [quote user=2013-11-28 08:05 • by Pirate pants provide minimal data"]FYI... "the seat of ones pants" is utilized when flying, not sailing. [/quote]

    TRWTF is that this comment was posted 12 days before the article was even posted.

  • DoctaJonez (unregistered) in reply to belzebub
    belzebub:
    Still better than Hanzo, though.
    Sad but true :-(
  • anony (unregistered)

    Wow, there is a french TDWTF: http://fr.thedailywtf.com/Articles/Quatri%C3%A8me-temps-est-le-charme.aspx http://fr.thedailywtf.com/Articles/La-nouvelle-ligne-dans-la-performance.aspx

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    Ah yes... security by nametag.

  • NotCalifornia (unregistered)

    Alternate title: "The baha moment"

  • (cs) in reply to TheSoftwareDev
    TheSoftwareDev:
    Pirate pants provide minimal data:
    FYI... "the seat of ones pants" is utilized when flying, not sailing.

    TRWTF is that this comment was posted 12 days before the article was even posted.

    The stories are accessible before publication, by using the AddComment.aspx page, and altering the ?AtricleId= query string value. You can poke around in that range of values, and usually find 4 or 5 stories already written, but not yet visible on the sites front page.

    The early comments can be used to provide some feedback on the story before it is seen by everyone else. Whoever does the publishing usually deletes any early comments (which is what I expected), but this time they didn't.

  • Valued Service (unregistered) in reply to TheSoftwareDev

    [quote user="TheSoftwareDev"][quote user=2013-11-28 08:05 • by Pirate pants provide minimal data"]FYI... "the seat of ones pants" is utilized when flying, not sailing. [/quote]

    TRWTF is that this comment was posted 12 days before the article was even posted.[/quote]

    The tsirf post didn't stand a chance.

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to anony
    anony:
    Wow, there is a french TDWTF: http://fr.thedailywtf.com/Articles/Quatri%C3%A8me-temps-est-le-charme.aspx http://fr.thedailywtf.com/Articles/La-nouvelle-ligne-dans-la-performance.aspx
    Great! Ok, not that many articles, hardly merits the D in TDWTF, but still. That means two wtf on a good day.

    I will start getting the dust off my french right away.

  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered) in reply to pjt33
    pjt33:
    snoofle, don't let them get to you! Some of us prefer your posts which simply set out the WTF to the painfully exaggerated literary references which the house style seems to promote.
    ...or was Snoofle actually parodying those painfully exaggerated literary references? You've gotta ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do you, punk? One... Two... Three... CRUNCH! The world may never know.
  • (cs)
    Ahab's group maintained a whale of a publish/subscribe system
    Oh, get over yourself.
  • Sailor_and_Pilot (unregistered) in reply to Pirate pants provide minimal data

    One's obviously never sailed:

    1. Catamaran at 20kts+ flying up on one hull, with crew sitting out on a trapeze to counterbalance against capsizing (http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cnk8/IMAGES/catamaran.jpg)

    2. Chesapeake Bay log canoe flying clouds of sail, with crew sitting out on hiking boards to counterbalance against capsizing (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xU632xLzPz8/T8WFo-imOKI/AAAAAAAACGU/wCo1S6NbgNE/s1600/P1010024.JPG - one of my neighbors is the guy in the white cap on the end of the middle hiking board)

    ...so, yes, some folks do need the seat of their pants when sailing...

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to Sailor_and_Pilot
    Sailor_and_Pilot:
    ...so, yes, some folks _do_ need the seat of their pants when sailing...
    That said (again), Snoofle probably meant the definition as provided by The Free Dictionary under the entry "idiom(1)".

    Given that definition you can apply "by the seat of their pants" to anything, from sailing to programming to cooking.

  • callcopse (unregistered)

    Just had a look around at those Chesapeake Log canoe things, they look fantastic fun to sail. More fun than the article and my programming duties anyhow.

  • (cs)

    David couldn't figure out that his boss's password is "hunter2"?

  • (cs) in reply to Zagyg
    Zagyg:
    facilisis:
    Michael:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Mcoder:
    > You could choose from "No conversion" or "Binary conversion".

    What? Ahab invented FTP?

    No, duh, Lyle invented FTP.
    Only after Al G. invented the internet.

    Which he did so that the Staines Massive could send each other e-mail.

    +1. I read it as "Ali G" too :)

    I read it as "Algae."

  • Algoreithm (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Mcoder:
    > You could choose from "No conversion" or "Binary conversion".

    What? Ahab invented FTP?

    No, duh, Lyle invented FTP.

    No Al Gore invented the Internet therefore he also invented FTP.

    Algoreithm := repeating something over and over until everyone is convinced it is true.

  • Paul (unregistered)

    I can speculate the flow of events resulting in the "no conversion" type:

    Using the stdio file interface, the Windows CRT will read \r\n as \n and write \n as \r\n.. regardless of fopen() or open(). Specifying "b" in fopen() or O_BINARY in open() will turn this conversion off. I'm guessing this code was written to this interface to be portable (in Windows, the lowest form of user space I/O is done via handles, and "file descriptors" are CRT entities).

    So, "no conversion", or I'm suspecting, the original code which appeared to do nothing, ends up converting newlines, while "binary conversion", an added feature specifying the flag, ends up doing no conversion.

  • George (unregistered)

    Maybe I'm needlessly touchy here but the naming here just seems racist. Weird. Maybe a joke I didn't get, must try for more sleep.

  • Wayne (unregistered)

    I had a similar problem with Wells Fargo. We had to download a daily file of electronic utility bill payments. System worked fine. Then they announced they were changing their system, and my original system bombed. The file looked fine on visual inspection, but SQL Server barfed every time I tried to import it. So I tried importing it in to Access, and found that the file had carriage returns but not new lines, or vice-versa, I don't remember. I confirmed this by looking at a hex dump of the file.

    Here's the killer WTF: the tech kept saying that new line and carriage return didn't take any space in the file.

    Turned out to be an incompatibility between my SFTP program and their new system, which they'd never tell me what it was. I switched to a different SFTP program and the problem went away.

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that the design part of the story is hanging. Was their design really a mess? Ahab was right or he managed to make it worse, some hopeless trainwreck?

    I was expecting that, by the way.

  • shd (unregistered)

    This would have been really tough if he'd had been named "bob".

  • JAPH (unregistered) in reply to George
    George:
    Maybe I'm needlessly touchy here but the naming here just seems racist. Weird. Maybe a joke I didn't get, must try for more sleep.

    Have you read the book Moby Dick?

  • pedantique moi? (unregistered) in reply to callcopse

    Thanks for introducing an opening for another level of indirection into the pedantic way this thread is going.

    After all, you don't SAIL a canoe do you?

  • shixilun (unregistered) in reply to GWO

    But the reveal is more like "Journey to the Center of the Earth"

  • (cs) in reply to JAPH
    JAPH:
    George:
    Maybe I'm needlessly touchy here but the naming here just seems racist. Weird. Maybe a joke I didn't get, must try for more sleep.
    Have you read the book Moby Dick?
    Dick!?! How dare you be so sexist!
  • (cs) in reply to JAPH
    JAPH:
    George:
    Maybe I'm needlessly touchy here but the naming here just seems racist. Weird. Maybe a joke I didn't get, must try for more sleep.

    Have you read the book Moby Gentleman's Sausage?

    hehe

  • Paul Neumann (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    JAPH:
    George:
    Maybe I'm needlessly touchy here but the naming here just seems racist. Weird. Maybe a joke I didn't get, must try for more sleep.

    Have you read the book Moby Ricardo

    hehe

    Sounds like a Cantina PorcelainAkismet sucks

  • (cs)

    With the subject matter that we're manipulating, I'm not clicking either of those links. o_O

  • Friedrice The Great (unregistered) in reply to pedantique moi?
    pedantique moi?:
    Thanks for introducing an opening for another level of indirection into the pedantic way this thread is going.

    After all, you don't SAIL a canoe do you?

    Yes, Hawaiian voyaging canoes are sail-powered.

  • foo AKA fooo (unregistered) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    And I don't want to see one worse than Hanzo.
    You don't need to see one. The Daily Worse Than Hanzo is still empty.

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