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Exiting software is for losers anyways...

With that install path, do you dare continue to install at all?

I always keep my porn in C:\-e:1:unterminated string meets end of file-e:1:parse error,\

Dustin_00:

With that install path, do you dare continue to install at all?

Well, of course! The path could have been:

-e:1 unterminated string meets FILE_NOT_FOUND

or

-e:1 unterminated string meets paulaBean

These darn CAPTCHA things tend to make the end users' life a true P.I.T.A! To make the user interface more fluent, I would suggest implementing a javascript-based OCR to read the CAPTCHA and fill in the value to the textbox so that he user only needs to verify that the captcha is right and click the submit button.

My worthy observation dies an ignominious death, a victim of the fist police, they being desperately in need of the ministrations at www.getalife.com.

dlikhten:

Exiting software is for losers anyways...

Yeah! Best way is:

ps -ef | grep init | head -1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

Try this on a production enviroment... you'll be DOOM (Cptch)

You had better make sure you're both nimble and totally dry getting out of the tub when you have light bulbs installed in the floor. Unless you're CG.

# kill -9 1
# ps -ef | grep init
root 1 0 0 Sep07 ? 00:00:01 /sbin/init
root 10320 10307 0 08:44 pts/0 00:00:00 grep init
#

That Captcha looks like it was intercepted by a business analyst who likely decided that a bot-safe captcha would be too difficult to read by the users and 'could we just make it some text, mmkay?'

What, no "bathtub girl 4ever"? You guys are disappointing me this morning.

Anyone remember early MS Windows? They didn't add the ability to exit to DOS until (I think) 2.0.

Have a look at that captcha : http://www.jvc.co.uk/contact-brochure.php

On a more serious note, I'm the one in charge of this website, and we decided to not set up the full captcha (with color and distortion) as long as the spam level was low... Once the spam is too much important, we'll add more colours, fonts, and distortion. That way, captcha are still easy for humans, and bots will have to learn how to defeat the captcha more than one time. Our motto is "do not show all your weapons at one time".

Cheers !

Ubersoldat:

dlikhten:

Exiting software is for losers anyways...

Yeah! Best way is:

ps -ef | grep init | head -1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

Try this on a production enviroment... you'll be DOOM (Cptch)

Or you can just use killall.

What do you mean killall under Linux is non-standar
killed: signal 15

Brandon got it wrong the first time when it was "UIDIOT"

Someone's politically-correctified the original post!

I smell historical revisionism.

my thoughts exactly.

Bathtub Girl vs. BeanbagChair Girl forever!

my captcha: Poindexter. That was a lot less scary before my wife started watching the ShowTime series..

sirhegel:

These darn CAPTCHA things tend to make the end users' life a true P.I.T.A! To make the user interface more fluent, I would suggest implementing a javascript-based OCR to read the CAPTCHA and fill in the value to the textbox so that he user only needs to verify that the captcha is right and click the submit button.

If this site's history is any indication, the "OCR" would actually be handwriting recognition...

Ubersoldat:

dlikhten:

Exiting software is for losers anyways...

Yeah! Best way is:

ps -ef | grep init | head -1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

Try this on a production enviroment... you'll be DOOM (Cptch)

There is a button in my cpu that closes all softwares. True story.

CAPTCHAS are so annoying, what spammers force us to do...

http://doyou.likeorhate.com/CAPTCHA

operon:

Brandon got it wrong the first time when it was "UIDIOT"

Someone's politically-correctified the original post!

I smell historical revisionism.

Yup, it was a Super Mario Galaxy reference that people probably wouldn't have recognized, so I pulled it (I read an article last week about the letters on the box spelling out "URGAY").

Jake Vinson:

operon:

Brandon got it wrong the first time when it was "UIDIOT"

Someone's politically-correctified the original post!

I smell historical revisionism.

Yup, it was a Super Mario Galaxy reference that people probably wouldn't have recognized, so I pulled it (I read an article last week about the letters on the box spelling out "URGAY").

Actually, it was URMRGAY.

cellocgw:

my thoughts exactly.

Bathtub Girl vs. BeanbagChair Girl forever!

You misspelled Fooz Ball Girl.

captcha: dreadlocks

pkill init
is much shorter. If you don't have pkill, remember awk does regex'es as well, grep is just wasted.

ps -ef | awk '/[i]nit/{print $2}' | xargs kill
And of course, if you want real init, it's always pid 1, so
kill 1

1. Take the time to write the excepation handler and action method for exit.
1. Take the time to write the message box 'Sorry, this feature (exit) not yet implemented'
2. Not realizing that the "implementation" for exiting is a 1 liner


priceless WTF

operagost:

You had better make sure you're both nimble and totally dry getting out of the tub when you have light bulbs installed in the floor. Unless you're CG.

I'm 20 years old, and I still know those "candle" things.
You know, light them with fire, they produce heat and light in a slow chemical reaction? No installtion required? No electricity, sorta?

Live captcha. Well, at least I didn't get offended.
http://www.purex.ca/english/brmo_promo-form.php

re: The UTWIT thing, there have been multiple times at my work where I've called the help desk to get a password reset, and before they give me the new temporary password, they have to give a preface of, "Okay, this password was generated automatically. I didn't come up with this." Then they give me a password much more unambigiously insulting that utwit (I think "FAT8JERK" was one...I forget now).

Ironically, for me it was "2EZC". Too easy, see?

Rich:

pkill init
is much shorter. If you don't have pkill, remember awk does regex'es as well, grep is just wasted.

ps -ef | awk '/[i]nit/{print $2}' | xargs kill
And of course, if you want real init, it's always pid 1, so
kill 1

The idea was to use an overkill solution to exiting a program

Ubersoldat:

dlikhten:

Exiting software is for losers anyways...

Yeah! Best way is:

ps -ef | grep init | head -1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

Try this on a production enviroment... you'll be DOOM (Cptch)

Speaking of the best way to kill processes, and mentioning DOOM. Have you ever played with this http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/? It is very entertaining and has can have some interesting results when the prong process gets in the way.

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Not implimented yet

Wasn't there an informal agreement not to poke fun at the open-source projects?

Spectre:

Wasn't there an informal agreement not to poke fun at the open-source projects?

I could see giving them a pass on general WTFs and CodeSODs, but I say when it comes to "Error'd" kind of postings, they should be ripe for the pickin.'

sirhegel:

These darn CAPTCHA things tend to make the end users' life a true P.I.T.A! To make the user interface more fluent, I would suggest implementing a javascript-based OCR to read the CAPTCHA and fill in the value to the textbox so that he user only needs to verify that the captcha is right and click the submit button.

If you're just using the CAPTCHA to prevent spam, then this is actually a perfectly valid strategy, although in most cases the JS also hides the entire CAPTCHA entry form. Most bots and spam engines don't parse JavaScript for very practical reasons, so the JS doesn't really help them, and for users using lynx or Netscape Communicator or some other stupid downlevel browser, it degrades gracefully.

Of course the JavaScript isn't actually doing OCR - it's generated on the server-side along with the CAPTCHA itself, so it's a "hard-coded" value by the time it reaches the client. If the spammers somehow figure out the script and start parsing it, it's not too hard to slightly alter the script to throw them off (or better, crash their engine - that's one reason why they don't parse JS in the first place).

Marat R. is pretty excited about features coming in the next version of JMeter. Like, for example, being able to exit the software.

Wow, I usually have the opposite issue: I'll have "features" throughout the code that cause the software to exit, even when the user didn't know yet that he wanted to.

Ubersoldat:

dlikhten:

Exiting software is for losers anyways...

Yeah! Best way is:

ps -ef | grep init | head -1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

Try this on a production enviroment... you'll be DOOM (Cptch)

You left the "-9" off the end.

Ubersoldat:

dlikhten:

Exiting software is for losers anyways...

Yeah! Best way is:

ps -ef | grep init | head -1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

Try this on a production enviroment... you'll be DOOM (Cptch)

Software should NEVER be terminated... I mean we spent all this money to make sure it runs, who in their right mind would want it to stop running huh? huh? huh? Communists and Democrats thats who!

sf:

Marat R. is pretty excited about features coming in the next version of JMeter. Like, for example, being able to exit the software.

Wow, I usually have the opposite issue: I'll have "features" throughout the code that cause the software to exit, even when the user didn't know yet that he wanted to.

Well, as long as it is a feature, I guess that is acceptable as well. But ANY user interaction and thats it, idea goes out the garbage.

sirhegel:

These darn CAPTCHA things tend to make the end users' life a true P.I.T.A! To make the user interface more fluent, I would suggest implementing a javascript-based OCR to read the CAPTCHA and fill in the value to the textbox so that he user only needs to verify that the captcha is right and click the submit button.

You might enjoy this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4381

---------- That's not the TUB GIRL I know!!!! ----------


OMFG - my captcha is TASTEY!

operon:

Brandon got it wrong the first time when it was "UIDIOT"

Someone's politically-correctified the original post!

I smell historical revisionism.

it depends with my view whether it should have changed, if in reality the initial time it was the phrase that used to be there, then I think they shouldn't have changed it, however if that was just here for a laugh, which I'm guessing it was, it was a little inappropiate, I'm glad they changed it.

http://www.tubgirl.com

I like the tub girl here much better. Although it would be better if BBG and FBG were in there with her.

Based on the form being filled out, she might even be Canadian.

captcha: tesla

OMG... that is awesome! That exit feature sorta reminds me of AOL... except AOL likes to exit everything but the application!

An easily-read captcha isn't necessarily a bad thing....

Jeff Atwood has used the word "orange" in an old english text font as his captcha for years. He discusses the effectiveness of captchas here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000712.html

Some captchas drive it far too far.

Characters are resized, moved, bent, rotated and overlap ... and don't have any meaning at all.

x9Xg is easily readable in a clear font, but above methods applied, you can't distinguish lower g and 9, upper and lowercase X and so on.

Today I received a password on my mobile, which contained a V which looked like an U.
No captcha at all, but since it was random digits and characters, it wasn't obvious.

Of course I never had problems when the Character was used in a Word like Virginie or Ulrike.

captcha: clreacll0ck5

Your eyes are also much sharper than mine if you could tell those were candles. I seriously thought it was something from "Home and Avant-Garden" magazine.

Spectre:

Wasn't there an informal agreement not to poke fun at the open-source projects?

Not all all. Student code is off limits which is understandable because they are learning. Having marked student assignments myself, this is a good rule as I could give this site enough content to last the next 10 years :-)

We shouldn't accept WTF code from open-source projects simply because the source is open (and presumably free), I know I use them for business critical stuff - I've even donated to some projects - so why would should they be exempt?

Aside from providing a bit of amusement, this site also acts as a learning tool, so if a crazy bit of code is in an open-source project - maybe someone here will see it and they learn from it.

Finally, half the point of this site is making fun of the bigger WTFs that get posted as a better solution to the actual WTF. So it shouldn't reflect to badly on these projects anyway

You can't kill the init process on any modern UNIX-like system that I'm aware of.

The most efficient way to make sure your process (and anyone else's) is dead is to simply issue the command "kill -9 -1" as root. Simple, effective, and portable.

Erik:

You can't kill the init process on any modern UNIX-like system that I'm aware of.

That depends on what your init process _is_. Try and boot your kernel with init=/bin/sh, and then try to CTRL+D out of it.

Violà, you have a "Kernel Panic: Attempt to kill init!" on your hands and your machine frozen.

ehm

pkill init :)