• SR (unregistered)

    @Windows - it's mutual

  • (cs)

    Just press the button, Ross.

  • TGVish (unregistered)

    It mi?g?h?t be the case that Rosie of Hobart actually wrote "[topic here in one line only] Place new text in this space..." on her web page, and the editors thought it very funny or wise. Or probably both.

  • (cs)

    The chinese error message is talking about a video capture card, surely? Is it really that hard to understand?

  • Steve The Cynic (unregistered)

    But, as we should all know, "tomorrow" or, worse, "in five minutes" is "within 18446744073709551126 days"...

    (If it said, "in exactly 18446744073709551126 days" that would be different.)

  • Drew (unregistered)

    Screw vowels.

  • Incourced (unregistered)

    Hmm. Enter text in text box mebbes? Not sure I got that one/

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Incourced
    Incourced:
    Hmm. Enter text in text box mebbes? Not sure I got that one/

    It say if you have further comments put them in the text box. But what if you have no further comments? You'd assume you should leave the text box empty, but apparently that isn't allowed. It's pretty weak and I've seen it many times before.

  • (cs)

    The password actually expired 490 days ago, they're just using an unsigned 64-bit integer.

  • Noughmad (unregistered)

    He was just playing too much Nethack.

  • (cs)

    The Login/Logout reminds me...

    Once upon a time I was asked to add a login page that supported cookies, that would auto redirect to the home page if the cookie was found. And, if the home page discovered the cookie was invalid (for whatever reason), redirect to the login page.

    Well, I forgot to remove the cookie if it was invalid, so you can probably imagine what happened next...

  • (cs) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    The Login/Logout reminds me...

    Once upon a time I was asked to add a login page that supported cookies, that would auto redirect to the home page if the cookie was found. And, if the home page discovered the cookie was invalid (for whatever reason), redirect to the login page.

    Well, I forgot to remove the cookie if it was invalid, so you can probably imagine what happened next...

    Must have been fun to watch the first user who managed to corrupt his/her session cookie... :-)

    Yazeran:

    Plan: To go to mars one day with a hammer

  • aaaaaaaand we're back! (unregistered) in reply to Thief^
    Thief^:
    The chinese error message is talking about a video capture card, Shirley! Is it really that hard to understand?

    ftfy

  • (cs)
    Mike T:
    Ple?? l?t us kn?w ?f w? can h?lp you ?n any other way.

    Yes, I'd like to buy a vowel?

  • Marc B (unregistered) in reply to Thief^
    Thief^:
    The chinese error message is talking about a video capture card, surely? Is it really that hard to understand?
    Or maybe their video card was not installed, but rather a different one.
  • An horny mouse cow-herd (unregistered)

    Maybe the question marks were a hidden message.

    oocacieoseeoieei to you too.

  • Jorge (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that you floored the Sidereal Year (365.256 363 051 days) with the calendar year (365 days) and didn't take into account the leap years!

    Indeed, if you had used the sidereal year, you would get 5.050355295558224 E16 of those. The difference to your result is only of 3.54719 E13 years, or approximately 2600 times the age of the Universe!

    Floor(), that most evil of functions...

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    Well, I forgot to remove the cookie if it was invalid, so you can probably imagine what happened next...

    A rift in the space-time continuum was ripped open allowing a massive invasion by trans-dimensional alien beings that enslaved all of humanity, forcing them to toil away in small boxes to produce web applications for their alien overlords.

    Close?

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    @Deprecated:
    Well, I forgot to remove the cookie if it was invalid, so you can probably imagine what happened next...

    A rift in the space-time continuum was ripped open allowing a massive invasion by trans-dimensional alien beings that enslaved all of humanity, forcing them to toil away in small boxes to produce web applications for their alien overlords.

    Close?

    Unfortunately, the rift was opened up back in time before I wrote the mistake, which is why I was there in the first place.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    Anon:
    @Deprecated:
    Well, I forgot to remove the cookie if it was invalid, so you can probably imagine what happened next...

    A rift in the space-time continuum was ripped open allowing a massive invasion by trans-dimensional alien beings that enslaved all of humanity, forcing them to toil away in small boxes to produce web applications for their alien overlords.

    Close?

    Unfortunately, the rift was opened up back in time before I wrote the mistake, which is why I was there in the first place.

    That's what they want you to think. Trans-dimensional beings can time travel. Obviously. They enslaved you to make sure you'd make the mistake in the future that would allow them to invade in the past.

  • NorgTheFat (unregistered)

    "Yes, I would like to connect to Nafta.mdb but you can't find it," Geoff wrote, "why are we having this conversation?"

    So, NAFTA uses an Access Database for it's data? :O

  • (cs)

    WhereTF is the WTF in the "Windows is exiting." one?

  • Ozz (unregistered)

    TRWTF is GoDaddy.

  • Survey Question (unregistered)

    If you have any further comments, please include below

  • Not Cynic Enough, Steve... (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    (If it said, "in exactly 18446744073709551126 days" that would be different.)

    But it is exactly 18446744073709551126 days. Though of course, while it takes 18446744073709551126 days before your password expires, your license expires in 6. On the 7th day, when you thought you would be resting, logging in will cause Oracle to review your license portfolio and increase your fee by a seven-figure number.

    Which, as they will explain, is entirely fair because, after all, they're only charging you 1e-14€ per day.

  • Rodger C. (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that you're using MS Windows, even though you've come to a mutual feeling of hate with it (which I also share).

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to rudraigh
    rudraigh:
    WhereTF is the WTF in the "Windows is exiting." one?
    I misread that as Windows is exciting, which would have been a WTF.
  • (cs)

    If you have no further comments, you're obviously not executive material, so you shouldn't be filling out the survey in the first place.

    I'm guessing the "windows just hates you" came about like this:

    if (!SomeWindowsAPI(...)) {
    TCHAR buffer[...];
    LPCTSTR szMessage = &buffer[0];
    DWORD dwErr = GetLastError();
    if (!FormatMessage(..., buffer)) {
        szMessage = _T("Windows just hates you");
    }
    MessageBox(... szMessage, ...);
}
  • ARMed but harmless (unregistered)

    Unable to post comment! (err code: Akismet just hates you

  • (cs)

    Someone needs to tell GoDaddy that if they have trouble moving their vowels it could lead to consonation.

    (Thanks Howie Mandel.)

  • Mike T. (unregistered)

    I'm Team Burgundy?

  • SR (unregistered) in reply to Neil
    Neil:
    rudraigh:
    WhereTF is the WTF in the "Windows is exiting." one?
    I misread that as Windows is exciting, which would have been a WTF.

    It is, in a "may you live in exciting times" way.

  • JJ (unregistered)

    Okay, here's my further comment: "Your survey designers are lazy bums who can't be bothered to mark a survey question optional. And if they're using software that doesn't allow them to do this then that statement applies to the developers instead."

  • Indrek (unregistered)

    @ the Windows one: Messagebox title bar reading fail. Proof my ass.

  • (cs) in reply to Ozz
    Ozz:
    TRWTF is GoDaddy.
    Seconded.
  • (cs)

    Hmm. 18446744073709551126 + 490 = 2 ^ 128

    So the value could have been -490 interpreted as a signed 128-bit integer but then output as an unsigned integer.

    Several WTFs:

    a) why have you not logged in for more than a year?<p>

    b) why does Oracle need a that large number range for that?

    c) why can't oracle distinguish between signed and unsigned integers properly? :)

  • vovo (unregistered) in reply to rudraigh

    I think the submitter's comment indicates that the message was equal to "Windows is exiting. Like it or lump it."

  • Larry (unregistered) in reply to mihi

    Actually, about 18446744073709551126 WTFs can be simplified to:

    mihi:
    why can't oracle

  • AnOldRelic (unregistered) in reply to mihi
    mihi:
    c) why can't oracle distinguish between signed and unsigned integers properly? :)

    Because TRWTF is Oracle.

  • Axl (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Incourced:
    Hmm. Enter text in text box mebbes? Not sure I got that one/

    It say if you have further comments put them in the text box. But what if you have no further comments? You'd assume you should leave the text box empty, but apparently that isn't allowed. It's pretty weak and I've seen it many times before.

    Is that a calendar weak or a sidereal weak?

  • Some Wonk (unregistered) in reply to Drew
    Drew:
    Scr?w v?w?ls.
    FTFY
  • doctor who (unregistered)

    5.5 slash apple slash 26

  • Buddy (unregistered) in reply to mihi
    mihi:

    Several WTFs:

    a) why have ...?

    b) why does ...?

    c) why can't ...?

    One must be fairly new in the biz. Eventually, one learns not to ask why. This is a means of self preservation. Otherwise the answer will usually invoke at least two or more of the following: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, doubt, frustration, guilt, shame, despair, disappointment, sadness, and shock. These days psychiatrists can isolate and medicate for each of these, should one want to persist.

  • fjf (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Incourced:
    Hmm. Enter text in text box mebbes? Not sure I got that one/

    It say if you have further comments put them in the text box. But what if you have no further comments? You'd assume you should leave the text box empty, but apparently that isn't allowed. It's pretty weak and I've seen it many times before.

    Me too. At least it's a self-fixing bug: After getting the message, you will have further comments.

    But I've seen worse: A survey using radio buttons and no "none" option, although "none" was a valid answer to some of the questions. Since my browser (correctly) preselected one radio button, I couldn't answer "none". In the "further comments" question at the end, I noted that some of my answers were wrong for this reason. Never heard back from them, though. BTW, this wasn't some random web site -- it was a polling company.

  • MSCW (unregistered) in reply to fjf
    fjf:
    But I've seen worse: A survey using radio buttons and no "none" option, although "none" was a valid answer to some of the questions. Since my browser (correctly) preselected one radio button, I couldn't answer "none".

    That's how we elect our president in Russia. BTW you could select unpopular option, to emulate "none" (as I did)

  • Grumpy (unregistered)

    @Windows reminds me of a messagebox in an old game: "The peasants are revolting!" Yes, I know, stinky bastards the lot of them. Give them a bath and some cake.

  • Mrrix32 (unregistered) in reply to doctor who
    doctor who:
    5.5 slash apple slash 26
    My favourite year! Shame about the earth and everything.
  • (cs)

    The video card case reminds me of one of the great error messages of all time. On one of our computers in the early 1990's, when you booted, the BIOS would come up and say "Keyboard not found; press F1 to continue."

    As illogical as it seems (with no keyboard how can I press F1?), it works great. The BIOS did not detect the keyboard. Maybe there is none, or maybe there is but the detection algorithm failed. If the BIOS sees an "F1" come in on the port, then you must have a keyboard that is working, and the BIOS will proceed on that assumption.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to AndyCanfield
    AndyCanfield:
    The video card case reminds me of one of the great error messages of all time. On one of our computers in the early 1990's, when you booted, the BIOS would come up and say "Keyboard not found; press F1 to continue."

    As illogical as it seems (with no keyboard how can I press F1?), it works great. The BIOS did not detect the keyboard. Maybe there is none, or maybe there is but the detection algorithm failed. If the BIOS sees an "F1" come in on the port, then you must have a keyboard that is working, and the BIOS will proceed on that assumption.

    And maybe the keyboard lead has come loose, or the keyboard's broken. Plug it in properly, or replace the keyboard, then press F1 to let the computer know you've done so. As you say, it works great.
  • SD (unregistered) in reply to SR
    SR:
    @Windows - it's mutual
    Well it looks more like Windows just hates Rainmeter and Rainmeter is trying to transfer the blame to you, not that you're gullible or anything.

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