• Dave (unregistered)

    You'd have to be some kinda c*nt to get blue lips anywhere else..

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to Licky Lindsay
    Licky Lindsay:
    Carnildo:
    Siloria:
    Where were you at 10:04AM on Octover 28th 1601?!?

    More importantly, whose epoch started then?

    1/1/1601 is the epoch start for Windows file timestamps, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1601

    Is there a particular reason why the epoch is chosen so early? Last I checked, I couldn't find a rational reason to have a computer file with any date (created/modified/accessed) that would be reasonably that early. Short of time travel being discovered, in which case well, "sort by date" suddenly becomes really ambiguous...

  • 008 (unregistered) in reply to Worf

    Explaining the terse alert dialog:

    try{ //code } catch(SomeException se){ //Handle error } catch(SomeOtherException soe){ //Handle other error } catch(...){ //Make alert dialog with message "something happened". }

  • FireJayPa (unregistered) in reply to Sarah
    Sarah:
    FireJayPa:
    Way to try & burn the software engineers and IT guys with a "you don't get any" jab.

    I found many women 'dumb enough' to sleep with me -- it was called the college bar scene.

    I see you're not disputing the rest of my comment. How many rounds of penicillin did you require?

    Captcha: ewww ( how appropriate )

    Would penicillin stop this burning??

  • TwelveBaud (unregistered) in reply to Carnildo
    Carnildo:
    More importantly, whose epoch started then?
    NTFS.
  • TwelveBaud (unregistered) in reply to Worf
    Worf:
    Carnildo:
    More importantly, whose epoch started then?
    Is there a particular reason why the epoch is chosen so early?
    ... historical documents?

    Side note from Wikipedia: May 28, 60056: Date range for NTFS expires (2^64 x 100 nanoseconds since 1601-01-01).

  • James (unregistered) in reply to seamus
    seamus:
    If the symptom of "excessive body hair growth" doesn't lead to a diagnosis of "Werewolfism", I'll be very disappointed.

    If you're going to bother reading WTF, at least be a proper nerd and learn words like "lycanthropy".

    And since (amazingly!) nobody else has said it yet, I'll pick up the slack: Isn't the Real WTF (TM) the fact that the Windows file-system epoch allows for frickin' time travel, but just a little bit of time travel? I guess people who want to take the Wayback Machine to ancient Egypt are SOL...

  • Jasper Mantooth (unregistered) in reply to Sarah
    Sarah:
    Blue colored lips shouldn't worry you immature little pervs as much as the other symptoms listed on the left. When and if you finally do stumble across a girl dumb enough to sleep with you be sure to watch out for signs of "Drainage and Puss" and "Itching and Burning." One or the other is guaranteed to be there.

    Self-righteous jaded man-haters turn me on. I say we do a little 'itching and burning' sometime. Meet me at my IP tomorrow night at 8.

  • (cs) in reply to Raggles
    Raggles:
    err, whether it's associated with 'eating contaminated fish'. I couldn't possibly comment further.
    Fish tacos, no doubt.
  • (cs) in reply to Troy Mclure
    Troy Mclure:
    Are blue lips the female equivalent of blue balls for men?

    Actually, from a developmental anatomy point of view, yes.

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to Sarah

    Uh, and you're on the Daily WTF forum, lashing out against the sexual lives of geeks. Where does that put you on the scale of life?

  • Johannes Hansen (unregistered) in reply to bkendig
    bkendig:
    The Dreamweaver guy was probably interrupted by the Siege of Kinsale.

    Ah, but according to the gregorian calendar that siege ended in 1602. I think Robert Devereux was the developer on this project. Its obvious that he didn't have time to check-in his work before his beheading and so his boss did it for him several months later. Also, note the remarkable compatibility story for dreamweaver to work againt such an old deployment system.

  • Anonymoose (unregistered)

    When I was first watching Dungeons and Dragons, I never really learned this guy's name, so I'd always call him blue lips. [image]

  • (cs) in reply to Sarah
    Sarah:
    Blue colored lips shouldn't worry you immature little pervs as much as the other symptoms listed on the left. When and if you finally do stumble across a girl dumb enough to sleep with you be sure to watch out for signs of "Drainage and Puss" and "Itching and Burning." One or the other is guaranteed to be there.

    And when you get that stick removed from where it's jammed so high up between your "blue lips", maybe you might loosen up and laugh a little instead of getting all annoyed and uptight at a few guys goofing off.

    And before you start taking jabs at "hit a little close to home", I'm a woman. I just don't take guys making off-hand jokes seriously or try to take stabs at them by commenting on their abililty to have sex lives.

    -- Seejay

  • (cs) in reply to Sarah
    Sarah:
    Nutter:
    "zomg lolz i bet u geeks hav nevr got laid lolz!!!!111"

    Once you grow out of your teenage high school gangs and join the real world, you might realise what an utterly cliched and lame attempt at a put-down that actually is.

    Yeah, I see where you're coming from and you're correct. It's lame because the guys making all the "verticle" jokes are mature responsible men living in the real world where they're spending their free time getting laid rather than cracking immature "verticle" jokes? Oh, wait, but they are cracking immature "verticle" jokes so I guess they are immature little geeks. I guess the put-down is more spot on than it is lame.

    P.S. You protest too much. Strike home?

    Ok, so now I'm a grown-up I'm not allowed any fun jokes? I have to wear a pin-stripe suit all day and pretend farts aren't funny?

    If jokes about vagina's are immature then goo-goo-ga-ga

  • (cs) in reply to misha
    misha:
    Ok, so now I'm a grown-up I'm not allowed any fun jokes? I have to wear a pin-stripe suit all day and pretend farts aren't funny?

    If jokes about vagina's are immature then goo-goo-ga-ga

    I'm female and I like to make jokes about ta-tas and vajayjays.

    But I draw the line at poo jokes. Those don't amuse me much. But that's just personal preference. Fart jokes are funny.

    -- Seejay

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Beefy Paws
    Beefy Paws:
    swordfishBob:
    Apparently 1601 had at least 28 months in it.

    On this side of the pond, the format is usually MM/DD/YY, so it's october 28th

    could you explain the reasoning behind a middle-endian system?

  • Foo Bazbar (unregistered) in reply to Troy Mclure
    Troy Mclure:
    Are blue lips the female equivalent of blue balls for men?

    I admit that one made me chuckle when I first read it.

    Not to spoil the joke, but according to Wikipedia, the term is "pink ovaries" or, if you want to be gender-nonspecific, "pelvic congestion".

  • Lost in OR (unregistered)

    Well Siloria I would tell everyone where I was, but I was to busy looking at your blue p'lips

  • Agouti (unregistered)

    Ahh, yes Dreamweaver - CS3 since they took over macromedia. Not only is that a timed dialog, but it keeps counting down even if you click the "Compare Files". I regularly at the change between daylight savings and normal time get the "The file was modified an hour before you last saved it".

    Interestingly enough for the techies out there - DW ignores the timestamp and takes all it's info from a dwsync.xml it saves to the server, so it's a puzzle why it's on the NTFS epoch...

    Wait, testing server, never mind.

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Beefy Paws:
    swordfishBob:
    Apparently 1601 had at least 28 months in it.

    On this side of the pond, the format is usually MM/DD/YY, so it's october 28th

    could you explain the reasoning behind a middle-endian system?

    It's an obscure disease that strikes randomly every few decades. Consider the case of PDP-endian.

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