• Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    fritters:
    Jay:
    The only ones who will be admitted are those who are listed in the Lamb's Database of Life.

    Let's hope Little Bobby Tables doesn't get saved, or we're all going to be in a lot of trouble.

    Sounds like a good premise for a novel. The protagonist could go on a quest to find the backup of eternity.

    There is one eternity only--that is to come back after die to be as animal/plant and die again to come back as lower cast until live be morality. When good name is not spoiled, you can come back as Brahman write bast software quality to be doing it again and again.

  • Nagesh's Sock Puppet (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh

    I agree with whatever Nagesh just said.

  • yet another Steve (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    drachenstern:
    Dave:
    Nagesh:
    It is habit to alway be being verbosity displaying eror the messages on page. You are not to be havin gthis policy at ur IT shop?

    [image]

    Come on, that's not even engrish!

    I'm pretty sure it's Ingrish

    Don't deface my good name, marmalade.

    I remember having orange marmalade as a kid, but I haven't seen it (or looked for it) in years...

  • (cs) in reply to anonymous_
    anonymous_:
    k3b is KDE's cd burning software.

    I thought there was a policy here of not taking instances from open source or student projects?

    Not when it's major open source software like KDE.

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Nagesh:
    ...spoil my good name.

    You already do a good enough job of this yourself...

    Do not make atempt at humour when you are not having any first.

  • (cs) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    users of other browsers other than Internet Explorer

    Is that a roundabout way of saying "users of internet explorer"?

    I fully expected to see a slew of "Yo Dawg" about downloading certificates, but I guess their work is already done.

    Yo dawg, I put a 'yo dawg' comment in your 'yo dawg' comment, so you can read 'yo dawg' comments while you read 'yo dawg' comments.

  • Nagesh 2.0 (unregistered) in reply to Ian
  • (cs) in reply to AP²
    AP²:
    frits:
    That would be 4.2x in American.
    This. There are almost twice the number of countries using comma as the decimal mark as there are using point.
    I didn't realize that regional preferences were to be determined by global popularity... or that CD-ROM speeds were to be padded out with superfluous zeroes.
  • frits (unregistered) in reply to DescentJS
    DescentJS:
    anonymous_:
    k3b is KDE's cd burning software.

    I thought there was a policy here of not taking instances from open source or student projects?

    Not when it's major open source software like KDE.

    Major? Major? Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

  • Callin (unregistered)

    Help help I'm being suppressed!

  • Pytry (unregistered) in reply to 1 Thessalonians 5
    1 Thessalonians 5:
    We were all warned of this in the bible:

    "Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a Trojan from the Deposed King of Nigeria in the night."

    Quick, get some lamb's blood and smear it on your desktop, lest you face the death of your primary hard drive.

    Hilarious. This comment should be featured.

  • reductio ad ridiculum (unregistered)

    "Our Program who art in Memory, Hello be Thy Name. Thy Operating System come, Thy Commands be done, at the Printer as it is on the Screen.

    Give us this day our daily Data, and forgive us our I/O Errors as we forgive those whose Logic Circuits are faulty. Lead us not into frustration, and deliver us from Power Surges,

    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.

    Return."

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to reductio ad ridiculum
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    "Our Program who art in Memory, Hello be Thy Name. Thy Operating System come, Thy Commands be done, at the Printer as it is on the Screen.

    Give us this day our daily Data, and forgive us our I/O Errors as we forgive those whose Logic Circuits are faulty. Lead us not into frustration, and deliver us from Power Surges,

    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.

    Return."

    feature plz!

  • Roger Garrett (unregistered) in reply to Meep
    Meep:
    If it was a failure to write a comment, wouldn't it be a missive fail?

    EXCELLENT !!!!

  • God (unregistered) in reply to reductio ad ridiculum
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    "Our Program who art in Memory, Hello be Thy Name. Thy Operating System come, Thy Commands be done, at the Printer as it is on the Screen.

    Give us this day our daily Data, and forgive us our I/O Errors as we forgive those whose Logic Circuits are faulty. Lead us not into frustration, and deliver us from Power Surges,

    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.

    Return."

    Banned

  • alnite (unregistered) in reply to reductio ad ridiculum

    In the name of the Binary, the Integer, and the Hexadecimal.

    Return.

  • Ryan (unregistered) in reply to reductio ad ridiculum
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.

    So even God, in His infinite wisdom, cannot solve the halting problem and prevent infinite loops at compile time?

  • Jeff (unregistered) in reply to Ryan
    Ryan:
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.
    So even God, in His infinite wisdom, cannot solve the halting problem and prevent infinite loops at compile time?
    "He" can't do the impossible. He just knows a lot more physics than most of us.
  • mathew (unregistered) in reply to AP²
    That would be 4.2x in American.
    There are almost twice the number of countries using comma as the decimal mark as there are using point.

    I hate to spoil a good excuse, but (a) I'm in the USA, (b) my locale is set correctly, (c) K3b's main window displays disk space correctly using "." for decimal point, (d) the discs are 24x and the drive is 24x for RW discs, and most importantly (e) I reported the bug and they confirmed and fixed it.

  • (cs) in reply to reductio ad ridiculum
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    "Our Program who art in Memory, Hello World! be Thy Name...."
    Or at least this is how my family always said it when I was growing up.

    It might be just a regional thing.

  • (cs) in reply to Duh
    Duh:
    Doesn't matter how many first graders make a backwards E it's still wrong.
    Unless it means "there exists", then it might be correct. Expect to see it in conjunctions with upside down A.
  • (cs) in reply to reductio ad ridiculum
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    "Our Program who art in Memory, Hello be Thy Name. Thy Operating System come, Thy Commands be done, at the Printer as it is on the Screen.

    Give us this day our daily Data, and forgive us our I/O Errors as we forgive those whose Logic Circuits are faulty. Lead us not into frustration, and deliver us from Power Surges,

    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.

    Return."

    "... and deliver us from email", perhaps.

  • (cs) in reply to Jeff
    Jeff:
    Ryan:
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.
    So even God, in His infinite wisdom, cannot solve the halting problem and prevent infinite loops at compile time?
    "He" can't do the impossible. He just knows a lot more physics than most of us.
    Besides, the Halting Problem ain't physics, it's maths, and it's common knowledge that God is a mediocre mathematician. It's Satan who's got the corner on mathematical logic.
  • (cs)
    A problem has been to your computer.
    Just as long as it has gone away, after it has been there, I'm OK with that.
  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Jeff:
    Ryan:
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.
    So even God, in His infinite wisdom, cannot solve the halting problem and prevent infinite loops at compile time?
    "He" can't do the impossible. He just knows a lot more physics than most of us.
    Besides, the Halting Problem ain't physics, it's maths, and it's common knowledge that God is a mediocre mathematician. It's Satan who's got the corner on mathematical logic.
    You're missing the point. God doesn't halt; He's reentrant.
  • doctor_of_common_sense (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah

    Fear God! he's reentrant.

  • (cs)

    North-north-west on I-79, at a rate of roughly five hundred-something miles per month. At that rate it should show up in Ottawa in another four or five weeks.

    Google Maps link

    [ps: Drop f'n dead, Akismet]

  • frits (unregistered)

    Who hasn't done something like this? [image]

  • frits (unregistered)

    Or this? [image]

  • frits (unregistered)

    Everyone I know has tried this: [image]

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that neither the submitter Mathew nor Mark know that 4,200 can mean 4.200 in some regional settings, most likely Mathew didn't set them to his liking.

  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    TRWTF is that neither the submitter Mathew nor Mark know that 4,200 can mean 4.200 in some regional settings, most likely Mathew didn't set them to his liking.
    Presumably Luke or John got this right the first time.
  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to Duh
    Duh:
    Doesn't matter how many first graders make a backwards E it's still wrong.
    Unless you're being existential.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous Fool:
    TRWTF is that neither the submitter Mathew nor Mark know that 4,200 can mean 4.200 in some regional settings, most likely Mathew didn't set them to his liking.
    TRWTF is that you didn't bother to read the comments before adding a completely superfluous and incorrect assumption:
    mathew:
    That would be 4.2x in American.
    There are almost twice the number of countries using comma as the decimal mark as there are using point.

    I hate to spoil a good excuse, but (a) I'm in the USA, (b) my locale is set correctly, (c) K3b's main window displays disk space correctly using "." for decimal point, (d) the discs are 24x and the drive is 24x for RW discs, and most importantly (e) I reported the bug and they confirmed and fixed it.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    frits:
    fritters:
    Jay:
    The only ones who will be admitted are those who are listed in the Lamb's Database of Life.

    Let's hope Little Bobby Tables doesn't get saved, or we're all going to be in a lot of trouble.

    Sounds like a good premise for a novel. The protagonist could go on a quest to find the backup of eternity.

    There is one eternity only--that is to come back after die to be as animal/plant and die again to come back as lower cast until live be morality. When good name is not spoiled, you can come back as Brahman write bast software quality to be doing it again and again.

    So let me see ...

    Atheist OS: When a program terminates, all its data is cleared from memory and lost forever.

    Protestant OS: When a program terminates, its data is written to persistent storage, but only if you called commit().

    Catholic OS: When a program terminates, its data is written to persistent storage, but only if you called commit() AND completed with no errors.

    Hindu OS: When a program terminates, it immediately restarts with all the data reinitialized.

    Mormon OS: All programs continue running until they become the operating system.

    New Age OS: All programs together make up the operating system, so they never really terminate.

  • (cs) in reply to AP²
    AP²:
    frits:
    That would be 4.2x in American.
    This. There are almost twice the number of countries using comma as the decimal mark as there are using point.

    The NUMBER of countries is not important; what are the relative population counts?

  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to Silverhill
    Silverhill:
    A problem has been to your computer.
    Just as long as it has gone away, after it has been there, I'm OK with that.

    Yes - Windows has a problem with tenses - 'did you forget your password?'. Where I come from this means it was a problem that has passed - yes I did forget it but now I remember it again (thx). If it's still a problem and you can't log in -it should be 'have you forgotten your password?' past perfect and pluperfect I think. Perhaps there is another anal-retentive pedant out there somewhere who can verify.

  • squiros (unregistered)

    it says DOWN TO 4200x. . . what was the speed before that?!

  • (cs)

    The CD burner error is more like a reader fail for him/her not accounting that a full stop is not a global decimal separator and that a comma is also used in many countries. It just happened to handily show exactly three decimals to make it look like a thousands separator (which isn't a comma globally either). It's a localisation error because it doesn't localise numbers but not that large an error the image suggests.

  • (cs) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    AP²:
    frits:
    That would be 4.2x in American.
    This. There are almost twice the number of countries using comma as the decimal mark as there are using point.
    The NUMBER of countries is not important; what are the relative population counts?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu-Arabic_numeral_system

    Russia, the whole Europe excluding GB and Ireland, and the whole South America use comma for instance, while U.S., Canada and China use point. Can't be bothered to check what's the exact share of each symbol but you can't ignore the fact that comma is widely used too.

  • The e-mail administrator (unregistered)

    The real WTF in the third picture is Microsoft Outlook.

  • Don't bother with the maths (unregistered) in reply to Soulweaver

    China, India and the US use point, the three largest countries by population. Add on all the others using point, and we can fairly safely declare point the winner based on population count.

    Of course if I ever live in one of those commacountries, I'll attempt to switch.

    Captcha: feugiat

    Point wins. Don't feugiat it!

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  • UNIX cultist (unregistered) in reply to reductio ad ridiculum
    reductio ad ridiculum:
    "Our Program who art in Memory, Hello be Thy Name. Thy Operating System come, Thy Commands be done, at the Printer as it is on the Screen.

    Give us this day our daily Data, and forgive us our I/O Errors as we forgive those whose Logic Circuits are faulty. Lead us not into frustration, and deliver us from Power Surges,

    for Thine is the Algorithm, the Application, and the Solution, looping forever and ever.

    Return."

    We should take this opportunity to use the ancient prayer:

    UNIX is a trademark of AT&T in the USA and other countries.
  • Tortoise (unregistered) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    Nagesh:
    It is habit to alway be being verbosity displaying eror the messages on page. You are not to be havin gthis policy at ur IT shop?

    [image]

    Come on, that's not even engrish!

    Agree I. Engrish, more been; This is the detailed error information in a typical display. You do not have policies in the computer business.

    Also, TRWTF is GoDaddy. hiss

  • mljxhb (unregistered)

    mljxhb

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