• NoXema (unregistered)

    Iy's otay, T';; ger yhere somehay!

  • (cs)

    On the warning dialog, there's always the close box you can use...

  • Micirio (unregistered)

    Your choice could be:

    • yes - press 'OK'
    • no - close the dialog (press 'x' at the top right)
  • Ben Jammin (unregistered)

    Couldn't enter the comment because the comment wasn't entered

  • (cs) in reply to Micirio
    Micirio:
    Your choice could be: * yes - press 'OK' * no - close the dialog (press 'x' at the top right)
    You'd think so, wouldn't you ? I can't speak for NetBeans, but there was a version of Norton AV which put up a similar box for 'Restart computer'. Clicking the X had exactly the same effect as clicking the single OK button (instant restart, no way to stop it) - losing me a load of data in the process. (Please - no homilies about regular saves - this particular application didn't allow saving the intermediate data in a useful form).
  • Bernie (unregistered)

    WARNING

    Your boxers seems to be too large to wear safely. Wearing your boxers could cause your ego to falsely inflate, which would make your sex life unstable. Are you sure that you don't want to wear briefs instead?

  • (cs)

    Reading this post could cause an OVERFLOW in your memory. Do you want to continue?

  • Whoevar (unregistered) in reply to SenTree
    SenTree:
    (Please - no homilies about regular saves - this particular application didn't allow saving the intermediate data in a useful form).

    Well, this is the right place to talk about it. Please go on...

  • noob (unregistered)
    blabla:
    1st? :)

    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.

  • blub (unregistered) in reply to noob
    noob:
    blabla:
    1st? :)

    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.

    heh, thats a good one

  • (cs)

    What language was that in the BIOS screenshot? I'm guessing Celtic?

  • Bobby (unregistered) in reply to noob

    It happens on lots of frequently updated blog-type places

  • (cs) in reply to noob
    noob:
    blabla:
    1st? :)

    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.

    What baffles me is the question mark. Is Noob uncertain about how to count to one?

  • P (unregistered) in reply to SuperAnalyst
    SuperAnalyst:
    What language was that in the BIOS screenshot? I'm guessing Celtic?

    It looks as if it's flipping one of the bits in the ASCII codes for each character to 0. I'm amazed it got as far as displaying that message in that kind of state, no surprise it went downhill from there...

  • Jamie (unregistered) in reply to Bappi
    Bappi:
    noob:
    blabla:
    1st? :)

    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.

    What baffles me is the question mark. Is Noob uncertain about how to count to one?

    What baffles me is claiming the 'third' post. Seriously now. If I register, is there an option to not display the first three posts?

  • Drew (unregistered) in reply to SenTree

    The correct response is alt-tab. :)

  • SunTzuWarmaster (unregistered)

    On many sites, such as slashdot, just because you don't see any comments doesn't mean that someone hasn't already submitted a comment with a timestamp that is before the one that you are about to submit.

    In short, just because you see 0 comments, and write one doesn't mean that someone else doesn't type faster or have a faster internet connection than you do.

  • sponk (unregistered) in reply to P

    Indeed, it is flipping the 5th lsb to 0.

    It should be noted that Celtic, or more specifically Gaelic, is curiously the exact same as English ascii with that bit set to 0 so in fact you are both correct.

  • MJB (unregistered) in reply to SuperAnalyst
    What language was that in the BIOS screenshot? I'm guessing Celtic?

    I was thinking Middle English, like Chaucer.

  • Henning Makholm (unregistered) in reply to P
    P:
    It looks as if it's flipping one of the bits in the ASCII codes for each character to 0.
    Some bits get flipped from 0 to 1, too. In 'Devyces', an i (0x69) became 'y' (0x79), and the 'o' (0x6F) on one of the "HighPoint"s became 0x7F, and (c) became 8c) (0x28 to 0x38). It always seem to be the XOR 0x10 though.

    Interestingly, many of the xor-0x10 cases here interchange phonetically related letters: c/s, d/t, i/y. It almost looks as if the machine is mocking the user with bad spelling.

  • (cs) in reply to P
    P:
    SuperAnalyst:
    What language was that in the BIOS screenshot? I'm guessing Celtic?

    It looks as if it's flipping one of the bits in the ASCII codes for each character to 0. I'm amazed it got as far as displaying that message in that kind of state, no surprise it went downhill from there...

    It looks like it was the fourth most significant bit that went down the wazoo. More than once a 't' was swapped with a 'd', and their ASCII values are 16 units apart.

    What bugs me tho', is that it did not act that way for the whole message. See how HighPoints' capital 'P' was swapped on the first row but not on the second.

  • Pseudo Code (unregistered)

    I think it is rather rude for the computer to suggest "Please gaid". I mean, from what I've heard, being gai is something you're born with, not really something you can just choose to do on request. Although, it is shocking the lengths to which "they" will go to get more people gaid.

  • Ethan Qix (unregistered) in reply to noob
    noob:
    blabla:
    1st? :)

    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.

    Really ? In every commentable blog-like website I visit, there's always a idiot to do this. Sometimes there even are more idiots to go "second", "third" and so on.

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Bappi
    Bappi:
    noob:
    blabla:
    1st? :)

    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.

    What baffles me is the question mark. Is Noob uncertain about how to count to one?
    It's a legitimate question because blog posts on C sites begin at 0.

  • (cs) in reply to Bernie
    Bernie:
    WARNING

    Your boxers seems to be too large to wear safely. Wearing your boxers could cause your ego to falsely inflate, which would make your sex life unstable. Are you sure that you don't want to wear briefs instead?

    Neither, thanks. I'll keep my panties instead.

  • Twenty Third (unregistered) in reply to Ethan Qix
    Ethan Qix:
    noob:
    blabla:
    1st? :)

    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.

    Really ? In every commentable blog-like website I visit, there's always a idiot to do this. Sometimes there even are more idiots to go "second", "third" and so on.

    Imagine that you're sitting at your keyboard thinking "OMG this inn-tar-web thingy is soo freakin cool and look there's like real people talking on this page and I can even post something too but I haven't got the smallest clue what to say." Instead of typing all that, "third" (or whatever) is an abbreviation of sorts.

  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to ContraCorners
    ContraCorners:
    Bernie:
    WARNING

    Your boxers seems to be too large to wear safely. Wearing your boxers could cause your ego to falsely inflate, which would make your sex life unstable. Are you sure that you don't want to wear briefs instead?

    Neither, thanks. I'll keep my panties instead.
    Is that you, Irish Girl? Cause if it is, umm...

  • Anon (unregistered)

    "danny_deckchair_480.mov" - sounds kinkay.

  • Anonimuos (unregistered)

    That bit-flipping error looks like a problem with the L1 or L2 cache. I've seen so many times, I can tell by the pixels.

  • SCB (unregistered) in reply to Anonimuos
    Anonimuos:
    That bit-flipping error looks like a problem with the L1 or L2 cache. I've seen so many times, I can tell by the pixels.

    Which pixels, exactly? Do tell.

  • (cs) in reply to SenTree
    SenTree:
    Micirio:
    Your choice could be: * yes - press 'OK' * no - close the dialog (press 'x' at the top right)
    You'd think so, wouldn't you ? I can't speak for NetBeans, but there was a version of Norton AV which put up a similar box for 'Restart computer'. Clicking the X had exactly the same effect as clicking the single OK button (instant restart, no way to stop it) - losing me a load of data in the process.
    [image]

    Process Explorer is your friend.

  • OldCoder (unregistered) in reply to Drew
    Drew:
    The correct response is alt-tab. :)
    Not if it's a system-modal box it isn't.
  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to Bappi
    Bappi:
    noob:
    blabla:
    1st? :)
    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.
    What baffles me is the question mark. Is Noob uncertain about how to count to one?
    I don't see any evidence that noob has difficulty counting to one. But blabla on the other hand...
  • TK (unregistered) in reply to Pseudo Code
    Pseudo Code:
    I think it is rather rude for the computer to suggest "Please gaid". I mean, from what I've heard, being gai is something you're born with, not really something you can just choose to do on request. Although, it is shocking the lengths to which "they" will go to get more people gaid.
    Agreed. Surely that proves even "they" don't believe it's something you're born with.
  • Bruce W (unregistered) in reply to MJB
    MJB:
    What language was that in the BIOS screenshot? I'm guessing Celtic?

    I was thinking Middle English, like Chaucer.

    If my computer starts spitting out Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,

    And hathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth I'll probably take a shotgun to it.

  • (cs) in reply to P
    P:
    SuperAnalyst:
    What language was that in the BIOS screenshot? I'm guessing Celtic?

    It looks as if it's flipping one of the bits in the ASCII codes for each character to 0. I'm amazed it got as far as displaying that message in that kind of state, no surprise it went downhill from there...

    Hope the submitter had a good backup.
  • (cs) in reply to Zapp Brannigan
    Zapp Brannigan:
    It's a legitimate question because blog posts on C sites begin at 0.
    You win the internet today!
  • Anonymoose (unregistered)

    Wow You know that Bios screen almost looks like welsh

  • (cs) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    I don't see any evidence that noob has difficulty counting to one. But blabla on the other hand...
    I blame Muphry.
  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    ContraCorners:
    Bernie:
    WARNING

    Your boxers seems to be too large to wear safely. Wearing your boxers could cause your ego to falsely inflate, which would make your sex life unstable. Are you sure that you don't want to wear briefs instead?

    Neither, thanks. I'll keep my panties instead.
    Is that you, Irish Girl? Cause if it is, umm...
    It's 2009, panty wearing is not a predictor of gender.

  • Harold (unregistered) in reply to Micirio

    I always get irritated by those questions that say "Are you sure?", and then have a binary reply like yes/no. The real answer most of the time is "I'm not sure but go ahead and let's try it this time." Anyone ever run across one of those?

  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to OldCoder
    OldCoder:
    Drew:
    The correct response is alt-tab. :)
    Not if it's a system-modal box it isn't.
    Why would you even consider using a computer that assumes it should be the boss instead of you? OK, maybe you didn't know at first, but the minute you find out, wouldn't you take it out in the back yard, blow it up, and look for something a little less rude?
  • Hapless Corporate Drone (unregistered) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    OldCoder:
    Drew:
    The correct response is alt-tab. :)
    Not if it's a system-modal box it isn't.
    Why would you even consider using a computer that assumes it should be the boss instead of you? OK, maybe you didn't know at first, but the minute you find out, wouldn't you take it out in the back yard, blow it up, and look for something a little less rude?

    Because, you know, the Boss and the company's property managers kinda take a dim view on taking corporate IT assets home, let alone explosive destruction of said corporate IT assets.

  • (cs) in reply to Harold
    Harold:
    I always get irritated by those questions that say "Are you sure?", and then have a binary reply like yes/no. The real answer most of the time is "I'm not sure but go ahead and let's try it this time." Anyone ever run across one of those?
    [image]
  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    SenTree:
    Micirio:
    Your choice could be: * yes - press 'OK' * no - close the dialog (press 'x' at the top right)
    You'd think so, wouldn't you ? I can't speak for NetBeans, but there was a version of Norton AV which put up a similar box for 'Restart computer'. Clicking the X had exactly the same effect as clicking the single OK button (instant restart, no way to stop it) - losing me a load of data in the process.
    Process Explorer is your friend.
    1. Heh, thanks. But I wasn't aware of Process Explorer (as opposed to Task Manager) at the time.
    @the other respondents as well...
    2. I didn't want to leave an anti-virus update in a possibly unknown state. 3. Most updates didn't do this; they lulled one into a false sense of complacency then sent one of these. 4. The application in question was an old binary newsreader (NewsShark - I know!). After downloading thousands of posts, the only reference to the header text (for sorting out the goodies) was in a list window with no save function. It wasn't the end of the world, just f*ckin' annoying.
  • JustSomeGuy (unregistered) in reply to SCB

    It just looks to me like some bits are floating, i.e. bad or inconsistent connection.

    Depending on the voltage on the adjacent pins they can act as a pull up so results are a bit unpredictable.

  • (cs)
    Coward:
    I think this shuld be standard, however let mes guess how this works: Yes=Quit No=Don't Quit Hmm... kind of...=Ask again Let me think about it for a minute=sleep for 60 seconds re ask question No, but go ahead and let's try it this time=Quit

    Am I right?

    Sounds good to me! Maybe we should have "no but go ahead" add an entry in the event log that notes the user's concern.

  • Zygo (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that a modern IDE can be brought to its knees by a mere 1MB text file...

  • Adny (unregistered) in reply to SuperAnalyst

    It's English... but with a damaged bit. Hardware problems like that are much more fun when the stuff is generating characters; a single bit held high/low makes some letters become others.

    Try shifting all the 'weird' letters forward 16 steps on the ASCII chart and it all makes perfect sense :)

  • (cs) in reply to noob
    noob:
    blabla:
    1st? :)

    Can someone explain to me the obsession with having the first comment to a story here? I've never seen that anywhere else.

    That's a kind of self-pleasure, called fristing.

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