• neveralull (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent

    Laughed so hard I spilled tea all over my keyboard

  • neveralull (unregistered)

    Can somebody tell me how to get the screen shot I'm commenting on get in this comment?

  • (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?

    When my ego inflates in my boxers, that's only beneficial for my sex life.

  • (cs) in reply to neveralull
    neveralull:
    Can somebody tell me how to get the screen shot I'm commenting on get in this comment?
    Probably easiest to use the "Quote" button and delete everything but the img tags and their URL.
  • capio (unregistered) in reply to Zapp Brannigan
    Zapp Brannigan:
    Yd'c a lewydymade qeucdyon busaecu rlow pocdc on S cyduc ruwyn ad 0.
    FTFY

    And what the hell is vac blower? How do you blow a vacuum? Apart from, you know, failing somehow?

  • (cs) in reply to capio
    capio:
    And what the hell is vac blower?
  • Milligan (unregistered) in reply to Bruce W
    Bruce W:

    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.

    Hey, my computer spit out the same thing! Of course, I had a million monkeys typing on it for a million years at the the time. I'm hoping that in a few hundred years they'll start producing some of Shakespeare's works.

  • (cs) in reply to Milligan
    Milligan:
    Hey, my computer spit out the same thing! Of course, I had a million monkeys typing on it for a million years at the the time. I'm hoping that in a few hundred years they'll start producing some of Shakespeare's works.

    My wife played 'Kafka' (a monkey attempting to do what you describe) in this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words,_Words,_Words

    ...at a 'Darwin Days' party at a local paleontology museum. The party was jammed with local hoi polloi (we're a college town), and the best part was the three actors gradually acting more and more like monkeys, without any of the partygoers knowing what was going on. Nothing like a crowd of intelligentsia looking on uncomfortably while a girl goes loping through, casually eating a banana, peel and all...

  • (cs) in reply to PeriSoft
    PeriSoft:
    Nothing like a crowd of intelligentsia looking on uncomfortably while a girl goes loping through, casually eating a banana, peel and all...
    (Using best Homer Simpson voice) "Mmm, girls eating bananas..."
  • Joel (unregistered) in reply to Twenty Third
    Twenty Third:
    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.
    What amazes me is how significant a portion of the comments on the first page are devoted to discussing this fuckwit.

  • Joel (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?
    You have apparently never used Windows.
  • ModernProgramming (unregistered) in reply to SunTzuWarmaster
    SunTzuWarmaster:
    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.

    Moan, moan, moan. It's always the losers who find such excuses

    CAPTCHA: ideo, therefore I am

  • (cs) in reply to Henning Makholm
    Henning Makholm:
    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.

    For some reason, my first thought was that the computer had cought a cold...

    What I don't quite get is "Etility" in the first line vs "Edilidy" in the fourth line. Is this thing progressively getting worse?

  • (cs) in reply to alegr
    alegr:
    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.
    Either you or one of your friends is a genetic freak with super-simian arms, then.

    "Fristing," as any fule no, involves an orifice and the terminating appendage of a second consenting adult.

    The act to which you possibly refer is "thriding." This is an increasingly popular feature in the art-house cinema currently produced in the San Bernadino valley, as I understand.

    (Warning: South African Presidential Candidates should take a shower afterwards. Yes, Zuma, I'm talking to you. Even if you only watched the grainy YouTube clip, you daft git.)

  • ModernProgramming (unregistered)

    (seventy) First!

  • (cs)

    Rong place for that.

    Also, 73rd!!!1!!cos(0)

  • (cs) in reply to Zygo
    Zygo:
    The real WTF is that a modern IDE can be brought to its knees by a mere 1MB text file...
    You've never used Xcode, I take it?
  • hey persto! (unregistered) 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. (Please - no homilies about regular saves - this particular application didn't allow saving the intermediate data in a useful form).

    it didn't occur to you to save your data before clicking the button which you didn't know what it does?

  • (cs) in reply to Henning Makholm
    Henning Makholm:
    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.
    Only spelling Nazis care about spelling.
  • blabla (unregistered)

    1st? :)

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

    it didn't occur to you to save your data before clicking the button which you didn't know what it does?

    Fail@comprehension.

    1. It occurred to me to NOT press the button which explicitly stated it would reboot my machine. Instead I pressed the X at the top right of the window which, generally, dismisses a window without doing anything else. This would have allowed me to finish what I was doing without a fucking great (undraggable) stay-on-top window obscuring the screen. This being the first time I'd seen this fuckwit behaviour, I was a little surprised.

    2. The application in question DOES NOT ALLOW ONE TO SAVE THE DATA I WAS INTERESTED IN - as explained in the OP and further explained in later replies.

  • RMAguy (unregistered) in reply to Adny

    Yes, I had something very similar happen to my PC when the graphics card began to fail. I don't think this really qualifies as a WTF.

  • Nuitari (unregistered) in reply to Smash King
    Smash King:
    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.

    That is the kind of output you get from HighPoint controllers if you have a problem in the setup of your hard drive, namely the master/slave jumper.

    I once had a controller detect a "Pountul" (Quantum) brand hard drive, and promptly corrupted it's MBR.

    Basically you get a combination of bad error handling and memory corruption running away.

  • Dekker3D (unregistered) in reply to alegr
    alegr:
    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?

    When my ego inflates in my boxers, that's only beneficial for my sex life.

    well, i'd call "up, down, up, down" pretty unstable. especially when it's happening often. like.. the once a second kind of often?

  • (cs) in reply to Smash King
    Smash King:
    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.

    Really? That bugs you? What you don't realize that this was, in fact, an intermittent hardware issue, and not intentional. You do realize that you just made yourself look stupid on the INTERNET, don't you?!

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

    it didn't occur to you to save your data before clicking the button which you didn't know what it does?

    Fail@comprehension.

    1. It occurred to me to NOT press the button which explicitly stated it would reboot my machine. Instead I pressed the X at the top right of the window which, generally, dismisses a window without doing anything else. This would have allowed me to finish what I was doing without a fucking great (undraggable) stay-on-top window obscuring the screen. This being the first time I'd seen this fuckwit behaviour, I was a little surprised.

    2. The application in question DOES NOT ALLOW ONE TO SAVE THE DATA I WAS INTERESTED IN - as explained in the OP and further explained in later replies.

    Always mind the OnUnload event

  • (cs) in reply to ModernProgramming
    ModernProgramming:
    <snipsnipsnip>
    Always mind the OnUnload event
    Now you tell me :(
  • don't tell me (unregistered)
    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?

    Code Dependent:
    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]

    Needs another button - "Of course I'm sure, do it and don't ask me again"

  • Cbuttius (unregistered)

    isFileOpen() can return one of 3 values: true, false or fileNotFound...

    The programmer calling it obviously got their boolean logic confused somewhere in there. We'll have to teach them.

  • Cbuttius (unregistered) in reply to Joel
    Joel:
    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?
    You have apparently never used Windows.

    Actually one thing that has always irritated me about Windows is when an application is slow so while you are waiting for it you push it into the background and work on something else. The application finally is ready and decides to push itself into the foreground when you are not ready for it or wanting it to.

    Then of course everyone knows the updates annoyance when it wants to restart your computer, you say to restart later and 2 minutes later it asks you again.

    Plus the fact it will often just restart itself overnight without asking you.

  • UnexpectedBill (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent

    I remember those versions of Norton AV, and even killing off the process wasn't good enough. It seemed that They Really Wanted You To Restart. And You Were Going To Obey!

    I have that same HighPoint RAID controller. Hope it never has a bad day like that one did...

  • draeath (unregistered)

    Oh come on, stop quoting the spammer's links. Copy the text but pull out those links.

    You're only doing his work for him.

  • Petrea Mitchell (unregistered)

    Clearly the video checkout, which should have been in Earth mode, was set for some other planet with at least 96 hours in its day (thus allowing 48:00 pm).

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  • Axel (unregistered)

    The display with bad spelling was probably a bit-line problem (bad memory chip) on the graphics card. L1 or L2 cache problem? I doubt it; the code itself would crash before it could display much of anything.

    (signed) Lurking Hardware Dude

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