• ☺ (unregistered) in reply to moorej
    moorej:
    ☺:
    Boring. These days, a screenshot isn't embarassing unless it contains a minimized bestiality website.
    The Website is Down
    Close, but no highly-valued, tabacco-filled smoking appliance.
  • Guest from Germany (unregistered)

    The "order non-confirmation" is a thing you should do for legal reasons. In Germany, if you accidentaly put an item for 0,90 $ into your shop that should be sold for 90,00 $ and you send a real order confirmation, you might be forced to sell it for 0,90 $. If you send a "non-confirmation" confirming only that you received the order, its fine.

  • Gnubeutel (unregistered)

    needing support for cox sounds like someone's bragging

  • nonny nonny (unregistered)

    ATE0

    There.

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    I've heard of double byte encoding, but double word encoding is new to me!

  • Nick (unregistered) in reply to Planet
    Planet:
    The Real WTF(tm) is: why does Nick Thompson print out a digital photo of an email printout?

    This comment has been sent by fax and may contain errors due to optical text recognition.

    FYI: I was given the print-out by a colleague and while I could have gone and screen-printed it myself it was more fun to add wooden-table goodness.

  • Unix Dev Head (unregistered)

    Outlook is making sure there is enough room left to download a random virus.....

  • (cs) in reply to Charles400
    Charles400:
    I got my Daily WTF decals in the mail. Where shall I stick it?

    Stick it on your monitor, then take a screen capture to prove it.

  • CynicalTyler (unregistered) in reply to ☺
    ☺:
    CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh!!
    I got a fortune cookie like this once. Worst and best fortune ever.
  • (cs) in reply to moorej
    moorej:
    "Not only did the ATM run out of ink,"

    Am I the only one that say, "No it didn't, ATMs use thermal printers!"???

    Hmmm...

    No, I noticed that as well. The print head needs replacing on that printer. Of course, since I work for a multi-national provider of ATMs, I'd notice this sort of thing.

  • Zerbs (unregistered) in reply to Kermos

    reminds me of a fortune cookie message I actually got once, it said: "Ssoorrrryy,, dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh oonn.. Lucky Numbers 24, 3, 47, 11, 5, 38"

  • (cs) in reply to mrprogguy
    mrprogguy:
    moorej:
    "Not only did the ATM run out of ink,"

    Am I the only one that say, "No it didn't, ATMs use thermal printers!"???

    Hmmm...

    No, I noticed that as well. The print head needs replacing on that printer. Of course, since I work for a multi-national provider of ATMs, I'd notice this sort of thing.

    Well that narrows it down to one of two multi-national companies. :)

  • Zypher (unregistered) in reply to TarquinWJ

    In exchange it's set by KB so the poor admin just forgot a 0 ... 65536KB instead of 655360KB ... it's actually not that big of a WTF, although funny message. Now if he missed the 0 on the max size now that is funny

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I understand why the poster of the order confirmation blacked out the text following "Dear" and "order number", but why did he block out the text following "will be delivered no later than"? Was he afraid that strangers would see the date and cry, "An order for delivery by Jan 14, 2009! Why that must be Fred Stover! He's the only person in the world who received deliveries of mail order merchandise between Jan 7 and Jan 14."

  • (_|_) (unregistered)

    'null' is null or not a comment

  • (cs) in reply to JohnB
    JohnB:
    Bobbo:
    DaveAronson:
    IsIs therethere anan echoecho inin herehere??

    @ECHO Yes.

    Yes.
    No no no. What's wrong with a code sample, for goodness' sake?
    C:\Temp>type herehere.bat
@ECHO off
@ECHO Yes.
here.bat
    

    C:\Temp>type here.bat
herehere.bat
    The wonderful thing about this is that, counter-intuitively, one way to stop the recursion is to type "Yes."

    This is probably the most useful DOS batch file I have ever written.

    Addendum (2009-04-07 15:51): Of course, the really sad part is that I still don't trust DOS after all these years. I mean, that "@ECHO off", it's too intuitive for me, even now. Version 2 of the most useful DOS batch file I have ever written:

    C:\Temp>type herehere.bat
@ECHO off
@ECHO Yes.
herehere.bat

  • (cs) in reply to moorej
    moorej:
    mrprogguy:
    moorej:
    "Not only did the ATM run out of ink,"

    Am I the only one that say, "No it didn't, ATMs use thermal printers!"???

    Hmmm...

    No, I noticed that as well. The print head needs replacing on that printer. Of course, since I work for a multi-national provider of ATMs, I'd notice this sort of thing.

    Well that narrows it down to one of two multi-national companies. :)

    Yes. Company policy forbids me from actually telling you who I work for.

    No, wait, common sense forbids me. Sorry. I don't often get those two confused, but sometimes it happens.

  • myname (unregistered) in reply to ExtraErrorMessage

    And the reason - all those webpages are now optimized for Firefox. WTF?

  • Sane Person (unregistered) in reply to mrprogguy
    mrprogguy:
    moorej:
    mrprogguy:
    moorej:
    "Not only did the ATM run out of ink,"

    Am I the only one that say, "No it didn't, ATMs use thermal printers!"???

    Hmmm...

    No, I noticed that as well. The print head needs replacing on that printer. Of course, since I work for a multi-national provider of ATMs, I'd notice this sort of thing.

    Well that narrows it down to one of two multi-national companies. :)

    Yes. Company policy forbids me from actually telling you who I work for.

    No, wait, common sense forbids me. Sorry. I don't often get those two confused, but sometimes it happens.

    I'm not allowed to say who I work for either. But let's just say it's a military organization that specializes in air combat ...

  • BillyBob (unregistered)

    Usually, when a website has an Error'd I like to have a look at it for myself. In the case of support.cox.com, I have decided to abstain from my usual practice. I think I have made a wise decision.

  • odio (unregistered) in reply to BillyBob
    "Not only did the ATM run out of ink," wrote Tim A, "but it would appear that the marketing department has finally run out of messages!"
    Now, there's a reason for party if I ever heard one!
  • (cs)

    Also, how is "Please reduce your mailbox size" remedying its fullness?

  • XML Nazi (unregistered) in reply to Sigher
    Sigher:
    <sigh>

    Kermos, he's making fun of Bill Gates who once (way back) said

    640K ram should be enough for anyone.

    <double sigh>

    <sigh rep="triple"> Bringing the grammar Nazi stuff upp one level: That is not well formed, two unclosed start tags... </sigh>
  • kopnitski (unregistered) in reply to Charles400
    Charles400:
    I got my Daily WTF decals in the mail. Where shall I stick it?

    Do you really want us to answer that?

  • (cs) in reply to aD
    aD:
    Ebuyer's order confirmation emails are even better.
    You mean, just like the one that's in this article? Or is there another company named "Ebuyer"?
  • Chris Ovenden (unregistered) in reply to Cidolfas

    " 'null' is null or not an object"

    I program javascript and have no problem with this (though, yes, IE is awful about telling you where the error occurred). Look closely. The first null is in quotes, so it's a string and therefore neither null nor an object (unlike in, say, python where strings are objects).

    captcha: dignissim

  • (cs) in reply to XML Nazi
    XML Nazi:
    Sigher:
    <sigh>

    Kermos, he's making fun of Bill Gates who once (way back) said

    640K ram should be enough for anyone.

    <double sigh>

    <sigh rep="triple"> Bringing the grammar Nazi stuff upp one level: That is not well formed, two unclosed start tags... </sigh>

    I couldn't help but to notice: you have no Doctype. That's not XML. Also, I've not actually met anyone before who could sigh while talking...

  • Sameer More (unregistered)

    The "Error:Error: NoNo displaydisplay pagepage foundfound" was reported more than 2 years back...and it is still right there. Talk about longevity!

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