• Harrow (unregistered) in reply to Adriano
    Adriano:
    ATTDF... Adenine Timine Timine Damnine F*ckine...
    LMAO. I can't believe this hasn't generated a pile of kudos.

    -Harrow.

  • John Kinsella (unregistered)

    ... Eden's garden would be here, and I there within. No expectation fails there, no pleasing prospect ends ...

  • (cs)

    Clearly, the computer that printed Jeremy's mortgage statement has gone a bit DAFT.

  • Technically Blonde (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Server Error in '/windows' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

    Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

    ...

    What's so odd about that one? It seems like I get it something like every third time I go to a site hosted on a server running IIS.

  • (cs)

    ... egg chips and null.

    <vikings> Null null null null. Lovely null! Wonderful null! Null nuu-u-u-u-u-ul null nuu-u-u-u-u-ul null. Lovely null! Lovely null! Lovely null! Lovely null! Lovely null! Null null null null! </vikings>

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    I assume the ATTDFDFTA... is supposed to be a barcode, but they forgot to load the correct font?
    Bingo
  • Shadow (unregistered)

    Anyone else spot the "Fool Disclosure" in Matt's pic? That's a double WTF? ;)

  • Subroutine (unregistered)

    Ah, I've seen that 417 error.

    It happens when the client sends a HTTP 1.1 request (with the Expect continue header) and Apache proxy knows that the next step server supports only HTTP 1.0. (Or if Apache configuration forces the connection to 1.0)

    Or something like that, don't remember the details...

  • Sukasa (unregistered)

    The 'Engine Error' dialog isn't much of a WTF, it's caused when the source engine gets overloaded, usually because of too many NPCs and such. I do it to myself all the time in Garrysmod.

  • (cs) in reply to Shadow
    Shadow:
    Anyone else spot the "Fool Disclosure" in Matt's pic? That's a double WTF? ;)
    Is it, perhaps, because the site is "The Motley Fool" ? Like, you know, a pun.
  • Topper Harley (unregistered)

    Guess the Server was in Topper Harley mode:

    • What are you reading?
    • Great Expectations.
    • Is it any good?
    • It's not what I'd hoped for.
  • (cs)

    Is it not the case that ALL emails are to the future? Now an email to the past - THAT I'd like to see.

  • pzy (unregistered) in reply to ThePants999
    ThePants999:
    Is it not the case that ALL emails are to the future? Now an email to the past - THAT I'd like to see.

    WWJD?

    let's email him!

  • alice burn cobbler (unregistered) in reply to Jeremy Fry Smith
    Jeremy Fry Smith:
    Steve H:
    The real WTF is blacking out Jeremy Fry's surname, then telling us all what it is in the commentary.

    My middle name is Fry.

    Quote buttons are awesome, no?

    That's no excuse for repeating yourself.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to SenTree
    SenTree:
    Anonymous:
    Bad luck Magnus, I hope you're prepared for the deep-seated hatred that you will soon start to feel towards your new ISP. Their traffic management is a riot, you'll love it!
    Are they still that bad? I'd heard they use to be but I thought they'd cleaned up their act.

    I have a reason for asking - I'm moving soon, and I'll have a choice between Virgin Cable and poor-quality ADSL (2Mbps - long way from the exchange).

    Honestly, they are that bad and are getting worse all the time. I used to be on their 10Mb service; they tout this as an "unlimited" service which is such an outrageous lie I don't even know how they get away with saying it. Their traffic management operates between 4pm and 9pm - a solid five hour period. If you go over your quota in this time your connection gets limited. This limiting process does not "cleanly" reduce your connection, it causes dreadful fluctuations in speed and quality that makes the whole connection virtually unusable. So, how long can you download for before you get limited? Well, imagine you are downloading at the full 10Mb - you have 16 minutes! This is not a word of a lie, you literally have 16 minutes at full speed before they savage your internet connection and it becomes useless. That's any 16 minutes between 4pm and 9pm, 7 days a week. And this is what Virgin Media call "unlimited". What a joke.

    Oh, and you may have read in the news a short while ago: CEO Neil Berkett actually went on the record as saying that net neutrality is "a load of bollocks". Seriously, they were his exact words. The simple fact is that Virgin Media has no intention of honouring the principle of net neutrality, they are already drawing up plans to implement a "two-tier service" and their CEO is on the record as confirming this. If that doesn't scare you off of Virgin Media then you are a far braver man than I!

    I'm now on ADSL2+. I'm also a long way from the exchange, I sync at less than half the max possible connection speed, but I've found that a patchy connection from a good ISP is way better than a great connection from a shitty ISP like Virgin Media.

  • (cs)

    The way I see this Google Mail thing is this:

    If it says it was sent -5 minutes ago, then that rather means that it was sent by your future self, not your past self. Or am I getting something wrong here?

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    SenTree:
    Are they still that bad? I'd heard they use to be but I thought they'd cleaned up their act.
    Honestly, they are that bad and are getting worse all the time... <snipped a bit>

    ...If that doesn't scare you off of Virgin Media then you are a far braver man than I!

    Oh crap! Thanks for that info, now I won't even bother investigating Virgin. (There's no line from the street to the house anyway, so I guess it would cost to get that installed as well).

    Anonymous:
    I'm now on ADSL2+. I'm also a long way from the exchange, I sync at less than half the max possible connection speed, but I've found that a patchy connection from a good ISP is way better than a great connection from a shitty ISP like Virgin Media.
    As you say, a reasonably consistent ADSL, even if patchy, is more useful than never knowing if you can even see the internet! Thanks again.
  • Prometheus (unregistered) in reply to Don

    Caw caw c-c-caw caw caw!

    Move out of the way, I'm gonna shoot him.

    Stand down. I'll kill this one myself.

    I've been passing around the XP Pro EULA. A bunch of my pirate friends think they have a free ride now.

    CAPTCHA - tation. tation... the state of being tate.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Ed
    Ed:
    Looks like a WTF here by The Daily WTF. Jeremy took the effort to remove his last name from the scan of the mortgage statement, then you guys put it right above the image.

    Aha! And now we all know that Jeremy Fry has a mortgage! This probably means he owns a house! We even know the amount of his monthly mortgage payment! What power this knowledge gives us over him! Now we can use this information to ... well, umm ... we could ...

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Americium
    Americium:
    No, the real WTF is that Jeremy's mortgage payment is less than $640! Where does he live, Flint, MI?

    The real WT_ is that people will buy a one-bedroom bungalow in San Francisco for $500,000 when you could buy a mansion for that price in the Mid-West. Sure, salaries are higher on the coasts. But not that much higher.

    Here in Michigan with home prices plummeting, I just bought quite a nice house for under $80,000. If you're buying a house here with the idea that you're going to sell it in two years and make a profit on the appreciation, you're either nuts or you know something the rest of us don't. (Probably information contained in those emails you're getting from the future.) But if you plan to live in it, who cares if values continue to decline?

    I see that there are plenty of houses in Detroit selling for under $10,000. Of course, the catch to buying a house in Detroit is that any money you save on mortgage payments you'll probably just lose to muggings.

  • C (unregistered) in reply to TheRider
    TheRider:
    The way I see this Google Mail thing is this:

    If it says it was sent -5 minutes ago, then that rather means that it was sent by your future self, not your past self. Or am I getting something wrong here?

    Exactly, it's a delayed relay thing! ^^

    Also, what strikes me about that "TMF" site is its name... @-) I mean, okay, "To Educate, Amuse & Enrich" -- but the "Amuse" part is redundant, considering the title itself. AND the Tookie.

  • Ed (unregistered) in reply to jay
    jay:
    Ed:
    Looks like a WTF here by The Daily WTF. Jeremy took the effort to remove his last name from the scan of the mortgage statement, then you guys put it right above the image.

    Aha! And now we all know that Jeremy Fry has a mortgage! This probably means he owns a house! We even know the amount of his monthly mortgage payment! What power this knowledge gives us over him! Now we can use this information to ... well, umm ... we could ...

    I don't really care that he has a mortgage, but obviously he cared about making too much public or he wouldn't have blacked out his last name.

  • (cs) in reply to Bappi
    Bappi:
    Jeremy Fry Smith:
    Quote buttons are awesome, no?
    The very existence of separate reply and quote buttons is the biggest WTF on thedailyWTF.

    Obviously, you've actually not posted anything on the forum. The easiest way there is to search for Side Bar WTF, and then click on one of the links below the match. I just have two final things to say:

    1. Be careful or don't go.
    2. Don't say I didn't warn you.
  • Gmail overclocking (unregistered) in reply to David C.

    Don't you mean, "the sender's clock is AHEAD". Clocks aren't fast or slow, they all run 60 mins per hour.

  • (cs) in reply to Gmail overclocking
    Gmail overclocking:
    Don't you mean, "the sender's clock is AHEAD". Clocks aren't fast or slow, they all run 60 mins per hour.
    No, the one in my car runs about 60.0001 mins/hr. I set it correctly a couple of weeks ago and now it's two minutes AHEAD, due to running FAST.
  • rainer (unregistered) in reply to jay
    jay:
    The real WT_ is that people will buy a one-bedroom bungalow in San Francisco for $500,000 when you could buy a mansion for that price in the Mid-West. Sure, salaries are higher on the coasts. But not that much higher.

    No, the real WTF is that people spend that much money on a bungalow in San Francisco, if they could buy an apartment in Paris (France) for the same amount. Sure, San Francisco may be nice. But not that nice, compared to Paris.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to rainer
    rainer:
    jay:
    The real WT_ is that people will buy a one-bedroom bungalow in San Francisco for $500,000 when you could buy a mansion for that price in the Mid-West. Sure, salaries are higher on the coasts. But not that much higher.

    No, the real WTF is that people spend that much money on a bungalow in San Francisco, if they could buy an apartment in Paris (France) for the same amount. Sure, San Francisco may be nice. But not that nice, compared to Paris.

    I'm guessing you've never actually been to Paris. It's only nice on paper.

  • (cs) in reply to Gmail overclocking
    Gmail overclocking:
    Don't you mean, "the sender's clock is AHEAD".

    Win!

    Gmail overclocking:
    Clocks aren't fast or slow, they all run 60 mins per hour.

    Fail!

    Your post cancels itself out.

  • (cs)

    I see what happened with the Twitter server!

    The client expected the header to be sent in Monospace, but the server was only able to send it in Times New Roman. That's why the error occurred, as the error page clearly shows!

  • not impressed (unregistered)

    Most of these are f'ing retarded and groan-worthy. Please stop these types of posts.

  • Kidd (unregistered)

    Fry, you have a nice low mortgage payment! Congrats!

  • Rob Dougan (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that 32767 is the max value for a short integer in Windows, not 32768 (unless this is some other platform or something).

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Rob Dougan
    Rob Dougan:
    The real WTF is that 32767 is the max value for a short integer in Windows, not 32768 (unless this is some other platform or something).
    It is an index buffer, i.e. a pointer array. If all elements have valid pointers in them, the array contains 32,768 pointers. If you reach a null pointer or if the (unsigned integer) array index would overflow from 32,767 to 0, you stop.

    There are a handful of different ways you could write such code, but it has two different stop checks that occur in two different places, so it breaks out of any standard looping construct. For example,

    unsigned int i = 0;
while (buffer[i] != NULL) {
process(buffer[i]);
if (i == 32767) break;
++ i;
}

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