• (cs)

    Negative sized swapfiles are more commonly referred to as ram drives.

  • IByte (unregistered)

    Perhaps it stands for Behind Da Times?

  • Fred (unregistered)

    What, a « 404 - Error Intentionnaly Left Blank" ? And me, I was thinking it was the equivalent of the famous FILE_NOT_FOUND.

    HTTP, but not quite. We don't even hav 4xx == failure from the client.

  • Inhibeo (unregistered)

    Logically speaking, the Vista message is 100% accurate.

  • Rene (unregistered)

    More files means less space, so filesize = negative space

  • Zeriel (unregistered)

    That Vista message in particular seems to only show up when something else is blocking your CPU so hard that it causes the Shut Down explorer window from responding to the OS in a timely manner.

    Even more irony--most commonly the thing causing this to happen is the Task Manager.

  • Fustanella (unregistered)

    My original computer (TRS-80 Model I, Level 1 BASIC) had three error messages: WHAT? HOW? and SORRY. They're being nostalgic!

  • Johh (unregistered)

    Why do you want to restart in the middle of moving files?

  • (cs)

    Shut Down always prevents my computer from restarting, too, but I've never found a way to kill it. If you just wait, eventually it'll finish and then restart can begin.

  • Mike (unregistered)

    TRWTF of course is that Mattias paid nearly £1.50 for a chappathi.

  • (cs)

    That last one was pretty dumb, actually. If you look closely, you can see "Moving 154 Items" in a background window, in which case it's entirely reasonable that Explorer would block a shutdown until the transfer is finished.

    I'm also kind of curious what images he's looking at that they would have labels like "...phalic Monster", "...Skull 1", and "...Body".

    Remember folks, be careful with your screenshots!

  • fnord moco (unregistered) in reply to Rene
    Rene:
    More files means less space, so filesize = negative space
    O, o, I know, therefore negative filesize = positive space! Now that we've mastered the concept of negative numbers, can we have the rest of the day off?
  • James (unregistered)

    The last one doesn't seem like a WTF to me at all. He clearly hosed his Explorer, so everything that it was doing (the original Shut Down dialog, a bunch of folder windows) won't respond to hails. It's unfortunate, but it happens to the best of us sometimes.

    And I really got a kick out of the 404 error -- glad I'm not the only one who caught it.

  • Bobbo (unregistered) in reply to Fustanella
    Fustanella:
    My original computer (TRS-80 Model I, Level 1 BASIC) had three error messages: WHAT? HOW? and SORRY. They're being nostalgic!

    Reminds me of the "Silly" error message from BASIC on the BBC Micro when you tried to renumber a program with daft parameters, like RENUMBER 10,0.

    If it's acceptable to have a favourite error message, this is mine.

  • Rob (unregistered)

    Did you notice one of the file names background file explorer in the Vista screen shot ... the fourth one ... [blocked]ingly str[blocked]ed penis.jpg

    Ha!

  • Benny (unregistered) in reply to Rob

    Yeah, I missed that one, but 2 down from it is the profalactic monster.jpg

  • Can't Post (unregistered)

    This comment is preventing my computer from posting a comment

    This CAPTCHA "nobis" is preventing my 1334 skripkiddie skillz from h@x0ring u

  • (cs)

    how am I supposed to get my 0.003 pennies back."

    You mean 0.0003 pennies.

    (flexes his fingers) My work here is done. I'm off to other sites which need the vital services of Pedantic Man!

  • psycho (unregistered)

    Buy 1000 and get one penny back!

    or maybe somebody is obsessed with BATA prices..

  • (cs)

    410

  • former med student (unregistered) in reply to DemonWasp

    Those images probably come from an archive of congenital abnormalities.

    I figure this is not a WHAT? error by a WHY? error. :)

  • Bonce (unregistered)

    655 bytes a second? Where is he transferring his dodgy jpegs to? Punch-tape?

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is 877.50 every 6 months. My premiums on my car and my wife's van is about 330 every 6 months. Either you're driving a Ferrari or you drive like shit.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Vista users deserve every WTF it throws at them. If you pay for shit you deserve to get shit.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    It's not just any file--it's the pagefile. And the pagefile can easily be 0 (and make the system prone to random fuckups).

  • (cs) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    > how am I supposed to get my 0.003 pennies back."

    You mean 0.0003 pennies.

    (flexes his fingers) My work here is done. I'm off to other sites which need the vital services of Pedantic Man!

    More like can't handle simple math man?

    He is missing 0.00003 pound (the money type). There are 100 pennies in a pound. so 0.00003 times 100 is still 0.003.

  • IV (unregistered)

    I'm a little surprised no one has pointed out the grammar mistake on the contact form (who vs. whom) or the policy number's being pixelated instead of black barred. That said, I agree that the Vista one is not really a problem.

    I do have a question about negative file size. Wouldn't that mean it is written backwards on the disk, so it is still taking up space, just in the wrong way? so the total disk usage would not be the sum of all file sizes, but rather the sum of the absolute value of all file sizes (plus the other OS stuff - if you ever look at files size vs. size on disk, they aren't typically the same).

  • me (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that you paid ₤2.75 for kingfisher!

  • tsu (unregistered)

    Indeed, the 404 uses a peculiar definition of 'blank'. I hope that's not Lassi...e in the receipt.

  • Jeff (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that 0MB could be 1 byte with bad rounding...so your swap file could be 1 byte, and have this be true.

  • Anonymouse (unregistered) in reply to campkev
    TRWTF is 877.50 every 6 months. My premiums on my car and my wife's van is about 330 every 6 months. Either you're driving a Ferrari or you drive like shit.

    Or he's relatively young and lives in a city. I pay around $700 every six months for a cheapo fully-paid-off Hyundai with no accidents or moving violations, and trust me I looked and that's the best I could get without going to some discount place and getting barely-legal insurance.

    And that's after several reductions, including a big one for getting married. When I first got the policy it was almost double what it is now, and for less coverage.

    Car insurance companies hate young males.

  • (cs)

    This comment intentionally left blank.

  • Orclev (unregistered) in reply to Jeff
    Jeff:
    TRWTF is that 0MB could be 1 byte with bad rounding...so your swap file could be 1 byte, and have this be true.
    Exactly, it's probably truncating or rounding to the nearest and it's defined as something like 256KB, which no matter how you round it is 0MB. Not so much a WTF, as it is failure to scale your unit (well, that's a little of a WTF) to match the input. I wonder if it was passed 2000000000 (and no bitching about it being 1024 to a K etc., I'm to lazy to do the math right now and if its good enough for HD labeling it's good enough for a thought experiment) as an argument if it would print it as 2000MB or 2GB.
  • (cs) in reply to Anonymouse
    Anonymouse:
    Car insurance companies hate young males.
    Alas, too many young males hate driving safely for that to change any time soon.
  • (cs) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    > how am I supposed to get my 0.003 pennies back."

    You mean 0.0003 pennies.

    (flexes his fingers) My work here is done. I'm off to other sites which need the vital services of Pedantic Man!

    Full title:

    "Pedantic-and-yet-still-incorrect-Man-who-divided-by-100-instead-of-multiplying-by-100!"

    It's not at catchy, granted and the chest-logo will need some thought - but at least it's accurate.

    :)

  • Vollhorst (unregistered) in reply to DemonWasp
    DemonWasp:
    That last one was pretty dumb, actually. If you look closely, you can see "Moving 154 Items" in a background window, in which case it's entirely reasonable that Explorer would block a shutdown until the transfer is finished.

    I'm also kind of curious what images he's looking at that they would have labels like "...phalic Monster", "...Skull 1", and "...Body".

    Remember folks, be careful with your screenshots!

    And he moves them into a directory called .../Photos/Odd so at least those aren't normal for him. ;)

  • Tom Servo (unregistered)

    Rifftrax! An MST3k fan out there! :)

    (Also, you'd be surprised at what is or isn't Y2k complaint... even in 2009. I was on an FTP site the other day that had timestamps in the style of 01/01/108. Yes, something was uploaded in the year of our Lord 19108...)

  • (cs)

    Here's a special image-enhanced version up version of the Vista screenshot:

    http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lghtpsx0.jpg

    [image]

    The algorithm is currently working on restoring the part left of the screenshot!

  • NameNotFoundException (unregistered)

    Kingfisher ftw!

  • Charles (unregistered)

    Oh crap. My penny rounded deposit hack didn't work.

    Back to my TPS reports....

    Captcha: dignissim - revolting against two consonants where there should be one.

  • SnarfQuest (unregistered)

    They missed a golden opportunity with the receipt. Where is the wooden table?

  • Ozz (unregistered) in reply to Anonymouse
    Anonymouse:
    TRWTF is 877.50 every 6 months. My premiums on my car and my wife's van is about 330 every 6 months. Either you're driving a Ferrari or you drive like shit.

    Or he's relatively young and lives in a city. I pay around $700 every six months for a cheapo fully-paid-off Hyundai with no accidents or moving violations, and trust me I looked and that's the best I could get without going to some discount place and getting barely-legal insurance.

    And that's after several reductions, including a big one for getting married. When I first got the policy it was almost double what it is now, and for less coverage.

    Car insurance companies hate young males.

    Yep. I pay over $280 / month for 2 cars, both of which are over 10 years old, both my wife and I are over 40, no tickets, claims or accidents. The only negatives for us are a teenage son (but straight-A student) and living in Kentucky. And trust me, I've looked around, and this place wanted less than half what the Lizard wanted to charge me...

  • WildRebel (unregistered) in reply to Tom Servo

    RiffTrax!!! Woo-hoo!

  • (cs)

    Nice, why do the fault codes have 410 as Not Found when 404 is the standard for that already?

  • Sean (unregistered)

    Whom would you like to contact. Total WTF. ;)

  • Rawb (unregistered)

    Maybe the same person working is still there, working on year 10000 compliance.

  • Anonymoose (unregistered)

    I'm not sure about anyone else but I can't spot the wtf on the last image. It looks like he had a bunch of folders opened and tried to shutdown his PC. Maybe I'm missing something or this truly has no wtf.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymouse
    Anonymouse:
    Car insurance companies hate young males.

    Or love them. Not sure which.

    I don't live in a particularly high-insurance location, and I was paying a little over $600/6 mths for insurance. Not crap car, but not particularly nice either. (Kelly Blue Book says worth ballpark $6500.) Been insured since 16, no accidents, no violations.

    Turned 25, and the rate dropped to $400-something.

    Anonymoose:
    I'm not sure about anyone else but I can't spot the wtf on the last image. It looks like he had a bunch of folders opened and tried to shutdown his PC. Maybe I'm missing something or this truly has no wtf.

    The amusing thing is the first thing on the list - "Shut Down". In other words, "Shut Down" is preventing his computer from shutting down.

    It's not a WTF that the file copy is blocking the shutdown, just the way it displays it is a bit funny and not very helpful. (In fact, personally I think the Windows shutdown process is way better than Unix's 'kill -9'ing everything that takes too long to quit.)

  • (cs)

    Re: The rounding error one.

    At least it's displaying all the significant digits. For the past month or so, at Tim Hortons, it's been dropping trailing zeros on the cash register.

    I buy a $1.20 coffee, it shows up as 1.2. Which is annoying because the LED screen displays it along with a bunch of other abbreviated code like:

    CF-M 2M 1S TG 1 1.2

    There's no dollar sign, and no trailing zero. The LED only flashes the order for a couple seconds before moving on. My internal parses tends to skip over the 1.2, and I miss the cost of the item.

  • m0ffx (unregistered) in reply to EvanED
    EvanED:
    personally I think the Windows shutdown process is *way* better than Unix's 'kill -9'ing everything that takes too long to quit.

    I disagree. I've told my computer to shut down. I want it to shut down. It's my own job to make sure programs have actually finished working.

    Windows' way gives a nice security issue. User clicks shutdown (or logout) and walks away. Windows pops up error message asking if Such-and-such program should be terminated or not. This is the one: [image] Usually the program has decided to ask the user if they want to save the file. Attacker comes along, clicks no, and then does what they like on the user's login. I've seen enough computers enough times in such a position.

    Unix issues a terminate command first. A well-designed program will, on receiving that, save an autorecover file or something similar, then quit. Only ill-designed or hung programs will even need kill -9ing.

    tl;dr: I like Linux because it does what I say without asking questions.

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