The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2013-01-12 Reply Admin

Vincent's find on Microsoft's site merely demonstrates the company's consistency. After all, we have to click on the "Start" menu to stop the OS, don't we?

2013-01-13 Reply Admin

Mark:
Vincent's find on Microsoft's site merely demonstrates the company's consistency. After all, we have to click on the "Start" menu to stop the OS, don't we?

Hmm, looks like we have a secodn first comment here.

Medinoc · 2013-01-14 Reply Admin

Rick:
The software... well... subroutines could only have names up to 6 characters long, and company policy required the magic letters "GE" at the beginning of everything just so you wouldn't forget their greatness, so you'd be writing code where GELOAD calls GEFIND then GEOPEN and if there was any error you call GEBORT (abort) to get yourself a handy dandy core dump.

Sounds like Duke Nukem 3D cheat codes...

2013-01-14 Reply Admin

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Mark:
Vincent's find on Microsoft's site merely demonstrates the company's consistency. After all, we have to click on the "Start" menu to stop the OS, don't we?
Hmm, looks like we have a secodn first comment here.

Everyone knows the comments on page 2 are mostly the same as those on page 1 because nobody can be bothered to read a folded away page before posting, so it's great for consistency when the frist comment on page 2 is also the same as the frist on page 1.

2013-01-14 Reply Admin

Gramie:
Have you forgotten who came before the current president? His own party seems to have.

Because 8 years after a president's 2 terms isn't enough ample time to make stop an accelerating deficit.

What would tax brackets have to be at the current rate of spending? Oh, I say start at 80% and end at 100.

I mean, that dang Teddy Roosevelt, it's his dang fault. I mean, if he hadn't messed up way back then. Just look at how investments work, invest in Yahoo! years ago, be rich today. Imagine the wealth we'd have if he hadn't messed up so bad. We wouldn't even ever hear of recessions.

2013-01-14 Reply Admin

Geoff:
Ken:
And that's in no way the responsibility of the guy in power when the economy tanked? Or of the people in congress who would rather hold a gun to the head of the economy than negotiate in good faith.

Head you said negotiate I would have let you off but there is not any "good faith" on the other side at all. The President nor the democratic caucus has any intention of doing any sort of entitlement reform, and neither side has any real interest in addressing defense spending.

The GOP says they won't do any revenue but they just passed legislation that actually does quite a bit of it; because they were forced, to save the sacred cow that is the DOD.

Both sides are entirely recalcitrant so I don't fault either for resorting to extortion when the option presents itself. Now the GOP has the debt ceiling so its the DNCs turn to bleed.

This is the way our politics works now get over it and get used to it.

I wish you anti DoD guys would have the balls to tell the Marines, Seals, and Army that they make too much, and that half of them need to be let go.

I mean, what's going to happen to the cost if we do bring every soldier back home. What would you do, pay them less?

I suppose we'd have less upkeep on the foreign bases, but we aren't pulling out of 90% of the places we are in, like with our allies, or in places where violence is so bad that if we pulled out there'd be a big black hole near our allies. Pulling out of two countries won't drastically reduce the budget.

I suppose we could hit at the runaway cost of technology, but that's our jobs, so we'd be shutting ourselves down.

I suppose we could spend less on planes, but drones are expensive too, and the TSA needs them to monitor suburbia.

Maybe we could sell our rusted battleships to North Korea like Russia did. I mean, we're already in the business of giving away weapons to drug lords; psychopathic tyrants should be next in line right?

2013-01-14 Reply Admin

tweek:
gah. why would anyone go to radio shack when there are Fry's around? Unless they've changed since I moved away, and have gotten away from having the 3-4 aisles of what i'd consider 'radio-shack-stuff' (capacitors, wire, soldering irons, etc.)

Because Fry's has around 35 locations while Radio Shack has around 5000.

2013-01-14 Reply Admin

As someone who used to work there, I can tell you that Radio Shack overestimates EVERYTHING.

2013-01-14 Reply Admin

Slapout:
tweek:
gah. why would anyone go to radio shack when there are Fry's around? Unless they've changed since I moved away, and have gotten away from having the 3-4 aisles of what i'd consider 'radio-shack-stuff' (capacitors, wire, soldering irons, etc.)

Because Fry's has around 35 locations while Radio Shack has around 5000.

I live in Michigan. And when I want to buy a couple of resistors and a soldering iron, it just makes sense to fly to California so I can visit a Fry's rather than driving half a mile to Radio Shack.

2013-01-14 Reply Admin

Valued Service:
I wish you anti DoD guys would have the balls to tell the Marines, Seals, and Army that they make too much, and that half of them need to be let go.
I mean, what's going to happen to the cost if we do bring every soldier back home. What would you do, pay them less?

I suppose we'd have less upkeep on the foreign bases, but we aren't pulling out of 90% of the places we are in, like with our allies, or in places where violence is so bad that if we pulled out there'd be a big black hole near our allies. Pulling out of two countries won't drastically reduce the budget.

I suppose we could hit at the runaway cost of technology, but that's our jobs, so we'd be shutting ourselves down.

I suppose we could spend less on planes, but drones are expensive too, and the TSA needs them to monitor suburbia.

Maybe we could sell our rusted battleships to North Korea like Russia did. I mean, we're already in the business of giving away weapons to drug lords; psychopathic tyrants should be next in line right?

Well, in fairness, I'd think we could shut down most of the bases in Europe. Thoses bases were established when we wanted to defend Europe against an attack from the Soviet Union. Now there is no Soviet Union any more, but we're still spending billions of dollars defending against them. And some of that money is rent we pay to the Europeans for the land that our bases occupy. That is, we are paying the Europeans for the privilege of defending them from an enemy who no longer exists.

2013-02-14 Reply Admin

I can confirm that JRebel works with Weblogic. That's exactly the setup we have at work. It really makes life a lot easier.

2013-03-28 Reply Admin

You still are using WinXP??? In 2013???

LAAAAAAME.

Also, please say hello to my friends Sasser and Blaster. You probably has pretty good NetBus there, so I won't have any troubles with talking with thhem over telnet, though.

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