• Tinus Lorvalds (unregistered)

    TRWTF is SharePoint.

    A problem has been to your computer.

  • (cs)

    The SQL one is the best. Security for the win.

  • Grzechooo (unregistered)

    TRWTF is playing WoT.

  • Pete (unregistered)

    Apparently DAN has heard that open source encourages peer review, so they're sending out their SQL procedures for comments ;)

  • Warren (unregistered)

    Clearly Manchester is compensating for running Windows... or should I say not running Windows?

  • justsomedudette (unregistered)
    i.dont_mail not like '%eem%' AND (I.DONT_MAIL NOT LIKE '%MC%')
    My mind is boggling at what value they can possible hold in dont_mail that contains eem and MC, and would indicate that some doesn't want to be contacted. "seems to be a MCno-mates?" perhaps?

    Captcha: damnum - I'm damnum if I know what that value is supposed to be

  • Herr Otto Flick (unregistered) in reply to justsomedudette
    justsomedudette:
    i.dont_mail not like '%eem%' AND (I.DONT_MAIL NOT LIKE '%MC%')
    My mind is boggling at what value they can possible hold in dont_mail that contains eem and MC, and would indicate that some doesn't want to be contacted. "seems to be a MCno-mates?" perhaps?

    Captcha: damnum - I'm damnum if I know what that value is supposed to be

    Not only this, but (reformatting the query for legibility):

    SELECT ... FROM name AS n INNER JOIN individual_detail i ON i.id = n.id INNER JOIN email_status e ON e.id = n.id WHERE ...

    Foreign keys, we've heard of them...

  • No name (unregistered)
    No matter how old your car may be.

    Except when it's the model Jesus drove around in in 7 BC, as depicted in the documentary "Jesus Christ super star".

  • QED (unregistered)

    TRWTF: String constants. Misreading the mail subject conventiently changes the topic from scuba diving to cars.

  • Zarhan (unregistered)

    DAN is Divers Alert Network (Not Drivers). It's basically an insurance for scuba diving. If you have an accident and need to be airlifted to a pressure chamber, their membership tends to help matters quite a bit.

  • foo (unregistered)

    "I reason leaving and I dont mail not like." Reads almost like poetry.

  • harryhashtable (unregistered) in reply to justsomedudette

    Agreement for the first? They're certainly two index dodging, non-sargeable search conditions. There are so many conditions in the from clause that it's a wonder anyone gets an email.

  • (cs)

    One Blue Screen to rule them all...

  • foo (unregistered)

    @Jaako, it's worse. With your measly 4.6MB/s you're never gonna finish downloading those -3.2GB. You should contact your ISP for their new negative bandwidth offerings.

    Until then you should protect your display. When the progress bar breaks through on the right, the liquid crystals will leak.

  • Monty (unregistered) in reply to No name
    No name:
    No matter how old your car may be.

    Except when it's the model Jesus drove around in in 7 BC, as depicted in the documentary "Jesus Christ super Car".

    FTFY

  • (cs)

    The White Tower of Minas Tirith, the Black Tower of Minas Morgul, and the Blue Tower of Death of Seattle Gates...

  • delphi_ote (unregistered) in reply to foo

    He just downloaded too much of the game. Now he needs to give some of it back.

  • - (unregistered)

    The Steam one isn't necessarily a WTF. The bottom window just shows the most recent update, which is server-side only, while the client update is older.

  • (cs)

    The Steam changelog does not document every update. In particular, if you opt into beta client updates, those are not shown in the changelog.

    It's likely the update is a newer one than the shown May 1st, OR the user has not run Steam in a while and they are behind multiple updates, and the changelog is merely showing the most recent one.

  • Josh (unregistered) in reply to Monty

    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered) in reply to calloatti
    calloatti:
    The White Tower of Minas Tirith, the Black Tower of Minas Morgul, and the Blue Tower of Death of Seattle Gates...
    One does not simply blue screen into Mordor!
  • justsomedudette (unregistered) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."
    Actual lol
  • (cs) in reply to Zarhan
    Zarhan:
    DAN is Divers Alert Network (Not Drivers). It's basically an insurance for scuba diving. If you have an accident and need to be airlifted to a pressure chamber, their membership tends to help matters quite a bit.

    Yeah, the WTF is his reading of this. If you get bent time matters, an insurance company that understands what's needed sounds like a good idea.

  • (cs) in reply to No name
    No name:
    No matter how old your car may be.

    Except when it's the model Jesus drove around in in 7 BC, as depicted in the documentary "Jesus Christ super star".

    7 BC? Must have been a Delorean.

  • WCF (unregistered) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

    With context, surely a featured comment!

  • Bill (unregistered) in reply to No name
    No name:
    No matter how old your car may be.

    Except when it's the model Jesus drove around in in 7 BC, as depicted in the documentary "Jesus Christ super star".

    Or the Flinstone-mobile.

  • Flaming Shearer (unregistered) in reply to No name
    No name:
    No matter how old your car may be.

    Except when it's the model Jesus drove around in in 7 BC, as depicted in the documentary "Jesus Christ super star".

    Have they revised Jesus' birth date again?

  • Ace (unregistered)

    Were we on the subject of cars?

  • lolwtfbbq (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    7 BC? Must have been a Delorean.
    Before Chrysler?
  • (cs)

    I DON'T MAIL NOT LIKE!!!!

  • n_slash_a (unregistered) in reply to WCF
    WCF:
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

    With context, surely a featured comment!

    Seconded! Feature comment!

  • (cs)

    In before a joke about that stupid "Year Zero" movie.

  • (cs) in reply to No name
    No name:
    No matter how old your car may be.

    Except when it's the model Jesus drove around in in 7 BC, as depicted in the documentary "Jesus Christ super star".

    He actually drove a Honda, but preferred to keep quiet about this.

    John 12:49: "For I do not speak of my own Accord ..."

  • (cs) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

    Damn, you beat me to it.

  • (cs)

    Mind, back in the Old Testament days they rode motorbikes and smoked cigarettes:

    Joshua 6:27: "Joshua's Triumph was heard throughout the land."

    Genesis 24:64: "And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the Camel."

  • 4chan (unregistered)

    u wot m8?

  • Rollyn01 (unregistered)

    So once again, trwtf is windows. Looks like they couldn't even use the embedded version. At least the blue screen of dead wouldn't show, it'll just show an out of scope error message.

  • Anomaly (unregistered)

    The real wtf was the windows blue screen was split for horizontally oriented monitors. When they are clearly in a vertical orientation.

  • Cole (unregistered)

    The Steam update is pretty obvious. The code for updates assumes it was a downloaded client-side update, so it has a hard coded message with hard coded buttons. In order to tell users what's new, they told the clients there was a 0 byte sized update.

  • Cole (unregistered) in reply to No name
    No name:
    No matter how old your car may be.

    Except when it's the model Jesus drove around in in 7 BC, as depicted in the documentary "Jesus Christ super star".

    Except B.C. means Before Christ. Jesus was born in 0 A.D. which means Anno Domini; literally "In the year of The Lord".

  • Phil (unregistered) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

    That's the New International Version. The more correct King James Version is "49 For I have not spoken of myself; ..."

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is having a year 0 in the list.

  • No name (unregistered) in reply to Cole
    Cole:
    No name:
    No matter how old your car may be.

    Except when it's the model Jesus drove around in in 7 BC, as depicted in the documentary "Jesus Christ super star".

    Except B.C. means Before Christ. Jesus was born in 0 A.D. which means Anno Domini; literally "In the year of The Lord".

    Two problems with that statement. The most important one being that the year 0 did not exist. It went from 1 BC to 1 AD. The second one is that, although we don't know the exact date Jesus was born, we know that it was definitely before somewhere BC.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus#Year_of_birth_estimates

  • BushIdo (unregistered) in reply to Gurth
    Gurth:
    TRWTF is having a year 0 in the list.

    Tis is ISO-compliant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Years

  • Jesus' Driving Instructur (unregistered) in reply to No name

    If I recall correctly the LORD was around 16, when he got HIS drivers license. Thus said DeLorean must have been involved because HE is not believed to have been born earlier then 7 B.C.

    Unless of course the driving baby JESUS is one of the wonders recorded only in the apocryphal gospels I have not read.

    Captcha 'esse' as in "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" somehow fits the time...

  • (cs) in reply to Phil
    Phil:
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

    That's the New International Version. The more correct King James Version is "49 For I have not spoken of myself; ..."

    What makes it "more correct"? Good grief, sometimes I can't believe the level of stupidity of the outrageous claptrap that some of the supposedly intelligent humans out there come out with.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Phil:
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

    That's the New International Version. The more correct King James Version is "49 For I have not spoken of myself; ..."

    What makes it "more correct"? Good grief, sometimes I can't believe the level of stupidity of the outrageous claptrap that some of the supposedly intelligent humans out there come out with.

    Duh, it's older. Same as I'm older than my kids and therefore more correct than them.

  • Jasper (unregistered)

    Let me guess: Pete has a retina MacBook Pro.

  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Phil:
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

    That's the New International Version. The more correct King James Version is "49 For I have not spoken of myself; ..."

    What makes it "more correct"? Good grief, sometimes I can't believe the level of stupidity of the outrageous claptrap that some of the supposedly intelligent humans out there come out with.

    Because it doesn't talk about a Honda.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Phil:
    Josh:
    Well, we know he drove a Honda, but wasn't too keen on it. John 12:49 "For I do not speak of my own Accord."

    That's the New International Version. The more correct King James Version is "49 For I have not spoken of myself; ..."

    What makes it "more correct"? Good grief, sometimes I can't believe the level of stupidity of the outrageous claptrap that some of the supposedly intelligent humans out there come out with.

    Umm, I presume he means that it is "more correct" in the sense that it is a more faithful rendering of the original Greek into English. How is it stupid to say that one translation of a foreign language is better than another? Of course scholars could debate this, which is why some translate the sentence one way and others a different way.

    In this case, the Greek is "oti egO ex emautou ouk elalEsa" -- sorry, I don't have a Greek keyboard and getting the Greek letters in any other way is too much trouble for a casual post -- which translates word-for-word as "that I out of-myself not speak".

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