• ÃÆâ€â„ (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    neminem:
    Heh. The third one reminds me, sadly, of when I first tried out getting my new shiny computer to talk to my tv over HDMI. The fact that it took some prodding to get it to send video data was totally Win7's fault. But after getting the video to work, the audio still wasn't working. Spent like half an hour googling, found any number of suggestions as to why I might not have any sound, but none of them worked.

    Eventually I realized my tv was muted. Drr... not my strongest day ever, intelligence-wise.

    Kinda reminds me of the time I spent an hour debugging my code to figure out why it just plain wasn't doing part of its task. I eventually traced it down to one function that didn't seem to be doing anything. Looking at the function itself immediately explained why:

    void someFunction()
{
	//TODO
}

    Who hasn't done something like this?

  • mufflon (unregistered) in reply to frits

    and you either lack humor or manners, presumably both…

  • mufflon (unregistered) in reply to mufflon

    fail. replied in the wrong forum. please remove this post and the one above.

  • trwtf (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    neminem:
    Heh. The third one reminds me, sadly, of when I first tried out getting my new shiny computer to talk to my tv over HDMI. The fact that it took some prodding to get it to send video data was totally Win7's fault. But after getting the video to work, the audio still wasn't working. Spent like half an hour googling, found any number of suggestions as to why I might not have any sound, but none of them worked.

    Eventually I realized my tv was muted. Drr... not my strongest day ever, intelligence-wise.

    Kinda reminds me of the time I spent an hour debugging my code to figure out why it just plain wasn't doing part of its task. I eventually traced it down to one function that didn't seem to be doing anything. Looking at the function itself immediately explained why:

    void someFunction()
{
	//TODO
}

    TODO? That's all?

  • ÃÆâ€℠(unregistered) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„
    ÃÆâ€â„:
    lolwtf:
    neminem:
    Heh. The third one reminds me, sadly, of when I first tried out getting my new shiny computer to talk to my tv over HDMI. The fact that it took some prodding to get it to send video data was totally Win7's fault. But after getting the video to work, the audio still wasn't working. Spent like half an hour googling, found any number of suggestions as to why I might not have any sound, but none of them worked.

    Eventually I realized my tv was muted. Drr... not my strongest day ever, intelligence-wise.

    Kinda reminds me of the time I spent an hour debugging my code to figure out why it just plain wasn't doing part of its task. I eventually traced it down to one function that didn't seem to be doing anything. Looking at the function itself immediately explained why:

    void someFunction()
{
	//TODO
}

    Who hasn't done something like this?

    WTF?

    Why are you stealing my name???

  • Anonym-- ahem Assan-- Damn, they took all the good ones (unregistered) in reply to frits

    He was attempting to limit the smoke inhalation of this Very Important Person. It's not his fault he didn't know when to cease that preventive measure.

  • ÃÆâ€℠(unregistered) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„Â
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    ÃÆâ€â„:
    lolwtf:
    neminem:
    Heh. The third one reminds me, sadly, of when I first tried out getting my new shiny computer to talk to my tv over HDMI. The fact that it took some prodding to get it to send video data was totally Win7's fault. But after getting the video to work, the audio still wasn't working. Spent like half an hour googling, found any number of suggestions as to why I might not have any sound, but none of them worked.

    Eventually I realized my tv was muted. Drr... not my strongest day ever, intelligence-wise.

    Kinda reminds me of the time I spent an hour debugging my code to figure out why it just plain wasn't doing part of its task. I eventually traced it down to one function that didn't seem to be doing anything. Looking at the function itself immediately explained why:

    void someFunction()
{
	//TODO
}

    Who hasn't done something like this?

    WTF?

    Why are you stealing my name???

    WTH!?! This name is mine!

  • (cs) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    Kinda reminds me of the time I spent an hour debugging my code to figure out why it just plain wasn't doing part of its task. I eventually traced it down to one function that didn't seem to be doing anything. Looking at the function itself immediately explained why: 
    void someFunction()
{
	//TODO
}

    Similar story here (maybe not that similar). Way back when I was in school, I took a computer graphics class, where we had to write a simple ray tracer. I had it kind of working, then it was broken. I don't recall what was wrong, but it wasn't part of the rendering procedure. So I disabled rendering, which made it easier for me to focus in on the problem and fix it.

    I was adding some features to it later and went to test them. Nothing rendered. I perused my new features, even took some out. Still nothing. I figured it was something from before that I changed, but as a naive college student at the time I hadn't yet learned the importance of version control. So reviewing my exact changes wasn't an option.

    I went through the code on my own several times with no luck, so I finally had a friend glance through my code with me. He noticed that I still had rendering disabled. After prying my palm from my face with my stapler (thanks Remy), I re-enabled the rendering procedure, and it worked.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonym-- ahem Assan-- Damn, they took all the good ones
    Anonym-- ahem Assan-- Damn:
    He was attempting to limit the smoke inhalation of this Very Important Person. It's not his fault he didn't know when to cease that preventive measure.
    Indeed. I'm no murderer -- I'm a hero!!
  • You're punctuation. (unregistered) in reply to frits

    No YOUR not too bright.

  • You're punctuation. (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    the smoke smell was getting to m--
    I'm pretty sure I'd have strangled him before he could finish that sentence.
    I'm pretty sure that you would have a 100% chance of being on the losing end of a lawsuit.

    Your not too bright, are you?

    No YOUR not too bright.

  • Ken B. (unregistered)
    "You asked me to restart my computer, so I went back to my classroom and restarted my computer."
    "That's not my dog."

    STR and win... um... nothing.

  • neminem (unregistered) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„
    ÃÆâ€â„:
    Who hasn't done something like this?
    I don't think I've ever done anything quite like that. I definitely have done things like person-who-might-be-boog, where I commented out an important line to try to debug something, then forgot about it and wondered why it wasn't doing the thing I commented out the call for, later. Those are always fun.

    Even more fun is when you accidentally commit the change, and someone else asks why it broke. My favorite: when I added a textbox in a dialog, on top of the existing one, to check some layout issue. Fixed the issue, committed the dialog. Got back a bug report saying that option was no longer being saved. No, it was being saved, just never got filled in, cause there was a temp textbox on top of the one it was reading from. "Drr", he said again.

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    the smoke smell was getting to m--
    I'm pretty sure I'd have strangled him before he could finish that sentence.
    I'm pretty sure that you would have a 100% chance of being on the losing end of a lawsuit.

    Your not too bright, are you?

    Coroner's report...

    Cause of death: smoke inhalation.
    Problem solved.
  • ÃÃÆ (unregistered) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„Â
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    ÃÆâ€â„:
    lolwtf:
    neminem:
    Heh. The third one reminds me, sadly, of when I first tried out getting my new shiny computer to talk to my tv over HDMI. The fact that it took some prodding to get it to send video data was totally Win7's fault. But after getting the video to work, the audio still wasn't working. Spent like half an hour googling, found any number of suggestions as to why I might not have any sound, but none of them worked.

    Eventually I realized my tv was muted. Drr... not my strongest day ever, intelligence-wise.

    Kinda reminds me of the time I spent an hour debugging my code to figure out why it just plain wasn't doing part of its task. I eventually traced it down to one function that didn't seem to be doing anything. Looking at the function itself immediately explained why:

    void someFunction()
{
	//TODO
}

    Who hasn't done something like this?

    WTF?

    Why are you stealing my name???

    WTH!?! This name is mine!

    No it's not, asshole.

    Actually, the name you are using is a truncated version of a long string that spontaneously generates itself, and it requires truncation so that TDWTF doesn't give me an error when I try to post something. In this instance, I gave it a little more characters.

    Hopefully, Alex can verify...

  • TW (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    "You asked me to restart my computer, so I went back to my classroom and restarted my computer."
    "That's not my dog."

    STR and win... um... nothing.

    Peter Sellers ftw.

  • NoAstronomer (unregistered) in reply to backForMore
    backForMore:

    Bought a nice new shiny laptop with integrated wireless (when this was a new feature). Spent HOURS and hours formatting installing OS etc to try and get this feature to work. Eventually and feeling defeated I took it back to the store to let there techs fix it or give me a refund. I handed my laptop to him he held it up , spun the laptop around looking for something and then he flipped a little switch into the ON position and wireless worked.

    Great! Now I have a sinking feeling in my stomach that I wasted the money I spent on a WiFi card I bought to put in my company issued laptop because the built-in WiFi wouldn't work with my home wireless router.

  • Machtyn (unregistered) in reply to publiclurker

    I left myself a note in a text file for this thing... except it wasn't a physical switch. It was one of those blue function keys that enabled and disabled wireless.

  • (cs) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    I don't think I've ever done anything quite like that. I definitely have done things like person-who-might-be-boog, where I commented out an important line to try to debug something, then forgot about it and wondered why it wasn't doing the thing I commented out the call for, later. Those are always fun.

    Even more fun is when you accidentally commit the change, and someone else asks why it broke.

    Version control would have helped me to identify my error very quickly, as I would have seen the changed line of code in the diff.

    I'd like to say I've never accidentally committed an unwanted change as you suggested, as I'm pretty good about reviewing my changes before I commit. Still, never say never, amirite?

  • ideo (unregistered) in reply to backForMore
    backForMore:
    @Deprecated:
    neminem:
    Heh. The third one reminds me, sadly, of when I first tried out getting my new shiny computer to talk to my tv over HDMI. The fact that it took some prodding to get it to send video data was totally Win7's fault. But after getting the video to work, the audio still wasn't working. Spent like half an hour googling, found any number of suggestions as to why I might not have any sound, but none of them worked.

    Eventually I realized my tv was muted. Drr... not my strongest day ever, intelligence-wise.

    I once spent a good three hours with a polycom soundpoint 300, trying to figure out:

    1. Where is the speakerphone button
    2. Why doesn't it send any audio in speakerphone mode.

    Turns out the SP300 doesn't have a speakerphone mic, just "handsfree audio output" mode.

    Bought a nice new shiny laptop with integrated wireless (when this was a new feature). Spent HOURS and hours formatting installing OS etc to try and get this feature to work. Eventually and feeling defeated I took it back to the store to let there techs fix it or give me a refund. I handed my laptop to him he held it up , spun the laptop around looking for something and then he flipped a little switch into the ON position and wireless worked.

    Reminds me of the time I connected my laptop to a projector in a meeting and couldn't figure out how to get the image displayed. I spent several minutes trying different combinations of the [fn] key and the function keys before finally noticing that the lens cap was still on the projector...

  • Jay (unregistered)
    I quickly stopped him from spraying the can, cleared away all the papers, and unplugged the monitor as fast as I could. Flabbergasted, I asked him why he was spraying the monitor with the aerosol can. He replied “the smoke smell was getting to me, so I wanted to use some air freshener on it.”

    In those pre-electronic filing days, I often wonder how bad it would have been had I not bolted up the stairs. That partner had almost set hundreds of records, case files, and other important documents on fire.

    You prevented a lawyer from setting himself on fire? Why?

  • ÃÆâ€℠(unregistered) in reply to ÃÃÆ
    ÃÃÆ:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    ÃÆâ€â„:
    lolwtf:
    neminem:
    Heh. The third one reminds me, sadly, of when I first tried out getting my new shiny computer to talk to my tv over HDMI. The fact that it took some prodding to get it to send video data was totally Win7's fault. But after getting the video to work, the audio still wasn't working. Spent like half an hour googling, found any number of suggestions as to why I might not have any sound, but none of them worked.

    Eventually I realized my tv was muted. Drr... not my strongest day ever, intelligence-wise.

    Kinda reminds me of the time I spent an hour debugging my code to figure out why it just plain wasn't doing part of its task. I eventually traced it down to one function that didn't seem to be doing anything. Looking at the function itself immediately explained why:

    void someFunction()
{
	//TODO
}

    Who hasn't done something like this?

    WTF?

    Why are you stealing my name???

    WTH!?! This name is mine!

    No it's not, asshole.

    Actually, the name you are using is a truncated version of a long string that spontaneously generates itself, and it requires truncation so that TDWTF doesn't give me an error when I try to post something. In this instance, I gave it a little more characters.

    Hopefully, Alex can verify...

    What the hell, why are you two arguing over my name? That's not funny guys, I've been using this name for years. Time to register I guess.

  • neminem (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    You prevented a lawyer from setting himself on fire? Why?
    Cause he didn't want to get sued, presumably?

    And yeah. I'm pretty good about checking my diffs before committing, but occasionally I let something slip through. (Usually when it's in the middle of a block of other, legitimate changes.)

  • Spike (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    anon:
    EJ_:
    Anonymous:
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              ***
             *****
            *******
           *********
         *************                A
            *******
          ***********                VERY
        ***************
      *******************            HAPPY
          ***********
        ***************            CHRISTMAS
      *******************
    ***********************         AND MY
        ***************
      *******************         BEST WISHES
    ***********************
  ***************************     FOR THE NEXT
            ******
            ******                    YEAR
            ******

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*   ******* 8* *** 8*  * *******8888 **** 8** 88 y*****
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* 8*  * *******8888 g*** 8** 88 8*****888 ****a* 8***8 
8*8 88888******888 ***   ******* 8* *** 8*  * *******888
8 **** 8** 88 8*****888 ****8* 8***8 8*8 88888******888
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 ****8* 8***8 8*8 8d888******888 ***   ******* 8* **
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88888******888 ***   ******* 8* *** 8*  * *******88
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**888 ***   ******* 8* *** 8*  * *******8888 **** 8
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   ******* 8* *** 8*  * *******8888 **** 8*

    What is that like some sort of Kwanzaa ASCII art?

    No, fool, it's a bunch of ninja snowmen fighting with shuriken.

    Win!

  • TimG (unregistered) in reply to NoAstronomer
    NoAstronomer:
    backForMore:
    Bought a nice new shiny laptop with integrated wireless (when this was a new feature). Spent HOURS and hours formatting installing OS etc to try and get this feature to work. Eventually and feeling defeated I took it back to the store to let there techs fix it or give me a refund. I handed my laptop to him he held it up , spun the laptop around looking for something and then he flipped a little switch into the ON position and wireless worked.
    Great! Now I have a sinking feeling in my stomach that I wasted the money I spent on a WiFi card I bought to put in my company issued laptop because the built-in WiFi wouldn't work with my home wireless router.
    The Lenovo X61 has one that's really tiny and positioned just under the front latch, where it's easy to accidentally slide if you grab the laptop by that end. It can't really be seen if the laptop is sitting in front of you -- you have to duck down a bit to see it. As a result, I get a frantic 7:30AM call about once a week from one of our clueless users who's trying to finish up a presentation or something on the train on the way to a client meeting.

    Of course, my favorite was getting the same call from someone who was driving. "No, I'm not going to help you turn on your laptop's wireless radio while driving. You can call me when you get wherever you're going."

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    The fact that it's a featured comment means we've only just begun.
    Indeed. When you feed trolls they multiply, and rewarding this sort of behavior with "featured" status is like giving a troll access to a buffet.
    frits:
    Popcorn?
    Sure, thanks!

    Junior Mints?

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    I'm pretty sure that you would have a 100% chance of being on the losing end of a lawsuit.

    Your not too bright, are you?

    You're not too bright either, are you?

  • greg (unregistered) in reply to frits

    You're

    FTFY

  • Guido (unregistered) in reply to frits
    • you're not too bright
  • Dr. Orangejuice (unregistered) in reply to frits

    Humor and grammar.

    You just failed at both.

  • ÃÆâ€â†(unregistered)

    When did the backwater of the internet start coming here?

    Jeez, people, WTF?

  • Foo (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    I quickly stopped him from spraying the can, cleared away all the papers, and unplugged the monitor as fast as I could. Flabbergasted, I asked him why he was spraying the monitor with the aerosol can. He replied “the smoke smell was getting to me, so I wanted to use some air freshener on it.”

    In those pre-electronic filing days, I often wonder how bad it would have been had I not bolted up the stairs. That partner had almost set hundreds of records, case files, and other important documents on fire.

    You prevented a lawyer from setting himself on fire? Why?

    No, you stole him a sure Darwin award win. He can sue you for that.

  • Kirsty (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    the smoke smell was getting to m--
    I'm pretty sure I'd have strangled him before he could finish that sentence.
    I'm pretty sure that you would have a 100% chance of being on the losing end of a lawsuit.

    Your not too bright, are you?

    • You're haha
  • Grammar Analyst (unregistered) in reply to frits

    It's "you're", not "your".

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to TW
    TW:
    Ken B.:
    "You asked me to restart my computer, so I went back to my classroom and restarted my computer."
    "That's not my dog."

    STR and win... um... nothing.

    Peter Sellers ftw.
    Well, the joke is older than Peter Sellers' use in the movie, but I'll take your answer.

    Here's your prize:

    {     }
  • K (unregistered)

    This story makes me wonder why lawyers are not an extinct race. What would Darwin have said if he had known about this?

  • SpaceMonkey (unregistered) in reply to frits

    Re: "Your not too bright" (sic).

    Might be a good idea to learn basic English grammar before you start accusing other people of not being bright, mate.

  • Mauricio (unregistered)

    Ok.. the second one REALLY should be called "a good begining"

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to frits

    You're not too bright either :p

  • djhayman (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    the smoke smell was getting to m--
    I'm pretty sure I'd have strangled him before he could finish that sentence.
    I'm pretty sure that you would have a 100% chance of being on the losing end of a lawsuit.

    Your not too bright, are you?

    Telling people that they aren't too bright sounds better when you use the correct "you're".

  • Grammar Guru (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    the smoke smell was getting to m--
    I'm pretty sure I'd have strangled him before he could finish that sentence.
    I'm pretty sure that you would have a 100% chance of being on the losing end of a lawsuit.

    Your not too bright, are you?

    "You're"?

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that apparently that guy's phone company didn't constantly spam him with text messages in the first place.

  • lomendil (unregistered)

    Did 4chan declare a raid or something? Their stupid memes have been showing up more often too; this is getting ridiculous.

    sees apocalyptic/dystopian nightmare where all of the internet has been reduced to /b/

  • (cs)

    I'm a little skeptical about what would happen in the lawyer story. Would a smoking monitor really be able to light the spray? And if it were, would there be enough airflow in there for it to burn long enough to do much more than give the lawyer a fright? Despite what you may see in cartoons, even an aerosol can sprayed on an open flame isn't going to cause an explosion big enough to set the whole room on fire. You may get a bit of a flamethrower, but if the spray is going into the monitor, I think all you would do would char the monitor even more than it already it is. I don't see how that flame would escape the monitor and set surrounding books on fire.

    Sounds like a potential Mythbuster's episode though.

  • TT (unregistered)

    I submit that the lawyer knew exactly what he was doing.

    Nothing like a little accident to get rid of some unwanted case files. Unfortunately he was stopped by an overeager admin/supporter.

    "Consequat": The law of unintended consequences aka "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"

  • daqq (unregistered) in reply to frits

    There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow the law.

  • daqq (unregistered)

    My comment above was meant for:

    frits:
    boog:
    the smoke smell was getting to m--
    I'm pretty sure I'd have strangled him before he could finish that sentence.
    I'm pretty sure that you would have a 100% chance of being on the losing end of a lawsuit.

    Your not too bright, are you?

  • Jan (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    the smoke smell was getting to m--
    I'm pretty sure I'd have strangled him before he could finish that sentence.
    I'm pretty sure that you would have a 100% chance of being on the losing end of a lawsuit.
    Depends on the amount of strangling. Dead lawyers can't win lawsuits.
  • flabdablet (unregistered)

    The Christmas tree story reminds me of an experience I had recently in a customer's home. I was trying to debug an UltraVNC setup, and couldn't work out why the computer I was remote controlling kept spontaneously switching keyboard focus from one window to another or losing it altogether. This happened intermittently when controlling it via VNC, but not while sitting in front of it...

    ...until I sat in front of it with the room lights off watching a DVD, and the tiny moth I'd disturbed found its way back onto the touch screen. Why the hell do they make those things sensitive enough to register the touch of a 5mm insect?

  • grzlbrmft (unregistered) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„
    ÃÆâ€â„:
    Duh!:
    I think that you meant to say "You're not too bright" ;)
    No, I think you meant "ur not 2 brite"
    You're not two brides!

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