• (cs)

    Obviously the bus is going to wherever those hotels are.

  • Zenial (unregistered)

    Exception of type 'WTF_Class_Library.Comment.InputFucked' was thrown.

  • Sandor (i think i will get banned for this) (unregistered)

    I wonder what the details of the exception were? Maybe it was: "Some big guy came from behind and put his love-rod where the sun doesn't shine"

    CAPTCHA: abigo

  • Iain (unregistered)

    The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25

    I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something

  • (cs) in reply to Dharkanjil

    Well, too bad Melissa can't catch that bus to get to her hotel then. If only she could enter the bus...

  • whatever (unregistered)

    Get rich with the new Adventure Travel Package:

    1. Take bus number "Invalid Entry"
    2. Destination "Unknown"
    3. Offer the "Wosl'd Besu Saodwici"
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

    For details on Step 4, mail me a cheque made out to 'Cash'. Hint: It involves mortgage/life insurance.

  • AndrewB (unregistered)

    Tianl ypu fos rebdiog tie wprle's bfst cpmmeot!

  • Brian R. (unregistered)

    I love debugging 1-stuck-bit problems!

  • (cs) in reply to Sandor (i think i will get banned for this)
    Sandor (i think i will get banned for this):
    I wonder what the details of the exception were? Maybe it was: "Some big guy came from behind and put his love-rod where the sun doesn't shine"
    No, that's an OutputFucked Exception.
  • silent d (unregistered)

    Didn't you get the memo? We're putting the Terminal Illness Cover on all the TPS Reports now, and there's no extra charge to the customer. And we're offering cookies at $1/39.

  • Cryophallion (unregistered)

    I love the fact that this is a Subway just a couple of miles from Sun, Oracle, and other major software manufacturers. Makes the issue all the more glaring (although it is not as bad a shop as the one in back on the minimart a few miles away).

  • Snuggles (unregistered) in reply to Smash King

    Well played sir

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to Sandor (i think i will get banned for this)
    Sandor (i think i will get banned for this):
    I wonder what the details of the exception were? Maybe it was: "Some big guy came from behind and put his love-rod where the sun doesn't shine"

    CAPTCHA: abigo

    I think you just missed the 'invalid entry' bus. Another will be along shortly.

    captcha: wifeisoutoftown

  • ounos (unregistered)

    My boredometer goes high with this entry. It's all foucked up too.

    captcha: letatio??? is this the adult zone?

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to Dharkanjil
    Dharkanjil:
    Obviously the bus is going to wherever those hotels are.

    I've been to unknown a few times. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

  • Beavis (unregistered) in reply to Iain
    Iain:
    The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25

    I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something

    You know, I'm no math wiz, but that doesn't make sense. Birthdays should be whole numbers regardless of birthdays.

  • (cs)

    This is what you get if you outsource the cash register software to China/Taiwan/India/Eastern Europe

  • Patrick (unregistered)

    Invalid Entry is naturally bound to Paris, France, Palais des Invalides captcha : nimis (nil quid)(= nothing too much)

  • (cs) in reply to keigezellig
    keigezellig:
    This is what you get if you outsource the cash register software to China/Taiwan/India/Eastern Europe

    I dunno...that one looks like it may have actually been outsourced to Jar Jar Binks...

  • Synchronos (unregistered)

    The bus sign is not a WTF. The sign tells that even the people with disabilities can enter the bus. An other name for that is low-entry bus. Don't know where you need an electronic sign for that, though.

    And BTW, it's "Wosld's Besu Saodwici". I would hate to have wosls in my saodwici (a wosl'd saodwici).

  • SCB (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    Dharkanjil:
    Obviously the bus is going to wherever those hotels are.

    I've been to unknown a few times. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

    According to maps.google.com, "unknown, usa" is somewhere in South Carolina.

  • (cs) in reply to Synchronos
    Synchronos:
    The bus sign is not a WTF.

    I'd suggest that calling disabled people invalids is a WTF.

  • Metal Lord (unregistered)

    invalid entries usually go to /dev/null. and you don't want to be there before your time.

  • (cs) in reply to Robajob
    Robajob:
    Synchronos:
    The bus sign is not a WTF.

    I'd suggest that calling disabled people invalids is a WTF.

    I sure hope the "not a WTF guy" was being sarcastic and your sarcasm detector wasn't sensitive enough to pick it up.

  • whatever (unregistered) in reply to whatever
    whatever:
    Get rich with the new Adventure Travel Package:
    1. Take bus number "Invalid Entry"
    2. Destination "Unknown"
    3. Offer the "Wosl'd Besu Saodwici"
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

    For details on Step 4, mail me a cheque made out to 'Cash'. Hint: It involves mortgage/life insurance.

    You sir are fucking retarded...

  • (cs) in reply to Iain
    Iain:
    The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25

    I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something

    The whole point of having "a birthday" is that it's the WHOLE number of years you have been alive.

    If I was 36.5 at my next birthday it wouldn't be my next birthday, it'd be 6 months out.

    I think this must be slight-less-obvious-than-obvious-troll-troll, as you also managed to use "it's" and "its" incorrectly TWICE in the same sentence.

    :)

  • (cs) in reply to whatever
    whatever:
    whatever:
    Get rich with the new Adventure Travel Package:
    1. Take bus number "Invalid Entry"
    2. Destination "Unknown"
    3. Offer the "Wosl'd Besu Saodwici"
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

    For details on Step 4, mail me a cheque made out to 'Cash'. Hint: It involves mortgage/life insurance.

    You sir are fucking retarded...

    Arguing with yourself isn't healthy you know...

  • NameNotFoundException (unregistered) in reply to keigezellig
    keigezellig:
    This is what you get if you outsource the cash register software to China/Taiwan/India/Eastern Europe

    It looks like it had been outsourced to TUQKBIMLESICA.

  • (cs)

    Wow. And I thought the time there was a bunch of unprocessed line break escapes ("\n") on my Subway receipt was bad. But this takes the cookie platter.

  • anonymouse (unregistered)
    Alex:
    "Actually," writes Greg Buhtz, "my lunch at SUCWAY SAODWICIES was rather enjoyable."
    Alex:
    Buhtz
    Alex:
    Buhtz
  • donald duck (unregistered)

    the real wtfs are matt didn't give us the details on that exception and our hungry patron didn't order a cookie.

  • (cs) in reply to Brian R.
    Brian R.:
    I love debugging 1-stuck-bit problems!
    Yeah, that looks a *lot* like someone's receipt printer is expecting 9600 8n1 and is getting 9600 7n2 instead or something... meu's ieas iu gos suuck cius! It also explains the lack of proper formatting, because 0xA (carriage return) will end up as 0xB, vertical tab.

    Addendum (2009-03-31 10:59): Seems I forgot which bit is sent first on serial, so... my stop bit guess is impossible. I'd have to agree with Brian and others, definitely a stuck bit on the parallel port the printer is linked to.

  • whatever (unregistered) in reply to whatever
    whatever:
    whatever:
    Get rich with the new Adventure Travel Package:
    1. Take bus number "Invalid Entry"
    2. Destination "Unknown"
    3. Offer the "Wosl'd Besu Saodwici"
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

    For details on Step 4, mail me a cheque made out to 'Cash'. Hint: It involves mortgage/life insurance.

    You sir are fucking retarded...

    If I'm retarded, that means you're retarded!

  • Random guy (unregistered) in reply to ATimson
    ATimson:
    Wow. And I thought the time there was a bunch of unprocessed line break escapes ("\n") on my Subway receipt was bad. But this takes the cookie platter.
    You see... they tried to fix that, but ended up removing all the line breaks and messed everything else up too. :-)
  • WuphonsReach (unregistered)

    For the Subway Receipt, it looks like the least significant bit got corrupted. My first thought was that it was a parallel port issue where one of the data lines has been broken, but that doesn't quite work because it's not every single character.

    SAME!RECEIQTSuose!#19111

    is

    SALE RECEIPTStore #19111

    L is ASCII #76, M is #77. P and Q are also 1 bit different. Same for T/U and S/R. Spaces are being substituted as exclamation points (space is #32, ! is #33).

    So, there's some sort of failure mode resulting in the LSB being set to "1". But only for certain characters in the ASCII set.

    My guess, is that part of the memory area holding the ASCII codes has been fried.

  • Herby (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    Brian R.:
    I love debugging 1-stuck-bit problems!
    Yeah, that looks a *lot* like someone's receipt printer is expecting 9600 8n1 and is getting 9600 7n2 instead or something... meu's ieas iu gos suuck cius! It also explains the lack of proper formatting, because 0xA (carriage return) will end up as 0xB, vertical tab.
    Of course it might be the problem, but 0x0D is <cr>, while 0x0A is <lf>. You should really get your ASCII chart better memorized. Yes, it is probably a one bit problem, but the difference between 8n1 and 7n2 is that the high order bit is always on. Now days nobody uses 2 stop bits, as all the 110bps teletypes are in a junk heap somewhere (or used by "antiquers" like the one I have buried). In that case, one used 8n2.
  • whatever (unregistered) in reply to whatever
    whatever:
    whatever:
    whatever:
    Get rich with the new Adventure Travel Package:
    1. Take bus number "Invalid Entry"
    2. Destination "Unknown"
    3. Offer the "Wosl'd Besu Saodwici"
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

    For details on Step 4, mail me a cheque made out to 'Cash'. Hint: It involves mortgage/life insurance.

    You sir are fucking retarded...

    If I'm retarded, that means you're retarded!

    Clearly LightStyx is carrying a nasty grudge for being burned yesterday. In case you did not notice, LightStyx, THE ENTIRE SET OF COMMENTS were mocking you.

    Give it up LightStyx, you might as well retire your account now.

  • whatever (unregistered) in reply to whatever
    whatever:
    LightStyx:
    LightStyx:
    whatever:
    Get rich with the new Adventure Travel Package:
    1. Take bus number "Invalid Entry"
    2. Destination "Unknown"
    3. Offer the "Wosl'd Besu Saodwici"
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

    For details on Step 4, mail me a cheque made out to 'Cash'. Hint: It involves mortgage/life insurance.

    You sir are fucking retarded...

    If I'm retarded, that means you're retarded!

    Clearly LightStyx is carrying a nasty grudge for being burned yesterday. In case you did not notice, LightStyx, THE ENTIRE SET OF COMMENTS were mocking you.

    Give it up LightStyx, you might as well retire your account now.

    PS., FTFY

  • monkeyPushButton (unregistered) in reply to Voodoo Coder
    Voodoo Coder:
    keigezellig:
    This is what you get if you outsource the cash register software to China/Taiwan/India/Eastern Europe

    I dunno...that one looks like it may have actually been outsourced to Jar Jar Binks...

    Yousa maka fun a my code?

    CAPTCHA: consequat (Whatsa the consequat forsa makin funna Jar Jar?)

  • (cs)

    These!is!a!loose!wise!os someuhiog!causiog!eycess!caqaciuaoce!oo the!D0 lioe/ Eiuhes thau, os these's!a!damagee pumldowo ciscuiu. The!resumt is; Ig ciasacues N has!ius!LSC seu, theo ciasacues N+1!wiml hawe!ius!LSC seu. Ig ciasacues N has!ius!LSC cmeas, theo ciasacues N+1!wiml hawe!ius!LSC uociaogee.

    This!acuuamly!makes!iu possicle!to!pastiamly!rewesse!the!egfecu (ig ouupuu cias has!LSC cmeas, you!koow!the!ciasacues begose!iu hae the!LSC cmeas)/

    (Original text:) There is a loose wire or something causing excess capacitance on the D0 line. Either that, or there's a damaged pulldown circuit. The result is: If character N has its LSB set, then character N+1 will have its LSB set. If character N has its LSB clear, then character N+1 will have its LSB unchanged.

    This actually makes it possible to partially reverse the effect (if output char has LSB clear, you know the character before it had the LSB clear).

    It somewhat depresses me, just how quickly I tracked down the cause...

    http://klozoff.ms11.net/testing/saodwici.html

  • (cs) in reply to WuphonsReach
    WuphonsReach:
    For the Subway Receipt, it looks like the least significant bit got corrupted. My first thought was that it was a parallel port issue where one of the data lines has been broken, but that doesn't quite work because it's not every single character.

    SAME!RECEIQTSuose!#19111

    is

    SALE RECEIPTStore #19111

    L is ASCII #76, M is #77. P and Q are also 1 bit different. Same for T/U and S/R. Spaces are being substituted as exclamation points (space is #32, ! is #33).

    So, there's some sort of failure mode resulting in the LSB being set to "1". But only for certain characters in the ASCII set.

    You, sir, deserve to have a Subway cookie named after you.

  • (cs) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    Now days nobody uses 2 stop bits, as all the 110bps teletypes are in a junk heap somewhere (or used by "antiquers" like the one I have buried).
    Unfortunately, Diebold still uses 7E2 on their cash dispensers-- but this depends on how randomly the installer configured it. Sometimes it's 8E1.
  • (cs) in reply to Beavis
    Beavis:
    Iain:
    The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25

    I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something

    You know, I'm no math wiz, but that doesn't make sense. Birthdays should be whole numbers regardless of birthdays.

    Actually, they do sometimes count years of 360 days for some calculations, so I guess after enough time they could get out of sync with reality, so to speak. But I've never seen them use a fractional age at a birthday, and it still seems like a WTF to me.

  • (cs) in reply to WuphonsReach
    WuphonsReach:
    So, there's some sort of failure mode resulting in the LSB being set to "1". But only for certain characters in the ASCII set.
    99.5 out of 100, but it's not for "certain characters in the ASCII set", it happens randomly to any character. Notice how the 'l' in "sale" gets flipped but not the 'l' in "world's". As the other guy pointed out, it's line noise in the connection.

    Also, needs moar Besu Besu!

  • John Galt (unregistered) in reply to gremlin
    gremlin:
    Beavis:
    Iain:
    The mortgage form isnt a WTF - its quite common to be a .5 at your next birthday, some companies go down to the nearest .25

    I forget the reason, its to do with the way it's calculated and leap years or something

    You know, I'm no math wiz, but that doesn't make sense. Birthdays should be whole numbers regardless of birthdays.

    Actually, they do sometimes count years of 360 days for some calculations, so I guess after enough time they could get out of sync with reality, so to speak. But I've never seen them use a fractional age at a birthday, and it still seems like a WTF to me.

    TRWTF is not the decimal age, which, hooray, finally breaks the chains of this obsession with "conversational age", it's the report writer that can't see any other definition and puts a pointless, (and otherwise redundant) "birthday" in the label. However the company apparently still convinced you simply HAVE to truncate the number to SOMETHING.

    Insurance companies, healthcare records, research, etc. should all be using floating-point ages, unless your subjects instantly age an entire year on your birth anniversary (how painful!). Looks like this company has finally figured out how a person reports their "age" number in casual conversation (assuming they are over 10) doesn't have anything to do with how many miles they body they are planning to insure actually has. In any case, conversational age shifts the mean (from a random distribution) from it's real value by 0.5 years.

    Sadly I still see 360-day "years", 28-day "months" and nothing but "conversational age" in virtually all clinical research, healthcare, et. al. software I've encountered in the wild.

    Anyway, I am surprised. The readers of this site, of all people, should know the difference between "correct" and "almost right".

  • (cs) in reply to Oliver Klozoff
    Oliver Klozoff:
    It somewhat depresses me, just how quickly I tracked down the cause...
    It may depress you, but I'm bloody impressed.
  • (cs) in reply to Brian R.
    Brian R.:
    I love debugging 1-stuck-bit problems!

    shutter

    You must have all the patience in the world then. I'm comfortable with tedious work but not that tedious... =\

  • lessalesa (unregistered) in reply to John Galt

    John Galt - the problem with your theory is, it says "age next birthday." She won't be 28.5 on her next birthday, she'll be exactly 29...or 29. Which is it?

  • lessalesa (unregistered) in reply to lessalesa

    Oops, she'll be 28 or 29. See how confused that report makes me?

  • (cs) in reply to ATimson
    ATimson:
    Oliver Klozoff:
    It somewhat depresses me, just how quickly I tracked down the cause...
    It may depress you, but I'm bloody impressed.

    Me too. I remembered that a 16550A is a UART, but that's about all.

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