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192.168.1.2 you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDS81Ibazdk
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I read this while taking a lunch break from configuring an NT 4.0. I wish it were a 2000 I could work with. But at least our Domain Controllers are 2003.
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Fatal error: the application literally can't even
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Did you try uneven?
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You're just seeing those fancy new temporal trading systems at work.
Wow, Dave, one trillion parallel processors running the query. Maybe that thousand-way JOIN was not such a great idea? Oh, and BTW, how do you keep a trillion processors cool?
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Isn't there an I-Hate-Oracle-Club around here? I believe @PaulaBean posted to the wrong category.
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Go home, NASDAQ. You're drunk.
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There comes a point when even the finest server of the most delectable vintage must fall on its side and head-crash all of its hard drives at once.
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Usually not before writing not-recoverably corrupted backups to all available backup media, though.
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Only two months ago I removed a Windows 95B physical machine, only to have to reinstall it as a VM because the database-application on it doesn't work with anything newer and is locked by a vendor that went bankrupt 20 years ago. The only option to get the data out is by copy/pasting every single row, so while waiting for a solution from the DB-team (they could script this) they just keep adding data to the exotic DB on the W95B.
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Wonder if they were "building" a clock.
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I hate incomplete messages. I think I just might
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Sometimes there's no need, when the only thing that can read the backups is the application, and the only copy of the application exists on the backup...
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...and the sole vendor of that application went bankrupt decades ago and all documentation was trashed and the programmer still remembers that there was a checksum byte somewhere, or was it a double byte in reverse order?
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No--that's a standard ERP term. It means recursively breaking down the parts list so you know how much of each component, all the way down to each resistor and capacitor on each subassembly on each board in each rack or whatever.
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But also yes - this dialog looks like a classic case of "programmer couldn't resist". That double meaning is the sort of thing I will perpetrate if forced to write verbiage and I think I can get away with it.
I would have had it be a radio button group, tho,
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This is worthy of its own sidebar WTF.
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FTFY
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Requires explaining the second O to the business users. If I were going that way I'd spend a few hours thinking of a good excuse for the second O, and never, ever refer to the term explosion in the entire manual.
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Yep, Nothing like backronyms. :-)
Kind of like the H2S radar used by Bomber command during WWII where the initial code name was too obvious and Lindemann wanted an other one. Due to a previous outburst / scolding by Lindemann (where he said something about 'it stinks' to the techs), someone suggested H2S.
Only they had to do some quick thinking when he asked why... And someone bright came up with 'Home Sweet Home'
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Yeah, the programmer probably got a little laugh from phrasing the message like that, but not a WTF at all.
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Yea kind of like the 'spacetime discontinuity Error: You can not reserve in the past' which I included as a 'cant happen' error in a stored procedure for a reservation system and where I thought that the user interface and the rest of the application should prevent that from ever showing up.
Guess what, the users managed to provoke it somehow.... :smile:
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Well obviously the exploded BOM contains the BOM and all the component details for each BOM entry. The unexploded BOM is just BOM entry lines...
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Am I the only one screaming "Close the Quote!" on the newspaper one?
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I can actually top this. I recently worked in a company running equipment that ran on, get this, Windows NT. The original vendor I believe no longer supported it, but another company gave us support.
There were other pieces of equipment running Mac Classic, and I believe there was a system running Windows for Workgroups or Windows 3.1.
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We had an OS/2 server that was installed in 1994 that was finally shut down in 2007. The machine was a high-end (for the time) desktop machine, running an OS/2 CICS that no longer existed, to support a paging product that no longer existed, to send pages for our (major) hospital.
It failed once around 2004. There were no backups, no way to replicate and so we wound up calling IBM service, which diagnosed a failed power supply. Replacement power supply, service visit, and actually having a power supply for a 10-year old machine: $1,800. That was an ouch.
But it had to be revived. Someone did actually image the drive after that, but what would we run the image on?
We were so glad to see it go that the people that finally accomplished the shut-off were declared members of the Dead Poet Society. (Poet was the original paging product, that became something else and then became history, long before 2007.)
I wasn't actually a member, darn it.
Added: Forgot a detail: It was also the last remaining reason for our last remaining token ring network.
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Looking at that name, I can't help but think, "how do they use hydrogen sulfide for radar, and, more importantly, why in the sam hell are they using hydrogen sulfide at all?!"
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The newspaper picture: This looks chopped. I can tell from some of the cuts and from having seen quite a few chops in my time.
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They weren’t.
The issue was that due to a misunderstanding the techs had not done much about that radar system since the first time they had shown it to Lindemann, and the second time he showed up he asked about it, and they did not want to say that they had not done anything and tried to talk out of it, to which he burst out 'It stinks' (their explanation that is), hence the name H2S....
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I know, it's just that looking at chemical formulae is ingrained in my mind that I can't look at H2S without thinking "hydrogen sulfide."
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I may be inviting a whoosh, but what's s the connection there?
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H2S is hydrogen sulfide, which is the chemical that gives rotten eggs their terrible smell.
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Yes
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I would invite a whoosh with H2S around, too.
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Paging @accalia, @raceprouk, we need a "I see what you did there"
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I've only got the one.... but it does work quite well. [image]
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because it is a fox that needs a bra?
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No thanks, I make it a point not to accept bras from strangers.
Nevertheless i do thank you for your concern.
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:sadface: do you consider me a stranger?
maybe have some candy? it's right there in the back of this white, unmarked van ...
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do you mean the white unmarked van parked in front of or behind my white unmarked van?
/me takes a lollipop out of her pocket and starts licking it
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I have bubble gum in my car!
Filed under: It's a coupe, though
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nice, but actually i prefer this kind of lollipop.
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Fox lollipop results in few foxes and a lot of
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Seems like new avatar candy-dates
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Nicolas obviously didn't want a massive yacht! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdi6E-qzS1c
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a lot of "fox" searches result in photos like that. It's really annoying.
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IKR? Apparently people no longer want animals when they search for animal names. thinks for a second, searches for "animals" ... Belgium!
Filed under: The human race no longer...