The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

100% Chance of Laser Beams

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-07-26

"Sure is some wild weather we're having tonight," remarked Jeff.

60 comments - Last comment @ 2014-02-05

Ubertrim

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2013-07-25

Nav was not having a great day. He was remotely managing servers in the datacenter using Dell's iDRAC interface but the time it was taking to load was worse than an old lady with a walker trying to cross an intersection.

Nav checked the obvious spots - Were there any problems with the corporate Intranet? Email? Network drive? Ping? A little slow, maybe, but all were certainaly usable. So, he thought, What the heck could it be?

69 comments - Last comment @ 2013-07-29

An Exact Measurement of Evil

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-07-19

"The Sith in Star Wars the Old Republic really keep specific tabs on exactly how evil you are," writes Chris Osgood.

72 comments - Last comment @ 2013-07-28

Epoch Fail

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2013-07-09

One of Michael's employer's clients wanted a system to catalog and retrieve security videos. The resulting product was partly written in C++, partly written in PHP. The code is like poetry...really, really bad poetry.

One day, the client complained that the dates and times weren't being recorded right. Michael took a look in the database and double-checked the UNIX timestamps of a few on the web page. He confirmed that yes - they were recorded just fine. Surely the client must have been imagining things, Michael thought as he closed the bug as 'couldn't reproduce'.

204 comments - Last comment @ 2013-07-18

Mistaken Identity

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-07-05

"You know, I kind of feel bad for the Visual Studio installer," writes Markus Schaber

54 comments - Last comment @ 2013-07-16

Classic WTF: Java is Slow!

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2013-07-04

It's Independence Day for us folks here in the US, so to mark the occasion, here's a Classic WTF!

110 comments - Last comment @ 2013-09-25