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So You Hacked Our Site!?
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-29
The Clbuttic Mistake
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-25
This clbuttic was originally posted by "ezrec"...
Browsing through a web archive of some old computer club conversations, I ran across this sentence:
The Comcast "Bill", A Buggy Traffic Light, and More
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-22
First there's Comcast WTF that was originally posted by "cheesy" ...
Having not received my bill from Comcast (now Time Warner) one month, I called them up. They said they would send me another copy. This is what showed up a week later.
Those Unstable Databases & An Interesting Database Field
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-20
First, we've got Those Unstable Databases, originally posted by "tbcpp"
I used to work at a radio station, and part of my tasks included keeping the rather old automation system up and running. Now granted, this system was a 98 machine running on a beige box 500mhz and 128mb of ram, but the software was also a little at fault for the crashing it constantly was experiencing.
We Don't Need Requirements
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-13
Originally posted by "snoofle" ...
I've mentioned a few times that I joined a team well into a two year development project. The system was designed, based on the sponsoring users claims, to handle 500-600 million records per day.
Developing in Access
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-08
Originally posted by "marinus"...
There is this Access database. Part of it manages inventory. There is a large storage, in which crates of different stuff from different sources are stored, and in the Access database there is a form onto which this information is entered. There are 38 rows of 10 columns of crates and the height varies.
U R NT QFD & Giving Notice
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-06
Two for the price of one today! U R NT QFD was originally posted by "Ben Fulton"...
I have a suspicion this ad for a programmer was text-messaged in to our local paper...
ikownjou
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-04
Originally posted by "Publius"...
I'm working on VB6 code written by a Dutch speaker and maintained by an Italian, with variables and comments in both languages. And no indentation whatsoever.
Six Copies, Please
by Alex Papadimoulis
in Best of the Sidebar
on 2008-02-01
Originally posted by "snoofle" ...
I've been working with computers since the mid 1970s, and thought I'd seen every possible stupid thing users could do. Coffee cups on the PC's cup holder. $20 bills jammed into the slot (floppy) to purchase stuff on the internet. Pretty much everything featured on TDWTF. Nothing could surprise me anymore. Until today.
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