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  • Re: 17 byte allocation

    [quote user="blakeyrat"]GDB doesn't even have a GUI. How can anybody use a debugger without a GUI? Fail.[/quote] Those guys who use WinDBG (which actually is pretty much the only debugger in Windows that supports debugging 64 bit assembly). Many tools use those in the background as server and provide their own GUIs for them (like ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 04-22-2013
  • Re: The Bar-Seperated Values CSV

     [quote user="mol1111"] [quote user="Cassidy"] Someone mentioned that to me also, showing me that Excel allows you to specify the field delimiter when importing CSV but defaults to a comma. [/quote]  Sadly Excel defaults to whatever is set in Windows' regional settings (also true for decimal mark), which make ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 04-08-2013
  • Re: Windows Update is a broken-ass buggy piece of shit

    [quote user="flabdablet"]You also have the option of using the low-level ifconfig tool to manipulate your interfaces directly, without running the helper scripts you get with ifup and ifdown.[/quote] It's 2013, why would you still use ifconfig (latest actual release of net-tools is almost 12 years old)?  ip (from iproute2 ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 01-31-2013
  • Re: But We Want This Client

    [quote user="Sutherlands"] [quote user="Cassidy"] [quote user="Sutherlands"][quote user="flabdablet"]tens of thousands of dollars for a poorer feature set and less competent product support [/quote]Which product is that??[/quote] Now, if only there was a site detailing horror stories of poorly-speced, ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 11-12-2012
  • Re: Explorer fails at sorting

     Are you sure you don't have group by enabled?
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 11-12-2012
  • Re: A rant about Microsoft's new "direction"

    [quote user="blakeyrat"] But then you can't even GET that data form AWS, because things like "CPU cores" are completely abstracted-away by their system-- a core is "the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor."[/quote] You don't, but you can get the license requirements ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 10-25-2012
  • Re: A rant about Microsoft's new "direction"

    [quote user="blakeyrat"][quote user="Buzer"]If you need Exchange on Linux desktop, you are doing something very wrong. It does have support for Outlook Web App which is quite enough for most of users (of course I'm talking about 2010 and up).[/quote] You don't know what Exchange is. Hint: it's not a client ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 10-24-2012
  • Re: A rant about Microsoft's new "direction"

    [quote user="blakeyrat"]Linux doesn't have Exchange, Active Directory (and its fun pal Group Policy), any equivalent to WSUS. Or shadow copy. Or a remote desktop feature that isn't shit. It's wholly unsuited for the enterprise environment. [/quote] If you need Exchange on Linux desktop, you are doing something very wrong. ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 10-24-2012
  • Re: Blatant Red Flags in Job Interviews

    (since they are SMBC Theater videos, you probably shouldn't watch them at work unless it's pretty liberal place) As applicant? Even in this economy you should be able to find something better than 8th floor. As interviewee? Pretty sure own sacrificial baby knife should raise some flags
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 10-08-2012
  • Re: int? double? no, int?

    [quote user="zelmak"] bad? hrm ... I guess it depends on the requirements ... :)[/quote] Yes. I have had one occasion where code pretty close that to that was needed, as far as idea goes anyway. The implementation differed. We had to parse data from different source and sometimes it was returning floats eventho spec said it should ...
    Posted to "Side Bar" WTF (Forum) by Buzer on 06-25-2012
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