[quote user="vt_mruhlin"] I like it when you have a tiny piece of malformed HTML (like, say I forgot to close a ul tag), IE7 auto-redirects you to an error page that clears out the DOM so you can't even view source to see what went wrong. Yeah, that's awesome. [/quote] My favourite...

I used to work in a small company somewhere in the Black Forest. We urdered some 20lan cables. Eventually they came, not with the normal parcel post ubt with a carrier whose driver told us he was driving some 15km to give us the cables. The funny thing is that these cables did not come in one package...

now this is interesting... others having intereviewed there as well. I got my check now. I interviewed there back in april... man it was like a really retarded reality show, where the only winners are those who went home early. protip: threaten to contact the CA labor board if they don't mail you...

The Real WTF is somebody using tags as they were intended.

[quote user="DOA"][quote user="m0ffx"]when at one point the orchestra slipped a little out of time, a real conductor would notice that and correct it, ASIMO couldn't[/quote] So it's basically a bunch of instructions to move the arms. And yet that's what the media focuses...

Hi, I was looking into a config directory of a Lexware program. They use Quickbooks internally. In this config directory I found an xml file. It contains one line of gobbledygook but still is called fairuse.xml So I guess not only MS ist not following standards...

I see this fairly regularly at CodeProject, seems to be caused by logging on using the form in the navbar rather than the main page when it demands you log on to download.

There are other services which you can use to send text messages. There's also always http://rickroll.prankdialer.com/

This is part of a translation of Dungeon (Zork) to Inform 7 from FORTRAN 77. FORTRAN code: C ENCRYP-- Encrypt password C C Declarations C SUBROUTINE ENCRYP(INW,OUTW) IMPLICIT INTEGER (A-Z) INCLUDE 'dparam.for' CHARACTER*8 INW,OUTW,KEYW INTEGER UINW(8),UKEYW(8) DATA KEYW/'ECOVXRMS'/ ICHARA...

The mix of number formattings is disturbing. they could have quite easily fitted another 10 or so slots in and just used a more logical 32bit Unix timestamp. That would also give them another 28 years to play with. Working on the basis of them currently having to redo the wrapper design every 3 years...