So what happened to the changes? If it involves changes to data of the kind that lawyers stick their nose into, you specifically don't want any.
TRWTF is that this sloppy bag of donuts has access to production.
So what happened to the changes? If it involves changes to data of the kind that lawyers stick their nose into, you specifically don't want any.
TRWTF is that this sloppy bag of donuts has access to production.
@Severity One said:
Java (discouraged for performance reasons)
Your words, man, but I totally agree.
Someone should send their graphics card a very sternly worded letter.
Then what is it? On Error Resume Next is required to handle errors gracefully instead of halting execution?
Amazing! This will scale to dozens of attributes!
Are they indexed properly?
Schools probably pay the ridiculous amount of $5/FTE for Windows. Also: is there any serious 'educational' software available for a non-Windows OS, or is using a web browser considered education these days? Well, maybe except for KhanAcademy.
Noo... The total of the two invoices are still £ 1500, you just moved it. What's the WTF?
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
Wait … you build software that talks to ftp.exe? Seriously? That's not even a good attempt at trolling.I will never use the ftp.exe scripting feature ever again, just because you say so.
@blakeyrat said:
@nonpartisan said:That's why I thought it was so damn hypocritical of Microsoft to say that there would be such a steep learning curve if people switched from Office 2003 over to OpenOfficeCite? When did Microsoft say that?
Several samples of those, if you're interested.
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/en-us/why-microsoft/pages/openoffice.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/showcase/details.aspx?uuid=faaf9eb8-77c6-4bed-bc08-c069a7bfbb04
@pandaPowder said:
great ideas everybody. Thanks! I'll at least go to IT armed with some information. I'm going to try identifying as a browser right now.
If you can get by the proxy by imitating a browser, can we at least mock your IT for security measures that don't work? Otherwise, we get to mock them for everything else.
@heterodox said:
I'd be surprised if the firewall was blocking based on user agent. At my old workplace, we had a few problems like this caused by our SonicWALL firewall; it was always something to do with its gateway antivirus service. Usually the remote IP would have to be exempted or blocking encrypted files would have to be toggled.
Not so much AV, I think you mean blocking HTTP 1.1 Range Requests. This tactic seems to be employed by malware downloading payload from remote sites so it is blocked by Sonicwall. Royal PITA with BITS and large HTTP downloads.
All of the above. CSC is neither a backup nor a strategy. CACHE! CACHE! CACHE!
The fun thing with WSB, if you have a single server to back up, is that it can do bare-metal recovery. Just boot from the Win2008 DVD with the backup disk attached and after a few clicks it will do a full system recovery for you (to similar hardware).
Not familiar with Mozy, but I would have a method of bootstrapping a replacement server ready, just in case. Also, the amount of data may become prohibitive
I recommend a minimum of three drives to keep off-site backups and rotation.
Keep pushing.
You will NEVER have Omniture... (more evil laughter)
I'd surely vote for Adobe as the number one company producing the best software, on the scale of value-to-tear-your-eyes-out, on the internets.
Looking at civilization at a whole, I suggest IBM takes the cake.
There's more than one way to Rome, but all roads lead to this stored procedure.
@serguey123 said:
Btw, people discuss something more important than my nationality, I would be very surprised if anyone actually guessed my country of birth as I'm the only one in this forum from Corrupsylvania (I checked)
Then it must be Indonesia.
@blakeyrat said:
@Mason Wheeler said:Why not just use FileZilla?FileZilla is a huge pile of WTF. The only good SFTP client I've found in Windows is WinSCP. And even it's only acceptable, not great.
Curl?
Easy, like this:
curl.exe -T -u ftp://www.blakey.xxx -G -Re -z -Sc "certificate file" -K3 -k2 -zYES -f+ -Q "bin" -Q "DO ALL THE WORK" -t5 @"C:\Users\Blakey\Documents\My Pictures\Pretty pictures"
@da Doctah said:
Toughest job in the world right now? A legitimate venture capitalist in Nigeria. No matter how many prospects you contact, nobody wants to take your money.
Sure they do! Just contact the clueless people!
Alright, that's still an issue.
Therez a dutchman in ur codez feasting on ur cpu
I wonder how that problem managed to find its way out of this code. I'd get lost before dark.
@TwoScoopsOfHot said:
I'm not a DBA or anything, but why not just put a trigger on insert of the DOCUMENTS table that prevents a 2nd row from ever getting commited?
You're hired!
@blakeyrat said:
Sidenote: I love how Amazon describes their video and music products as "digital downloads." As opposed to what... analog downloads?
Still celebrating the move to 8 bits per byte?
@bannedfromcoding said:
Anyone here remembers Pegasus Mail?
Yes. Do you remember BlueWave?
@tster said:
Have you ever noticed how the google homepage is almost blank?
I found NoScript trying to find a solution for that.
@blakeyrat said:
That's because it'd be redundant, other posters have already made that point in this thread.
No they haven't.
@blakeyrat said:
You're going to strain yourself reaching that far.Yah, must be a real disappointment visiting TDWTF and reading a far-fetched story. Boo hoo.
Now, I haven't heard you making the point of why this change is long overdue, other than pointing out that everybody who thinks otherwise is a retarded baboon.
At least I'm not speaking for everybody else.
Yep, FF does by guessing http for non-default ports, but IE 6/7/8 will not make that assumption. FF is more graceful, IE is more accurate. I'm not saying which one is better.
But let's say someone is doing a manual for this app or making some screenshots with Chrome, and happily writes in his manual that you can enter ipaddress:7000 to open the Web Interface You've Always Wanted. The guy doesn't know any better, right? And then why doesn't his manual work when you happen to use IE?
Maybe it'll work when IE's behaviour changes, maybe if the user knows to prepend http://, maybe if you can write universal documentation remembering all those quirks browsers have. Until then, I stand by my opinion that as long as application publisher's can't agree on one or the other that the more relevant information we have, the better. Am I the only one who thinks that it's relevant information? Or information at all?
Damn crazy developers, you. Try a job in system administration and find out how many times you need to prefix the url with http:// or https:// because the mgmt webinterface runs on some other port than 80/443. It will not guess the protocol, you must specify it.
Integrated Lights Out? https://127.0.0.1:2381
ASSP? http://x.x.x.x:55555
I'd get pretty pissed off when it doesn't show what protocol I'm connected with. Typing the address as it's shown in the address bar won't work. I don't care if you can copy and paste it correctly, I don't care what you change-obsessive lot think, get your own Internet and go develop browsers there.
<Melvin>If the judgment of a random sample of people is Google's truth, then that's it, isn't it?</Melvin>
Google vs. Random people doesn't even play, because in the end just a small set of people choose to interpret the research results the way they want to. If the feedback concludes that 70% didn't complain, do you move the change forward?
Added features are most famous for being good improvements. Changing UI elements just cuz' or displaying things differently than all other programs in its class is arguably not, unless you need them to implement said feature. Then what feature is this change trying to implement? Is this somehow going to give a competitive edge, or reduce support calls, increase security, or the infinite satisfaction of 5 extra characters on the address bar, what?
To be honest, at this exact instant, I couldn't care less about the address bar in Chrome because I never use it and they never asked me. But if it were to become common practice then I'd say that information was taken away that was previously there. Public knowledge that http has something to do with the internet isn't bad, even though their user base obviously doesn't care.
The address bar like it was in 1998 is still like it is today because nothing else has changed. Everything that happens between the URL and the actual bits zipping through the tubes is essentially still the same. It's not necessarily conservative or primal to keep things the way they were when they work, and I especially don't get the obsession with layout redesign in things that have a specific purpose for other things than being eye-candy. If a major revolution happens that makes URLs or protocols obsolete to the end user, I say get rid of 'em. Until then, it's just part of navigation. Is that old-fashioned?
Assumption is the... Well, you know how it goes.
For that matter, Google is really making Youtube look like a testbed for all kinds of random changes in the UI. Every time I visit YT lately it's a complete surprise what kind of video strip/gadget/favorites collection is going to pop up, and where.
Your point is valid, for cases where "Testing it with actual users" just means ignoring the opinion of the other half.
@Weng said:
I just checked by opening Folder Options and clicking restore defaults. Perhaps you're using some sort of preinstalled OS from a benovolent vendor that actually doesn't think of its users as complete idiots?
Meh, I consider Dell to be one of the more benevolent players (compared to Sony and HP), but I'm not sure if they earn the credit for this one. Might be policies.
The hiding of file extensions shouldn't be an issue in corporate environments. The rest shouln't be using Windows a computer anyway.
On topic: the browser's address bar is supposed to show the URL. The protocol is very much part of the URL. Without it, it's not a URL. What, they're going to leave parameters out as well?
@dtobias said:
As a matter of general principle, I don't like to have technical details hidden from me, the way Windows does with its stupid default behavior of hiding file extensions (much loved by malware authors who use files with double extensions like .gif.exe).
Forward your tape to 2010. Windows doesn't do that anymore since Vista.
Tali, have you been getting pregnant again? WTF are we going to call this one.
Why would you bother? It's not like anyone can follow a thread of comments.
@Nyquist said:
@dhromed said:
@Nyquist said:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/soundcloud-vuvuzela-competition
I just got round to listening.
My fucking god, isn't that just some of the most fucked-up ridiculous shit music out there.
I'm debating on whether to upload mine. Been tormenting my neighbours with it this week.
Does your track sing a URL out loud? My god, you could be tormenting neighbours around the world. It should have a URL sung out loud. Are you in advertising?
@El_Heffe said:
You bought 1.00 Floor from T-Mobile?
No, that would be odd. He bought 1.00 floor of something.
The retrieval of the questions/answers is not the WTF. It must be the entry of the question/answer pairs - I mean, how do you normalize stuff like that? Present a list of existing answers or look for literal matches in code?
Or does eaches entry form create new QuestionIDs and AnswerIDs, essentially making it a 1-to-1 relation?
BTW, I totally cried when Marvin died.
Good read, thanks. Both for the read and the heads-up.
How do you keep up? Is it as bad on the Xbox as you suggest it is? Did you think of a refund? Or at the very least, retaliation?
Holy Mother of Uncompressed Media Formats.
Maybe it's some intermediate system that provides TITS the data as a mess of strings.
@Mole said:
Were the people who designed there website college dropouts of something?
Yes, the people who designed their website were college dropouts or something.
Awesome. That will make a nice wallpaper. Wait, was that postcard traded for a TDWTF mug? Damn traitors.
I will now retreat in my government-funded home.
You must call us liberal or we will burn down your house.
Dhromed, did you piss someone off by voting SP?
I don't believe in Schrödinger's books. I've never seen one.
@Welbog said:
The Pitt is worth it for the Perforator. That weapon is fantastic.
Yes, I would take a 5000 km/s Perforator over grenades any day.
How many people actually go out shopping for pizza and beer and finish hauling away a solid, galvanized steel, full-size table tennis table?
It makes you wonder, doesn't it?