It sounds very much like the Dutch railways...
Posts made by keigezellig
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RE: Croatian failways: just when you thought it's as bad as it can get...
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RE: The active population here seems to be slightly biased towards Central Europe, amirite?
A Dutchie here...
Die niet alleen Nederlands kan, but also English und Deutsch.
Oh, i razumijem HrvatskiThere you go.
To je to...Can i have ice cream now?
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RE: Support coverage WTF
@ceasar said:
@Shoreline said:
That's because your public services are adapted to the snow, which they have to be because it snows for 2/3rds of the year. In places where it only snows a couple of days a year the local authority will not spend the money on skis or chains or whatever it is you do to adapt the snow. It's cheaper if people just work from home.
You can brag about being adapted to your local weather if you like, but it's not much of a brag.
Around here we don't use skis or chains. (Chains tear up the roads, and skis are just ridiculous.) There's something called a "snowplow" to just push the snow off of the road. And if you don't have machines dedicated to plowing, you can actually attach a plow to the front of a pickup if you want. Or a garbage truck, or an end loader, or whatever equipment your municipality happens to have. Then you just recognize that if there's snow on the roads it's a bad idea to drive 70.
The way I see it: if the one support person can get in to work - from the next town over - then why can't everyone else also get in to work? Either the roads are impassible or they are not.
Which snow??
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RE: Utopia
@Pascal said:
Naast dat je 24/7 de livestreams kunt bekijken mag je ook meebeslissen
welke kandidaten daadwerkelijk inwoner mogen worden van Utopia.
Ben jij een echte Utopiaan? Al je acties op de Utopia website leveren
jou punten op. Bijvoorbeeld het delen van berichten, chatten tijdens de
livestream en het stemmen op kandidaten. Elke vier weken maken de meest
actieve Utopianen van die periode kans om onderdeel te worden van de
Utopia elite. Deze 1000 Elite Utopianen hebben 4 weken lang extra
privileges, zo mogen zij bijvoorbeeld aangeven wie van de inwoners zij
op de nominatielijst willen zetten.The Dutch are taking over.. muhahahaaha
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RE: Out of Memory, kill the process or sacrifice your firstborn!
@martijntje said:
That's because of over-committing memory. Basically, the system pretends to have more memory than it actually has so that when a process asks for X bytes of memory it usually gets it.
This works reasonably well since programmers are lazy and usually request much more memory than they actually need. However when programs actually start to use all that memory the system is screwed, because there is no way it can provide the necessary memory. It will then start killing processes to fix this problem.
Sounds like a bank to me.. People have a certain amount of money in their account and they usually get that when they ask for it.. Unless of course everyone want their money at the same time, since the banks haven't enough money to fullfill all their obligations.. Then they will start to kill themselves :-)
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RE: Tekst
Lazy bastards!! It seems that the Dutch aren't important enough to have a decent translation..
Make that the cat wise :)
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RE: Fun with ohloh
Well this is even .. uhh.. crappier?
http://code.ohloh.net/search?s=crap&pp=0&fl=C%23&ff=1&mp=0&ml=0&me=0&md=1&filterChecked=true -
RE: IE fuckup
@The_Assimilator said:
So tell them to upgrade their fucking browsers. If they're stuck on XP they can at least go to IE8, which isn't perfect but is miles better than IE6. If they're stuck on pre-XP Windows... run for the hills, boy.
If they "can't" (won't) update IE, they're probably a rinky-dink organisation without a proper (competent) IT department, in which case you'll end up doing their tech support for them. In other words, they're a client you don't want.
Seriously I'm sick of seeing posts about IE6. It's an organisational problem, not a developer problem. The onus must be on organisations to fix this problem.
Well unfortunately, it looks fucked up on IE 8 as well.. and yes they are stuck on XP boxes.
So then I am stuck to define another IE specific stylesheet and fiddle around with it until it looks like (more or less) how it should be..... I want weekend........ :(
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IE fuckup
[rant]
Why is it always that after hours of designing and tweaking of a website, it looks decent in Firefox/Chrome but when you load it in IE that it is completely fucked up.
And of course IE 6+ has to be supported since that is what is running on the clients machine..
Me wants to cry :'(
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RE: SessionFactoryImpl - take it to the dry cleaner?
And I always thought that you should keep your constructors (any method actually) as small as possible..
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RE: Backdoor Caffeination
@PJH said:
@keigezellig said:
Well, i got 'vodka drinks', 'vodka sauce' and 'vodka brands'.. hmm, what does this say about me?
That you can't follow instructions? You clearly didn't add the [ e] on the end to get suggestions for the second word to start with the letter E.
Please tell me you aren't a programmer who is handed specs from which to do your work...What are specs?
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RE: Backdoor Caffeination
Well, i got 'vodka drinks', 'vodka sauce' and 'vodka brands'.. hmm, what does this say about me?
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RE: C# method, written by the 'senior' dev
@Anonymous Cowherd said:
protected override void ProcessSomething(string filename, long lineNo, MyDomainObject myDomainObject, ref ReturnCodeObject result)
{
string originalText = myDomainObject.originalText;
int textLen = originalText.textLength;
....Another WTF (or just a copy pasta error): This won't compile. To get the length of originalText you must use originalText.Length, something a 'senior' developer should know....
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RE: That is for another iteration
Hmm bjolling, that sounds like an interesting concept. Do you have more information about this?
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RE: Why should I close my HTML tags?
Well, it certainly looks 'artsy'... and the designer probably thought of the poor visually impaired users. That's what i call thinking... [/sarcasm off]
No seriously, on what drugs was the guy/gal which created this piece of ....
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RE: Hit with the stupid branch...
@esoterik said:
This fear of branching and merging seems like a manifestation of preemptive superstition, like they are trying to avoid some cataclysmic merging event wherein the source control data base, all the servers and the entire office get sucked into a vortex, leaving only a vacant lot occupied by a few confused survivors! As if the lost code problem of pre-source control days can be summoned by improper merging.
This is a matter of policy and habits. If you do a lot of (small) commits and updates/pulls/whatever-term-is-appropriate-for-your flavour-VCS during a short period of time (e.g. one day), then you can keep the merges very small and overseeable.
Well, of course having a policy on branching and the like is reassuring to begin with...[shameless plug]
Look at [url=http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/]this[/url] for an example.
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RE: Media Center is right on track with my expectations this time
TRWTF is obviously Windows Media Center
[Shameless plug]
Why don't you use Winamp. You have to install it once and then it will start playing your CD automatically when you put it in your cupholder... uh drive.
It is worth saving your frustration :)
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RE: At least it has a password!
Or you could (besides reporting it to the authorities) contact a journalist of a newspaper to do a story about this. These days a lot of security WTFs (e.g. Diginotar) pop up in The Netherlands and in the newspapers
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RE: Please don't screw me
And he should maybe do a course in English...
no.i have delivery the mail in my inbox.but in my code below line i have mentioned username and password of my mailid.that line i doesn't mention username and password at the same time my mail is delivery on my mail inbox.any other possible way is available here. return new PasswordAuthentication("xxxxx@gmail.com","xxxx!1"
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RE: Public printer access
Actually TRWTF is that this printer was still accessible from the interwebs after 4 YEARS.
My colleague did them actually a favor by taking it down :-) -
Public printer access
I was just browsing through my old posts on this fine site and then I found this one: http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/8715/165212.aspx#165212
Wondering if the link to this printer still worked, I followed it, and to my horror, the printer was still fully accessible (after 4 YEARS !!)
Then I showed it to a colleague of mine and he started fiddling with it and 'accidentally' switched off the IPv4 connection and now the printer isn't at all accessible anymore... Oops! -
RE: Mandatory Java Security Training
Oh my!
There are some pretty clueless people working at your company..Or is this lesson 1 of the training? :)
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RE: My own WTF. Query the database for info in the parameters.
TRWTF is using e.printStackTrace() instead of logging the exception.
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RE: System G!
Whoops, I wasn't paying attention.. Let's blame it on the Daylight Saving time switch, or just the Monday Morning blues, or both...
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RE: System G!
I especially like the Random Word Generator (http://www.gammadyne.com/product_info.htm#rwg) and more the fact that there is a trial version with some 'features' disabled :)
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RE: Peaceful Work Environment
Time to complain to your boss, that you can't do your work properly?
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RE: Multi lingual capchas now? Seriously?
You can't get any satisfaction from these captchas :)
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Patent craziness
What is it with stupid patent claims in the US?!?
If this is put through you can throw the whole industry down the drain :s
Damn, i am glad i live in the EU where we don't have this bullsh*t
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RE: Minimalist phishing scams
I congratulate your email ÏD with winning 1 mil. Have you asked it what it's going to do with all that money? :)
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RE: How to save money
Well they did kind of the same in our company a year ago. We've got this large soda vending machines and until last year you could get drinks for free, which was great.
Then came the economic crisis along (sigh) and they had to cut costs. Among other things, some brighthead calculated that if people are to pay for these drinks, the company would save a whopping €50.000 per year (we are a large international company, btw)Morale at that time was already kind of low because of a reorganisation (they fired a lot of people) and this didn't really help.
Although coffee remained free..
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RE: Properties: explained at last
Is there no checkin policy against this sort of junk?
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I love the old times :)
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://www.microsoft.com/
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RE: There's testers and there's... testers
TRTWF is that those non-Dutch countries have no concept of a 'ground level' (begane grond) floor :)
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RE: WebCrappx
I personally get annoyed by this 'clickety-clickety' sound from the flash animation
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RE: Xerox Printer/TCP/IP port WTF
@burntfuse said:
Haha, nice find.
EDIT: Oh, and apparently it accepts FTP, but it's password protected.
But i think i know the password.. (Look at 'Security')
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RE: Xerox Printer/TCP/IP port WTF
@bobday said:
, homepage of THE Steve Wozniak.
How about we spam some microsoft stuff to http://familyprinter.woz.org/status.html.
Hmmm a printer on the stairway... that's dangerous...
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RE: Xerox Printer/TCP/IP port WTF
Media Mismatch... hmmm someone tried to jam A3 paper in an A4 tray :) (yes, i am NOT from the US, before you complain...)
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RE: Xerox Printer/TCP/IP port WTF
Well of course you can drain their total ink and paper supply...
And i saw an option for uploading a file to print.. (I haven't tried that though)
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Xerox Printer/TCP/IP port WTF
How cute... You can print testpages from anywhere in the world. You can even CANCEL running print jobs..
http://stevensonsteno.ucsc.edu/status.html
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RE: TDWTF Forums Discussions WTF
@Morbii said:
Good job, OP. It looks like you were practically able to prove your theory in your own thread - without even trying! :O
Well this whole thread makes me laugh. Thank you guys for making my monday morning a little less boring :)
You guys proved exactly the point of OP. This is even better than MFD hahaha. -
RE: Quality VMWare error message
Well it should be of course:
<BeginOfErrorMessage />
The process exited with an error.
<EndOfErrorMessage />