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  • Re: Defragmenting Weather

    [quote user="Wolftaur"]Or "Insert FONTS into DF0:", which I used to see on our cable network's "Preview channel" on a regular basis. :)[/quote] Wouldn't that be "Please insert volume FONTS in any drive"? Or were they using a different version of AmigaOS...
    Posted to Forum by Quietust on 11-11-2008
  • Re: Sun's XPRESS language

    There's one advantage, though - unlike The Enterprise Rules Engine , you don't have to recompile it every time you change it.
    Posted to Forum by Quietust on 10-14-2008
  • Re: Making handouts is such hard work.

    I've seen this happen in other places as well, and I, too, have no idea what causes it. Lowercase letters almost look like they were rendered in fixed pitch even though the font was variable, though uppercase stuff does not appear to follow that rule.
    Posted to Forum by Quietust on 10-10-2008
  • Re: University tales

    [quote user="Maciej"]The nerve of her, not being totally confident in her understanding of what was going on![/quote] The nerve of you, resurrecting a four month-old thread just to post an inane comment like that.
    Posted to Forum by Quietust on 10-09-2008
  • When good POS go bad...

    OK, I've been reading this site for a while, and I don't have as many WTFs to share since I mainly deal with the hardware side of IT as opposed to the software side, but I think I finally found a genuine WTF worthy of this site. Before the WTF, some background on its origin. I was servicing a...
    Posted to Forum by dmsnkitsune on 10-02-2008
  • Re: SQL Table Fun

    The first thing that came to mind was the following URL fragment: widgets.asp?cat=%27%3B+drop+table+widgets%3B+-- I'm pretty sure that's not a good sign...
    Posted to Forum by Quietust on 08-29-2008
  • Re: Ten Web Design Trends to Avoid

    [quote user="ds0"]That's not black.[/quote] Try turning off subpixel rendering (looks like what Windows calls ClearType, not sure what MacOS calls it), then check it again.
    Posted to Forum by Quietust on 08-20-2008
  • Re: Faced with a future WTF Project

    WTF-y possible workaround for #3: when your code is called, move some of the 3rd party data off-chip and use that memory. Just re-load that data before returning. Depending on how much memory access your function does, it might well be faster than putting your stuff off-chip.
    Posted to Forum by joemck on 08-19-2008
  • Re: Please use one of these browsers

    There's still a "Netscape" browser?
    Posted to Forum by Quietust on 08-15-2008
  • Re: Hmm... not sure if I should post this... public error msg w/ too much info.

    [quote user="kswanton"]...before someone gets 'DROP' happy?[/quote] Considering the error message that appeared on the page says "Invalid object name 'tbl_Directory'.", it's possible that somebody already did .
    Posted to Forum by Quietust on 08-14-2008
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