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  • Re: Welcome to Second Life

    [quote user="OperatorBastardusInfernalis"] "3" != "4" "3" == "03" "8" == "010" "foo" == "bar" "nanosecond" != "nanosecond" [/quote] What did you expect? == and != are numerical comparison operators...
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 05-17-2008
  • Re: Mighty Morph'n Symbolic Links

    1. Go back to the symlink, it DOES work great too. And if it doesn't... 2. your shell script is broken, if you call it with an argument with a space in it. Replace it by exec python2.4 "$@"
    Posted to Forum by OperatorBastardusInfernalis on 03-15-2008
  • Re: Update your Updater so you can Update

    This is nothing compared to Adobe. I have trouble deciding which one of the Adobe Reader 8 WTFs is the biggest one: That you need to update the updater before updating; That you must update the updater. If you stop it, it will pop up again when it's least expected; That the updater updater creates...
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 03-01-2008
  • Re: My RSS reader doubts MI6

    [quote user="NSCoder"] Did you forget to post a screenshot or something? [/quote] No they didn't. It appears your browser forgot to display the screenshot.
    Posted to Forum by PJH on 02-26-2008
  • Re: web scraping wtf

    [quote user="Kyanar"][quote user="dhromed"] [quote user="MarcB"] I found out quite by accident that shift-enter will make the forum editor do a simple line break, and not the complicated "you will start a new paragraph and you will like it, or else" dance. [/quote...
    Posted to Forum by MasterPlanSoftware on 01-28-2008
  • Re: JavaScript WTF

    I don't get it. How is this a JavaScript problem? The guy made a typo. Like you said, this is a tiny piece of trivial code... it could have only taken 2 minutes (TOPS) to figure out the problem. And 'design time syntax checking' is not a feature of the language, it is a feature of the toolset. I don...
    Posted to Forum by MasterPlanSoftware on 10-18-2007
  • Re: Because I can

    Well... actually, shutting down the SSH server will leave your sessions running, because they are theoretically in separate processes. My favorite headbang moment was when I had someone do something on my laptop, and forgot that I had left a terminal logged in to root@fajrero (my e-mail/web/everything...
    Posted to Forum by thequux on 08-11-2007
  • Re: Subject: Help?

    nytrokiss: Today i posted an email onto a mailing list with the sebject of help and recived this bounch back. More of a PEBCAK than a WTF. See http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#bespecific
    Posted to Forum by PJH on 07-19-2007
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