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  • Re: Weird use of "switch"

    I remember encountering this idiom in VB a while ago. It can be used when you would write a Select statement (e.g. you have some clearly defined cases) but the language doesn't let you, for example: Select Case True Case obj Is first_object ' Blah Case obj Is second_object ' Blah blah Case...
    Posted to Forum by Spectre on 03-12-2008
  • Re: Tesco-direct WTF

    purge: Unparsed template engine code. Kinda lame... The RealWTF is the GIF optimization you used for the screen shot. Probably mspaint
    Posted to Forum by Mal1024 on 10-29-2007
  • Re: War on right clickers, tides have turned!

    coder: So everyone agrees that you can't protect your website content and doesn't matter what you do. I can't say that I entirely agree with that statement but I would venture to guess that a website in this communities hands falls in the that category (un-protectable) having said that i'd guess that...
    Posted to Forum by Fred Foobar on 06-25-2007
  • Re: War on right clickers, tides have turned!

    Looks like I can steal images WITHOUT disabling JavaScript! This is even worse than the JavaScript on-click alert script you see everywhere. And people actually pay for this kind of crap?
    Posted to Forum by Mal1024 on 06-11-2007
  • Pop-up Potpourri 13: 011011110110110101100111011101110111010001100110

    Quite possibly the biggest dialog EVER. It asks me for a captcha AND THERE IS NO CAPTCHA!!! Should be "Windows Command Processor is trying to access "http://127.0.0.1:55555"" SysDes Error! A catastrophic failure! (The WTForum just stopped the images displaying, working on it)
    Posted to Forum by Mal1024 on 05-29-2007
  • Re: Holy diagonal pasting batman!

    Daniel Beardsmore: (I also dislike cmd auto-completing desktop.ini but copy then lying that it does not exist and refusing to copy it until I use attrib to -s -h it .) A very succinct description of the standard command line tools. I always thought there was a way to copy with the system and hidden attributes...
    Posted to Forum by Fred Foobar on 05-21-2007
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