Well, look on the bright side, SQL injection would have been pretty difficult.

Well, hard-coding the value makes it much more efficient than using a database. Right?

[quote user="Cyrz"] I always wondered if the parts return department was amused or annoyed by my antics. Perhaps a bit of both, depending on what I sent that day. [/quote] They must've thought you were such a cool-guy.

[quote user="billhead"] <obligatory> TRWTF is that the op posted an image of the news story while this spiffy WYSIWYG editor can handle copy and pasting of the story from BBC. </obligatory> [/quote] [quote user="emurphy"] () //--> addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title...

Very true. SM is WTF'able. I do think that with all this massive knowledge, why not implement a new free open-source webmail application? I would assume that a more updated IMAP-capable client is available, and if not, why not write one since the standard is so familiar? Cuz you don't wanna....

[quote user="JimBastard"][quote] Maybe the ram wasn't fully cleared on a warm boot. A cold boot probably would have done the trick. [/quote]It was about a week before the machines were removed from the ITC. They sat completey shut down over night several times. [/quote] Ahh, so they had...

DAL and 3 tier and Information Hiding are just a hype. Those are no substitute for embedding SQL everywhere.

[quote user="Physics Phil"] [quote user="WeatherGod"] You know, up to this point, I really didn't have an opinion of Lysis either way. I mostly just gloss over the MPS vs. Lysis flamewars, so I really couldn't see who was really trolling or not. Now that Lysis is acting some...

[quote user="OperatorBastardusInfernalis"] Less WTF if it's one of these modern PCs without a parallel port. Back then this was SO simple... port[$378] := $A3, and it set the data wires to 10100011. 8 wires to REALLY EASILY toggle from DOS apps... those were the times. Now, good lock doing...

[quote user="zzo38"] ... return $num - $num * 2; ... [/quote] Now, TRWTF(tm) is that they should've optimized their math: ... return $num - ( $num << 1 ); ...