Comment On Pop-up Potpourri: Givin' It 120%

Wonder if they meant 'FileNotFound'?

Alex Papadimoulis:

Oh, wrapped integers to make me chuckle so...

That nView one is awesome.

Status report on my latest project... 2,147,483,647% complete! I'm done forever, sweet!

Alex Papadimoulis:

I'm always skeptical when things are greater than 100%, but from what Graham shows me here, it looks like Alcohol 120% is really giving it 120% by stuffing all that stuff in eight gigabytes ...

 

i love that, not only is the math pure awesome, but the chart is just as awesome. apparently, 17179869123.89GB is slightly less than 68.11GB...

Somehow displaying the duplicate primary key message twice makes sense. But that might be me.

    That reminds me of my favorite popup message of all time.  "The program has encountered an error: There is no error."

I wish I had the presence of mind to screenshot it when I found it.

Anonymous:

    That reminds me of my favorite popup message of all time.  "The program has encountered an error: There is no error."

I wish I had the presence of mind to screenshot it when I found it.

You can find one of those in a previous pop-up potpurri.

These are awesome. Thanks Alex! Please make a habit of doing it twice a month!

Alex Papadimoulis:

I doubt that most of us have the 4,294,967,294 unread messages that Ross Gouldthorpe does, but still, a folder with negative two emails would be a nice relief ...

  

So where is the Problem? There are two mails sent which were not written yet. I don't see the Problem

Maybe "SILVER" is one of those quantum boolean states. I'm a little curious what would happen if he had selected that as the option of choice.

Alex Papadimoulis:

Graham Aldridge opted not to scroll down all the way to see how far it would go ...

(Snipped to save 700 pixels)

  

Never let it be said that nView doesn't have enough options!  Now, if they were really clever, each one of those options menus would actually contain different options.  Think of the customer support hilarity!

Anonymous:

Alex Papadimoulis:

I'm always skeptical when things are greater than 100%, but from what Graham shows me here, it looks like Alcohol 120% is really giving it 120% by stuffing all that stuff in eight gigabytes ...

 

i love that, not only is the math pure awesome, but the chart is just as awesome. apparently, 17179869123.89GB is slightly less than 68.11GB...

No, you don't get it. The 17179869123.89GB is so compressed that takes up slightly less than half the disk. The 68.11GB is just the worst case estimate of what you can compress to the remaining, roughly, 4GB of physical disk space. :)

codenator:

Lame!

Lame but I'm sure there'll be 5 pages of garbage written here anyway....including this garbage

What's lame about it?  The only lame thing I see here is people's obsession with saving images with text as JPG.  It doesn't work!  Stop it!  PNG or even GIF will not mangle text like JPG does.

After looking up nView, which I thought was an HTML/CSS/PHP editor (that's Nvu), it's the technology from nVidia that allows you to control multiple monitors and what's on each one.  That must be, what, a dodeca SLI setup he's got going there?

Alex Papadimoulis:

I think the real WTF is that the capacity is wrong.  Obviously in a case like this you just take the size it reports in use, the size reported as being free, and just sum them.  Sure, it will fluctuate, but it will be definitively inaccurate, rather than just wrong.

Alex Papadimoulis:

  

Thanks, I will.

Anonymous:

Thanks, TDWTF, you made me go LOL



http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL

Did you really just link to the spanish definintion for LOL?

rmr:

Anonymous:

Thanks, TDWTF, you made me go LOL



http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL

Did you really just link to the spanish definintion for LOL?

Si.

Alex Papadimoulis:

Arrrrrr! Kimberly Horne found this while tryin' t' plunder PuzzlePirates.com. There be a lot o' progress buried in these sands.

 

Wait a minute, these are pirates. What's with the picture townspeople and pirates actually getting along? What happened to the killing, raiding, and general grief that these swashbucklers should be dealing out?

Although the pirate with an octopus on his shoulder instead of a parrot is a nice touch.

smbell:

Anonymous:

Alex Papadimoulis:

I'm always skeptical when things are greater than 100%, but from what Graham shows me here, it looks like Alcohol 120% is really giving it 120% by stuffing all that stuff in eight gigabytes ...

 

i love that, not only is the math pure awesome, but the chart is just as awesome. apparently, 17179869123.89GB is slightly less than 68.11GB...

No, you don't get it. The 17179869123.89GB is so compressed that takes up slightly less than half the disk. The 68.11GB is just the worst case estimate of what you can compress to the remaining, roughly, 4GB of physical disk space. :)

Finally, a use for that ZIP of death that I keep hearing about!

Jojosh_the_Pi:

Wait a minute, these are pirates. What's with the picture townspeople and pirates actually getting along? What happened to the killing, raiding, and general grief that these swashbucklers should be dealing out?

Although the pirate with an octopus on his shoulder instead of a parrot is a nice touch.

Puzzling, isn't it?

Anonymous:

    That reminds me of my favorite popup message of all time.  "The program has encountered an error: There is no error."

I wish I had the presence of mind to screenshot it when I found it.

Those are easy to create, though.  It comes from the UNIX errno practice.  Windows does something similar with "getLastError".

A function will return with either the right data or 0 to indicate an error.  Then you check the last error code to find out what the error was.

So what happens is something like this:

setLastError(SUCCESS); // clear the error
if (doSomething() == 0) {
    // It failed
    showErrorMessage("Operation failed: %s", getLastError());
}

All that has to happen is for doSomething() to cause an error and then fail to reset it.  Then when showing the error message, you'll get something like "Operation failed: the operation completed successfully." since the error code was never updated.

Generally speaking messages like that are bugs in the OS API.  Several Windows API neglect to set an error code on all errors.  Smart programs (or at least ones expecting getLastError to be capable of returning junk) special-case "successful" error codes, changing them to "unknown error" before displaying the message to the user.

marvin_rabbit:

rmr:

Anonymous:

Thanks, TDWTF, you made me go LOL

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL

Did you really just link to the spanish definintion for LOL?

Si.

que?

Anonymous:

    That reminds me of my favorite popup message of all time.  "The program has encountered an error: There is no error."

I wish I had the presence of mind to screenshot it when I found it.

The first rule of error handling is there are no errors.

The second rule of error handling is there are no errors.

captcha: billgates

Who would you fight?

Alex Papadimoulis:

Arrrrrr! Kimberly Horne found this while tryin' t' plunder PuzzlePirates.com. There be a lot o' progress buried in these sands.

 

 

This one's my booch.  Failing over from the BitTorrent download module to the HTTP download module wasn't passing on the 'total size' value.


Elizabeth Fong
Technical Operations Manager, Three Rings Design

Anonymous:

Jojosh_the_Pi:

Wait a minute, these are pirates. What's with the picture townspeople and pirates actually getting along? What happened to the killing, raiding, and general grief that these swashbucklers should be dealing out? Although the pirate with an octopus on his shoulder instead of a parrot is a nice touch.

Puzzling, isn't it?

Actually they are all laughing because they cut off each others noses.

captcha: knowhutimean

Seriously? the captcha is knowhutimean?

I love how the 20 THz processor still only got a Windows System
Performance Rating of 2.  I guess 960 MB of RAM isn't much when
you have a 20 THz, but I wouldn't know.

smbell:

Anonymous:

Alex Papadimoulis:

I'm always skeptical when things are greater than 100%, but from what Graham shows me here, it looks like Alcohol 120% is really giving it 120% by stuffing all that stuff in eight gigabytes ...

i love that, not only is the math pure awesome, but the chart is just as awesome. apparently, 17179869123.89GB is slightly less than 68.11GB...

No, you don't get it. The 17179869123.89GB is so compressed that takes up slightly less than half the disk. The 68.11GB is just the worst case estimate of what you can compress to the remaining, roughly, 4GB of physical disk space. :)

Talk about the match: I like how the graph is at 50%.

Anonymous:

Alex Papadimoulis:

  

Thanks, I will.

I think I would just click "Cancel", assuming it removes the threat.

Anonymous:

Alex Papadimoulis:

I think the real WTF is that the capacity is wrong.  Obviously in a case like this you just take the size it reports in use, the size reported as being free, and just sum them.  Sure, it will fluctuate, but it will be definitively inaccurate, rather than just wrong.

Maybe this uses the MATTX CODEC to compress those 17 exabytes into a much more manageable size.

http://mattl.co.uk/mattx/codec/

Also I hate to say it, but this is what you get when you buy a lexmark. Unlike some brands (HP), you can't say lexmark has ever stood for quality.

Anonymous:

Alex Papadimoulis:

Arrrrrr! Kimberly Horne found this while tryin' t' plunder PuzzlePirates.com. There be a lot o' progress buried in these sands.

 

 

This one's my booch.  Failing over from the BitTorrent download module to the HTTP download module wasn't passing on the 'total size' value.


Elizabeth Fong
Technical Operations Manager, Three Rings Design

I  love how the dialog is designed to ensure that the percentage value is properly formated for the current locale.  That way, when the percent goes above 1000, it'll have appropriate grouping.

Not a WTF, since it means that it's probably using Java's built-in localization support (Puzzle Pirates is Java-based, right?), but still mildly amusing.

That's easy. The wall mount has to be silver in order to work!

Anonymous:

Anonymous:

    That reminds me of my favorite popup message of all time.  "The program has encountered an error: There is no error."

I wish I had the presence of mind to screenshot it when I found it.

Those are easy to create, though.  It comes from the UNIX errno practice.  Windows does something similar with "getLastError".

A function will return with either the right data or 0 to indicate an error.  Then you check the last error code to find out what the error was.

So what happens is something like this:

setLastError(SUCCESS); // clear the error
if (doSomething() == 0) {
    // It failed
    showErrorMessage("Operation failed: %s", getLastError());
}

All that has to happen is for doSomething() to cause an error and then fail to reset it.  Then when showing the error message, you'll get something like "Operation failed: the operation completed successfully." since the error code was never updated.

Generally speaking messages like that are bugs in the OS API.  Several Windows API neglect to set an error code on all errors.  Smart programs (or at least ones expecting getLastError to be capable of returning junk) special-case "successful" error codes, changing them to "unknown error" before displaying the message to the user.

That or idiots who think checking GetLastError() in the UI thread is a brilliant idea, or using any of the singleton/static variable paradigms to hold on to the message. (It works when run on a single cpu! It must be the customer's imagination!)

This remembers me of 5th Element - Corben Dalles saying: I only know to languages: 'English' and 'Bad English' ;-)

Are you telling me that I wasn't the only one to submit that exact same Puzzle Pirates WTF? Am I to believe that there is more than one WTF'er who plays Puzzle Pirates?

tmountjr:

Maybe "SILVER" is one of those quantum boolean states. I'm a little curious what would happen if he had selected that as the option of choice.

No, SILVER is related to boring old everyday non-quantum optics:  Since the device is painted silver, wall-mounting it only makes sense if you painted your wall SILVER.

Anonymous:

This remembers me of 5th Element - Corben Dalles saying: I only know to languages: 'English' and 'Bad English' ;-)

And apparently you only know 'Bad English'...

-- W

rob_squared wrote the following post at 08-25-2006 7:28 PM:

Alex Papadimoulis:

         

Thanks, I will.

Good choice.  Had you elected to click the "No, I don't want to watch out" button, your game character would have gone to sleep, and been eaten by a gruesome monster.

rmr wrote the following post at 08-25-2006 7:36 PM:

Anonymous:

Thanks, TDWTF, you made me go LOL

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL

Did you really just link to the spanish definintion for LOL?

Such a shame that nobody expected the Spanish Inqui..., err, definition.

Alex Papadimoulis:

I can only wish I had the time and energy for a proper flamewar, but it has to be asked:



Does a blog that's so MS-centric really want to bring up the question of "Is there any *real* OS that actually requires free disk space to delete a file?"?

Cool. We don't usually get real programmers in here.....

Probably need to chuck a bit more javascript in there ;-)

JR wrote the following post at 08-25-2006 8:50 PM:

Anonymous:

That reminds me of my favorite popup message of all time.  "The program has encountered an error: There is no error."

The first rule of error handling is there are no errors.

The second rule of error handling is there are no errors.

captcha: billgates

At least there are no significant errors which a significant number of users would want to be removed.  See Bill Gates:  Microsoft software essentially bug-free

Alex Papadimoulis:

Arrrrrr! Kimberly Horne found this while tryin' t' plunder PuzzlePirates.com. There be a lot o' progress buried in these sands.

 

 

This one's my booch.  Failing over from the BitTorrent download module to the HTTP download module wasn't passing on the 'total size' value.


Elizabeth Fong
Technical Operations Manager, Three Rings Design

It's always nice to hear from the author of the WTF.

Anonymous:

Alex Papadimoulis:

Arrrrrr! Kimberly Horne found this while tryin' t' plunder PuzzlePirates.com. There be a lot o' progress buried in these sands.

 

 

This one's my booch.  Failing over from the BitTorrent download module to the HTTP download module wasn't passing on the 'total size' value.


Elizabeth Fong
Technical Operations Manager, Three Rings Design

I am a self-proclaimed BitTorrent expert.  I have 15+ years experience in BitTorrent.  Want to hire me?

Digitalbath:

I am a self-proclaimed BitTorrent expert.  I have 15+ years experience in BitTorrent.  Want to hire me?

You sound absolutely brillant

Anonymous:

That's easy. The wall mount has to be silver in order to work!

Come on people, obviously SILVER is for those people that want to keep away werewolves. A steel, or cast iron wall mount isn't going to keep those werewolves away from your TV, so some thing has to.

boohiss:

Are you telling me that I wasn't the only one to submit that exact same Puzzle Pirates WTF? Am I to believe that there is more than one WTF'er who plays Puzzle Pirates?

I'm not sure "WTF'er" is very appropiate language. I'm feeling very offended right now. </sarasm>

maweki:

Alex Papadimoulis:

I doubt that most of us have the 4,294,967,294 unread messages that Ross Gouldthorpe does, but still, a folder with negative two emails would be a nice relief ...

  

So where is the Problem? There are two mails sent which were not written yet. I don't see the Problem

ahem...."outside", not "outbox"....more like there are 2 messages in that folder that haven't been moved from the inbox yet ;)

captcha = null....well, it would have been better as "null" anyway

Alex Papadimoulis:

Arrrrrr! Kimberly Horne found this while tryin' t' plunder PuzzlePirates.com. There be a lot o' progress buried in these sands.

 

And just how many monitors would one need to see the far end of that progress bar?

I want to play puzzle pirates now!!!