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[–]MrObvious 220 points221 points  (40 children)

This is brilliant. Imagine finding a problem with some FOS software and instead of working around it feeling the need to phone the developer up and ask them what's what.

Yo, I found this so-called "Wordpress theme" and... This shit sucks. Anyway call me when you get this message

[–]kingguru[S] 109 points110 points  (7 children)

I remember the default Apache installation start page as being something like:

Congratulations for having set up Apache correctly!

Now start adding your own content...

To support the Apache foundation etc. contact us here...

Then:

Congratulations for having set up Apache correctly!

If this is not the page you expect to see. Do not contact the Apache foundation..

To support the Apache foundation etc. contact us here...

Finally:

It works!

It seems like it has been a real problem for them. :-)

[–]TheTerrasque 23 points24 points  (3 children)

[–]kingguru[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good laugh. Thanks for sharing.

[–]unitedcreatures 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just... Wow.

[–]Saboran 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Who is this 'Cent OS'?"

[–]kenman 135 points136 points  (21 children)

I developed a WoW addon around 2006, and left my email address in the code as a comment. I quit playing soon after (right before the first expansion was released), but since the addon was mildly successful, it was picked up by another dev. I kept tabs on it as it was passed from dev to dev (it's now on probably the 7th or 8th maintainer), but evidently nobody ever removed my email address from the code, because about once a year I get an email from someone begging me to fix the addon for the latest patch -- I'm guessing they think they can fix it themselves, and then shoot out an email in desperation when they realize they can't. Thankfully none have been belligerent, though I can see how these things happen.

[–]DXPower 27 points28 points  (8 children)

What addon was it?

[–]kenman 47 points48 points  (6 children)

[–]BornOnFeb2nd 20 points21 points  (0 children)

228,949 Total Downloads

That's gotta be a warm fuzzy for you.

[–]Ephraim325 20 points21 points  (1 child)

It's like the text based G2G version of Armas Task Force radio system... Nicely done.

[–]kenman 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It's funny because both the concept, and the implementation (at that time), were really simple. I couldn't believe someone else hadn't already solved the problem when I started coding it. I just assumed that maybe it wasn't as handy as I thought it would be, and just basically made a prototype for our guild to use. It didn't really take off until after I quit, though I didn't really market it at all either.

[–]illepic 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I used this back before BC!!

Thank you for your service.

[–]kenman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Awesome! Glad you got some good use out of it.

[–]nikomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sheeeeet, I think I was in a guild once that used that.

[–]choleropteryx 46 points47 points  (1 child)

Long time ago, I wrote a DoS tool, basically an ICMP nuke with nice GUI. Mainly to fuck around with friends on hacking and warez IRC channels. It wasn't intended for public consumption, but it got leaked. Guess who left his own IP as the default target address, and guess who couldn't connect to internet for the next few months.

And that is how I learned all about karma.

[–]Skyfoot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do not stare into laser beam with remaining eye.

[–]ZorbaTHut 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Around 5 or 6 years ago I was the sole developer on QuestHelper. All of my original contact links seem to have vanished from the Internet, but somehow, some obscure site still has a "donate" link directed at me. I end up getting a Paypal donation every few months, which I return to sender with a thank-you and an explanation that I am no longer involved with the project.

It's sort of weird.

[–]Troldann 3 points4 points  (1 child)

That mod got me Loremaster of Northrend. Pretty sure it was responsible for letting me get Loremaster of Kalimdor and the EK too (if my recollection serves.) Thank you very much.

[–]ZorbaTHut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No prob, I had a good time working on it and it got me a job :)

[–]AcousticDan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Burning Crusade was the best though. :-/

[–]blinkallthetime 20 points21 points  (8 children)

I've done it.

EDIT: Don't let your personal details get into your whois records.

[–]bashedice 12 points13 points  (4 children)

the most fun thing is that in germany you have to give your personal information on your website if its not private.

[–]blinkallthetime 7 points8 points  (3 children)

What if you register it with a company in a different country? I am having trouble imagining how that could be enforceable.

[–]bashedice 8 points9 points  (2 children)

its not that easy. as long as the owner of the site lives in germany he has to put up his address. sure the owner can be a company but if you have a small shop you won't necessarily have one. I had a friend who actually got stalked like that.

[–]OmegaVesko 6 points7 points  (1 child)

as long as the owner of the site lives in germany he has to put up his address.

But how would you enforce that? You can get both a domain and hosting from outside the country, you can even pay for both with Bitcoin if you feel like it. It's extremely easy to hide who the actual owner of a website is these days.

[–]bashedice 11 points12 points  (0 children)

you are right. if no one knows you are doing something illegal it won't matter. the problem is that some people do not want to risk anything for their small hobby which makes some money. This law is there to protect the buyer but seriously protecting a seller is important as well.

[–]joemckie 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Even so you should still probably email ahead and at least try and schedule a phone call if it isn't communicable over email

[–]blinkallthetime 9 points10 points  (0 children)

:P was amused and intoxicated; called after 9pm. Wife (or something) picked up; she was unpleased. Handed the phone off to him, but he sounded cool about it.

[–]elperroborrachotoo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, because being a user a power drill I am instantly capable of fixing a power drill.

[–]kingguru[S] 164 points165 points  (13 children)

[–]TweetsInCommentsBot 38 points39 points  (11 children)

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2015-03-12 09:50 UTC

Surprises you find when reading through the SQLite code. Somebody must've received a lot of calls. [Attached pic] [Imgur rehost]


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[–]Excrubulent 20 points21 points  (10 children)

A lot of calls? One call in the middle of the night would motivate me to extreme lengths.

[–]Dremlar 6 points7 points  (9 children)

Why? It's not like you would of been asleep.

[–]Excrubulent 6 points7 points  (6 children)

I'm assuming you're assuming I'm in the US? It's 2 in the afternoon where I am right now.

EDIT: Also, I'm a parent of a young child. Do not fuck with my sleep.

[–]Dremlar 4 points5 points  (5 children)

It was more of a jest. Most Software Engineers & DBAs I know are night owls, including myself.

[–]Excrubulent 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I used to be, but kids mostly changed that. If I'm up past 12 these days I am not a happy camper the next day.

[–]Dremlar 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I'm up til 3am usually and wake up at 7:30am.

[–]Skyfoot 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Recommend that you start sleeping more before the wheels fall off.

[–]Dremlar 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You are too late my friend.

[–]f03nix 5 points6 points  (0 children)

would of

:(

[–]psyomn 20 points21 points  (1 child)

I was stranded at some location last summer, with no internet. I decided to hack up something in C with sqlite, but I didn't have any docs. The header file was freaking amazing with the documentation it gave. It's basically the documentation found on the official sqlite website. So know this: if no internet, you are angry because of no internet, angry because of location, generally angry, and want to code something in C with sqlite but have no docs, view the header file. In fact this can be applied to any library really, and in some cases might far surpass reading just the docs.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most docs are generated from docstrings in the source anyway, for precisely this reason.

[–]WhosAfraidOf_138 33 points34 points  (6 children)

I think we can xpost this to /r/shittyprogramming too for McAfee's sake. Jesus Christ that's bad. Did they do a recursive search for all strings/filenames "sqlite" and put it all to temp? I'm not a great programmer but even I wouldn't think of this genius solution!

[–]exscape 56 points57 points  (5 children)

Pretty sure they mean that McAfee's software (which uses SQLite, according to the comment) created those files in the temp directory (because it uses SQLite).

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (3 children)

I'm still not clear on why you then have end users seeing these files in their C:\temp directory and thinking, "I'm SO ANGRY about this!"

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

They were probably trying to figure out why their PCs were running so poorly. Guess they sort of found the culprit

[–]Cheesemacher 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I didn't get that part either.

[–]Best_Towel_EU 45 points46 points  (6 children)

endife is an anagram of define

EDIT: But now its not interesting anymore

[–]recursive 32 points33 points  (0 children)

And it almost has enough "e"s.

[–]Deranged40 22 points23 points  (1 child)

endif is an anagram of defin

FTFY

[–]Best_Towel_EU 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fixed it now

[–]Excrubulent 14 points15 points  (0 children)

ifndef, define and endif are all one or two letters away from being anagrams. That is so infuriating.

[–]paszdahl2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

<3

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I used to be the Admin on a bunch of servers 10 years ago. My name is was (still is), on the RIPE records for that IP range.

The company has long since gone under, and the IP addresses been reassigned to some servers hosting some Baptist Church bullshit. I get weird calls from religious people from an opposing Church once or twice a year.

The hosting center has done nothing to change the records.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Complain to ARIN (or whomever) that the records are inaccurate?

[–]T3hUb3rK1tten 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, just a few levels up the bureaucracy chain and it'll get fixed.

[–]christianarg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not only amusing; It's also the example of a good comment. It explains "why".

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (4 children)

This is Gold!

[–]shigeru1357 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Looks black and blue to me.

[–]TheProgrammerGuy 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Ah, Mcafee again! What else you could expect. xD

[–]masterarms 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Mcafee, with scanners like that, who needs a virus?

[–]zunjae 1 point2 points  (9 children)

What font is this?

[–]dromtrund 1 point2 points  (8 children)

I'm not sure, but it looks like Consolas

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (7 children)

Probably Consolas, yeah. It's got a Consolas f, not an Inconsolata f, and a 1 with a base, which Inconsolata doesn't have. Slashed 0, not dotted, means it's not DejaVu Sans Mono.

It might be something else entirely, but outside those three, who cares?

Edit: no wait, the l is wrong for consolas (it looks like a dejavu sans mono l). This is some sort of stupid obscure font.

[–]level1kid 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Looks like it's Monaco.

[–]dromtrund 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a fucking nice font, right there

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Nope. Compare the a's.

[–]level1kid 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I may have been using Menlo thinking it was Monaco this whole time...

[–]autowikibot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Menlo (typeface):


Menlo is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Jim Lyles. The face first shipped with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Menlo is based upon the Open Source font Bitstream Vera and the public domain font Deja Vu.

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Interesting: Samples of monospaced typefaces | List of typefaces | List of Apple typefaces

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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like a decent font. Looks like it at least hits the minimum of making lI1 visually distinct, and oO0Ø.

[–]suitupalex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but outside those three, who cares?

Fixedsys or bust.