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Marc Clifton wrote: deflect an asteroid with a laser pointer.
You just need a large enough vacuum-proof cat to chase the little red dot.
Software Zen: delete this;
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We once had an app that just had all screen text right in the code (no translation or whatever).
Also, we had one programmer who loved to copy paste (but never really checked WHAT he was copy pasting).
Before we knew it our code was littered with something like: MessageBox.Show("Are you surek?", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo...); 
I should mention it was the customer who pointed out the spelling error to us 
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The correct message should, of course, be "Are you Surak[^]?"
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Some of our other typos included: "Live long and phosphor", "Beam me up, potty!" and "To coldly go where no manager has gone before"
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Those are just brilliant
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I had to read that a couple of times to catch the issue. Years ago, I griped to a co-worker about his code spelling in a common, VERY important, header file. So he fixed his spelling.
I got my code building *8* hours later... asteroid with a laser pointer indeed. That cured my grammar nazi tendencies.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: That cured my grammar nazi tendencies
I've found that when they're sloppy about spelling and grammar, they're sloppy about more important things.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thank Microsoft sometimes for doing something right...
So I have this legacy project that contains some scripts the build the release images for the target system. I'm in the process of migrating the scripts to make them independent of drive letter. Depending on what is in your script DO YOUR TESTING ON A VM.
I thought all was working fine, this morning i'm testing, building release images to see how upgrades are working. That's odd "path not found." Digging a little deeper, hundreds of "Access denied" messages... auditing my scripts I came across this little beauty:
rem Scrub the target area.
rem
cd c:\
cd %dll_target_dir%
rem
del/f/q *
The target dir is not on the C drive, the CD to the target fails, and I'm actually in "c:\windows". I've been trying to delete my operating system disk contents for the past month.  Seems Windows won't allow me to delete the contents there.
My hands are still shaking. I have a good backup, but still.... ai ai ai
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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That's the brain dead Windows command prompt for you. The change to the Windows directory if a cd command fails is really stupid. Why did MS even do it that way I'm the first place?!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: The change to the Windows directory if a cd command fails is really stupid.
Nobody said that and just trying it out show's it doesn't do that either.
OP said he was on c:\windows so not finding the the path to change to it stayed there.
That's the way I read it, your milage may vary. 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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It does that for me on WinX. Most of the time, at least. Sometimes it goes to a random directory.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I'm just glad I'm not installing windows at the moment 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Microsoft started protecting things in \Windows \System32 etc a while back.
They know that nefarious types would like to replace system DLLs with their own libraries so they can get a kind of "root" access to you machine.
So, the copies you see in those directories aren't the actual ones running in memory but those are hidden somewhere else and then if (inadvertently or purposely) deleted the system copies them back to their original location.
I don't know all the details but it is really cool when it fixes problems like you had.
+1 for M$.
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+2 for MS.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Why did MS even do it that way I'm the first place?!
They're probably unaware that they did, and it just defaults to the location of the program that blocks the command.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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..doesn't it simply 'not' change the current working directory?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Not sure. The discussion's a bit confused, so far.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just tested it, and still works as expected under W7.
"System cannot find the path specified" ..without a change of the current working directory. Certainly not a random one.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Well, that cures the confusion.
A happy ending, in fact. The alternative was too stupid.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...may not always be easy. Here[^] we have somebody who needs a little more practice, even with those rather convenient steps to climb in.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I need psychotherapy after seeing that image. 
Marc
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As you probably know, I was also looking for something else when I stumbled over that. In a way, I still got what I asked for: A detailed view of the door of a Seaking.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: A detailed view of the door of a Seaking.
Along with a detailed view of the rear end of a SeaMonster. 
Marc
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I'm certainly not going to include that in my model. This one[^] fished someone else out of the water.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: A detailed view of the door of a Seaking
I didn't know Seaking[^] used doors 
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