A colleague demonstrated a program inadvertently built with the debug warnings on. With a little-used menu, a warning "malloc first, you d*khead!" popped up. The customer (who was reasonably IT savvy) took it with a laugh.
Posts by Wim Ton
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Debugging source is even harder when you can't stop laughing at it
Google splurging cash on UK offices to lure staffers back from the kitchen table
£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit
Aircraft can't land safely due to interference with upcoming 5G C-band broadband service
Cisco requires COVID-19 shots for all US staff – even remote workers
Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government
The Netherlands have this as part of the land register for a long time. (Kabel en Leiding Informatie Centrum KLIC)
Still prone to errors: a draftsman told me he forgot a bit of a 20" water pipe in the corner of the map. Needless to say, that was the spot that was dug into with a huge fountain as a result.
A housemate had a holyday job with a digging firm. Near an airbase he encountered some cables that where not on his maps. He phoned and asked: "are these cables yours"? Answer: "We don't know, we won't tell and it is a secret anyway" "OK, so you are fine if I cut them?".Within minutes the military police arrived.
What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ****ing ****balls
I'm diabetic. I'd rather risk my shared health data being stolen than a double amputation
Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services
PwnedPiper vulns have potential to turn Swisslog's PTS hospital products into Swiss cheese, says Armis
Hijacked, rampaging infrastructure will kill humans by 2025 – Gartner
G7 nations call out Russia for harbouring ransomware crims ahead of Biden-Putin powwow
The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good
US nuclear weapon bunker security secrets spill from online flashcards since 2013
Remember those wacky cyberpunk costumes in Hackers? They're on display in London this week
Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened
Holes patched in Russian segment of the ISS though pesky pressure loss continues
Imperva pretty adamant that security analytics aggregator product Sonar is not 'one dashboard to rule them all'
Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hijacking its water treatment plant via TeamViewer, says sheriff
SolarWinds releases known attack timeline, new data suggests hackers may have done a dummy run last year
How to leak data via Wi-Fi when there's no Wi-Fi chip: Boffin turns memory bus into covert data transmitter
For every disastrous rebrand, there is an IT person trying to steer away from the precipice
H2? Oh! New water-splitting technique pushes progress of green hydrogen
Forget Terminators, says US military, the next-gen AI battles will hinge upon net infrastructure, not killer robots
An Internet of Trouble lies ahead as root certificates begin to expire en masse, warns security researcher
A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo

Re: At least the O-ring wasn't frozen this time...
Another O ring story: I worked for an oilwell service company. The instruments were housed in steel (or titanium) tubes, joined with union nuts. All the instruments had 2 60 mm O-rings to seal the joint, except one joint on one instrument used a 59 mm O-ring.
One day the inevitable happened, the 2 sized were swapped (they are hard to distinguish visually). Everything went fine till about 3 km below the surface. Then the signal disappeared. When retreiving the instruments, they were filled with water and all transistors and relays were completely flattened by the 300 bar pressure.
It is unclear why something designed to pump fuel into a car needs an ad-spewing computer strapped to it, but here we are
It's time to track people's smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global pandemic, says WHO boffin
What do a Lenovo touch pad, an HP camera and Dell Wi-Fi have in common? They'll swallow any old firmware, legit or saddled with malware
Re: Reality
You only need to check a signature when activating an update, in which case a few seconds more or less hardly matter. After that, a CRC is fine to check for memory errors. Yes, I know you can change the FW to fit the CRC, but if you can change the memory you can also completely disable the check.