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Would that be a Virgin Superhub ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nope. It was a local/regional us ISP. The box was from a company with a name that IIRC was similar to the ungoogleable "zone".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I actually upgraded to a higher package because the guy told me that 'the equipment with that package is better', with the intention of downgrading and keeping the 'better equipment'. I can get it to work by giving the webserver the static IP address that the cable co. provided, but that means a lot of headaches with SQL Server connections, not to mention the fact that I lose my ability to share files and access it locally. There has to be another way to keep my internal address on the web server.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I already have a decent Linksys router/AP hooked up for the wireless clients with DHCP disabled. The weird thing is the two IP addresses from the cable internet provider. The router uses a different IP address than the static IP address, so I'm thinking that I am not even hitting that router, or any of the settings that I have been madly tinkering with, on inbound requests. Maybe I don't understand how cable modem/routers work...the crux of the biscuit is, where do I enter the static IP in the cable modem settings? I tried to put this as the Linksys router's address, three time with different settings. That just puts the Linksys into a state that I can't access it's configuration anymore.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Surely the problem there is that the router is on a different address to the static IP??
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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After recovering from the mental whammy imposed by a 5-million line error, I wondered how many lines of code our current project was. The final count is 1,061,156. this number includes comments and blank lines because I consider them to be important parts of the coding process (comments tell a story about the code, and blank lines are organizational in nature, and therefore require a modicum of thought on the part of the programmer).
BTW, there are just two developers assigned to this code base, and the line count only includes the desktop apps (there is a dashboard and a web portal as well).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You realize there is a bug on line 768,321?
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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What concerns me is the number of exceptions that are thrown (silently) as the program runs.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hopefully they are logged, rather than swallowed?
He asked, fully assuming the complete opposite...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I'd argue that thousands of exceptions in a log file isn't much better then silently swallowing them.
It's interesting that interview questions often revolve around try/catch/finally. This bit is easy, its determining the flow of execution under errored conditions that is the tricky bit.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Logged? Why? Isn't empty catch blocks a good practice any more?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Good practice is a messagebox that says, "The program was going to crash, but the programmer [insert name here] was too awesome to let that happen."
Not to mention lots of smiley faces to show how much of a good thing it is.
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Don't forget the cat picture. It always works. Or may be a link to pr0n website. Users tend forget all issues if we do that.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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An animated cat gif, too. Don't forget to make the messageboxes recursive, in case the animation has an error. Moar Kittiezz!!!1!
d@nish wrote: Or may be a link to pr0n website. Users tend forget all issues if we do that. Obligatory Dilbert comic[^]
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In my current development I have a msg box that pops up and says "This is gonna be so sweet when we get this implemented!".
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Imagine a brace mismatch at line 249403.
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That's why God made compilers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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God made compilers to imagine brace mismatches?
I think we're really screwed...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm saying if your compiler doesn't catch brace mismatches, you've got bigger problems.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It is not the problem in compiler. You still need to fix it, but if you go after auto-indent
It is good that "God" (if that is the developer nickname) made better IDEs catching the matching opening brace.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: After recovering from the mental whammy imposed by a 5-million line error,
is this an ACA reference ?
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On a good day I used to be able to type 100WPM. Not to say my day is all typing but if I wanted to churn out mounds of Government approved code that would be about a months to do a million lines. Really easy if you include comments generated by a tool and auto generated CRUD code. Add another developer and a million lines isn't so difficult to achieve. The true genius is doing the same thing in 80,000 readable lines : )
(Not implying anything just a related statement)
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Well, write in Java, document getter and setters, done - application do nothing with more than 200,000 lines of code.
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write in C#, even shorter!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The final count is 1,061,156
After clicking the 'show disassembly' button?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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