Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

Of course, there is more than one of keeping your browsing secure. This email from work illustrates one of the methods, though it is not well favored:

Many of you have experienced problems with Microsoft Internet Explorer crashing under certain circumstances, especially when attempting to access … web sites. This note is just to let everyone know that this issue is one of two top priority items that the support team are working to resolve. The problem is the result of a critical security patch published by Microsoft recently and we are working closely with Microsoft to find a permanent solution. We expect to have better news tomorrow.

You can’t get infected if you can’t visit a site….

Thanks to Jennifer for commenting on the good looks on the site. Since it looks it, it’s obvious it wasn’t done by me. It’s just one of the new templates from the Movable Type 3.2 Style Gallery.

I plan to start updating the templates and styles “soon” (including putting back all of the “Blogging Buddies” links on the side. When it starts looking worse, you know I’m at work.

This graphics shows wy I like my cable modem and why I laugh when Verizon offers their high-speed 768k DSL.

As is described in this article [Google translation], if you enable dynamic publishing of templates:

You will get an error saving (at least some) templates:

Saving object failed: Update failed on SQL error You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ template_created_on = ‘00000000000000′, template_created_by =

If you turn of dynamic publishing, then you will not get the error. The person with the original report seems to have a much better understanding of what t takes to actually fix the bug. I just want to get the text of the error in a page so that hopefully others can see the temporary workaround.

One of the efforts thta I have been taking on at work recently is ensuring that a 50K line simulation will compile in Microsoft Visual C++ as well as Borland C++ and gnu C++. Without errors. Without warnings.

Some of the code has been a challenge, like the change on scope of variables initialized in a loop construct. In several cases I ended up just wrapping the entire for block in another set of braces. Another quirk comes with the following code which gives a syntax error:

int a, *b(&a);

While what looks like the equivalent code compiles just fine:

int a, *b = &a;

Anybody know what is going on here?

If you take two very small numbers (one positive and one negative) and then truncate the output value, you can get a zero and a negative zero. Like in the following code:

int main() {
  printf( "%.6f 

The errors in Microsoft Visual Studio (C++) can leave a bit to be desired. Or maybe it is just the code that it complains about that leaves much to be desired. The new code that was written

bool operator

Title:
[ 1196285 ] Shit Dont Work

Submitted By:
Dont Release Crap - azureussucksass

Summary:
Shit Dont Work
You fucking Linux using pussies. Don’t release shit that doesn’t work.

Have a look at the original. I couldn’t make this up.

Another re-org. Perhaps this one will go better that the last one. As with the last time, the categories have again been shifted about. Perhaps this time I really know what I want to be writing about. * Software has been folded into Computing : General and Computing : Mac (a new name for OSXcellence). * Funny Stuff has been renamed On the Web * The entries from Television and Radio have been split into In the News, On the Radio, On the Tube and On the Road. * Policial, which was always misspelled, is now part of In the News.

The main inspiration for this re-org came from NSlog(); and the reorganization he did, along with the hints on starting a blog. Some initial how-to ideas came from Quiet Confusion, though the majority of the code was adapted from Arve Bersvendsen at Virtue Ivis and his notes on decrufting Movable Type. A take on The Tweezers Edge Comment Fields update was also implemented.

The first hurdle which initially stymied me on this update was a lack of defaults from [Movable Type][mt]. Actually it wasn’t that the defaults were lacking, I just couldn’t figure out what was being used when nothign was enetered in some of the fields. Trying to replicate the file structure by duplciating the default values for “Archive File Templates” was quite and adventure…why not just include these values in the manual? Or, better yet, keep the default in the code, but have it pushed out to the GUI if it is missing?

Much of the new design comes from an article on Nifty Corners by Alessandro Fulciniti. the rest comes from me wanting everything to be gray and not having a program to create any kind of graphical logo.

Even with this upgrade, there are a few things that I am looking to fix still: * I am still not happy with the listing of multiple comments (either in the pop-up or on the individual archive page). I thought about putting each individual comment in their own bubble, but I didn’t think that would look good either. (Fortunately, no one has been posting comments, so I haven’t had to worry too much about it.) * The referrers script is currently not being included on any of the pages. (It is supposed to be included on the main page, but I have been unable to get the set and check variable working properly in MT.) Eventually I would like to move to a self-hosted referers script that I can have more control of (and which offers better speed), but I have so far not been able to find ay good, free options. * The main archive page (which isn’t linked from anywhere) is not complete. * A method to change color schemes is needed.

Let me know what you think.

I tried to send a message though Yahoo! Mail and was presented with a test of typing the following string into the text box so that I could continue to send mail and prove that I wasn’t a spammer.

I found out how sucessful I was when I got the following error:

Character String Verification Error

You need to pass the verification test to send any more email.

Your message has not been sent and will not be saved.

Where was the text of my message? Gone to the ether. Hitting the back button only served to show me the empty “Compose Message” screen. So I decided to try again.

And failed once again. Another email vanished.

What kind of inane corporate policy is this, that you willfully delete your customers projects that they were working on, because you suspect that they might not be the person typing on the computer? Has anyone actually made it though one of these tests before? Will Yahoo! evetually stop asking me?