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Invisible wrote:
> Somebody on the Haskell list just wrote
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> "Did you also by any chance patch Debian's OpenSSL a few years back?"
>
> I think I just got 0WN3D. :-(
Heh, quite badly.
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Invisible wrote:
> What...the...hell...?
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> I just had a closer look at my test data. For reasons *beyond* my powers
> of comprehension, I used a hand-written LCG psuedorandom number
> generator to generate the file contents. Trouble is, the particular
> coefficients I picked have a period of... four.
Familiar with the concept of NIH? (Not Invented Here)
I know the PRNG built into the standard C library sucks, but i think
it's more random than .. well ... your example.
If you were creating a PRNG just fore the sheer academic fun of it, of
course ignore my commentary.
> *WHY* would I do such a thing?! >_<
>
> Of course, The *Real* WTF is that I seeded my broken PRNG using... the
> system PRNG. Which actually works correctly.
>
> Dude. Seriously. What the HELL was I smoking that day?? [shakes head in
> disbelief] I literally cannot *believe* I managed to do something this
> retarded...
>
I've been wondering that on the project I've been working on. Seriously
all day in a non-air conditioned manufacturing plant is not fun. Of
course the component I'm working on is a major PITA, due to the sheer
number of things that can go wrong both within my control and outside of
my control. :/ and it deals with physical movement of mechanical parts.
Not fun when you really screw up. (Thank God for limit switches)
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Invisible wrote:
> Somebody on the Haskell list just wrote
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> "Did you also by any chance patch Debian's OpenSSL a few years back?"
>
> I think I just got 0WN3D. :-(
XD
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Familiar with the concept of NIH? (Not Invented Here)
>
> I know the PRNG built into the standard C library sucks, but i think
> it's more random than .. well ... your example.
I got tired of trying to figure out how to get Haskell's PRNG library to
work right. I figured it would be... hahaha!... easier to do it myself. :-/
>> Dude. Seriously. What the HELL was I smoking that day?? [shakes head
>> in disbelief] I literally cannot *believe* I managed to do something
>> this retarded...
>
> I've been wondering that on the project I've been working on. Seriously
> all day in a non-air conditioned manufacturing plant is not fun. Of
> course the component I'm working on is a major PITA, due to the sheer
> number of things that can go wrong both within my control and outside of
> my control. :/ and it deals with physical movement of mechanical parts.
> Not fun when you really screw up. (Thank God for limit switches)
Hmm. So here "crash" takes on a whole new meaning, eh? ;-)
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"Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmail com> wrote in message
news:48346fbe@news.povray.org...
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> It's one of those "who the hell wrote this piece of... oh" moments
>
Hehe. I've had that.
Pulled out the list of worst performing procs from my server one day (top 10
CPU consumers)
I looked at the 3rd one down and saw it was pulling a lot of info from the
job history tables and in a really weird way (bitwise expressions and
strange conversions)
As I dug out the full script I muttered to myself, 'Which blithering idiot
wrote thi.... urrr. I did.'
Needless to say, it went straight onto the to-fix list.
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote
> Of course, The *Real* WTF is that I seeded my broken PRNG using... the
> system PRNG. Which actually works correctly.
A PRNG cannot work incorrectly (so long as it gives *some* output). It's
P... after all <g>
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> Hmm. So here "crash" takes on a whole new meaning, eh? ;-)
>
You have no idea how true that is (Nothing I did, mind you, but it has
happened on some of our more complex multi-axis equipment. Usually BAD
things happen when that happens. I've personally seen a 10ft 2x4 get
thrown into the rafters, I've heard stories of saw blades being thrown
clear of the saw. Fun stuff, heh. The worst I've done is move a pusher
while a clamp was closed, stripping a belt free of its teeth.
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Michael Raiford wrote:
> clear of the saw. Fun stuff, heh. The worst I've done is move a pusher
> while a clamp was closed, stripping a belt free of its teeth.
I want to clarify this a bit: I wrote this application blind. I had no
idea how the equipment was really going to work once it was put
together. I was given an electrical cabinet, a motor, a servo drive and
a few switches, and told "Write software for this saw" It turns out, I
didn't have all of the switches that fed the input. which meant I failed
to detect the condition when the clamp was down, which meant ... well..
->Crash<- oops.
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>> I think I just got 0WN3D. :-(
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> Heh, quite badly.
Thanks. I feel better now...
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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> No offence, but why do you need to reinvent the wheel? Just use diff.
Because it's easier [and more reliable] to call a function than to
invoke an external program and attempt to parse it's output?
> For future cases there's lots of useful small programs ported on
> Windows, too ;).
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Hmm - I wonder if they have "time"? That would be useful...
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