full-disclosure - Windoze almost managed to 200x repeat 9/11

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From: mvp at joeware.net (joe)
Subject: Windoze almost managed to 200x repeat 9/11

Nod. Some knucklehead used GetTickCount or clock() for their app and had no
clue about datatypes and overflows and range of possible values and some
people go off on Windows.

I was helping someone in the public newsgroups with a similar issue.
"Experienced" 10 year c coder who didn't understand why a long value would
go negative and start counting down... He could have been coding for Windows
or anything else. Unfortunately he chose Windows so his app contributes to
people thinking Windows doesn't work. 

The state of programming right now is like the state of the roads in
Michigan. Mostly in disrepair and everyone blaming the weather instead of
poor road building skills. In the meanwhile the Dept of Transpotation keeps
hiring inexperienced road workers for some poor salary and using lowest
bidder to build the roads and expecting them to miraculously get better.

  joe

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of ASB
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 7:22 AM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Windoze almost managed to 200x repeat 9/11

That has nothing to do with Windows, and everything to do with a stupid
application.

...as if stupid app developers are solely the products of Windows
environments.

-ASB

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:32:29 +0200 (CEST), Feher Tamas <etomcat@...email.hu>
wrote:
> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275
> 
> Next time think twice before replacing Un*x with Voles!
>

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