So I was posting this BIG comment over on my girlfriend’s livejournal, and when I pressed the BACK arrow on Mozilla 1.0rc1, it lost my entire post! But pushing the forward arrow still posted the form, and gave me the error that my post was too big…
Obviously my post was still in the browser’s memory. But how would I get it out? A disk search didn’t turn it up, and I didn’t feel like dumping memory to look for it…
So I did the next best thing. Installed windump (tcpdump for win32) and:
C:\> windump -s 0 -i 1 -w missingpost.txt
…and hex-edited out the text, converting all the + to spaces and the other ctrl characters to their ASCII equivalents…
15 minutes of work that I could have used to rewrite it, but boy, I am proud I can still do this sort of silly stuff. :)
geek war stories rule
I am so not worthy.
Oh. My. God. You are SUCH a geek.
But let me tell you about the time I got Windows to boot on my Sears PONG game. It was in the middle of an experiment to create new universes using a high-energy laser-pumped negentropic vortex generator I made from my own nostril hair. I wanted to see what would happen if various constants change. Pi=8.4 is an interesting one. I will tell you about it sometime.
Guilty as charged. Now get me a job where I can bring Mercy with me. :P
Heh, thanks :) Got one to share?
It’s all a matter of thinking creatively…when ya gots lemons, make lemonade. And you are worthy, too!
Did you run into the little green aliens too, who taught you about n-space manifolds…?
nothing particularly clever that I can think of at the moment. Just your average run-of-the-mill CS major three-consecutive-all-nighters type of stories…
Tried to reverse-engineer the protocol that‘s employer uses. Found that their program, (written in The Toad), uses Content-Type header to store session ID, and sends HTTP request per keystroke, plus more HTTP requests just to pull spontaneous responses… Yuck… I wonder how worse will stuff like this look if/when people will start using SOAP’isms widely.
I think you need DMT to see them
Oh good lord. http request per keystroke??? I know it wants to be realtime, but http is just the wrong protocol. Sheesh! Yes, SOAP will make this much uglier.
Shhhh!