Nerdwiki Awards 2009
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Best Screwup & Recovery award of 2009
*nix category (incl. osx)
Nominees:
- Ravn: For pushing a remote update to a live in-car diagnostics system that breaks the live update function.
To avoid recalling all cars to do a software card swap the program was studied, and a backdoor was found. By asking the car to send "live logs" (something it does by http post over edge) it was possible to get it's ip in the access.log and send a working remote update script thru scp. However this only works if the car is driving. So a script was made that automates this task. Note: Ravn was nominated in 2008 for almost the same case, but needed help from Zhiva to recover, so he did not qualify.
Windows category (all)
Stupidest error message
From gpg on OS X:
Key is valid for? (0) 365y^H Key expires at ????-??-?? Your system can't display dates beyond 2038. However, it will be correctly handled up to 2106. Is this correct? (y/N)
Best joke
Worst support
Most hours wasted
Best idea (that will probably never happen)
Nominees
- Ravn and Zhiva: For the idea of recreating Darkdate.
Worst idea
Nominees:
- Zhiva: For thinking that maintaining an all-female forum would be pleasant for the eyes. The inevitable would happen, they talk about menstruation.
