Microspeak: Turds

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Danny — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:56:01 GMT

In Microspeak, a turd is a graphics glitch....</quote>

In GuildWars speak a turd is a person who fails at high end farming areas to do his job as he previously bragged, mainly this is used in TWAY UWSC.

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Steve Wisnieski — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:03:11 GMT

When I was in Basic Training in the Army back in 1976, our Drill Sergeants would call us a "turd"....Trainee Under Rapid Development :-))

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Engywuck — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:16:58 GMT

Well, he wrote "I have run XP in five different computers (two desktops, a laptop and two netbooks) and dozens of virtual machines (under everything from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 7 x64), and that cosmetic bug has shown in every one of them. " Since I doubt virtual machines are common with NT4 as *host* I have read this as "I have tested NT4 to 7x64 and found that problem everywhere". If he really means he has run XP as guest on a NT4 host I gratulate him for having one of the most obscure setups in VM world imaginable :-)

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@Engywuck — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:57:42 GMT

Not surprising, because they talk about a bug with the theming on XP. With Vista, theming has changed a lot.

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Engywuck — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:23:28 GMT

@Antonio Rodriguez: tested Win7 Prox x32 on PC and W2k8R2 in XenServer, cannot reproduce.

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ASK — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:52:59 GMT

We call it 'screen poo'. For example: Doing X results in screen poo.

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Simon — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:02:52 GMT

"Turd" is a term I'd usually see and use in connection with entire pieces of software, rather than rendering glitches like this. As in, this application is a giant steaming turd...

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cheong00 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:43:31 GMT

And we call these kind of things "garbage bits" or just "garbage".

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Antonio Rodríguez — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:18:02 GMT

@David Walker: in the last ten years, I have run XP in five different computers (two desktops, a laptop and two netbooks) and dozens of virtual machines (under everything from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 7 x64), and that cosmetic bug has shown in every one of them. The steps alegr1 gives allow you to reproduce it, but there is a simpler procedure:

1) Open Notepad.

2) Uncheck the Format->Word wrap command, so both scroll bars are visible.

3) Slowly move another window (i.e., Calculator) over the size square in the bottom right corner.

I always have visual styles activated. Maybe it doesn't happen in classic ("Windows 2000") mode - I can't say.

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alegr1 — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:11:55 GMT

@DW:

This bug is very easy to repro:

1. Configure the taskbar to autohide. (XP graphic styles should be enabled. Doesn't happen with Win2K style).

2. Open the maximized Explorer window with enough folders and columns to have both scrollbars, and with no status bar.

3. Have the taskbar appear and disappear.

4. The square in the corner will now have the remnants of the taskbar color.

In other words, that area is not repainted if it was uncovered by another window. You can also move another window over that area.