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Casao posted:I couldn't get my mac to print to a shared printer on my windows machine. I tried and tried and it was just a bitch.
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Casao posted:I couldn't get my mac to print to a shared printer on my windows machine. I tried and tried and it was just a bitch. LOL. I have no clue. I just now saw it.
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Sweevo posted:In the business world people also like to stick with what they know works, particularly when talking about the financial side of things. In some ways you're better off sticking to old technology that's had 20+ years of development instead of going with a cutting edge, but flaky system. Well yea, I guess I shouldn't complain about the printers when the entire library database (in fact ALL library databases) is running on some system thought up in the late seventies called Z39.50. I'm always telling the cataloger "hey we could do this 10 times better in SQL" and she just roles her eyes and says "Z39.50 until the ALA says otherwise". Librarians are kinda funny about computers and the internet. They are sorta out-of-touch, but they really like to write misguided whitepapers and talk about Information Systems and enabling patron acess. It's kinda like they are still recovering from the dotcom bust, and still think search means using esoteric portals to sort thousands of irrelevant results. They don't realize that, as we move forward, things are becoming more standardized, and you can't keep using whatever un-unified query syntax you want, you can't look at RSS like its some sort of proprietary standard in which you may dick with the XML so it works with the page better, the internet is bigger than a few thousand webpages, etc. I mean, it's really cool that they are able to get so excited about IT, but they just move so much slower than the technology.
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Dano Bodango posted:Librarians are kinda funny about computers and the internet. On paper the internet looks like a librarian's wet-dream - all that information at your fingertips, and lot of libraries jumped on the internet bandwagon pretty early on. But then it came back to bite them when it turned out that all those computers just attracted kids who wanted to spend hours on myspace or playing flash games. Sweevo fucked around with this message at May 26, 2008 around 17:42 |
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Dano Bodango posted:I mean, it's really cool that they are able to get so excited about IT, but they just move so much slower than the technology. The library world is actually kinda schizoid here. On one hand we're really trying to catch the big internet wave, but we're also hugely conservative about how we're supposed to intergrate all this into the library.
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Oh, and another thing: hardware with soft power and no hard reset switch. I can't count the number of times I've had to physically unplug my wife's HP inkjet printer because its tiny brain gets scrambled or the print queue pukes (see previous complaint) and it CAN. NOT. BE. TURNED. OFF at the switch. Goddamn it, my computer has soft power too, but when I hit the reset button it reboots no matter what the OS is trying to do. Every piece of hardware needs a "gently caress you" button and I'd be willing to pay the extra couple of bucks for it.
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I was relieved when I realised that holding down the power button on desktops and laptops will ultimately shut it down, not having to resort to pulling plugs or batteries out is nice.
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Firefox, we need to talk. I care about you; you've been good to me; I've been good to you. It's just that... I'm concerned about your ram consumption. At first I though it was a phase. I figured you'd be over it in beta 4 or when you got just a little older. I deluded myself to thinking that 'it's the plugins' and things of that sort. But that's not the case. I'm concerned for your health and for the safety of this computer. We just can't handle it when you're taking up 200 megs of ram on a laptop with only 196M. I thought things would be different with a bigger machine, a faster processor, two gigs of memory. No. I came home and there you were -- 500 megs and growing. You need to stop this madness before you kill yourself and your user base. Please. EDIT: Deluded. I'll be damned. Jo fucked around with this message at Jun 5, 2008 around 15:38 |
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Jo posted:I diluted myself to thinking  If you dilute yourself you are making yourself weaker by addition of some medium (usually water)
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hyperborean posted:deluded He's talking about diluting thinking. Clearly you need a more potent liquid medium. 
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Jo posted:Firefox, we need to talk. Have you tried 3.0 RC1 yet? Supposedly the footprint is way down.
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Suspicious posted:I think we're all too quick to forget how utterly horrible printing was in Windows 95. XP/2003 is perfect by comparison. No, not really. It's almost exactly the same. Smoke posted:At my old helpdesk job I got to hear the XP startup and shutdown sounds far too much, both on the phone and in the office from the test boxes. One guy eventually set his ringtone to the XP startup sound so nobody would notice his cellphone ringing. I have voice clips from Clive Barker's Undying as my startup/shutdown sounds because I'm an rear end in a top hat. "Fool! You had your chance to escape!" "Can you describe what you can only see? As the bonds of flesh are broken, the world becomes apparent!" Fortunately my laptop is usually muted when it's not on my desk.
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ZeeBoi posted:I was relieved when I realised that holding down the power button on desktops and laptops will ultimately shut it down, not having to resort to pulling plugs or batteries out is nice. Yeah. I think I went a year, maybe a year and a half when they stopped putting the hard shutdown buttons on the fronts of computers thinking that I had to hit the switch on the power source to get it to turn off when it hard locked. It was a happy day when I discovered that not to be the case.
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My contribution for today is Quickbooks. I do my own books for my business and when I initially got started with Quickbooks it was great. Quick, lightweight and very useful for just about any scenario - payroll, great account registers, report/inventory tracking, etc. Over time it's become a bloated piece of poo poo fueled by the greed of Intuit who dings you wherever the gently caress they can dream up. Quickbooks seems to think it is the most important application in the universe. Any action initiated in it seems to trigger it stealing back window focus. Just getting to the basic program interface has become like navigating a labyrinth over the years. Quickbooks requires Flash to be installed yet seems to use it nowhere. This has bloated the startup time from 5 seconds to about 40 on a modern system. Quickbooks has updated! Quickbooks recommends you verify your data! Quickbooks recommends you backup your data! Apparently it can't do step 1 in step 2 to save you the hassle. The notices and advertisements all steal window focus too which is jarring and drives me insane. There are tons of them too. Memorized new transactions! Ok thanks for informing me that you memorized the transaction I put in the Memorized Transaction list you piece of poo poo, I had no idea. Finally, they will "expire" your old version to force you to upgrade to the latest version or make you pay a ridiculous fee for software you already paid for. If you do upgrade, boy you're a fool. Version 8 wiped out all of my invoice/letter templates without any rhyme or reason, it just decided that was a neat thing to do. The UI changed significantly and they decided that the middle of tax season was the best time to roll out version 8 for some reason. Its kind of like Nero. Nero used to be my little cd burning go to application. It was small, fast and did what I wanted to without hassle. Nowadays Nero has become an 800MB software version of purgatory that bloats up your system and generally fucks you in the rear end at every opportunity. tl;dr - gently caress Quickbooks, any money I saved by doing things myself has eroded over the years as its become more bloated. I just hired a CA's office to do my poo poo because I'm tired of the software along with the massively increased licensing fees year to year.
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The Gunslinger posted:Nero Good lord, Nero. I remember it being decent a few years back, though I never installed it personally, but my dad recently installed a trial version and the thing's footprint is massive. There's a Nero Backup Manager doing nothing in particular and eating up resources, a Nero Media Search device listed under My Computer...  I don't know why anyone would need a proprietary backup program integrated into their CD burning software, and god knows how they managed to make it a 500+ MB program.
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liquidXenon posted:Good lord, Nero. I remember it being decent a few years back, though I never installed it personally, but my dad recently installed a trial version and the thing's footprint is massive. There's a Nero Backup Manager doing nothing in particular and eating up resources, a Nero Media Search device listed under My Computer... They have had the courtesy as they add more and more stuff to note its the "Complete Edition" the "Full Edition", and other grandiose names. Luckily they all still seem to have a minimal install option, and I just use that.
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From a ticket in my queue (as escalated from our Helpdesk in India):code:
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amerrykan posted:From a ticket in my queue (as escalated from our Helpdesk in India): God Bless Outsourcing 
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madprocess posted:They have had the courtesy as they add more and more stuff to note its the "Complete Edition" the "Full Edition", and other grandiose names. Luckily they all still seem to have a minimal install option, and I just use that. I still use my Nero 5.5 that came with my DVD writer way back when, and it seems to do me fine. What is a good bit of CD burning software now that will be like Nero 5.5 but not really old? I had a look at Roxio at my dads and it seems worse than Nero some how.
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amerrykan posted:From a ticket in my queue (as escalated from our Helpdesk in India): 
flakeloaf fucked around with this message at May 27, 2008 around 21:15 |
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flakeloaf posted:I am about 95% sure this is a photoshop but I just don't know anymore
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Rock Tumbler posted:I am about 95% sure this is a photoshop but I just don't know anymore Google posted:No results found for "unable to get to it error" I suspect it is. I admit going to IE and seeing if I could make it happen though.
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The problem is obviously that they were looking on the inertnet rather than the internet. Nothing is active on that thing 
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Caged posted:The problem is obviously that they were looking on the inertnet rather than the internet. Nothing is active on that thing
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enjoyable human being GBS King posted:What is a good bit of CD burning software now that will be like Nero 5.5 but not really old? Though, I don't see the need to ever update, unless you need something that supports newer media like DL DVD or Blu-ray.
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ZeeBoi posted:I was relieved when I realised that holding down the power button on desktops and laptops will ultimately shut it down, not having to resort to pulling plugs or batteries out is nice. Related to this, my friend had a computer where there was no reset button, so every time it crashed (and this was around 2000, still the Windows 98 age) you needed to hold the power button to turn the computer off, then on again.
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John Dough posted:Related to this, my friend had a computer where there was no reset button, so every time it crashed (and this was around 2000, still the Windows 98 age) you needed to hold the power button to turn the computer off, then on again. Laptops are still like this. Crash? Hold the power button. Not work? Pull the power cord and then pull the battery. Would it have been that hard to put a Reset button on it? Same with computer cases. When I look at them, I always check for a Reset button. Some companies leave these out for some reason.
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John Dough posted:Related to this, my friend had a computer where there was no reset button, so every time it crashed (and this was around 2000, still the Windows 98 age) you needed to hold the power button to turn the computer off, then on again. I don't think I ever have used a reset button other than with small appliances with one of those hidden "time to find a needle" buttons.
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plastickiwi posted:Oh, and lovely WINDOWS PRINTING! I work for a company that develops software for very large organizations. When we roll out our software, and end-users switch over from paper or the previous software, we have three main technical measures for the success of the switch. Performance (acceptable response times), Interfaces (interaction with other systems in place), and Printing (whether or not documents print correctly to the correct printer). Printing is often the most troublesome of the three.
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enjoyable human being GBS King posted:What is a good bit of CD burning software now that will be like Nero 5.5 but not really old? Might consider tracking down a copy.
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For everyone hating the newer, bulkier versions of Nero, give Nero Micro a shot. They take out everything except Nero Burning Rom, Nero Express and the VideoCD / audio Plug-ins.
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Orange Juilius posted:For everyone hating the newer, bulkier versions of Nero, give Nero Micro a shot. They take out everything except Nero Burning Rom, Nero Express and the VideoCD / audio Plug-ins. Nero Micro is fantastic.
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Xenomorph posted:Same with computer cases. When I look at them, I always check for a Reset button. Some companies leave these out for some reason. I hate the ones that they're putting on some cases nowadays where you need to get a paperclip to hit them. I just want a big shiny fuckoff button, is that so much to ask?
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I call the middle mouse button the "magical mystery button" when I'm using Opera because god only knows exactly what it's designed for. Sometimes it'll do what I want it to do, sometimes it'll send me off to some crazy random web site, sometimes it'll do something else.
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HPL posted:I call the middle mouse button the "magical mystery button" when I'm using Opera because god only knows exactly what it's designed for. Sometimes it'll do what I want it to do, sometimes it'll send me off to some crazy random web site, sometimes it'll do something else. Open links in background tab, not on links gives the scrolly thing. I've never noticed any diffrent behavior.
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DevastatorIIC posted:Open links in background tab, not on links gives the scrolly thing. I've never noticed any diffrent behavior. If you highlight text, it'll make it so that any time you middle click any blank space on a page, it'll open up some other link whether or not you copied the text. This would all be well and good except that it'll keep going to that link even if you un-highlight it which makes for an annoying time when you're trying to click on a link and just miss it, opening up the mystery window.
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HPL posted:If you highlight text, it'll make it so that any time you middle click any blank space on a page, it'll open up some other link whether or not you copied the text. This would all be well and good except that it'll keep going to that link even if you un-highlight it which makes for an annoying time when you're trying to click on a link and just miss it, opening up the mystery window. Um.... no? This has never happened to me and, as much as I can figure out from your description, it's not happening even when attempting to get it to happen. Have you ever confirmed this on any other copy of Opera? Because I've never even heard of this behavior. Did you change default middle click? Are you using something beside Windows?
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Casao posted:Did you change default middle click? Are you using something beside Windows? Haven't changed a thing, mouse-wise. And I'm using 9.5 beta on Ubuntu.
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HPL posted:Haven't changed a thing, mouse-wise. And I'm using 9.5 beta on Ubuntu. Do you have some kinda crazy middle click to copy/paste thing going on in Ubuntu? I know I've heard about that before. Honestly, Opera is a Windows app. They're putting work into the other versions but they're not as mature. Especially the linux version which is less than a quarter of the build number of the Windows app and has to deal with a much wider variety of settings and enviornments. I'm not sure how it works with the middle click to copy/paste thing but my guess is not well. If you report this to the Opera team on the beta forums, they're really good about helping you work around it and fixing it. Especially the platform teams - the mac team has setup a new blog just for mac and they're beginning to roll out mac fixes like crazy, I'm sure the linux team isn't far behind. One thing I recommend if you use Opera is to jump on the "weeklies". They're not longer on any kind of strict schedule but they add features in fairly often and it's usually very stable. The worst thing I've noticed about middle click is that occasionally it won't read on tabs to close them, but that could very easily be my mouse instead of Opera.
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Casao posted:Do you have some kinda crazy middle click to copy/paste thing going on in Ubuntu? I know I've heard about that before.
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