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Sock on a Fish posted:Every Office app loves to ask me if I'd like to save changes before closing when I haven't edited a single goddamn thing because it's a protected document and I haven't unlocked it. 
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| # ¿ Apr 28, 2008 19:04 |
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Green Puddin posted:I'm not exactly sure what focus stealing is, really... I don't know how the various Linux WMs handle it, but if an application wants your attention for something on Windows, it'll flash the taskbar entry. On OS X, the Dock icon will bounce. Then they'll wait for you to activate them. If it's a very rude application, it won't do that, it'll simply bring itself to the front of the screen without warning and take focus (i.e. your keystrokes will go to it). Imagine you're logging into a remote server and your IM program grabs focus without warning. Hey, you continued typing and messaged someone your credentials!
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| # ¿ Apr 28, 2008 21:19 |
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potato of destiny posted:Well, apparently the bug is in java 1.5.something, which we currently use in our environment (see this and this). We could upgrade to java 1.6, but of course we don't yet know how much of our poo poo that will break. You're saying iTunes exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability to install itself? What?
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2008 08:53 |
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I hate the fuckwit that decided that any particular Office application should be SDI, MDI, or any hybrid combination thereof seemingly by coin toss. Word? Two taskbar entries, two documents, two windows. Excel? gently caress no, and it confuses me every time. Eventually I'll remember MDI tiling exists, but a few minutes later I'll maximise one for a bigger view, switch to another application, then forget about it and start clicking taskbar entries again only to lose the other sheet from view. gently caress YOU.
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| # ¿ Jul 11, 2008 08:47 |
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:The only program that doesn't seem to like it is foobar. I guess it saves the settings and the database playlist to its own Program Files folder, becuase I have per-user settings turned off. So it needs write access every time it populates the database. I had it run in Administrator mode, but it meant clicking another "allow" before I could use it. What a surprise, something that's designed to enforce per-user separation becomes awkward when you deliberately force programs into working in places they shouldn't.
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| # ¿ Jul 23, 2008 19:21 |
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Car posted:You don't understand, it uses a lot of RAM. You want as much free RAM as possible on your computer at any given time. 2009 will be the year of hot swappable RAM in the desktop. Can't get much freer than sitting on the desk.
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| # ¿ Oct 20, 2008 20:18 |
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Sister Miyagi posted:If you let Windows manage it It's initially set to 1 * RAM (or 1.5 * RAM if you have < 1Gb) with a ceiling of 3 * RAM. Also, "dynamically" is misleading - adding additional extents to the page file is a cheap operation, and the file is only downsized by a reboot.
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| # ¿ Oct 22, 2008 16:55 |
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My boss wants to develop a website to handle online signup, billing and account management for a VoIP network. We have no in-house billing facilities, so that's going to take some time and testing. The network is third-party, so there's some careful integration there to be done too. Boss and client met up on the 18th of December. On the 19th, we closed for the holidays, starting back on the 2nd. On the 27th, I get an email telling me that the client is pushing for a live release by the 5th. Oh how I laughed. Then cried when I realised they were serious. (I don't know why this surprises me anymore.) Even today, I guess explaining that it's only been three working days since we started somehow still doesn't excuse our lack of progress. Goddamn I'm tired of this poo poo.
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| # ¿ Jan 5, 2009 23:39 |
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Legacy application support, for applications designed by utter retards. Today's WTF: A legacy ASP application wants to update a table on a remote MSSQL server. What? Haha, no. Too easy. You see, MSSQL might be remote, and then we'd have to set up a private VPN or something between the sites. How about we write our own custom httpd that blindly accepts raw SQL as a query string and pushes it to MSSQL as sa. Security? Well, they'd have to know the server name and to type in /sql/incupd.asp? as the path, and the httpd shits itself and overflows random data into the statement if the query string is > 2048 characters, will that do? 
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| # ¿ Apr 30, 2009 15:58 |
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HatfulOfHollow posted:I currently have about a dozen scripts making sure that mission-critical systems are doing what they're supposed to be doing. The life of a CJ* is filled with headaches. We recently hired a guy to help with a current project that's supposed to finish in a month or so. I have permission to repurpose him exclusively to re-design and re-implement all the hacked up poo poo that sustains several old-yet-critical systems. I am so excited it is unbelievable.
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| # ¿ Jan 7, 2010 00:19 |
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For us, someone wrote a little daemon that resides on the local web server and checks for files placed in a directory that's mapped to user desktops. When it finds something, it moves it into a new directory named with a UUID, checks the file attributes to see who placed it there, looks them up in AD, and emails them an externally visible link like http://office.company.com/files/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000/cat_pictures.pptx. It also deletes files a week old, and the web server logs any hits, so you can call up an intranet page and see who's downloaded the files you put up. The automatic email seems to be the key; once you can convince people that "sending files = drag into a mapped drive", then they seem happy just to hit the Forward button 5 seconds later.
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| # ¿ Feb 11, 2010 16:01 |
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BlazingSun posted:There is a guy who works here who is a complete gently caress. He is the "Data Management Analyst." Who knows what the gently caress he does but it doesn't require him to be a pussy about his loving keyboard. On top of being stuck in traffic this morning for two loving hours--to go a mere 8 miles--I look at my blackberry to see this email from him: You have a career in IT, and got that upset over a polite email from a guy trying to stave off his RSI?  buy him a $40 keyboard and gel rest already.
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| # ¿ Mar 23, 2010 15:13 |
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Erwin posted:Why can OS X never, EVER stop a removable drive? The disk is always currently in use, and I've never seen the safely remove hardware thing work. (This is of course hyperbole and I've seen it work, but it's rare). "iTunes is currently using this disk" oh, fair enough. Quit iTunes. "Mail, Webkit and TweetDeck are currently using this disk" wait, what? why? "Other unknown applications are currently using this disk" *pulls USB cable out*
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| # ¿ May 25, 2010 14:52 |
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I just overheard a conversation that included "and you've told those new people to start on Monday?" (I think even though it's only mid-week, we all know what's not happening as someone magically expected on Monday!)
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| # ¿ Jun 9, 2010 17:06 |
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Lum posted:What is worse is that the new technology does nothing to safeguard against any higher level transaction fraud (for example as the PIN is stored on the card, and the card will cough up it's details without needing the PIN, it is a piece of piss to clone your card and submit transactions that appear to have come with a valid PIN and good luck proving you didn't disclose your PIN when a single boolean value in a database says you did. There was a great paper out of Cambridge a couple of months ago; with what they described as "undergrad level electronics", you could modify the card to trick it into thinking a signature-based transaction was taking place, whilst convincing it to simultaneously send a "PIN Accepted" message to the terminal. So assuming you could hide a wire going up your sleeve and a laptop in your bag, you could just walk up and hit 0000. I think it was possible that the bank could notice over time, but that relied on the terminal sending them certain bits of data, and in practice, very few did.
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| # ¿ Jul 5, 2010 21:25 |
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AskYourself posted:Are you implying that the PIN is written on the magnetic band of the card ? Or that you could start some kind of buffer overflow on the terminal by having specific data on the card ? This is the paper I was thinking of: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/...-pin-is-broken/ The flaw is that when you put a card into a terminal, a negotiation takes place about how the cardholder should be authenticated: using a PIN, using a signature or not at all. This particular subprotocol is not authenticated, so you can trick the card into thinking it’s doing a chip-and-signature transaction while the terminal thinks it’s chip-and-PIN. The upshot is that you can buy stuff using a stolen card and a PIN of 0000 (or anything you want). We did so, on camera, using various journalists’ cards. The transactions went through fine and the receipts say “Verified by PIN”. It’s no surprise to us or bankers that this attack works offline (when the merchant cannot contact the bank) — in fact Steven blogged about it here last August. But the real shocker is that it works online too: even when the bank authorisation system has all the transaction data sent back to it for verification. The reason why it works can be quite subtle and convoluted: bank authorisation systems are complex beasts, including cryptographic checks, account checks, database checks, and interfaces with fraud detection systems which might apply a points-scoring system to the output of all the above. In theory all the data you need to spot the wedge attack will be present, but in practice? And most of all, how can you spot it if you’re not even looking? The banks didn’t even realise they needed to check.
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| # ¿ Jul 6, 2010 00:33 |
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Opening Outlook to see things like this: (I have a week's holiday booked.) quote:From: Coworker I seriously dread to think what will happen if I'm told to add them to the Domain Admins group.
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I'm in a consultant's office, and he's given me a bunch of paperwork to sign. Paperwork that will lead to me being anaesthetised and cut with shiny blades, so we are having a Serious Conversation. I ask a couple of questions, and he asks what I do for a living. "Oh, uh, just desk based stuff. IT." "Huh, maybe you can help. See, I just bought this new laptop and it won't connect to my wireless network at home--"
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| # ¿ Aug 24, 2010 10:45 |
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Vacation status: day one, 13:30. Missed calls from boss: two. I'm not even taking my phone with me, so I expect to see that missed call counter in triple digits when I get back.
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| # ¿ Sep 8, 2010 12:31 |
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One of our sales girls is going crazy at the moment, because she's got three reasonable sized deals that aren't going to be closed any time soon and she's not going to hit her targets because of it. Guess you shouldn't have promised immediate delivery with third-party integration and features that we don't have, a week before the already busy development team leaves for a two week overseas trip then. 
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| # ¿ Oct 13, 2010 12:11 |
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Sweevo posted:My school was still using 186-based not-quite-PC-compatibles (these) until 1995. All those memories I'd so successfully repressed... 
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| # ¿ Dec 6, 2010 13:28 |
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brc64 posted:At least, I'm assuming it's the same self checkout kiosk that I see EVERYWHERE. Whoever invented those things must have made a fortune on them by now. NCR Fastlane? Absolutely. I've never seen a different model checkout machine anywhere else in the UK. Personally it's the machine that annoys me more than the people using it. I can never figure out if it tares the scales when you start a checkout. It seems like it's supposed to, but I usually bring my own bags and it inevitably goes horribly wrong three items in. "Unexpected item in bagging area." "Item removed from bagging area." "Unexpected item in bagging area." "Item removed from bagging area." gently caress you I always seem to catch them as Windows has randomly decided to do some paging or something too. Scan item. Beep. Nothing on the display. Wait. Wait. Wait. Still nothing. Scan item again. Two items appear on the display. "Item removed from bagging area." 
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2010 19:42 |
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I paste an image into the middle of a lengthy Word document, and it flickers and vanishes. I find it lodged at the bottom of the last page. Hey Microsoft, I remember having this problem at secondary school. Using Word 6.0. You know, the one that was released eighteen sodding years ago. I open a CSV file in Excel, and it decides to display half my number columns in scientific notation. Is it such a non-standard case to open a table containing 12 digit numeric customer IDs? In what way is this helpful to 90% of the population? Select column. Change type to Number. Decrease by two decimal points. Repeat ten times a loving day. Want to display two spreadsheets on two separate monitors? Hope you remembered to Win+R > excel as a separate process, because I'm gonna keep this multiple taskbar icon SDI bullshit going all day long buddy! I can't believe I'm nearly apoplectic over a spreadsheet program. How can the tiniest, silliest things become so frustrating.
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| # ¿ Jan 6, 2011 12:13 |
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Lum posted:Spring cleaning the tracks? The trains derail anyway because the weather in the previous three seasons prevented the maintenance teams getting out? Or they fired half the teams to save costs, either way.
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2011 17:06 |
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"Hey, if I dump all this poo poo on you and tell you it's urgent, but not to lose any progress on that other critical deadline, that's cool, right?" "This critical deadline being the one the other director casually mentioned along with the phrase 'job security' recently? The one that's understaffed and underfunded as it is?" "It's really important though." You know what? I'm fed up of this poo poo. I think today's most important task actually involves my C.V. instead.
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2011 11:35 |
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Lum posted:The home counties are worst for that, pulling stunts like putting the "bend ahead" sign on roads where the bend is clearly visible rather than just reserving it for use where the bend is sharper or somehow deceptive. I always found the difference in the actual meaning of road signs in Wales (specifically on the way to Aberystwyth) vs England was amazing. One of those long three white chevron bend signs against the side of the road? (I forget the term.) Yeah, whatever, I might slow down 5 MPH or something, how bad can it HOLY gently caress A CLIFF WE'RE GOING TO DIE Edit: this guy  The number of chevrons are supposed to indicate the severity of the corner, but in half the country even the most pathetic turn will have all three. Sharrow fucked around with this message at Jan 20, 2011 around 14:52 |
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Expecting self-sacrifice under the name of "Team Loyalty" is something that pisses me off daily. Why sure, I'll "volunteer" my own personal MacBook Pro to be left around as a demo machine at a trade fair instead of the ugly company laptops. Wait, why am I laughing? Are you even aware of the words coming out of your loving mouthahahahahahahaha
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Hey kids. You want some drama!? So stuff happened today, and I'm still not quite sure I've processed it all yet. Our company is run by two 50% share directors, and they fell out. Big time. D1 has never really liked one of the staff members, but this has suddenly escalated exponentially to what is basically open bullying, and no one can figure out why. D2 was sticking up for her as she does good work, his arguments are retarded, and if she was fired right now there's a court claim just begging to be won. Yesterday I overheard an argument. D1 was being pretty nasty to this employee, and she finally bit back. He stormed off, she tried to apologize a few minutes later. Today D1 openly announces "it's me or her". D2 is scheduled to visit some VCs next week for late stage negotiations for some serious funding, and all of a sudden this dude can't keep his poo poo together. Of course, there's a snag. D1 and I are responsible for running a product that currently brings in 90% of the revenue. So if he can't be talked down from this ultimatum, I'm torn between sticking with the guy that's loving insane but keeps my rent paid with the legacy products, or putting my lot in with the reasonable second director who's working on a new product that seems to make everyone cream themselves when they read about it, but doesn't yet make any money. If he leaves and D2 has to buy him out, D1 still has the personal connections to pull all the clients away anyway. I've tried to stay out of it so far, but tomorrow is pay day and if there's any sign of fuckery going down, then I hope they realise they're loving with the single most important employee on the payroll. (Ego aside, keeping that 90% revenue product going is entirely my responsibility and I hold all the keys.) Oh, the joys of smaller companies. Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day!  (I have a second round interview for a potentially amazing job next week and I'll loving sign right there and then if they make me an offer.)
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| # ¿ Feb 11, 2011 00:31 |
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rscott posted:You forgot the most important thing: Also 'quirks'. Like "this is our overloaded SBS box, stop the Exchange service or you're gonna get bored waiting 15 minutes for it to reboot every time" or "loving christ remember to log on to the cluster manager node and stop the database REMOTELY FROM THAT SERVER, NOT THIS ONE or you're going to become reeeeeal familiar with BackupExec!" Even just informing someone that they should tread with real loving caution because that's 12 years old and no one really understands it anymore might stop someone blindly charging in one day and wrecking it.
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| # ¿ Mar 1, 2011 16:32 |
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The Reaganomicon posted:I stepped away from my computer for a second, and a fellow coworker sent the goatse to our boss. Ahahaha that's amazing. At a previous job we were real strict about workstation locking, even so much that it was unofficially encouraged anyone finding an unlocked station would hit Win+R 'resign'. resign.vbs looked up your boss in AD and forwarded them and the company directors a template resignation letter. 
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| # ¿ Mar 25, 2011 22:06 |
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I got an email yesterday whilst enjoying a beer in HKIA waiting for my connecting flight, scheduling me for an URGENT!!!! conference call. Not withstanding the fact that had I not connected to the free WiFi I wouldn't even been have aware of this call in the first place, I laughed when I realised I'd still be mid-flight when this call was due to take place. Landed, left my phone in airplane mode, went home to bed. 
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| # ¿ Apr 8, 2011 15:18 |
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Last day at work. Kinda eerie after three years. So far I've been offered a decent pay rise, a grand in cash, and a blank email headed "oh god please tell us what will make you stay". We've not been able to hire a suitable replacement yet either, which is a little surprising, so I suspect I may be invited for some evening/weekend consultancy in the near future. Feelin' pretty good right now. Pub at 2pm, I reckon.
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| # ¿ Apr 15, 2011 09:20 |
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Today I discovered that my brand new Core i5 laptop at work actually has 8Gb of RAM installed. Shame IT re-imaged it to run Windows XP. 
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| # ¿ Apr 22, 2011 00:15 |
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The Reaganomicon posted:When the permanent hearing loss sets in. Seriously.
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CrazyDutchie posted:
Conversely, I have a brand new Dell laptop with 8Gb of RAM, yet the standard image is still 32-bit XP!
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| # ¿ Jul 20, 2011 23:18 |
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