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screenshots in .doc, jokes in .doc, jokes in .pps, screenshots in .pps, 23meg camera JPEGs, ... I pretty much hate everything the non-internet-savvy crowd emails.
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| # ¿ Apr 25, 2008 18:30 |
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| # ¿ May 25, 2013 02:19 |
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Melonhead posted:It's a save dialog, not a file system navigation dialog. You shouldn't even be able to navigate the folder hierarchy. You should already know where you want the file and type the path in manually. I'm sick of all this bloat in dialogs. I'm sure users that can't even interpret menu levels will have no problem typing a full path, escaping special characters along the way. Really, it's a normal request. Some software installers do it too; they want you to pick the path to install to, but only list folders already existing when the dialog was opened.It doesn't allow you to create/rename a new folder from the same dialog, and more often than not the goddamn installer is fullscreen and steals focus constantly. Simply allowing you to rightclick -> "New folder" is considered bloat now? I guess I should've just hit "Quick install", what a stupid request. Edit: Now i'm not even sure if you're fakeposting or not  .
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| # ¿ Apr 30, 2008 08:15 |
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IndustrialPope posted:One of my biggest annoyances of the last few months is a Dutch consumer organisation. It's not a useless organisation, but it does have a annoying tendency to be negative about EVERYTHING until a new version of the product gets released. Out of curiousity, which is this? As for the numlock issue, I really really hate this aspect of out of the box fedora 6 desktops. If you used gnome, the numlock light would be on but numlock itself wouldn't be. So you had to hit numlock three times to turn it back on.
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| # ¿ May 7, 2008 10:29 |
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CMS systems that hide all 'real' output - I'm looking at you, "CMS made simple". Troubleshooting these things is a pain in the goddamn rear end. MySQL/PHP error? Let's just show a blank page with no source, not log anything and ignore error_reporting and debugging settings! This is amplified by the fact that 95% of people that use CMS systems have zero or near-zero coding knowledge, so anything beyond "it works" is like magic to them and obviously the hoster's fault, nor should you expect someone who works on their site daily for years to know the basic layout, eg. "Where's your config.php/configuration file?" - "On the website". Fishstick fucked around with this message at May 8, 2008 around 09:11 |
| # ¿ May 8, 2008 09:08 |
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Gleng posted:Slashdot used to be really good (199*), but it seems to have turned into a tinfoil-hat-wearing nutjob site. It's sort of like the technical equivallent of the Daily Mail. I get all my tech news from here and OSNews now. It's been a while, but if windows scheduler is anything like cron/at, it may require the full path to perl and other apps/files you specify in your script. eg code:code:
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| # ¿ May 8, 2008 14:03 |
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dorkanoid posted:Even better is when software tries to be smart when it doesn't have an exact match: The language bar in Windows server/XP pisses me the gently caress off. I work with dutch and belgian customers/servers. One uses Qwerty, the other uses Azerty by default. You can see where this is headed. Log in via RDP, it's already a mystery whether you're in qwerty or azerty. Once you're actually in Explorer, it tends to change too, but the absolute best feature of the language bar is how it appears to be completely application/window-specific. Azerty in CMD, alt-tab to notepad and hay, you're back in qwerty! My personal favourite is still this one keyboard mapping I get when I RDP from my linux machine to a windows machine. I don't know what mapping it is, only that "m" and "M" are two different keys, and there appears to be no @. And since I'm connecting from linux, for some reason copy/paste across RDP doesn't work anymore. 
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| # ¿ May 13, 2008 08:47 |
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Dyscrasia posted:The start menu search was the 'killer feature' for Vista for me. I would rather just type serv or event to access services or the event viewer. Its just quicker that way. 
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| # ¿ May 13, 2008 14:02 |
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c0burn posted:I remember seeing a Vista theme that was just the original theme minus the teal border. The classic display options don't affect the skinned windows. This is why the classic Win 2000/NT theme is still the best.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2008 08:29 |
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Sweevo posted:You think that's bad? I've known people to use Powerpoint as a word processor because they can't be bothered to learn Word. My father writes all his correspondence in Excel because he can't deal with the indentation in Word and "it's easier to add numbers and margins this way".
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| # ¿ May 14, 2008 11:00 |
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Erwin posted:People who use the classic Windows theme in Vista don't piss me off, but they perplex me to no end. I can't believe the amount of screenshots I see around here with the classic theme. I mean, in XP it might be excusable because of the hideous green start button (the hideous blue color is not a valid argument because there was that silver color scheme) but Aero doesn't look that bad, at least in comparison to a visual style designed in 1995. An os doesn't need to be fancy, it needs to be functional and get out of the way of what I'm trying to do. Half-transparant gel-buttons the size of my thumb don't do this. Even on my linux desktop I've got something very similar to that theme going on, albeit with the joy of using 4 desktops. If there was a theme that had the simple, flat look of default NT4 with the crispness of Aero then we'd be in business.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2008 12:06 |
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rotor posted:A: Top posting On forums, sure. In email I would have to agree it makes more sense to top-post, IF you're replying to an entire email at once and not paragraphs at a time.
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| # ¿ May 15, 2008 08:04 |
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-> A new ticket has arrived!quote:From: stupidbroad73@hotmail.com Customer then gets annoyed that he gets multiple replies with different answers - most of them the PC version of "who the gently caress are you?" - and so does reply-all to complain. You can see where this is headed. I don't know why this enrages me so but it does.
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| # ¿ May 19, 2008 13:36 |
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When you no longer use an email adress because your company hasn't existed since 2004, please don't put an autoresponder on it. Especially one that also replies to spam and NDR's with faked FROM:s. Especially one that also replies to majordomo-owner adresses. This is what will happen: quote:May 20 12:03:44 003 sm-acceptingconnections[8393]: m4KA3hgk008393: discarded quote:$ grep -c custserv@askbali.com /var/log/maillog* Fishstick fucked around with this message at May 20, 2008 around 10:19 |
| # ¿ May 20, 2008 10:14 |
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revmoo posted:Yeah I'm not going to all that trouble to diagnose an otherwise perfectly working laptop. Just because FF likes to crash doesn't mean I have faulty hardware or bad drivers. Even though those are probably the two most common causes of crashes. I once had a machine that ran perfectly. Except, everything you downloaded or tried to install from CD would error out or be corrupt. Existing apps worked fine, though. Turned out to be 1 bad stick of ram.
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| # ¿ May 22, 2008 12:18 |
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Midelne posted:Someone just forwarded me a whole mess o' non-delivery reports with the note that their email doesn't work and they need it "for urgent". The round dozen of them look like this with minor variations on the placement of the apostrophe:
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| # ¿ May 22, 2008 18:27 |
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Antigen v2.0 posted:The single thing I hate most is when people who know little to nothing about a topic argue with you about it instead of just admitting that they don't know. I'm pretty drat good with computers but I will readily admit when I don't know something, yet I encounter people who don't know poo poo that claim to know things that they obviously don't, that is something I really can't deal with.  EMAIL IS BOUNCING LIKE A BIG RUBBER BALL FULL OF BEES Okay, you can go to our blocked page and see that the cause for the block is [non-rfc mailserver shoving data down without waiting for a banner AND being hosted on a dynamic IP range]. You should really fix it, there's links and guides on that page as well. It's on your end since you are blocking our mails. Fix it. We're blocking you because your mailserver shows all the signs of being a zombie PC, you're running [MTA] and there's a step by step guide on that page on how you fix it, because you'll get blocked on more servers. I don't care our customer needs to mail you, please fix it.This usually goes back and forth until either of us gets frustrated and either calls back later hoping to get another tech on the line (there isn't), or I cave and whitelist them. Z posted:I had a cell phone (T610) once that I couldn't check my email on because my username was user@domain, and whoever did the programming on the phone apparently assumed that email usernames only had letters and numbers in them, because there was no way to insert an @ symbol. The very large majority of forms that 'validate' email adresses don't accept characters like "+", when it's one of the easiest ways to track who's sending you what crap you didn't ask for. Fishstick fucked around with this message at May 22, 2008 around 23:04 |
| # ¿ May 22, 2008 22:58 |
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The Gunslinger posted:"IT WORKED FINE LAST WEEK!!!" This is my biggest pet peeve statement. Of course it worked fine before it broke! Just like your keys are in the last place you look.
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| # ¿ May 23, 2008 14:31 |
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such a nice boy posted:
It's not just "the bleeding edge" stuff thats a pain to install sometimes. If it's not listed in a repo (thank god for dag.wieers for redhat) you'll probably have to compile it from source, and that is when the poo poo starts happening. When configure && make && make install doesn't work, you usually end up in a giant excercise in frustration trying to track down exactly what the compiler wants from you, because all it's able to do is spit source back at you. You can then resort to googling the error messages until you track down a mailinglist that has the same issue and isn't marked as resolved by "read the manpage" or "update gcc". This bit someone posted in the "shooting yourself in the foot" thread explains the general "installing something outside the package manager" pretty well: quote:gun --target foot
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| # ¿ Jun 3, 2008 10:20 |
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This is the only acceptable use of a floppy.
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| # ¿ Jun 10, 2008 17:44 |
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my stepdads beer posted:The braindead coding of timg tags on these forums. There's nothing worse than when I'm happily reading something and suddenly the whole page jumps around because all of the image resizing happens right at the very end of a page load. It also fucks up the last read thing that's been put in. It'll take you to your post, but then the images start loading/resizing and the page jumps all over. Along the same lines, clicking on thumbnails for some images now opens 3 tabs. One with the thumbnail and then two with the full image?
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| # ¿ Jun 20, 2008 10:13 |
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Sniep posted:
At least it's passive red and not eyerape blue.
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| # ¿ Jun 23, 2008 23:03 |
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The only excuse for leds on motherboards is that gimmick Asus had a while ago with ultra bright white leds you could turn on to work inside your case.
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2008 09:43 |
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brc64 posted:Why would you be working inside your case with the power still on? Some of us like to live dangerously in whatever pathetic way possible.
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2008 14:57 |
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MrMoo posted:I don't know how common it is, but if you boot without PS/2 mouse & keyboard plugged in on some desktops they don't work when latter plugged in without rebooting. ERR: NO KEYBOARD FOUND, PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE Regardless, PS/2 isn't supposed to be hotswappable so a reboot is required.
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| # ¿ Jul 17, 2008 08:39 |
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c0burn posted:People using read/deletion confirmation on emails that really aren't that important. People using the !important flag on emails that really aren't that important. Ugh. Read confirmations are the first thing I turn off with any mailaccount I create in thunderbird. Especially on an IMAP mailbox. Move an email to a different folder? Dude gets sent a "deleted without reading" notification and calls me to yell at me.
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| # ¿ Jul 30, 2008 12:38 |
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Attached emails in thunderbird, as in, a complete message attached as an attachment to another mail. It seems impossible to recover the headers from them, even with ctrl+U and it makes it a goddamn pain to troubleshoot spam/blacklist issues. You open the original mail, and open the attachment, and you just get the original mail again!  .
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| # ¿ Aug 1, 2008 22:56 |
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Zorilla posted:Can't you just open the .eml file in a text editor and look at the header that way? I can and I do, but why is thunderbird being such a dick about attached .eml's? E: View headers only shows that of the email the .eml is attached to, same as ctrl+U (show source). Fishstick fucked around with this message at Aug 1, 2008 around 23:13 |
| # ¿ Aug 1, 2008 23:05 |
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Caged posted:We rearranged a bunch of file servers a couple of weeks ago, sent multiple emails out and even had nice instructions telling the more We are currently migrating all of our Ensim webhosting machines to E-synergy controlled HP machines in a much better environment. Clients and resellers get a mail explaining they can test their website in the new environment through a preview url and should check whether everything works fine, if not let us know. They receive this mail 3 weeks in advance, one week in advance, a day in advance, an hour before migration, and another mail after migration. At least half of them still open tickets along the lines of "Y SITE NO WORK???!! DID U BROEK IT AGAIN?".
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| # ¿ Aug 7, 2008 13:45 |
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members of staff how to disconnect and remap network drives. You still get people either a) angry that none of their drive mappings work any more and My Computer takes ages to appear, or b) opening tickets to get someone to reconnect the drive for them.
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Midelne posted:That's really not very HR-friendly for those of us who have to deal with touchy sexual harassment environments. Is "dongle" okay? I never get tired of that word. Dongle.
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| # ¿ Sep 2, 2008 18:26 |
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Smoke posted:Also, mails telling me "it doesn't work" without including the steps taken to where it doesn't work, or the messages given that it doesn't work. I actually got a mail about a wireless password I sent that said "It doesn't work, I entered it twice." I enjoy playing 20 Questions through tickets. REally. When I ask you "Do you get an error or are you unable to connect at all?" in frustration after 14 mails back and forth where you give me bullshit one-word answers, the correct answer is not "An error." .
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| # ¿ Sep 10, 2008 08:30 |
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Casao posted:I love ticketing systems, because they give me documented proof that the reason I'm not doing anything is that the requester forgot half of the information necessary for the ticket and hasn't responded to emails in a week. At least half the calls I get that start out with an indignant "I've been waiting for an answer for over a week!" turn out that they got a reply within the hour because their initial ticket was worthless and they never respond. Of course they never get these replies. Or the ticket ID.
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2008 12:18 |
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IndustrialPope posted:Norton did this once on my former neighbours computer, to them total internet security means "you are not allowed to go online or browse your local network". Well it works, doesn't it?
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| # ¿ Sep 24, 2008 10:02 |
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Crowley posted:Description: General rule of thumb is for every instance of "URGENT" and "!!", subtract priority by one. At least in end user support.
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2008 14:39 |
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!!URGENT!! Network is down. !!URGENT!! 
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Elected by Dogs posted:http://bestpractical.com/rt/ We use this. It's fast, does what it's supposed to do, and easy to customize.
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| # ¿ Dec 3, 2008 09:23 |
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KomradeVirtunov posted:My end user pain can be described with a simple phrase: Hotels whose guest internet blocks VPN. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslexplorer/
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| # ¿ Dec 3, 2008 11:24 |
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I hate. Hate. Hate. installers that aren't really installers, but just a 40kb executable that downloads the actual installer. Why do this? Just let me grab the drat installer itself already.
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2008 17:39 |
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Rock Tumbler posted:My Acer laptop has a Bluetooth hardware switch on the outside of the case, but no Bluetooth. My Acer laptop has a slot for a 3g card, and no wiring for it inside the actual slot!
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| # ¿ Jan 15, 2009 06:27 |
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I would do it through our domain, but I don't think you can enforce a Windows domain GPO on a Mac. My favourite unix prank is still putting an incremental sleep in someone's .bashrc . Every time they log in it takes previous sleepduration + 1 second more to get a shell. Months of fun.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2009 15:01 |
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potato of destiny posted:How much you wanna bet they had some kind of cumbersome "no updates ever unless they're approved by the red tape committee because we did an update to something 15 years ago and everything broke" policy? We sell Antivirus/antispam/firewall/web proxy appliances to small towns and city administrations and other civil services, as well as SMB's. I log into them remotely for support. At least half of them, the first thing they do is open up the firewall completely, rather than see what ports they require.
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2009 13:43 |
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| # ¿ May 25, 2013 02:19 |
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Zhentar posted:If only there were some secure alternative. Fixed the link for you.
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