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Crowley posted:I must be remembering wrong then. We use new computers where I work. Must suck not having a degauss button!
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# ? Apr 15, 2012 00:13 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 16:11 |
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Coffee Quack posted:Must suck not having a degauss button! I do miss a good degauss.
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# ? Apr 15, 2012 00:27 |
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I almost had a heart attack the first time I pressed the degauss button. After that it was a ton of fun to do it to friends' machines, and watch them nearly have coronaries too.
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# ? Apr 15, 2012 08:19 |
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A friend and I discovered the hard (and fun) way what a car subwoofer with a huge magnet in it can do to a CRT monitor. Coincidentally, that's when I learned what degaussing could actually do, and probably the only time I've ever needed.
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# ? Apr 15, 2012 08:30 |
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As for Zen error messages, apparently this is from Lightwave (yes, newtek)
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# ? Apr 15, 2012 19:37 |
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darnzen posted:My favorite is the PHP white screen. No error, just... silence. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
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# ? Apr 16, 2012 00:46 |
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pixaal posted:Because what if you don't want to use a keyboard.
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# ? Apr 16, 2012 15:44 |
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evil_bunnY posted:Also because PS/2 isn't hot-plug, buddy. we covered that
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# ? Apr 16, 2012 16:36 |
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DeFacto Hotplug Ports (all of them until a controller fries)
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# ? Apr 16, 2012 23:01 |
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b0lt posted:Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
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# ? Apr 16, 2012 23:18 |
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Coffee Quack posted:DeFacto Hotplug Ports
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# ? Apr 17, 2012 02:03 |
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Inspector_71 posted:I do miss a good degauss. I got a week of detention for getting everyone in my compsci class to degauss their monitors simultaneously
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# ? Apr 17, 2012 15:23 |
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Auto-renumbering BASIC lines by a huge step factor on a BBC Acorn netted the concise error of: Silly
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# ? Apr 18, 2012 16:30 |
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rscott posted:I got a week of detention for getting everyone in my compsci class to degauss their monitors simultaneously I don't get it; why would that be a problem?
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# ? Apr 18, 2012 18:20 |
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Because it would blow the breaker in the room.
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# ? Apr 18, 2012 18:25 |
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Who the gently caress thought this would be an acceptable limitation in modern software (yes yes I know Excel is a bunch of hacks around a COM object) Of course, the only reason I ran into this is because of this other dumb (but slightly less dumb to be fair) limitation: When trying to sort data in a table with some merged cells:
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# ? May 22, 2012 03:02 |
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~Coxy posted:Who the gently caress thought this would be an acceptable limitation in modern software (yes yes I know Excel is a bunch of hacks around a COM object) I never quite understood this either and it seems I spend a lot of time working around poo poo JUST like this.
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# ? May 22, 2012 03:19 |
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gently caress Excel for making me dick around to open two windows side-by-side
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# ? May 22, 2012 03:36 |
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Caged posted:gently caress Excel for making me dick around to open two windows side-by-side I still cant do this reliably and then I'm always afraid I'm not going to save the correct thing as I forget which "stack" of docs are associated with each exe. Save or close, gently caress me if I know!
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# ? May 22, 2012 03:38 |
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Caged posted:gently caress Excel for making me dick around to open two windows side-by-side I have four monitors Excel, don't be a bitch.
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# ? May 22, 2012 04:27 |
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Well, you can middle-click on Win7 taskbar buttons to open a new instance of the software, I just learned that last week mucking about with XML files for SIP phones. Works with Excel just fine. Also, the cleaning lady got a little too vigorous with the vacuum and knocked a coworker's machine around a bit: Ahh, yes, the old Becuming Windogs dialog... Oddhair fucked around with this message at 15:40 on May 22, 2012 |
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Oddhair posted:Well, you can middle-click on Win7 taskbar buttons to open a new instance of the software, I just learned that last week mucking about with XML files for SIP phones. Works with Excel just fine. This, of course needs to be followed up with ye olde classic
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# ? May 22, 2012 21:23 |
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Devenv.png - have to make sure our dialogs fit into 320x240! No you can't see the full name of the project, no you can't increase the width of the dialog or the combo box, you have to add it and see which one it ended up being. Why? Because gently caress you, that's why. edit: you can actually make the dialog wider. You just have to close the combo box first for some reason.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 03:33 |
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That's pretty drat lazy; since you can set the combobox size you can also set the size to automatically fit the longest name. Using a combobox for something that is that long is pretty stupid though, no way to sort projects, and don't make too many projects or you're scrolling for a long time. A list dialog on the left that can be sorted with the project properties on the right make more sense, they would gently caress that up too since they would just use the default settings and not give a poo poo what it looks like.
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# ? Jun 18, 2012 03:59 |
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Lum posted:This, of course needs to be followed up with ye olde classic These are hilarious but how does this even happen? Assuming it isn't a joke or something, it's not just a simple letter transposition.
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# ? Jun 23, 2012 20:41 |
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Waffnuffly posted:These are hilarious but how does this even happen? Assuming it isn't a joke or something, it's not just a simple letter transposition. "Windogs," for example, comes from the fact that an ASCII "w" is 01110111 and "g" is 01100111 - only a single-bit difference. "Wandows" is the same - "i" is 01101001 and "a" is 01100001.
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# ? Jun 23, 2012 21:07 |
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Ah, gotcha. Interesting. That's actually kinda cool in a way, though obviously not what you want to happen.
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# ? Jun 23, 2012 21:29 |
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Sonic Dude posted:Bad RAM usually. If there's a wiring problem or some stuck bits, then the wrong character can appear. I always knew it was bad RAM, but never knew the ins and outs of it. That was a cool post, thanks
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# ? Jun 25, 2012 11:27 |
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Very helpful message indeed.
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# ? Aug 20, 2012 18:56 |
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This just made me go.... .....whoa.
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# ? Aug 20, 2012 23:42 |
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I posted this one a long time ago on The Daily WTF. For the blind among us, here's the first sentence. "Your internal battery has been keep long time no learning."
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# ? Aug 21, 2012 01:16 |
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Caged posted:gently caress Excel for making me dick around to open two windows side-by-side would you believe that I think Office 2012 fixes this problem
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# ? Aug 21, 2012 02:26 |
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"Changing elements in the cut can delete children." Before you say 'well maybe it means something else idiomatically,' one of the comments on facebook for this image was (in German of course) "At least it's child-friendly..."
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# ? Aug 21, 2012 05:41 |
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:
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# ? Aug 21, 2012 06:51 |
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You think they would have some native speakers make sure it sounds okay, you could probably get that done free posting on an internet forum. I almost think its backwards to hire a native speaker from the source language like many places do. You end up with poo poo like this. Sure you might not get some figure of speech, but for the love of god why would you use one in an error message? As someone that programs as a hobby I get what a child means, but I'm not sure people using CAD are required to. Even if most would, its not apparent or needed to actually understand how to use the product, so it's going to get lost on the self taught people.
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# ? Aug 21, 2012 07:02 |
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pixaal posted:I almost think its backwards to hire a native speaker from the source language like many places do. It pretty much is, if I recall correctly. Ideal professional translation involves hiring a native speaker of the target language who is also fluent in the work's original language.
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# ? Aug 21, 2012 07:29 |
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Factory Factory posted:It pretty much is, if I recall correctly. Ideal professional translation involves hiring a native speaker of the target language who is also fluent in the work's original language. Other way around, my roomate majored in Japanese to translate anime then realized he couldn't do that because they wanted native Japanese to translate to English. He switched to programmer rather then pick up a few more languages and you know actually translate business deals, or international treaties or something. Waste of 3 years, but its his money not mine. I guess computers could be the other way around, and how you say, but some of the hosed up errors we are seeing? no way. Its hacks who claim they know what they are talking about and using google translate to do their job.
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# ? Aug 21, 2012 07:44 |
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Zilla32167 posted:Seems like a perfectly reasonable warning from a CAD. The humor is that in this case the word for "children" only means children in the young human sense, not in the "antecedents of an object" sense. It's one of those words that's multi-use in English but not in other languages.
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# ? Aug 21, 2012 17:06 |
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Nice use of a checkbox (and the corresponding extra code needed to validate, and to show another loving dialog) where a radio button would suffice.
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# ? Aug 30, 2012 02:08 |
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Oh, I've got one of these from an Epson printer long ago.
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