Arduino Ethernet modules that don't speak IPv6. Who thought that was a good idea?
(Yes, I know the WizNet 5100 has been around for ages. It's still a bit stupid though.)
Arduino Ethernet modules that don't speak IPv6. Who thought that was a good idea?
(Yes, I know the WizNet 5100 has been around for ages. It's still a bit stupid though.)
Surely that's just a software issue as IP is not Ethernet it's L3 (media Independence being one of the points of IP). And yes I know some devices offload L3 processing into hardware for better performance but unless its an L3 switch that shouldn't be an issue.
Lovely boss sends an email saying boss3 has finally got a date of end of March for upgrade of our building's 10Mbit network to be upgraded (building of 50ish ppl, many of us working on stuff on servers elsecampus)...
Lovely boss sends an email saying boss3 has finally got a date of end of March for upgrade of our building's 10Mbit network to be upgraded (building of 50ish ppl, many of us working on stuff on servers elsecampus)...
Men in hi-vis sighted peering into a manhole at the end of your road a couple of hours ago. Anything's possible...
Microsoft
- Visual Studio 12*
Removal of the Deployment Wizard
Forcing the use of InstallShield.
InstallShield was crap 15 years ago. It's _still_ crap and the Limited Edition? Dear Christ! That's not limited that's crippled. Just get a _fucking_ grip you _stupid_ bastards and reinstate the DW.
And while we're about it. A _manual_ conversion from MVC2 to MVC3? How absolutely fucking brilliant!
*Which deserves a 10 page rant all of its very own if only because of the appallingly unusable "monochrome" skin.
May I suggest you investigate WiX? It's pretty feature rich - and once you get your head around its xml schema, it's not so bad to use either. Visual Studio template support too.Thanks for the thought. I suggested that we move to wix when I found out VS12 had been downgraded and was told that we'd be using InstallShield. It may be that wix doesn't play nicely with TFS automatic builds, but that's just a guess on my part.
May I suggest you investigate WiX? It's pretty feature rich - and once you get your head around its xml schema, it's not so bad to use either. Visual Studio template support too.Thanks for the thought. I suggested that we move to wix when I found out VS12 had been downgraded and was told that we'd be using InstallShield. It may be that wix doesn't play nicely with TFS automatic builds, but that's just a guess on my part.
So if my router was restarted and picked channel 15 or similar because it was nice and quiet up there - then as far as the laptop was concerned it didn't exist.
15 isn't legal in the UK IIRC.
13 is legal in the UK, but isn't in the US, which means routers tend not to default to it, thereby making it a good one to use. Except when buggy laptops (running UK versions of the drivers which claim to use Ch 13 just fine) decide to do that. We discovered this in a broadly similar way.
15 isn't legal in the UK IIRC.
13 is legal in the UK, but isn't in the US, which means routers tend not to default to it, thereby making it a good one to use. Except when buggy laptops (running UK versions of the drivers which claim to use Ch 13 just fine) decide to do that. We discovered this in a broadly similar way.
Now I'm home I checked and it would have been 13. So my rant is still valid?
Or you can pay $25 for Cloudmade which is cheaper than your time to rehash
Microsoft
- Visual Studio 12*
Removal of the Deployment Wizard
Forcing the use of InstallShield.
BT you gits. You raised my hopes by having the Infiniti checker say it would be available here by end of Feb and when I checked today it now simply says "not available in your area"
After an online chat with them it seems they now estimate it will be sometime next month but I wont hold my breath.
They can't even tell me. The exchange is accepting orders, cabinets elsewhere are tauntingly emblazoned with 'BT Infiniti here' but our cabinet isn't upgraded. They can't tell me why. It's all like super-mysterious. They. Just. Won't. Say.
They can't even tell me. The exchange is accepting orders, cabinets elsewhere are tauntingly emblazoned with 'BT Infiniti here' but our cabinet isn't upgraded. They can't tell me why. It's all like super-mysterious. They. Just. Won't. Say.
Check the planning part of your local council website. Most of the time it's because there's a dispute about where your new (bigger) cabinet is going to be placed.
Check out your county council plans for the BDUK rollout. My cabinet was left out of the BT commercial roll out (uneconomic) but has been included in Cheshire east BDUK project. In fact the empty cabinet has just been installed - due to go live "from summer on"
BT you gits. You raised my hopes by having the Infiniti checker say it would be available here by end of Feb and when I checked today it now simply says "not available in your area"
After an online chat with them it seems they now estimate it will be sometime next month but I wont hold my breath.
Better than miscellaneous bugs after a successful automerge.
Better than miscellaneous bugs after a successful automerge.
BT you gits. You raised my hopes by having the Infiniti checker say it would be available here by end of Feb and when I checked today it now simply says "not available in your area"
After an online chat with them it seems they now estimate it will be sometime next month but I wont hold my breath.
Damn you Microsoft.
Damn you Microsoft.
In their defence, XP is twelve years old now - how long did you expect them to support it for?
BT you gits. You raised my hopes by having the Infiniti checker say it would be available here by end of Feb and when I checked today it now simply says "not available in your area"
After an online chat with them it seems they now estimate it will be sometime next month but I wont hold my breath.
Availability checker now says end of March. We will see.
Damn you Microsoft. My home computer uses Windows XP in a months time there will be no more security updates and I will need to buy a more modern OS [Seven not eight].
What the frack have they done with Firefox? >:( Removed the add-on bar and Firefox button and pissed it up. >:( If I want Chrome I would use Chrome. ::-) Making it look like Chrome won't get back users who switched to Chrome. Arseholes. >:(Umm. I'm still sticking with v17 after your rant about v18 (or it may have been v19) last year. Security fixes? I don't need no steenkin' security fixes. :)
I'll roll back to an earlier version.
There is a new cafe nearby on a chilli farm. The staff are great, the food is ok, prices are reasonable and it is bike friendly, but they will insist on using digital pads for the ordering of tea, coffee and food and then again at check out. This slows the whole process down to a painfully slow level. Pen and paper and a few spikes would speed things up tremendously.
Lo, LEO is reborn. :)There is a new cafe nearby on a chilli farm. The staff are great, the food is ok, prices are reasonable and it is bike friendly, but they will insist on using digital pads for the ordering of tea, coffee and food and then again at check out. This slows the whole process down to a painfully slow level. Pen and paper and a few spikes would speed things up tremendously.
I first encountered that in some pub or other. I can see why it seems like a good idea (effectively moving the till to your table for ordering), but the implementation was similarly dubious. Too much menu-navigation to find related items, and the staff didn't seem to know their way around it. Weatherspoons seem to manage it with their tills, so there's no reason why it has to be slow.
I expect there are real advantages of an electronic system over paper and spikes when it comes to adding everything up at the end of the day, but the customer never sees that.
...a few spikes would speed things up tremendously.
Ah, Chris. It's as well you're a professional, isn't it.
What's missing from this? : sudo usermod -G somegroup, someothergroup, chris chris
Yes, that's right you missed out "sudoers" from the group list didn't you Chris, and we know what that means don't we Chris? Yes, that means you're removed from the group because you didn't include -a in the options. As yours is the only account in the sudoers group, and this server's root account is disabled, you're a bit f00ked now, aren't you Chris?
Fuckwit.
Recover Mode toooo the rescue!
Fedora, stop fucking around with network interface names.Serial cable connection onto router?
I have managed to lock myself out of my firewall due to this.
Logged on, found shorewall not running so started it.
Due to your messing around, changing eth0 to em1sp0, shorewall starts but blocks all interfaces other than eth0 and eth1...
Spot the problem...
Good idea MrC, shall look into it, but, right at this moment, I am 60 miles away from it..."Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
I HATE COMPUTERS
And Apple's stupid fucking piece of shit mailclient had better not still have that fucking bug where email just stops working and needs reconfigged from scratch cos Lightmail was a pain and I don't want to have to pay for something Apple should make work...
I don't mind paying for something that actually works, any suggestions?
Bloody Devolo dLan wifi. The plug works, I can get Internet via a wired connection, but nothing - Mac, PC, iPad, phone - will connect to the wifi. They can all see it, they all have the correct code, but nothing will bloody connect. Bum.
Bloody Devolo dLan wifi. The plug works, I can get Internet via a wired connection, but nothing - Mac, PC, iPad, phone - will connect to the wifi. They can all see it, they all have the correct code, but nothing will bloody connect. Bum.Have you got MAC access control set? (Configuration > WLAN Configuration > WLAN Filters). I've got 3 x Devolo dLAN 500 & it generally Just Works ™ unless someone turns off the wrong socket :facepalm:
Excel. Almost enough said.
How it can give a result of zero for =COUNTIF(S4:S155, S155) is beyond me. So far beyond me that after 15 minutes of trying I did Save As >Tab delimited, booted up RStudio and got done what I needed in about 15 seconds.
I will generate an R script that will package that analysis for next year.
And why does it copy to the laptop's SSD at around twice the speed anything will copy to or from the desktop's OCZ Revodrive PCI-E hybrid drive which claims a transfer speed twice that of the SATA SSD? In both cases they are reading to or from the same USB3 stick. that Revodrive is kack, its going in the bin. I'd ditch it now, but I've blown a lot of money on the laptop. Now, it did have a warranty, even though it was refurbished. Can I just send it back as failing to meet the specs? It seems to be acting like it doesn't have an SSD strapped to the back of the hard disk.
On the other hand...
Why the fuck is working with audio such a pain in Linux?
Fucking useless jack.
Sample.xml is not valid.
Element <Delivery> is not allowed under element <Report>.
Reason: The following elements are expected at this location (see below)
<Success>
<Delivery>
<Error>
Error location: Report / Delivery
XML Spy - Thank you for the really useless error message related to validating XML against a schema:Turns out to be a bug in the XML validator. Even though a default namespace is added to the root. it has to be explicitly put infront of the root tag. This is only an issue where a second schema is imported that uses a different target namespace.QuoteSample.xml is not valid.
Element <Delivery> is not allowed under element <Report>.
Reason: The following elements are expected at this location (see below)
<Success>
<Delivery>
<Error>
Error location: Report / Delivery
I have a suspicion this namespace related, but it would be nice if you told me!
Plastic tool-free push fittings on CPU coolers. Is it just me, or are these things shit - fiddly and prone to failing after three or four uses?
And whilst we're on the subject, how about one single package with all the drivers in? Saves instigating multiple small downloads and awaiting for available sockets before they can all begin.
And whilst we're on the subject, how about one single package with all the drivers in? Saves instigating multiple small downloads and awaiting for available sockets before they can all begin.
Yeahbut if Windows had it's way, you'd have to reboot for the updated mouse cursor position to take effect.
Look, you pissweasels, I don't want to know that a file was modified "last week". I want the date and time.Hie thee to the Command window (as administrator for preference).
That is all.
Dear "Partner" Organisation,
Now see here. I know XML can be both unwieldy and verbose, but when you want to send me (semi) structured data which contains both embedded crlf _and_ commas and for which I have to write _reliable_, _maintainable_ and _robust_ import code what, in the name of sweet wibbling baby jebus, makes you think that CSV is a good choice of export format?
All aboard for the day trip to the regex mines... which are neither reliable nor robust and are most especially _not_ maintainable.
Gits!
...and won't need maintaining, csv is not going to change any time soon.Unfortunately the CSV extract is generated mandraulically so is _very_ vulnerable to unannounced change.
...XML is good for structured data. But it can take up to 500ms to serialise/deserialise even a fairlyTime / performance is not a major constraint for this and it would be nice to have (the illusion of?) stability. At least with XML it would be very easy to pick up on changes in the supplied extract and reject files that don't conform to an expected schema.
small file.
....If your data is simply a table of values and you have a lot of data...Oh how I wish it were. As for volume; a few tens, v. low hundreds at the outside, of "rows". _If_ it were large and _if_ it were XML I'd go for a forward-only reader rather than try and deserialise the whole lot to a DOM.
Look, you pissweasels, I don't want to know that a file was modified "last week". I want the date and time.Hie thee to the Command window (as administrator for preference).
That is all.
C:> dir /TW <--- Last written
BD player claims to need an update, but every time it goes to install it claims there's no network available. Of course there's network available, that's how it worked out there was an update!
Now it won't allow cancel to skip past, or rather it does, but as soon as it connects to iplayer it goes back round the cycle. So basically it's now useless for any internet content.
PostgreSQL, Java and clever intermediate gubbins - time to talk to each other. I'm sure MySQL never gave me this hassle and without this level of mucking about in config files.
Not a rant, more a go figure and why?
Visit www.farcebook.com with chrome on android tablet, can't view flash movies. Change the www. to m.and it's playing happy, go figure.
So the laptop I bought my parents a year or so back is teetering on the edge of infinity popup oblivion. I just took control with Teamviewer. Oh my god, did they ever meet a piece of malware they didn't like? It's a foul menagerie of adware, spyware, and viruses. Is there a link they didn't click? Even Finestre, the demon of such things, would stand a ways back and poke the computer with a stick. They somehow managed to de-activate every security option I set up.
This is Finestre's revenge because I was too tight to buy them a Mac. It's going to be a long night. It might be easier to tell them to bin it and buy them an iPad. I'm going to make some popcorn.
So the laptop I bought my parents a year or so back is teetering on the edge of infinity popup oblivion. I just took control with Teamviewer. Oh my god, did they ever meet a piece of malware they didn't like? It's a foul menagerie of adware, spyware, and viruses. Is there a link they didn't click? Even Finestre, the demon of such things, would stand a ways back and poke the computer with a stick. They somehow managed to de-activate every security option I set up.
This is Finestre's revenge because I was too tight to buy them a Mac. It's going to be a long night. It might be easier to tell them to bin it and buy them an iPad. I'm going to make some popcorn.
To help you though the night...
http://youtu.be/2Pn1YrBTbA8
Both
So the laptop I bought my parents a year or so back is teetering on the edge of infinity popup oblivion. I just took control with Teamviewer. Oh my god, did they ever meet a piece of malware they didn't like? It's a foul menagerie of adware, spyware, and viruses. Is there a link they didn't click? Even Finestre, the demon of such things, would stand a ways back and poke the computer with a stick. They somehow managed to de-activate every security option I set up.
This is Finestre's revenge because I was too tight to buy them a Mac. It's going to be a long night. It might be easier to tell them to bin it and buy them an iPad. I'm going to make some popcorn.
To help you though the night...
http://youtu.be/2Pn1YrBTbA8
Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
(seriously - that sounds like a candidate for a clean windows install)
EDIT: On reflection - perhaps even an Ubuntu installation. Would be more resistant to click happy 'rents
Album cocking artwork on iTunes is driving me stark staring mad >:(Truly a pain in the arse. Every other application can just find the artwork, it's right there with the songs, but iTunes has to be shown where it is. For every single album.
Album cocking artwork on iTunes is driving me stark staring mad >:(Truly a pain in the arse. Every other application can just find the artwork, it's right there with the songs, but iTunes has to be shown where it is. For every single album.
I did clear the browsing history because there's some things I don't want to know and I'm pretty sure there's only one place you can get that much malware delivered direct to your desktop. Sadly, I neglected to clear the bookmark bar on the basis he might have had something useful saved there. Now, I can't delete the cache in my head. Dad, really, at your age. Still, it was age-appropriate 'mature p0rn'.
It doesn't help that my parents don't speak computer, so lots of conversations like this
"There's something on the screen."
"What's a something?"
"Java something?"
"A dialogue box?"
"?"
"A square box. It should have some text about Java and some buttons."
"Yes, it says Java."
"But what does it say?"
"Something about Java and some numbers."
"Could you just read what it says to me?"
"I just clicked the OK button."
ArrrrrggggggghHHHHHHHHH. This after I'd specifically told them to stop clicking OK and Next on everything that pops up.
Windows 8.1. Oh dear.
I was expecting a bit of culture shock. I know it's going to be different from Windows 7. I expected that.
So, shiney new tablet running Windows 8.1.
First experience, setting up a user when you first turn the thing on. Nice screens guiding you through the process. You MUST create a microsoft account to create a new user. Grrr.
Put nice secure (PITA to type in) password onto account, as it's accessible online.
Wake machine up. Need to enter password. GRRRR! Everytime! WTSF!
Look online for way to turn off "Enter password on unlock" option. Can't find one. Only online solution that looks like it might work involves the command line (Come on MS, are you taking the piss now). I run the command, which shows a standard windows user management screen, which pops up a dialog box "This tool doesn't work in Windows 8.1, please use the user configuration screen in PC settings", which I looked at first and doesn't give anyway to turn off the requirement to enter a password on unlock.
Finally create another user account, and creating it this way allows me to do it without joining it to a MS online account, so I can unlock the thing without a password. Of course, most of the widgets on the "Start screen" require an MS account to work...
Still, a minor annoyance I think, just part of the setting up process and getting used to a whole new system.
Start using the thing. Nice screen. Install chrome on it, works well. Start typing something on a web site. On screen keyboard is shockingly bad. I'm so used to swype on Android, that a Keyboard so basic it doesn't even auto-capitilise the first letter of a new sentence seems so primitive. Absolutely no auto-correct at all.
See somewhere online that suggests Windows 8.1 does auto-suggest correct spelling. Can't find anywhere to change keyboard settings.
Manage to shutdown the thing by accident somehow, as a screen popped up saying "are you sure you want to shutdown? Swipe to continue". I swipe the opposite way to the way the arrow is pointing and the thing shuts down.
Start it up again and try and look for keyboard settings. Find the control panel (swipe in from the right hand side of the screen, of course!) but the only entries I can find are for the standard Windows keyboard controls (how long you press a key before it repeats) which requires a physical keyboard, or the accessability controls, which are nothing to do with the touch screen keyboard.
Try and look for anything, can't find it.
Very, very frustrating experience. Stuff isn't easy to find. Even googling and following screenshots often doesn't work, as stuff seems to move around and not be where it should be.
Having something so frustrating in such an easily lobable format is very dangerous.
I've used everything from Dos version 3 (different config.sys & autoexec.bat files for different programs to make the most of the available memory) through windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, 7. Linux versions from Slackware floppy sets, through redhat, debian, ubuntu, that one you compile from source that I can't remember the name of, many different versions. I found setting up a mixture of debian packages and compiled from source applications less frustrating than trying to use Windows 8.
The worst aspect would be finding that there are many 12 year olds, or maybe younger, who think Windows 8.1 is a doddle. Andforby whom it was probably designed.
Windows 8.1. Oh dear.
I was expecting a bit of culture shock. I know it's going to be different from Windows 7. I expected that.
So, shiney new tablet running Windows 8.1.
First experience, setting up a user when you first turn the thing on. Nice screens guiding you through the process. You MUST create a microsoft account to create a new user. Grrr.
Put nice secure (PITA to type in) password onto account, as it's accessible online.
Wake machine up. Need to enter password. GRRRR! Everytime! WTSF!
Look online for way to turn off "Enter password on unlock" option. Can't find one. Only online solution that looks like it might work involves the command line (Come on MS, are you taking the piss now). I run the command, which shows a standard windows user management screen, which pops up a dialog box "This tool doesn't work in Windows 8.1, please use the user configuration screen in PC settings", which I looked at first and doesn't give anyway to turn off the requirement to enter a password on unlock.
Finally create another user account, and creating it this way allows me to do it without joining it to a MS online account, so I can unlock the thing without a password. Of course, most of the widgets on the "Start screen" require an MS account to work...
Still, a minor annoyance I think, just part of the setting up process and getting used to a whole new system.
Start using the thing. Nice screen. Install chrome on it, works well. Start typing something on a web site. On screen keyboard is shockingly bad. I'm so used to swype on Android, that a Keyboard so basic it doesn't even auto-capitilise the first letter of a new sentence seems so primitive. Absolutely no auto-correct at all.
See somewhere online that suggests Windows 8.1 does auto-suggest correct spelling. Can't find anywhere to change keyboard settings.
Manage to shutdown the thing by accident somehow, as a screen popped up saying "are you sure you want to shutdown? Swipe to continue". I swipe the opposite way to the way the arrow is pointing and the thing shuts down.
Start it up again and try and look for keyboard settings. Find the control panel (swipe in from the right hand side of the screen, of course!) but the only entries I can find are for the standard Windows keyboard controls (how long you press a key before it repeats) which requires a physical keyboard, or the accessability controls, which are nothing to do with the touch screen keyboard.
Try and look for anything, can't find it.
Very, very frustrating experience. Stuff isn't easy to find. Even googling and following screenshots often doesn't work, as stuff seems to move around and not be where it should be.
Having something so frustrating in such an easily lobable format is very dangerous.
I've used everything from Dos version 3 (different config.sys & autoexec.bat files for different programs to make the most of the available memory) through windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, 7. Linux versions from Slackware floppy sets, through redhat, debian, ubuntu, that one you compile from source that I can't remember the name of, many different versions. I found setting up a mixture of debian packages and compiled from source applications less frustrating than trying to use Windows 8.
I've had laptops/netbooks do that before.
Turning them off, taking the batteries out for a good while and then reinserting the battery/re-attching the charger solved it. Worth a shot?
Do you NEED windows or OS X?
There are some nice Chromebooks about. And there's always Linux as an option.
So now I am left with a choice of buying a new laptop which is either Windows 8 ( which I hate with a passion) or going Apple and paying over the odds for a shiny that will need extra software to run my favourite programs Aaaarrrrggggghhhhhhh
Apple with Parallels for running the odd legacy app.
So now I am left with a choice of buying a new laptop which is either Windows 8 ( which I hate with a passion) or going Apple and paying over the odds for a shiny that will need extra software to run my favourite programs Aaaarrrrggggghhhhhhh
No, ypu can buy "professional" laptops (certainly from Dell) with Windows 7 Pro on them as standard, or with a "downgrade" licence from 8 to 7.
FWIW we use Dell at work - a large multinational - and have relatively few hardware problems. The E6440 i7 with SSD I have is fast and quiet.
So now I am left with a choice of buying a new laptop which is either Windows 8 ( which I hate with a passion) or going Apple and paying over the odds for a shiny that will need extra software to run my favourite programs Aaaarrrrggggghhhhhhh
No, ypu can buy "professional" laptops (certainly from Dell) with Windows 7 Pro on them as standard, or with a "downgrade" licence from 8 to 7.
FWIW we use Dell at work - a large multinational - and have relatively few hardware problems. The E6440 i7 with SSD I have is fast and quiet.
Nope, no chance I'll ever buy another Dell. If it wasn't for their fuckwit "you've got to use a genuine charger" thingy I wouldn't need a new laptop in the first place! . A google says this is a common occurrence.
Additional rant. Windows update for Win7. We don't use media centre, we have no intention of using, or any interest inusing it. So why the merry hell do the latest batch of updates 1) force an update of said media centre and 2) that update stops media centre from starting properly, which prevents the wireless connection from getting an internet connection(sounds implausible, but disabling the service fixes the issue!). Useless bunch of wankers.M$ have had some serious issues with patch quality over the last year to two years. I don't think there have been six months together over that period when they haven't had to pull a cripplingly bad patch for one or other or their OSs. You won't be surprised to hear that I wait at least a week (often longer) before applying patches after a Patch Tuesday; having kept a close eye on The Register in the interim in case there's a bad one in the batch.
Additional rant. Windows update for Win7. We don't use media centre, we have no intention of using, or any interest inusing it. So why the merry hell do the latest batch of updates 1) force an update of said media centre and 2) that update stops media centre from starting properly, which prevents the wireless connection from getting an internet connection(sounds implausible, but disabling the service fixes the issue!). Useless bunch of wankers.M$ have had some serious issues with patch quality over the last year to two years. I don't think there have been six months together over that period when they haven't had to pull a cripplingly bad patch for one or other or their OSs. You won't be surprised to hear that I wait at least a week (often longer) before applying patches after a Patch Tuesday; having kept a close eye on The Register in the interim in case there's a bad one in the batch.
And they've done it (yet) again. If you can be arsed; google KB 2918614. Does unhelpful and weird things to some Win7 and Win8 installations.Additional rant. Windows update for Win7. We don't use media centre, we have no intention of using, or any interest inusing it. So why the merry hell do the latest batch of updates 1) force an update of said media centre and 2) that update stops media centre from starting properly, which prevents the wireless connection from getting an internet connection(sounds implausible, but disabling the service fixes the issue!). Useless bunch of wankers.M$ have had some serious issues with patch quality over the last year to two years. I don't think there have been six months together over that period when they haven't had to pull a cripplingly bad patch for one or other or their OSs. You won't be surprised to hear that I wait at least a week (often longer) before applying patches after a Patch Tuesday; having kept a close eye on The Register in the interim in case there's a bad one in the batch.
Dear Mega-Global Fruit Corporation Of Cupertino, USAnia,
Please do not pollute my iTunes library with that sanctimonious twat Bonio without so much as a by your leave.
kthxbai
Disgruntled of E17
I had to boot up the XP box that was recently retired, only to find that the window of the reflashing software is now on a non-existent screen, and it doesn't respond to Alt-space etc. I then had to recommission the DVI card to give it a screen off to the right, just so I could drag it back to the main screen.
I have a ( probably un-necessary ) dislike of USB to serial adapters.
I much prefer a 'proper' COM port.
Ignore Hardware Serial Number Registry Editor Utility
This is a free utility that is used for editing the registry to ensure the serial number descriptor of each FTDI device is ignored during driver installation. This feature ensures any FTDI device connected to a USB port is given the same COM port number.
Still doesn't help with the auto-selection nonsense tho.
Not sure if that's app-specific behaviour, or if it's inherited from Windows itself.
You obviously need to know or it wouldn't tell you.
The Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia clearly think that testing upgrades is for Other People.
I can't remember if I've had a rant about this yet, if I have then I apologize - but I need a little ratette.
Why, just why is it that having replaced my router any yet in spite of the new one putting out the same network name and using the same password would some devices not connect to it?
Not quite so bizarre, just irritating, but why do drop-down boxes for date of birth always seem to go to 2014, even for products only available to over 16's?
Not quite so bizarre, just irritating, but why do drop-down boxes for date of birth always seem to go to 2014, even for products only available to over 16's?
Select * from date
I dunno, isn't at least one person is known to have lived to 120 ish? French woman? Sold paint to Van Gogh as youngster? Or is my aged memory conflating two people? Whatever. Given the increasing number of centenarians and those into living into a twelfth decade (I think Harry Patch was about 110 when he died) then 1901 probably isn't that daft as a lower limit.Not quite so bizarre, just irritating, but why do drop-down boxes for date of birth always seem to go to 2014, even for products only available to over 16's?
It's marginally more sensible than 1901 or whatever they bottom out at.
I dunno, isn't at least one person is known to have lived to 120 ish? French woman? Sold paint to Van Gogh as youngster? Or is my aged memory conflating two people? Whatever. Given the increasing number of centenarians and those into living into a twelfth decade (I think Harry Patch was about 110 when he died) then 1901 probably isn't that daft as a lower limit.Not quite so bizarre, just irritating, but why do drop-down boxes for date of birth always seem to go to 2014, even for products only available to over 16's?
It's marginally more sensible than 1901 or whatever they bottom out at.
But everyone knows that the universe was created on the 1st of January 1970. :)
What does the panel think of Chromebooks?
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Any fule kno it was the 31st of December 1840.But everyone knows that the universe was created on the 1st of January 1970. :)
ITYM the 17th of November 1858 :demon:
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Any fule kno it was the 31st of December 1840.But everyone knows that the universe was created on the 1st of January 1970. :)
ITYM the 17th of November 1858 :demon:
Fruitphone!!! What's the point of telling me that there is 3.67gb of "other" clogging up my phone if you're incapable of telling me what it is, why it's there or how I can get rid of it so I can use that space for something I actually want to use it for. :facepalm:
So the laptop I bought my parents a year or so back is teetering on the edge of infinity popup oblivion. I just took control with Teamviewer. Oh my god, did they ever meet a piece of malware they didn't like? It's a foul menagerie of adware, spyware, and viruses. Is there a link they didn't click? Even Finestre, the demon of such things, would stand a ways back and poke the computer with a stick. They somehow managed to de-activate every security option I set up.
This is Finestre revenge because I was too tight to buy them a Mac. It's going to be a long night. It might be easier to tell them to bin it and buy them an iPad. I'm going to make some popcorn.
Macs! Bah!
I am in a Mac-infested house ATM and for academic reasons needed to use Miss von Brandenburg's machine. I eventually had to use Google to find the "On" switch.
Also it has a single-button mouse :(
Not knowing much about the Windows world, is there a good anti-malware app for people with no internet sense at all?
Macs! Bah!
I am in a Mac-infested house ATM and for academic reasons needed to use Miss von Brandenburg's machine. I eventually had to use Google to find the "On" switch.
Also it has a single-button mouse :(
Cool, a Jurassic Mac. Did you travel back in time, or did the past catch up?
The time spent dispassionately viewing a spinny thing is somewhat wearing.
Hope IT replace the mac soon. Do you use macs in biosciences at your uni?Yes. Both Mac and PC are supported managed desktops.
Macs! Bah!
I am in a Mac-infested house ATM and for academic reasons needed to use Miss von Brandenburg's machine. I eventually had to use Google to find the "On" switch.
Also it has a single-button mouse :(
Cool, a Jurassic Mac. Did you travel back in time, or did the past catch up?
On other matters, last night's purge of malware from the familial computer took no fewer than four bloody hours. A browser took about a week to open because it was trying open six additional windows all helpfully offering updates to Java, Flash, etc. Every page was decorated with so many ads for vouchers and scams that it was pretty hard to see any content, every search was diverted somewhere strange that looked like Google, but every result link was scamtastic. I was, to be honest, impressed by the level of ingenuity. A steaming cauldron of self-referential malware. Have malware? Come on, collect the set.
Anyway, 564 items removed. The usual suspects, PC tune-ups, video 'conversion' utilities and downloaders (really father, at your age). For the four hundredth time, stop clicking every download link that a web page tells you to.
Not knowing much about the Windows world, is there a good anti-malware app for people with no internet sense at all? I ran Malwarebytes in free mode to clean things up, but there needs to something that lassoes the enthusiastic gullibility of my father before he can download and install something else. There's evidently no link he's not going to click if he thinks it takes him closer to naked mature ladies. And if the web thinks his PC needs a tune-up? Oh yes please.
This might sound too complicated (and it may be) but the thing to do is use a virtual machine image which is scraped clean every time it is started. it is actually easier than it sounds, I could send you a Virtualbox clone image that would give you 90% of what is needed.
Cool, a Jurassic Mac. Did you travel back in time, or did the past catch up?
On other matters, last night's purge of malware from the familial computer took no fewer than four bloody hours. A browser took about a week to open because it was trying open six additional windows all helpfully offering updates to Java, Flash, etc. Every page was decorated with so many ads for vouchers and scams that it was pretty hard to see any content, every search was diverted somewhere strange that looked like Google, but every result link was scamtastic. I was, to be honest, impressed by the level of ingenuity. A steaming cauldron of self-referential malware. Have malware? Come on, collect the set.
Anyway, 564 items removed. The usual suspects, PC tune-ups, video 'conversion' utilities and downloaders (really father, at your age). For the four hundredth time, stop clicking every download link that a web page tells you to.
Not knowing much about the Windows world, is there a good anti-malware app for people with no internet sense at all? I ran Malwarebytes in free mode to clean things up, but there needs to something that lassoes the enthusiastic gullibility of my father before he can download and install something else. There's evidently no link he's not going to click if he thinks it takes him closer to naked mature ladies. And if the web thinks his PC needs a tune-up? Oh yes please.
Oh and ranty. Passwords.
Anyway, you've made me write the damn password in very big letters on a post-it note and stuck it somewhere obvious. Because like I'm sure some hacker wants to submit my fucking expenses.
Ironically, Microshaft who make these rules available through their group policy now advise that system administrators don't force users to change their passwords too frequently because it leads to use of weaker passwords.
Ironically, Microshaft who make these rules available through their group policy now advise that system administrators don't force users to change their passwords too frequently because it leads to use of weaker passwords.You mean . . . they've finally seen sense! :o
Never got on with network share on linux, samba with gui on ubuntu sometime worked, but I have always had to hack/kick/scream about to get it somewhat working.
Dropbox have often been the easiest option to move files from computer to computer.
Where as with Windows, 99% of the time, was just right click, share and you were up and running.
I'm now at wars with crunchbang to get it to share with crunchbang, arrgghh! Happily remote desktop, ssh but for the life of me can I get to see a folder on the other laptop in the file browser, can I heck!
ok using gadmin-samba got it to play ball, but what an over complicated program to use to get a simple share to run.
You don't need samba for sharing linux to linux. Use NFS?A bit over my head and I have never really got it to work that way. The simple GUI that was on Ubuntu where you point to a folder and say share, is something I like :)
Never got on with network share on linux, samba with gui on ubuntu sometime worked, but I have always had to hack/kick/scream about to get it somewhat working.
Dropbox have often been the easiest option to move files from computer to computer.
Where as with Windows, 99% of the time, was just right click, share and you were up and running.
I'm now at wars with crunchbang to get it to share with crunchbang, arrgghh! Happily remote desktop, ssh but for the life of me can I get to see a folder on the other laptop in the file browser, can I heck!
ok using gadmin-samba got it to play ball, but what an over complicated program to use to get a simple share to run.
You don't need samba for sharing linux to linux. Use NFS?
Dropbox is quick and easy for sharing files over the internet without having to worry too hard about authentication. You have to pay attention to how synchronised the local files are, and obviously file size becomes an issue. The Android client is a piece of shit, and I expect the IOS client likewise.
But one customer insists that we use Microsoft "Lync. If you've never had to install it, I can't begin to describe to you what a great big pile of shit it is. The slurry tank on the farm, feed by 200 cows, contains less liquid shit than one single Lync client installation.
I experimented with Zentyal on my Linux Server - it does seem fairly robust. Once it is set-up, configuring a Linux server is much easier from someone coming from a Windows background. Unfortunately I ditched it because it doesn't work with ZFS.
FWIW I find SAMBA more than up to streaming 1080p movies from a RaspPi (Samsung 1Tb USB drive) "file server" to a RaspPi "media server" (RaspBMC).
Nothing works with ZFS, not even the OS it's designed to come with, using ZFS to do replication across the wire to an offsite data centre for redundancy purposes worked, in theory but the ability of it to decide it didn't like it's own disks was outstanding.
I tried very hard to get on with NFS, but I could never quite get auto-mounts to work correctly. Then of course there's the whole user mapping thing between machines.
Downloading it song by song worked for some reason.
Strangely, when Apple decide to let Bono lay a turd on my hard drive, there's none of this your network connection has been reset business.
We are going through a complete computer system replacementbecause the current one came out of the ark and MS will no longer support itto "improve our employee IT working environment".
While watching an incredibly boringPowerpointe-learning module, I've just been told that they are migrating us from Lotus Notes to MS Outlook - but haven't worked out how to do some of the important things in outlook so we are keeping notes as well, and will have to do extra steps for common tasks, like booking meetings into people's calendars (book participants in Outlook, room in Notes).
AtoS* have been rolling a new system out for over a year - could they have tried finishing the changes before migrating everyone instead of offering a half finished product?
*need I say more
but haven't worked out how to do some of the important things in outlook so we are keeping notes as well, and will have to do extra steps for common tasks, like booking meetings into people's calendars (book participants in Outlook, room in Notes).Are they truly thick?
I learned at my mother's knee that if you want to manage tracks, playlists and so forth on an iThing it is much less of a headache in the long term to do it manually.
Another update b0rked Virtualbox in an amusingly comprehensive manner - nothing gets anywhere near starting - and the only way to fix is to reverse the update.
Another update b0rked Virtualbox in an amusingly comprehensive manner - nothing gets anywhere near starting - and the only way to fix is to reverse the update.
Is that 4.3.20? I wa going to update mine today (currently 4.3.12) but might hold off in that case.
But one customer insists that we use Microsoft "Lync. If you've never had to install it, I can't begin to describe to you what a great big pile of shit it is. The slurry tank on the farm, feed by 200 cows, contains less liquid shit than one single Lync client installation.
It's not the first time I've read this rant. Wailing and gnashing of teeth seems to be a key part of the Lync installation ritual.
Now I know why people have ranted about Windows 8.So glad it's not just me.
I've just got a new machine with 8.1 on it. I had already decided that if I couldn't stand it then it wouldn't be much effort to put 7 onto it.
Microsoft have broken a perfectly good and well evolved UI so that everybody can treat it as a tablet? Classicshell fixed most of that in a few minutes (thank goodness) but the thing that it can't fix is how patronising this version of windows is.
Microsoft, I'm not going to set up a microsoft account just so that I can log into this machine!
For the moment it's staying, but I've put Windows 7 into a vm on it - just in case.
Oi! Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia! No!
Did I tell you to change the location of the iTunes media folder from Z:\iTunes to somewhere on D:?
Why, no. No, I did not.
So why did you decide to change it anyway? It's not as if Z: has magickally Ceased To Be as you appear perfectly capable of finding the Stuffs already on it. You utter twat.
Hmm.. Excel for numeric work? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167947308001618 for a start.
I know the customer is always right, but informing them that you don't sell 12' bargepoles and even if you did you wouldn't touch Excel for numerical modelling with one..
R does nice regression modelling - and has a verifiable level of accuracy as it is open sauce.
Now I know why people have ranted about Windows 8.
I've just got a new machine with 8.1 on it. I had already decided that if I couldn't stand it then it wouldn't be much effort to put 7 onto it.
Microsoft have broken a perfectly good and well evolved UI so that everybody can treat it as a tablet? Classicshell fixed most of that in a few minutes (thank goodness) but the thing that it can't fix is how patronising this version of windows is.
Microsoft, I'm not going to set up a microsoft account just so that I can log into this machine!
For the moment it's staying, but I've put Windows 7 into a vm on it - just in case.
Microsoft, I'm not going to set up a microsoft account just so that I can log into this machine!
After such ranting, I must add an anti-rant. Something I've found that Windows 8 does do - you can right click on an iso image and mount it as a drive. *rant* about bloody time!
After such ranting, I must add an anti-rant. Something I've found that Windows 8 does do - you can right click on an iso image and mount it as a drive. *rant* about bloody time!
You've been able to do that for some time. Since XP at least, though it may have required thrid party helpers. And there was a sort of mount option for splicing drives into paths unix-lite style in DOS from way back. But it was always behind the curve.
But sometimes Windows removes drive letters for no apparent reason - at least it does on my Babbage Engines - then the drive will be invisible in Explorer. Or it's corrupted or an incompatible partition type or size. Try Disk Management in any case.
GPT no good with XP 32-bit, for egg sample.
Printers. And cloud computing. Nothing good can come of it, I say...
Shutting down Windows 8? Oh, how we laughed.
It took ages to work out that the text entered on the Set Password page is (silently) truncated to eight characters
It took ages to work out that the text entered on the Set Password page is (silently) truncated to eight characters
8 characters? It's not secure. Bin it :P
Can you try a factory reset of the TV and create a new account?
*sigh*I *love* multi-threaded stuff and have done since [mumble mumble - you don't look That Old!]
Two days pissed up against a wall trying and failing to fix a cross-thread locking problem. I _loathe_ multi-threaded applications (but it's the way of the future! chimes the chorus)
and if WPF is involved well... why don't you just take me out and shoot me? It would be significantly less painful.I feel your pain. Can't you get your client/employer to use a proper computer?
I shall now find out if Lync is as bad as implied by others.Unless they've (M$ natch) truly ballsed it up in the last 12 months then it's not too bad to _use_. I prefer it to Skype and other IM products I've used for reasons gone into previously.
WDS Multicast Transmission Fail.
IGMP transmissions saturating a firewalls LAN ports. Very slow transmissions to the WDS clients.
It's not a wi-fi issue. More of a CARP one. I figure a couple of ports on the switch are configured to be promiscuous in order for the master/slave firewalls to share a virtual IP address. Will need to try implementing some rules on the switch which block multicast traffic from the ports used with the firewalls before trying this again.WDS Multicast Transmission Fail.
IGMP transmissions saturating a firewalls LAN ports. Very slow transmissions to the WDS clients.
Inefficient multicast is a bit of a known issue with some wireless solutions.
Two days pissed up against a wall trying and failing to fix a cross-thread locking problem.
Stupid media server ... just tried to play "Blonde On Blonde" in, like, totally the wrong order.
The network at work is a notwork. Cue lots of panicking students about deadlines, and staff getting annoyed.
I am seriously thinking of a "piss off at 4pm" day cos I've had no fucking lunch and my hands hurt and I want to go to sleep!
New software "user testing"... [...]
And it doesn't look keyboard navigable at this point...
apparently keyboard navigability is impossible.
Problem is that that shows I have some IT knowledge and they'll assume that means I can then tell their programmers how to do it which I can't.
I can read and write, or listen and hear but crossing the modalities is very odd as my brain will throw the audio away and read and then I end up with a sort of "you said words?" packet loss situ. Possibly something to do with how my brain does deafie-language processing but makes me look stupid, weird or lying to people who don't know...
Twelve hundred files spread across seventy folders wanted deleting.
USB HDD+XP: Fifteen seconds.
NAS+Win 8: Twenty minutes
Twelve hundred files spread across seventy folders wanted deleting.
USB HDD+XP: Fifteen seconds.
NAS+Win 8: Twenty minutes
That sort of thing is all about the filesystem.
Basically a case of whether the computer is telling the NAS "Delete this file...OK. Delete this file...OK. Delete this file....OK. Delete this directory...OK" or "Delete this directory and everything under it............OK."
Hey, hey, happy Windows, I'm real glad you've installed an update. It's sure must be swell. Thanks for telling that you are so happy with your new update that you are going to spontaneously restart. Just for me. In 2 mins and 9, 8, 7, 6, 5... seconds. The countdown is very James Bond. It's doubly nice that the postpone button is greyed out and there's no red wire to cut. Even better you hid this message under a tiny little flashing systray icon that I just happened to notice.
And there you go, despite whatever productive task my computer might have been engaged in, you've just turned the entire fucking thing off and gone into a long update cycle. The Amish build barns quicker.
Yeah, yeah, there's probably a setting, but I'm sure the mothership has creatively erected a large policy tent over it.
Hey, hey, happy Windows, I'm real glad you've installed an update. It's sure must be swell. Thanks for telling that you are so happy with your new update that you are going to spontaneously restart. Just for me. In 2 mins and 9, 8, 7, 6, 5... seconds. The countdown is very James Bond. It's doubly nice that the postpone button is greyed out and there's no red wire to cut. Even better you hid this message under a tiny little flashing systray icon that I just happened to notice.
And there you go, despite whatever productive task my computer might have been engaged in, you've just turned the entire fucking thing off and gone into a long update cycle. The Amish build barns quicker.
Yeah, yeah, there's probably a setting, but I'm sure the mothership has creatively erected a large policy tent over it.
Yep that's a thing you can turn on on the network, we used to have to do it otherwise the developers would never install patches and then take down the network when their laptop got exploited.
I think you can set it so it only forces you after you've ignored a number of suggestions.
D.
VirtualBox 4.3.22 breaks my computer. After installing it neither the network card or the USB2 controller work properly. It does it repeatably too, as I found out after restoring the machine to a working state and trying it again (isn't that one definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and expecting different results?).
BBC have borked iPlayer so that Squeezebox disnae play 6Music :demon: Jist gonnae no :hand:
Argh! Group Policy. Deployment. & Software houses that choose to install their software their own way.
Yes it's all well and good migrating configuration data from ye olde version to ye neue hippier version when an upgrade is initiated from within the tool. But that's not really very practical in a corporate desktop environment. Why not have a proper MSI installer that handles the migration of configuration data? I mean, you author pretty spendy software ergo I'm sure producing an MSI that plays nice with Windows isn't beyond comprehension.
Son's laptop is now suitably suprfish free - pretty easy job to sort but should not have been necessary.
Microsith! How hard can it be for Word to treat a file called "junk.txt" as plain fucking text? >:( >:(
Fruity fondleslabs. Are they deliberately setup to be bloody useless for normal folk? I have a movie file I want to place on the flat thingy of a colleague. No cable, her machine so I don't have any passwords except the pin to get in. It won't save files locally. It will play off the web. Clicking 'download' doesn't.
So it is a piece of shiny that I can't get photos/videos/files onto without some extra hardware or software. What is the point?
Installing win 7 on an acer d255, and wireless does not work.....argh
Installing win 7 on an acer d255, and wireless does not work.....argh
Rule of thumb, unless using the recovery CDs, ALWAYS have another way of accessing the internet to download drivers(and a USB sneakernet in place), you'll need it.
Installing win 7 on an acer d255, and wireless does not work.....argh
Rule of thumb, unless using the recovery CDs, ALWAYS have another way of accessing the internet to download drivers(and a USB sneakernet in place), you'll need it.
Oh I thought of that, planned the upgrade from xp to windows7 and it is still being a pain. Seems fine with win8/8.1 and flavours of linux just not 7. Seem to see the wireless network and then not see any.
Have you installed the drivers for your wireless chipset as supplied by the laptop's manufacturer?
Oh FFS.
Look, you useless sack of crap. You're linux fer christ's sake - you're supposed to WORK!
I've given every fucker in the entire known universe permissions to this directory, so "operation not permitted" is a bit fucking precious. Just do what you're fucking told. Look - Windows 8.1 over there -------------> was happy about it, so should you be.
Now. Wake. The. Fuck. Up.
Tomorrow will go back to fixing the acer aspire one d255...wish me luck
What channel is your wifi on? I've got an aspire and found that sometimes the wireless would work and other times it wouldn't, it turned out that the aspire won't see all the channels (it was the very high numbered ones, might have been 14)
Given sufficient money I couldbuildhave built a Bugatti Type 35 from all-new parts (the stable lad did this last summer) and that went out of production around 1930.
Microsoft Word.
That's probably said enough, but why the hell can't you print equations? Blank spaces on the paper above and below the lines just don't convey the needed information.
The work-around is to save as a .pdf and to print that, but printing as a .pdf just gets a .pdf with blank equations like the paper version. Saving as a .pdf would be easier to find if you didn't restrict the pull-down list of file types to view about 4 entries, so careful scrolling is needed. This is the 21st century, we use monitors that are bigger than 640x480, and we don't have to be restricted to menus the size of a toolbar icon if there are 20+ choices.
I can't be the only person who wants to print equations onto paper, or even as a .pdf to send to someone whose computer isn't infested with the execrable lump of bloatware that is Word, so why haven't they sorted it out?
Microsoft Word.
That's probably said enough, but why the hell can't you print equations? Blank spaces on the paper above and below the lines just don't convey the needed information.
Microsoft Word.
That's probably said enough, but why the hell can't you print equations? Blank spaces on the paper above and below the lines just don't convey the needed information.
The work-around is to save as a .pdf and to print that, but printing as a .pdf just gets a .pdf with blank equations like the paper version. Saving as a .pdf would be easier to find if you didn't restrict the pull-down list of file types to view about 4 entries, so careful scrolling is needed. This is the 21st century, we use monitors that are bigger than 640x480, and we don't have to be restricted to menus the size of a toolbar icon if there are 20+ choices.
I can't be the only person who wants to print equations onto paper, or even as a .pdf to send to someone whose computer isn't infested with the execrable lump of bloatware that is Word, so why haven't they sorted it out?
Microsoft Word.
That's probably said enough, but why the hell can't you print equations? Blank spaces on the paper above and below the lines just don't convey the needed information.
The work-around is to save as a .pdf and to print that, but printing as a .pdf just gets a .pdf with blank equations like the paper version. Saving as a .pdf would be easier to find if you didn't restrict the pull-down list of file types to view about 4 entries, so careful scrolling is needed. This is the 21st century, we use monitors that are bigger than 640x480, and we don't have to be restricted to menus the size of a toolbar icon if there are 20+ choices.
I can't be the only person who wants to print equations onto paper, or even as a .pdf to send to someone whose computer isn't infested with the execrable lump of bloatware that is Word, so why haven't they sorted it out?
Try LyX. Its free and uses LaTeX as its backend but hides it from you (unless you want to get your hands dirty and tweak it). Produces lovely PDFs with equations rendered properly and will embed the fonts in the PDF so anyone can view them.
http://www.lyx.org/
and here is an example PDF with equations both in line with the text and on their own. Its from 2001 which shows how long LyX has been around.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Seminars/Bond/LyX_Thesis/seminar.pdf
I had a dream about LyX the other night. I wonder if it's got good in the 12 years or so since I last used it?
It seems each newer version of Android gets less and less usable. Eg, no mass storage, cannot export contacts to SD card.
It seems each newer version of Android gets less and less usable. Eg, no mass storage, cannot export contacts to SD card.
Mass storage, as in can't use it as a mass storage device? that has been gone a long time.
Why would you want to export contacts to an SD card? by backing them up to Google's servers they are always there, makes transferring to a new phone much less painful.
This might help, if the contacts are synced to the cloud:
http://support.fullcontact.com/knowledgebase/articles/155374-how-can-i-export-my-google-contacts-prior-to-using
It seems each newer version of Android gets less and less usable. Eg, no mass storage, cannot export contacts to SD card.
Mass storage, as in can't use it as a mass storage device? that has been gone a long time.
Why would you want to export contacts to an SD card? by backing them up to Google's servers they are always there, makes transferring to a new phone much less painful.
This might help, if the contacts are synced to the cloud:
http://support.fullcontact.com/knowledgebase/articles/155374-how-can-i-export-my-google-contacts-prior-to-using
Yes that's fine if you are still happy sharing your life with Google.
It seems each newer version of Android gets less and less usable. Eg, no mass storage, cannot export contacts to SD card.All of the Android versions I have used do have some way of importing/exporting contacts to a VCF or CSV file. Though the option is quite well hidden on some of them.
What channel is your wifi on? I've got an aspire and found that sometimes the wireless would work and other times it wouldn't, it turned out that the aspire won't see all the channels (it was the very high numbered ones, might have been 14)
Have tried that, it was on 6 as that was the quietest channel. Think it is something else, such as a setting in the bios power setting, as restting the adaptor doesn't seem to bring the car back to life.
TBH, if you are not, don't bother buying an Android phone. Replace Google with Apple and don't bother buying a iPhone, rplace it with Microsoft and don't bother buying a Windows phone.
In short, if you actually want to use a smart phone as a smart phone, you have to compromise. If you don't, then be my guest and buy a dumb phone.
TBH, if you are not, don't bother buying an Android phone. Replace Google with Apple and don't bother buying a iPhone, rplace it with Microsoft and don't bother buying a Windows phone.
In short, if you actually want to use a smart phone as a smart phone, you have to compromise. If you don't, then be my guest and buy a dumb phone.
It is possible to use an Android phone without Google's services. Cyanogenmod FTW.
I had a colleague who tried to use an FP variable for a time. So a quarter past nine was stored as 9.15. That did not end well either
I've seen someone try to use a floating point value as a loop index.
( A depth value, where the depth increments were 0.25 feet. )
It ended in tears.
Shrewsoft grumble NetworkManager grumble Strongswan grumble.
I can has IKE/IPSEC if I don't mind Shrewsoft bu$$ering up my network configuration.
I could has IKE/IPSEC without Shrewsoft if only I could figure out how to configure the Strongswan NetworkManager plugin.
I can has OpenVPN using NetworkManager but it completely fails to update name server and domain details in resolv.conf
I figure I'll have to hack my own solution together then.
TBH, if you are not, don't bother buying an Android phone. Replace Google with Apple and don't bother buying a iPhone, rplace it with Microsoft and don't bother buying a Windows phone.
In short, if you actually want to use a smart phone as a smart phone, you have to compromise. If you don't, then be my guest and buy a dumb phone.
It is possible to use an Android phone without Google's services. Cyanogenmod FTW.
WRONG!
Cyanogenmod still, quite heavily, uses Google Apps. Without them you loses a LOT of functionality, such as the Google Play, Maps and Gmail. It is possible to use an Android phone without using Google services, but why anyone would want to is beyond me, it's like buying an Aston Martin and fitting crossply tyres.
Cyanogenmod still, quite heavily, uses Google Apps. Without them you loses a LOT of functionality, such as the Google Play, Maps and Gmail. It is possible to use an Android phone without using Google services, but why anyone would want to is beyond me, it's like buying an Aston Martin and fitting crossply tyres.
Google Apps are not the be all and end of the connection between Android and Google (as far as services go), is my point.
Cyanogenmod et al still require a certain amount of interaction with Google, whether you like it or not. Replacing Google Apps with a third party's still makes you reliant on that third party's services.
Cyanogenmod is not a panacea, which is how your reply to my post read, to me anyway.
My point still stands, if you don't want to be reliant on a third party's web services, DON'T BUY A SMART PHONE. Clear enough?
I had a colleague who tried to use an FP variable for a time. So a quarter past nine was stored as 9.15. That did not end well either
I've seen someone try to use a floating point value as a loop index.
( A depth value, where the depth increments were 0.25 feet. )
It ended in tears.
Ah. Equal things being un-equal.
We do a lot of floating-point math.
*never* attempt to use 'equal' with floating-point numbers.
It will *almost never* evaluate to true, even when it seems like it should.
There will always be a single-bit difference down in the LSB or somesuch.
I've seen someone try to use a floating point value as a loop index.
( A depth value, where the depth increments were 0.25 feet. )
It ended in tears.
BBC have borked iPlayer so that Squeezebox disnae play 6Music :demon: Jist gonnae no :hand:
Yay, it's back :thumbsup:
And it's 'NOT AVAILABLE' on the XBOX :demon: :demon:
Adobe InDesign.
Our training manuals are all created in InDesign; it's what print-houses like to use.
You'd think that it's option to output a quick n dirty PDF ( an adobe format ) would *just work*?
You are in a steep-sided canyon. The Frigid river runs North-South, to the Falls of Flatulence, just visible to the South.
Canyon>Inventory
You have an Adobe InDesign document, a printer, and a short length of 4x2.
It is pitch dark, you are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Canyon>Print document as PDF
A hollow laugh echoes round the canyon walls. Your magic does not work here.
Canyon>_
There were commands... buried deep in the labyrinthine submenus, in the darker corners of a UI that consisted entirely of dark corners...
I've just made headless firefox work for the second time this afternoon.
Both times I did it by removing a file so that the other version of said file could be found. ::-)
How come that bloody file reappeared?
Curiosity now tickled as CD reissues of pre-1988 recordings on label X average about 6x when ripping bust post-1988 ones on label Y did 18-20. Does BGO Records oops what a giveaway use the optical equivalent of cheese when getting its CDs made or something?
Phoned Microsoft because I can't get my exam transcript off the MCP site. Follow the instructions given and get a blank page, so I ask if that's because I'm using Safari. The guy tells me to close Safari and open the page in Internet Explorer - err, I'm using Safari, therefore I'm using a Mac, and internet explorer hasn't been supported on OSX since 2003! And what happened to IE supposedly now being "standards compliant"?
Curiosity now tickled as CD reissues of pre-1988 recordings on label X average about 6x when ripping bust post-1988 ones on label Y did 18-20. Does BGO Records oops what a giveaway use the optical equivalent of cheese when getting its CDs made or something?
I'd never have taken you for a Shirley Bassey & Andy Williams fan.
I've just made headless firefox work for the second time this afternoon.
Both times I did it by removing a file so that the other version of said file could be found. ::-)
How come that bloody file reappeared?
selenium testing?
Phoned Microsoft because I can't get my exam transcript off the MCP site. Follow the instructions given and get a blank page, so I ask if that's because I'm using Safari. The guy tells me to close Safari and open the page in Internet Explorer - err, I'm using Safari, therefore I'm using a Mac, and internet explorer hasn't been supported on OSX since 2003! And what happened to IE supposedly now being "standards compliant"?
There is a Safari for Widows.
The last laugh will fall on the 'use Internet Exploder' morons in a few months. When it is eol'ed and replaced by a new one that I think is called "Shit".
Microsith! If I wanted to disable add-ons to improve browser performance would I have installed them in the first place?
Why, no! No, I would not.
Is there an add-on called "Disable fatuous messages from Microsith"?
Phoned Microsoft because I can't get my exam transcript off the MCP site. Follow the instructions given and get a blank page, so I ask if that's because I'm using Safari. The guy tells me to close Safari and open the page in Internet Explorer - err, I'm using Safari, therefore I'm using a Mac, and internet explorer hasn't been supported on OSX since 2003! And what happened to IE supposedly now being "standards compliant"?
There is a Safari for Widows.
The last laugh will fall on the 'use Internet Exploder' morons in a few months. When it is eol'ed and replaced by a new one that I think is called "Shit".
Nah, they're naming everything after Halo characters because that's like how the kids work. Showing the magnificent corporate brain in action, endless layers of management synaptically forwarding email messages. Either that or they'll spend USD1,000,000 on marketing and focus groups to call it 'Net Discoverer' or something.
Apple killed Safari for Windows back in 2012 on the grounds that it was generally as shit as IE for Mac.
Don't tell me you don't miss Clippy :o
(http://invisiblebike.wikispaces.com/file/view/clippy-suicide.gif/127346833/clippy-suicide.gif)
I have phones, a tablet, and some mp3 player I got in a Christmas cracker, that'll all connect to my bluetooth speakers, almost without me looking.
Linux? Ah Linux....
Is it an Audio Device? Is it an Audio Sink? (WTF???). Do I need to pair it or not? I assume so, but it makes no difference...
Nope. Bluetooth on recent Linux Desktops is still non-functional.
C'mon linux developer dudes - get with it.
At least they don't have the annoying paper clip anymore.
Don't tell me you don't miss Clippy :o
At least they don't have the annoying paper clip anymore.Don't tell me you don't miss Clippy :o
:( I was rather fond of Scribble the origami cat.
I also liked watching Links the cat scratching the side of my screen, tearing up bits of paper, or curling up and going to sleep on the toolbar. I didn't really use the Microsoft Assistant for actual assistance, mind you.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_z_BPo98TPjs/RrFfcI_oPXI/AAAAAAAAAUU/XKnfQJ30KI4/s400/cat1.JPG)
Apple Mail is the turd in Apple's pristine lawn of user-friendliness. Basically, it's shit.
$myAssociativeArray = @()
for ([int]$i=1; $i -lt 4; $i++)
{
for ([int]$j=11; $j -lt 32; $j=$j+10)
{
$myAssociativeArray += ,@($i, $j, [int](($i +1) * $j))
}
}
foreach ($row in $myAssociativeArray)
{
write-host "$($row[0]) green frogs, $($row[1]) horny toads & $($row[2]) bottles of beer"
}
foreach ($row in ($myAssociativeArray | where-object { $_[2] -eq 124 }))
{
write-host "$($row[0]) green frogs, $($row[1]) horny toads & $($row[2]) bottles of beer"
}
Powershell.
?
Powershell.
:
:
3 green frogs, 21 horny toads & 84 bottles of beer
3 green frogs, 31 horny toads & 124 bottles of beer
what would you expect from..
foreach ($row in ($myAssociativeArray | where-object { $_[2] -eq 124 }))
{
write-host "$($row[0]) green frogs, $($row[1]) horny toads & $($row[2]) bottles of beer"
}
?
foreach ($row in @($myAssociativeArray | where-object { $_[2] -eq 124 }))
$myArray1 = "blah", "foo", "bar"
$myArray2 = @("blah", "foo", "bar")
which I presume are effectively the same and$myHashTable = @{ foo="bar"}
By the way, I sincerely hope this isn't related to your comment in the other thread about "learning a proper language". Powershell is a steaming pile of dogshit and should only ever be used if you're being forced to.
Oi! Mega!-Global! Exclamation! Mark! Corporation! of! Sunnyvale!, USAnia! Why! is! flickr! so! shit! on! a! Fondleslab!?
I am an occasional user of TV Anywhere, I haven't used it for about 7 months, maybe more. I'm used to Virgin's unbelievably poor web implementations, but really, this is shocking.
The service used to work fine for me, no problems, now does it? Does it heck. After finding the service - for which anyone deserves a Top Sleuth medal - come on, Virgin, how difficult would it be to put a link on the top of some useful or intuitive page? No, why do that, put a link to a load of useless blurb and hide the live link at the bottom - signing in multiple times as ever with Virgin - Chrome appears to be broken completely,
OK let's try Firefox. Oh, look! Having registered in Chrome, Firefox thinks this computer is another device. I wouldn't swear to it (because that would actually mean Virgin implemented something useful) but I'm fairly certain it used to be by device rather than by browser. Not sure I want to have two registrations on the same machine. So...
Let's try Android. I have a Nexus 5 running Lollipop,I'm up for trying it. On the "help" (mwah hah hah) page it tells me the Nexus 5 is fully supported. OK, lets find it on Google Play. For whatever reason, can't be found on the phone, OK, use the desktop. Oh, look. "This application is not compatible with your device" That's another fine mess you've made, Virgin.
I assume that is because I am now running 5.1, which has been about for a while, but it is a pretty poor show.
Program I wanted to watch is finished now.
Virgin, you took what was a passably good service and have buried it.
Wireless charging it is not, when you need to wire up the object that your item needs to be millimetres from to be able to charge. It is only wireless when you can walk on the moors miles away from a power point and have a full charge. OK I will accept it if it is within your house.
Well that was what Mr Nikola Telsa was working some nearly hundred years ago.
Well that was what Mr Nikola Telsa was working some nearly hundred years ago.
While he was no odder, say, than a monkey in a bucket of custard or some members of this forum, by most rational standards he was a bit of a fruitbat, thobut : demon:
Machine | Login screen | Desktop background |
Lapdancer | Small-block Chevy | Monument Valley |
Desktop | Lister-Jaguar | Bonneville Salt Flats |
If I just wanted to browse all my photos in a list I'd just dump them in a folder.
Aperture.
I want Aperture. Not iPhotos
At some time in the future, when Aperture stops working I shall have to find a new Photo management and manipulation app. Which makes me >:( >:( >:(
When ctrl + alt + delete doesn't work, just shoot the darn thing.Read more at http://gazette.com/man-shoots-computer-in-colorado-springs-alley-gets-revenge-he-wanted-and-a-citation/article/1550042#z3IgkiAFzPobHEfb.99
He got tired of fighting with his computer for the last several months," Lt. Jeff Strossner said. "He was having technology problems, so he took it out in the back alley and shot it.
I have given up trying to find a photo organising program. They all either don't do what I want: as in not doing what I want/need or try to do stuff by themselves that I do no need/want - rotation, commenting, sorting all by themselves and didn't ask for.
Then when you think you have found one that works, they either stop supporting it, not compatible with OS upgrade, new update that just changed the UI into an un-usable mess or features you used/liked just go walkies.
So now I dump my photos into folder sorted by date, event type and title. If they need more fiddling I bring out the Gimp.
Microsith, you are a pack of splattercrap-covered poomonkeys! $UPDATE fails to install. Repeatedly. And judging from the Microsith Community Forum, I am not alone in this. Aha! says a Microsith droid. You need to have installed $OTHER_UPDATE and $OTHER_OTHER_UPDATE first. The former cannot be found in the update history. Perhaps I can install this manually?
Why, no! No, I cannot. "Page not found". Your ball, Microsith.
Curiously, it installed fine on the desktop box ???
If yours was the same update issue, someone on the Microsith Community*Forum advised:Worked for me.
- Uninstall KB3045999
- Do not reboot
- Install KB3022345
- Reboot
- Install KB3045999 again
- Reboot again
* as in "Care In The"
By the way, the car software update went just fine. Luckily it wasn't for the "infotainment" system, which runs Windows CE :sick: :sick:
Well if they haven't tested it on an Asus Z87 motherboard, with an Intel i7 4770k and a Samsung 1TB SSD, then they really haven't tried very hard, have they?
Grr, programs that keep popping up from the background.
I'm especially looking at you, Lotus Notes. I went to do something else while you were having a think about things, and now you've finally decided to respond with some "look-at-me, pay-attention-to-me" jumping-back-to-the-front antics. Just fuck off until I have to use you again.
Well if they haven't tested it on an Asus Z87 motherboard, with an Intel i7 4770k and a Samsung 1TB SSD, then they really haven't tried very hard, have they?
You've got to be joking. The number of combinations of chipsets, CPUs and SSDs in use is into the millions. Even taking the twenty most common ones of each, that'd be 8000 combinations, and possibly yours wouldn't be included.
Hmm backup ran over night just fine, but some how is about 100Gb bigger than the host. Fine for main backup drive but not for secondary backup drive. For the life of me where are the extra files ... ?
:)
Somehow folders has been duplicate within other folders. Wierdly there isn't any pattern and it is rather random so it could not be a slip of the old muse or Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v.
If yours was the same update issue, someone on the Microsith Community*Forum advised:Worked for me.
- Uninstall KB3045999
- Do not reboot
- Install KB3022345
- Reboot
- Install KB3045999 again
- Reboot again
* as in "Care In The"
Couldn't uninstall the failed update, as it wouldn't boot, whatever I did. Does it not occur to them to test their updates? My PC is modern, and fairly high spec, and quite "normal", so should not present any compatability issues. Microbloodysoft, get yer bleedin' act together! That's another several days wasted, just reinstalling software, AGAIN.
Oh wow. TFS. Again. _Another_ overwritten/lost change. One is almost bereft of words. What a terrifyingly unreliable bucket of foetid pus it is.
POC?
Pile of Cr*p?
I believe back here TFS was phased in and very quickly phased out again, before my tenure.
:)
Somehow folders has been duplicate within other folders. Wierdly there isn't any pattern and it is rather random so it could not be a slip of the old muse or Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v.
Some type of symbolic link that the backup software is following ?
Ah, I have one of those, hadn't got as far as verifying it for authenticity and checking with Kim/real Pc when my domains were due for renewal.
Have you all got 123-reg domains? Sounds like a possible data breach ...
Spammers, stop getting sneaky.
Just got an email purporting to be from 123-reg.co.uk. IT has a .doc attached, claiming to be a bill.
Ah, I have one of those, hadn't got as far as verifying it for authenticity and checking with Kim/real Pc when my domains were due for renewal.
Your domains are registered under my account, for ease of DNS-jibbling, so if you're getting emails they're spam.
Why don't the spammers rein themselves in a little? When you have 5 or 6 emails at a time, all purporting to come from 123-reg, it looks well dodgy from the off. You would have thought that dialing it back a little would be more convincing. We must have had 30 or so today just between 2 email addresses at work today.
Though looking thinking about it there must be folk out there like Kim who have muliple sites registered - though you would hope that these would be the least likely sort of people to fall for something like this.
Congratulations! are! due! to! the! Mega!-Global! Exclamation! Mark! Corporation! of! Sunnyvale!, USAnia! You really have fucking excelled yourselves this time. You have fucked flickr so badly that ["simile removed on the advice of our lawyers" - Ed.]
- I don't want to change my password either. This is a generic failing of the Mega!-Global! Exclamation! Mark! Corporation! of! Sunnyvale!, USAnia! but I thought I'd mention it.
That is one thing I miss about windows, even after years not using it I can find stuff. And no matter what program I have used on windows I have had no issues with the font or GUI (might be ugly but it works).
Linux is still a tinkers OS
That is one thing I miss about windows, even after years not using it I can find stuff. And no matter what program I have used on windows I have had no issues with the font or GUI (might be ugly but it works).
That was certainly true until win8 :sick:
Linux is still a tinkers OS
It allows you to if you want, but it's not necessary. That's one of its strengths.
Oh yes I'm knocking it, I like it a lot.That is one thing I miss about windows, even after years not using it I can find stuff. And no matter what program I have used on windows I have had no issues with the font or GUI (might be ugly but it works).
That was certainly true until win8 :sick:Linux is still a tinkers OS
It allows you to if you want, but it's not necessary. That's one of its strengths.
- Switch off javascript. I normally work this way anyway.
- Switch off javascript. I normally work this way anyway.
Srsly? Does anything work on the the internet nowadays without javascript?
And:
(b) why?
Add exceptions for the websites you trust.
Lots of browser based exploits require javascript.
I also have my browsers configured to disable plugins until they are explicitly allowed. It's easy to enable them with a couple of clicks.
I also have third party cookies disabled, for privacy.
McShroom I have this debate with my colleagues all the time "The drive letter is just made up on your computer" "It ostensibly set us all up the same but..." "Here gimme the mouse..."...Oh yes. Especially when they decide to be helpful and attach a shortcut to the file on thier mapped drive rather than a text link that can at least be immediately edited.
That's not so bad. Compare to -h instead of -r on the build server. Quick call to the help desk:
- Can someone please press the power button on ASDFSA123123?
- Where is it?
- Err, we don't know
- Sorry, neither do we!
Robocopy, with this semaphore timeout expired nonsense you are annoying us! It's not as if that machine is being thrashed >:(
Mapped network drives. You know what, we have loads of them here, and everyone's mapped them to different letters (and sometimes mapped letters to subfolders of the server).
Please stop sending links to your favourite drive letter which bears no resemblance to anything I or most of the rest of us have. I've shown you what the full address looks like and how to quote it so everyone can access it in one go, but you're too lazy or stupid* to change.
*Actually with this cow orker, probably both
Mapped network drives. You know what, we have loads of them here, and everyone's mapped them to different letters (and sometimes mapped letters to subfolders of the server).
Please stop sending links to your favourite drive letter which bears no resemblance to anything I or most of the rest of us have. I've shown you what the full address looks like and how to quote it so everyone can access it in one go, but you're too lazy or stupid* to change.
*Actually with this cow orker, probably both
Windows domain? You should have a look at this https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj127250.aspx
it's actually pretty easy to set up for a domain admin.
Mapped network drives. You know what, we have loads of them here, and everyone's mapped them to different letters (and sometimes mapped letters to subfolders of the server).
Please stop sending links to your favourite drive letter which bears no resemblance to anything I or most of the rest of us have. I've shown you what the full address looks like and how to quote it so everyone can access it in one go, but you're too lazy or stupid* to change.
*Actually with this cow orker, probably both
Windows domain? You should have a look at this https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj127250.aspx
it's actually pretty easy to set up for a domain admin.
It would be, except for the complexity of a server system set up to cover 12,000 users and, more importantly, the fact that our IT support is subcontracted to ATOS.
$windowsOSVersion=([string][System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version).Substring(0,3)
Switch ($windowsOSVersion) {
"6.0" {return "2008"}
"6.3" {return "2012r2"}
}
$windowsOSVersion=((Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem).Version).Substring(0,3)
Dear Mothership IT subdecks
If we have a ongoing problem with the VPN, why not fucking put up an announcement on, you know, the system you have for such announcements?
Oh yes, you're IBM.
Fuckchucklers.
Posture Assessment Failed: Hostscan CSD prelogin verification failed.
That's helpful, Cisco.
"We know that backups are 100% full proof".
I'm not sure if it was the uselessness of the reply which annoyed him most, or the illiteracy.
Posture Assessment Failed: Hostscan CSD prelogin verification failed.
That's helpful, Cisco.
Not a big problem but I got used to the old numbers for the connected items.
Yeah I know, but I'm lazy and it kept the IP's happy since I plugged it in the first time until now :)Not a big problem but I got used to the old numbers for the connected items.
This is what DNS is for.
I aten't so worried about the Theory Test but the Hazard Perception one is another wossname of fishies.
(Click...click...click...swear...I did spot the wall full of fucking teenagers spitting needlessly >:()
Damn and blast Microsith, said Mr Larrington, the words coming easily through force of habit.
Why in the name of the Second Five Year Plan are you trying to install updates for Outlook and Powerpoint and various other components of Office which aren't even installed on the fucking machine ???
Do you really need to use M$Orifice? There are suitable substitutes available for the princely sum of zero of the BRITON'S Pounds.
When I did it the babbage-engines were at least somebody else's problem, and the test was easily passed by guessing the frequency of clicks that would constitute cheating, and making sure that you stayed somewhat under it, while not being completely oblivious to the road scene being presented. TBH, anyone who's been successfully using the roads for a while ought to be able to pass it easily, either through a rudimentary ability to anticipate hazards, or a sufficiently high level of luck.This. IIRC if you click too soon & it doesn't register (counted as a random click), & repeating the click too quickly gets it counted as continuously clicking in the hope a hazard will turn up. Took me a few tries with the CD to get it right.
Do you really need to use M$Orifice? There are suitable substitutes available for the princely sum of zero of the BRITON'S Pounds.
TBH, I think if you're having to use Excel then you're already having a bad day, and trying to do so with a pale imitation of the real thing is only going to make matters worse.
Word, not so much. There are plenty of equally incompetent word processors available for the princely sum of zero BRITONS pounds. Or if it's a proper document, LaTeX.
If you need Powerpoint then you're basically doomed anyway.
In an unprecedented case of actually doing what it says on the tin, the aforementioned updates did not kill Excel utterly to DETH, though as it's taken about forty-eight hours to achieve this state of stability I remain unconvinced that this is the end of the matter.
Give up. Buy pencils, lots of paper, a sharpener and a rubber*. You'll waste far less time working it out by hand than trying to get M$ patches to work. Ask my colleague the server-herd (see prev. post) the poor bastard had another midnight touch yesterday trying to get the server back up and running was still working on it today and fully expecting to spending time on it tomorrow just cos of a shite M$ patch.In an unprecedented case of actually doing what it says on the tin, the aforementioned updates did not kill Excel utterly to DETH, though as it's taken about forty-eight hours to achieve this state of stability I remain unconvinced that this is the end of the matter.
Oh look! It's b0rked again.
Stop fucking well pressing REPLY ALL would be a start.
It's the mail server version of a runaway nuclear chain reaction. Surprised it didn't reach criticality and blow the server up.
Yes people are that stupid.
Ah, the illusion of security.
Santander seem to be able to run a fully operational internet banking system without having a keypad to lose. Why are they needed?
Santander seem to be able to run a fully operational internet banking system without having a keypad to lose. Why are they needed?
As an extra layer of obfuscation to prevent you from doing anything out of the ordinary without a card and PIN. Typically invoked when you set up a BACS payment to someone new, or similar (which makes a certain degree of sense). Regular stuff like logging in and transferring money between your accounts doesn't need it.
Santander seem to be able to run a fully operational internet banking system without having a keypad to lose. Why are they needed?
As an extra layer of obfuscation to prevent you from doing anything out of the ordinary without a card and PIN. Typically invoked when you set up a BACS payment to someone new, or similar (which makes a certain degree of sense). Regular stuff like logging in and transferring money between your accounts doesn't need it.
Barclays require them just to log in, never mind juggling with actual money.
Brilliant, about 150 emails later the originator pleads for people to stop. The response: dozens of reply-all 'thanks' and 'OK'sI wouldn't like to try to remember how many cases of that sort of idiocy I've suffered from. Delete, delete, delete!
Were people this stupid before I want on holiday or was there a comet or strange meteor display while I was away?
Brilliant, about 150 emails later the originator pleads for people to stop. The response: dozens of reply-all 'thanks' and 'OK'sI wouldn't like to try to remember how many cases of that sort of idiocy I've suffered from. Delete, delete, delete!
Were people this stupid before I want on holiday or was there a comet or strange meteor display while I was away?
Brilliant, about 150 emails later the originator pleads for people to stop. The response: dozens of reply-all 'thanks' and 'OK'sI wouldn't like to try to remember how many cases of that sort of idiocy I've suffered from. Delete, delete, delete!
Were people this stupid before I want on holiday or was there a comet or strange meteor display while I was away?
Even better, they're now quoting, so each
'please remove me'
now quotes the previous dozen pleas below.
please
please
please
make
it
stop
Ah, the illusion of security.
Not really. The algorithms on the Taschenrechner (as it has come to be known in this house) aren't supposed to be secret are they? It's just an interface to the chip on your card.
Which isn't to say the whole PIN-verification process isn't security theatre...
I get plenty of luncheon meat from Santander in spite of not having to use an Infernal Machine to connect to their online banking. The next time the fuckers offer me a credit card I'm apt to take it and max it out oncocaine and hookersdonations to charity.
I think the balance in my Santander current account is about £6.99.
Oh for fuck's sake, they're doing the fucking email thing again. Stop hitting REPLY ALL, you starspangled fuckstains.
Edit: I'm not entirely sure whether to be subtly pleased with the sheer deviousness of the responses to all that say 'stop replying to all.'
There's 33,000 names in the group email used...
The worst kind of f*ck up involving large email groups:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/02/ico_looking_into_london_clinics_spaffing_of_780_patients_hiv_status/
The worst kind of f*ck up involving large email groups:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/02/ico_looking_into_london_clinics_spaffing_of_780_patients_hiv_status/
Someone suggested to me that email clients should really pop up a warning when sending messages to large numbers of recipients without BCC. That seems like an excellent idea, but I don't for a minute expect that these incidents would be avoided, because people would just click 'OK' when confronted with an unfamiliar dialog.
You know more about this than I do, but wouldn't it be possible to reject outgoing emails at the server if they had more than one To: or Cc:? Given the particularly sensitive nature of the data being held at this place, why rely on humans not making an error?
Ah, I see.
I have rediscovered texting and emailing for such purposes.
Don't. Somewhere between Enfield and Larrington Towers is a new 8.1 box...
Six hours. I slept through it.2011 still works just fine (OK, no worse than previously) with El Cap.
Microsoft Office, it took you five years to debut the optimistically named Office 2016 for Mac. One that might actually work with a modern Mac (I reserve judgement). Hold on, £120 for one computer? It's forever 1995 in Microsoftland.
Or I can subscribe. I don't want to subscribe to software.
Bugger off then, I'll stick with 2011 and liberal usage of foul language.
Oh, dear. I seem to be a spam-spewing zombie.
Complaint from Mrs. F that she's had no e-mail for 2 days.
So I send her a test mail.
Nothing.
I send myself a test mail.
Nothing.
Hmm.
Log onto mail server, and find it's bogged down with a delivery queue of 6000 messages.
Shut down the mail service, clear queue, and look at logs.
I've got logging turned down to 1, so I can only see that I've been accepting mail from spammy address to random address ( ie open relaying ).
Only I'm not open relaying, I require SMTP auth.
So I think one of the client PCs is compromised and the mail is coming in via an authenticated connection.
I've turned on SMTP logging so I can catch which login is compromised.
It's not a dictionary attack, since I have an IP auto-ban for incorrect logins.
Server re-started, and nothing untoward coming in yet.
Will be keeping a close eye on this one.
Memory Map and Windows! MM - why do you refuse to develop a OSX desktop app forcing me to use Windows. This has been a no-windows zone for 5 years so it was necessary to dig out a copy and install it on a VM on my iMac. Consequently it took 5 hours of my life to split a copy of the 50k GB 2015 Hd maps in to small enough chunks to load onto iPhone/iPad, most of it playing 'hunt the network' and 'where is the USB port'. That should be a 10min job!! >:(
Dates in Excel - hours of fun ::-)
Seriously, in 2015 and computers still choke on shit like that. Grammar pedants recoil.So they should. What the hell was wrong with 8.3?
Seriously, in 2015 and computers still choke on shit like that. Grammar pedants recoil.So they should. What the hell was wrong with 8.3?
You want apostrophe's in drive letters, filenames, directories but you think companies letting SQL injection via their websites are being lax? Are you taking the Bear Grylls rehydration technique?
After much puzzling about why my Time Machine backup ground to a halt (on the last machine it claimed to be read only, on this one it sledged disk first into a lake of time-retardant jam) I finally removed the apostrophe from an external drive name and the jam was gone.
El Capitan doesn't like the apostrophe. He's the anti-grocer.
Seriously, in 2015 and computers still choke on shit like that. Grammar pedants recoil.
Seriously, in 2015 and computers still choke on shit like that. Grammar pedants recoil.So they should. What the hell was wrong with 8.3?
You want apostrophe's in drive letters, filenames, directories but you think companies letting SQL injection via their websites are being lax? Are you taking the Bear Grylls rehydration technique?
Nov 8 04:20:09 mundo kernel: [14143.334095] net_ratelimit: 131 callbacks suppressed
Nov 8 04:20:09 mundo kernel: [14143.400836] sky2 0000:05:00.0 eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1020
Nov 8 04:20:09 mundo kernel: [14143.450895] sky2 0000:05:00.0: error interrupt status=0x40000008
zfs send -R biz@2015-11-08T02:52:10 | pigz -4 | ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_zfsbackup_biz_mundo.bikeshed.internal zfsbackup@mundo.bikeshed.internal "unpigz | sudo /sbin/zfs receive -Fduv biz"
#!/bin/bash
keyPath=~/keys_for_brox
keyDesc=( var-log-archive-rsync-backup \
dba-mysql-rsync-backup \
www-rsync-backup \
etc-rsync-backup \
vmail-rsync-backup \
dpkg-selections-rsync-backup \
)
command=( "rsync --server --sender -ltrze.iLs . /var/log/archive/*" \
"rsync --server --sender -ltrze.iLs . /var/backups/mysql/*" \
"rsync --server --sender -vltrze.iLs . /var/backups/www/" \
"rsync --server --sender -vltrze.iLs . /var/backups/etc/" \
"rsync --server --sender -vltrze.iLs . /var/backups/vmail/" \
"rsync --server --sender -vltrze.iLs . /var/backups/dpkg/" \
)
rm -rf ${keyPath}/*
for ((i=0;i<${#keyDesc[*]};i++)) ; do
ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 3072 \
-f ${keyPath}/id_rsa_${keyDesc[$i]}_bourbon.biscuit.ninja \
-N "" \
-C ${keyDesc[$i]}
sed -i "1s|^|command=\"${command[$i]}\,no-agent-forwarding,no-port-forwarding,no-x11-forwarding,no-user-rc |" ${keyPath}/id_rsa_${keyDesc[$i]}_bourbon.biscuit.ninja
done
Then I checked the event log on mundo. It's getting spammed choc full of these:Code: [Select]Nov 8 04:20:09 mundo kernel: [14143.334095] net_ratelimit: 131 callbacks suppressed
Nov 8 04:20:09 mundo kernel: [14143.400836] sky2 0000:05:00.0 eth0: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 1020
Nov 8 04:20:09 mundo kernel: [14143.450895] sky2 0000:05:00.0: error interrupt status=0x40000008
Oh yes. I've reduce the MTU and the problem still persists. It looks like dodgy hardware is to blame: Marvel 88E8056 It's some sort of timing issue - the t'interwebs are full of geeks gnashing teeth with the same problem and no resolution.
Apparently people actually fail the theory test. Since it consists of about 5% obscure but easily revised facts (stopping distances, uncommon roadsigns, species of pedestrian crossing), 20% common sense and 75% "D) Slow down and proceed with caution.", you really have to worry.
Destroy PowerPoint is a set of ultra-short stories about PowerPoint presentations, using PowerPoint technology to tell the tales. Through his unique, funny and profound stories of a complex corporate world, David demonstrates how PowerPoint dominates, destroys and pollutes workplace communication...
ian, maybe you could book David Gaffney, master of miniature short stories, for a presentation?
http://www.davidgaffney.org/destroy-powerpoint.htmlQuoteDestroy PowerPoint is a set of ultra-short stories about PowerPoint presentations, using PowerPoint technology to tell the tales. Through his unique, funny and profound stories of a complex corporate world, David demonstrates how PowerPoint dominates, destroys and pollutes workplace communication...
TalkTalk
They want me to do a survey, a good opportunity to tell them I think they are rubbish so I do. At the end I have to choose between free gifts
weight loss product
e cigarette
skin cream
I don't want any of them but there is no way to complete the survey without choosing one so I do. Then they want £4.99 p&p. I decline and my survey doesn't count.
Next thing I know the CEO is on the telly saying their surveys indicate customer satisfaction!
The wonders of mixing CSV files and decimal commas :facepalm:
Usable data? I'm sure our CE&I guys have heard of it once.
TalkTalk
They want me to do a survey, a good opportunity to tell them I think they are rubbish so I do. At the end I have to choose between free gifts
weight loss product
e cigarette
skin cream
I don't want any of them but there is no way to complete the survey without choosing one so I do. Then they want £4.99 p&p. I decline and my survey doesn't count.
Next thing I know the CEO is on the telly saying their surveys indicate customer satisfaction!
err - are you 100% sure the survey came from Talk Talk? ;)
TalkTalk
They want me to do a survey, a good opportunity to tell them I think they are rubbish so I do. At the end I have to choose between free gifts
weight loss product
e cigarette
skin cream
I don't want any of them but there is no way to complete the survey without choosing one so I do. Then they want £4.99 p&p. I decline and my survey doesn't count.
Next thing I know the CEO is on the telly saying their surveys indicate customer satisfaction!
err - are you 100% sure the survey came from Talk Talk? ;)
Press two entire keys! Together! Oh my. Poor thing.Looks more like a First World Problem than a Computing Stuff Rant.
I suspect you people make corrections to documents by crossing out words on screen with a marker pen.
and thusly, this is why I'll never fucking buy another piece of product code protected or subscription-based crud again.
Unfortunately, we cannot complete this transaction. Microsoft does not recognize this as a legitimate product. Please verify you are using a genuine product key when attempting to activate your product. You may be able to return the software to your reseller for a new product.
Thank you for contacting Microsoft, and fuck off.
Hmm, it's not barfing because you've used too many activations ( you just tell the robot it's installed on 1 machine when it asks ).That doesn't work with office 2013 upwards. There is no option to tell it the installation is on one machine, the check is made when connecting to MS to activate the product.
All the Mac stuff just, you know, works. I don't have to type ludicrous strings of characters and digits. This is giving me flashbacks about The Quark Dongle. Shiver.effing iCloud doesn't 'just work'.
Put seriously, 54 digits is laughable (that's about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible combinations and I may have missed a few zeros, they probably got tired of lining up and wandered off for a pint or three). Really, they can't create a unique hardware key with a few fewer digits?
It was supposedly1 Gates who once said the world will never need more than five or six computers.
[1] it wasn't, it was the president of IBM, but it's regularly attributed to Gates.
I truly believe that one day, there will be a telephone in every town in America. Alexander Graham Bell
As prescience goes that was right up there with Ken Olson's "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home".Umm. He was right. No one really _wants_ one. We've just got to have the bloody things because all the sodding companies and the agencies of HMG have decide it's cheaper to use shonky web sites than people answering telephones to fob people off. Hell; I'm paid to write bloody software and I certainly don't _want_ a computer.
As prescience goes that was right up there with Ken Olson's "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home".Umm. He was right. No one really _wants_ one. We've just got to have the bloody things because all the sodding companies and the agencies of HMG have decide it's cheaper to use shonky web sites than people answering telephones to fob people off.
Hell; I'm paid to write bloody software and I certainly don't _want_ a computer.
As prescience goes that was right up there with Ken Olson's "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home".
Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia, you have raised twattery to new levels.
My fondleslab wants to upgrade to iOS 9.1. Now or later, it asks. Later, I say, fo I am using it tolookmake up random "facts" about Croydon. Between 2 and 4 tomorrow, then, it says, provided it's plugged in and has wi-fi rays. I plug it in and bung it on the coffee table, two metres as the well-aimed half-brick flies to the wifi router. Mr Jobs' SCIENCE will do its stuff and I can come down in the morning for tea, toast and iOS 9.1.
I do not what made it not update but the first thing it asks this morning is whether I want to update to iOS 9.1. Look, FruitCo, If you're going to offer this service then make it fucking work, and if it doesn't find conditions to its liking then at least give me a fucking error message. Cretins.
In contrast it decided to do the last update unilaterally. While I was on holibobs. In a hotel with shite wifi. Which caused it to conk out and turn the fondleslab into a paperweight.
"Lobotomised shitlarks" is not too strong a description of the people responsible.
My colleague just upgraded the compiler to 'fix' an error in his code, despite his code quite obviously containing the error reported.
I know only 0.000001% of the population are interested in this, but I had to let it out...
My iMac has started suffering from graphics gremlins. The picture disappears then sometimes reappears either misplaced on the screen (and unresponsive) or with some colours missing. Sounds like the graphics card is breaking down. I had thought it was an El Capitan issue, but it's now happening in Windows too. As a late-2010 model, it's not covered by the free replacement graphic card programme that Apple offered to affected 2011-12 iMac owners, chiz. A replacement card seems to be around £300+. Bugger.
Macs with bad video cards (and there are many iMacs and MacBook Pros among them) can often be rescued by keeping the GPU temps lower than the point at which the chips malfunction and either cause video artifacts, blank the screen, or even crash the Mac. I use 124F as the max but YMMV and, of course, different machine configurations have different fans (and number of fans). It will not fix -all- of them but it will for many.
But that magic button toggles everything in the Mac world (and I doubt non-savvy users change the default). Anyway, just right-click and select Open Package to get at the contents and the Originals folder without command line incantations.
It's a laptop with a clicky touchpad. No doubt -- if right-button mice are now standard -- there is some elegantly unmarked area that counts as "right" when you press it, if only you know it's there...
Fondleslab, how the fuck is it taking four hours and counting to install that Dropbox update?
Chris - Intel Windows 8 Tablet - Now Just ??
Is there a browser available for iOS that isn't shit?
Plus, the fuckers are making me feel old, I means seriously, how many years do I have to scroll back to get to my DoB.
This is one of the reasons I've started tweaking the truth about my birthdate for people that demand a date but don't seem to have a good reason to know it. Of course that creates the problem of remembering which date I gave out :)
"To vote via internet you will need to enter the following two-part security code:
Security Code part one: {a six digit number}
Security Code part two: Please enter your date of birth in the format DDMM"
Is there a browser available for iOS that isn't shit?
Dolphin (http://dolphin.com/features/), if it's as good as the Android version (?).
Apparently on some sites about a quarter of users were born on New Year's Dayand are 116 years old.
OK, so it was my fault for backing shit up to the wrong directory but really, Acronis, why do you claim it'll take five hours to move the backup file to the right directory on the same fucking disc >:(. I could pack up the NAS and drive it to Newcastle in that time.
F*** me, I hate MS windows. Do any of the supposed MS support experts actually know any f-ing thing about the subject?!Ummm, I had summat similar a month or three back. Couldn't install VS 2015. Kept choking on installing 4.6 framework. Had to get the machine rebuilt from an O.S. reinstall. Not sure why, but others in the team were similarly affected.
.Net will not install on my Windows 7 system (Installation failed with error code: (0x80070643)) so I'm looking at the support forums. There are people there going around and around in circles looking for an answer and all those so-called experts can do is keep referring to same knowledge base articles that don't help. Strikes me that nobody really knows what goes on under the hood of this devil's spawn.
It really shouldn't.
Moving files within the same filesystem should just be an exercise in changing the directory entries.
There should be no need to shuffle the actual data.
.Net will not install on my Windows 7 system
Those interfering cockshafts at Microsith have changed my default programs under Win10, such that PDFs are associated with Microsith Edge ???Explanation here
No, Microsith, just because that cell has the "/" character in it does not mean it's a date. It's text. I told you it was text. I selected the entire fucking sheet and did "Format Cells...Text". So when I do a replace all from "nn/62" to "nn/68" I do not want to see it turning into for e.g. "Apr-68". Just do as you're fucking told.
Also, stop opening local .htm(l) files with Edge. It's not big, it's not clever and IT'S NOT THE DEFAULT BROWSER!!1!
I bet Charlie Babbage never had to put up with this kind of bollocks >:(
I disagree. I am NOT going to type a leading quote into every sodding cell, just to allow it to display the leading zeros on an entire column of phone numbers. I have to format the column as text. What is so effing difficult for MS to allow Excel to show leading zeroes? My spreadsheets are often garnered from assorted sources of data, so I cannot control how it arrives. On this note, why does Excel sometimes decide, when copying data from one text formatted cell to another text formatted cell, to reset the formatting to number?
In my view, the number formatting dialogue should have a bit saying allow leading zeroes, yes/no.
I disagree. I am NOT going to type a leading quote into every sodding cell, just to allow it to display the leading zeros on an entire column of phone numbers. I have to format the column as text. What is so effing difficult for MS to allow Excel to show leading zeroes? My spreadsheets are often garnered from assorted sources of data, so I cannot control how it arrives. On this note, why does Excel sometimes decide, when copying data from one text formatted cell to another text formatted cell, to reset the formatting to number?
In my view, the number formatting dialogue should have a bit saying allow leading zeroes, yes/no.
They do?
Format-> Custom -> 0000 (or as many zeros as you want)
You need a Regular Expression find/replace in a text editor. Worked on the column with the number / name combo.Notepad++ is a very good and free windows text editor that Does. The. Right. Things. (tm)
Converting 'number (with or without letter after it) space' into 'number (with or without letter after it) tab'
Copy the column into a txt editor, do the reg exp thing, insert one or more columns in the spreadsheet then paste the text back in.
Obviously it isn't quite as simple as that...
...Microsoft Word deciding it's going to piss all over your quotation marks...
...Microsoft Word deciding it's going to piss all over your quotation marks...
Yes, WTF is going on with those (nae jist Windaes)?
Also, Unicode consortium! You've seen fit to supply us with several flavours of slightly different asterisk, turds, snowmen, countless useful mathematical symbols and god knows what else, but at no point did anyone sit down and think that it might be a good idea to have a little Asterix, for ironic use around people who can't spell? Standards organisations - no sense of humour.Rem acu tetigisti. I think that must be it: emoji are mildly horrible because they're ultimately joyless. And the more there are of them, the less they do a useful job. They cease to be a punctuation mark conveying how the plain written text would be varied in more expressive speech, and become a mere method for typesetting pictures inline with text. Ultimately either the choice of pictograph is too restrictive, established by the joyless standards committee in arbitrary ways and freezing temporarily popular images into communications for all time; or it is too general, and finding the picture you want among all the 232 (ok, currently only a thousand-odd, but still) randomly added elements of the standard becomes impossible; while no font designer could possibly hope to produce new images for every character, so the pictograph as typeset will be selected from some generic font and fit the text as badly as a cut-and-pasted picture would. Or both.
Also, Unicode consortium! You've seen fit to supply us with several flavours of slightly different asterisk, turds, snowmen, countless useful mathematical symbols and god knows what else, but at no point did anyone sit down and think that it might be a good idea to have a little Asterix, for ironic use around people who can't spell? Standards organisations - no sense of humour.Rem acu tetigisti. I think that must be it: emoji are mildly horrible because they're ultimately joyless. And the more there are of them, the less they do a useful job. They cease to be a punctuation mark conveying how the plain written text would be varied in more expressive speech, and become a mere method for typesetting pictures inline with text. Ultimately either the choice of pictograph is too restrictive, established by the joyless standards committee in arbitrary ways and freezing temporarily popular images into communications for all time; or it is too general, and finding the picture you want among all the 232 (ok, currently only a thousand-odd, but still) randomly added elements of the standard becomes impossible; while no font designer could possibly hope to produce new images for every character, so the pictograph as typeset will be selected from some generic font and fit the text as badly as a cut-and-pasted picture would. Or both.
In the end we will certainly abandon the idea, and this forum would be a great place to start. We should ban them all.(click to show/hide)
F'ing Acronis True Image, WTF do you think you are playing at?
I buy a new 1TB SSD on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, you decide you are going to back up my entire system to it, thus neatly filling it up totally. Bearing in mind you do not have ANY scheduled backups, but rely on me doing them when I'm available (and therefore when the PC is actually switched on), quite how did you manage this piece of fuckwittery? So, you see a new drive appear and think, "well, he doesn't want me doing scheduled backups toe the 3TB drive which I normally, use, so I'll do a ninja backup to the new drive he thinks he's going to use for data, instead, that'll teach him to mess with my settings"...
(http://i.imgur.com/gKvb5S9.png)
TalkTalk are making me do lots of swears. They seem adamant there's no issue with the network. I beg to differ.
Frikkin Santander and their sodding crappy Internet banking!
Everything I use it, it freezes Firefox and then the entire laptop.
Anyone got an Internet bank that is less shitty? (Actually I have several already but I suppose it's time I found another new one)
Frikkin Santander and their sodding crappy Internet banking!
Everything I use it, it freezes Firefox and then the entire laptop.
Anyone got an Internet bank that is less shitty? (Actually I have several already but I suppose it's time I found another new one)
My wife ranted her frustration at the Windows 7 box last night. "Can I have Linux back?" she finally said. My work here is done :)
But I shall leave it. As much as I'm not a fan of Windows, it is 'useful' having it around. Justin Case.
Is your phone just connecting for charging? Have you checked on your phone to see if it has an explicit option to switch to 'disk' mode?
Try another cable. They do go dodgy.
Um, surely if you want to transfer media, then media transfer protocol that its offering you, is what you need?
They do go dodgy.
Try another cable.Finding an Apple Lightning cable in Кам'янець-Подільський is not exactly straightforward. When I did, it was in a locked display cabinet, priced at a whole €2. I asked if it was a good one, the guy cheerfully said "about 50:50".
Finding an Apple Lightning cable in Кам'янець-Подільський is not exactly straightforward. When I did, it was in a locked display cabinet, priced at a whole €2. I asked if it was a good one, the guy cheerfully said "about 50:50".Have you visited the castle? i'm told it's very good, & that the surviving parts of the old city are also fine.
On a related note, is it just me, or are micro-USB connectors a lot less effective in their sacrificial-bit-at-the-cable-end than the specification would imply?
Some of the blame lies with the shallow surface-mount sockets you tend to get in things like phones. There's no way that's not going to put the solder/PCB under loads of stress. But the connectors seem to do a good line in bending and no longer holding the cable securely, too.
Finding an Apple Lightning cable in Кам'янець-Подільський is not exactly straightforward. When I did, it was in a locked display cabinet, priced at a whole €2. I asked if it was a good one, the guy cheerfully said "about 50:50".Have you visited the castle? i'm told it's very good, & that the surviving parts of the old city are also fine.
There are interludes of happiness where VM just works, but they don't seem to last long. What are the odds of two WAN connections failing in completely different modes on the same day?
Version control?
For really important reasons (Intellectual Property, everything in caps), file sharing and cloud apps such as dropbox are verboten where I work. Absolutely verboten. Even USB memory sticks are very very frowned on. If you want to work from home, vpn in to a work machine.
So what does MS do? Install and configure effing OneDrive on my Work machine, without asking. I told IT support bod as soon as I noticed. He swore a lot too. Removing it seems to be difficult.
My two wireless printers have been working perfectly with AirPrint for 8 months so far. From computers and devices.
For some reason my laptop thinks that printer upstairs is offline.
Unless I look at its web page, of course, then it's ready.
If, however, I actually want to print something, that's not possible.
[I don't actually *want* to print it, but apparently I need to take pieces of paper with notes on to meetings. It's what you do if you're a boss-type-person in a factory. Apparently]
Fucking computers.
My two wireless printers have been working perfectly with AirPrint for 8 months so far. From computers and devices.
Ah well I stand corrected. Proven technology.
:facepalm:
My working system went like this:For some reason my laptop thinks that printer upstairs is offline.
Unless I look at its web page, of course, then it's ready.
If, however, I actually want to print something, that's not possible.
[I don't actually *want* to print it, but apparently I need to take pieces of paper with notes on to meetings. It's what you do if you're a boss-type-person in a factory. Apparently]
Fucking computers.
In all seriousness, have you managed to resolve this? If not, HTH.
Google, what is it with the newly-appeared finger-width strip of whitespace above the keyboard when typing in Chrome onna fondleslab? The space you type in is small enough as it is, without you dicks taking a chunk of it away to do ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOTHING >:(Thanks for the warning. Knowing this I shall continue to dismiss the, "We've made Chrome even more marvellous! Upgrade now!" hectoring message that appears at irregular intervals with a cheery, "Fuck off!" and a touch of the [X] "button". Until, of course, The Chocolate Factory takes a leaf out of the M$ GWX dirty tricks book.
It has two options: OK, and Cancel
You have signed ints, surely a signed byte is just a rather short signed int.
I don't like the sound of a type called Signed Byte.
If you want to use an 8-bit quantity with a sign bit, call it something like a 'Very Short Int'.
Adobe, WTF have you done to Lightroom with your bloody "update". I know that those of us who bought it outright, didn't get the whole thing, which is a scummy enough trick, but now entire civilisations can develop, flourish, last for millennia, and then die out before you finish doing anything!
Adobe, WTF have you done to Lightroom with your bloody "update". I know that those of us who bought it outright, didn't get the whole thing, which is a scummy enough trick, but now entire civilisations can develop, flourish, last for millennia, and then die out before you finish doing anything!
I feel your pain. The two most helpful suggestions seem to be (i) turn off GPU acceleration and (ii) increase the cache size.
You can pop the MacOS installer on a bootable USB.
Android is designed for touchscreen input.
Sixty five update on. Sixty five updates off.Six five special right on tiiiimmme! :)
Oh well fucking done, Microsith! Your so-called "update" has broken many of the scheduled tasks on this machine. Trivial stuff like AV scans, backups, that sort of thing. Nice one.It's only going to get better* when they introduce dungball** updates in October for Win7 & Win8.x
And all in stupid small files, which really slows down the transfer rates.
On big files, the transfer rate goes well up, but when it's thrashing through thousands of small files, this is what I'm getting ( wired gigabit ):
Is that where good old fashioned tar cf - * | ssh -c user@remote (cd dir; tar xf -) works fine as it is one big file..?
Sony, the idea of having a smart phone that you can install apps on is so you can choose the apps you want to install. Not fill it up with pointless crap, updates to pointless crap and yet more versions of useless rubbish so that there is no space for users own apps. 8Gb storage, of which I am using less than 500MB and you are baking in loads of rubbish I don't want, don't need and stopping me using the phone as a useful tool.
maybe its time for an upgrade - looking for an android with OTG for a sensible price.
Why the feck is call centre queue music so horrid.
VBA.Points and larfs out loud. :)
Out of interest, are you using VS 2015 Update 3?Not on the offending box. Every time I've tried to install U3 the damned work firewall/proxy has banjaxed it by killing the download part way through. The offending piece of crap is slated for replacement this month; or so I've been told. We'll see.
So please you motherfucking shitbiscuits STOP TURNING THE SERVICE BACK ON.I have a suspicion that Media Player switches WU on when you start it. Like you I run my machines with WU stabbed in the heart with a dirty great stake, but every now and again I find it has risen from the dead unbidden. It may be coincidence, I really _cannot_ be fussed with investigating further as life's too short, but it always seems to be shortly after I've used MP to play something. You won't be surprised to hear I normally use VLC instead of MP.
Oh, fucking well done, Microsith >:( During your fucked-up attempt to "update" my laptop last night you have deleted the entire directory tree containing all my e-mail settings, spam filters, passworms and EVERY FUCKING MESSAGE I'VE SENT OR RECEIVED IN THE PAST FOUR WEEKS. Nice one.That seems surprising.
Thunderbird was behaving as expected
Will whatever it is that's nomming all my internets bandwidth either make itself known or fuck the fuck off >:( This is as bad as the Battle Mountain Super 8, FFS
Will whatever it is that's nomming all my internets bandwidth either make itself known or fuck the fuck off >:( This is as bad as the Battle Mountain Super 8, FFS
All downloads take 3 minutes 20 seconds?
Will whatever it is that's nomming all my internets bandwidth either make itself known or fuck the fuck off >:( This is as bad as the Battle Mountain Super 8, FFSWe had that problem at work. 5 different downloads of Windows 10 Anniversary update did bog down our (fairly poor at the best of times) connection a bit.
We had that problem at work. 5 different downloads of Windows 10 Anniversary update did bog down our (fairly poor at the best of times) connection a bit.
Will whatever it is that's nomming all my internets bandwidth either make itself known or fuck the fuck off >:( This is as bad as the Battle Mountain Super 8, FFSWe had that problem at work. 5 different downloads of Windows 10 Anniversary update did bog down our (fairly poor at the best of times) connection a bit.
I found that the IP address for one server we were renting had been previously used for dodgy stuff, so the reputation was awful.
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I'm weighing up a similar problem for my own stuff. Do I continue to pay for my web/email hosting (but no ssh access) or do I use that money to get a small VPS and run my own stuff (postfix/dovecot/nginx/etc)? The danger is I get an IP that's got a bad history and I end up having to spend more money to get my outgoing mail sent.
Last week updates trashed GRUB (bootloader) and UEFI (bios jibbler) and the Windows install and took the entire system down with it. Had to disconnect the Linux disk and have time wasted by M$'s diagnostics failing to deal with the issue. Safemode seemed to work and reverted the update. Kim then spent ages fixing UEFI and GRUB for me so my Linux could load properly.
So that's about 36 hours to do a format and reinstall. Nice.
M$. At this point regular readers may skip to the next post. There is, depressingly, nothing new here.
Still here? OK. Read on.
For pity's sake. How can it be impossible to install one of _your_ products on one of _your_ pitiful operating systems? Not only that, but _how_ the in the name of all that's holy can it take over two hours to install, correction, _fail_ to install, your application?
A new squeaky clean machine with Win 7 64 bit Enterprise. Visual Studio 15 U3. I mean how effing difficult can it be? I remember installing Win NT from (31) floppy disks and that only took about an hour - for a complete bloody O.S.
I've had to install/reinstall VS15 4 or 5 times on various machines. Or is it 6? I don't know, you lose count; that and the will to live after a while. And of the numerous attempts how many do you think worked first time? Go on, Guess. That's right; exactly 0 (zero, nought, null) times now. In one case I had to hand the machine back to our tame hardware herder to have it flattened to clean OS.
Shoot me. Now.
Windows (7) Explorer search:I gave up on explorer search within days of getting a Win7 machine. I generally drop into command line and use ...
How on EARTH did they make it so random??? I can accept that it won't be as pretty/quick/useful as Google, but it would be nice if it actually found a file, in a folder with 40 files, given a part of the actual file-name to search on.
dir /s *file-name-part* > op.txtI disagree. 10 minutes into a windows search of a network lcation that I just know is going to turn up sod all I'll kick off a dir and it usually finishes first.
Not fast, but reliable.
Windows (7) Explorer search:I gave up on explorer search within days of getting a Win7 machine. I generally drop into command line and use ...
How on EARTH did they make it so random??? I can accept that it won't be as pretty/quick/useful as Google, but it would be nice if it actually found a file, in a folder with 40 files, given a part of the actual file-name to search on.
dir /s *file-name-part* > op.txt
Not fast, but reliable.
Bloody Kindle has decided not to do wi-fi again >:(
Bloody Kindle has decided not to do wi-fi again >:(
When we first got a Kindle, it couldn't connect to our European WiFi, because my WiFi was on European channel 13.
Older kindles could only do USAsian channels 1-11.
I cant remember if a kindle updeat fixed it, or if I forced the WiFi to channel6 or somesuch.
But there is/was an issue with kindles being too USEsian in their WiFi appetites.
Is it possible that your WiFi has auto-wombled off to channel 13 or somesuch?
Credit / Debit card issuers, sort your effing authentication.
I should not be seeing things like this in my address bar:-https://secure5.arcot.com
It's allegedly an insecure page using the https protocol, and it's certainly not at bigbank.com, like it should be. And as you load that page in a frame, my browser doesn't even tell me why it refuses to load.
I'm supposed to be buying stuff online, not having to decide whether arcot.com is actually secure and is someone I should trust, and I certainly shouldn't be having to play silly games with extra tabs and agreeing to this and that, just to get to enter my card details.
Look, fondleslab, if I tap the "Open in Safari" wossname on a Facething post then kindly do as you're fucking told and open the damn page IN SAFARI >:( Not in the Grauniad's app.
I know it's an old, cheap printer but fruitytech is supposed to Just Work, isn't it?
HP don't do an OS X driver for a LaserJet 1018.
Neither do Apple.
Apple do offer a bundle of drivers including one for a 1022, which apparently will work.
Said bundle is a HALF A FLAMING GIGABYTE download.
:facepalm:
In other news: Winsock. Ha, there's still people using Windows for Workgroups 3.1.Lucky bastards.
I know it's an old, cheap printer but fruitytech is supposed to Just Work, isn't it?
HP don't do an OS X driver for a LaserJet 1018.
Neither do Apple.
Apple do offer a bundle of drivers including one for a 1022, which apparently will work.
Said bundle is a HALF A FLAMING GIGABYTE download.
:facepalm:
To be fair, Apple don't write the drivers, that's down to HP, they just bundle and ship them. Along with Siri's core AI and associated routines in preparation for our dystopian future as playthings of ever more capricious AIs. Or possibly that's already happened.
In other news: Winsock. Ha, there's still people using Windows for Workgroups 3.1.
To be fair, Apple don't write the drivers, that's down to HP, they just bundle and ship them.
To be fair, Apple don't write the drivers, that's down to HP, they just bundle and ship them.
That's really my issue - rather than letting me download one driver, I have to download and install ALL the drivers for every HP printer and scanner they support. The mind boggles.
:thumbsup:In other news: Winsock. Ha, there's still people using Windows for Workgroups 3.1.Lucky bastards.
Windows. :facepalm:How long do the VMs run after each reset? I had the same issue on a job a few years ago and in the end kept the VM snapshot in an unjoined state. It's not just that the VMs stop trusting the Domain, the DC will stop trusting the VM if.... jeepers it was a while ago now ... I think there is a trust certificate that gets refreshed periodically between DC & client and basically after a reset the VM goes back to using an old copy of the certificate that the DC no longer trusts.
I have a "lab" I use for testing - it's a set of VMs on a Windows domain - there's a DC with DHCP/DNS - pffft, standard stuff. I have robot scripts that reset the VM states prior to automated testing, driven by Jenkins jobs from another server; and all is good.
Except... when the VMs get a new DHCP lease after a reset back to baseline, they randomly "untrust" the network; so the "Domain Network" suddenly becomes "Public (Untrusted) Network" and the VM drops off the Domain resources - it no longer appears in DNS, and so on. The only way to fix this at this point is to leave/re-join the VM to the domain. Which means I the have to take a new baseline snapshot of the VM. It's all VERY tedious.
A solution would be to have all the lab VMs with static addresses. FFS ::-).
Windows. :facepalm:
I have a "lab" I use for testing - it's a set of VMs on a Windows domain - there's a DC with DHCP/DNS - pffft, standard stuff. I have robot scripts that reset the VM states prior to automated testing, driven by Jenkins jobs from another server; and all is good.
Except... when the VMs get a new DHCP lease after a reset back to baseline, they randomly "untrust" the network; so the "Domain Network" suddenly becomes "Public (Untrusted) Network" and the VM drops off the Domain resources - it no longer appears in DNS, and so on. The only way to fix this at this point is to leave/re-join the VM to the domain. Which means I the have to take a new baseline snapshot of the VM. It's all VERY tedious.
A solution would be to have all the lab VMs with static addresses. FFS ::-).
Not 100% sure what you mean by thermochrons and hygrochrons, but do you mean dataloggers?Yes, formerly Dallas but now Maxim iButton devices. Very tiny beasts:
I habitually use Omega USB dataloggers that record temp and humidity, and used to cost about £50 a throw. I've had 3 of them for about 3 years, with no trouble at all.Thanks, these look a good alternative :thumbsup: Much deeper memory means less frequent downloading. I run the 'chrons at 20 minute intervals which means I download every four weeks (the hygro could go to 8 but if I'm emptying the thermo anyway...). These I could go to 31 weeks but I would probably empty at 20 or 24. I can certainly switch two of the hygros to those instead, outside and Mrs Tweens studio (the senile one). The third hygro in the house would be a tad conspicuous unless I can think of a better hiding place. The thermo in the loft can switch too, that gets all the long walk & awkward access ones on a usefully long cycle time making the 4 week job much easier.
Ah, they seem to have gone down in price. http://www.omega.co.uk/pptst/OM-EL-USB-1.htmlScroll down, £35 is temp only. T&H are £50 or £63 which still beats a hygrochron at £88
{snip}Yeah, ooooooh ages* ago. The old DEC LN03 laser printers would happily print on the unused side of previously used paper without jamming. This was back before double-sided printing was a thing on small printers and when printer / photocopier paper was expensive enough to warrant doing this. It was a right bugger if you put the paper the wrong way up in the tray.
Have anyone ever tried to feed a printer successfully with paper that have gone through it once before, I think not!
When can we get to the point where printing is not needed anymore. They said back when PCs etc kicked off that we would safe so much paper and therefore the forests of the world!
Have anyone ever tried to feed a printer successfully with paper that have gone through it once before, I think not!
I manually duplex paper in my HP Laserjet without issue.
That said the toner cartridge ran out about two years ago so I've mostly gone paperless by default. I've yet to raise the courage to order a replacement.
I use the reverse of printed-one-side paper all the time for semi-scrap uses in a very old HP Laserjet 2018, so feeding paper back into a laser for another run doesn't necessarily cause any problems.QuoteHave anyone ever tried to feed a printer successfully with paper that have gone through it once before, I think not!
Assuming the paper isn't bent or creased, I've found it works okayish on inkjets with an uncomplicated paper path, and I never met an impact dot-matrix (that didn't rely on tractor feed) that cared. Lasers not so much, as the fuser tends to give the paper a curl, and they tend to have paper paths that will jam if you so much as look at them wrongly. Even the venerable Laserjet 4000 series is a bit dodgy at duplexing.
Ha! Network printers FTW
Phone rings from London. "We've got several copies of this document printed out, did one of your staff print it?!"
There's a painful slice in my scrollwheel finger after being bitten by a fan during yesterday's UPS fettle (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=71021.msg2130998#msg2130998). Hoping the fan wasn't radioactive, lest this end in a crap superhero origin story.
{snip}Yeah, ooooooh ages* ago. The old DEC LN03 laser printers would happily print on the unused side of previously used paper without jamming. This was back before double-sided printing was a thing on small printers and when printer / photocopier paper was expensive enough to warrant doing this. It was a right bugger if you put the paper the wrong way up in the tray.
Have anyone ever tried to feed a printer successfully with paper that have gone through it once before, I think not!
*30 years.
FFS! Well done, The Internet - progress in the last 10 years - zero.
Ha! Network printers FTW
Phone rings from London. "We've got several copies of this document printed out, did one of your staff print it?!"
Of course, this progress brings a whole new range of things that can go wrong.Yeah, you can't come back from a liquid lunch and blame the return delay on a paper jam anymore :)
Ha! Network printers FTW
Phone rings from London. "We've got several copies of this document printed out, did one of your staff print it?!"
We now have cloud printing in the office. No matter where you are you print to a single generic 'cloud' printer and nothing happens until you walk up to a printer (any printer anywhere in the company in however many different countries) and prod your ID badge against the reader, then your stuff prints.
Of course, this progress brings a whole new range of things that can go wrong.
Of course, this progress brings a whole new range of things that can go wrong.
We have a not quite so advanced version of that system. You still select a particular printer but the job doesn't emerge until you slap your badge on the doohickey...Ohh, we've got that system as well. If it works it's good. If...
My access card refused to work so I was given a password for cloud printing. So when I forget my card I cannot access the toilets, but I can print stuff ::-)Well at least that is a handy thing to be able to do ...
My access card refused to work so I was given a password for cloud printing. So when I forget my card I cannot access the toilets, but I can print stuff ::-)
Microsoft can't even get their own UI conventions consistently applied in their own office suite on their own OS, you've no hope on a mac. Adobe couldn't find their own arse with both hands and a map, noone has a chance anywhere ever.
And MicroSloth have removed one of the best bits of the Excel interface. I may have ranted before about it but it deserves another one. You used to be able to put a '=' in a cell then click on whatever cells you wanted and it would put them in the formula with a '+'
Dear Creative,
Thank you for updating the software that Does Things with my sound card. However, I had the default sound device set to the optical output on said sound card for a reason, viz. that is the hole out of which the sound travels on its way to the amplifier. So there's no need to change it to something which ISN't connected to anything other than thin air, is there? Just stop it.
Fucking Plusnet have deleted all the folders in my mum's email account. I'm stuck in a queue for their online support as there is no offline way I can deal with them. If they cannot/willnot restore data I will be calling the ICO on them. I searched online and found others had had similar and they weren't over the storage amount and did not receive warning. I have been waiting 7 mins and counting. I'm now 4th in the queue. The system doesn't really tell you what is going on for ages. User interface of fail. I'm hassling them on twitter in case that's faster...
A tale of updating two operating systems.
Saturday: update to existing OS. Dear me it was painful. Lengthy download, with no indication of progress (real or imagined). Eventually downloaded it, ran the updater...which then failed to work so I had to start from scratch. Second update did work, very, very, very slowly. OK, it was to an HD rather than SSD, but shouldn't be that slow. Multiple reboots, some of them hung which was very helpful, followed by more extraordinary slow 'progress'. Less than 1% per minute...on a 3.33 hex core Xeon! And then I was prompted for a password and it wouldn't accept it even though I knew it was right, eventually it took....this normally speedy machine remains doggedly slow on this OS, god knows how anyone stands using it all day. Admittedly the OS hadn't even been booted in months, so many updates needed, but......updating took all day and it wasn't a new OS let alone a clean install!!
Sunday: New version of OS. Already had installer (without updates) on USB stick. Install to SSD took about half an hour. One password needed, accepted without question, zero faffage. Machine rebooted perfectly first time. Ran update to latest version- 1.8 Gb download, then another half hour. Runs very nicely, no further software updates needed- Wi-fi connection not recognised (a known issue with this machine config & OS version, I'll need a new Wi-fi adaptor)…then seamlessly cloned the SSD's new OS install to the main HD.
Saturday was (you'll never guess…) the Windows 10 Anniversary update.
Sunday (you'll never guess…): MacOS Sierra 10.12 (and hence to 10.12.3) from El Capitan.
It's still better to think different......
Gav?
...I'm going to hunt down the software developers who think it's 'this page can't be restored' is a useful error message...
Really!? What kind of {insert long string of derogatory and obscene adjectives here} _BANK_ IT system can't ...
Given that a (the?) core element of their business requires keeping track of customer accounts then a bank system that can't do something as basic as that is +seriously+ fucked.Really!? What kind of {insert long string of derogatory and obscene adjectives here} _BANK_ IT system can't ...You say that like you think _BANK_ IT systems might be expected to be something special.
{snip}
I still think Pine would be a good solution. Nice clear button-pressing based interface that you can write meaningful cheat-notes for. And since it's text-only, she wouldn't spew as many blurry grandchildren photos with it, which would help towards the data bloat problem.
And I made it possible to remotely access his computer from my home.This. I use TeamViewer, probably as recommended by someone here. Free (with the occasional nag) for home use.
An impromptu teaching segment on SSH tunnelling ensued with a subsequent delay of 20% of the teaching time.
And in other news TalkTalk will be blocking TeamViewer as an anti-fraudster measure. May only be temporary. More info. here. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/09/talktalk_blocks_teamviewer/)And I made it possible to remotely access his computer from my home.This. I use TeamViewer, probably as recommended by someone here. Free (with the occasional nag) for home use.
Doesn't help when Mother's kittens have run across the keyboard and turned the wifi off, but we're used to that one now.
Dear Android app developers, please remember that your app may not just be used on phones and tablets, it could be used on television boxes as well, where we need landscape mode. Too many apps work in portrait only. It's doing my neck in.
You may think no-one would want to use your app at home if it's primarily designed for travelling, for example, but even that is not always true.
I would also complain about lack of special alternatives to touch screen control, but that can mean a lot more extra work so it can be forgiven. We mostly have enough control with a remote touchpad, fortunately. Landscape support is not so hard.
I'm going to hunt down the software developers who think it's 'this page can't be restored' is a useful error message and make trained weasels eat their eyeballs.
{Well reasoned and extremely articulate disquisition on the failings of lower order life forms removed for the sake of brevity.}
Then I input it all over and you guessed it. Someone tells me to clear my cache again and I'm going to clear theirs. Permanently.
Time to switch to NUT?
Dear People,
A business/self-employed individual shouldn't rely on 'free' email. It's not so much that it looks more professional, it's more that the email address is portable so if you have problems with the underlying email hosting, you can still switch to a different mail provider. Relying on free email just doesn't cut it.
One of the most important qualities in any self-respecting computer nerd is to not spread miss-information to non-technical people, and not to act based on such assumptions. Basically don't bulls**t people and don't mess with their things unless you know what you're doing. Especially if those people are self-employed/running businesses.
Regards
Grumpy IT Person.
BBC bork get_iplayer: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/announcement-23.htmlI hit that last night. >:( >:(
BBC bork get_iplayer: https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/announcement-23.html
Still, nothing quite annoys me as much as the frame/content drag behaviour in InDesign.
webmail sanity
webmail sanity
Oxymoron.
It's so disconcerting just how much Facebook knows about me
Last night, a great many months late to the party, my Galaxy Tab S2 fondleslab finally received the OTA update to Android 7 'Nougat'. And there was much rejoicing.This is the sort of thing that makes me click the [Fuck Off and Don't Bother Me] button whenever any of the software, including the O.S., on my fondleslab says, "Yay! FABBY new wossnames are available! Your life isn't complete without them! Download NOW!" I just _know_ that for every useful new thing there'll be a metric shedload of pointless and infuriating yoof/marketroid driven changes and as you have so pithily pointed out they will not be configurable (i.e switched OFF PERMANENTLY) without advanced voodoo.
At least until I looked at the notifications wossname. ....
Whereas I'm keen to update. I find more to like than hate with each new version.
Kim, if you can bear to have a sticky notification row (or two), have a go with the Power Toggles app. It can hold up to eight settings or app shortcuts of your choice per row, with customisable colours for the on and off states.
I use Buttons Remapper to open the notifications panel from a physical keyboard.
#ifdef <not running in new environment>
// I don't know why you would need to do this, the default is 15 seconds
else
{
<section that increases the timeout>
}
#endif
git blame
it didn't take long to find out who that someone is. A very experienced developer who should know better.
Oh sorry, I didn't check properly how I did it. It needs an app called All in One Gestures as well - using a bonus feature, not actually a gesture. Root not required.
1. Install and activate All in one gestures and enable one of its services (Swipe/Status bar/Hard keys) even if you're not using it or have it set to do anything.
2. From Buttons Remapper, for the Action, select: Other - Shortcut - All in one gestures - Status bar - Notification panel.
After several times of being unplugged and or dropped and thrown. Now it no longer works. All that happens is the flashing amber light.For most computer hardware I'd say that's probably for the best. :)
Timezones.
Arrrrghhhhhh!!! >:(
Anyway, why would you want to know how many seconds ago a historical event happened?
If the events in the list are affected by the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, as he mentioned, then it's rather unlikely they could be dated to the second.
gmmktime is supposed to produce a Unix timestamp from a GMT time and date. Only it works from local time and converts back to GMT. I found that gmmktime was an hour out for a couple of hours after the clocks changed.
After several times of being unplugged and or dropped and thrown. Now it no longer works. All that happens is the flashing amber light.For most computer hardware I'd say that's probably for the best. :)
Ah power jacks...what would cause a power jack to overheat?
Ah power jacks...what would cause a power jack to overheat?
Excessive charging current or the jack not being rated for the power. Both seem unlikely to me. A short circuit could cause meltdown, but the power supply should trip before that.
Some times the toshiba laptop works and sometimes the flashing lights of doom.
How the brian christ can I take something that worked, replace the cmos battery and now it doesn't work anymore? Then my favourite, change a memory dimm and the computer no longer works. Changed the dimm back and the same....Arggggghhhhhhh
Nor do I ever find what I'm looking for when I do noodle about searching for a few minutes.I may have just had a little accident
Today our EPOS system decided it wouldn't sell any weighed goods and failed utterly to read barcodes from the scales. Turns out it was only working due to a bug, which was fixed in the latest update.
FFS.
I was informed it was hard to predict a fix that would expose a bug. Maybe it is, but it was stupendously easy to TEST, surely?
GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Testing? Isn't that what customers are for? :)Today our EPOS system decided it wouldn't sell any weighed goods and failed utterly to read barcodes from the scales. Turns out it was only working due to a bug, which was fixed in the latest update.
FFS.
I was informed it was hard to predict a fix that would expose a bug. Maybe it is, but it was stupendously easy to TEST, surely?
GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
yebbut testing costs money. Often testing means paying people to do testing.
Yeah, pretty much. :(I had the misfortune to work for a company some 11 or 12 years ago where it was official policy to farm the testing out to the customers. I'm not sure the customers knew this. I didn't stay there very long.
They sent me an environmental report, and wanted me to confirm that I had consulted a qualified surveyor and wished to proceed with the purchase. How many times have I told you I'm a surveyor, you numpties!? A once in 200 yrs flood risk 250 metres away is not a real flood risk at my home 10 metres higher, and a supposed radon risk is not real, in a house at the top of a slope, on ground with no granite, with a solid concrete floor.
Why do harddrives die at the worst possible time?
Why do harddrives die at the worst possible time?
Why do harddrives die at the worst possible time?
Mobile phone companies, when someone's contract expires and they ring to check on an upgrade why the hell can't you match the offers you give to new customers ?Get another network PAYG sim, port number to that and then to the new SIM.
Now Mrs P Colbeck will have to have a new contract with a new number even though its with the same carrier.
Why would branding guidelines not be predominantly full of vector images and therefore small in size?I bet they are full of EPS files containing badly exported bitmap images.
Why would branding guidelines not be predominantly full of vector images and therefore small in size?I bet they are full of EPS files containing badly exported bitmap images.
I speaks from experience.Why would branding guidelines not be predominantly full of vector images and therefore small in size?I bet they are full of EPS files containing badly exported bitmap images.
And you aren't joking either...
Back in the late 90s we had a customer who wanted to backup a large (for the time) amount of data between the UK and the US every couple of days. It wasn't static data either there was a lot of churn in it.
After doing the calculations and the costs on the required bandwidth of a suitable cross Atlantic comms link we advised him to get some large removable hard drives and get them flown backwards and forwards on Concord as that would be orders of magnitude cheaper.
Facebook again
I've got a profile which I haven't logged onto for about 18 months. It was only set up to keep in touch with ex work colleagues but it's just too needy - like having a 2 year old child.
Last couple of days I've had emails from FB saying that a couple of women (scantily clad from the profile pics in the Emails) want to be friends with me. So the question is have I pulled? or are they just after me for my money?
Me: | OK, PC, copy these folders and files from the larger directory tree on that device over there to this fresh shiny new USB stick! |
COPY: | Can't, because the folder you want to copy to does not yet exist*. Soz. |
XCOPY: | I can do that! Oh, wait! Some of the folder and file names have funny characters in them! Do you really expect me to understand "é", "ñ" or that Canadian lot** whose name looks like "HRSTA" but isn't? |
Me: | MP3TAG manages it OK... |
ROBOCOPY: | Stand aside, XCOPY! This is a job for me! Half copy, half something else, all-powerful, bulletproof and psych...ERROR 87 |
Me: | WTAF does THAT mean? |
Teh Internetz: | We don't know LOL. Try another device? Also, ROFL! Would you like to see some pictures of kittens? |
Me: | I don't have another device, clot. And fck off with ur kittens. Now, ROBOCOPY, copy the entire original directory tree from HERE to THERE where, unlike the USB stick, there is room for the whole thing. Can you do that? |
ROBOCOPY: | Yes. Yes, I can do that. (Does that) |
Four hours later... | |
Me: | Right. DEL, pray delete all the files I don't want. |
DEL: | I'll do a lot of 'em, guv, but remember what XCOPY said about shifty FOREIGN characters? |
Me: | $DEITY help me, a racist operating system! POWERSHELL, terminate these files with extreme prejudice! |
POWERSHELL: | I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Because you used that UKIPpy dinosaur DIR to generate the list of files to delete, and that big city on the Rhine is called "Köln". Not "K“ln". But I, POWERSHELL, can both get the list you want AND delete the files. Aren't I $theCleverOne!!1! |
Me: | Yes. Yes, you are. Though why you find it necessary to pad out all the file paths with up to $LOTS of trailing spaces is a mystery worthy of Hercule Marple her own good self. |
POWERSHELL: | You do know I can be told to trim those those lines, right? Just type '$file = "F:\Foo\x.txt"' and then 'Get-Content $file | Foreach {$_.TrimEnd()} | Set-Content "F:\Foo\y.txt"' |
Me: | Gee, thanks, POWERSHELL! That's really intuitive! |
POWERSHELL: | It worked though, didn't it? |
Me: | Finally! FINALLY I haz just the files I want to copy to the USB stick, all fuelled and ready for take-off. ROBOCOPY, can you... |
ROBOCOPY: | ERROR 87! |
Me: | Windows! If I do <CONTROL-A> here, and then <CONTROL-V> there, will you copy the files? |
Windows: | Yes. Yes I will. Except for the source files which aren't there any more. |
Me: | What do you mean, "they're not there"? Do you think I deleted them while I was asleep? Try again, why don't you? |
Windows: | Oh, silly me! They were there all the time! Forget me own head next! |
Me: | I notice you only cough up these errors when I'm not actually supervising you, Windows. Have you considered therapy? Because I have... |
At the current USD-GBP rate, not well. My 401(k) is in danger of being worth something.
Dear Mr Google
I spent a while bunging points into you so-called "Maps" product and then, because I am perverse and would like to use THIS road instead of those, dragged the blue line around until satisfaction was achieved. Ad then clicked "Download to phone". In between leaving my lapdancer and arriving on my portable telephone, you reset the fucking route back to YOUR preferences, completely ignoring all my line-manipulation. This make your "Download to phone" option a useless thing, but then your entire fucking so-called "Maps" product is a useless thing anyway as there's no obvious way to clear the entire map history and you smell of wee and I hate you.
It might also slow saving stuff to a network disk to a scream-inducing crawl.
rebooted on the lan numerous times. Several reboots off the lan
rebooted on the ian numerous times. Several reboots off the ian
Microsoft, p'raps I've said enough already? No? OK.
For reasons that _totally_ escape me it decided in its infinite wisdom that when returning JSON from a WebMethod on an ASPX page (don't ask; you _really_ don't want to know) that instead of its built in converter handing out POJ it wraps it so instead of the client getting what you think you've sent, say, an object something like fred : [{jim}, {sheila}, ...] you get d : { fred : [...]} What the blazes!? Returning JSON from a controller action in MVC the client gets what you sent. Baffled and ticked off.
Dear colleague, if you didn't name all your files \MyProject\MyProjectPart1\Part1SectionA\PartOneSectionADocuments\<stupidlongcompanyIDthing>Document_About_Part_One_Section_A_Reviewed_By_Fred_And_Jim.doc then you might not get complaints about the length of your file name.
(Yes, it is probably the rubbish system too, but I swear he really does name his files like that...)
Our online exams system isn't. That means no marking for the exams that are in the system, and frantically generating paper copies for tomorrow morning whilst the pixies in IT attempt to generate new magic smoke and get it back where it belongs.
When you mix a work of one one of the Imps of Stan1 with one of his Master's biggies2 only Bad Things will happen.
1: Bluetooth
2: Un*x
Meanwhile I am swearing at the grown-up version of the Devil's Radio, viz. wi-fi. I am at the rural annexe of Larrington College, Oxfod. Even the internal walls are about two feet thick, thus requiring three separate wi-fi access points. There's no mobile signal either ::-)
The place we are staying is a bit that way. We took the wifi password off the back of the access point in our bedroom, but when we moved bedrooms to the one which backs onto the previous one, Dave said we'd need to sign onto the one in his office, which is the other side of it. I said that surely as its only about 3 metres away it wouldn't be an issue, but then I realised that the 3 metres in question was the world's biggest chimney stack which goes up through the middle of this 16th century wing of the house. Hopefully in the future Wombat burrow, as its a 1985 vintage bungalow, there will be no such problems, and I'll be wondering if the wifi will make it across the front garden to the workshop. We will have no choice but BT, as Vodafone insist there is no possible service, SSE can't access BT's network as it isn't installed yet according to their system, and only BT admit that Openretch have stuck a green box thing on the pole nearby, which will apparently give us up to 300Mb FTTP.
Never mind why do such programmers get paid, why are they allowed access to oxygen?Because the bean-counters think cheap == good and instead of hiring someone who knows how to write production quality code, but costs GBPM they will instead hire some fresh-faced youngster who should still have stabilisers on his or her code but only costs GBPN where N << M. Bean-counters can't see past next week's wages bill and haven't got a fucking clue how much bad software _really_ costs to fix.
Microsith! Take your wanky "Smart" quotes and stick them up yer chuffer >:(This. Thank $deity$ for the Visual Notepad formatting stripper. :)
Dunno if it is Amazon shysters or SanDisk marketing to blame but I have three 64Gb SanDisk C10 XC I MicroSD cards that achieve a sustained data write rate of 2.x MB/s. C10 is supposed to mean 10MB/s minimum so not particularly close to meeting their claim >:( Missed the returns window on Amazon too >:( >:(If they don't meet the stated standard the returns window is irrelevant surely.
Two Kingston 32Gb cards hit exactly 10 MB/s so the replacements will be Kingston and will not be coming from Amazon.
Another starring turn from Microsoft or... Left Hand I'd like you to meet Right Hand.A classic case of How many M$ engineers does it take to change a light bulb? None, M$ just redefine darkness as the standard!
Because Windows File Exploder is pants ...
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Minor correction. Otherwise entirely correct rant too restrictive in scope. Could have been worse, but not much. Could have been written in JavaScipt using a library developed by an 11 year old.I hate mobile phones, or more specifically, the fact that theAll softwarefor mobile phonesiseitherdeveloped by a) under-resourced engineers working for The Man or b) open-source developers with the maturity and literacy of the average 13 year old, presumably because when they grow up they all migrate to projects that involve real computers.
There an extra special level of illiteracy... illiterate dudebros posting cargo-cult solutions.Unfortunately cargo cult / voodoo programming is also true of .Net/M$ and JavaScript development. Trundle over to SO and you will see insanely stupid or utterly out of date "solutions" with large numbers of "up" votes and the only proper/reasonable solution kicked into the long grass with either no votes at all or "down" voted.
Grumble:
No I'll stop there. It's swamp code. In the stuff written by any of my other colleagues the modification I was asked to make would have taken me a couple of hours at the most, because they usually (999/1000 times) write modular well thought through code. Four hours in and I was still correcting out and out bugs never mind taking a parang to some truly fragile constructions and I hadn't even made a start on the required changes.
Four thousand lines? For a single file? In 2018? Sheesh.
It would appear we now have two laptops in the household that refuse to install the Windows 10 "Creators Update" (FFS, really?) and keep whining about updating every few hours, only for it to fail once again if you (finally) capitulate to the nagging.Darn, I just had my Virtualbox win10 struggle with and update to 1803 after many attempt I found a way to poke it enough to get it up update. Sadly for the life of me I can't remember which stick I used, no it was not the stick with 3lbs steel lump at one end. If my brain kicks in I will return.
Bloody Windows.
Four thousand lines? For a single file? In 2018? Sheesh.
It would appear we now have two laptops in the household that refuse to install the Windows 10 "Creators Update" (FFS, really?) and keep whining about updating every few hours, only for it to fail once again if you (finally) capitulate to the nagging.Darn, I just had my Virtualbox win10 struggle with and update to 1803 after many attempt I found a way to poke it enough to get it up update. Sadly for the life of me I can't remember which stick I used, no it was not the stick with 3lbs steel lump at one end. If my brain kicks in I will return.
Bloody Windows.
This "developer" has a habit of going dark and not adding review invitations to his pull requests. This habit has been remarked upon repeatedly but he won't cooperate. Nuff sed?Grumble:
No I'll stop there. It's swamp code. ...snip...
Four thousand lines? For a single file? In 2018? Sheesh.
Who reviewed it? And who approved the merge to master?
It would appear we now have two laptops in the household that refuse to install the Windows 10 "Creators Update" (FFS, really?) and keep whining about updating every few hours, only for it to fail once again if you (finally) capitulate to the nagging.
Bloody Windows.
// ... do nothing or
if (counter = 1 || (int)counter/50 == (double)counter/50) showProgress()
// ... apply tests for validity after the variable has already been used
if (!File.Exists(filePath)) someFunction(filePath); // filePath cannot be null/empty
if (string.IsNullOrWhitespace(filePath) {
logError("some random waffle");
continue = false
}
bool continue = fnA();
continue = continue && fnB();
continue = continue && fnC();
:
continue = continue && fnZ();
return continue;
It is definitely poor undergraduate.I wish it was that good.
displayNumber = myNumber.ToString().PadLeft("0", 3);
displayNumber = $@"{myNumber:D3}";
// Or even olde style
displayNumber = string.Format("{0:D3}", myNumber);
int level = -1;
if (this.Parent == null) {level =1;}
if (level < 0 && this.Parent.Parent == null) {level = 2;}
// Code elided to protect delicate sensibilities
if (level < 0 && this.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent == null) {level = 5;}
if (level < 0) {throw new Exception("Possible circular reference.")}
int level = 0;
var parent = Parent;
while (parent != null) {
level++;
if (level > circularRefLimit) {throw new Exception("yada yada yada")}
parent = parent.Parent;
}
No I don't know what's supposed to happen if your starting instance has a null parent. Right now I really don't care.HOW long to install a Software Update?
Thank Glod I have some dishwashing to do!
Pet moan: why the hell do the un-installers not actually work properly?
I’m in Armenia searching hotels in Georgia. So YOYOY is Google maps showing prices in Hungarian Forints?
I’m sure you’re right but Hungary’s flipping miles away on a different continentI’m in Armenia searching hotels in Georgia. So YOYOY is Google maps showing prices in Hungarian Forints?
Because your internet is being delivered from Hungary, probably (or in some way they're using an IP range that is being recognised by the machines as being in the Magyar Republic). Our new mothership internet is evidently based in the Netherlands, it's clog central when it comes to adverts.
Where are you headed ? my info is seven years out of date, but when I looked most of the places I stayed in were on Airbnb
Chuffing cookies!
Several sites I go to ask me to state what cookies I’ll allow. I say none, and the next time I visit I have to tell them again. Surely they aren’t so stupid that they don’t keep a record of what users want?
Chuffing cookies!
Several sites I go to ask me to state what cookies I’ll allow. I say none, and the next time I visit I have to tell them again. Surely they aren’t so stupid that they don’t keep a record of what users want?
Oh, and BBC,
CAN YOU STOP RESETTING PREFERENCES FOR AUTOPLAY ON YOUR CHUFFING VIDEO SECTIONS. IF I WANTED AUTOPLAY I WOULDN”T HAVE TURNED IT OFF, WOULD I!!!
Chuffing cookies!
Several sites I go to ask me to state what cookies I’ll allow. I say none, and the next time I visit I have to tell them again. Surely they aren’t so stupid that they don’t keep a record of what users want?
They do store it... in a cookie... which you've denied them from using.
Chuffing cookies!
Several sites I go to ask me to state what cookies I’ll allow. I say none, and the next time I visit I have to tell them again. Surely they aren’t so stupid that they don’t keep a record of what users want?
Oh, and BBC,
CAN YOU STOP RESETTING PREFERENCES FOR AUTOPLAY ON YOUR CHUFFING VIDEO SECTIONS. IF I WANTED AUTOPLAY I WOULDN”T HAVE TURNED IT OFF, WOULD I!!!
I don't keep cookies I have the same problem, its annoying to keep being asked.
And the other day it dropped its wifi connection and not amount of bad language could persuade it to reconnect. Reboot; connection restored. Not long after, it did it again. After another reboot, the Internets told me that this was probably because some genius at Microsith had, during an update, enabled the option for Windholes to switch off the wifi adapter "to save power". Even when the fucking thing is plugged into the mains.
Who the actual fuck thought this was a good idea?
Ahah, on my super safe USB key of useful stuff.
Which I had to empty onto my C drive in a hurry so I could copy some CCTV evidence last week
oh.. carp...
Chuffing cookies!
Several sites I go to ask me to state what cookies I’ll allow. I say none, and the next time I visit I have to tell them again. Surely they aren’t so stupid that they don’t keep a record of what users want?
Oh, and BBC,
CAN YOU STOP RESETTING PREFERENCES FOR AUTOPLAY ON YOUR CHUFFING VIDEO SECTIONS. IF I WANTED AUTOPLAY I WOULDN”T HAVE TURNED IT OFF, WOULD I!!!
I don't keep cookies I have the same problem, its annoying to keep being asked.
The bbc is one of the sites I do allow cookies from, which makes it doubly annoying!
Microsoft. Stop being so effing clever, clever. If the incoming JSON can't be mapped [FromBody] into the designated type then throw a sodding exception don't just shrug your bloody shoulders and hand on a null instance of the type. That's no bloody use at all. Pillocks.
All you sad-sacks condemned like me to work in the M$ salt mines may wish to make all your value type properties on types used in controller methods nullable. Why? Because if your incoming JSON containing "fred" : null and your type's Fred property is not nullable the binding shrugs its shoulders as above. Yes, yes you may get null exceptions in your code, but at least you'll know WTF is going and where it's going wrong.
Very nearly a whole morning (approx 0.002% of my remaining life span*) pissed up against a wall working out that one.
*Based on generally accepted actuarial values for a man of my generation.
Very nearly a whole morning (approx 0.002% of my remaining life span*) pissed up against a wall working out that one.
*Based on generally accepted actuarial values for a man of my generation.
I don't suppose Microsoft are any better with their decimal placing either, Methuselah
Very nearly a whole morning (approx 0.002% of my remaining life span*) pissed up against a wall working out that one.
*Based on generally accepted actuarial values for a man of my generation.
I don't suppose Microsoft are any better with their decimal placing either, Methuselah
Even assuming 6 hours for the lost morning, that still gives something over 34 years of lurking to come. That doesn't seem excessive to me.
Yes, but you've left out the effect of forgetting to divide by 24. :-[
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Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia, I am losing patience. "Update me!" say various iProducts so, rather than download 400 GB three times – once on each PC running iProducts – I select "Download Only". Then I can, and do, copy the stuff to a network drive and it will appear in the right place on the other boxes as is by legerdemain.
Clicky clicky install install and all goes swimmingly until iTunes. iTunes tells me it cannot access C:\Program File\iTunes, because privileges.
iTunes on Windows is surely one of the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation's most effective methods of persuading people to buy a Mac...In my experience with iTunes, I clearly do not want to get a iThing.
You know, I never knew it was doing that – but yes, it evidently is still keeping snapshots. Obviously not super-useful if your HD dies, though it seems rare for SSDs to go the ways of spinning rust.
I'd still have liked a reminder before a week, mind you.
Another special festive shoutout to Cisco and the team behind the abominable AnyConnect VPN client and anyone responsible on foisting this second-rate piece of shit on the denizens of any corporate mothership. I hope you all fucking get run over by a runaway sleigh this holiday. And that the reindeer have rabies and come back and bite you in the face.Oh fuck. They're swapping us over to that from a.n.other VPN in the next fortnight or so.
Great. Years* of trouble free use of the previous VPN client. Third day with NayConnect and it fucks up. Tells me I'm connected, but can I see any of the network? Can I cocoa. And to rub salt into the wound IT support have contrived it so that calls disconnect when you press the button to wait for someone instead of, "Using the intranet to log your problem." You know, the intranet I cannot effing well connect to. Words fail me.Another special festive shoutout to Cisco and the team behind the abominable AnyConnect VPN client and anyone responsible on foisting this second-rate piece of shit on the denizens of any corporate mothership. I hope you all fucking get run over by a runaway sleigh this holiday. And that the reindeer have rabies and come back and bite you in the face.Oh fuck. They're swapping us over to that from a.n.other VPN in the next fortnight or so.
PDF forms. What is the point in them? Why can't you just use a webform, or a Word doc if needs to be a file.
Is there any decent PDF software with proper forms support? Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader are both full of bloatware, adverts, and bundled crap in the installer.
Honestly, the clusterfuckup that Adobe made ofboth forms and annotations in PDF has been a mystery for a long time. Initially, it was a quest to keepeverythingproprietary until they realised that no, people weren't going to buy Acrobat to fill in a form. The result: a useless mess.
Honestly, the clusterfuckup that Adobe made ofboth forms and annotations in PDF has been a mystery for a long time. Initially, it was a quest to keepeverythingproprietary until they realised that no, people weren't going to buy Acrobat to fill in a form. The result: a useless mess.
;)
Adobe do seem fairly intent on their own long-term self-destruction. Few companies have planned their own demise with such forethought and diligence.
Adobe do seem fairly intent on their own long-term self-destruction. Few companies have planned their own demise with such forethought and diligence.
TBF this is a strongly contented category so they have to try very hard
I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect any computer to never fail.
It's not even a lead-free solder thing. Solder joints have always been the commonest source of complex electronics failing.
I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect any computer to never fail.
It's approximately doable[1], but it'll be a very expensive computer with all the performance you'd expect of a machine from the 1990s, and will likely run VxWorks or something as an OS.
The compromises we accept for a desktop PC are very different from those for a flight computer on a trip to Pluto. Performance, reliability, cost and presence of various substances are all part of that.
If you really need an iMac not to fail, your best bet is to buy two iMacs, put one on the shelf, and keep some money aside to buy/repair iMacs in future. This will cost a lot more than a single iMac, but should be good enough for most purposes.
[1] At least for small values of 'never'
I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect any computer to never fail.
It's approximately doable[1], but it'll be a very expensive computer with all the performance you'd expect of a machine from the 1990s, and will likely run VxWorks or something as an OS.
The compromises we accept for a desktop PC are very different from those for a flight computer on a trip to Pluto. Performance, reliability, cost and presence of various substances are all part of that.
If you really need an iMac not to fail, your best bet is to buy two iMacs, put one on the shelf, and keep some money aside to buy/repair iMacs in future. This will cost a lot more than a single iMac, but should be good enough for most purposes.
[1] At least for small values of 'never'
Suspect if you did that you'd be thwarted by OS updates and unsupported/supportable software.
How old is it? You get fair mileage from the Apple store from quoting sale of goods regulations even on out-of-warranty computers, or they may offer a replacement refurb at reasonable rates.
ionos webmail refused to let me see or download an email attachment when there was no subject or text in the mail. There was a paper clip icon in the list of emails, but no such icon when I selected the email to collect the attachement.
Sent again with a few word in the subject and the body, and it was fine.
More frustratingly, when I go back and look now, the attachment is there to be found in the subjectless email.
WTF on the Grauniad website is using so much processor time and melting my lapdog, hmm ??? :demon:
For reasons I thought I'd finally move over from Mail to Outlook on my mothership Macbook.
Who at Microsoft thought it was reasonable for Outlook to download a copy of every single email received or sent ever? That's over a fucking decade and umpteen GBs. And there appears to be no setting to select a time period to synchronize. I don't want a local copy of every email ever.
Swears profusely, goes back to Mail.
For reasons I thought I'd finally move over from Mail to Outlook on my mothership Macbook.
Who at Microsoft thought it was reasonable for Outlook to download a copy of every single email received or sent ever? That's over a fucking decade and umpteen GBs. And there appears to be no setting to select a time period to synchronize. I don't want a local copy of every email ever.
Swears profusely, goes back to Mail.
My expectations from an e-mail client are quite different between a Proper Computer and a mobile device.
As a traditional PC user, with a background in POP3, I expect all my mail to locally available on a proper PC.
That makes searching for old stuff much easier.
I presume there's some voltage threshold and below that the phone shuts down regardless of whether there's any charge lingering in the battery.
I presume there's some voltage threshold and below that the phone shuts down regardless of whether there's any charge lingering in the battery.
Phone battery power use is very spikey, so a knackered battery may sit at a reasonable voltage while idle, but as soon as the CPU kicks in to do anything and draws big watts the voltage plummets enough to kill the phone.
(some iPhones limit CPU speed (https://ifixit.org/blog/11208/batterygate-timeline/) when they detect a duff battery to try to prevent this, although that wasn't popular with users either)
I presume there's some voltage threshold and below that the phone shuts down regardless of whether there's any charge lingering in the battery.
Phone battery power use is very spikey, so a knackered battery may sit at a reasonable voltage while idle, but as soon as the CPU kicks in to do anything and draws big watts the voltage plummets enough to kill the phone.
(some iPhones limit CPU speed (https://ifixit.org/blog/11208/batterygate-timeline/) when they detect a duff battery to try to prevent this, although that wasn't popular with users either)
It was straining to hold onto a very weak 3G signal.
Unless I read the internet wrong, it seems Apple replace the battery for £45, which is less than I'd imagined.
Moving to a new phone takes about 15 minutes now using the Cloud backup/restore. And if it’s the same SIM EE will be none the wiser. That said the 6 is still a good phone.
... it was a simple case of ...This is a new definition of "simple" of which I was unaware. Not only that but it also sounds like a dodgy bit of plot exposition from a particularly cheap and nasty science fiction "epic". That or a late 1970s episode of Doctor Who.
Who at Microsoft thought it was reasonable for Outlook to download a copy of every single email received or sent ever?Someone who needs a pay rise IMO. Having recently been issued a new laptop at work I'm going through the nauseating process yet again of finding someone in IBM support with a) sufficient clue to understands the concept 'internet not always available' and b) sufficient clue to set up Outlook 363 to download a copy of everything.
My expectations from an e-mail client are quite different between a Proper Computer and a mobile device.I agree with things varying but I have the reverse expectation.
As a traditional PC user, with a background in POP3, I expect all my mail to locally available on a proper PC.
That makes searching for old stuff much easier.
On a mobile device, with limited storage space, I can see why you would only want the last 50 or so e-mails, and that works well for that form factor device.
The real question is why Outlook doesn't allow you to choose which behaviour you would like.This.
I see the Met Office website has been redesigned to maximise the amount of scrolling (particularly horizontal scrolling) you have to do. I bet they've had some polo-necked conslutant with an iPad tell them it's a good idea.
Gusts will be strong enough to make small trees sway by the evening, but it shouldn't blow you over.
Noticeably gusty, umbrellas may become hard to use.
I see the Met Office website has been redesigned to maximise the amount of scrolling (particularly horizontal scrolling) you have to do. I bet they've had some polo-necked conslutant with an iPad tell them it's a good idea.
Forget the scrolling - who writes this crap ?QuoteGusts will be strong enough to make small trees sway by the evening, but it shouldn't blow you over.QuoteNoticeably gusty, umbrellas may become hard to use.
... name them using the (anti-)pattern {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName01}, {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName02}, ... {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName15}?I do hope the naming convention placed appropriately small lengths on the BusinessProcess and MethodNameNN. One wouldn't want to exceed the assembler's limits for identifiers.
I do hope the naming convention...Don't get me started on that.
This is not possible. TheLurker's colleagues are working in .Net so identifiers will be changed to ensure they don't clash before they even reach the CLR. There is no limit on the length of an identifier in C# apart from available memory at compilation. There is a limit in VB.NET of 1023 characters, but it will fail at compilation. As dysfunctional as TheLurker's team appear to be, method, class and namespace names all of hundreds of characters would be hard to achieve, even for them.... name them using the (anti-)pattern {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName01}, {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName02}, ... {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName15}?I do hope the naming convention placed appropriately small lengths on the BusinessProcess and MethodNameNN. One wouldn't want to exceed the assembler's limits for identifiers.
I do hope the naming convention...Don't get me started on that.
"Thou shalt use Hungarian warts on thy variables and the wart shall say unto the world the type and scope of the variable."
Thus it was brought to pass in the land of Bedlam in the valley of the shadow of despair that there did appear declarations that were like unto the ravings of an lunatic whereat a class scope boolean would be named unto the world a method scope string and the proliferation of inanities of that ilk was without number. Truly was the sorrow and woe without measure or gauge.
I ask you.
'twas a joke. A suggestion that the Lurker's esteemed colleagues' naming convention might belong to the world of 1970's assembly languages.This is not possible...... name them using the (anti-)pattern {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName01}, {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName02}, ... {BusinessProcess}_{MethodName15}?I do hope the naming convention placed appropriately small lengths on the BusinessProcess and MethodNameNN. One wouldn't want to exceed the assembler's limits for identifiers.
'twas a joke. A suggestion that the Lurker's esteemed colleagues' naming convention might belong to the world of 1970's assembly languages.I got it. It made me smile. It wasn't just assembly languages. Many happy years in DSM-11 (MUMPS) wrangling an 8 character variable name limit and given that there was only one data type (character) Hungarian warts could be helpful even if they did mean you lost one or 2 of your 8 characters. However that was when dinosaurs roamed the
Windows and projectors always seem to involve some random poking around display settings in the hope of stumbling on something that makes the screen appear at the correct aspect ratio.
Indeed, the number of presentations (and the obligatory fifteen-minute how-do-I-make-this-work intros) I've sat through where I've wanted to stomp to the front and just bloody sort it out properly.
IME it usually involves sitting there watching a distractingly squished, cropped or aliased presentation *wishing* that someone would randomly poke around in the display settings and stumble on the correct aspect ratio.
Dual monitors is one of those things where the Linux world had an early lead and squandered it by arsing about in a dozen different directions. The pain level seems to have dropped off considerably since we stopped having to use proprietary nvidia drivers, which is good as it means you don't have to google for things with a "-ubuntu" flag as much. I think the last problem I encountered was trying to rotate one monitor 90 degrees turnwise, when the stupid GUI tool only wanted to do it widdershins, easily fixed with the correct command-line invocation.
As ever with *nix, it's a case of once you do finally persuade it to work, it tends to stay that way.
My early experiment with dual monitors on Windows 98 was a right laugh, though: I had a spare old graphics card, and had borrowed a monitor for a weekend, and found that - while primitive - the extra space was a wonderful thing. So wonderful, in fact, that after removing the second graphics card, many windows forever[1] insisted on opening in the non-existent space somewhere off to the right of the desktop. :facepalm:
I think that got sorted in the Windows 2000 era. These days it's just random icon-shuffling, and occasional weird hot-plugging glitches that get solved by a reboot.
Never seen dual monitors do anything other than Just Work on a OSX Mac, though I'm sure there are projectors that can manage to fuck it up. Projectors are like printers from a higher, less important circle of hell, and connecting anything to an Apple laptop runs the risk of the electrons getting stuck in the compulsory adaptor dongle.
[1] Well, until the next fdisk and OS reinstall, which is the Windows version of forever.
The volume group name used to automatically partition using LVM is already in use. Lowering the priority for the configuration questions will allow you to specify an alternative name.It almost makes sense but for 2 small points.
My early experiment with dual monitors on Windows 98 was a right laugh, though: I had a spare old graphics card, and had borrowed a monitor for a weekend, and found that - while primitive - the extra space was a wonderful thing. So wonderful, in fact, that after removing the second graphics card, many windows forever[1] insisted on opening in the non-existent space somewhere off to the right of the desktop. :facepalm:My work laptop gets very confused by being plugged into a dock which has 2 extra monitors attached. Every so often, when running without them attached it will decide to open an application on one of the non-existent screens. You can see it minimise and maximise off to the screen that doesn't exist! The only solution I have found to this is to reboot the machine. Windows 10. A half decent operating system, with flaws copied from 20 years ago!
[1] Well, until the next fdisk and OS reinstall, which is the Windows version of forever.
My work laptop gets very confused by being plugged into a dock which has 2 extra monitors attached. Every so often, when running without them attached it will decide to open an application on one of the non-existent screens. You can see it minimise and maximise off to the screen that doesn't exist! The only solution I have found to this is to reboot the machine. Windows 10. A half decent operating system, with flaws copied from 20 years ago!
You changed the login system and didn't send me one. "Forgotten ur username? Clicky this link and we'll e-mail it to you!"
This. Is. A. Lie.
It. Does. Nothing.
Sooner or later I shall have to bite the bullet and phone the buggers, because I need the money to spend on important things like this month's credit card bill.
You changed the login system and didn't send me one. "Forgotten ur username? Clicky this link and we'll e-mail it to you!"
This. Is. A. Lie.
It. Does. Nothing.
Sooner or later I shall have to bite the bullet and phone the buggers, because I need the money to spend on important things like this month's credit card bill.
If you never had a username, you have to re-register via the "I don't have any login details" button. BTDT
I'm a font nerd
A bit of a grammar/vocabulary pot/kettle there :demon:I'm a font nerd
No your not. If you were you would be able know that the product of a typesetting foundry is a 'fount'. In English a font is a bowl found in church to christen babies.
I'm a font nerd
No your not. If you were you would be able know that the product of a typesetting foundry is a 'fount'. In English a font is a bowl found in church to christen babies.
I'm a font nerd
No your not. If you were you would be able know that the product of a typesetting foundry is a 'fount'. In English a font is a bowl found in church to christen babies.
No one has called a font a ‘fount’ since about 1928. It’s a bit of an affectation these days.
And for those of us who had DTP of some kind around since shortly after the point we graduated from writing with pencils, 'font' is a de-facto computer word, and therefore American spelling is preferred for sanity reasons. I'd not come across the 'fount' spelling before, but if encountering it out of context I'd assume that was what Brits baptise babies in.
(I know the correct spelling is 'typeface'. ;))
My phone is stuck in a "Moto App Launcher keeps stopping" loop. I think I'm going to have to factory reset from recovery, as you only get a fraction of a second to interract with it in the time it takes between tapping "close app" and the error message popping up again. >:(
This is karmic retribution for the Garmin, isn't it?
I should clarify that logging in requires a colleague or IT with appropriate access to the encrypted user group settings and possibly FROM the wired network...
I am PEED off, cos IT services told me when I phoned (yes, phoned, fucking telephones) that the laptop would work fine. Neither Kim or I believed them!
I work remotely 50 miles away and 2 hours travel time away... I am not due in the office until Wednesday. I have reports due in today/Monday which I cannot access before presumably Wednesday. I can do 1 piece of work which came in via email IF I download it to my non encrypted Windows install which I am allowed to do IF my laptop is unavailable but...
This is why we don't (a) let people use full fat desktop softwares which in turn means that we don't have to (b) encrypt laptops.
This is why we don't (a) let people use full fat desktop softwares which in turn means that we don't have to (b) encrypt laptops.
Neither do we, so when I had the same problem last week - can't log in via RDP from laptop due to bungled desktop win10 upgrade - it was fixed in ten minutes. The only reason it took so long was (a) can't raise a ticket from the phone app; followed by (ii) helldesk claiming they can't reach me by phone. That's right, my desk phone which doesn't forward to my mobile until I'm logged in :facepalm:
...(a) can't raise a ticket from the phone app; followed by (ii) helldesk claiming they can't reach me by phone. That's right, my desk phone which doesn't forward to my mobile until I'm logged inYes. We don't have "proper" telephones anymore either. Headsets and Skype. All lovely* while it works, but, especially, when things go wrong absolutely no bloody use to man nor beast.
Jira and Confluence. It's like they've successfully weaponised UX.
Jira and Confluence. It's like they've successfully weaponised UX.
Yebbut, agile
Jira and Confluence. It's like they've successfully weaponised UX.
Yebbut, agile
Agile - getting your end-users to do your testing for you since...
Jira and Confluence. It's like they've successfully weaponised UX.When the alternative is TFS give me a well configured installation of Jira & Confluence (along with Git & Sourcesafe) any day.
Jira and Confluence. It's like they've successfully weaponised UX.When the alternative is TFS give me a well configured installation of Jira & Confluence (along with Git & Sourcesafe) any day.
While on the subject: why, in a sheet containing ~ 160 rows and 8 columns of bog standard text does it search all umpty-gazillion empty cells when I'm looking for a simple string? You'd think it would know.
Oh, and Jira, SalesForce, Aha, Confluence, Slack, Google Groups, etc. etc. and let's not forget the endless spreadsheets.Console yourself with the happy thought that haven't got TFS as well.
The MySQL .NET data-connector "helpfully" parses char(36) as a GUID, whether you mean it to be one or not. That's just fucking hideous.Duly noted for future reference, thank you. That is indeed truly fucking hideous. On a par with later versions of M$ .Net Core MVC automatically camel-casing outbound JSON. When will the stupid bastards learn that you don't fuck around with data in transit, just pass it along?
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01 Aug 2019 19:07
I have tried to put this voucher on to get £10 credit but the payment just says "processing" and it's done that
since this morning.
It says "Order status:
PROCESSING
Aug 1, 2019 10:03:27 AM" and that hasn't changed all day.
The payment has a top-up number of 267631904
My credit still shows £10
Martin from the giffgaff team
02 Aug 2019 13:37
Hi there diver300,
Martin here and I understand you are having an issue with your voucher top up, I appreciate the inconvenience this must be causing you, so let's have a look into this.
I`ve looked at your account and can see that £10 voucher top that you refer to and it is still processing as you say.But I can see the issue here and that is you tried to use this voucher on a sim that has not been used for over 6 months so that account and number has now been cancelled.So what you will need to do first is to add your card details on this account so we can refund that for you and you would then need to set up a brand new account with a new sim from scratch.
You can order a sim by copying and pasting the link below into a browser:
https://www.giffgaff.com/free-sim-cards:
Our sims can take up to 5 working days to reach you but it should arrive by the next business day.
If you wanted to get your sim sooner you can get them at many stores now. Tesco, B&M Bargains, Home Bargains, Pound Shops and I think Asda also do them.
There will be a charge of 99p for the sim but as soon as the sim is activated we will reimburse that 99p back onto your account.
To add your card details just copy and paste the link below into a browser:
http://giffgaff.com/profile/payment-details
I know this can be terribly annoying when this happens but once you get your card details added just get back to us then and we will refund that £10 for you.
I hope this helps and makes things a bit clearer for you but if you have any further queries or questions please do not hesitate to contact our community and you can do this by copying and pasting the link below into a browser:
https://community.giffgaff.com
All the best and take care ,
Martin from the giffgaff team
Member
02 Aug 2019 18:09
Dear Martin,
You said that the SIM has not been used in 6 months. However, it was last used at 11 pm on the 12th June to send data. It was allocated an ip address of 82.132.247.0
Also, I received an email on the 17th June, saying what data I had used in the last month. This is what it said:-
17/6/2019 16:34
Via giffgaff
Membername: xxxxxxxxxx
Phone number: xxxxxxxx5939
We want to make sure you get the best value from us. To help you get the most out of giffgaff, we've summarised your recent usage below.
Your recent usage
Here's a quick summary of what you've used in the past 30 days.
Total MB used 1.84
Mins 0
Texts 0
At that time I had over £10 of credit on the SIM.
Could you please get the SIM running and please don't tell me that it hasn't been used in 6 month when I have an email from giffgaff about 6 weeks ago saying that it was used in the month before that.
Martin from the giffgaff team
02 Aug 2019 18:47
Hi there diver300 ,
Martin here and I have checked your usage for the 12th of June at 11-00pm and I can see no data being used.I have in fact checked your data usage going back to the 1st of May and can see nothing there I`m afraid. I can tell that your this sim is deactivated so as I advised you will have to get a new sim and set up a new account altogether.
I would love for this sim to be active for you so you could go ahead and use it but it has been deactivated for non usage and we will not be able to activate it again .
I hope this helps and take care,
Maertin from the giffgaff team
Excel. Again.
There's no way to have a formula return a result which is NULL, basically the same as a blank cell.
If there's a formula, it must evaluate to something, and that something cannot be the equivalent of an empty cell.
So if a VLOOKUP has unmatched results, you get #N/A. That's fine, and to be expected in a big table.
But I don't want failed lookups to contain #N/A, because that breaks subsequent processing.
<Tappity-tap>
So I wrap the VLOOKUP in IFERROR, and supply a custom value for failed lookups.
I can't supply NULL as a value here.
I can supply Zero, but that gives the Wrong Answers, because Zero is an actual data value and will skew subsequent processing.
I can supply "", and that *looks* like it works.
But it doesn't, because it gives a cell that looks empty, but is not. It contains an empty string, which blows up subsequent processing.
I *really* don't want to have to re-engineer *everything* around this, and wrap all the post processing in protective code to trap the #N/As.
So I have had to resort to a stupid little VBA subroutine which checks over the VLOOKUP cell range and if it contains #N/A does a ActiveCell.clear on it.
What an effing hassle for the want of being able to specify a value something like NULL or Stupid.Excel.Blank!
#include rant.h
Feanor, can you return FALSE and trap that in your subsequent analysis? Otherwise I think you have to go into a vba script but that results in deleting the formula from the 'blank' cells which makes recalculating the sheet more involved.
Kaput. Erased from existence. No recovery file. Nothing.
Guess it's either save multiple copies (which is just silly) or take screengrabs of slides when happy, which is ludicrous!
Guess it's either save multiple copies (which is just silly) or take screengrabs of slides when happy, which is ludicrous!Nothing silly about saving multiple copies, as long as it's automated and deduplicated, so it doesn't waste space or require extra thought.
Sadly, when it comes to Office I've been inculcated into jabbing the save icon after every significant task. The autorecovery, in my experience, seldom offers a recovery, automatic or otherwise.I had done multiple saves . . .
...
Come on, transferring a phone number on your own systems can't exactly be an edge case.
Probably easier to switch to a completely different network....
Come on, transferring a phone number on your own systems can't exactly be an edge case.
And over a week and a couple of phone calls later, the solution to this conundrum is to 'go to a store' apparently. How in the merry fuck can transferring a phone number to a new SIM be that much of a challenge?
I've been watching Pingu trying to install Ubuntu, that failing, then trying to restore Win 7, that failing, then trying to install Win 10, then nuking it all from orbit before starting again.
All weekend.
It's been quite tense in here.
I've been watching Pingu trying to install Ubuntu, that failing, then trying to restore Win 7, that failing, then trying to install Win 10, then nuking it all from orbit before starting again.
All weekend.
It's been quite tense in here.
Hah! I have been updating Windows10 on an old laptop which also boots into Ubuntu.
Every Win10 restart boots into Ubuntu by default and waits for me to change back to Win. I've been at it since Saturday lunchtime.
I don't understand, just ask JL to arrange collection. You don't need packaging or anything else. The point of a warranty is that it's their problem
Do you have a Waitrose close enough to get it to? I've picked up JL packages from them, so they might conceivably be willing to help - given that DPD aren't.
This completely fails to surprise me, but tbh, anyone using Windows for a DHCP server when there are Linux boxen available was probably in for a world of pain from the outset...
I've been watching Pingu trying to install Ubuntu, that failing, then trying to restore Win 7, that failing, then trying to install Win 10, then nuking it all from orbit before starting again.
All weekend.
It's been quite tense in here.
Hah! I have been updating Windows10 on an old laptop which also boots into Ubuntu.
Every Win10 restart boots into Ubuntu by default and waits for me to change back to Win. I've been at it since Saturday lunchtime.
Lapdog nuked from orbit and now running on Win 10. We'll see how long that lasts :-\
+++OUT OF CHEESE+++
It's nearly 2020 and still we can't get the basics right.
Despite being born in 2006, Microsoft Windows...
... So any said complaint, winge, moan etc is invalid due to the billy-mentionYou have a choice. Either let those of us forced to work with or use BillyWare* let off steam here or... be prepared to duck when we take to the clock towers with high powered rifles. :)
Although, after no fewer than two unrequested and unstoppable complete restarts this morning, the VPN is back. A process that involved something called the JAMF Self-Service portal (which mostly seems to exist to randomly restart my computer at inopportune moments, and really if I wanted that, I've have ordered a Windows PC and not a Macbook).
I assume JAMF is short for 'jam-filled babbage engine.'
123 Reg are a bunch of scammers.
If you registered a .co.uk domain with them, they will add on a matching .uk domain for free. Except after 2 years when the renewal is due, they charge you £11.99 to renew it, as well as the domain you actually want.
They have agreed to refund it after I complained anyway.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/16/123reg_namesco_uk_domains/
Seems they have gone downhill since the takeover by GoDaddy. Any other decent webhosts/registrars around?
123 Reg are a bunch of scammers.
If you registered a .co.uk domain with them, they will add on a matching .uk domain for free. Except after 2 years when the renewal is due, they charge you £11.99 to renew it, as well as the domain you actually want.
They have agreed to refund it after I complained anyway.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/16/123reg_namesco_uk_domains/
Seems they have gone downhill since the takeover by GoDaddy. Any other decent webhosts/registrars around?
123 Reg are a bunch of scammers.
If you registered a .co.uk domain with them, they will add on a matching .uk domain for free. Except after 2 years when the renewal is due, they charge you £11.99 to renew it, as well as the domain you actually want.
They have agreed to refund it after I complained anyway.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/16/123reg_namesco_uk_domains/
Seems they have gone downhill since the takeover by GoDaddy. Any other decent webhosts/registrars around?
haha
No
Paragon/TSO Host are also owned by GoDaddy now.
Paragon/TSO Host are also owned by GoDaddy now.
Could you use a headset? Or hold the phone flat and outwards like the Young People do?Nope, the sensor is borked, so it cuts the screen as soon it thinks I'm making a call. Now also screws up calls.
I've long thought that Android would greatly benefit from an about:config style setting editor, so we're not at the mercy of whatever the molishers of the particular build thought to include in the GUI.
Watched a band or two Saturday night and bought a CD off the merch table.
Get home, rip CD to flac so I can play it using my Raspberry Pi in the Grand Lounge.
This is SOP and works well.
Copy files to the Big SD card that lives in the car, so I can listen to it whilst tooling up and down the motorways of this fair land.
It works to start with, then craps out, not finding playable files. All the other files are playable.
Remove SD card and put it in my lapdancer.
The newlyt copied files play just fine.
Put it back in the car. No change.
Remove from car, put it in the lapdancer.
Copy the files onto lapdancer.
Delete from card.
Reinsert card into car, so it can reindex.
Back into lapdancer and copy files back onto card.
Back into car, still won't find them.
Listen to Radio 4 instead.
Went to another gig last night and picked up a couple more CDs. Ripped them, copied them to the card. Deleted the problem folder from the card. Re copied it.Hmm - when you removed the card from the computer, did you just take it out, or did you eject it (i.e. dismount).
Put card in car. All works.
It's a puzzle and no mistake.
All web browsers on iOS are just Safari in a box, so there’s not much point using them unless your goalCan you elaborate ? If I install chrome and then delete the safari binaries from the application folder I believe chrome will carry on working. Various other things will break so I would not recommend doing it but I don’t think chrome depends on safari, but then again I often turn out to be wrong.
is to share browser history with the box maker, and bugs and performance will be Apple’s problem.
Can you elaborate ?Apple guideline (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#software-requirements) 2.5.6 states: "apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework". Webkit is the framework used to implement Safari. I believe the requirement is to allow iOS to remain in control even when the app runs downloaded client-side code.
Ah, i saw safari and thought Mac. Once that thought was in my mind I selectively ignored the iOS bit.Can you elaborate ?Apple guideline (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#software-requirements) 2.5.6 states: "apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework". Webkit is the framework used to implement Safari. I believe the requirement is to allow iOS to remain in control even when the app runs downloaded client-side code.
Can you elaborate ? If I install chrome and then delete the safari binaries from the application folder I believe chrome will carry on working. Various other things will break so I would not recommend doing it but I don’t think chrome depends on safari, but then again I often turn out to be wrong.
How can it be so hard to set up a persistent network share mount on linux? FFS how?
By adding the appropriate line to /etc/fstabDefine 'appropriate'. My dumb thinking is if I can 'sudo mount -a' and the mounts connect then the fstab file must be right?
<NAS>:/<Share> /home/<user>/<foldername> nfs rw,hard,intr,_netdev 0 0
servername:/home/kim /mnt/kim nfs defaults,rw,soft,tcp,intr 0 0
Thunderbollocks. Is bollocks!
I was once (many years ago) working in the datacentre of a major supermarket when someone accidentally hit the emergency stop button. Once the power was turned back on and everything started to boot up we were privileged to watch the circle jerk of about twenty unix boxes that had been deployed over the years all trying to mount each others filesystems via NFS. Took forever.
Because it happened at about 5:15 pm on a weekday it took north of 24 hours to get everything back to working order but, perhaps surprisingly, Dave the Tape Monkey didn't lose his job.
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Re the gotchas all the way down, yep I see that and suspected There May Be Trouble Ahead in going NFS. Files on the NAS saved through nfs belong to <me> <me> rather than NAS groups <500> <users>. I can read such files from windows boxen but they are read only. Not a problem for me as my visits to windows are rare these days but Mrs Tween uses a windows 10 laptop, I shall have to find a way. I can always go back to cifs now I know why mounts that way weren't working but it will irritate me to discard the faster protocol.
Lastly re thunderbollocks, Pegasus Mail works just fine under Wine. Looks positively Neanderthal these days but is still a proper email client that has become able to display HTML rather than everything else I've used that seem to be HTML editors/renderers with a pish poor email back end cludged in.
speed test claims it's consistently doing about 20Mbps with a sub-20ms ping
Ping -t on windowsspeed test claims it's consistently doing about 20Mbps with a sub-20ms ping
That doesn't actually tell you anything about the packet loss (unless you can infer something from what the throughput ought to be), which is likely to be the cause of your audio woe.
A more useful test is to leave ping[1] running for a while, and see what the stats look like. Pinging the LAN address of your router will test the WiFi part of the connection without involving the wider internet.
[1] On a Mac, you can open a terminal and type "ping hostname", where hostname is either a hostname or an IP address. It will send a ping once a second and tell you if/when it receives a response. Press <ctrl><c> to stop pinging and get some statistics. The Windows ping works similarly, but defaults to stopping after 3 pings. There will be some command-line parameter for changing that (on *nix it's "-c").
That's the odd thing – there's typically 0.0% packet loss (averages around 8ms to the router), the computer CPU isn't maxed out, there's spare memory, but it only happens periodically (so I've not managed to catch the specifics as I'm usually on the call when it goes off). The sound doesn't so much as drop out, it just goes weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeirdddddddd.
Occasionally it kills the entire connection, and I have to kill the wifi and reconnect.
Yes, Windows, I know that monitor has built-in speakers. But they're shit. That is why I disabled them in Control Panel. In fact I disabled all the myriad sound options – except one – because they're shit too. Or they don't exist. So please route sounds out of the optical hole in the sound card, so they can travel down the string, into the pleasingly chunky A/V receiver and thence to my ear'oles via the 5:1 squeaker system I bought for that very purpose. You know, like I told you to do when I installed them.
Do NOT decide unilaterally to renable the shit monitor speakers and send sound to them instead, because they make BRITISH Sea Power sound like Mickey fucking Mouse. With pneumonia.
That might still point to the Sonos boxes causing the problem - I think they only work on 2.4GHz.
That reminds me a lot of my own home network problems. I'm pretty sure that for me it was the Sonos devices that were causing the problem - what solved it was making sure that none of the Sonos boxes were connected via Ethernet and they were only using WiFi. When they were set to use WiFi and one (or more) was connected via Ethernet, there were two network paths to the router which utterly confused everything.
I also bought a Deco mesh network setup (to replace the powerline additional access point) and now everything's working well.
That reminds me a lot of my own home network problems. I'm pretty sure that for me it was the Sonos devices that were causing the problem - what solved it was making sure that none of the Sonos boxes were connected via Ethernet and they were only using WiFi. When they were set to use WiFi and one (or more) was connected via Ethernet, there were two network paths to the router which utterly confused everything.
I also bought a Deco mesh network setup (to replace the powerline additional access point) and now everything's working well.
You'd think the Sonos gadgets would be smart enough to detect the presence of a wired connection and turn off their WiFi if they found one. Even my old eeePC can do that. Or it could before the cover over the Ethernet port broke off.
Microsith, directory listings generated from the command line are in alphabetical order, yes? And sorting a column in Excel using "Sort... A-Z" sorts stuffs into alphabetical order, yes?Depends on what sort of DIR command you used. If you don't specify the sorting, it is not necessarily alphabetical order. Depends on the file system etc. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140304-00/?p=1603
Then why the fucking fuck of Fuckhamptonshire are they NOT THE SAME BEFORE AND AFTER SORTING? You useless, cretinous morons >:(
dir /on
I take it Finestre, the Demon of Such Things, does not have Sundays off, unless this is her subtle way of telling me I need to learn a Windows-compatible scripting language.
- Use FINDSTR to, well, Find a String1 in a bunch of files, outputting to a text file
- Use notepad++ Find & Replace function to rid the text file of unwanted colons and spaces and make the thing tab-separated
- Paste into Excel, copy the column I need back into notepad++
- Use pre-existing notepad++ macros to Do Stuff to text so it stops being a list and starts being something SCIENCE can interpret
- Save, propagate to Certain Folders in the SCIENCE-approved structure, use pre-existing .bat file to update SCIENCE-approved archive and copy to folder where SCIENCE looks for This Sort of Thing
- Run SCIENCE
- Scratch head wondering how the actual fuck the sub-string "t680" has been turned into "t60" during the above
1: which definitely contains correct information because the SCIENCE would have complained much much earlier
Oh, and if you only need to use Excel to columnise copy, consider Textpad, which has a block copy mode (and understands regular expressions)
10 Play first track on list
20 Disappear track once played
30 Add new track to bottom of list
40 GOTO 10
I eventually unearthed a thing in the View menu* which restored his normal behaviour but really, FruitCo, why/how did you change it in the first place?It seems in 2020, putting boxes you are happy to have talking both IPv4/IPv6 and boxes you only want to talk IPv4 on the same network is a bad idea. Well, it works in some scenarios and not others.
If they have both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled they sometimes do dumb things like use IPv6 DNS before trying IPv4 so you have to wait for the timeout before you try IPv4.
If they have both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled they sometimes do dumb things like use IPv6 DNS before trying IPv4 so you have to wait for the timeout before you try IPv4.
That isn't dumb, assuming the IPv6 DNS server is working. If it isn't, then it's either an incorrectly configured operating system or a broken DNS server.
Gah. Canon.
Because I don't have access to the photocopier / scanner at work right now, I've bought a basic Canon LiDE 400 scanner.
Downloaded the driver / scanning softwre package and tried to install it on the work laptop.
"You need to be logged on as an administrator. Please log out and log back on with an Administrator account."
WTF? I *am* an administrator!
R-click and 'Run as Admin' no better.
Try on my own home PC.
Exactly the same!
And I'm a Domain Admin on that network!
After a *lot* of googling, it turns out it needs to be a *Local* Admin account, a Domain account with local admin rights is not good enough!
WT Absolute F?
So I had to create a temporary local account on the machine to be able to run the installer.
Now, it turns out the downloaded installer is not a full offline installer, it's a stub which connects to their servers to find the latest versions of stuff, as is the annoying way of things these days.
So when you launch the stub installer, and UAC asks for further Admin credentials, you *must* use the same local account credentials you logged in with, not any other Admin credentials eg your domain ones, or you get a cryptic message that it can't connect to their update site.
What a steaming Pile of Poo User Experience.
I cannot believe it's taken until the twilight of my... ahem... "career" to discover the absolute fucking ballache that is - multiple merge conflicts in an html file, with massively nested elements. Holy fucking Christ - how... HOW do you make sense of this?
So this <div> here that's indented here -> </div>
Is that from branchA or HEAD, hmm? Who the fuck can tell? I'll tell you who. FUCKING NOBODY.
Visual Studio is, surprise surprise, no help at all. It actually tries to make HTML sense of <<<<<<<<< and ======== and vomits copiously into the output panel, all manner of spurious errors.
I'm gonna have to manually merge these, and it's going to hurt. Nurse. NURSE!
The best place for parents' passwords to be stored is in a text file on your computer...
Various text editors can help with this. Atom is a horrible Java cludge bit of software but does have a very nice conflict resolution interface.
Also, "Ha Ha Ha" welcome to my world.
Various text editors can help with this. Atom is a horrible Java cludge bit of software but does have a very nice conflict resolution interface.
Also, "Ha Ha Ha" welcome to my world.
A dual monitor setup helps. In the end I had both branches open in VS on the RH monitor, and the merge on the left and painstakingly merged by hand. It was only half a dozen files - but auto-merging was just a non-starter - it mangled them to all hell. Manual merging is soooo error-prone.
Powers that be: "When will your new build be ready, Chris?"
Me: "At least two days later than I originally said - I need to run every regression test known to man or beast"
I cannot believe it's taken until the twilight of my... ahem... "career" to discover the absolute fucking ballache that is - multiple merge conflicts in an html file, with massively nested elements. Holy fucking Christ - how... HOW do you make sense of this?
So this <div> here that's indented here -> </div>
Is that from branchA or HEAD, hmm? Who the fuck can tell? I'll tell you who. FUCKING NOBODY.
Visual Studio is, surprise surprise, no help at all. It actually tries to make HTML sense of <<<<<<<<< and ======== and vomits copiously into the output panel, all manner of spurious errors.
I'm gonna have to manually merge these, and it's going to hurt. Nurse. NURSE!
Various text editors can help with this. Atom is a horrible Java cludge bit of software but does have a very nice conflict resolution interface.
Also, "Ha Ha Ha" welcome to my world.
A dual monitor setup helps. In the end I had both branches open in VS on the RH monitor, and the merge on the left and painstakingly merged by hand. It was only half a dozen files - but auto-merging was just a non-starter - it mangled them to all hell. Manual merging is soooo error-prone.
Powers that be: "When will your new build be ready, Chris?"
Me: "At least two days later than I originally said - I need to run every regression test known to man or beast"
I'm usually merging by hand.
Doesn't help that most of the department rebases patches from branches, rather than merging. Git history all shot to hell.
Our 'codebase is on the order of thousands of files, with about 30 people making changes.
We live and die by CI and manual inspection of nightly builds (the output is data in xml).
Various text editors can help with this. Atom is a horrible Java cludge bit of software but does have a very nice conflict resolution interface.
Also, "Ha Ha Ha" welcome to my world.
A dual monitor setup helps. In the end I had both branches open in VS on the RH monitor, and the merge on the left and painstakingly merged by hand. It was only half a dozen files - but auto-merging was just a non-starter - it mangled them to all hell. Manual merging is soooo error-prone.
Powers that be: "When will your new build be ready, Chris?"
Me: "At least two days later than I originally said - I need to run every regression test known to man or beast"
I'm usually merging by hand.
Doesn't help that most of the department rebases patches from branches, rather than merging. Git history all shot to hell.
Our 'codebase is on the order of thousands of files, with about 30 people making changes.
We live and die by CI and manual inspection of nightly builds (the output is data in xml).
It's called git for a reason :)
We have 50 developers on a single repo (on account of moving the codebase from perforce) of 35,000 files. Manually merging is extremely rare. But we insist everything has to be merged into master, including patches (which are then cherry-picked to the release candidate). Master is locked, nothing gets into it without peer review, which encourages short-lived branches. CI builds run the order of 105 tests a day, none of which require manual inspection of output.
A chuntering mass of submodules and perl scripts pulling data between them.
foo: "bar"
andfoo: "/bar/xyzzy"
are – under different circumstances – legitimate statements, how the blue blazes do you findfoo: "bar/xyzzy"
in one (or more) of about seventy thousand small ASCII files when the error message that triggered the need to look in the first place DOESN'T FUCKING TELL YOU WHAT IT WAS TRYING TO DO WHEN IT HAPPENED >:(And another thing. What kind of an imbecile cow indents a line with "<SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><TAB>"?One who has taken your carefully untabified source code and edited it in Micro$oft fucking Visual Studio.
And another thing. What kind of an imbecile cow indents a line with "<SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><TAB>"?
VS has many and many a fault but ballsed up indenting isn't one of them. That's entirely down to the chump at the controls who has done something stupid with her or his personal settings.And another thing. What kind of an imbecile cow indents a line with "<SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><TAB>"?One who has taken your carefully untabified source code and edited it in Micro$oft fucking Visual Studio.
And another thing. What kind of an imbecile cow indents a line with "<SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><TAB>"?
VS has many and many a fault but ballsed up indenting isn't one of them. That's entirely down to the chump at the controls who has done something stupid with her or his personal settings.And another thing. What kind of an imbecile cow indents a line with "<SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><SPACE><TAB>"?One who has taken your carefully untabified source code and edited it in Micro$oft fucking Visual Studio.
And what kind of feckless drooling weapon:Could this be why????
- puts tabs, spaces or a mixture thereof at the end of a line, and/or
- inserts blank lines which aren't actually blank because they've got spaces, tabs or a mixture thereof in them
Notepad++ can remove trailing spaces and other gubbins.
In find and replace on bog standard notepad you can use regular expressions to do the same. Same in word pad etc.
In find and replace on bog standard notepad you can use regular expressions to do the same. Same in word pad etc.
I had a problem, my document had unwanted trailing spaces and and tabs I used a regex.... fill in the punchline. :)
Now on day 7 of no internet from Plusnet. On day 4 I booked to change to Andrews & Arnold but the change-over is not for another 15 days.On day 7 of no internet from Plusnet, an engineer (well probably a technician) was booked for Tuesday am, 9 days after the internet went down. There is a fee of £65 if there's no fault, or we're not in, or its something we've done or we cancel with less than 24 hours notice.
Two more hours on the phone yesterday to Plusnet to no avail. The Plusnet-supplied BT Openreach modem and the A&A supplied Zyxel router can both get a VSDL connection but neither can authenticate.
Mobile internet costs keep on going up.
Only just over half an hour on the phone and they tell me that the engineers came before the due time, without telling me, so it's all fixed, I hope.Now on day 7 of no internet from Plusnet. On day 4 I booked to change to Andrews & Arnold but the change-over is not for another 15 days.On day 7 of no internet from Plusnet, an engineer (well probably a technician) was booked for Tuesday am, 9 days after the internet went down. There is a fee of £65 if there's no fault, or we're not in, or its something we've done or we cancel with less than 24 hours notice.
Two more hours on the phone yesterday to Plusnet to no avail. The Plusnet-supplied BT Openreach modem and the A&A supplied Zyxel router can both get a VSDL connection but neither can authenticate.
Mobile internet costs keep on going up.
On day 8 or no internet, around 14 hours before the engineer is due, the router connected, having not been touched for several hours at least. I was using the laptop for non-internet stuff but it had the ethernet cable plugged in and I received a notification of something from the internet.
Now on hold to see if Plusnet are going to charge me £65 for not giving them 24 hours notice or there not having been a fault, because they can obviously claim that Nothing Changed on day 0, so it can't possibly have changed back just now. I may have to pay the £65 so that I don't have to talk to anyone tomorrow, and so that there's nothing to be messed up.
(I don't know if this is included in rants passim, but about 10 years ago Vodafone said they didn't change anything on their PAYG network, but all of the vehicle tracking units with Vodafone PAYG SIMS stopped working simultaneously. Obviously nothing changed back again six months later when they all started working)
Web sites that prevent you clicking back to leave I hate you. I find it really really annoying.
For over a year my work laptop has refuse to open Excel files on first click - threw some weird error - but once Excel was open would open the file on the second try. Months ago I spent ages hunting down a solution, tried registry fixes and all sorts with no result.
All of a sudden its fixed itself magically.
I hate Windows. When it works its fine but trying to fix it when something goes wrong is a nightmare.
For over a year my work laptop has refuse to open Excel files on first click - threw some weird error - but once Excel was open would open the file on the second try. Months ago I spent ages hunting down a solution, tried registry fixes and all sorts with no result.
All of a sudden its fixed itself magically.
I hate Windows. When it works its fine but trying to fix it when something goes wrong is a nightmare.
It's the way it goes from working to not-working (or, to be fair, vice-versa) without any warning that gets me.
This is why I continue to use Linux. Until Microsoft work out how to make an OS that stays working until you mess with it, Windows won't be ready for the desktop.
I hate Windows. ... it ... is a nightmare.Don't mention it, glad to be of service. :)
Then I found something called the Windows Recovery Experience (or something like that). I bashed the RESET button.
If you can access the disk from Linux you can simply overwrite and reset the Windows password, you don't need to crack the hash.
Microsith has also screwed up mine. Backed up the data disk on the old PC, powered on the new one, restored the backup. Most of the file permissions are b0rked. Whole directory trees are inaccessible. Format drive, mount backup as a disk, copy everything over. This will take at least three hours. Bah.
Microsith has also screwed up mine. Backed up the data disk on the old PC, powered on the new one, restored the backup. Most of the file permissions are b0rked. Whole directory trees are inaccessible. Format drive, mount backup as a disk, copy everything over. This will take at least three hours. Bah.
I've only just noticed this thread, so too late to help, but a bit of info...
On A Windows system with an NTFS filesystem, all the files have an Owner, and also various Permissions for other Users.
This is called the Access Control List, or ACL.
In the situation where you have an existing hard drive containing files from an old windows install, and mount it as a secondary drive in a new windows installation, and then wish to copy files from the old drive to the new, then you will encounter permissions problems.
Because the User on the New System is not the same as the User on the old system, you are regarded as a wrong 'un, and access is denied.
Even if the User Name is the same, that's not good enough.
The User Name is just a 'Pretty' display name.
The actual 'user account' is a long unique ID called an SID.
The SID for user Fred on the new system is not the same as the SID for user Fred on the old one.
In this situation, you need to use your Admin account Fred on the new system to 'take ownership' of the files on the old disk.
Just like that bit in Clear and Present Danger when the baddie is covering his tracks with Harrison Ford in the next office.
The big update for Windows 10 which is out at the moment. Whatever you do, try to avoid installing it.
It wiped out my Outlook and printers- basically it stops ever remembering email passwords and asks for them every time you log in. Then tries to resync the whole account- sometimes it works and sometimes not. Solution- switch email client (if not already done). Printers (especially HP) probably need removing and reinstalling, if you're lucky the printer will be a new-ish one and will reinstall. The client 365 email I have, I had to remove that totally (view via webmail only now).
No doubt I will discover over the next few days some other "features" it has left me with.
A friend who has an IT business confirms these "features" are a characteristic of the update and he's not putting it on his clients' machines until the issues are sorted.
Thankfully my SO is computerate and fixed stuff but I've lost a good day of work due to this.
Grrrrrrrrr.
GC (in growley mood).
The big update for Windows 10 which is out at the moment. Whatever you do, try to avoid installing it.If this is release 2004 then banjaxed Credential Manager (https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/08/11/windows-10-may-2020-update-breaks-down-critical-feature/) might be the problem.
It wiped out my Outlook and printers- basically it stops ever remembering email passwords and asks for them every time you log in. Then tries to resync the whole account...
The big update for Windows 10 which is out at the moment. Whatever you do, try to avoid installing it.
It wiped out my Outlook and printers- basically it stops ever remembering email passwords and asks for them every time you log in. Then tries to resync the whole account- sometimes it works and sometimes not. Solution- switch email client (if not already done). Printers (especially HP) probably need removing and reinstalling, if you're lucky the printer will be a new-ish one and will reinstall. The client 365 email I have, I had to remove that totally (view via webmail only now).
No doubt I will discover over the next few days some other "features" it has left me with.
A friend who has an IT business confirms these "features" are a characteristic of the update and he's not putting it on his clients' machines until the issues are sorted.
Thankfully my SO is computerate and fixed stuff but I've lost a good day of work due to this.
Grrrrrrrrr.
GC (in growley mood).
See also rants passim about its refusal to mount elderly NAS disk drives as, well, disk drives. Though it's perfectly happy to have them as "network locations" ???
The new box in the Great Hall hasn't got it yet but there were many Bad Swears when the laptop and the Estate Office machines updated.
Quote from: Ginger CatThe big update for Windows 10 which is out at the moment. Whatever you do, try to avoid installing it.If this is release 2004 then banjaxed Credential Manager (https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/08/11/windows-10-may-2020-update-breaks-down-critical-feature/) might be the problem.
It wiped out my Outlook and printers- basically it stops ever remembering email passwords and asks for them every time you log in. Then tries to resync the whole account...
A quick, temporary fix to many of these issues is to use a private/incognito window.
keyboard threw a wobbly .... Picking it up and putting it down again seems to have fixed it ???It just needed a cuddle.
Excel. Nuff sed.Using XLS. It went out of date in 2007. PHE didn't exist in 2007.
Excel. Nuff sed.Using XLS. It went out of date in 2007. PHE didn't exist in 2007.
There is so much ancient software/hardware out there that is absolutely critical to so much of modern day life running smoothly you really don't want to know.
Excel. Nuff sed.Using XLS. It went out of date in 2007. PHE didn't exist in 2007.
A socially distant colleague had trouble with her network connection and consequent inability to print. She phoned the support company we use who, after trying a several of things, suggested she move desks.
A socially distant colleague had trouble with her network connection and consequent inability to print. She phoned the support company we use who, after trying a several of things, suggested she move desks.
Many years ago, I asked our technical support if it would be possible to print to my home office printer (networked) while connected to the VPN (because it was annoying having to disconnect). After about fifteen tickets and updates, they finally advised me that I would be able to 'print to the office printer.'
Which was true, I can print to the mothership from here and while connected to the VPN, but I don't fancy the better part of a 45 km trip to find out that printer is out of paper. I don't think that's the solution you are looking for, ian.
Never did sort out the VPN issue, but I have two computers and only one of them is on the VPN, so I have to email documents to myself on the other computer (because no LAN innit) to print them. MLIR.
... using Excel as a database...There was a job advert. in the Health Service Journal in the very early 1990s, no later than 1992, that I wish I had cut out and kept, but I didn't. Never mind, it is seared into the area of my brain marked, "Nooooooooooooo!" It ran (and I both precis and paraphrase), "Wanted: Experienced Excel Database Designer." It got better. The salary was a good £10,000 a year less than what the NHS was paying us "proper" Software & Database types at the time.
And now I write a bunch of un-version controlled spreadsheets for all my team's work processes.
To be honest, this is work of evil brilliance. There's an error. But we're not going to tell you where. We're not even going to give you a clue.
To be honest, this is work of evil brilliance. There's an error. But we're not going to tell you where. We're not even going to give you a clue.
"One or more" - we're not even going to tell you how many... could be 1, could be 3, could be 295...
Why do OEMs have to use proprietary connectors when there are STANDARDS?
Please desist.
The cunning plan for turning my old Lenovo IdeaCentre into a slient PC has faltered because there are almost 4 USB style connectors that attach the case to the motherboard with very non-USB-esq pin outs and get this, a ribbon cable that connects into what resembles a PCIe x1 connector. Discovering the pin out for the power button etc looks a destructive process in smashing off the top of the case and examining the PCB.
Why do OEMs have to use proprietary connectors when there are STANDARDS?
Please desist.
The cunning plan for turning my old Lenovo IdeaCentre into a slient PC has faltered because there are almost 4 USB style connectors that attach the case to the motherboard with very non-USB-esq pin outs and get this, a ribbon cable that connects into what resembles a PCIe x1 connector. Discovering the pin out for the power button etc looks a destructive process in smashing off the top of the case and examining the PCB.
Have a rummage through https://www.laboneinside.com/?s=ideacentre (https://www.laboneinside.com/?s=ideacentre) for anything useful...
And another thing. Plz to not be failing to load webby pages, fondleslab, and making me think the internet connection has died on its arse, given that the BHPC's online AGM starts in three-quarters of an hour.
And another thing. Plz to not be failing to load webby pages, fondleslab, and making me think the internet connection has died on its arse, given that the BHPC's online AGM starts in three-quarters of an hour.
This. Did YACF have a wobbly a few minutes ago?
On a related note, I'm failing to press-gang barakta into joining in with the AGM. I know she isn't a member, can't currently cycle, and is terrified of someone trying to co-opt her as treasurer, but really, those are all rubbish excuses...Having once acted as treasurer for a club I can say that fearing being cooped as treasurer is definitley a valid excuse.
She can try out the realtime captioning software she's been testing, for SCIENCE.
On a related note, I'm failing to press-gang barakta into joining in with the AGM. I know she isn't a member, can't currently cycle, and is terrified of someone trying to co-opt her as treasurer, but really, those are all rubbish excuses...Having once acted as treasurer for a club I can say that fearing being cooped as treasurer is definitley a valid excuse.
She can try out the realtime captioning software she's been testing, for SCIENCE.
Looks like database gremlins.
Running out of space on my mothership Macbook...
(and the download itself is 12GB) – so I imagine you need the better part of 20GB free.
Fucking square-wheeled shitwagon.
Moaning and groaning of the wrong sort from the upper deck. What benighted shenanigans can this be? The Lady of the Loft wants to connect to her phone's hotspot as a prelude to The Magical and Smart Electrometering Experience Tomorrow which portends a dark spell of no electricity at all unless we generate our own by running around each other with magnets. Probably around the time I get my mid-morning toast-urgery.<stackoverflow>Oh, when ever I've used it, it just works.</stackoverflow>
How hard can it be? On my Mac I click the wifi icon, select the correct phone and, erm, that's that.
It's Windows. Sigh. Come on, Microsoft, it's 20-fucking-20, humans have been using their phones as hotspots for several months at least. Maybe even years. It's got to be an official thing that can be done.
Click the option. The icon goes swirlymungo. Limited connectivity, it eventually bleats one ice-age later. What exactly is limited connectivity? I'll tell you. IT'S ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY NO CONNECTIVITY AT ALL. It's a complete absence of connectivity. That's what your version of limited is, you porridge-crammed clungebot. Go on, do you feel lucky, offer to fix it. Go on diagnose and fix my problem. Has this option ever worked, ever? At any point in the history of time?
IT WORKED! It said so and everything. Well drop my giddy aunt on a trampoline. I shall make my words into a sandwich and take them on a picnic right now. I shall compose hymns to the glory of Microsoft's greatest creature. For I am truly blessed.
Admittedly it solved the problem by reconnecting to the house wifi and hoping we wouldn't notice.
Fucking square-wheeled shitwagon.
I'd like to place some of the blame for that at Apple's door.
<Twinkly rainbows> Sorry, we can't connect right now!
Well, why not?
Give me some technical details!
<Twinkly rainbows> You don't need to know that! Try again later! Look! Sqrls!
And windows followed that paradigm.
And in fairness, you have complained about technical detail in UIs recently.
Hiding technical details is fine, right up to the point where it isn't.
Anyway, I gave up. I had no wish to spend the rest of my evening doing battle with Windows, a war in which I've yet to see a victory.
The most common error is, of course, the "An Error". Users report it all the time.
Right up to the point where it's Microsoft and they re-use the same one forQuote from: MoratThe most common error is, of course, the "An Error". Users report it all the time.
I like the ones that give you an error code...
Right up to the point where it's Microsoft and they re-use the same one fortenshundredsthousands of different faults, especially that all time classic 0x80004005. Which, roughly translated to human, means, "Oh shit. Something went wrong, but we don't know what." There are others, but that one ...
It's Windows. Sigh. Come on, Microsoft, it's 20-fucking-20, humans have been using their phones as hotspots for several months at least. Maybe even years. It's got to be an official thing that can be done.
... points me at a standard table representation of the MUMPS database ...FTFY. :)
Anyway the point of this overall rant is, what the fuck am I going to do...Shrug your shoulders, do the minimum* necessary to keep you and your team-mates sane and let the bean-counters & management sort out their own fuck-ups and come knocking-off time, go home.
...Which feeds 5 other subsystems that have been in place for 5 years.
Including a screen, that's meant to show the concept of concern, no ones reported it being blatantly wrong (fucking users shrugging and ignoring issues, previous rant)...
Mr Larrington: | Generating this list of tapes wot can be re-used takes a ridiculously long time using the built-in function in The Vendor-Supplied Product. There has to be a better way of doing it… |
Time passes. Mr Larrington learns about DATATRIEVE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATATRIEVE) and, peripherally, wombats. | |
Mr Larrington: | OK, youse BOsFH, would you care to try this New! IMPROVED!!1! SCIENCE wot I haz writted? |
BOFH #1: | Wowsa! A list of tapes wot can be re-used in fifteen seconds instead of eighty minutes!!1! |
BOFH #2: | And the output is identical to that generated by the built-in function in The Vendor-Supplied Product, so The Boss, [“Bad Swear” – The Invigilator] tho' he undoubtedly be, cannot complain! |
BOFH Chorus: | Hurrah! Hurrah for Mr Larrington and his wombat SCIENCE! Let us take him to Thee Pubbe, and buy him much BEER!!1! |
Mr Larrington: | This Unit hereby endorses this product, service or sentiment! |
FX: Thunderbolts, lightning, smoke, flame, loud roaring noise | |
The Boss: | 'oo tole you ter do that? Make it go away! Fifty house points from the Operations Assurance Froup! |
Omnes: | WANKER!!1! |
As a punishment Git Boss made me produce drawings of the data centre's floor plan, during which I discovered that the building was Not Straight, and then gave me another bollocking for using a primitive CAD program that had been bundled with my home PC.
Ooh thst lines up another rant about our operations team, but it's quite a bit older....Which feeds 5 other subsystems that have been in place for 5 years.
Including a screen, that's meant to show the concept of concern, no ones reported it being blatantly wrong (fucking users shrugging and ignoring issues, previous rant)...
Me: <looking at process built a decade or more ago>That doesn't look right.
User: It's always been like that.
Me: <sigh> So what do you do?
User: Well, we do this then that then export to Excel and use a pivot table... It takes ages.
Me: It should only take a few seconds, I'll have a look at it.
Half an hour later...
Me: OK, I've fixed it, there was a typo on one line in a subroutine that...
User: <eyes glaze over> OK, whatever.
A couple of months later...
Me: Why are you still doing this then that then exporting to Excel and using a pivot table which takes ages when I fixed it to take a few seconds?
User: Er, we've always done it that way.
::-)
Rant 1.Every IT project, regardless of size, that I ever undertaken. Here, have a nice cup of tea and a biscuit. :)
Decision made ....
Rant 5:
... meets spec, the spec says this <copies and pastes spec point>, this is not a bug...
Have finally kicked Firefox into touch, after struggling for a few months with the disastrous new version. Too many sites just don't work. Bye Mozilla...it was a mostly good 22 years.
I’m currently trying to wean myself off Chrome and onto Safari. Getting fed up with various sites I use regularly not working properly on Chrome. Annoying.
Well that's odd because IIRC, Chrome and Safari are fairly closely related.
Not so much a rant, more of a long drawn out sigh.
I'm typing this on our usual living room computer - a HP small thing running Ubuntu. Up until a few days ago it was running 18.04 which has been fine except for the last few months when it's sometimes taken a couple of goes to boot up. Those few days ago it took most of the morning to get it going so I thought I'll upgrade to 20.04 and see if it makes a difference. Well, as you might expect, it's worse.
It won't boot at all by the usual method, ie. just switching it on. Ok, so reinstall from a usb stick. Nope. Won't install anything from a usb stick - not Ubuntu, not Mint, not nuffink. I did did get it to run Mint from a stick but it utterly refused to let me do anything useful like grub repair. It just crashed.
However, I do have Ubuntu 14.04 on a partition of an old separate hard drive and the bloody thing manages to boot from this. If it's ok with this I can't imagine why it's not ok with a usb stick.
Weirdly, I can get the computer to start up 20.04 if I work my way through the boot menu on the old hard drive on a "recovery mode" option, but again, if I try to carry out any repairs it crashes. Apart from that it mostly works. Well, actually the sounds are a bit odd too. If I run the speaker test in Settings then it's fine but none of the apps that play music produce any sound.
Might be time for a new one.
Reading around, it appears there might be a compatibility issue with HP and Linux. It's worked fine for the last 4 years though. It was an upgrade. I've tried to do a clean install but since the thing won't boot off a usb stick then it's a bit difficult. The option I haven't tried involves gparted and taking off and nuking from orbit.Not so much a rant, more of a long drawn out sigh.
I'm typing this on our usual living room computer - a HP small thing running Ubuntu. Up until a few days ago it was running 18.04 which has been fine except for the last few months when it's sometimes taken a couple of goes to boot up. Those few days ago it took most of the morning to get it going so I thought I'll upgrade to 20.04 and see if it makes a difference. Well, as you might expect, it's worse.
It won't boot at all by the usual method, ie. just switching it on. Ok, so reinstall from a usb stick. Nope. Won't install anything from a usb stick - not Ubuntu, not Mint, not nuffink. I did did get it to run Mint from a stick but it utterly refused to let me do anything useful like grub repair. It just crashed.
However, I do have Ubuntu 14.04 on a partition of an old separate hard drive and the bloody thing manages to boot from this. If it's ok with this I can't imagine why it's not ok with a usb stick.
Weirdly, I can get the computer to start up 20.04 if I work my way through the boot menu on the old hard drive on a "recovery mode" option, but again, if I try to carry out any repairs it crashes. Apart from that it mostly works. Well, actually the sounds are a bit odd too. If I run the speaker test in Settings then it's fine but none of the apps that play music produce any sound.
Might be time for a new one.
I'm running 20.04 and its fine. Why should it be worse than 18.04? Ir an 18.04 for two years then went to 20.04 after it had been out for a couple of months. Did you do an upgrade or a clean install? I never trust the in-place upgrade of Ubuntu I always backup my data and re install its much cleaner.
You've been using it for years tho.
You've been using it for years tho.
Me too, at least 20 years. Now, as part of our migration to 365 we’ll have to use the web version :-\
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Decision made ....
Rant 5:
... meets spec, the spec says this <copies and pastes spec point>, this is not a bug...
Too right, I've got an E3 licence or whatever it is that gives me full desktop office 365 simply because I'm working in IT.You've been using it for years tho.
Me too, at least 20 years. Now, as part of our migration to 365 we’ll have to use the web version :-\
The other adult in this household has just been through a similar painful transition. It's as though IT departments don't eat their own dogfood.
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then it will not work :facepalm: Some kind of error message would be nice, chaps, instead of just crashing without so much as a farewell wave.
Too right, I've got an E3 licence or whatever it is that gives me full desktop office 365 simply because I'm working in IT.You've been using it for years tho.
Me too, at least 20 years. Now, as part of our migration to 365 we’ll have to use the web version :-\
The other adult in this household has just been through a similar painful transition. It's as though IT departments don't eat their own dogfood.
The Web version of Excel is so cut down I'm not sure the flexi time recording sheets would work.
Some people do seem to like Web Outlook365, and when I looked it didn't seem too bad.
All of the ms web tools I've used have managed to be better than any of the shite Google offer.
This week's fun things to do for IT, is moving all our outlook archives to the online archive. It's taking forever cos I've got three of the things.
Not only that but the instructions they sent us mean that for each archive you have to transfer every subfolder over individually.
WTF? I've been at this since Friday.
Eventually I got fed up and Googled for an alternative method. Hopefully that will work ok.
While this takes place Outlook doesn't work and so you have to use the online version. Which is horrible.
Well, I have now.Reading around, it appears there might be a compatibility issue with HP and Linux. It's worked fine for the last 4 years though. It was an upgrade. I've tried to do a clean install but since the thing won't boot off a usb stick then it's a bit difficult. The option I haven't tried involves gparted and taking off and nuking from orbit.Not so much a rant, more of a long drawn out sigh.
I'm typing this on our usual living room computer - a HP small thing running Ubuntu. Up until a few days ago it was running 18.04 which has been fine except for the last few months when it's sometimes taken a couple of goes to boot up. Those few days ago it took most of the morning to get it going so I thought I'll upgrade to 20.04 and see if it makes a difference. Well, as you might expect, it's worse.
It won't boot at all by the usual method, ie. just switching it on. Ok, so reinstall from a usb stick. Nope. Won't install anything from a usb stick - not Ubuntu, not Mint, not nuffink. I did did get it to run Mint from a stick but it utterly refused to let me do anything useful like grub repair. It just crashed.
However, I do have Ubuntu 14.04 on a partition of an old separate hard drive and the bloody thing manages to boot from this. If it's ok with this I can't imagine why it's not ok with a usb stick.
Weirdly, I can get the computer to start up 20.04 if I work my way through the boot menu on the old hard drive on a "recovery mode" option, but again, if I try to carry out any repairs it crashes. Apart from that it mostly works. Well, actually the sounds are a bit odd too. If I run the speaker test in Settings then it's fine but none of the apps that play music produce any sound.
Might be time for a new one.
I'm running 20.04 and its fine. Why should it be worse than 18.04? Ir an 18.04 for two years then went to 20.04 after it had been out for a couple of months. Did you do an upgrade or a clean install? I never trust the in-place upgrade of Ubuntu I always backup my data and re install its much cleaner.
This week's fun things to do for IT, is moving all our outlook archives to the online archive. It's taking forever cos I've got three of the things.
Not only that but the instructions they sent us mean that for each archive you have to transfer every subfolder over individually.
WTF? I've been at this since Friday.
Eventually I got fed up and Googled for an alternative method. Hopefully that will work ok.
While this takes place Outlook doesn't work and so you have to use the online version. Which is horrible.
4 days later and I'm still not finished moving these fecking archives over.
And the alternative method I got off Google didn't work, bah.
I had to ask Google for help on how to create a meeting invite from an email on the web version. Honestly I spend so much time dicking about with this stuff instead of working.
And I hear tell that the newco image is coming out so I can look forward to another half day of not being able to do any work at almost no notice. (At least, one of my cow-orkers said she could have it installed 'this afternoon or tomorrow' they can feck right off if they think they can have mine at that short notice.)
Do you all see how difficult it can be to fix an issue if you only get a small amount of info? It can be a bit like having a car, the headlight failing and you take it to the garage. All you say to them though is "Fix it". when you go and collect it they have replaced the exhaust and 3 tyres but the headlight still doesn't work.
Me, today, using analogy* to get the lusers to give reasonable fault reports:I managed to reduce the amount of times I have to go back to the other devs when they raise a repository change (ancient subversion and we can't do unstable trunk for support and safety reasons amongst others), replaced the emails saying "can you tell me which repo and what you want the branch to be called" with a form in jira that doesn't let them not enter the details.QuoteDo you all see how difficult it can be to fix an issue if you only get a small amount of info? It can be a bit like having a car, the headlight failing and you take it to the garage. All you say to them though is "Fix it". when you go and collect it they have replaced the exhaust and 3 tyres but the headlight still doesn't work.
Trouble is I suspect it went right over the heads of 6 out of the 7
....Nah, just the Beast of Redmond messing with your mind.
Edit: 'kinell, that was quick! 20 minutes from poking the link to having him back up and running. Something must have gone wrong.
Quote from: Mr Larrington....Nah, just the Beast of Redmond messing with your mind.
Edit: 'kinell, that was quick! 20 minutes from poking the link to having him back up and running. Something must have gone wrong.
Just been given a (partial) keyboard to suit my temprement.
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Just been given a (partial) keyboard to suit my temprement.
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It may be a terribly first world annoyance, but not being able to print while on the dashed VPN is really making me rather cross.
After approximately nineteen hours of fannying around I discovered that if ur file saysCode: [Select]texture:[0]
where it’s meant to sayCode: [Select]texture:[1]
then it will not work :facepalm: Some kind of error message would be nice, chaps, instead of just crashing without so much as a farewell wave.
You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally. What you need is another VPN, running over your VPN to tunnel back to your printer... ;DI see a perfect opportunity to accidentally connect the other VPN to someone else's printer, for added hilarity.
You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally. What you need is another VPN, running over your VPN to tunnel back to your printer... ;DI see a perfect opportunity to accidentally connect the other VPN to someone else's printer, for added hilarity.
You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally. What you need is another VPN, running over your VPN to tunnel back to your printer... ;DI see a perfect opportunity to accidentally connect the other VPN to someone else's printer, for added hilarity.
Splendidly, I can send it to any printer in the business. Beijing, Philadelphia, Bengaluru, Penang, Auckland, San Francisco, London, you name it. Even Chandler, Arizona.
None of this is especially useful at the moment.
You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally. What you need is another VPN, running over your VPN to tunnel back to your printer... ;DI see a perfect opportunity to accidentally connect the other VPN to someone else's printer, for added hilarity.
Splendidly, I can send it to any printer in the business. Beijing, Philadelphia, Bengaluru, Penang, Auckland, San Francisco, London, you name it. Even Chandler, Arizona.
None of this is especially useful at the moment.
There's always the post.
Our work printer system was much more like I'd expect printers to work.
Unless you want a printer that isn't in the system you don't print to a printer, you just print something to the generic "I wanted it printed".
You then go to a printer and dab your ID badge on a reader and then you select the thing you want from your queue.
Folders and sub-folders, grrr! ::-) why the sodding hell are folders still necessary in today's day and age, where we have umpteen tools to filter and sort the files I'm interested in, and not only that but find files based on their contents?
I am moving to increasingly store all files in the root of C:\ , or ~/ on my mac, and on my own software projects I'm just storing all files in the one folder. There is literally zero point in storing them in folders based on their category.
(This should possibly go in the I'm such an idiot thread...)
Me: dear colleague, please would assist me in finding out why this thing Does Not Work?
Him: have you tried running it as administrator?
Me: I'm going to look a proper idiot if that works...
Yes, that was the problem...
Why are _all_ WiFi TRVs actually Zigbee thus need a bridge? I want to replace units in my house, not add more tat!Zigbee is much lower power consumption than wifi, so should be better battery life.
Bah!
Why are _all_ WiFi TRVs actually Zigbee thus need a bridge? I want to replace units in my house, not add more tat!Zigbee is much lower power consumption than wifi, so should be better battery life.
Bah!
Why are _all_ WiFi TRVs actually Zigbee thus need a bridge? I want to replace units in my house, not add more tat!Zigbee is much lower power consumption than wifi, so should be better battery life.
Bah!
Also Zigbee devices form their own mesh network so the connection between them is more reliable than what could be spotty WiFi coverage.
Shut Down
andUpdate and Shut Down
then selecting the former should SHUT THE FUCKING MACHINE DOWN WITHOUT APPLYING THE FUCKING UPDATE >:(Microsith, you terrible warty cockshafts, if you provide the menu optionsCode: [Select]Shut Down
andCode: [Select]Update and Shut Down
then selecting the former should SHUT THE FUCKING MACHINE DOWN WITHOUT APPLYING THE FUCKING UPDATE >:(
And the reason I want to do this is because YOUR update has b0rked MY Babbage-Engine, so I want to try various options to sort it out without wasting ten minutes on restart when YOUR update fails again and has to do a system fucking restore. You hopeless skunk-buggering peckerwoods.
And this ^ is why I've swapped to Linux. It has all sorts of issues* of its own, but at least I know it won't apply updates behind my back.
This is one of the issues, you have to qualify everything you say or write about Linux with distro/version/selected UI/phase of the moon. :)Updates aren't an issue on Ubuntu 20 or Manjaro 20 either. Just popups asking if you want them now or later. They rarely take more than a few seconds anyway.
On Mint 20 I get a nice little popup telling me updates are available which fades away if ignore it.
Microsith, you terrible warty cockshafts, if you provide the menu optionsCode: [Select]Shut Down
andCode: [Select]Update and Shut Down
then selecting the former should SHUT THE FUCKING MACHINE DOWN WITHOUT APPLYING THE FUCKING UPDATE >:(
And the reason I want to do this is because YOUR update has b0rked MY Babbage-Engine, so I want to try various options to sort it out without wasting ten minutes on restart when YOUR update fails again and has to do a system fucking restore. You hopeless skunk-buggering peckerwoods.
Shutdown /s
Windows Fax and Scan on Windows 10, and an EPSON ET-2720 printer and scanner, why won't you tossers talk to each other so that I can scan?And it's bloody well doing it again, a week after the last time I used it and it just worked.
You managed it a week ago, and for months before. The printer will print from the computer, it'll even run the scanner to pretend that it's a photocopier.
Having turned them all off and back on again, along with the router and the wireless access point, and uninstalled and reinstalled the printer a couple of times, an all I get is "No scanners were detected" while an image on screen is taunting me, as it's a scan of the bit of paper that's been sat in the scanner since I used it last week.
Then I've been told by family that my workaround of using a DSLR camera is wrong. I should have downloaded and used a phone app, because that's "easier". Obviously the fact that I know how to use a DSLR already, means that nothing, but nothing could possibly go wrong with installing an app, finding how to use an app, getting the data to my computer from the app. Or that wrangling all of that could possibly be slower than using the camera that just works as if I haven't wasted enough time on the scanner already.
If I had the 20,000-odd files in my current project in a single folder
- I'd never be able to find anything, and
- I'd need ridiculously long file names to ensure uniqueness, and
- It wouldn’t work
If I had the 20,000-odd files in my current project in a single folder
- I'd never be able to find anything, and
- I'd need ridiculously long file names to ensure uniqueness, and
- It wouldn’t work
Then either your project is too big, or you've got at least one badly named file.
I bet you're the sort that has classes simply called "Data". And boolean variables called "yes".
This seems like a good thread for this: https://twitter.com/shituserstories
Microsith, you terrible warty cockshafts, if you provide the menu optionsCode: [Select]Shut Down
andCode: [Select]Update and Shut Down
then selecting the former should SHUT THE FUCKING MACHINE DOWN WITHOUT APPLYING THE FUCKING UPDATE >:(
And the reason I want to do this is because YOUR update has b0rked MY Babbage-Engine, so I want to try various options to sort it out without wasting ten minutes on restart when YOUR update fails again and has to do a system fucking restore. You hopeless skunk-buggering peckerwoods.
Shutdown /s
Ta! Didn’t know you could do that; I'll give it a go next time.
Microsith, you terrible warty cockshafts, if you provide the menu optionsCode: [Select]Shut Down
andCode: [Select]Update and Shut Down
then selecting the former should SHUT THE FUCKING MACHINE DOWN WITHOUT APPLYING THE FUCKING UPDATE >:(
And the reason I want to do this is because YOUR update has b0rked MY Babbage-Engine, so I want to try various options to sort it out without wasting ten minutes on restart when YOUR update fails again and has to do a system fucking restore. You hopeless skunk-buggering peckerwoods.
Shutdown /s
Ta! Didn’t know you could do that; I'll give it a go next time.
Update: it appears that if Windows is in a state of restart requiredness then even shutdown from the command line doesn’t stop it from trying to install the wretched thing, so I have now learned to take my Kindle with me when starting the thing back up as it takes quite a while to undo the failed update. Nuking from orbit is looking increasingly like the only solution unless I can persuade the bloody thing to boot in Safe+Network mode, which at the moment I can’t because it doesn’t recognise the keyboard at that point in the startup process. Undignified sub-desk grovelling may be needed to plug cheap and nasty USB keyboard into a port that’s actually on the mofoboard.
I have fond memories of trying to shut down Windows because I had to dash to a meeting or catch a train and seeing the dreaded installing update 1 of 35,657, do not shut down your machine...
I really don't understand all the fuss about Windows updates. They can be scheduled ....Which is all well and good if *you* control the schedule. My primary work machine is Win10, locked tighter than a gnat's chuff by our (3rd party IT bods, natch), and it is common to get peremptory messages of the form, "Restart your machine now! We* have installed new vital** software and we've already triggered the countdown to automatic restart."
I really don't understand all the fuss about Windows updates. They can be scheduled as oppose to simply happening and they can be delayed even when scheduled.
It's no big deal.
I really don't understand all the fuss about Windows updates. They can be scheduled as oppose to simply happening and they can be delayed even when scheduled.
It's no big deal.
I have fond memories of trying to shut down Windows because I had to dash to a meeting or catch a train and seeing the dreaded installing update 1 of 35,657, do not shut down your machine...
The problem I've found is that the less Windows I use in day-to-day life, the more regular these incidents become. A Windows machine that spends most of its time shut down always needs to install eleventy updates each time you use it.
Anyway, it seems some nefarious operative had 'disconnected us at the cab'
No, Babbage-Devices, taking ten minutes to copy 67 bytes of data across TowersNet is Simply Not On.
No, Babbage-Devices, taking ten minutes to copy 67 bytes of data across TowersNet is Simply Not On.
What was it doing, spelling them out in hex using a camera from 1996?
O my band-o-broad hath forsaken me. Wherefore art thou BT? I doth lack optimism.Virgin did something like that to me once. After a week or so, by which time my phone's data allowance was running low despite careful management (I was plugging my PC into my phone for an internet connection for work) I got on telly talking about it to Tom Hepworth in front of my computer. ;D
ETA. An engineer has been dispatched. On horseback. From the darkest parts of Faraway. He may arrive within 48 hours. Or not. Now that's the sort of leap-to-it service I pay a premium price for.
Self you are a stupid idiot. You know about Phishing risks so why did you follow a link purporting to be from Microsoft Office 365 without reading the URL very closely. Fortunately I got suspicious and closed the browser then checked the URL and saw it read "Micrasoft", unfortunately 10 minutes later my laptop showed a blue screen and rebooted. I haven't yet got the courage to log back in until I have spoken to my Work IT helpdesk.
Edit to update: Booted up, Logged in, longer delay than normal, initiated McAfee scan, nearly 4 hours later the scan is still going.
Whether a customer or an employee, Amazon treats all people exactly the same: as objects to extract money, time, or labor from. There is a straight line from people peeing in bottles at work to Amazon limiting how you use the cameras you bought with your own money to Jeff Bezos being unimaginably rich in an age of extreme wealth inequality. This is who Amazon is.
Related, as I was just discussing the need for CAPTCHAs on the local cycle campaign website, I've just had a brilliant idea:This is one of those rare times when I regret the lack of a like button on this forum
"Prove you're not a robot or a member of the council highway's department by selecting all the photos of rideable cycling infrastructure".
Make it happen, webmonkeys.
Self you are a stupid idiot. You know about Phishing risks so why did you follow a link purporting to be from Microsoft Office 365 without reading the URL very closely. Fortunately I got suspicious and closed the browser then checked the URL and saw it read "Micrasoft", unfortunately 10 minutes later my laptop showed a blue screen and rebooted. I haven't yet got the courage to log back in until I have spoken to my Work IT helpdesk.
Edit to update: Booted up, Logged in, longer delay than normal, initiated McAfee scan, nearly 4 hours later the scan is still going.
That BSOD could be the result of an attacker obtaining and then terminating a remote shell. I'd report it to your employer and let them deal with it as they see fit. We'd give you a freshly reinstalled laptop and send you on your way, whilst the old one is examined for signs of compromise and then nuked and paved ready for the next person.
Worse to ignore it.
I just prodded the power button, after a day and a bit of it lying around doing abrickslab impression, and it booted up, all innocent like.
RTC was wrong, and the battery was at 0%. It's now charging at a more reasonable 850mA (it's old enough that 1A is the max rating).
Either the battery is shagged (it's a circa 2015 design, so on the cusp of batteries becoming decently reliable), or the power management has droid rot and it's gone the way of the Psion Revo.
And another thing. Apps. On fondleslabs. Why do Apple still allow developers to produce Apps that only render properly on iPhones and render only IN PORTRATE on fondleslabs. They should do something about it. >:(
So to update some help files....Could be worse ...
FFS. Content management is like, a thing in 2021.
I did gripe about it and someone helpfully pointed out that if I wanted a new help system I was the person to ask since implementing one would be my decision.
2 related mini-rants today.SAAS is the future... Unfortunately.
Mini-rant 1:New PC comes pre-loaded with subscription Office 365.
You are steered down the road of setting up a Microsoft account, and a subscription.
I don't want this, I want to use a perpetually-licensed version of Office.
Trying to remove Office 365 is like trying to get rid of Japanese Knotweed infestation.
Even after 'removing' it and installing normal Office, on first start-up of Word, you are right back to the 'setting up a Microsoft account, and subscription' one-way corridor, with no side doors.
You really need to rip this bastard out by the roots, and the roots run deep.
There is, however, an Office Removal tool which is claimed to make a 'proper' clean job of the un-install.
Let's give that a go.
Mini-rant 2: Diagnostic tools like this should be stand-alone tools. I detest tools which are just a stub installer, and then require an Internet connection to perform the actual installation. Particularly diagnostic tools, which should not have stupid dependencies on Internet availability.
I have a 'perpetual licence' version of Office Pro, and having installed it once and registered it to my Microsoft account, Windows recognises it and installs it (after prompting) on all my computers. Each major update of Windows asks if I want to go down the 365 route, but a simple 'no thanks' deals with that.
Ah, system automation. One system I was primarily and then peripherally involved with for over 12 years never achieved automation or it’s key tasks. The number and diversity of other systems with with it was interconnected in order to perform its core tasks were just too flaky and the addition of not all those systems being under our control meant that automation just proved to challenging. Whether anyone has actually achieved automation since I left the business three years ago I sincerely doubt.Automated testing means writing code that can be automatically tested by a simple algorithm, so functions that basically say whe a + b return c
While we’re dissing Microsith, what the blue blazes is that weather forecast thing you've stuck in the notification area, Gates? I didn’t ask for it, don’t want it and had to hunt around for quite a long time before figuring out how to make it go away. If I want to know what the weather is doing in sunny E17 I'll look out of the fucking window.Thank you for confirming my suspicions regarding wierd shit afoot on a relatives box today. I suspected Microsith at work but with this relative I never rule out pebkac.
While we’re dissing Microsith, what the blue blazes is that weather forecast thing you've stuck in the notification area, Gates? I didn’t ask for it, don’t want it and had to hunt around for quite a long time before figuring out how to make it go away. If I want to know what the weather is doing in sunny E17 I'll look out of the fucking window.
While we’re dissing Microsith, what the blue blazes is that weather forecast thing you've stuck in the notification area, Gates? I didn’t ask for it, don’t want it and had to hunt around for quite a long time before figuring out how to make it go away. If I want to know what the weather is doing in sunny E17 I'll look out of the fucking window.
Would you be so kind as to share this information, as it gets worse. I am sat on a corporate network in Berks, but it locates me at head office and gives the weather information for Rochester. :facepalm:
There are many parts of Croydon that could be improved with a tractor.
There are many parts of Croydon that could be improved with atractormeteorite impact.
There are many parts of Croydon that could be improved with atractormeteorite impact.
Amended for accuracy.
WTF should some files sent from Japan for me to check be impossible to copy to a USB stick? Out of 10, six or seven were fine, but I got an error message when trying to copy the others. Same on every USB stick in the house except Naomi's work one, which I didn't try.
No obvious fault with the files (ppt & docx), & transferring between an external HDD & computer worked perfectly.
I presume some obscure fault somewhere. Never encountered it before.
Ninja’d by Pingu…Go to Google maps, don't feed it any other info particularly a Google account as that knows where your phone is, it almost certainly tells you where your is has decided you are.
At least Microsith had my location right. Most webby SCIENCE tells me I am in Croydon. Not quite as bad as Farcebok thinking I was in York and wanting to buy a tractor, at almost exactly the same time as Zuckerberg was on live television explaining how THE ALGORITHM generates shitverts micro-tailored to a luser's every whim and fancy, but really. Croydon?
WTF should some files sent from Japan for me to check be impossible to copy to a USB stick? Out of 10, six or seven were fine, but I got an error message when trying to copy the others. Same on every USB stick in the house except Naomi's work one, which I didn't try.
No obvious fault with the files (ppt & docx), & transferring between an external HDD & computer worked perfectly.
I presume some obscure fault somewhere. Never encountered it before.
Memory sticks which are failing formatted as FAT32 with no unicode support for Japanese character set, versus some sticks and the external HDD being formatted NTFS which can do unicode filenames?
Or something like that.
Never underestimate what a tractor can do, I mean have you seen what happens to fields when they go in there with a plough? And the road when they leave it?There are many parts of Croydon that could be improved with a tractor.
I think you misspelled bulldozer. Or possibly tactical nuclear device.
There are worse places in London (though probably not to cycle), but they're mostly called Tottenham.
A problem with that theory. Yes, the USB sticks are FAT32 (all I've checked) & the external disk is NTFS, & yes, the first batch all had Japanese characters. But most of those with Japanese characters could be copied, read & edited on those sticks without trouble (same for hundreds of others I & Mrs B have copied to & from over the years), & one file of a second batch failed despite none of that batch containing any Japanese. Why would it only affect a few files, all from the same source?WTF should some files sent from Japan for me to check be impossible to copy to a USB stick? Out of 10, six or seven were fine, but I got an error message when trying to copy the others. Same on every USB stick in the house except Naomi's work one, which I didn't try.
No obvious fault with the files (ppt & docx), & transferring between an external HDD & computer worked perfectly.
I presume some obscure fault somewhere. Never encountered it before.
Memory sticks which are failing formatted as FAT32 with no unicode support for Japanese character set, versus some sticks and the external HDD being formatted NTFS which can do unicode filenames?
Or something like that.
Anywhere with Green in the name is bad news. Edmonton Green. It's definitively not very green.
FAT32 has a couple of limitations: 1) the file size has to be less than 4GB and 2) the length of the filename, and the length of the names of any folders, has to be less than 255 characters.Yes, but none of them affect these files.
2 related mini-rants today.
Mini-rant 1:New PC comes pre-loaded with subscription Office 365.
You are steered down the road of setting up a Microsoft account, and a subscription.
I don't want this, I want to use a perpetually-licensed version of Office.
Trying to remove Office 365 is like trying to get rid of Japanese Knotweed infestation.
Even after 'removing' it and installing normal Office, on first start-up of Word, you are right back to the 'setting up a Microsoft account, and subscription' one-way corridor, with no side doors.
You really need to rip this bastard out by the roots, and the roots run deep.
There is, however, an Office Removal tool which is claimed to make a 'proper' clean job of the un-install.
Let's give that a go.
Get-AppxPackage
Remove-AppxPackage -Package "MicrosoftOrrificeBlahBlah1_1.0.0.0_neutral__8weblahky"
And stuff just starting. Teams fires up every time I start. There's no stopping it. It's relentless. It's a fucking virtual machine, why do I want Teams to start on it? No, I don't want to install Edge. Stop. No. I said stop. Shopping mode, what the fuck is shopping mode? Stop it.
It’s a bit like that sub version of Skype that recently turned up in W10 and is in startup and can’t be stopped. If it did any checks it’d realise my PC has no webcam and no microphone. So fuck off with the video conferencing software starting up every bloody time.
It’s a bit like that sub version of Skype that recently turned up in W10 and is in startup and can’t be stopped. If it did any checks it’d realise my PC has no webcam and no microphone. So fuck off with the video conferencing software starting up every bloody time.
Does Skype still do that evil peer-to-peer thing where it turns your computer (and copious amounts of network bandwidth) into a node to route other people's phone calls? That would explain this behaviour...
It’s a bit like that sub version of Skype that recently turned up in W10 and is in startup and can’t be stopped. If it did any checks it’d realise my PC has no webcam and no microphone. So fuck off with the video conferencing software starting up every bloody time.
Does Skype still do that evil peer-to-peer thing where it turns your computer (and copious amounts of network bandwidth) into a node to route other people's phone calls? That would explain this behaviour...
Supernodes.
No, when MS bought Skype they changed all that and used their own servers as supernodes.
[2] Interestingly, this is a joint account with barakta OTP, who isn't getting any notifications.[/sub]
Aargh. Trying to upgrade the office computer from 16Gb RAM to 31Gb. Crucial sticks (2x16) delivered, installed - nothing.
Aargh. Trying to upgrade the office computer from 16Gb RAM to 31Gb. Crucial sticks (2x16) delivered, installed - nothing.
2x16 = 32
;D ;D
Thnxbai
Why is it that so much software opens a new window to put in a password or some other data BUT does not put the cursor focus in the box.Dunnoh, we seem to have got round that by forcing every supplier to have to work with imprivata, meaning either you never see the login screen or it dumping your username and password into the wrong window if it doesn't focus like that and thus rejected accreditation.
Every time I login at work I have to move the cursor 3-4 times in order to get to the correct places.
Malloc(employee)Ah well, there's your solution. Get them to use .Net. Garbage collection *will* be run. Eventually. :)
While(employed) {}
Free(employee)
Accounts get destroyed pretty sharp for us, need to make sure shared stuff isn't within the departing account...
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The nerds that make phone apps need to enforce it taking 40 minutes of wibbling panic before initiating any sort of phone call like it did in my day rather than perpetually being a single touch away from making someone else's phone ring.
My phone (Moto G7) got battery bulge. Possibly due to exposure to that nuclear sky ball thing that we have now.
I was stupid enough to crack the screen by poking at it before backing up contacts and things. Screen's now too fucked to unlock it and mount the filesystem over USB or enable the debugger or anything useful. Div.
New phone obtained. Moto G50. Major differences, apart for the obligatory annoying Android UI redesign, include about a centimetre of height inflation, a physicalThat sounds very inconvenient.calculatorgoogle assistant button that doesn't appear to be re-mappable to something useful, and that the second SIM slot shares physical space with the SD card slot, so you can only use one or the other.
That's correct.I got "7 Old Ford Road", with a marker, pasting the link into Edge
Perhaps it's an issue where the link was created on the same PC where you then try to view the link.
Perhaps some cookie the website dropped during the link creation fucks up subsequent viewing of the link.
ETA: Yes, it does appear to be cookie-related.
If I click on the link I posted, I get a London-based location.
If I clear cookies for bing.com, I get the correct location.
Ah, no. It's fucked again.
The link I posted above now goes to Bloomberg in the US.
731 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022
And after closing/reopening chrome, it's correct.
Basically, where the link lands you is totally random based on something I don't know.
That's correct.I got "7 Old Ford Road", with a marker, pasting the link into Edge
Perhaps it's an issue where the link was created on the same PC where you then try to view the link.
Perhaps some cookie the website dropped during the link creation fucks up subsequent viewing of the link.
ETA: Yes, it does appear to be cookie-related.
If I click on the link I posted, I get a London-based location.
If I clear cookies for bing.com, I get the correct location.
Ah, no. It's fucked again.
The link I posted above now goes to Bloomberg in the US.
731 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022
And after closing/reopening chrome, it's correct.
Basically, where the link lands you is totally random based on something I don't know.
Bloomberg LP at 731 Lexington Ave (aberdeen map, no marker) pasting into Chrome
Sussex County Cricket Club (aberdeen map, no marker) pasting into IE
When I do projects like that, sharing point on maps with a wee note attached. I have had great success with https://umap.openstreetmap.fr
Moto G50.
[...]
It *might* be able to stay connected to a wireless LAN with IPv6 RAs on it, but it's a bit early to tell. Hasn't randomly disconnected yet anyway.
If you've got grid references then you can link to maps on streetmap.co.uk, e.g. https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map/idld.srf?X=395058&Y=809213&A=Y&Z=115&lm=1
I think you could have bought an entirely new (and better) scanner for less than you're spending on a cable...
I appreciate that data tracking is important to companies, but why on earth are we flooding the internet with pretty formatting and pictures and tracking just for a simple short few lines communication?
I start by creating a god mode folder, that helps remind it which way the relationship should be.
I start by creating a god mode folder, that helps remind it which way the relationship should be.
But I share Barakta's frustration with getting windows 10 going, I needed to get a new laptop on the wifi, printer/scanner drivers installed and updated - so that on Monday her work IT people can blast it with whatever directory services and other stuff it needs (and it's only a temporary one for the next month).
Microsoft, I just want to get this machine running, I do not want it to be my new best friend, I do not want to have to type in my life history and a bazillion email addresses and passwords just to be able to put it on the fucking wifi.
Dear IS, I need a new laptop.
Hello Clare, what happened to your old one?
It fell from a height.
Into a bucket of petrol.
Which ignited.
So I stamped the fire out with a 2 tonne press.
Did you check this card on other X570 motherboard before? From your description, it seems to be a compatibility issue, we have checked this device, we are sorry, we have no this card can be tested. And AM4 motherboard cannot support some old PCIe devices now, some older graphics cards and PCIe devices may nt be recognized, we have reflected to AMD before, but AMD did not provide any solutions.
Linked-in is the pits.
It still makes marginally more sense the Pinterest, in that a way of presenting sanitised profiles to prospective employers is at least marginally useful, whereas something whose only discernible function is to pollute search engine results is completely inexplicable.
Hello Mrs Pingu,
We'd love to hear what you think of our customer service. Please take a moment to answer one simple question below:
How would you rate the support you received?
Good, I'm satisfied
Bad, I'm unsatisfied
Here's a reminder of what your ticket was about:
How should this 'support' be rated I wonder?
How should this 'support' be rated I wonder?
Null stars.
<Win>+r
cmd<enter>
cd Desk<tab><enter>
move file162<tab> C:\temp\here<enter>
exit<enter>
I am not a fast typist. Ok I'm not a slow typist either but really, I'm nowhere near software engineer fast. The latter takes about 15 seconds of which 99.999% is me, the file move is instantaneous (on a human scale). Drag and drop takes about 20 seconds. For Fuck Sake microshit how? How can you make a simple file movement take so long? Stop wasting time drawing a progress dialog, calculating the remaining time, animating the progress etc and just fucking do it!(a) How did it do that? Is it phoning home for every action?
(b) How do I tell it to get the fuck off the internet before someone hacks in and sets my house on fire for a laugh?
Dear Clare
Yes that is fine, I will order a new laptop for you. The Managed Service team will email you shortly to arrange a time for collection of the new machine. They will also ask you to return the loan machine at the same time, so please make sure that you have backup copies of any data that may be saved on it (the email will give you instructions on which folders to check etc).
The other thing is the Apple and Android notification systems are centralised. Most* "app" notifications you see on your phone are being put there not by the app running on your phone but by the app owner's server sending them to Apple or Google which forwards them to your phone. Your phone has a connection open to its maker 24/7 which means it can always receive them.
(* on Apple at least where the "local notification" system is flakey and weird and barely used. Android I think is more variable)
though notifications frequently result from an app phoning home to determine that there's something worth generating a notification about ("You have mail", "Someone is better at PE than you on Strava", "Tornado warning!", "Buy $product").
Some FLACs in the muzak collection have been split across two albums and I can't see why :demon: The album, artist and album artist tags are all the same.
The splitting of albums where there are guest artists on some tracks is incredibly irritating. It’s an Album for Pete’s sake, the maker of it designed it to be played together and in this order! You either have to change the artist or tag it Various Artists, neither of which is correct.
The splitting of albums where there are guest artists on some tracks is incredibly irritating. It’s an Album for Pete’s sake, the maker of it designed it to be played together and in this order! You either have to change the artist or tag it Various Artists, neither of which is correct.
There’s a field called “Album Artist” that exists solely to solve this problem. Set those all to the same thing and you can use the “Artist” tag however you like.
Power wobbles tripped a Circuit Breaker. More importantly it fried my router.Power wobbles are far more likely to fry a router power supply than a router.
So the only Internets I have is tethered to my phone. Oh well. The good news is that AAISP will send out a new router, but the bad news is that it is a Bank Holiday weekend...
...about a hundred thousand directories before it can actually start copying files again >:(
Moved house. Plugged in router and old-desktop-computer-music-storage-thingummy, and Devil's radio, network and interwebs work immediately. OK, had to reboot the router to get Mrs P's tablet to talk to the interwebs and do Chromecast. Squeezebox Boom powers up and plays said music nae bother.
Squeezebox Duet, wtf are you? Didn't you get the ruddy memo? Gah >:(
...about a hundred thousand directories before it can actually start copying files again >:(
What are you storing, the Gaia star map?
I start by creating a god mode folder, that helps remind it which way the relationship should be.
You have to use the 'save a copy' option to somewhere local. Otherwise, you're just editing the online version in the desktop app. You can't persuade it otherwise.Yeah, I'd done that . .
WoE are you doing to make it crash so much ??? I can't remember the last time Windows crashed for me.
WoE are you doing to make it crash so much ??? I can't remember the last time Windows crashed for me.
WoE are you doing to make it crash so much ??? I can't remember the last time Windows crashed for me.
Perhaps he's using Windows 98 or something.
I have found Windows to be extremely stable since Windows 7 but then I didn't venture into 8 which was by all accounts a bit of a mare in comparison.
The only way I reckon I can get W10 to install an update it’s been failing to install for the past ten months is by reinstalling the the whole wretched thing from scratch. Which wouldn’t be so onerous were it not for the dozens of apps that would need to reinstalled, plus the large amount of tweaking required to get the bloody thing the way I want it. Bah!
The only way I reckon I can get W10 to install an update it’s been failing to install for the past ten months is by reinstalling the the whole wretched thing from scratch. Which wouldn’t be so onerous were it not for the dozens of apps that would need to reinstalled, plus the large amount of tweaking required to get the bloody thing the way I want it. Bah!
I believe that I can give you a solution to that. My office PC (as in, the one next to my desk in a far flung place called "the city") was toast. Wouldn't run any updates, programs took 15 seconds to start, those that would even start. I would have been quite happy to go and zap it and load it from scratch, it doesn't run much more than office, superputty and virtualbox, but then I found the solution....
download a windows iso, right click on it to mount it (no need to put it on a usb stick) then run the setup.exe on it. It will ask you if you want to keep your existing software after which apparently it replaces windows in-situ.
At the end it reboots, and will initially give you the welcome screen from a fresh windows installation but all your treasured programs are still installed.
Updates are still a pain in the rear, it downloaded a bazillion separately this morning (though at least it didn't force me to restart). There might be a better option, I really don't need to know, Apple just package them up and deliver and install about 600 GB of them every othernight while I sleep.The only reason my work PC gets a reboot is because endpoint decide its time to deploy a load of updates, it's always at an i opportune moment because they like to kick it off laterl afternoon when I'm busy and by the time I open it up in the morning from its sleep mode the delay timers run out and it reboots me just as I'm about to dive (almost) straight from the shower into the morning stand up.
Then Dell decided it wanted to update loads of things too, which I duly agreed to, and they all failed for no apparent reason it felt like disclosing.
There are also exciting things like antivirus and malware checkers that I'll leave to the mothership to maintain.
Start-up is still relatively slow compared to a Mac and I still can't figure out to do a proper close lid sleep and instant restart when you open it. I'm not sure why the Bitlocker thing isn't just integrated like FileVault. It feels a bit less responsive.
Other than that, while I'd prefer a Mac, it's a bit of a muchness these days.
I try to have as little to do with MS Office as possible, but it seems to have lost the plot in about 2010. And even that had the hated Ribbon.
Also, Schnellzugriff is officially a Good Word. (Quick access, I think)
Windows restore that exists right on your hard drive apparently can do similar.The only way I reckon I can get W10 to install an update it’s been failing to install for the past ten months is by reinstalling the the whole wretched thing from scratch. Which wouldn’t be so onerous were it not for the dozens of apps that would need to reinstalled, plus the large amount of tweaking required to get the bloody thing the way I want it. Bah!
I believe that I can give you a solution to that. My office PC (as in, the one next to my desk in a far flung place called "the city") was toast. Wouldn't run any updates, programs took 15 seconds to start, those that would even start. I would have been quite happy to go and zap it and load it from scratch, it doesn't run much more than office, superputty and virtualbox, but then I found the solution....
download a windows iso, right click on it to mount it (no need to put it on a usb stick) then run the setup.exe on it. It will ask you if you want to keep your existing software after which apparently it replaces windows in-situ.
At the end it reboots, and will initially give you the welcome screen from a fresh windows installation but all your treasured programs are still installed.
AFAIK Windows Restore depends on the existence of a restore point at the appropriate time and how far back it goes depends on how big the partition it’s been allocated is and also whether the offending update created one in the first place which, in the case of third-party drivers, appears to be a rarity. The available evidence suggests the issue is the fault of a driver update that happened the thick end of a year ago, so I reckon the chance of being able to roll back that far is 2/3 of 80% of not very much. Doubly so since I ent even been able to find out which driver might have done the evil deed.Windows restore isn't just restore points.
Also Microsith leave System Restore turned OFF by default, or at least they did in 2016 when they woke up my laptop from hibernation and tried to install a GBFO update over the world’s slowest hotel Internet connection in Wheretehfuckami, Ontario. The bastards.
Dear workWell it sounds like an improvement if you actually have a computer now.
This lapdog which has finally arrived at the correct address (sigh) is stuck trying to install shits
Not best regards
Pingu
Dear workWell it sounds like an improvement if you actually have a computer now.
This lapdog which has finally arrived at the correct address (sigh) is stuck trying to install shits
Not best regards
Pingu
Sent from my BKL-L09 using Tapatalk
Can you share its name?I try to have as little to do with MS Office as possible, but it seems to have lost the plot in about 2010. And even that had the hated Ribbon.
Also, Schnellzugriff is officially a Good Word. (Quick access, I think)
There is at least one Product which restores sensible menus to Office 2013 (and possibly other iterations) which is free for non-commercial use. I wouldn’t be without it.
I'm running a thing called Classic Office Menu from https://www.addintools.com/, which is not free unless you download a cracked copy from a source of dubious provenance, but I'm pretty sure I've seen another one one which WAS free for personal use.Can you share its name?I try to have as little to do with MS Office as possible, but it seems to have lost the plot in about 2010. And even that had the hated Ribbon.
Also, Schnellzugriff is officially a Good Word. (Quick access, I think)
There is at least one Product which restores sensible menus to Office 2013 (and possibly other iterations) which is free for non-commercial use. I wouldn’t be without it.
Work are all very nice and friendly so if I whined loudly enough they might let me have it…
And how I loathe with a passion the Ribbon. Just give me all the icons in small all the time. Everything takes twice as many clicks as with my Mac.
Good software engineers always test their work. It does what the manager or management software tells them to do. It is a very sad job. Any computer programmer wants to do the best they can on the time their given. User level testing is done by test engineers. The Software Engineers favourite thing is writing correct computer programs. Their job is hated, a horrible contradiction.I apologise. Post edited to hopefully point the finger more correctly
<ERROR> d:\buildbot\slaves\win_slave\final_build_ets2_141_windows_bin_steam_x64\build\prism\src\p3core\collections\arrays\arrays_base_impl.h(475):
??A?$array_t@M@prism@@QEBAAEBM_K@Z:
Index outside array boundaries.
is Not Useful. I know it's because something is too big for the executable's tiny head-branez, but howzabout you tell us which something is causing it?O hai SCS SoftwareI will see your bounds error and raise you, HRESULT, E_FAIL, Unspecified failure, 0x80004005 which is M$ for "Ahhhh fuckit. It's broke, *you* sort it out. " and which occurs far, far too often to be funny.
This error message:Code: [Select]<ERROR> d:\buildbot\slaves\win_slave\final_build_ets2_141_windows_bin_steam_x64\build\prism\src\p3core\collections\arrays\arrays_base_impl.h(475):
is Not Useful. I know it's because something is too big for the executable's tiny head-branez, but howzabout you tell us which something is causing it?
??A?$array_t@M@prism@@QEBAAEBM_K@Z:
Index outside array boundaries.
kthxbai
Cross of E17
For things like the laserjet 4000, you need to download the Universal Print Driver from HP.
It supports win10 in both 32 and 64 bit variants.
I'd advise configuring it in Traditional mode, where you specify IP addresses etc, rather than Dynamic mode where it tries to figure it all out by magic.
Ah - you have an actual error message, which in Wombat's case he has not got - so he is more likely to update OK ...
He can also boost his chances by telling Microsoft to tidy its room first - by going System | Storage, clicking on Temp files, then checking the box to delete Windows Update files. Usually frees up 3GB - 8GB space, which can only be a Good Thing; current record is 17GB of UpdatenKruft ...
Actual driver errors are a different kettle of worms. AllI would say is that I was starting from either 1909 or 2004, and was more than pleasantly surprised to arrive safely and eventually in 21H1 [thus bypassing 20H2 completely]. And it felt like what it was doing behind the scenes was just downloading a humungous iso and running it ...
No, you weren't alone. But mine's working again now.
Word!
Previous versions of word had a decent search and replace. This included being able to search for special characters, such as line feeds - very handy if you wanted to convert these to a windows CRLF.
I had a stack of text with just LF. Select text, replace LF with 'paragraph marker'.
Two things were wrong. One, the option to just 'replace in selection' has gone (WTF). Two, it replaced the LF with a paragraph marker symbol. Just the paragraph marker character. The moronic engine they are using now literally inserted the character, not the CRLF that the paragraph marker is supposed to represent.
Pathetic. Bug report submitted.
I was in the full fat find and replace window, using the special characters dropdowns.Word!
Previous versions of word had a decent search and replace. This included being able to search for special characters, such as line feeds - very handy if you wanted to convert these to a windows CRLF.
I had a stack of text with just LF. Select text, replace LF with 'paragraph marker'.
Two things were wrong. One, the option to just 'replace in selection' has gone (WTF). Two, it replaced the LF with a paragraph marker symbol. Just the paragraph marker character. The moronic engine they are using now literally inserted the character, not the CRLF that the paragraph marker is supposed to represent.
Pathetic. Bug report submitted.
Still works here – you have to use the full-fat Ctrl-H search and replace not the crappy search boxes. Has all the special character and wildcard options, seemed to work here swapping paragraphs for line feeds.
By default, if you do 'replace all,' it seems to do within any selection if you have made one.
Social science academics really should not be allowed to ‘design’ spreadsheets and then mandate that their colleagues use them. I don’t care if he’s a Doctor Doctor Doctor, his abilities as an IT ‘guru’ do not match his own perception of the same.
I’ve just had to go and provide IT support for Dr Beardy (Mrs) because she lost her work again. (She hadn’t, it was just of screen and without the scroll bars she couldn’t get it back again.
And still seems to be broken. The SMTP server isn't working anyway.No, you weren't alone. But mine's working again now.
Lucky you!
Mine spluttered into life, spat out a few emails and has now died again >:(
I had a windows update yesterday. When it restarted it wanted to change my web browser. I said no. It wanted me to install some form of office 365. I said no.That reads like a verse of Rehab that didn't make it to the final version.
I had a windows update yesterday. When it restarted it wanted to change my web browser. I said no. It wanted me to install some form of office 365. I said no.That reads like a verse of Rehab that didn't make it to the final version.
I had a windows update yesterday. When it restarted it wanted to change my web browser. I said no. It wanted me to install some form of office 365. I said no.
As you have noticed, hyperlinked cross-references are not formatted as hyperlinks. This is by design.
That's just rude to override what the user wants things to be.
I want my hyperlinks to LOOK like links so people know it's a link rather than having to over a mouse over it or guess.
This is going to make people go back to "link here for" in the text which fucks things up for screenreader users.
I do not understand why Microshite has gone SO far backwards in accessibility terms this past few years.
It's bad enough we're using 1 colleague's OneDrive as a filestore for the team
It's bad enough we're using 1 colleague's OneDrive as a filestore for the team
Can't you make them sort that out citing data protection or something?
Why do Microsoft make it so hard to change formatting in Word? ...Dunno. It used to be easy in Word 97 and then they started "improving" it with intellisenesence and using subsequent versions has been, is, an utterly frustrating experience.
The only way I reckon I can get W10 to install an update it’s been failing to install for the past ten months is by reinstalling the the whole wretched thing from scratch. Which wouldn’t be so onerous were it not for the dozens of apps that would need to reinstalled, plus the large amount of tweaking required to get the bloody thing the way I want it. Bah!
I believe that I can give you a solution to that. My office PC (as in, the one next to my desk in a far flung place called "the city") was toast. Wouldn't run any updates, programs took 15 seconds to start, those that would even start. I would have been quite happy to go and zap it and load it from scratch, it doesn't run much more than office, superputty and virtualbox, but then I found the solution....
download a windows iso, right click on it to mount it (no need to put it on a usb stick) then run the setup.exe on it. It will ask you if you want to keep your existing software after which apparently it replaces windows in-situ.
At the end it reboots, and will initially give you the welcome screen from a fresh windows installation but all your treasured programs are still installed.
import cluelessnoob.helperfunctions
import magicfunction as worldpeace
while true:
with(myinput):
solve(everything)
And voila, somehow it will.
Edge is not my default browser.It is now. :evil:
... I mean - a language where a wrongly placed space causes an error?Not often that FORTRAN 77 crops up in this thread. :)
Highlights
Added QoS to MQTT options (#1769)
Turns out she set up some (uknown) backup program and left it running. It has been consuming nearly all the Up and Down (why?) bandwidth.
O hai Twitter!
I see the big box telling me to log in or sign up you splat all over Stuffs that people link to is now without the little “X” in the corner to make it go away.
Off you must fuck.
Nuke from orbit for the second time in six fucking weeks called for >:( Bollocksbollocksbollocks.
Bluddy main desktop has fried its C drive (M2) for the second time. Having to download Win11 again and order a new 1TB M2 drive.I think I’d be wondering about faults or lack of cooling at this point.
Bluddy main desktop has fried its C drive (M2) for the second time. Having to download Win11 again and order a new 1TB M2 drive.I think I’d be wondering about faults or lack of cooling at this point.
O hai Twitter!
I see the big box telling me to log in or sign up you splat all over Stuffs that people link to is now without the little “X” in the corner to make it go away.
Q: What kind of a moron posts a spammy comment to a blog post that:A: No idea, but some slack-witted turbocunt did so this evening to the Automatic Diary ???
- tells the commenter that comments are moderated before publication, and
- is well over two years old?
WTF is that all about, eh?
Our long-serving Procurve switch appears to have some sort of droid-rot, where it pretends to work but stops switching packets on some of the ports until power-cycled. Bah!
More of a firstworldgrumble really about the pain-in-the-arsery of modernity. I bought a swanky new iPad Air and I was very happy with it except it came with a small scratch near the volume control (which I belatedly noticed but was sure I didn't do and looked like a bit of a tool mark from cutting the holes). Ordinarily, I'm not so precious but I'm usually minded to trade in old devices and they'd knock umpteen pounds off the trade-in and well, it wasn't cheap so I had paid the price of perfection. It's just a phone call innit.
Lordy, the hours on the phone to alternately Singapore and then Ireland sorting out a replacement because I can't be arsed traipsing to a store. To be fair, they offered to replace it without quibble, and I could have simply dropped it.
And probably, after all of this, I will likely drop it. Into a sand-blaster knowing my luck.
No amount of faffage with memory and shit will persuade a fresh Windows install on the Estate Office PC to get as far as allowing me into Windows. Our old friend PAGE FAULT IN NON-PAGED AREA again. Time to bite the bullet and get a new one. Bollocksbollocksbollocks >:(If not memory then probably a Mainboard or CPU cache issue
Edit: also there doesn’t appear to be any way of accessing the thing from the command line chiz. The instructions from Seagate are very simple; go to “Services” in the webby interface and poke the button to enable SSH. Which in my case I have not got ???
Seagate SSD gone a bit funny. Couldn't be unmanned from the Mac, and started freezing bits of the OS. No amount of command line stuff, or specialist software would sort it. The files were still accessible.
I checked the LaCie website, but quickly realised I needed to check the Seagate one. Result - item under warranty, so sent off...
WTaF is going on here?
SketchUp Make 2017 is still available and still free.Yes, it complains when you try and use it, then does start but bombs out after 15 minutes or so.
Edit. Ah. It might not be any more. clicky (https://www.howtogeek.com/720402/psa-you-can-still-download-the-old-free-version-of-sketchup/). That’s a bummer. I use it every day. Might have to learn Blender properly now!
SketchUp Make 2017 is still available and still free.Yes, it complains when you try and use it, then does start but bombs out after 15 minutes or so.
Edit. Ah. It might not be any more. clicky (https://www.howtogeek.com/720402/psa-you-can-still-download-the-old-free-version-of-sketchup/). That’s a bummer. I use it every day. Might have to learn Blender properly now!
$num(%discnumber%,2)-$num(%track%,2) - %title%
when they should be$num(%discnumber%,2)-$num(%track%,2) %title%
o hai Microsith o hai Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia!The evidence in this thread would rather suggest this is *not* the case. That... or they are employed, but solely to prevent other companies using their talents and they are kept locked away and absolutely forbidden to fix any of the crappy rubbish.
You must, between you, employ a significant proportion of the world’s supply of Clever Buggers...
Had to enter characters 1, 2 & 5 from my “memorable wossname” on Horseybank's login page three times just now because the bloody thing kept jumping one character up the drop-down list while I wasn’t concentrating. No wonder I overpaid* them >:(
This booking has been cancelled. If you believe this is an error, please call customer services on
Thing about being logged into Premier Inn WiFi is that you can't really tell the difference if you aren't...
...turned out that my oldish Sonos insists on using SMB1, which is frowned upon...
I needed to find out if there was a branch of NatWest bank in $TOWN. Went to the NatWest website and clicked the branch locator. Then got asked to fill in poxy CAPTCA. FFS. I'll find another way.Natwest = Welcome :)
Just had a over-in-the-blink-of-an-eye power cut. Which seems to have killed my router utterly to DETH >:(Merde.
...And this, folks, is why a lot of people don't like open sauce software.
...And this, folks, is why a lot of people don't like open sauce software.
You probably need an HP machine.
Blast, can't install on my work linux, because I don't have SU (needed for adding pip etc).It is possible to install and run pip without root. Start with https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py, download the script, run
python3 get-pip.py
as non root and it will setup a pip environment in your home directory.
usually after spending a couple of hours reading various websites, which mostly consisted of people calling other people stupid for asking a question, despite it being 2022, any open source technical forum seems to be 103% male, unhelpfully angry and with the social skills of rocks.
... mostly consisted of people calling other people stupid for asking a question, despite it being 2022, anyBit unfair on rocks, but otherwise a fair summary of the situation.open sourcetechnical forum seems to be 103% male, unhelpfully angry and with the social skills of rocks.
Also OneDrive, because in 2022, Microsoft still can't handle the concept of a drive not called C:
Unts.
So yeah, I have to create a symbolic link. You made me remember Unix. I feel dirty now.
Also, fucking webpages that make you create an account, so you do, and your browser diligently saves your ID and password, and then when you try to log back in a few days later using those saved credentials and 'sorry, this doesn't match our records, check your spelling and try again.'
Eternal damnation for everyone involved in that too.
Combined effort of A&A with their witless LNS falling over during work hours, and pfsense, which has a weird allergy to IPv4 default routes, absolutely ruined my planned lie-in this morning.
I have written a Small Shell Script so that next time they decide to have a random 1-second outage, I can remain in bed.
Combined effort of A&A with their witless LNS falling over during work hours, and pfsense, which has a weird allergy to IPv4 default routes, absolutely ruined my planned lie-in this morning.
I have written a Small Shell Script so that next time they decide to have a random 1-second outage, I can remain in bed.
Either A&A service is having occasional hiccups, or my second recent router from then is parped, or something else...
Are you saying that iphones use bluetooth to provide an internet connection to another device such as a laptop? That is a bonkers way of doing things.
What if you don't have wifi? Does it make an ad-hoc network.
Ad-hoc[1] WiFi is poorly supported these days. I bet nobody under the age of 30 has even heard of it.That's nearly as obscure as wired networks without a hub.2
[1] As opposed to infrastructure mode.
Ad-hoc[1] WiFi is poorly supported these days. I bet nobody under the age of 30 has even heard of it.That's nearly as obscure as wired networks without a hub.2
[1] As opposed to infrastructure mode.
[2]Either point to point with ethernet cables or a complete network using coax and 50 Ω
What if you don't have wifi? Does it make an ad-hoc network. It's all voodoo, I tell you.
Why is putting pictures into something using Word so jolly difficult?This is why I was prepared to pay a couple of quid extra for office pro plus. [although I ended up getting it for free, cheap eBay licence that works and then refunded by eBay because they thought it was dodgy] [see also windows 10 enterprise edition]
(It's what I have. I have no DTP package. All I want to do is make labels for my marmalade)
Word. Please stop renumbering my sections and paragraphs. >:(
Word. Please stop renumbering my sections and paragraphs. >:(
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaha
<gasp!>
Good luck with that!
Word. Please stop renumbering my sections and paragraphs. >:(
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaha
<gasp!>
Good luck with that!
3 days. To remove one number from one heading. (While retaining all other numbering in the correct sequence) ::-)
Still, with a name like Dropbox, it was only a matter of time before they were a candidate for the Shite Courier thread.
O hai Thunderbollocks!I get that as well, although it then proceeds to download said emails anyway. I suspect it may be an artefact of timing misalignments due to me running thunderbullocks on the SSD but keeping the mail files on the spinning rust.
Why does the installation of, er, you keep dishing out this message:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52691624347_5696b79b23_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/2ohbmaR)
Thunderbollocks (https://flic.kr/p/2ohbmaR) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
on the Estate Office PC but not on the Great Hall one?
We use a number of systems, but all feeding into an ixiasoft CCMS.Word. Please stop renumbering my sections and paragraphs. >:(
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaha
<gasp!>
Good luck with that!
O hai Thunderbollocks!I get that as well, although it then proceeds to download said emails anyway. I suspect it may be an artefact of timing misalignments due to me running thunderbullocks on the SSD but keeping the mail files on the spinning rust.
Why does the installation of, er, you keep dishing out this message:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52691624347_5696b79b23_o.png) (https://flic.kr/p/2ohbmaR)
Thunderbollocks (https://flic.kr/p/2ohbmaR) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
on the Estate Office PC but not on the Great Hall one?
Access - eww :sick:
I paid for a genuine Windows 11 DVD but apparently my PC doesn't have TPM 2.0 and it can't be enabled, so it's useless. It is well above minimum specifications otherwise. It would cost about £500 to buy something of very similar spec with TPM.
I researched that workaround and the risk is that MS won't release security patches for non-TPM machines. Essentially it's at their whim whether they fully support "broken" versions.I paid for a genuine Windows 11 DVD but apparently my PC doesn't have TPM 2.0 and it can't be enabled, so it's useless. It is well above minimum specifications otherwise. It would cost about £500 to buy something of very similar spec with TPM.
Use Rufus to create a bootable USB with the various hardware requirements like TPM 2.0 removed:
https://rufus.ie/en/
I'd ignore your DVD and download the ISO directly from MS. The current version of Rufus has an ISO download tool built into it, I think. So you don't need to go search for it.
The only thing you should need from your purchased DVD is the product key.
(I've not done this myself, so YMMV.. My machines don't even have TPM 1, and I don't know if the Rufus bypass method requires a fall-back from 2.0 to at least 1, or if it will work with no TPM at all.)
Time Machine has decided it can't do any backups as my external disk is read only. Disk utility says there's nothing wrong with it, It won't let me change the permissions as the Superuser, Demounting the disk doesn't seem to help and a reboot hasn't either.I'm not a mac user but I would try disk repair on the external disk: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210898
What next to try?
I paid for a genuine Windows 11 DVD but apparently my PC doesn't have TPM 2.0 and it can't be enabled, so it's useless. It is well above minimum specifications otherwise. It would cost about £500 to buy something of very similar spec with TPM.I managed to stop the pestering to install Windows 11 on one of our computers (the old one kept for when we both want to do something for which a more than laptop size screen is desirable) by letting it proceed a bit. It very soon said "Oh bugger, can't do it". Yes - that's normal for a modestly specced (but perfectly adequate for what it's used for) PC of that vintage.
Is it possible the "time machine" user can't see the disk as writable? I'm not sure how you'd check this off the top of my head (somewhere in users), but it gives you something to google.
Time Machine has decided it can't do any backups as my external disk is read only. Disk utility says there's nothing wrong with it, It won't let me change the permissions as the Superuser, Demounting the disk doesn't seem to help and a reboot hasn't either.
What next to try?
.. Pinta is the closest but that has the ever so slight flaw that it can't print. FFS.Well. I've been using Pinta for several years now and I'd never noticed that. I mainly use it for resizing and cropping photographs of toy aeroplanes for our group's newsletter - which leads me to a simple-ish fix. If you haven't already got it, install Libre Office and paste the images into a document and print that. It's a faff, but it's a hell of a lot simpler than pissing about with complicated graphics tools.
I have to have another rant about the absolutely fucking piss poor provision of simple graphics tools on linux. All I want is an MS paint equivalent, can I find one? Can I bollocks. Pinta is the closest but that has the ever so slight flaw that it can't print. FFS.That’s weird with gimp and selecting. When it’s done that with me it’s usually been a wrong layer selected problem. Though I’m confused by the pasting into a canvas - is that different to opening an image in some subtle way. (I use gimp a fair bit, but have my own little path I take and there’s many things I’ve never touched in it.)
Today I wanted to do another simple screenshot, crop & paste of 3 images. Having given up on the other options with a sigh I fired up the ultimate sledgehammer to crack this nut - gimp. Screenshot, paste & crop the first image to be the background fine. Take the second screenshot, paste it into another gimp canvas to crop the small area I want. Except that the rectangle select tool doesn't fucking work on a second image. The god of image manipulation programs? My hairy arse. Every time I try to drag the rectangle select it just moves image 2 on it's canvas. Try switching to a different tool & back to rectangle select, still it just grabs image 2 instead of applying the active tool. I have to use Pinta to crop the second image & paste it into canvas 1.
What a pile of shite.
... why on earth should I need two programs to do something I could do on Windows 3.11 with free included software?Ah, philosophical questions.
I have to have another rant about the absolutely fucking piss poor provision of simple graphics tools on linux. All I want is an MS paint equivalent, can I find one? Can I bollocks. Pinta is the closest but that has the ever so slight flaw that it can't print. FFS.
Today I wanted to do another simple screenshot, crop & paste of 3 images. Having given up on the other options with a sigh I fired up the ultimate sledgehammer to crack this nut - gimp. Screenshot, paste & crop the first image to be the background fine. Take the second screenshot, paste it into another gimp canvas to crop the small area I want. Except that the rectangle select tool doesn't fucking work on a second image. The god of image manipulation programs? My hairy arse. Every time I try to drag the rectangle select it just moves image 2 on it's canvas. Try switching to a different tool & back to rectangle select, still it just grabs image 2 instead of applying the active tool. I have to use Pinta to crop the second image & paste it into canvas 1.
What a pile of shite.
I have to have another rant about the absolutely fucking piss poor provision of simple graphics tools on linux. All I want is an MS paint equivalent, can I find one? Can I bollocks. Pinta is the closest but that has the ever so slight flaw that it can't print. FFS.
Today I wanted to do another simple screenshot, crop & paste of 3 images. Having given up on the other options with a sigh I fired up the ultimate sledgehammer to crack this nut - gimp. Screenshot, paste & crop the first image to be the background fine. Take the second screenshot, paste it into another gimp canvas to crop the small area I want. Except that the rectangle select tool doesn't fucking work on a second image. The god of image manipulation programs? My hairy arse. Every time I try to drag the rectangle select it just moves image 2 on it's canvas. Try switching to a different tool & back to rectangle select, still it just grabs image 2 instead of applying the active tool. I have to use Pinta to crop the second image & paste it into canvas 1.
What a pile of shite.
I have to have another rant about the absolutely fucking piss poor provision of simple graphics tools on linux. All I want is an MS paint equivalent, can I find one? Can I bollocks. Pinta is the closest but that has the ever so slight flaw that it can't print. FFS.
Today I wanted to do another simple screenshot, crop & paste of 3 images. Having given up on the other options with a sigh I fired up the ultimate sledgehammer to crack this nut - gimp. Screenshot, paste & crop the first image to be the background fine. Take the second screenshot, paste it into another gimp canvas to crop the small area I want. Except that the rectangle select tool doesn't fucking work on a second image. The god of image manipulation programs? My hairy arse. Every time I try to drag the rectangle select it just moves image 2 on it's canvas. Try switching to a different tool & back to rectangle select, still it just grabs image 2 instead of applying the active tool. I have to use Pinta to crop the second image & paste it into canvas 1.
What a pile of shite.
Re Gimp and the rectangular select tool - I might be off the mark but how about Select - None (Shift+CTRL+A) before attempting to use the Select tool?
I have a Mini PC that has it officially unsupported, no TPM, but has been running Windows 11 since not long after it’s release in October 2021. It is still receiving updates.I researched that workaround and the risk is that MS won't release security patches for non-TPM machines. Essentially it's at their whim whether they fully support "broken" versions.I paid for a genuine Windows 11 DVD but apparently my PC doesn't have TPM 2.0 and it can't be enabled, so it's useless. It is well above minimum specifications otherwise. It would cost about £500 to buy something of very similar spec with TPM.
Use Rufus to create a bootable USB with the various hardware requirements like TPM 2.0 removed:
https://rufus.ie/en/
I'd ignore your DVD and download the ISO directly from MS. The current version of Rufus has an ISO download tool built into it, I think. So you don't need to go search for it.
The only thing you should need from your purchased DVD is the product key.
(I've not done this myself, so YMMV.. My machines don't even have TPM 1, and I don't know if the Rufus bypass method requires a fall-back from 2.0 to at least 1, or if it will work with no TPM at all.)
I paid for a genuine Windows 11 DVD but apparently my PC doesn't have TPM 2.0 and it can't be enabled, so it's useless. It is well above minimum specifications otherwise. It would cost about £500 to buy something of very similar spec with TPM.
Use Rufus to create a bootable USB with the various hardware requirements like TPM 2.0 removed:
https://rufus.ie/en/
I'd ignore your DVD and download the ISO directly from MS. The current version of Rufus has an ISO download tool built into it, I think. So you don't need to go search for it.
The only thing you should need from your purchased DVD is the product key.
(I've not done this myself, so YMMV.. My machines don't even have TPM 1, and I don't know if the Rufus bypass method requires a fall-back from 2.0 to at least 1, or if it will work with no TPM at all.)
Only issue was the in-box LAN driver for the "Realtec PCIe GbE Family Ethernet controller", which blue-screened when I plugged the network cable in post-install.
An external download of a more current Realtec driver sorted that out.
Exacerbating this, OpenCV doesn't seem to have any way to access something that might serve as a way to uniquely identify the cameras, so you can forget about hacking around it.
I’ve got a domain for some work stuff. The email used to just get forwarded to a different personal account. As far as I remember by 123reg, rather than anything fancy.Yeah, I've got something similar and getting a lot of bounces because lots of ISPs because of "dmarc". Probably security related to stop spoofing and similar, but ICBA to look it up.
I got just such an email yesterday.
Today, it bounces.
I’ve not touched it!
I'm filling in some form or other on an app on my phone. I need to enter a date. A date from ages ago. Hit the box and a useful (FSVO useful) calendar pops up, showing today's date. There is no option to type a date in, only to scroll back, a month at a time by stabbing at the screen. FFSParticularly upsetting when the form is aimed at older people, the field is date of birth and the default is the current day.
It doesn't have to be aimed at us, any form with a DOB requirement is a pain!
It doesn't have to be aimed at us, any form with a DOB requirement is a pain!
Very few get my actual date of birth.It doesn't have to be aimed at us, any form with a DOB requirement is a pain!
Plus most organisations do not require your DOB.
Very few get my actual date of birth.It doesn't have to be aimed at us, any form with a DOB requirement is a pain!
Plus most organisations do not require your DOB.
Not really a rant, bit above a grumble.
I use Kodi on a Raspberry Pi to play music and video.
There's a radio plugin which grabs streams from radio.de, so I can listen to thousands of radio stations from aroud the world. In reality I listen to half a doze, if that. Of those, three are BBC stations, (Radio 4, 4 Extra and 6 Music). The BBC have changed the way their streams are delivered so now I get nothing. I contacted radio.de who tell me "Currently, some BBC channels are no longer available". Indeed, I can't get BBC stations viathe radio.de website either.
Presumably it's part of the drive to get everyone to use BBS Sounds, which I do on my phone. This is not the same as playing it througha Big Amplifier with Real Speakers though.
Not really a rant, bit above a grumble.
I use Kodi on a Raspberry Pi to play music and video.
There's a radio plugin which grabs streams from radio.de, so I can listen to thousands of radio stations from aroud the world. In reality I listen to half a doze, if that. Of those, three are BBC stations, (Radio 4, 4 Extra and 6 Music). The BBC have changed the way their streams are delivered so now I get nothing. I contacted radio.de who tell me "Currently, some BBC channels are no longer available". Indeed, I can't get BBC stations viathe radio.de website either.
Presumably it's part of the drive to get everyone to use BBS Sounds, which I do on my phone. This is not the same as playing it througha Big Amplifier with Real Speakers though.
I don't know if this is useful or useless to you but the m3u streams as per here (https://steveseear.org/high-quality-bbc-radio-streams/) still work for me, playing them through a media player on my Linux PCs. I understand that they're 320kbps and that that is as good as it gets for BBC radio streaming. I have an old laptop with a USB soundcard putting an optical output to the integrated DAC on my reasonably sized amplifier with Real Speakers (though mostly I just use BBC Sounds via a web browser - which, I believe, is still 320kbps).
Plug a phono cable into your real amp and speakers, and then a) there won't be any compression and b) it will actually work.
Plug a phono cable into your real amp and speakers, and then a) there won't be any compression and b) it will actually work.With analogue input from spinning vinyl available via a Rega product. ;D
Dear FruitStuffCo,
Let me guess why when exporting photos from the walled garden to the real world you:
a) give them random GUID filenames.
ii) set all the file times to the exported time.
3) Set all the EXIF metadata dates to the same exported time.
This makes them impossible to sort into correct order other than by manually renaming them all
It is because:
a) By doing so makes everything look so much better in the walled garden and surely upon seeing this the rest of the fucking world will change the way they work to join the walled garden.
ii) Because you're a bunch of 42 carat steaming thundercunts.
I was quite concerned when I read this - but can’t you just “export unmodified originals” from within the photos app ? Or am I missing somethingI don't know, I don't do FruitStuffCo. A colleague took a load of photos at a work site & I ended up with the tedious job of making sense of them after.
Not really a rant, bit above a grumble.
I use Kodi on a Raspberry Pi to play music and video.
There's a radio plugin which grabs streams from radio.de, so I can listen to thousands of radio stations from aroud the world. In reality I listen to half a doze, if that. Of those, three are BBC stations, (Radio 4, 4 Extra and 6 Music). The BBC have changed the way their streams are delivered so now I get nothing. I contacted radio.de who tell me "Currently, some BBC channels are no longer available". Indeed, I can't get BBC stations viathe radio.de website either.
Presumably it's part of the drive to get everyone to use BBS Sounds, which I do on my phone. This is not the same as playing it througha Big Amplifier with Real Speakers though.
I don't know if this is useful or useless to you but the m3u streams as per here (https://steveseear.org/high-quality-bbc-radio-streams/) still work for me, playing them through a media player on my Linux PCs. I understand that they're 320kbps and that that is as good as it gets for BBC radio streaming. I have an old laptop with a USB soundcard putting an optical output to the integrated DAC on my reasonably sized amplifier with Real Speakers (though mostly I just use BBC Sounds via a web browser - which, I believe, is still 320kbps).
I have failed to receive several emails from private domains to my gmail account. When I asked what response they had received I was told that the email had been refused by gmail for security concerns.To be fair, gmail have been one of the main perpetrators of embrace-extend-extinguish tactics through overly judicious application of spam filters. Even if you have all the SPF and DKIM stuff, they occasionally deign to chuck things in the bin, seemingly just to make life difficult for smaller server admins.
The hey we’re most upset when I pointed out that was their problem and not mine. Oh no they said gmail should know we are trustworthy and should have let it through.
<SNIP>There are adaptors that have USB C male at one end and 3.5mm headphone socket at the other. When I ever replace my phone, I dare say that this is the solution I will have to adopt because I don't want to replace my aged Sennheiser HD-25 headphones (though they're going towards Trigger's Broom status).
Grumble, my chromebook has usb c and no port for headphones so I can't watch stuff on my laptop
<SNIP>There are adaptors that have USB C male at one end and 3.5mm headphone socket at the other. When I ever replace my phone, I dare say that this is the solution I will have to adopt because I don't want to replace my aged Sennheiser HD-25 headphones (though they're going towards Trigger's Broom status).
Grumble, my chromebook has usb c and no port for headphones so I can't watch stuff on my laptop
“Why, yes! Yes, you can easily add DMARC to your outgoing e-mail! Just add it as a TXT record to your DNS wossname!”
This might as well be written in Aramaic. Any further investigation will have to wait until 1 (one) trip to Newport Velodrome, two (2) TdF stages and the BRITISH Grand Prix.
I have failed to receive several emails from private domains to my gmail account. When I asked what response they had received I was told that the email had been refused by gmail for security concerns.
The hey we’re most upset when I pointed out that was their problem and not mine. Oh no they said gmail should know we are trustworthy and should have let it through.
I have failed to receive several emails from private domains to my gmail account. When I asked what response they had received I was told that the email had been refused by gmail for security concerns.
The hey we’re most upset when I pointed out that was their problem and not mine. Oh no they said gmail should know we are trustworthy and should have let it through.
Depends. There is only so much you can do with SPF, DKIM, Dmarc etc, and gmail will still reject the small domains. Where as the original intent of email was that small groups would host their own email, not be in the hands of a few behemoths, who get to decide what’s accepted not based on evidence of spamming but opaque black box rules.
Hardy Drew And The Nancy Boys
USB-C. Again. >:(
Look, I'm a reasonably technical person. I know more than two programming languages, and can can solder a transistor the right way round without burning my fingers and so on. But if I have to resort to Google to make sense of every unintuitive USB behaviour (this week: Power Delivery, and why it doesn't work in the presence of Anna Daptor) what hope is there for the average user? Especially when the molishers of usefully non-compliant accessories are vague in their specifications.
“Why, yes! Yes, you can easily add DMARC to your outgoing e-mail! Just add it as a TXT record to your DNS wossname!”
This might as well be written in Aramaic. Any further investigation will have to wait until 1 (one) trip to Newport Velodrome, two (2) TdF stages and the BRITISH Grand Prix.
In your DNS wossname, create a record of type TXT, called:
_dmarc.yourdomain.co.uk
Inside the record, enter the following text:
v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:you@yourdomain.co.uk
That's a valid starting point. The contents of the record can be tweeked if necessary.
Here's mine (slightly redacted) for reference:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53031883323_1bb5e4b75f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oNfgiV)
dmark1 (https://flic.kr/p/2oNfgiV) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
Please remember that it may take up to 24 hours for your DNS changes to become active.
...Edit: and it is you, because you’re doing it on the Proper Computer as well.
My wife Chromecasts her New Zealandish aerobicisers from her iPhone to the TV with no hassles. Work those abs, agh agh agh.
Green power light is flashing and WiFi light is green
This means the Hub is on, but your WiFi isn’t. It’s likely to be a loose connection in your home. Make sure the white cable is plugged firmly into the Hub and at the Virgin Media socket on the wall. If you’re using a splitter, make sure that’s firmly connected, too.
Helped the youngest offspring and friend move home this weekend. Virgin (spit) managed to disconnect their internet at the old house a day early - not ideal as they both work from home.
So in the new house, the internet wasn't live even though Virgin said it should be. Bit the rant bit - this is what the online docs said about the issue:-QuoteGreen power light is flashing and WiFi light is green
This means the Hub is on, but your WiFi isn’t. It’s likely to be a loose connection in your home. Make sure the white cable is plugged firmly into the Hub and at the Virgin Media socket on the wall. If you’re using a splitter, make sure that’s firmly connected, too.
Perhaps it would help if Virgin didn't confuse internet (or WAN) and WiFi? The WiFi is working fine on the hub. Can connect to it, log in and access diagnostics on the hub. No problem at all with WiFi. The problem is that the hub isn't detecting the RF signal on the incoming cable for the internet. So, still may be a loose connection (or in this case more likely that they just haven't turned it on at their end), but definitely NOT a WiFi issue.
Well yes, but a hub is also a layer 1 network device, and every other building in a university.Also seems to be a term for a cafe in certain workplaces (mine and the last place MrsC worked)
FFS, all I want to do is pull a repo, check which branches exist. Is there a simple way of doing that? Is there fuck.Atlassian Sourcetree an option for you? I've been using it for 5 or 6 years now and although it is slower than command line git the GUI more than makes up for the few seconds here or there waiting for stuff to refresh.
As I recall, my last full-time permanent job used to hold daily team meetings called hub meetings. They decked the office out "google office" style with fake living rooms in the middle of open plan office space - looked liked a mock-up in a department store/Ikea to me. But we weren't allowed to sit down in the meetings. They also had weird American Football stylee work practices, with "scrum masters". Glad I don't work there any more.Well yes, but a hub is also a layer 1 network device, and every other building in a university.Also seems to be a term for a cafe in certain workplaces (mine and the last place MrsC worked)
Quote from: mrcharly-YHTFFS, all I want to do is pull a repo, check which branches exist. Is there a simple way of doing that? Is there fuck.Atlassian Sourcetree an option for you? I've been using it for 5 or 6 years now and although it is slower than command line git the GUI more than makes up for the few seconds here or there waiting for stuff to refresh.
Aye, same with mine. I have just been issued with a new box and it's idle until I can get SourceTree installed. We were shunted from one division to another and SourceTree hasn't, yet, been added to the approved list for the "new" division. I'm letting my line manager chase it, I've got better things to do using the current box.Quote from: TheLurkerThis is a work computer, locked down (although I can install quite a bit of software).Quote from: mrcharly-YHTFFS, all I want to do is pull a repo, check which branches exist. Is there a simple way of doing that? Is there fuck.Atlassian Sourcetree an option for you? I've been using it for 5 or 6 years now and although it is slower than command line git the GUI more than makes up for the few seconds here or there waiting for stuff to refresh.
Quote from: mrcharly-YHTAye, same with mine. I have just been issued with a new box and it's idle until I can get SourceTree installed. We were shunted from one division to another and SourceTree hasn't, yet, been added to the approved list for the "new" division. I'm letting my line manager chase it, I've got better things to do using the current box.Quote from: TheLurkerThis is a work computer, locked down (although I can install quite a bit of software).Quote from: mrcharly-YHTFFS, all I want to do is pull a repo, check which branches exist. Is there a simple way of doing that? Is there fuck.Atlassian Sourcetree an option for you? I've been using it for 5 or 6 years now and although it is slower than command line git the GUI more than makes up for the few seconds here or there waiting for stuff to refresh.
Brother, what the fuck is the point of whacking a notification onto my Babbage-Engine telling me to “Double-click this icon to update blah blah” when:Moreover, if you dive through the dozen layers of obfuscatory crap to find the “Check for updates” wossname it says it’s all up to date. Which it isn’t, because I found a printer firmware update released while I was on holibobs and have not installed because I didn’t know about it because your stupid software didn’t tell me it existed sort it out u muppets >:(
- It's not an icon, and
- double-clicking it does fuck all
Under no circumstances install [...] any consumer-grade printer.
Though the faffing about it took to get Windows 11 on a friend's laptop to speak to my tame Laserjet 4050 suggests that 'consumer-grade' may also be redundant. I think the mistake we made there was trusting the HP website.
Actually, I've just remembered trying to get it to work on barakta's $ork-1 laptop, which was too locked down to install drivers. Does Windows have a generic lowest-common-denominator Postscript or PCL driver available? Of course it doesn't.
It's hard because MS are trying to depreciate the old Control Panel and the UIs which let you actually Do Stuff, (like the Add Printer > IP Device UI), replacing them with dumbed-down phone-UI interfaces which do not expose the settings you need.
They are still there, but they are hard to find.
I have to google how to find these settings these days.
The level of lock-down may vary.
an initial period of refusing to communicate with other devices even over a wired notwork said Brother (O Brother, where art thou?
an initial period of refusing to communicate with other devices even over a wired notwork said Brother (O Brother, where art thou?
The level of lock-down may vary.
Yeah, this one was *very* locked down, as befits marginally-computer-literate people wrangling special-category data from offsite. IIRC you needed an IT support ticket to add/remove icons from the Desktop...
Exactly. Barakta suggests that Brother is probably the least-worst printer molishment since HP turned evil. But what are the chances of finding a workhorse laser that speaks Postscript over Ethernet without any Devil's Radio or cloudy shenanigans, and that is likely to last a couple of decades?
Thanks to the fruit company wanting printing to be a thing on iPhones without wanting printer drivers to be a thing on iPhones, almost all vaguely recent networkable printers support AirPrint, which means they support IPP for sending print jobs, and most will accept a PDF, which means you can print to them from basically anything without any proprietary drivers or cloud bollocks.
Exactly. Barakta suggests that Brother is probably the least-worst printer molishment since HP turned evil. But what are the chances of finding a workhorse laser that speaks Postscript over Ethernet without any Devil's Radio or cloudy shenanigans, and that is likely to last a couple of decades?
Thanks to the fruit company wanting printing to be a thing on iPhones without wanting printer drivers to be a thing on iPhones, almost all vaguely recent networkable printers support AirPrint, which means they support IPP for sending print jobs, and most will accept a PDF, which means you can print to them from basically anything without any proprietary drivers or cloud bollocks.
That's disturbingly sensible. The Mega-Global Fruit Corporation have their moments...
I've decided that I'm now too old for knitting my own routers from shell scripts.
There must be something that Just Works and can cope with IPv6, a couple of WAN interfaces and an assortment of local VLANs with various firewalls between them.
My setup may be more complicated than the usual domestic WiFi-in-a-box, but it's hardly unusual by the standards of small businesses. I expect that after the obligatory weekend of mucking about, a Firebrick would Just Work.
In a quest to repay some of the technical debt I've been accumulating since I got distracted by the intricacies of counting funny-shaped bikes riding in circles, I've spent most of the afternoon failing to upgrade PFSense to 2.7.0.
It all went a bit xkcd://349 (https://xkcd.com/349/) and right now I'm considering myself lucky that - thanks to a combination of ZFS and luck - I'm back on 2.6.0 with functional LAN routing and both an IPv4 *and* an IPv6 address on the primary WAN interface at the same time. And all the old bugs.
I've come to the conclusion that PFSense is just really bad when PPPoE is involved, and Netgate don't seem inclined towards fixing it.
What is the issue with PPPoE?
What is the issue with PPPoE?
Best summed up as a lack of testing, I think.
In 2.6.0 there's a mildly annoying bug where throughput is counted twice. And if you have IPv6 configured by dhcp6 or SLAAC on more than one interface (which doesn't have to be PPPoE) the multiple instances of dhcp6cd try to bind to the same interface, which doesn't work so well.
In 2.7.0 they appear to have configured dhcp6cd more correctly, but I'm seeing a mystery bug where the WAN interface loses its IPv4 address after a couple of seconds. I thought this was cruft in my config file, so spent Sunday configuring a clean install of 2.7.0 from scratch. This worked until it suddenly didn't, with no obvious clues in the log and disabling bits of unrelated configuration (eg. static routes, the DNS resolver) would restore functionality. I concluded that there's probably something subtle and timing-related going on with the various scripts that run when an IP address changes, but by this point I was tired and fed up and generally lacking enthusiasm to debug it.
(Also, searching the internet for answers with broken IPv4 is a special form of frustration.)
AAISP customer, so IPv6 is normal and ordinary and has been working fine here for years. As such I get a bit resentful when people's default solution to network probems is "disable IPv6".
I do have a special IPv4-only VLAN/SSID for whichever buggy old Android we had that couldn't cope with RAs (the more recent ones are fine), which also has 802.11b enabled for testing.
I upgraded our desktops from bullseye to bookworm last week. No drama at all for barakta's. Mine got some mild font-rendering shenanigans, and I had to re-write my script that toggles between monitor speakers and headphones, because the sound system has been completely replaced. Again.
Compared to the above knitting, my rant is more of a playground whinge.
Someone has been ducking g about with the made of iPhone devils radio stack, either the Cuptino crew or the Oticon lot. My Shiny New hearing aids have made for iPhone devils radio functionality, and up to last week they fairly happily swapped between my phone and fondleslab for audio streaming g with little drama. Occasionally they needed a ‘power recycle’ to facilitate the nice playing, but mostly they worked. This week they are very reluctant to auto switch and need all sorts of fiddling. Bastards.
It was a sad day when Apple dropped the 3.5mm headphone socket from their phones and then everyone blindly followed suit.
It was a sad day when Apple dropped the 3.5mm headphone socket from their phones and then everyone blindly followed suit.
Type: NoSync
. WTAF.It's been a week of firefighting.
Latest saga... a clustered database randomly losing nodes, resulting in business essential application falling over. Turns out to be an NTP problem.
NTP clients had zero true chimers and NTP servers with offsets in seconds and jitter also in seconds for their associated NTP servers..
The NTP servers are Windows domain controllers. Virtualised. Turns out they were configured to have their time synced periodically with the hypervisor host. That explains the jitter then!
Policy had been applied to configure the PDC Emulator (root of the domain heirarchy) to synchronize time with external NTP servers. Firewall rules would not allow NTP packets to pass.
Said policy configured the source NTP servers asCode: [Select]Type: NoSync
. WTAF.
NTP has never worked properly in this domain. It must have been like that for years. I'm really surprised this has not caused problems before. Or maybe it has and people have glossed over them.
All resolved now.
If people can't be bothered to test the infrastructure they configure, they have no business pressing buttons.
It's been a week of firefighting.
Latest saga... a clustered database randomly losing nodes, resulting in business essential application falling over. Turns out to be an NTP problem.
NTP clients had zero true chimers and NTP servers with offsets in seconds and jitter also in seconds for their associated NTP servers..
The NTP servers are Windows domain controllers. Virtualised. Turns out they were configured to have their time synced periodically with the hypervisor host. That explains the jitter then!
Policy had been applied to configure the PDC Emulator (root of the domain heirarchy) to synchronize time with external NTP servers. Firewall rules would not allow NTP packets to pass.
Said policy configured the source NTP servers asCode: [Select]Type: NoSync
. WTAF.
NTP has never worked properly in this domain. It must have been like that for years. I'm really surprised this has not caused problems before. Or maybe it has and people have glossed over them.
All resolved now.
If people can't be bothered to test the infrastructure they configure, they have no business pressing buttons.
Wow.
Time synchronisation is such a basic requirement for a Windows Domain that I find that astounding.
But MS don't make it easy.
I remember when I was setting up my Homenet Domain many years ago that configuring the Windows Time Service on the PDC was not that obvious.
They had a website called 'The Cable Guy' (might still do) who did tutorials on such stuffs. And I seem to recall that I followed one of his tutorials to get it set up. It involved command-line stuffs and registry editing at that time.
So I'm now synced with an external NTP pool, and this is synced to all the Windows clients and all is good.
But you'd expect IT pros to be somewhat more on the ball than a random home user...
Is it perhaps that the initial configuration when the machines were all physical worked just fine, and then when they virtualised it they just expected everything to just continue to work as before? The problem being introduced by the monkeys brought in to virtualise everythng and scrap the physical servers just hadn't thought everything through?
I've also seen issues with Certificate Authorities being broken by shifting to VMs without anyone considering the implications...
I remember when I was setting up my Homenet Domain many years ago that configuring the Windows Time Service on the PDC was not that obvious.
I remember when I was setting up my Homenet Domain many years ago that configuring the Windows Time Service on the PDC was not that obvious.
Windows Time Service is on my list of reasons that Windows still isn't ready for the desktop.
Beginning with Windows 10 version 1607 and Windows Server 2016, W32Time can be configured to reach time accuracy of 1 s, 50 ms or 1 ms under certain specified operating conditions.
And another thing, Mega-Global Database Company of Austin TX, USAnia, you bunch of fucking bozos! If I tell you to install Java in C:\Program Files\Java\jre-1.8 don't put it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre-1.8. Because it's not the same fucking directory and putting it where you want it instead of where I told you to put it breaks Stuffs and makes me waste time fucking about with environment variables.
Other Stuffs which have had Program Files (x86) as the default are happy enough to go in Program Files instead. Also, stop bringing logic into my rant ;)
Edit: also, Java WAS previously installed in Program Files, so it worked before and now doesn’t.
And don't mention AD Enterprise CAs.
That was yesterday's battle.
And don't mention AD Enterprise CAs.
That was yesterday's battle.
Ah, my Homenet CA is called "Homenet Phoenix III", on account of me fucking up the original, then two subsequent Phoenix re-births...
Effing YouTube!
First you pester me about blocking ads on it, despite the only function of the ads being to make damn sure I never buy anything that interrupts my viewing, then today you tell me that I really, really must unblock ads for Youtube or I'll be completely blocked from watching it. So I go to Opera's manage exceptions thing, add Youtube, Opera says its OK, but YouTube still insists I'm using an ad blocker. Yes, I'm using one, but Youtube is permitted, you bunch of thick marmoset felchers! Yes, I've closed and restarted Opera, and I've rebooted the PC, but no, I can't use Youtube... Bastards!
Now what are my chances of actually getting in contact and informing them of their marmoset felching tendencies?
OK. Youtube. You are now unwatchable. Twats :demon:Is this the adverts? I reckon I was getting one every minute whilst watching a 4 minute video yesterday. Last time I checked, they want £12 or £13 a month to go advert-free - that's considerably more than I pay for advert-free Netflix (despite their price hikes)!
marmoset felching tendencies
I went through this last week. I use Firefox and found turning off the existing ad blocker and installing an extension called Adnauseum restored normal uninterrupted viewing.
I use Ublock Origin on Chrome on my desktop/laptop, that seems to still be working. I'm trying (as in just about to download) Ghostery for my iPad, will see if that works (after I've updated the IOS on it first, via my phone as a hotspot).I've just installed it onto Firefox - haven't had an advert so far after about four videos. Apparently if you use Ublock and have issues, the thing to do is go to settings (from menu bar button for me) - filter lists - 'Purge all caches' followed by 'Update now'.
I went through this last week. I use Firefox and found turning off the existing ad blocker and installing an extension called Adnauseum restored normal uninterrupted viewing.
I went through this last week. I use Firefox and found turning off the existing ad blocker and installing an extension called Adnauseum restored normal uninterrupted viewing.
Oh for pity's sake; npm, node, javascript, never ending dependencies on heaven alone knows what crappy software, network nonsense. All I need is a cauldron, a newt and some frog limbs and I've got the set.I have bookmarked this reply to read at times when I regret my decision to retire from a work life of computer programming
How is one supposed to build *anything* when the tools are so appallingly unstable? You know what? DSM-11, with extra indirection, was far, far better.In retirement I have little cause to reminisce about the halcyon days of VAX-11
All I need is a cauldron, a newt and some frog limbs
Oh for pity's sake; npm, node, javascript, never ending dependencies on heaven alone knows what crappy software, network nonsense. All I need is acauldron, a newt and some frog limbsbee hive, a ram's skull and some dried frog pills and I've got the set.
In retirement I have little cause to reminisce about the halcyon days of VAX-11PDPs with DSM-11; 11/23, /73 /44 & /84s then VAX-DSM on VAXEN. EVE, TPU & EDT with a sideline in DCL scripts for repetitive stuff cos all programmers are, by definition, lazy.
Chin up, Lurks*sob* *sniffle* *whimper*
https://www.discworldemporium.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/products-2500.jpg+++OUT OF CHEESE++ I could cope with. In fact I would welcome HEX as a replacement for Windows with open arms. :)
Quote from: Genosse BrymboIn retirement I have little cause to reminisce about the halcyon days of VAX-11PDPs with DSM-11; 11/23, /73 /44 & /84s then VAX-DSM on VAXEN. EVE, TPU & EDT with a sideline in DCL scripts for repetitive stuff cos all programmers are, by definition, lazy.QuoteChin up, Lurks*sob* *sniffle* *whimper*Quote from: speshhttps://www.discworldemporium.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/products-2500.jpg+++OUT OF CHEESE++ I could cope with. In fact I would welcome HEX as a replacement for Windows with open arms. :)
For those that care about these things. One of today's problems turned out to be a dependency (several layers down and over which we have precisely *no* control) which had an "s" on the name where no "s" should be. The package is one of those released on a weekly basis and it was published last night. Weekly!? How, when, the fuck do you have time for testing and QA!? I think we know that answer to that one, eh kiddywinks? And if you say "automated unit tests" perhaps you'd care to explain the shagged dependency, hmmm?
I've got the mother and father of all migrations on my hands and I have a feeling it is not going to end well.
This might finish me. If it doesn't, I think I might call it a day afterwards and start hunting out another job. Or a new line of work.
^True
Anyhoo, I came here to vent so...
Fucking arsey cuntnugget shitface bastardy wankstains at Faecbook.cunts. They've suspended my account again (3rd time? 4th time?). Posted something offensive? Nope. Barely posted anything at all seems to be the crime. Can't tie me to any other devices? Ahhhh tough titty - that's deliberate you turd headed shitgibbons, I only log in to your cesspit from one device. Can't read my phone numbers out of my phone? Oh how my heart bleeds for you you pustules on the rim of a camel's hemorrhoid, that's because I don't have your spyware on my phone. Can't read my browsing history? Boo bastard hoo. That's because I only log in on a desktop browser (opera) that never _ever_ gets used for anything else. Can't tell where I am? Mwahahahaha you squirrel winnet (and thank you Opera VPN). Can't find my phone number in anyone else's phone you... you... (struggling for new invectives now, I give up) devil's buttplug, that's because I've never given that number to anyone. I keep it active only to receive the confirmation texts from you each time you fuckers suspend my fucking account. Can't match my photo that you demand to any others you've hoovered up? Good. Excellent. That'll be because I made an effort to make myself unrecognisable in the one and only photo of me that you will get.
So what have I done wrong on faecbook? Given a shit about my privacy - that's what.
ICBA topenkeyboard a side rant so can we just imagine another 10% of the above for my local cycling club that won't fucking move off fucking faecbook because 'it's easy' and 'what everyone uses' despite the constant and I mean constant complaints from your members about the utter shitness of tying us to faecbook.
And, breathe.
^True
Anyhoo, I came here to vent so...
Fucking arsey cuntnugget shitface bastardy wankstains at Faecbook.cunts. They've suspended my account again (3rd time? 4th time?). Posted something offensive? Nope. Barely posted anything at all seems to be the crime. Can't tie me to any other devices? Ahhhh tough titty - that's deliberate you turd headed shitgibbons, I only log in to your cesspit from one device. Can't read my phone numbers out of my phone? Oh how my heart bleeds for you you pustules on the rim of a camel's hemorrhoid, that's because I don't have your spyware on my phone. Can't read my browsing history? Boo bastard hoo. That's because I only log in on a desktop browser (opera) that never _ever_ gets used for anything else. Can't tell where I am? Mwahahahaha you squirrel winnet (and thank you Opera VPN). Can't find my phone number in anyone else's phone you... you... (struggling for new invectives now, I give up) devil's buttplug, that's because I've never given that number to anyone. I keep it active only to receive the confirmation texts from you each time you fuckers suspend my fucking account. Can't match my photo that you demand to any others you've hoovered up? Good. Excellent. That'll be because I made an effort to make myself unrecognisable in the one and only photo of me that you will get.
So what have I done wrong on faecbook? Given a shit about my privacy - that's what.
ICBA topenkeyboard a side rant so can we just imagine another 10% of the above for my local cycling club that won't fucking move off fucking faecbook because 'it's easy' and 'what everyone uses' despite the constant and I mean constant complaints from your members about the utter shitness of tying us to faecbook.
And, breathe.
It’s basically training you to automatically click ok to any and every dialogue box.
O hai map mod creators!
Canada uses the metric system. So kindly:That way I will not be made to run the risk of speeding fines by not crossing the Prairie Provinces of Canada™ at barely above a walking pace.
- put "imperial_units: false" in your province/territory definition files, and
- sort your fucking speed limits out
kthxbai
Another day, another fuck-up by Microsith. Update 5034441 is failing. To make it work you have to fanny about increasing the size of the recovery partition. And then you discover it’s an update patching a potential security flaw with Bitlocker WHICH DOESN'T EVEN RUN UNDER THIS VERSION OF FUCKING WINDOWS sort it out u muppets >:(
Look, it’s very simple. All I'm trying to do is to create a mod to paint a Kenworth W900 with a 72” sleeper cab dark green with natty yellow go-faster stripes and the words “TRUMP IS A CUNT” written in large friendly letters on the back. It's not rocket surgery and I've done This Sort Of Thing a dozen times before so WHY THE FUCK AREN'T YOU WORKING >:(Republican computer :demon:
Look, it’s very simple. All I'm trying to do is to create a mod to paint a Kenworth W900 with a 72” sleeper cab dark green with natty yellow go-faster stripes and the words “TRUMP IS A CUNT” written in large friendly letters on the back. It's not rocket surgery and I've done This Sort Of Thing a dozen times before so WHY THE FUCK AREN'T YOU WORKING >:(Republican computer :demon:
The main benefit of any version of Teams appears to be that you can take part in video chats that have been set up in Teams.
The main benefit of any version of Teams appears to be that you can take part in video chats that have been set up in Teams.
I would be very pleased if New Teams no longer had the ability to use it as a file repository but I'm not holding out hope.No such luck. We were being shoved brutally towards using Teams, just before lockdown, because you can have a Sharepoint repository per Team and the monolithic departmental repository was full. The change has, ahem, not entirely helped knowledge retention and management.
I presume New Teams will be exactly the same as Classic Teams but with all the genuinely useful features removed in favour of whatever "improved user experience" bullshit MS want to convince us we really want but actually have no earthly use for.Based upon the vastly increased swear quotient of colleagues silly enough to move the slider across to 'new' I'd guess you're spot on.
I am '-' to asking IT to set the password change with:That shouldn't even be a demand, it's just basic common sense. And basic politeness.
1) a fucking reminder first, give us a few days notice
2) don't allow the system to demand a password change at fucking random
Every system I've used has had a "your password expires in X days, would you like to change it now?" type prompt when logging in. I wonder if there has been an "incident" where they've decided they need to do an immediate password change?
I hate the way that Teams tiles things, so you never really get the whole video of someone participating, just bits of them, in a nice square, or other inappropriately shaped tile.
Ah. So you had a bit of notice. Five days of notice. That's different then.Every system I've used has had a "your password expires in X days, would you like to change it now?" type prompt when logging in. I wonder if there has been an "incident" where they've decided they need to do an immediate password change?
I've had the "your password needs changing in 5 days" before and this one IS old. I just need a bit of notice. I already log in early after UpdateTuesdays cos the machine invariably demands a reboot and gets less and less stable by the minute till it gets one.
I still rejoice at the time my computer declared that it would 'restart in 5 mins' with no option to stop it. Because it wanted to install an entire OS update. That was about 4GB. Over hotel wifi. Hotel conference room wifi. Hotel conference room wifi in Vietnam.
Today I had a Teams incoming call where I could hear the speaker say hi but then his sound cut out and the captions weren't picking him up. No idea why, he ended up hanging up and redialing. Not helpful when talking to a stranger and already anxious sounding (him).The tighter integration with outlook is really messing us up too, chose to dismiss the 5 min reminder ha well you're not getting a notification on 0 mins are you... ffs
Also, we've discovered with the NewShittierTeams that if the recipient of an invite doesn't accept it, the invite doesn't show up in their calendar. Given this is how we do 90% of student appointments, and most don't accept even if we nag them to, this is A PROBLEM.
Dear Microsoft, Stop Fucking About FFS!
I've said many times, Windows will never be ready for the desktop.Joking aside. It wasn't too bad in the before (subscription model) times when it was possible to pick and choose updates so that you only took the security related ones and could leave the other crap festering on their servers.until they do something about the dreadful update mechanism...
netsh interface ipv6 set global randomizeidentifiers=disabled
netsh interface ipv6 set privacy state=disabled
My electronic orange cardboard has been announcing itself a day late since the beginning of this month.
I thought it was just a glitch to not see it on the Home Screen on the day I travelled, then a bit disconcerted the next day "your train is at 13:06" ?? oh shit did I buy the wrong ticket and get away with it ?? but the pattern repeated.
My best guess is the leap year. Why do programmers find calendars so hard?
During installation of Windows, they do make it very difficult to proceed with the installation without setting up or logging in to a Microsoft account, but is is possible.
The simplest way to work around it is to use the Rufus tool along with the installation ISO to remove this requirement. It pre-tweeks some settings in the ISO before letting the installer run.MrsL needs a new machine. I have not persuaded her of the merits of a Linux box. Any advice on dealing with this on a retailer supplied machine that will come with the festering pile of shite installed gratefully received. "Take off and nuke it from orbit." is, alas, not a viable solution.
Quote from: FeanorThe simplest way to work around it is to use the Rufus tool along with the installation ISO to remove this requirement. It pre-tweeks some settings in the ISO before letting the installer run.MrsL needs a new machine. I have not persuaded her of the merits of a Linux box. Any advice on dealing with this on a retailer supplied machine that will come with the festering pile of shite installed gratefully received. "Take off and nuke it from orbit." is, alas, not a viable solution.
Another example is webforms which require an e-mail address.The RFCs actually leave quite a lot of scope for unclarity. Nearly every algorithm for validating an email address, including those in standard libraries, is wrong. For one thing, the username part can be "anything that the recipient system will accept", and that you can get through various servers around the Internet so that that recipient system gets a chance to accept it. Which leaves quite a lot of latitude for addresses to be acceptable sometimes and not others. Add to that that a lot of the things that some programmers believe they know about email addresses are also wrong, and you get a recipe for confusion.
The web designer just applies their own idea of what constitutes a valid e-mail address.
With no regard to the RFCs which actually define this.
It's almost like 'if it doesn't end in .gmail.com then it's not valid".
If memory serves me correctly, the owner of AAISP has a valid address of a@e.gg and this was rejected by several webforms.
@The Lurker: 'XAIPETE'Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ, 'ειστε πολύ ευγενικός.
@The Lurker: 'XAIPETE'
I've just set up a couple of new Win11 Pro laptops, straight from the box, avoiding Microsoft Accounts [which in my case, I have not got].
When you power it on, it asks to connect to the internet - so let it.
The trick seems to be that when it asks for a MS Account, there's an option below [in smaller letters] saying 'login options' - choose it.
You then want to choose 'School or Workplace'; 'Domain Join' is the same thing.
It asks for the name of the machine - which you can skip.
It asks for your name. My name is fred; my password is fred; my pet's name is fred; I was born in a city called fred; my nickname at school was fred; etc.
It's connected to the internet, so goes off and downloads the latest release of Windows and installs it ...
You can then log on as fred; password fred ..
What I then did was enable the local administrator, who then logged on, killed fred, and installed Office2019 [hint: you have to uninstall 'Office' from the Apps first].
Et voila - new machine, Win11 Pro, Office2019 and not a Microsoft Account in sight.
Hope this helps.
Just for fun, because we've all hit stupid password strength limitations:-Oh <Deity>.
https://youshallnotpass.glitch.me/
Bloody internet connections been down and back half a dozen times in the last hour sort it out u muppets >:(
I suppose technically it was telling you your depth as a boolean...I don't need to spend ££££ on a dive computer to tell me my depth as a boolean, or my tank pressure as a boolean for that matter.