The computing stuff rant thread

[Kim]

WTF?  Why should HDMI affect the mouse?

[Mr Larrington]

It made that particular flavour of mouse driver think there was another monitor attached and got confuzzled?  Old laptop didn't do it even though it runs ostensibly the same version of Windows.

[Diver300]

I have one USB device (PICkit2 if you're interested) that will not be recognised by my laptop if I'm using a USB-C adaptor, or a USB-A hub, at the same time.

I use a USB-C - HDMI adaptor to connect up the second external monitor, so I have to manage on just the one external monitor connected via HDMI, when I need the PICkit2.

[Mr Larrington]

I don’t think I've actually used the old laptop's HDMI output to blast its display to the telly since whenever it was I migrated its OS to an SSD (which made bugger-all difference to its lack of speed) so not plugging the HDMI lead in is no big deal.  The “new” one is barely distinguishable speedwise from the “desktop” thus far, though admittedly I'm unlikely to use it for video crunching or assembling > 1GB zip files

[SteveC]

The IOS version of Excel 365 will not open .xls files read/write, just read only.
As MrsC currently only has an iPad this is a bit of an issue.

[Mr Larrington]

O hai, game modders.,

It’s great that you have updated your mod in line with the new! IMPROVED!!1! version of the base game.  Did you know that the game will automagically create updated versions of .ppd and .pmg files for you, which you can then copy into your mod and make the nasty error messages go away?

Obviously not.  In fact, I remain far from convinced that some of you actually look at the log file at all.

FUMMIN!

[barakta]

Boss sent me an email on Friday asking me to do something for a student but not till after Monday. I left it in my inbox as a TODO.

Clearing the inbox of OtherStuff I remembered Friday's email and thought "will do that now". Looked for emails From:Boss... 2 emails, neither are the one...

. o O ( That's weird )

I check my Archive, deleted and a few other folders = Nothing.

I start actually searching for every email boss has sent me in the last week = Nothing.

I eventually decide I'm going to have to ask Boss to resend, even if that makes her think I'm a disorganised ditz who loses emails...

Message Boss and explain I can't find her email, grovel and ask her to resend it...

Boss replies saying she will. Then replies again saying SHE can't find her copy in her Sent.

Suddenly that changes thing. If Boss's copy has also gone missing, then that's not me being disorganised or crap. That's Techno-Gremlins! Thankfully Boss remembered sending it, and with her copy missing too, she didn't blame me. Boss was able to find the info again and send me a new email.

When new email arrives, I searched my ENTIRE email for student name which is unusual... 1 result, the new email...

I did some googling and found that apparently Exchange can randomly have bugs where it deletes email. FUCKSAKE being gaslighted by my email app. Not what I needed today where I am struggling with organisation and now don't trust the fucking thing.

I know if we report this to IT they'll decide we're lusers and it's our fault... But this definitely wasn't human error.

[Mr Larrington]

And another three hours slowly circling the plug'ole that is getting that profile to load without 20,000 lines of error messages 

[Mr Larrington]

No idea what happened in the middle of that spreadsheet that I've been jibbling all afternoon but it does mean about six hours of Stuffs having to be thrown away and redone

[AuldThumper]

It was supposed to be so simple

In a quest to reduce the leccy bill the 24/7 retired enterprise server is going off, replaced by a retired enterprise desktop.

The plan:- swap boot and storage disks + video card betwixt old and new, bask in low energy glory......

The reality:- swap everything over. Thumb the power power button, there's a reassuring phut from somewhere. Bask in the relaxing AWOOGA AWOOGA of a pissed off UPS and rejoice that half the non essential kit is dead.....

[ian]

Why oh why Microsoft Office did you not your collection of fonts in the actual font folder where they would, you know, be available to the system? Instead, why not hide them inside the application package file? That'll be useful.

[Mr Larrington]

Hurrah: The temperature in the Estate Office reached almost 24 C just now

Bah: I don’t want to contemplate how many pound-voles thrashing the graphics card for hours on end has cost

[TimC]

I know exactly how many in my case (thank you Octopus) as I built and rebuilt three systems yesterday. Thrashing all three of them for much of the day cost me an extra £3 of leccy over my normal use. 3x850w PSUs can kick out some significant heat!

[Tim Hall]

Why is putting pictures into something using Word so jolly difficult?

(It's what I have. I have no DTP package. All I want to do is make labels for my marmalade)

[Kim]

Because it's a word processor.  Of sorts.

[rr]

Why is putting pictures into something using Word so jolly difficult?

(It's what I have. I have no DTP package. All I want to do is make labels for my marmalade)

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]

Sent from my motorola edge 20 using Tapatalk

[Mr Larrington]

Bloody iTunes threw a wobbler again this afternoon.  Using about 28 GB of RAM.  Made stuff fall over, including blanking out the monitors.  For a moment I thought the graphics card had assploded.

FruitCo!  Sort it out you muppets!

[cygnet]

Word. Please stop renumbering my sections and paragraphs. 

[Mr Larrington]

O hai Microsith!

I will decide when I want to install Windows 11, so fuck off with your nagging every time I have to reboot.

Kthxbai!

[Feanor]

Word. Please stop renumbering my sections and paragraphs. 

Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaha
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<gasp!>

Good luck with that!

[Mr Larrington]

O hai Dropbox!

When I set your The Product up on the new Estate Office PC I told you to put my Stuffs in D:\Dropbox.  And it worked, because Stuffs I've subsequently saved there has shown up in the Dropbox app on for e.g. my fondleslab.

Now, when I tried saving attachments from divers e-mails on said fondleslab to Dropbox, why did they not appear in the appropriate folder on the D drive?  Indeed, why did you see fit to create an entirely new Dropbox folder on an entirely different lump of hardware?  The C drive is for the OS and programs only, or at least it is on my Windows boxen.  You blithering nincomfucks.

Kthxbai

[Kim]

Mine's been failing to sync photos from my phone, for no obvious reason.  Still, with a name like Dropbox, it was only a matter of time before they were a candidate for the Shite Courier thread.

[cygnet]

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)

[Pingu]

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)

You got off lightly 

[cygnet]

The horrible thing is, that if you cost it out at 100% it's also about three grand.