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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #450 on: 21 January, 2015, 02:48:27 am »
On my 2-CD version "Visions Of Johanna" is disc 1, track 3.

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #451 on: 26 January, 2015, 10:28:55 pm »
The network at work is a notwork. Cue lots of panicking students about deadlines, and staff getting annoyed.
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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #452 on: 26 January, 2015, 10:56:58 pm »
The network at work is a notwork. Cue lots of panicking students about deadlines, and staff getting annoyed.

At least there's electricity.  This afternoon barakta was bemoaning what appeared to be the loss of a phase in their building, with severe implications for not just computing, but the viabiity of the TEA supply, provision of lunch, and the sense of impending doom that somewhere nearby a transformer was slowly overheating...

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #453 on: 26 January, 2015, 11:59:24 pm »
I found the tea. some fucker took our kettle to the OtherKitchen we're not supposed to use which had electricity which turned out to be full of our division's mouldy crockery...  But TEA!  And I think we have successfully invaded  :demon:

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #454 on: 27 January, 2015, 06:48:20 pm »
Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia!  Sort out the fucking scrolling in iTunes!  No, it's not just me.  It does it on my Win 8 box, my XP box, Mr Sunshine's Mac and the dead badger on which I recently installed Umbongo.

Click.

(Scrolls a bit)

Click

(Scrolls a bit more)

Click

(Scrolls at 100 mph halfway down the library, which is Big)

Idiots.
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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #455 on: 29 January, 2015, 12:20:08 pm »
So. I can't debug a custom bootstrapper app from Visual Studio 2010 in Administrator mode, so I have to turn on UAC and reboot.

* does that *

Ah. But now I can't recompile said custom bootstrapper app in Visual Studio 2010 without being in Administrator mode, and I can't just run it elevated because it then gets a different environment to the current logged in user.

BAH!!! I HATE you Microsoft.  >:(

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #456 on: 29 January, 2015, 03:34:49 pm »
New software "user testing"...

Well not a single person, even the usually-positive people have anything nice to say about it...  Apparently it crashes, hogs system resources, doesn't work in Chrome, doesn't work intuitively and is taking everyone who suckered themselves into the testing (they weren't supposed to have so many of us) about 3x longer than promised...

And it doesn't look keyboard navigable at this point...  Monday's meeting between me and project manager and my boss will be fun.  Hoping to escape conference webPHONEcall of doom cos it's all just PAIN at this point.

Oh and our fucking network is behaving erratically. Documents going AWOL between computer and printer. Scanner deciding it will only scan part of a document (thus inconveniencing an already complex to deal with student); the student files and our database both denied the existence of a student I had in my office at the time and then 10 mins later spotted them as if they'd always been there (making me look silly); and my local printer ignored 4x print requests till I turned it and the application off and on again...  Fucking gremlins, fuck off. 

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!

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« Reply #457 on: 29 January, 2015, 03:59:51 pm »
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!

Also, the pavements haven't actually frozen yet...

Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #458 on: 29 January, 2015, 05:56:18 pm »
New software "user testing"... [...]

And it doesn't look keyboard navigable at this point... 

That's basic not-fit-for-purpose stuff, surely?

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #459 on: 29 January, 2015, 09:51:27 pm »
Give them X minutes and then exit. If they can't give you anything even close to workable then why should you be wasting your time.
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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #460 on: 30 January, 2015, 12:52:52 am »
Jsabine - apparently keyboard navigability is impossible.  I may have suggested to evil project manager that if they couldn't build in keyboard nav then they should sack their programmers.  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.

David - I think I will be refusing to do more than 45 mins which is my known tolerance; insisting on clear chairing and if I die hideously as I expect I'm walking home 3 hours early and not returning the hours to work on principle.  I am however hoping I can extricate myself from the call entirely cos I won't be able to "think" properly and don't want to be held to anything I say while using every braincell I have to parse babblenoise - all male speakers of course which is harder for me. 

This has all reminded me why I don't use the phone for anyone except very close family and on my terms. And indeed why I don't use TextRelay with voice carry over mode (speak for self, listen to person and have captioning) cos it broke my brain. 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... 

Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #461 on: 30 January, 2015, 02:20:19 am »
apparently keyboard navigability is impossible. 

*Please* tell me that at least one of your colleagues who has been roped into participation is unable to use a mouse.

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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've always maintained that I've got just enough IT knowledge to convince a project manager that I understand what they're talking about. It does, I think, promote some degree of honesty on their part. (The other way of looking at it is that I've got enough IT knowledge to spot when a PM is lying to me. Yeah, yeah, his lips are moving ...)

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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...

It's that sort of statement that jolts me into realising I have even less understanding of other people's situations than I normally kid myself I've got. It is *so* easy to think that everyone's English, so they'll all be fine with language; we know we need to offer adjustments, so let's book a palantypist because hey, everyone'll get on just fine reading it. Memo to self: assumption=bad. Delusions of understanding=bad. Listening and accepting=better.

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #462 on: 30 January, 2015, 02:58:01 pm »
Well I did flag up the 6 out of 11 in my immediate teams who have some form of ergo equipment (chairs, footrests, mice, keyboards) for neck/back or upper limb issues. One has a known dodgy back; one has arthritis in her neck, another has severe arthritis in her hands but can still mouse... I asked boss3 to check with occy health how many in our division had "alternative access" devices and he went a funny shade of green as he made notes.  This is why the consultants were sposed to be bought in... 

The issue is as much expecting me to educate them on how to meet my access needs (not my job) as it is shite project management. Neither project manager is techie and as you say the IT bods can flummox them with bullshit.  They think the law is on their side; I know it isn't, but I know ONLY a disabled person directly affected (me for example) would be able to enforce it and that's hugely risky as well as exhausting.

I will sue them if I have to.  But I have to "play the game" up to that point.  Increasingly tempted to draft a freedom of information request on what specialist IT consultancy they have had on this and other projects in the uni...  That'll freak them the fuck out.

As for the deaf literacy/hearing stuff, it's not widely known so don't beat yourself up over it. It's not even well researched in non signers.  Being willing to listen and recognise "there's stuff you don't know" is the important thing.  I'm still working things out for myself cos "I seem to function well" much of the time but only by working hard to do so and I have massive gaps in weird places...

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #463 on: 04 February, 2015, 05:42:30 pm »
Twelve hundred files spread across seventy folders wanted deleting.

USB HDD+XP: Fifteen seconds.
NAS+Win 8: Twenty minutes

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #464 on: 04 February, 2015, 05:56:26 pm »
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.

Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #465 on: 04 February, 2015, 05:59:42 pm »
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.

And the efficiency of the  protocol used to access the NAS. If this was CIFS then it is indeed a bit rubbish. ISCSI would have been faster or FCoE.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #466 on: 04 February, 2015, 06:03:17 pm »
Both NTFS and nothing very much else going on with either box ???  I know nothing of these "protocols" of which pcolbeck speaks; I just took it out of the box and plugged it in.
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« Reply #467 on: 04 February, 2015, 06:11:18 pm »
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."

Same sort of thing can go on at the filesystem level.


And different filesystems are good at different things.  I used to use XFS for recordings on the MythTV[1] machine[2], because XFS can delete a single multi-gigabyte file in the blink of an eye, while ext3 (as it was then) had to go away and have a long hard think about it, locking up the user interface while it did so.


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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #468 on: 05 February, 2015, 09:25:58 am »
KDE Plasma 5.2 - ooh shiny - ooh trendy new flat look.
Now you muppets where's the keyboard layout changer gone, I am not in the USA and for that matter nor are most of your developers so there must be one somewhere .....
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #469 on: 05 February, 2015, 10:03:21 am »
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."

I think Win 8 does the former so it can display its spiffy progress graph.  Very fond of its spiffy progress graphs is Microsith, but I'd prefer one that disappeared too quickly to read, thank you
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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #470 on: 05 February, 2015, 02:13:40 pm »
When downsquishing .mp3 files to put on your iThing, ensure that the downsquishing SCIENCE is set actually to downsquish them.  Otherwise it will be a lot quicker just to copy the damn' things.

That's two hours of anbarism I'll never get back :(
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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #471 on: 05 February, 2015, 04:29:27 pm »
Ebay sellers, don't fib about how little your SSD has been used.  I'll know exactly how much it's been used once I receive it.  #smartdata :demon:
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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #472 on: 05 February, 2015, 05:31:03 pm »
Openvswitch - you are driving me mad. I can make a real switch or a Cisco vswitch dance but I cant get a virtual port on Openvswitch connected to the physical LAN to save my life !!!!!
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #473 on: 08 February, 2015, 10:19:54 am »
Google!  I typed "Schott" for a reason.  If I'd meant to type "Scott" I wouldn't have put the "h".  In it.  Anbaric crook-pated varlet.
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Re: The computing stuff rant thread
« Reply #474 on: 08 February, 2015, 01:34:38 pm »
Microsith!  The clue is in the name.

Solitaire.

It's something you play on your own.

So why in the name of the Seven Unholy Lemmings of New South Intercourse do you keep blathering on about your inability to log into my "Xbox Live" account?  I do not have an "Xbox Live" account.  Nor do I have an Xbox.  I may have an ex-Box before long if you keep this shit up >:(
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