The computing stuff rant thread

[rr]

The error message is on part of the screen that has scrolled out of vision, even on a 27inch monitor.

[chrisbainbridge]

all of the above.

[MattH]

And forms that won't accept auto filled data, unless you click in each field and type (then delete) a character.

[perpetual dan]

PDF forms, in this case a Deutsche Bahn one. To enter dates I had to fill in the least significant digit, then put the cursor before that and enter the leading digit twice and it magically hopped into the preceding box - which I couldn’t select.

[MattH]

Just for fun, because we've all hit stupid password strength limitations:-
https://youshallnotpass.glitch.me/

[fimm]

Just for fun, because we've all hit stupid password strength limitations:-
https://youshallnotpass.glitch.me/

Oh <Deity>.

[Mr Larrington]

Bloody internet connections been down and back half a dozen times in the last hour sort it out u muppets 

[Kim]

Bloody internet connections been down and back half a dozen times in the last hour sort it out u muppets 

The LNSes appear to be experiencing a chaotic era...  I've come back up on v.gormless, which can't be a good sign.

https://aastatus.net/42648

The smart money's on unscheduled planned maintenance by our-favourite-telco's network-monkeys...

[Mr Larrington]

Mine first fell over at 00:07.

Also, those status e-mails from A&A are not fucking junk, Thunderbollocks.  If they were I wouldn’t have set up a rule to move them to the A&A folder, no, I'd have set one up to mark them as read and delete them automatically.  You useless workshy anbaric twat.

[Kim]

On a related note, I've discovered that the script that was supposed to react to those status e-mails and send me an IRC message did not in fact survive the forklift-upgrade^[1] of my mailserver back in November.  Unlike the pile of voodoo that processes BHPC race sign-ons, which miraculously still works.

It's just fallen over again.  And seems to have landed flat on its face this time...  I'm going to get ready for bed and come back and click post.

ETA: Back after about 25 mins.  Now chillin' on y.witless


_{[1] Does it count as a forklift upgrade when the new hardware is a VM?}

[Mr Larrington]

Everyone's fave telco done it. A&A status: FUMMIN!

[SteveC]

Security certificate issue meaning I cannot get my emails. And TSO seem to have disabled the 'chat' button on their support page, so I assume I am not alone.
And then Mailchimp was playing up, presenting me with a blank screen instead of a list of templates, but at least that has sorted itself now.
I get enough of this sort of hassle during the day, I do not need it in the evenings as well.

[Mr Larrington]

Sub-desk grovelling required to make game software acknowledge existence of gear shifter even though PC aware of it.  Gagh

[Mr Larrington]

Oi! Microsith! No!

You've disappeared the taskbar icons for a handful of items and I want them back.

Sort it out u muppets

Edit: it would appear that rather than Microsith being the guilty party it's those twunts at the Chocolate Factory.  Uninstall Google Drive and reboot and Lo! the icons are back.  It's bad enough that they buggered context menus, and now this.  Useless fuckers.

[Diver300]

When I took my computer underwater it stopped working. I suspect that water has shorted something out.

This was more of a surprise than might be expected as it is was a dive computer which was supposed to tell me how deep underwater it is and how much air pressure is in my diving cylinder.

[Kim]

I suppose technically it was telling you your depth as a boolean...

[Diver300]

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.

[Pickled Onion]

Went to replace the car battery yesterday.

Garage bod 1 looks under the bonnet, goes out back and gets battery off shelf, while bod 2 types the reg into the computer.

Bod 2: "We need to order it, it'll be in Monday, can you come back?"

The three of us look at the shiny new battery on the counter.

"Ah yes. The computer says we haven't got one, so I can't sell it to you. Come back Monday and we can fit it."
"Can you order it and fit it now?"
"No, the computer won't let me charge you until it arrives."
"But it has arrived - it's right there!"
"No, this battery has never arrived, according to the computer. We have a pallet of batteries that arrived a couple of months ago, but the computer says they didn't, so it won't let us send them back."

Happily, it turns out that when the computer says "no" it can be overridden with a handful of beer tokens.

[Tim Hall]

In my Scout leading role, I had need to email the little treasures (or their minders) giving details about an event this weekend.  I have recieved this information by email from someone else in the foodchain, so it would be the work of moments to copy, paste, edit to suit and press send.

But no. The massive, immense, chuckleheaded poltroon hard working volunteer had sent the info as some kind of embedded image of text, rather than actual words. The [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]

[BrianI]

Lol, no wonder my mothers desktop PC was running slower than a slow thing! The 11 year old Dell Inspiron was originally installed with Windows 7, then my dad upgraded it to Windows 10 not long before he passed away, but never  upgraded the memory from 4GB!
So I've now ordered a pair of matched 4GB DDR3 memory sticks, which will upgrade the machine to it's maximum of 8GB.  Even then Winblows 10 will still run pretty slughishly!

[Kim]

Yeah, Windows 10 has a lot to answer for in that regard: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=80198.msg2887332#msg2887332