@izzion How serious is it? I just checked weather.gov, there is a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in Travis and surrounding counties. Please be safe! Will there be flooding?
Posts made by Gearhead
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RE: The Official Status Thread
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RE: WTF Bites
That's what, one semester?
Depending on the college, maybe a week.
If you want us to care, you'd better be bringing at least half a million. That gets you real attention...
Yeah, but those look like primary and secondary school students with their parents. Could be a good program.
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RE: WTF Bites
Not where to put this one. Saw it on Slashdot. I guess WTF Bites is good.
North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
A local authority has announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Gearhead Quick question, outside my expertise, I am not a database expert. When would replacing Oracle MySQL with MariaDB be a problem? My first reaction was stored procedures don't work right but there are column rules and others no? Thank you! -GH
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RE: WTF Bites
@BernieTheBernie Have you ever seen the Debian Policy Manual? Nobody with attention deficit can ever manage to learn that thing, and I believe passing an exam on that is still a requirement for getting upload permissions to Debian repositories.
True. You cannot directly upload unless you are a Debian Developer. Becoming a Debian Developer is a long hard haul.
Debian has many sub-groups, some on R, some on games, etc. They can help explain how to package. For me, it took a long time, maybe 100 hours, before I could even write coherent questions to the e-mail list. The obtuse packaging and publishing system is difficult but learnable. Any time I had a new question might mean five hours of reading and experimentation. But I accept that, this is software. The Debian teams have always been receptive and helpful.
Please replace Oracle MySQL with MariaDB. About 4 yrs ago I did this and it was great.
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RE: WTF Bites
@dkf Hi dkf, thank you for your comment, In my formative youth, we debugged embedded hardware with ICE. Now in my old age I still hack C++ and VB.Net stuff.
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RE: WTF Bites
It provides a large and very visible sign that "technology is deployed in this location; please adjust your level of seriousness appropriately".
Thank you! I approve.
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RE: WTF Bites
We'd do better at being taken seriously as a profession if our hardware still had blinkenlights, front panel toggles, and a reel-to-reel tape drive. None of that would need to actually do anything useful, but it definitely looked impressive and technical in ways that an anime wallpaper never will.
Many still do blinkenlights. Personally I no longer do embedded but our staff who still do a lot of device code.
Could you explain how this would help the profession? I'm genuinely interested.
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@Zerosquare Brittannica puts the origin of coffee at 850 CE. Wikipedia (yeah, I know) puts the origin at 10 CE. Can you elaborate? [https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-coffee], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee]. Did I misunderstand?
OMG, I just got trolled again.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
Good first guess. I think*** my Corporate Environment would eliminate the second. Thank you again for the WTF.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@jinpa Thank you for the welcome! And yuck, that is a bad situation. Any idea how that happened?
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@jinpa Terrible. Can you describe the details? Is this fat client or Web Outlook? Personally I don''t use dark theme so have not seen.
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RE: Linux on the Desktop? A long way off...
@DogsB If you are on Debian the answer is xfce. Opinions vary, but I have used that configuration on my three linux desktop boxen to great success for more than 15 years.
Anyway thank you for the Ars link. Very informative. What do you make of the recent reduced popularity of "OS X"? Separately, again a WTF, does not know that the current branding is "macOS"?
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@Tsaukpaetra How did this happen? I'm only a (sad) Corporate Outlook User and have little knowledge of Outlook admin. Did an attachment got quarantined and then the quarantine server went offline?
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RE: UI Bites
Trying to submit Mass RMV report using the PDF form. The checkbox doesn't toggle unless you click the tiny circle. Zoom as is needful.
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RE: UI Bites
Hi all, just a quick to thank @HardwareGeek and @GuyWhoKilledBear, your answers about my question. The links were very helpful. I'll follow up in the Thank you again for your suggestions.
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RE: UI Bites
@GuyWhoKilledBear Thank you for this information. I tried my best to lurk and learn the community rules. Is there any WTF-FAQ that I can review?
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RE: UI Bites
@Bulb Thanks Bulb. I will wade into the Boston trolley garage. Flame-retardant trousers are now engaged.
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RE: UI Bites
@Gearhead Sorry, "we've not met" == "I do not know who is the developer."
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RE: UI Bites
@Tsaukpaetra Thank you for the hint! I did a F12, but no clear info. Then I did a "View Source" and found things like
wp-block-table{margin:0 0 1em}.wp-block-table td,.wp-block-table
I suppose wp is WordPress, no? From that I infer that this volunteer may not understand WordPress formatting. Nor do I. But it might be enough for them to educate themselves.
We've not met, but I should introduce myself and make the suggestion to the developer. Any additional advice most welcome.
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RE: UI Bites
Looking for the July 4 parade start time in my village and found this. This UI fail is almost certainly created by a lone, generous volunteer, and I feel my civic duty is to give feedback, but I'm just a C++ hacker. Everything looks great on desktop.
Any ideas what went wrong?
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RE: In other news today...
@jinpa Thank you. I have lurked long before my first posting and reading WTF posts has been great. In the old days, the custom was to lurk and understand before posting. Is this not still true? In my lurking time, I think I understood a few: , and . The first means "I'm too lazy to check" and the second means "Cheers", no? If so or not, thank you!
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RE: In other news today...
@jinpa Thank you jinpa. It's very nice to receive your warm welcome!
I found the front page last year. Finding the : forum was increasingly welcome. Some like me are slow to notice these forums are available.
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RE: In other news today...
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Well, hopefully somebody has a Geiger counter.
Yes I have those. What would you like to measure?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Unzip support for Linux varies wildly but most distributions collect a this-decade version of 7-Zip (an open source project with dozens of contributors, updated frequently) for that.
Debian's unzip is nine days old. Should migrate into Testing tomorrow.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@loopback0 Nice. We got one of those in my town too!
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@Gurth This is a strange little WTF-let. "Get a apple" is a grammatical error, and deserves the double underline. It seems Outlook fails to coelesce the "a" and "n". But I do the same thing starting with "Eat apple" and I don't get any underlines. Or I type "Get a apple" directly and also no underline.
This is Outlook 2022. I observe this behavior in Word as well.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
In Outlook, a word can be half grammar error (blue double line) and half spelling error (red wavy line).
100% reproducible. Type: "Get apple." With cursor after "t", add space "a" then space. Backspace to remove the space, then type "n."
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
Thanks @ixvedeusi. If I understand means getting rolled and also getting owned?
@Tsaukpaetra Thirty-one uninterrupted posts starting https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/25676/dawn-the-subleq-os-by-geri/130?page=3#, and then a brutal, epic post https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1416115. Yet, @wger4 was a talented programmer. I'm sorry they were not redirected.
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@Gribnit Phone fraud. Still common, increasingly sophisticated.
US '83-88 had "let's change your long distance provider" phone spam, many elderly fell for it.
Japan late 1990s, telephone scams micro-target elderly, pretending to be a son/grandson asking to send money.
2023? ChatGPT + voice synthesis + demographic analysis could target billions.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@Tsaukpaetra The black square is exactly 500 x 500 pixels. Further, it moves together with the upper left position of the main window; resizing the right or bottom does not change the square position.
I tried Outlook on a different computer, and found no window or control that behave the same way. When you move the window, the contact card disappears, unless it is pinned.
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@Tsaukpaetra I'm still YMBNH, and therefore I'm not understanding . What I meant is that your 2018 take-down was epic. Among the best I've read on TDTDWTF. The OP stated:
Dawn operating system is finished, every initial goal has been reached, and every feature works.
and then continued updating until 2020.
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@Steve_The_Cynic Thank you Mr Cynic for necro-ing this thread. Wow. @Tsaukpaetra is there an emoji for :brutal:?
The project appears to be complete as of 2020-07. http://users.atw.hu/gerigeri/DawnOS/history.html
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@Tsaukpaetra Great observation. When I move Outlook, the black square moves together with Outlook. Is the Contact Card always the same size or does it vary by contact or computer resolution? Either way, I can log onto a separate computer and compare.
I'll not restart Outlook before getting to the bottom of this!
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
What is this black square attacking my Outlook?
The square is not as powerful as attachments or calendar entries. Email contents and scrollbars have a mixed record.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@Gribnit said in Nope, you eat it:
Convergent evolution. A sweet potato is a semiintelligent tuber, whereas yams are a type of banana, and therefore fish.
Eh, when you go to the market and your :wife: asks to buy yams but complains they are not yams but sweet potatoes do you care? In USAsian speak, yams and s.p. are the same.
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RE: UI Bites
Seriousl though, "almost full" is a nontrivial concept.
Agree, and fair. Good examples.
@Bulb Yes, during encoding. It just stopped. Further investigation reveals this is a user setting, and 10 GB makes sense for Blue-ray (though this was DVD). On the other hand, 9991 MB vs
9.9 GB10.0 GB is still fail.Thanks for the @Applied-Mediocrity . You do not disappoint.
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RE: UI Bites
Hi, frist post in the forums. Y'all are a bunch of s. Anyway this fine mesage is HandBrake on linux.