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@Zerosquare My first thought was more along the lines of "do I look like someone willing to work with SAP," but that, too.
Yeah, I'm not enough of a SAP to work with Accenture either
This is like the classic story where the hacker gets his target's IP address 127.0.0.1 and runs a file deletion tool against that address.http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-51466.html.
Outlook 2007 allows you to view the word document attached to the email as a tab on the email so it's not any more work to open the word document that the pictures are pasted in. Easier to upgrade yourself than change the behavior of your users.
I still have it (and the sequel) on my flash drive. I think it's portable without modification, so you do the install once, then copy the results to the drive and carry it with you. I beat it and started collecting treasure. Turns out there's a memory overflow if you have too much stashed in the town. The workaround is to use containers, but you still wind up selling alot of it.My other addiction keeping me from getting the new Lenovos ghosted is Exile (now Avernum). http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/
@DogmaBites said:It's funny - whenever there is a disaster with lots of people dead the survivors invariably thank god for surviving. I guess the dead should thank god for being killed? Maybe the survivors could change the wording of their thanks. "Thank you god for killing that other schmuck instead of me!"
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?—Epicurus
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This happened on #debian yesterday. You can't help but feel sorry for the guy who has to fix this mess...9:26 < jwisher> I made a useraccount, when I su to it, the console outputs "bash: /dev/null: Permission denied" about 100 times. any idea how I can find the cause?19:27 < peppe> jwisher: that doesn't sound good, ls -l /dev/null ?19:27 < jwisher> "crwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1, 3 2007-11-13 21:33 /dev/null"19:27 < jwisher> is that the right settngs?19:28 < peppe> jwisher: not at all, it should be 66619:28 < curtmack> sudo chmod 666 /dev/null19:28 < curtmack> should clear it up19:28 < peppe> jwisher: what's going on on your system? did you modify it?19:28 < jwisher> a new admin decided to chmod/chown /19:28 < curtmack> chmod -R?19:29 < jwisher> yes19:29 < curtmack> that's, uh, badAll of the files in /dev, /home, /usr, etc, set not only so that they can only be written to by their owner (which, if this genius of an admin also chowned them, would be root), but so they can be executed. What fun!
@danixdefcon5 said:@zzo38 said:I sometimes use VB6.Friends don't let friends do VB6 ;)
Unfortunately bosses aren't friends and they sometimes dictate that you should use VB6.
At the moment I am trying to decipher and verify a VB6 program, so I have spent some time re-learning its joys. Fortunately my work has been cut short as this project uses a (lame) OCX that requires a developer license in order for the exe to be compiled. So I am using that as an excuse for putting the work off!
Well, you can change the colours in E+, at least. Which I did.I'm experimenting with a light-on-dark scheme at home. I'm not quite convinced. Maybe I should use plain back as background, instead of a dark colour.
@Quango said:I agree it's not technical in the strictest sense.. but there is a vague link..
I found it reading the blog of Graham Linehan - who writes the IT Crowd TV show in the UK.
He's just finished writing the third series and you lucky Americans out there are to getting this too - albeit with those funny accents of yours ;-) Quango -- please start a new thread, since that's a completely different topic. That way your post will get the most exposure and not be buried elsewhere within another topic. It also helps to give good, somewhat descriptive names when creating a new thread rather than just "funny stuff!!" or things like that.
There are other projects, too, including one that sheds quite a different light on a recent TDWTF article.Though, seriously, I think a Party Button should be a mandatory requirement for all home automation systems built from now.
You make a good point. A lot of scientific equipment is still being shipped with RS232 ports. However, instrument manufacturers like to show off their fancy control software and that requires a little more muscle than the PS/2 can provide. It probably doesn't hurt to have a math coprocessor too.
Soo, I was testing a svn pre-commit hook. And I made a test directory, 'banana', and I attempted to check it in, and the attempted checkin met the conditions I was testing for in the hook, and so the checkin was not accepted. I went happily on my way to my next task, made some changes to the codes, checked them in. Later that day I saw a checkin comment which made me realize I had failed to revert the added path in by local directory.
Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana.
First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana,
thus disarming him. You have now rendered him helpless.
Removed Paths
* trunk/banana
I saw that, that was very funny. I am not surprised that a Christian group would want to s/gay/homosexual/ for anything showing up on their website. Good for a chuckle.
@ammoQ said:The wooden table is a TDWTF meme (but not necessarily a WTF) and in the penny arcade comic it's definitely intentional. Yes, but TRWTF is that you have to explain this to anyone.
Hey,
This store apparently think it beats iTunes, judging by their frontpage and check out this deal:
WOW, I can either purchase each song individually and let go of 7 songs @ $0.88 = $6.16 OR I could just buy it as one album and only pay $8.88! What a great deal! At least iTunes drops the album-pricetag if there's few songs on an album...
Regards
Morten
@KenW said:Did you think to try putting his new notebook in his lap in a different room and turning it on to show it worked as a laptop, and then asking him how he'd accomplish that with his old system? Might have been more effective. Literally plopping a steel-cased desktop computer in his lap-- including 21" CRT -- and breaking both femurs would have had a truly lasting impression.
@curtmack said:Of course anyone who actually thought about it would've known what was intended, but hey, why bother thinking when you can just assume everyone means exactly what they say and nobody ever makes mistakes? Sure. Of course you're right. People shouldn't have to type out what they really mean; it's so much better if they just think it and post partial thoughts to the forums and everyone else just reads their minds to find out what they really wanted to say. Let's try that here, for example. You posted the above, and I can use my amazing mental powers to read your mind and see that you really meant to post: "Of course anyone who actually reads something as stupid as I'm in the process of typing is also stupid enough to buy that bridge I bought in Brooklyn last week and haven't been able to unload, so I'll post this idiotic message and maybe hook some other pathetic losers like me and find a sucker to take it off my hands." Gee, you're right! That's much better!If you quit being such a jackass you might realize that, since the written word is the only means of communication on the forums, it's important to actually use the REAL WORDS you mean to say here.(Think this softly so curtmack can't tell...) "Of course, if you can't comprehend that maybe you really [i]would[/i] buy that bridge... " (Aloud:) Hey, curtmac. I've got this bridge in Brooklyn for sale cheap. It's a toll bridge and has [b]tons[/b] of traffic every day, so you'll get a really quick return on your investment. Would you be interested? It'll make you rich [i]really[/i] fast!
Someone may have posted this already, but here's a link to Seventh Sanctum's suprizingly realistic IT department name generator.
Seventh Sanctum: the page of generators - random tools for art, gaming, writing, and imagination.
This was discussed way back in a book called (I think) The Psychology of Everyday Things. (I think the name has changed though... some rumor about the word psychology intimidating people... sheesh).
Basically it's more intuitive to pull handles because if you can wrap your fingers around it, it seems like you should pull on it. Bars or plates are more intuitive to indicate pushing because you *can't* wrap your fingers around them and pull.
@Quietust said:Actually, my posts are perfectly normal.
My signature, on the other hand, has a bit of special stuff in it... That has got to be the best use of signatures ever.
@MasterPlanSoftware said:@campkev said:Maybe he was responding to the post IMMEDIATELY BEFORE HIS that brought up the topic of bottled water If he was, he could have quoted that post. Also, he specifically answered me and told us all that he was replying to the OP. So perhaps you should also learn to read? If you read the article that the OP posted then you would see that 2/3rds of it was about the bottled water industry as a whole.