User logins? lets use the database!
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My company uses this: http://www.infor.com/product_summary/erp/visual/
as an ERP to manage inventory, sales, production, etc.The best way to describe is basically a glorified Oracle database viewer.
They probably took an Oracle DBA tool, renamed it and then proceeded to sell it. That's how fucking worthless it is at "user experience".The first problem is configuration. It requires the full Oracle library which is at 1 gig now. Your path variable must point to one specified Oracle library. Good luck having any other apps work at the same time.
It requires fucking TNS names to be configured which you must arbitrarily shove into some specific folder in the retarded hierarchy of the oracle library. because LOL ORACLE. Their "server" input field on the login form rejects actual server paths.The Real WTF
It also uses the Oracle user database system as a user account system. An user gets created in Oracle to login in as through the fucking tool. The default permissions on any account created through the software is FULL ACCESS to the database. It actually does an GRANT ALL wildcard on all tables in the database. The creator must change their permissions after creating the user.Now for database security that's jsut mind blowing considering just how much critical data is being managed by the software. But even worse is that the makers of the software added a -password argument switch to auto login. So now our entire company has our user passwords to the database stored in the fucking shortcuts to the glorified piece of shit DBA software. You know, instead of adding an remember me checkbox with some sort of encrypted file on disk like any other software.
Also our Oracle license is the named user nonsense. So we can only have 50 max users logged in simultaneously. We actually have emails sent off asking people to logoff.
As for user interface? Well it's basically windows forms. In their latest release they decided to redo their look going from what was an old school Windows Classic like look to making everything fucking black on white with modern logos, basically trying to do Metro UI on something that's supposed to be hardcore data entry.
And the finally, APPARENTLY their next release is going to see the tool go from a desktop tool to an web based tool. So now it's horrible security practices can be exposed by idiots to the outside world!
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That is pretty bad, but it is downright professional compared to any PowerBuilder application ever built.
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That reminds me of our leave booking system.
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On that entire site there's not a single screenshot of the software. Many bullet point lists, brochures, videos with the managers in charge of this talking and congratulating themselves, but not a single screenshot.
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I tried to watch the demo - but damn they need my contact details before they can let me do that - guess I'll never know.
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You'd think they could find a happier stock photo for their "demo"
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"The endless toil of office drudgery and cat hairs that is my life is adequately supplemented by this product or service".
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You'd think they could find a happier stock photo for their "demo"
I think that person has a Klingon forehead.
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http://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/5487/6056ea322cb1ef4f.PNG
Guess the gender, win a prize!
TIL you can drag an image from one Discourse post directly into a new one, and it breaks One-box in a new and creative way I've never seen before.
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"Days since last Discourse bug: 0"
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Also, what, it let me make a post that was just a quote... without bitching at me for it? The fuck is going on here?
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Here's a screenshot of this awful software (obfuscated of course)
http://what.thedailywtf.com//uploads/default/5488/da92e3182b93e071.pngThis is the "global" bar that displays on your desktop at the top while you use their stuff. It's a separate window.
http://what.thedailywtf.com//uploads/default/5489/1a87471f0fcab766.pngIt's kind of nice they used the database users for login. Now I just query the database directly for the stuff I need to lookup because using the software takes an extra hour of overhead.
Edit: I also have no clue what most of the random icons in the toolbar mean. Their symbols are like egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Which is why you need Oracle's feature for redaction so you don't see things you're not supposed to?
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Yea.......my group has "read-only" access to the database on our accounts but that just means full read access to the database which includes accounting information, client records.....
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"Days since last Discourse bug: 0"
If that counter broke today, I don't think anybody would notice...
And this one doesn't count, we know about it already.
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Well, blakey's bug is not new? Or we knew that we could use "blockquotes" to bypass the 'not civilised quoting bullshit' rule?
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No, the bug that manifested itself when I quoted you is not new.
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No, the bug that manifested itself when I quoted you is not new.
That's good because that is neither the bug which triggered my 'days since bug' post or the one that resulted when I did that.
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Can we put "Days since last Discourse bug: 0" in the header of the site somewhere?
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I second the motion.
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Also, what, it let me make a post that was just a quote... without bitching at me for it? The fuck is going on here? You can make posts that are just quotes as long as they're not quotes from Dicsourse. Or you delete the ="Arantor, post:11, topic:2160, full:true" out of the quote defblock
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Also, how the fuck is my quote reply of Arantor attributed as a response to blakeyrat?
You can clearly fucking see that I fucking FULL QUOTE REPLIED TO ARANTOR since I cut&pasted it from the quote= portion down into the fucking quote text section.
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I tried to watch the demo - but damn they need my contact details before they can let me do that - guess I'll never know.
The link actually points to a .mp4, so right-click+copy link location (or whatever) gets you a direct link to the movie file.
After watching the first 30 seconds or so, I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, though.
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Huh, apparently Discourse even embeds it:
http://progressive.uvault.com/2361/2013/product-overview/VISUAL-MicroDemo-Visual-Overview.mp4(However, I get a "No Video with supported format MIME type blah blah", so I don't know if this actually really works.)
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It tries to play. Just not especially well.
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Well, it's not as if you're missing out on some riveting action there, so... eh.
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Plays for me… and I thought our system was fsck'd…
However, starting Wednesday, I'm probably going to be in charge of the APEX interface for our system; and since I'm not a web designer, it's probably going to show up in the Interface Hall of Shame. 50% because of APEX, 50% due to IANAWD.
And I bet the Oracle / APEX interface having been designed by Oracle will be horrible, convoluted, and an XML-hell suck of time and talent.
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Plays for me… and I thought our system was fsck'd…
Takes one to know one (system), I guess?
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You'd think they could find a happier stock photo for their "demo"
Google image search indicates that this isn't, in fact, a stock photo..
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Plays for me… and I thought our system was fsck'd…
Sorry for the possible confusion, it should have read:
The video, plays for me... And after watching it: "Wow, and I thought our system (at my job) was fsck'd..."
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O yea the "graphical" assembly stackup feature they show in the video is perhaps one of the most worthless. It literally adds 0 details to the product assembly. It contains the same information as the list mode. Though I do think you can actually right click and view inventory on the bubbles unlike the list view option.
This brings two questions:
WHY DO I NEED BUBBLES ON TOP OF BUBBLES TO SHOW ME THE ORDER OF PRODUCT ASSEMBLY?WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH A LIST? WITH NUMBERED BULLETS.
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Can we put "Days since last Discourse bug: 0" in the header of the site somewhere?
I was thinking about this the other day. We could have something that monitors the bugs category both here and on Meta.
I think Days doesn't give us a fine enough level of granularity though as it'd be on 0 most of the time. Hours would probably be better.
I'll have a look at knocking something together.
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Pro-tip: I think you can just hard-code zero.
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But that'd take the fun out of it. It'd be funnier if it actually works and is always at zero. I suppose days would be better than hours, although hours might make for grim reading...
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You know what's funny? Jokes. You know what's not funny? Jokes that someone spent a pathetically long amount of time to make pedantically correct at all times.
Funny: man steps on rake, gets hit on nose
Unfunny: man spends 7 hours placing rake perfectly to ensure when stepped on it will hit the exact center of his nose, then obtaining, setting-up, and hooking up a motion capture camera to film the action, then pre-registering an account on YouTube and creating a 400-line PowerShell script to automatically take the video footage, encode it correctly, and upload it to YouTube using their API.
That's just pathetic.
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You're confusing a bit of fun with trying to be funny.
I was talking about the former, which may happen to also be the latter, but not intentionally.
Filed under: trolling Jeff was also part of the mandate
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That's just pathetic.
Seriously though, what's wrong man? That's the second time today that you've come at me swinging.
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You posted "it'd be funnier if it actually works and is always at zero". I'm explaining why that is incorrect. If you think I've "come at you swinging", then swing back. Don't be an emo.
Of course in this case you can't, because I'm objectively right about what is funny and what isn't. For example, this post isn't. Not at all. It's dire. Don't make me type stuff like this.
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Fair enough, but I will say this: funny isn't objective, it's very very subjective.
Filed under: goodnight, I'm off to bed
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It's almost as if me saying "I'm objectively right" about things that are by their very nature subjective is... a joke???
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Really? It's the second time you've berated people today for not being funny.
I guess it's pretty hard to pick up on tongue in cheek stuff like that in a plain text medium. I don't know if anyone has told you this but you sometimes come across a little bit hostile.
Filed under: OK, actually going to bed for real this time
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It's almost as if me saying "I'm objectively right" about things that are by their very nature subjective is... a joke???
I once wrote a dissertation on what's funny. Me mentor said it's a joke.
Ta dum dum.
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Kickstarter for @arantor and @blakeyrat to get dating lessons
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I guess it's pretty hard to pick up on tongue in cheek stuff like that in a plain text medium.
I thought DissedCourse was java-based?
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Kickstarter for @arantor and @blakeyrat to get dating lessons
I wouldn't waste your money on either of us because I'm sort of seeing someone (ain't life grand when it's interesting) and, let's be honest, who'd have blakeyrat?
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Guess the gender, win a prize!Hurr durr, ugly lady must be a man. Ugly people are a valid target for my scorn because I look like Adonis and anyone who doesn't is an inferior person. I'm totally not a neckbeard and I'm way out of this lady's league.This post is not empty and Discourse doesn't understand taking quotes out of context is a thing.
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Now you're alienating the pretty people. Not cool.
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This is a picture of @blakeyrat:
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/avatars/blakeyrat_1327875516_140.jpg