The Official Status Thread
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Yeah, figured as much
Basically, this thread and t/1000 are excluded; any others?
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Status: Positive news, finally. A resubmitted thesis that has actually been improved enough to pass it, and I don't even have to compromise to do so.
This is a thesis that I am ashamed to say I brusquely cut of at the knees (or ankles, even) the first time they submitted it. They are comparing the efficiency of a number of different web browsers. In the first version of their thesis they had, in order to control the hardware, literally lined up 30 persons in front of one computer, where each got to run one web browser to visit a single static web page and note down the performance and memory utilisation measurements that different tools reported. Just because somewhere down the line they had gotten this idea stuck in their head that an experiment needs to have human subjects!
Anyway; the revision is much better. Still has glaring holes in it, but the results might actually be partially interesting. I'll post a summary of it once it is available on-line.
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Status: wondering how one can combine serious, business oriented e-mails with signatures that contain
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Needs more ...
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Aww! So cute!If I ever become Supreme Empress of Earth, I'm passing a law that says all e-mail signatures must include animated GIFs of cute critters
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Pity x-face does not allow animations, otherwise I'd put it in my e-mail header...
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It does make you wonder where they're all running too though…
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Status: My password at work expires in 14 days. time to start thinking about what to change it to next
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I hate those emails. And those password policies.
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I dislike them too. the week after i change is the worst because i still have the muscle memory from the old one.
at least the rules are not so draconian that i lock myself out when i enter my password wrong too many times that first day....
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When I had that policy, my passwords were a single base one, followed by an abbreviation of the month.
Then, after a year, I discovered that they also had a "don't reuse the password within 24 uses", so I switched the base password for one of my other common ones
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I have to include a number because reasons
I mean, I guess it makes sense, but when your password is 20+ characters long (not actually a requirement there, I use phrases) it begins to not really matter.
Status: Discorendered. Also WFH.
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Basically, this thread and t/1000 are excluded; any others?
I think there are about 3 or 4. Bad and/or good ideas. I don't remember what the offending GUID is to search for it.
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I think I know where to find the magic GUID, so that's that part solved. But aren't some categories excluded too?
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For at least some badges, categories you have to be logged in to see are excluded — bugs, one-post, the lounge, PMs, programmers' testing, maybe a few others.
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Status: Trying to define a
fnmatch(3)
pattern to filter file names#define NAME_PATTERN "????-??-??_??-??-??.??????_*.dat"
and thus learning about a never-used C feature called trigraphs...
Filed under: #define NAME_PATTERN "??~~??\_~~??.??????_*.dat"
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When I had that policy, my passwords were a single base one, followed by an abbreviation of the month.
We have a "too similar" thing that seems to not allow that sort of kludge.
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That would lead to me forgetting my password every time it had to be changed, and being a support burden
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Indeed. I keep mine in Keepass along with everything else. Fortunately, I don't actually need to type it very often. Mostly my weekly electronic signature on my time card. My machine itself isn't on the Active Domain, so it isn't affected by any asinine password policy but my own, and stuff like email clients remember it for me.
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We have a "too similar" thing that seems to not allow that sort of kludge.
Wouldn't that require storing non-hashed passwords or using one of the hashing mechanisms that gets you real close (like some of the music detecting ones)? That seems like a bad thing for passwords.
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Wouldn't that require storing non-hashed passwords or using one of the hashing mechanisms that gets you real close (like some of the music detecting ones)? That seems like a bad thing for passwords.
Yes. Yes, it does. Fuckin' Microsoft.
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Fuckin' Microsoft.
Is it a Microsoft thing? Everything we use is MS, but all of my passwords are in the style of "generic#password" where I just increment # every change and I've never gotten a too similar thingy, thus it seems like either an option you can turn on if you really want it (give customers what they want even if bad) or some third party thingy tacked on.
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Is it a Microsoft thing?
Oh, sorry, should have said Active Directory Domain Services. It's my understanding that we use that particular MS product. I have never touched it except as a user, so I have no idea how any of it is done.
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Funtimes: Passwords for Chase are not case sensitive
http://puu.sh/gaFIy/452fd969c2.jpg
Secure banking!
Considered this image for my avatar as well.
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Things I hate with an undying passion: SHARING ONE GOD DAMNED WINDOW FOR MULTIPLE SPREADSHEETS FUCK THE GUY WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA. THIS IS ONE MICROSOFT THING @BLAKEYRAT CAN'T DEFEND
Sorry. Rage over.
EDIT: Also it doesn't respond to dragging the title bar down from the top of the screen to unmaximize unlike every other existing Windows application
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I agree with you. I always thought MDI was a stupid idea, and I was happy when Office (except Excel) moved away from it.
Even worse, the reason you can't do it is some backwards-compatibility bullshit with VBA.
You can force Excel into being SDI, but it's a pain-- you have to start up each copy of it manually. It mostly works.
EDIT: Also it doesn't respond to dragging the title bar down from the top of the screen to unmaximize unlike every other existing Windows application
That's a plain lie.
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I'm not so fussed about MDI vs SDI.
One thing I hate though. It's 2015. And Excel still cannot open two workbooks with the same fucking name!
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One thing I hate though. It's 2015. And Excel still cannot open two workbooks with the same fucking name!
Yeah that's also a VBA compatibility thing.
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EDIT: Also it doesn't respond to dragging the title bar down from the top of the screen to unmaximize unlike every other existing Windows application
That was fixed in Office 2007 IIRC
You can force Excel into being SDI, but it's a pain-- you have to start up each copy of it manually. It mostly works
As of 2013, it is actually proper SDI, saving much swearing
Excel still cannot open two workbooks with the same fucking name!
That one's still there, annoyingly. Although I can't say it's a common use case for me to have multiple spreadsheets with the same name
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I try all the time and it just does not work. Using Excel
2010oh dear god 2007.
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As of 2013, it is actually proper SDI, saving much swearing
Ah good. I kind of had thought it was, but this work computer only has 2010 on it and I didn't have quick access to 2013 to test it.
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I try all the time and it just does not work. Using Excel 2010 oh dear god 2007.
Yeah here's a bug report for you: my horse-drawn carriage isn't allowed on I-84.
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You can force Excel into being SDI, but it's a pain-- you have to start up each copy of it manually. It mostly works.
Yeah, I do this, but I never end up doing it until I actually need it, which really sucks because then I have to reopen everything.
Don't even get me started on Eclipse defaulting to opening spreadsheets in some shitty plugin that barely works instead of full Excel.
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Fun facts: Microsoft HUP give me Office 2013. I'd be using Outlook instead of Thunderbird, but they made it so white that
<insert racist joke here>it burns my eyes.
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Worse than recent versions of Thunderbird eye-searing? That is bad.
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@RaceProUK said:
Excel still cannot open two workbooks with the same fucking name!
That one's still there, annoyingly. Although I can't say it's a common use case for me to have multiple spreadsheets with the same name
I have exactly one use case: tracking events in my fan-fiction. I'm working on parallel trilogies, and I have a file calledTimeline.xlsx
for both trilogies. Of course, with the trilogies being very closely related (they share a world and a cast), I need to be able to cross-reference between them.Except I can't. Not without renaming the files anyway.
Because Excel is stuck in the fucking Dark Ages!
Edit: I'm using Excel 2013. And
xlsx
. Now to find a Piko Hammer to with…
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they made it so white that <insert racist joke here> it burns my eyes
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See, Thunderbird is off-white, where Outlook is like #FFFFFF everywhere.
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Nobody wants to read your Sonic 2006 fan fictions. Excel's doing us all a favor.
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That doesn't change the background of the inbox or emails, just the title bar and folders.
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Says the guy who is playing through S2k6 on Twitch.
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Basically, this thread and t/1000 are excluded; any others?
Bugs, one post, the lounge, good ideas, bad ideas, and I think that covers it. @PJH?
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Nobody wantsI don't want to read yourSonic 2006Freedom Planet fan fictions
Then don't ;)
@abarker said:Have you been … counting?
Only when I'm bored.
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You can force Excel into being SDI, but it's a pain-- you have to start up each copy of it manually. It mostly works.
Don't know about later versions, but as of 2010 using SDI prevents you from transfering / copying worksheets between workbooks.
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FWP thread?