The Official Status Thread
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status OFFS. The clocks change this weekend. Fucking farmers.
Extra hour of sleep
I'll delay figuring out other implications for later.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status OFFS. The clocks change this weekend. Fucking farmers.
Extra hour of
sleepstaying up to play video games
I'll delay figuring out other implications for later.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I wish we had a better help document than a video about "the outlook"...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status OFFS. The clocks change this weekend. Fucking farmers.
Extra hour of
sleepstaying up to play video games
I'll delay figuring out other implications for later.Come on, there's really no evidence to suggest...
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Damn you
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@TwelveBaud Alright, that's great, I'm keeping that.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status OFFS. The clocks change this weekend. Fucking farmers.
Not for us. That's the following weekend. (first weekend in Nov)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking farmers.
Not for us. That's the following weekend.
QooC in context.
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Status: Playing with a PC found in a dusty corner before sending it off for scrap.
Dual Xeon 5130 Dual-core CPUs! 2 GB DDR2 RAM! 250GB HDD!
Last booted mid-2015!Windows XP SP2!
Cognex Frame Grabber 8600 series!
Piece of shit flies, modern computers can't even compare. I thought it was broken when I clicked a (passwordless) user account in the login screen and was immediately greeted by the desktop in about 30ms. Start button immediately opens the start menu... Search leaves a bit to be desired, but everything else feels responsive and snappy!
I better shut this down before there's an even bigger mess on the table...
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm actually at the point where it's faster to load an emulator for an Amiga and fire up a classic word processor for that distraction-free writing thing than it is to open Word installed locally.
We took a few very wrong turns on this world, with the product of our genius.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
fire up a classic word processor
Office 2k3 should still work just fine in Windows 11.
I need to re-package it though, it does a weird with the Normal.dot file but usually gets out of the way after a few complaints.
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@Tsaukpaetra I miss WordPerfect though. WordPerfect of old was so much better than Word.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I miss WordPerfect though. WordPerfect of old was so much better than Word.
I might still have some install disks of that. Remind me to try it when I'm bored.
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@Tsaukpaetra that reminds me I really need to finish my side SaaS project, a specialised reminder service.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Office 2k3 should still work just fine in Windows 11.
It didn't even work just fine in 2003.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing with a PC found in a dusty corner before sending it off for scrap.
Dual Xeon 5130 Dual-core CPUs! 2 GB DDR2 RAM! 250GB HDD!
Last booted mid-2015!Windows XP SP2!
Cognex Frame Grabber 8600 series!
Piece of shit flies, modern computers can't even compare. I thought it was broken when I clicked a (passwordless) user account in the login screen and was immediately greeted by the desktop in about 30ms. Start button immediately opens the start menu... Search leaves a bit to be desired, but everything else feels responsive and snappy!
I better shut this down before there's an even bigger mess on the table...
Not to mention the mess in everyone here's pants.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing with a PC found in a dusty corner before sending it off for scrap.
Dual Xeon 5130 Dual-core CPUs! 2 GB DDR2 RAM! 250GB HDD!
Last booted mid-2015!Windows XP SP2!
Cognex Frame Grabber 8600 series!
Piece of shit flies, modern computers can't even compare. I thought it was broken when I clicked a (passwordless) user account in the login screen and was immediately greeted by the desktop in about 30ms. Start button immediately opens the start menu... Search leaves a bit to be desired, but everything else feels responsive and snappy!
I better shut this down before there's an even bigger mess on the table...
Not to mention the mess in everyone here's pants.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
fire up a classic word processor
Office 2k3 should still work just fine in Windows 11.
It's the version I use.
As much as I loved my Commodore 64 and 128, GEOS and its applications (GeoWrite, GeoCalc, GeoPublish...) in emulation are not great options if you want to use the results in the outside world.
WordPerfect in DOS was a great word processor, as long as you had the command reference taped to your keyboard.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
fire up a classic word processor
Office 2k3 should still work just fine in Windows 11.
Yes. I can verify that Office 2003 works just fine on Windows 11.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I really need to finish my side SaaS project
"...and other stories programmers tell themselves", by @Arantor, WTDWTF Press, £14.95. Includes a foreword by @boomzilla.
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@Zerosquare There's a project for NaNoWriMo right there.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare There's a project for NaNoWriMo right there.
‘ink’tober is nearly over!
Entirely unrelatedly, is there a way to embed videos to resize to the page, or do we need some site CSS to fix that? I might have cause to upload a fair few in the near future…
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
WordPerfect of old was so much better than Word.
Of course! It was Perfect. Word was just ... imperfect.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
WordPerfect of old was so much better than Word.
Of course! It
washas been Perfect. Word was just ... imperfect.:spanner:
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Entirely unrelatedly, is there a way to embed videos to resize to the page, or do we need some site CSS to fix that? I might have cause to upload a fair few in the near future…
The best way I've found is to pretend it's a quote by putting a > and the URL to it (or was it the <video> tag?)
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Status: Eyes blurry, but I finished binge reading another fic.
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This remind me of that old CRT monitor... what was the fix, again?
Oh, yeah, I remember now.
*gives @Tsaukpaetra a good whack on the side of the head*
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Two hours running an internal meeting on coding standards. fml
My cursor was over your post so I wasn't sure whether you had typed "internal" or "infernal". Moving the cursor proved disappointing.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I miss WordPerfect though. WordPerfect of old was so much better than Word.
Do you mean the version which needed a card on your keyboard to remind you of what the various function keys did when pressed with the right modifiers?
(I used LaTeX then. No regrets.)
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Two hours running an internal meeting on coding standards. fml
My cursor was over your post so I wasn't sure whether you had typed "internal" or "infernal". Moving the cursor proved disappointing.
Never move the cursor. The results are always disappointing.
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Ah, I see you've experienced
vi
.
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status a little disappointed I don’t make the OOC threads more frequently. Maybe everything I say is nutty enough in context it doesn’t need to be pulled out of context. I wonder if the end game is to be quarantined to my own thread and never let loose again like Swampy.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
a little disappointed I don’t make the OOC threads more frequently.
People aren't even taking my bait.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
a little disappointed I don’t make the OOC threads more frequently.
People aren't even taking my bait.
Just proves that you're not a master baiter.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
a little disappointed I don’t make the OOC threads more frequently.
People aren't even taking my bait.
Just proves that you're not a master baiter.
True. I value correct spelling.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes. I can verify that Office 2003 works just fine on Windows 11.
I still have my installer (no disks, just the image). Not currently installed tho. I'm using 2010pro (2 machines) and 2016home (1 machine).
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status watching Prince of Darkness. Talking about Schrodinger's cat to warn us off you was a thing in 80s too.
Did we ever learn why he hated his cat?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Ah, I see you've experienced
vi
.vi
is a nice editor. You can writeLaTeX
in it.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Two hours running an internal meeting on coding standards. fml
My cursor was over your post so I wasn't sure whether you had typed "internal" or "infernal". Moving the cursor proved disappointing.
DAMN YOU! I was looking at that, moved my mouse and "why the hell isn't my cursor moving! ... oh."
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
Status
Excelsior! Success!
root@code:~/workspace/type-imagereader# npm test # ... buildchain malarky ... 1341 passing (6s) =============================== Coverage summary =============================== Statements : 100% ( 1708/1708 ) Branches : 100% ( 592/592 ) Functions : 100% ( 367/367 ) Lines : 100% ( 1614/1614 ) ================================================================================ root@code:~/workspace/type-imagereader#
now.... to pull bits apart and ruin this perfect record.... i know how to do bits better and more efficient now.
100% coverage I suspect you've done evil things to get code to bend it into that
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes. I can verify that Office 2003 works just fine on Windows 11.
I still have my installer (no disks, just the image). Not currently installed tho. I'm using 2010pro (2 machines) and 2016home (1 machine).
Whatever the next version was after 2003 (2007 ?) I tried it and hated it. That was the first version where they abandoned the standard Windows menus and introduced The God Awful Ribbon, which has now infected nearly all of Microsoft's software.
I have a couple of newer versions of Office but I just can't bring myself to use them because I know they are going to suck. I've used Office 2003 to create large complex documents (100+ pages with pictures, charts, footnotes, etc.) what could these newer versions possibly offer?
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@Gern_Blaanston SharePoint and OneDrive integration, a less fragile file format, and the theoretical ability to get a reply from support.
Oh, and Python in Excel, because Crowd Control Productions asked nicely and VBA is kind of old and busted.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
Whatever the next version was after 2003 (2007 ?) I tried it and hated it. That was the first version where they abandoned the standard Windows menus and introduced The God Awful Ribbon, which has now infected nearly all of Microsoft's software.
I have a couple of newer versions of Office but I just can't bring myself to use them because I know they are going to suck. I've used Office 2003 to create large complex documents (100+ pages with pictures, charts, footnotes, etc.) what could these newer versions possibly offer?
A ribbon. Duh!
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@TwelveBaud an equation editor that isn't Satan spawn
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
SharePoint and OneDrive integration
Don't care
a less fragile file format
Never had a problem with that
the theoretical ability to get a reply from support.
I always assume support is non-existent.
Python in Excel
Don't care
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
The God Awful Ribbon, which has now infected nearly all of Microsoft's software.
Explorer lost it in windows 11. Along the way, they also lost like 70% of controls.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud an equation editor that isn't Satan spawn
But it's still made by Microsoft, so no.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
The God Awful Ribbon, which has now infected nearly all of Microsoft's software.
Explorer lost it in windows 11. Along the way, they also lost like 70% of controls.
Yes, this has been my latest struggle with Windows 11.
The Windows 11 version of Explorer sucks shit and I've been trying to find a replacement. I found a program called Explorer++ and it seemed like it might do the job, but it just lead to dealing with a lot of retarded fuckery.
The program actually works pretty well, but, it always starts with everything displayed in "icon" mode, which I find annoying and completely useless. You can switch to "details" mode, which I prefer, but there is no way to set that as the default.
Then I discovered that the previous version of the program actually has the ability to set "details view" as the default, but it was removed in this latest version. What the farking fark. Why would you do that? (comments on their forum seem to indicate a lot of people asking that same question)
OK. I guess I'll just use the slightly out-dated version -- which I later discovered isn't just slightly outdated, it was released in 2013. But, I have no problem using old software if it works.
Sadly, I discover that the older version does not have the dark theme that the newer version has. I spend too much time late at night in a dark room and getting blasted in the face with a bright white window is a deal-breaker.
Also, it doesn't have the ability to set the view on a per-folder basis the way that Windows File Explorer does, e.g., if a folder contains pictures I set that folder to thumbnail view but everything else is details view.
If only there was a way to put the Windows 10 version of Explorer into Windows 11. hmm.....I wonder.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
If only there was a way to put the Windows 10 version of Explorer into Windows 11. hmm.....I wonder
Very doable but the system will be extremely unhappy...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
If only there was a way to put the Windows 10 version of Explorer into Windows 11. hmm.....I wonder
Very doable but the system will be extremely unhappy...
Speaking from experience, no doubt.