The Official Status Thread
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Although one of the questions was in the tool's documentation page on Confluence. Like exactly where you'd expect to see it.
I would have told them the answer was on a Post-It note on the notepad in the stack on my desk. No, not that one, the legal pad. No, the white legal pad. No, not that one. In the stack in front of my Mac, under the hard drives. Yeah, that one.
Because that is where I would expect to find it.
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Oh well I meant to type OneNote.
But still sure why not.
Although one of the questions was in the tool's documentation page on Confluence. Like exactly where you'd expect to see it.
Oh, sorry, I guess I could only go on the words you typed.
OneNote is great. I've used it before, and even I know it isn't shit. You can pullquote that, Microsoft. "OneNote: It isn't shit" - Lorne Kates
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This shit interrogates the system tables and management views to intelligently decide what Indexes should be created or removed. It takes into account what other Indexes already exist. The access patterns. The types of data. The distribution of data. Partitions.
Separate thread with details please? This sounds very interesting.
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Status: You know that feeling you get when you are becoming sick? I have that tonight. Tomorrow is going to suck.
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Status: You know that feeling you get when you are becoming sick? I have that tonight. Tomorrow is going to suck.
Silver linings, man. Offer to lick people's enemies for $$$.
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#> 0.500 UPSKINS PARTY WOOOO!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-FmWoIZoGg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlOGrmM6NSk
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#WE DID IT!
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Me too.
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I told the clerk, "10 on PowerBall", he hands me 10 entries at $2/per when I meant $10 worth of PowerBall tickets.
Yeah, if you want $10 of tickets, you say "10 dollars on Powerball". Unless you're going to Power Play, where $10 won't get you an integral number of tickets.
[insert The More You Know image macro here]
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I wonder if you could move to Tennessee or Washington or one of the other states that do not have a personal income tax and bypass some of that?
Only if you did it before the drawing, probably.
Texas is one of those "no income tax" states. :P
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I'll stop doing anything at WtfCorp until they fire me.
Where the hell is the fun in that? Instead, you should obtain a copy of the Army Field Manual on sabotage, and see how creative you can get without getting discovered.
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FUCKING WRITTEN IT DOWN when they heard it the first time, they wouldn't have to keep bugging me about it.
Bitch, please. Last hear I helped an idiot client install our software on four PCs. Each of those four times, he stopped me constantly to take screenshots of every single dialog and make notes on what values go in what text boxes, etc.
But do you think he ever tried to do the install himself? Oh hell no. Why? Mainly because my company is too stupid to charge customers $200/hr for doing it for them.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@ben_lubar said:
@Lorne_Kates said:
if you can commute to Canada each day
Sure, I'd love a 9 hour drive each way to and from work.
At
leastmostit isn't a 2 hour commute.FTFY
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Status: so. Psychonauts 2 it's a thing, please tim, don't fuck it
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which one? i'm not going to see all the 3000 hs of that playlist
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Every time I start Filezilla, there's an update. Why? What the hell can possibly have been done to an FTP client in the last decade? What can possibly justify MONTHLY UPDATES? Are there really that make fucking awesome new things to do to an client for a 45 year old protocol-- or is Mozilla just that incompetent that they still haven't perfected the client after 13 years of development?
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which one? i'm not going to see all the 3000 hs of that playlist
Maybe @ACertainSomeone will bother to make his last let's play into a playlist
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I don't need no steenking field manual. I have campaigned for YEARS to plug up all sorts of subversive little flaws.
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Just start THAT playlist at the game you want.
Nothing's stopping YOU from making a playlist for Dreamscapes 2, you lazy fucker.
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well, which one is about fucking tim?
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I don't need no steenking field manual. I have campaigned for YEARS to plug up all sorts of subversive little flaws.
Seems like a to me.
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Naw, I saw it and summarily dismissed it.
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FileZilla isn't a Mozilla project AFAIK, but it is a piece of shit client with a ton of bike shedding.
Real men use WinSCP.
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Filed under: I mean have you seen how the quality of the articles has gone to hell?
You forgot to add "Apart from that Stachowski guy. He's mighty good."
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We make fun of everyone that uses SharePoint and especially those that develop for it.
Did I tell you I do SharePoint work in Belgium ?
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STATUS: Spent several hours figuring out why my web server works fine on LAN but doesn't work at all over the internet.
Port 80 and 443 were forwarded, IP was correct, server was accessible, other services on my LAN were accessible too.
Buuuuuut........ spot the oopsie
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Army Field Manual
Fun excerpt from the corresponding swedish manual:
Page X: How to boobytrap a small road.
Page X+1 (some way down): "When moving troops always walk next to the road since the road itself may be booby-trapped."Page Y: "Attach hooks to your grenades before throwing them into a building so they don't bounce back."
Page Y+1: "Put chicken-wire over the windows when you have taken a building to prevent grenades to be thrown in."I. The chapter on battles in city environments was written using the battle of Stalingrad as the main source of inspiration.
II. Pray that the enemy does not get hold of the Soldier's manual, because it is full of these instructions that balance each other out.
III. Walk on the road, because obviously the enemy is going to have set booby-traps just next to the road where you are supposed to be walking according to the manual.
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Walk on the road, because obviously the enemy is going to have set booby-traps just next to the road where you are supposed to be walking according to the manual
WIFOM detected!
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FileZilla isn't a Mozilla project AFAIK, but it is a piece of shit client with a ton of bike shedding.
It stopped letting me connect to a server I need to access at work someday.
for WinSCP
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Status: trimming down a short story to fit the 750 word limit.
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Don't take it personally. We make fun of everyone that uses SharePoint and especially those that develop for it.
One of the other pending maintenance projects I'll be working on soon is to figure out what is on our organization's SharePoint, where it is, and probably organize it.
*shudder*
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what is on our organization's SharePoint
nothing interesting or recent
where it is
not where you expect itorganize it
You're doomed
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I've ordered one of these for you:
The padded cell however will take longer to procure
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Status: RDP'd into machine A, from there RDP'd into machine B so I can run Firefox to access phpMyAdmin on that machine for that machine's database. Yay firewalls!
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STATUS : amused! My boss has spent the last ten minutes ranting about salesforce.
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Status: minor error'd from watching at a LG's SmartTV network traffic:
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IT just informed me, based on the filtering going bonkers when I look at the web, that I might be a rape crazed racist. It was the racist that hurt. =(
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Status: I don't usually rant at Mozilla because I believe they're doing a great job with the resources they have, but some things are very annoying. For example this MDN description for Date.parse
If it hasn't been completely translated, don't shove it on my face incomplete like I'm some sort of retard. Shit, the Spanish version is so stupid that it barely gives any useful information.
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If it hasn't been completely translated, don't shove it on my face incomplete like I'm some sort of retard. Shit, the Spanish version is so stupid that it barely gives any useful information.
Why would you ever look at non-English version of any technical documentation?
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Why would you ever look at non-English version of any technical documentation?
To get confused?
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When, say, the original version isn't in English and the English translation is better described as Engrish?
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When, say, the original version isn't in English and the English translation is better described as Engrish?
English would still make more sense.
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Engrish doesnt.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
A dev position just opened up, if you can commute to Canada each day. Our office is located very close to an airport for small-to-medium sized crafts [http://www.torontoairways.com/buttonville-airport-toronto/]
My brain auto-uncorrected that to Assonville
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They're still gonna miss the playoffs and get relocated to Las Vegas.
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@mott555 said:
Symantec Antivirus
That's why I declined to put that on my PC at work.
I decline now, but there are still a few machines with it installed.
Unfortunately, as I understand it, rather than get a non-sucky antivirus the corporate IT staff is looking for a way to auto force-deploy Symantec onto all workstations that don't have it installed, since they're having such a problem with people "forgetting" to install it.
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don't usually rant at Mozilla because I believe they're doing a great job with the resources they have
What the banana-leaf-wrapped-shit are you smoking? They've literally pissed away nigh on a billion dollars.
**What was Mozilla’s total revenue for 2014?**
Mozilla’s consolidated reported revenue (Mozilla Foundation and all subsidiaries) for 2014 was $329.5M (US), as compared to $314M in 2013.
$600 MILLION US DOLLARS in two years. Combine that with the 2012 report that says:
What was Mozilla’s total revenue for 2012?
Mozilla’s consolidated reported revenue (Mozilla Foundation and all subsidiaries) for 2012 was $311M (US), up approximately 90 percent from $163M in 2011.
Which is an additional $460 MILLION. So in 4 years, they burned through over a BILLION USD! Keep in mind that most "small-medium sized" companies people where work for-- those 20-ish person companies making a flagship product-- operate on $1M to $5M per year.
So with 300x the operating budget, Mozilla's managed to fuck up a useful web browser beyond recognition, destroy their core plug-in development API, and apparently they couldn't toss $20 to some dude outside of Home Depot to write some Spanish documentation.
But hey, at least in 2013, they could afford to pay their top 3 execs a combined salary of over $2M.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101637
But no, you're right. "The resources they have" are slim and hard to come by. Documentation is difficult, and I'm sure their tiny, underpaid team working out of a basement is just too strapped trying to get that web browser project off the ground to worry about documentation.
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Same here. Even funnier, it stopped connecting to a server running the FileZilla server software (which hasn't been updated, sure, but it's only using FTP, not FTPS or SFTP). I just managed to keep an installer for a version that still works fine and turn off checking for updates.
I should probably switch to WinSCP though.