The minor rants thread.
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That's right, I made one! In this thread you can complain about all those things that make you angry, but aren't interesting enough to deserve a whole thread.
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I'll start.
My router's WiFi just stopped working for no apparent reason. I checked the settings, did a reboot, then a full factory restore, but the light stays off and there's no connection. But the bad part is the router, an ISP-provided Huawei HG622, doesn't seem to exist. Literally no official website has one single mention of it. I can only assume that a crate of full of instances of it spontaneously materialized in some mysterious warehouse one day.
Seriously, is it that hard to keep track of products you make? I'm not even asking for a complete manual or software updates, just a name! "Yes, we made that in 2012, it has WiFi and shit, now go away" would be better than nothing.
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But the bad part is the router, an ISP-provided Huawei HG622, doesn't seem to exist. Literally no official website has one single mention of it.
This seems to happen with a lot of stuff that I have. The models that I can find are all one digit off, somehow.
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Someone commented out a stored procedure call in a package sometime in 2007, with a note that said, "commenting out - no longer used", and a reference to a request #. The request # said that the functionality was implemented elsewhere so the old code no longer needed to exist.
I had spent nearly a week replicating the stored procedure before finding today that it is never called anymore. I noticed because my data is wrong. So I changed my replication to replicate what supposedly replaced the old stored procedure, only to find out that somehow my data got MORE wrong.
Now I see that the old one was axed but the new one was never turned on. 7 years ago. Not only is the data in the database 7 years out of date, it's 7 year outdated data that was pulled from the wrong source anyway. Now it matches to exactly nothing, with no way to match it because what it has now no longer exists anywhere else. And no one even noticed.
What a waste of time.
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Literally no official website has one single mention of it
Your bing-fu is lacking:
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This song came on pandora a bit ago, and it seems appropriate for this topic....
Filed Under: everyone's an asshole
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I have brought shame and dishonor to my family. I shall commit seppuku.
Filed under: because the "commit sudoku" joke is too old
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I would be scared we worked for the same place if you had said 4 years, but the column that gets updated by a buggy package here has only been wrong for that long.
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But tis I who uses bing! So don't feel too bad.
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Google finds the shit out of that thing, too. I can only assume that @anonymous234 used the manufacturer's broke dick web site to look for his model.
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True, but Google (at least for me) doesn't return anything official looking on the first few pages. (...unless I missed it.)
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Nope. I am trying Bing and Google now, the problem is both try really really hard to only show me pages from my country, even when I explicitly tell them I want English results from anywhere in the world (which they make really hard to do). That link is nowhere to be seen.
Related rant: why does so much software not understand that I can speak 2 languages, and sometimes want to switch from one to the other without having to navigate 25 submenus? (or worse, entering undocumented URL parameters)
Oh wait, DuckDuckGo does. I should never have left you, Dax the duck.
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Huawei HG622, doesn't seem to exist.
Open WRT has some information: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/huawei/hg622
Manual: setuprouter.com/router/huawei/hg622/manual-162.pdf
Another Manual: http://kochise.com.es/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/HUAWEI-HG622-Help-Desk.pdfIt probably goes by an alternative name (many manufacturers group similar models on their site)
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I hate how my days tend to be good at the end. I spend all day getting mad at my work environment, just to have something good happen at the end to make me feel a bit calmer.
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I hate two things.
- Things that are alive
- Things that are not alive
- Miscellaneous other things (including off-by-one errors)
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In this thread you can complain
Like we don't do that in other threads ... What a silly idea ... I should start a thread to complain about thuis ...
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Like we don't do that in other threads ... What a silly idea ...
i think the idea is that certain members of the population like to rant, and others hate reading the rants, putting them in one topic means the ones that want to rant can rant and the ones that don't want that can mute the topic.
at least i think that's the theory. we'll see how it goes.
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I should have put a sarcasm tag in
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you didn't?
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Apparently not
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hmm.... i must have inserted it automatically while reading and decided to keep the sarcasm going.
.... whoops?
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In any case we're delightfully going of topic unless we quickly start ranting about who deserves a whoosh badge the hardest
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well that just has to be either Blakey or Tufty right?
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well that just has to be either Blakey or Tufty right?
Give 'em both one and let $deity sort it out.
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others hat reading the rants
My hat has no interest in reading the rants.
Filed under: Or TDWTF in general.
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My hat has no interest in reading the rants.
ditto, but mine also wants to write them.
fortunately it has no hands to hold the pen, or the knife...
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Or a whip or...?
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why don't you ask me over in this thread?
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I hate two things.
Things that are alive
Things that are not alive
Miscellaneous other thingsSummoning @OffByOne - his trademark has been violated.
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Nope. I am trying Bing and Google now, the problem is both try really really hard to only show me pages from my country, even when I explicitly tell them I want English results from anywhere in the world (which they make really hard to do). That link is nowhere to be seen.
Is it possible to use a proxy server, or does your country ban that too? (Probably yes on the latter, but bringing it up as a remote possibility to be helpful.)
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I am trying Bing and Google now, the problem is both try really really hard to only show me pages from my country, even when I explicitly tell them I want English results from anywhere in the world (which they make really hard to do).
For Google, add
&gl=us
to the URL to get the US view,&gl=uk
to get the UK view, etc. I don't think you can get a completely country-agnostic view, but that's a start…
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Unfortunately, Discoursistency. One can see that invisibly small text if one replies and full-quotes, but if one replies to your post by highlighting the text and clicking "quote reply," that invisibly small text does not get quoted, and the person replying doesn't even know that anything is missing.
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Unfortunately, Discoursistency. One can see that invisibly small text if one replies and full-quotes, but if one replies to your post by highlighting the text and clicking "quote reply," that invisibly small text does not get quoted, and the person replying doesn't even know that anything is missing.
WORKSASDESIGNED
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… replies and full-quotes …
Does anyone ever do that? I just had to work out how to do it, and it wasn't at all obvious. Indeed, without the hint above that it was possible, I wouldn't even have tried. And I've been here since the first days of Dicsourse.I'm tired of this software.
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#######FailedExperiment
only took 7 jimthorpes
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Does anyone ever do that? I just had to work out how to do it, and it wasn't at all obvious. Indeed, without the hint above that it was possible, I wouldn't even have tried. And I've been here since the first days of Dicsourse.
I'm tired of this software.
I highlight-quote more often, but I sometimes do full-quote. I did it just now. Jeff would say it's discoverable, because there is a big, obvious reply button, and once the editor opens to type your reply, hovering over the leftmost button at the top of the editor (unless you're using mobile; in which case, sucks to be you) reveals the tooltip "Quote whole post."
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Oh, I'd certainly agree it's more discoverable than most of the other basic functionality. Part of why I'd never noticed it before is that I never do "button bar" formatting, and part of why that is is to do with the overall quality of Dicsource - I don't trust it to produce something it's capable or parsing.
I'm getting more and more jaded. It was fun poking holes in Discourse for a while, but now it's become just a fucking chore to use. Arguably more trouble than the site is worth.
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I could care less about [insert important issue].
The thing that really fucks me off about that type is that you need to already know what someone was trying to say to be able to smugly correct them. So if you consider that the purpose of communication is to transfer information, and you realize that has to have already happened before the fucker can tell someone what they've done wrong, it's easy to see that the only reason for correcting someone's usage is to make the grammarian feel superior.
To them, failing to parse a sentence that an average person could comprehend is seen as a sign of intelligence, and that's fucked up.
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I'm not racist but [insert statement that is neither racist nor a pun] -- no pun intended.
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"I'm not racist but you look great today"
"That's not racist!"
"I know. I said I'm not racist. You never listen. Typical Mexican"Credit to Demitri Martin
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i think the idea is that certain members of the population like to rant, and others hate reading the rants, putting them in one topic means the ones that want to rant can rant and the ones that don't want that can mute the topic.
Nice theory, but as of 12:10PM EST, @blakeyrat is mysteriously absent. This has been a failed experiment.
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you didn't put him in concrete shoes and take him to the end of the long pier did you?
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you didn't put him in concrete shoes and take him to the end of the long pier did you?
No. He may have rage quit again? I have not seen the fireworks from it though.
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@Intercourse said:
I have not seen the fireworks from it though.
I'll put in an order to Crazy Eddie. You think that a kilotonne will be big enough fireworks?
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Not for @blakeyrat.
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hmm... then the next sizes up would be....
- 20 Kilotonne
- 1 Megatonne
- 25 Megatonne
- 1 Teratonne
how big should i go then?