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That sounds like one of those funny looking processes running on every Windows machine that you have no idea what it's doing but are too afraid to kill.
I am wired differently. I kill it and see what breaks.
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Cute bug. It would make a good "gotcha" question when interviewing developers.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Cute bug
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That sounds like one of those funny looking processes running on every Windows machine that you have no idea what it's doing but are too afraid to kill.
Either that or some weird character from a Japanese game that I don't play.
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What is it with those one-man-shows which have no professional attitude whatsoever?
Low barrier to entry.
Indeed. I mean, my reaction would have been: "Ah, so you must've missed a trigger. Maybe I should rethink the position because they should not be missable."
Yeah, I come across bugs all the time that are heavily dependent on the sequence of actions leading up to the problem. If I can't reproduce it then I start asking about how they got to where they are. Sometimes we still don't figure it out but not because I told the user that I wasn't interested.
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, it's 2019 (bro) and we still have websites for major companies that only work with Internet Explorer.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
, it's 2019 (bro) and we still have websites for major companies that only work with Internet Explorer.
I have to login to my AT&T account with IE. It just spins or redirects to an error page in FF. (Used to be true for Vanguard, but they fixed that about a year or 2 ago...)
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
, it's 2019 (bro) and we still have websites for major companies that only work with Internet Explorer.
So, this came up because the company in question is RingCentral. Some of our clients use them for their fax service.
Come to find out, one of those clients has a Metrofax account that they never shut down. So we decided this morning to port the numbers from Metrofax and consolidate to RingCentral.
The "x" key stopped working on the keyboard on my Windows machine. So my current workflow is to do the Metrofax stuff from my iMac, and the RingCentral stuff from my Windows machine because I have to use IE.
Time to order a keyboard. I need to anyway. Several of the keys have the letters worn completely off and there is a trough worn in my spacebar on the right side.
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No, this was not helpful in the slightest.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
, it's 2019 (bro) and we still have websites for major companies that only work with Internet Explorer.
Some of our clients use them for their fax service.
ISWYDT
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@topspin I am failing to see the humor, other than fax being an antiquated means of messaging.
But I will assume there is something deeper and more amusing and that I am just off my game today.
I sometimes wonder how often two companies use fax-to-email services to send stuff to each other when they could just email it and cut out the middleman.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@topspin I am failing to see the humor, other than fax being an antiquated means of messaging.
Maybe I’m just being less funny than usual (is that even possible?), but the joke was really that fax is so old and outdated, even the complained about Internet Explorer seems ironically modern compared to it.
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Maybe I’m just being less funny than usual (is that even possible?)
Go check the end of the gun thread. It is probably all on me.
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@Polygeekery
Don't forget the fax might be send out over an analog POTS just to be converted, VoIPed, trunked and then dumped on a POTS again for the last mile.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Several of the keys have the letters worn completely off
I have a few of those, too. S, E, D, C are gone; A, L, M mostly gone. Interestingly, for A, S, D being badly worn, W is in nearly perfect condition; I guess it's not gaming that causes most of the wear. Keyboard still works fine, though.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
The "x" key stopped working on the keyboard
Cause and effect?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I guess it's not gaming that causes most of the wear
Fingernails.
(A, S, C and N are the most heavily worn on this keyboard, even more so than the arrow keys.)
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On the way to make a throw-away Poland is the India of Europe joke, I opened this:
Does the CSS get messed up for anyone else?
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Another from the trenches:
We have a user that submits a ticket once or twice a month, always for the same thing. She connects to VPN and either before it is even connected or immediately after it connects she tries to open up a network resource and gets an error, which she immediately submits a ticket for.
I have lost count of how many times we have emailed her and explained that it takes a few moments for the entire process to complete and register her on the network through VPN. I have personally explained this to her face to face.
She still submits fucking tickets.
When I finally go completely off the handle, she will be top of the list to be beaten with a rusty shovel.
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@Polygeekery is she working for the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation?
Filed under: on a roll for unfunny jokes today
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Does the CSS get messed up for anyone else?
No, it's that way by design. Every paragraph is manually bold italic'ed and
<u>
'ed in the source:
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PS: Wikipedia should take their "one cup of coffee per day" donation and hire some recently fired blogger to code a desktop version link on the mobile version of the page.
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@hungrier It just got vandalized a few days back. Somebody seems to have opened the page in the visual editor, pressed Select All and then toggled Bold + Italic.
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$76 to get a guy to come and push a (single!) RAM stick into my computer. Holy balls I'm in the wrong business...
Also, drivers? Must be generic copy-pasta, I've never had drivers for RAM...
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Another from the trenches:
We have a user that submits a ticket once or twice a month, always for the same thing. She connects to VPN and either before it is even connected or immediately after it connects she tries to open up a network resource and gets an error, which she immediately submits a ticket for.
I have lost count of how many times we have emailed her and explained that it takes a few moments for the entire process to complete and register her on the network through VPN. I have personally explained this to her face to face.
She still submits fucking tickets.
When I finally go completely off the handle, she will be top of the list to be beaten with a rusty shovel.
Add a login script to open a window when she connects saying "initialising network drives" that stays open for 30 seconds or long enough to make sure it's all finished
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Another from the trenches:
We have a user that submits a ticket once or twice a month, always for the same thing. She connects to VPN and either before it is even connected or immediately after it connects she tries to open up a network resource and gets an error, which she immediately submits a ticket for.
I have lost count of how many times we have emailed her and explained that it takes a few moments for the entire process to complete and register her on the network through VPN. I have personally explained this to her face to face.
She still submits fucking tickets.
When I finally go completely off the handle, she will be top of the list to be beaten with a rusty shovel.
Add a login script to open a window when she connects saying "initialising network drives" that stays open for 30 seconds or long enough to make sure it's all finished
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
What is it with those one-man-shows which have no professional attitude whatsoever?
Low barrier to entry.
Indeed. I mean, my reaction would have been: "Ah, so you must've missed a trigger. Maybe I should rethink the position because they should not be missable."
Yeah, I come across bugs all the time that are heavily dependent on the sequence of actions leading up to the problem. If I can't reproduce it then I start asking about how they got to where they are. Sometimes we still don't figure it out but not because I told the user that I wasn't interested.
I've had the complete opposite reaction with a different mod developer for a different game. I contacted him through his medium of choice, his first reaction also was: "I'm not seeing that on my machine..." but followed up with: "... so let's see what's different about yours!", which then lead to a short diagnosis walkthrough, a "heureka!" moment on his end, a patch to fix the problem and a "thank you rhywden" note in the patch notes.
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Not sure if somebody from around here has started fixing the problem or if it's just coincidence, but know for next time that you can revert the latest changes using just one handy button on the History page rather than having to remove everything by hand:
(Mind you, this might only be available in the Desktop version because the mobile page does not seem to have a way to view a page's history).
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Another from the trenches:
We have a user that submits a ticket once or twice a month, always for the same thing. She connects to VPN and either before it is even connected or immediately after it connects she tries to open up a network resource and gets an error, which she immediately submits a ticket for.
I have lost count of how many times we have emailed her and explained that it takes a few moments for the entire process to complete and register her on the network through VPN. I have personally explained this to her face to face.
She still submits fucking tickets.
When I finally go completely off the handle, she will be top of the list to be beaten with a rusty shovel.
Add a login script to open a window when she connects saying "initialising network drives" that stays open for 30 seconds or long enough to make sure it's all finished
Next ticket:
The VPN loading status information is misspeeled.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Another from the trenches:
We have a user that submits a ticket once or twice a month, always for the same thing. She connects to VPN and either before it is even connected or immediately after it connects she tries to open up a network resource and gets an error, which she immediately submits a ticket for.
I have lost count of how many times we have emailed her and explained that it takes a few moments for the entire process to complete and register her on the network through VPN. I have personally explained this to her face to face.
She still submits fucking tickets.
When I finally go completely off the handle, she will be top of the list to be beaten with a rusty shovel.
Add a login script to open a window when she connects saying "initialising network drives" that stays open for 30 seconds or long enough to make sure it's all finished
Next ticket:
The VPN loading status information is misspeeled.Sorry, no translation file available for English (simplified)
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Another from the trenches:
We have a user that submits a ticket once or twice a month, always for the same thing. She connects to VPN and either before it is even connected or immediately after it connects she tries to open up a network resource and gets an error, which she immediately submits a ticket for.
I have lost count of how many times we have emailed her and explained that it takes a few moments for the entire process to complete and register her on the network through VPN. I have personally explained this to her face to face.
She still submits fucking tickets.
When I finally go completely off the handle, she will be top of the list to be beaten with a rusty shovel.
Add a login script to open a window when she connects saying "initialising network drives" that stays open for 30 seconds or long enough to make sure it's all finished
That's a genius idea.
Except maybe have it say:
Patience grasshoppa. Network resources available soon.
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@Polygeekery
Next ticket:There is a grasshopper in my pc!
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@Polygeekery
Next ticket:There is a grasshopper in my pc!
It said something about a bug. Have I been hacked? There must be a virus
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@Jaloopa
I thought the Russians where on my pc convincing me to vote democrat so I shot it.
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@Jaloopa
I thought the Russians where on my pc convincing me to vote democrat so I shot it.MURICA
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@Jaloopa
It's not convincing me ... maybe if she started singing star spangled banner after shooting the pc?
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@Jaloopa
I thought the Russians where on my pc convincing me to vote democrat so I shot it.MURICA
Fuck yeah.
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Got my new work machine up and running. I have the laptop itself opened on my left, plugged into the dock, which drives two monitors in front of me. I have chrome open in the rightmost monitor and go to login to a site that requires me to enter a PIN for a smartcard.
So of course, Windows puts the popup over on the laptop screen, the one farthest away from where the parent is. I guess I should be at least a little happy that it doesn't put it underneath other windows on that monitor like it used to do.
I've also unfucked the default taskbar settings so that it doesn't hide the fact that it's popped up a new Window, so at least there's a clue to me that it's around somewhere. Yay me.
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@boomzilla It will probably put such things on the primary monitor by default.
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@Rhywden yes. BUT WHY?!
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@error That looks like it might be a high school or college gymnasium, in which it might not be . Gyms typically have men's and women's locker rooms. If there is, say, a basketball game, the home team will use their own locker room, and the visiting team will use what is normally the opposite-sex locker room for the duration of the event. I'd guess someone was and only covered some of the signs temporarily.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Well, unless your game is called "Play for Free". Good luck selling it though...
There's a game called Free To Play on Steam and it's not actually a game it's a video series about Dota 2.
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I'll have to do some testing and see if this travesty actually runs in a reasonable amount of time.
It's not reasonable, but it's better. In what world is it faster to create 150,000 one-word TextBoxes and spellcheck them than to run spellcheck on 40 individual RichTextBoxes with 3000 - 5000 words each?
But it's not fast enough to really matter. If I continue on this, I have two options, both of which belong in this thread to varying degrees.
- Start poking at the RichTextBox's spellchecker with Reflection. Maybe if I poke around in its private parts long enough, I'll find something interesting like a spelling error counter, instead of using the crappy, slow, and very incomplete Spellcheck API (seriously, it only has about 3 functions and no public Count property...)
- Start spawning off background processes with hidden windows that can spellcheck a portion of the complete work, so I can take advantage of multiple CPU cores for a speedup without crashing the app by touching a UI element from a background thread.
dnspy
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Nice way to slip your PhD into casual conversation.
ah yes, Brian of Ninja Sex Party fame