WTF Bites
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As far as I can tell, nobody at WtfCorp has even thought of upgrading any time before end of extended support.
I bet you've still got a bunch of Windows XP machines there, too.
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1-year-old POS?
I prefer Windows 10. I can't help the rest of you Paleo-Luddites.
I'm more a Keto-Luddite than a paleo one
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@FrostCat XP is dead AFAIK.
As for 2k3, I need to go gloat in the Lounge thread about that.
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user: The data I requested you update is still a problem and it is really important that it be fixed ASAP.
me: I ran it in TEST and emailed you 2 weeks ago for approval and cannot move it until you/your boss approves it.
Literally my situation, except multiply the timeframe by a factor of about 9.
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XP is dead AFAIK
Unsupported, yes. I doubt there's a kill switch.
We have this one machine in the office that has XP. I don't think it's actually on, but if I powered it up it'd probably boot. Nobody wants to take the effort of throwing it out.
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@FrostCat By dead I mean "everything that can be replaced has been". I think the last XP machines are denetworked (the choice there was replacing an entire manufacturing plant or keeping XP. Shitty vendor lockstepped their software and multimillion dollar machinery.
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
I see the guy who came up with windows 10 onboarding messages and forced upgrade program still works at Microsoft.
Still trying to ruin the company from the inside.
Did they really style this after a BSOD?
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@error BSODs only look like that in Windows 8 and 10, though. This message runs on Vista and 7. So ... kind of but not really?
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
I see the guy who came up with windows 10 onboarding messages and forced upgrade program still works at Microsoft.
Still trying to ruin the company from the inside.
Did they really style this after a BSOD?
They wanted to give you a preview of something very few users see before their computer "spontaneously" reboots.
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$html .= '<a href="http://'.$link['link'].'" target="'.$link['target'].'">'.$link['text'].'</a><br />';
link
,target
, andtext
are input fields in the CMS. What could possibly go wrong?I dunno, not much if PHP is as good of a templating engine as Go.
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My WTF Bite for today:
If you create a query in MS Access like this (e.g. to find people from office A who don't have an older colleague in office B ):
SELECT p1.name FROM office_a_personnel AS p1 LEFT JOIN office_b_personnel AS p2 ON p2.age > p1.age WHERE p2.name IS NULL;
Then Access returns nothing, because it only supports outer joins with simple equality comparisons in the
ON
clause, and silently converts it to an inner join when doing something like this. (You can check this by removing theWHERE
clause entirely. Then, depending on the data, the query can still return fewer rows than the tableoffice_a_personnel
contains, which shouldn't be possible with a left join).Also, if you create a named query in Access:
query1:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE column IS NULL OR column LIKE '*foo*';
And then create a second query:
SELECT * FROM query1;
This second query returns only rows where
column
is null, and not the rows containing 'foo', if this second query is run from an external application using the Jet driver. But the query magically works correctly if run directly from Access.I know, I know, MS Access isn't a 'real' database anyways, but still!
P.S. And from what I can find out, the first one of them is a known bug for at least a decade already.
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My WTF Bite for today:
If you create a query in MS Access
I spotted the right there.
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I cloned a Windows +Linux system to a new disk, but deleted the Linux partition. Tried to boot. Error.
Of course, I had deleted the GRUB files so it couldn't boot until I restored the original Windows MBR. So I used another Windows system. to create a "repair disk", then booted it in the first system.
Here comes the WTF:
The Windows repair disk has an option that says "start-up repair". This option failed to detect any issues in the system. But then I opened the command line and typedbootrec /FixMbr
and it worked like a charm.What the fuck is the option to repair startup even doing if it doesn't even try the one fucking command that will fix startup in 50% of the cases?
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have you done with the search feature? Yes, Google can provide a search engine for your site, but you are only a nat's bollock away from searching the internet.
The first time it happened I thought I had the url/search bar still in focus when I typed my search request. The second time I thought it was some sort of "fall back". The third time evoked a massive
ps. I was trying to find the post concerning the phone case that looked like a gun so I could post this:
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have you done with the search feature?
Apparently it was causing cooties, Ben thinks.
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@Yamikuronue LOL. Well, I guess a sledge hammer solves most problems.
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@loose To be fair, it actually works now.
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@Yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
have you done with the search feature?
Apparently it was causing cooties, Ben thinks.
“Comrades,” he said quietly, “do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?
SNOWBALLSEARCH!” he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder. “SnowballSearch has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year. Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence uponSnowballSearch. ‘Animal Hero, Second Class,’ and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice. A full bushel to anyone who captures him alive!”
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You are an ATM technician. The ATM is broken. Since this is Russia, you were not given any "out of order" signs, or alternatives. All you have is a bare Windows XP installation with the banking software running full screen.
What to do, what to do.....
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@cartman82 The good ideas thread is
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@cartman82 The good ideas thread is WTF
Weird, from this dialog you would think adding fa-spin as a class would be possible...
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This linux desktop:
Most of the system resources are being used for visualizing system resources.
Note the "binary clock" and useless 'leet' animation in the center.
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@cartman82 Oh good, the "images link to about:blank" bug is back. I really enjoyed that one.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
Oh good, the "images link to about:blank" bug is back. I really enjoyed that one.
It was the (in)sanitizer last time. Paging @ben_lubar
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
One final fuck you to the customers?
I would't count on it.Upgrade to Windows 11!
Here's how this upgrade works...
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
Oh good, the "images link to about:blank" bug is back. I really enjoyed that one.
It was the (in)sanitizer last time. Paging @ben_lubar
Uh...why? I'm not seeing a problem with the post.
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@Lorne-Kates Well, I've heard there actually is a nag reminder now for the people who still haven't updated to the latest build of Windows 10 because they had Defer Upgrades ticked.
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@cartman82 Is thing of beauty. Give man vodka for creativity.
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Windows File Explorer icon is yellow, then you search something and it is blue. Why? Also some special folders have all sort of colors, just to leave you confused not knowing where is what in the taskbar.
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@Grunnen no, your problem is your age comparison. Check if age is null or greater and it will work, but generally sub queries are less ambiguous
Select thing
From
(Select stuff from table 1) as a
Some join
(Select other stuff from table 2) as b
On key
Where join row is null or matches a condition
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Why
Because it's an entirely new program?
Yeah, it uses the Desktop search. They finally understood how important the desktop search is!!, for everything else it is the Explorer.exe when you search all those evil indices come into play.
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@Matches A left join (without
WHERE
) should never return fewer rows than that the left table has, no matter what you write in theON
clause.
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@Grunnen except in access you are adding a where because it gets rearranged to be a where join. The logic engine is meant for very simple queries, so you have to break joins down into very simple structures, or use a real database.
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@Matches If a software cannot do something, it should give an error. Just randomly doing something else, that the user didn't ask for, is .
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@Grunnen except in access you are adding a where because it gets rearranged to be a where join. The logic
engineismeant forvery simplequeries,soyou have tobreak joins down into very simple structures, oruse a real database.FTFY :p
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
You are an ATM technician. The ATM is broken. Since this is Russia, you were not given any "out of order" signs, or alternatives. All you have is a bare Windows XP installation with the banking software running full screen.
What to do, what to do.....Well, it's true, so what's the problem?
Is thing of beauty. Give man vodka for creativity.
I think he may have had some already.
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@cartman82 Reminds me of something I've seen in Japan:
I think that such low-tech ways of providing information in unforeseen circumstances are still better than trying to do everything as high-tech as possible but not getting a better result than a blank screen in case something goes wrong. : )
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Windows 10 lock screen is an actual curtain!! I bet they made sure it follows physical laws, with tension and weight and all that crap.
- I have to use fucking mouse on a gigantic screen, and fucking swipe like a tiny iFuck device for the entire length of my mouse pad. Why? because otherwise the fucking curtain falls down again.
- swipe??? I have 2 huge monitors.
- the very fact that GNOME3 dumbwits stole this idea, makes it a bad idea.
- And who said skeuomorphism is such a great idea, to the point of annoying users.
Luckily there is a policy setting to disable the whole thing. One more to the list of things I have to do in every installations.
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Luckily there is a policy setting to disable the whole thing. One more to the list of things I have to do in every installations.
Share?
At least the curtain goes away if I press a key. Strangely enough, not the any key though.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Share?
This is registry edit version, also here.
But I tried this group policy edition.
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Windows 10 lock screen is an actual curtain!! I bet they made sure it follows physical laws, with tension and weight and all that crap.
- I have to use fucking mouse on a gigantic screen, and fucking swipe like a tiny iFuck device for the entire length of my mouse pad. Why? because otherwise the fucking curtain falls down again.
I noticed that double clicking works too, saves the trouble of raising the curtains.
On that same note though, why does the lock screen ignore the "Swap mouse buttons" or wouldn't it accept at least both mouse buttons as left click? Every so often I swap the buttons and put my mouse on the left and then get confused whenever I can't use my left index finger ("left click" with the index finger on the right button) to move the cursor or click a button on that lock screen. It does nothing, no context menu - no blinking, nothing.
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@dse In Gnome 3 you can use the two-finger scroll gesture on the trackpad to pull the "curtain" up. Or you can just start typing your password while it is still down; it will go up automatically. That's something MS could learn from.
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I locked and unlocked my machine several times now just to test several combo's to get to the logon screen
- ctrl+alt+del
- Typing BUT the first key stroke isn't considered as input for the pw box
- swiping with the mouse up
- double click
- enter, spacebar, ... but not alt or -key
Up and until this point I never hadn't even tried moving it with the mouse. So what it if works too ... who cares?