WTF Bites
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@jbert I feel like Vulcans would have made less of a mess of the web if they had been building it.
Well you didn't guess at what race built the first web browsers.
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@jbert I feel like Vulcans would have made less of a mess of the web if they had been building it.
Well you didn't guess at what race built the first web browsers.
Given how easy the early browsers were to exploit, I'm going to guess the Ferengi
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
I remember creating a new C++ windows app project in VS at some point and getting basically a fully functioning notepad clone.
I know Bloodshed Dev-C++† had a project template that was a fully functioning notepad clone (from before they added encoding detection though, especially the part about detecting it in the File Open dialog so the user can manually change it; the project template didn't have any of that fancy stuff, and probably didn't have the Ctrl+S shortcut either)
†I know that's a cool name, but in the end the only blood that was shed was its own: It fell into obsolescence and was picked up by someone who cared about C support even less than Microsoft did.
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Edited comments on YouTube show a number instead of a relative date:
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
But that's a consumer product, not a business product
Well, it's not a business product anymore....I mean they have Skype for business/Lync but who uses it?
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FUCK YOU TOO, FILEZILLA!
That's what I said too. Moved to winscp a while back...
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Well, it's not a business product anymore...
It's more of a product that has had a dog do its business on it now.
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Notepad's code
Pretty much a
CreateWindow("EDIT", ...)
with some menu and accelerator stuff added in...
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
But that's a consumer product, not a business product
Well, it's not a business product anymore....I mean they have Skype for business/Lync but who uses it?
Fun fact: If you send a group chat message in a group that includes offline people, it kicks them out of the group chat.
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Well, it's not a business product anymore....I mean they have Skype for business/Lync but who uses it?
It's used pretty extensively by government.
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I mean they have Skype for business/Lync but who uses it?
At $work, we do. It is as shitty as you think.
Former colleague does in his $work as well. So we wanted to add each other (normal Skype not being permitted at his side). Ain't no workey.
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Notepad's code
Pretty much a
CreateWindow("EDIT", ...)
with some menu and accelerator stuff added in...That was probably the case before they added encoding detection (and back then they may not even have had the accelerators yet; I distinctly remembers Notepad without Ctrl+S).
But when they added encoding detection, they on some level knew it was untrustworthy, so they added a custom area to the "open file" dialog (withOFN_ENABLETEMPLATE
andOFN_ENABLEHOOK
) to allow the user to override it (which is why the detection is actually done when the user selects a file, rather than when they click OK).
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I mean they have Skype for business/Lync but who uses it?
My company does.
It's shit
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I have Lync 2010 at work and it's better than current Skype (Desktop and Metro alike).
Granted, that's a low bar to clear, but it clears it anyway.
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Granted, that's a low bar to clear, but it clears it anyway.
It's easy when the bar is so low it's underground.
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So we wanted to add each other (normal Skype not being permitted at his side). Ain't no workey.
There's some setup that has to be done to tell the two skype networks to trust each other. I went through this with some of our remote workers -- their agency used skype as well, and we had to screenshare weekly for code reviews, but we couldn't get skype set up to do it so we had to use gotomeeting.
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@yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
their agency used skype as well, and we had to screenshare weekly for code reviews, but we couldn't get skype set up to do it so we had to use gotomeeting.
Wat.
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@arantor Our policy at the time was to do code reviews in person, since we didn't have a tool to do them in a distributed fashion like we do now. So we got together once a week for a team meeting and code review session. Which sucks to do with remote workers.
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@yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
we couldn't get skype set up to do it so we had to use gotomeeting
Our customer uses Cisco WebEx. Does not look too polished, but it does work, both from computers and plain old telephones.
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@yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
skype networks to trust each other
It's just SIP for crying out loud (it also seemed to work back when it was still called Office Communicator; maybe it still does if the server is configured to be less paranoid).
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Oh FFS Opera get your shit together.
So you want to drag a bookmark to a folder in bookmarks bar. Let's say the folder doesn't fit on the screen, but is behind the little arrow to the right. Or you just want to drag it to a specific place in a visible folder that is close to the right edge. The point is, the contents opens to the left with a visible gap. And since you're dragging your bookmark, it immediately detects when you enter the gap and decides nope, you obviously don't want to put it in the folder so I'll just helpfully close it for you
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Our customer uses Cisco WebEx. Does not look too polished, but it does work, both from computers and plain old telephones.
WebEx is great… provided you've got enough bandwidth. Used to work with some people who were located in the ass-end of nowhere and they hated WebEx because their wet piece of string just couldn't cope. They also didn't like any other internet-based collaboration tool; the only things they'd ever use would be telephones (and they'd sound awful over them too). Bleah.
How it was possible to get such utterly shit networking in Surrey… I don't know. They were only about 25 miles from central London, but they might as well have been in @ben_lubar's cellar.
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WebEx is great… provided you've got enough bandwidth.
…and provided you're not on Linux.
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I mean they have Skype for business/Lync but who uses it?
At $work, we do. It is as shitty as you think.
Former colleague does in his $work as well. So we wanted to add each other (normal Skype not being permitted at his side). Ain't no workey.
Getting the Lync server (aka Skype for Business) working is so onerous and difficult I gave up.
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@hungrier see also:
@anotherusername said in PSA: MS Word is broken:
Great. Now if only I didn't have to give a Word document permission to pwn my system before it'll allow me to
FUCKING
PRINT IT.
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@anotherusername Originally my post had "I'm sure this was posted before," before I removed it to post just the image.
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her ass?
TIL asses may be more towards the shoulder area than previously believed...
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If you've ever used the YouTube app with a Chromecast or smart TV or device which can act as a cast target, you'll know that to remove a video from the cast queue, you have to tap the triple dots menu and choose 'remove from queue'. Well, apparently, as my mom discovered, if you own the video, it will add an extra option that simply says 'delete'. She wanted it out of the queue, and deleting it from the queue made sense at first thought. So, now that video has been permanently deleted from her account. Thankfully she still has another copy, but why is that option in that menu!?
They should also add an option to helpfully format the drive.
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@tsaukpaetra asses are bad animals
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
That is a smart helmet, with VR and pulse monitoring.
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Windows showed me a notification that it needed to reboot to update. I clicked on the "reboot now" button.
Instead of rebooting, it took me to the settings app, with the "reboot now" button grayed out and a spinner thing next to it. The app remained completely unresponsive for a full 5 minutes (), after which it actually rebooted.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Windows showed me a notification that it needed to reboot to update. I clicked on the "reboot now" button.
Instead of rebooting, it took me to the settings app, with the "reboot now" button grayed out and a spinner thing next to it. The app remained completely unresponsive for a full 5 minutes (), after which it actually rebooted.
It's the Embraced and Extended version of “now”, of course…
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I am signing up for the web portal at my kid's school:
Uhhhhhh....a one character minimum length?
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I am signing up for the web portal at my kid's school:
Uhhhhhh....a one character minimum length?
...and their website requires "www".
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@polygeekery did you try changing those values (or that is not an edit box?) Try a negative number.
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Edit / forgot to add: the page behind the first result only had the text that can be read in the box above. In other words, it doesn't add much to what could have been construed from the word "defer".
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@zecc Can't be. Look, let me show y-
gets Bing search results
Oh, for fuck's sake, Microsoft! You could have at least made it a direct link!
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
Oh, for fuck's sake, Microsoft! You could have at least made it a direct link!
With Microsoft's habit of changing up links every 5 minutes? I think linking to a search is a much better idea, they should do the same for all MSDN links
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
Oh, for fuck's sake, Microsoft! You could have at least made it a direct link!
With Microsoft's habit of changing up links every 5 minutes? I think linking to a search is a much better idea, they should do the same for all MSDN links
It redirects through
go.microsoft.com/fwlink
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@raceprouk Yeah, seems most help links in Win10 just opens the default browser on a Bing search for the topic. So, they're like the anti-help of Win10.
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Our iPad we use for testing in the office just turned into a bell. When connected to the MacBook, it starts connecting and disconnecting in quick succession, accompanying each with the chime. Obviously that means it won't charge and we can't push the application to it.
Update: Colleague went to the next office and tried to connect it to another MacBook and it worked. Using the same cable.
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@bulb Bad cable? My wife's iphone does the same thing when she plugs it in to the dodgy cable by the bed
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Bad cable?
Oops, should have said that—when connected to different notebook, using the same cable, it works normally.
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@bulb Bad USB port? I know I've had problems with devices rapidly connecting and disconnecting when connected to a bad port.
Weirdly enough, one of my computers with such an issue seems to have corrected itself after I did a complete reinstall. Although it also had other interesting problems where it could see that the device connected is a mouse and all the basic mouse functionality was working, but the type of mouse could not be detected. (Meaning I was missing out on being able to set custom DPI and control the RGB lighting.)
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@raceprouk said in WTF Bites:
@zecc Can't be. Look, let me show y-
gets Bing search results
Oh, for fuck's sake, Microsoft! You could have at least made it a direct link!
Seems like Bing is Microsoft's solution to their inability to provide permanent URLs for their documentation and FAQ. Suddenly it all starts to make sense, and all the layers of are slowly being exposed...
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And I kind of wish we had gotten more feedback from the other business units that they needed a persistent chat solution before they started trialing Slack. Because now I have two IM clients. :(