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@Tsaukpaetra
judging by the amount of times I looked to open my calendar from the bottom left I definitely needed it there.this has been there for my entire professional career
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@Bulb no, there's lots more content. That visible area scrolls for page after page.
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Just discovered the calendar in Outlook web doesn't have scrollbars, neither horizontal nor vertical. You can still scroll with the mouse wheel,
Doesn't work on mine using Firefox on Ubuntu18 in month-mode. Oh, if I put it into week-mode, the wheel will scroll within the day. (looks really closely - oh there is a scroll bar that moves with the wheel. It's about 2 shades of gray different from the surrounding area. And using the mouse makes it about wide.
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Good jorb!
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@topspin
There seems to be an issue with the reporting on the health service reporting tool. I suggest a health service monitoring monitor to be implemented prevent such problems.
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Last retarded less than one minute ago.
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@topspin Exactly this. Tell the developers of your old-age linux distro that the browser there does not cope with microsoft's genius javascript for resizing their images! What a shame.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
the browser there
I did notice a lack of chrome for us to name and shame.
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Looking thru job ads, Bernie stumbled upon an inbelievable wall-o-text (it's in german, but that does not matter here):
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
inbelievable wall-o-text
Someone did a very poor copy-pasta jab. Nothing to see here.
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@BernieTheBernie also, doesnât say how much they pay. Blergh.
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@BernieTheBernie also, doesnât say how much they pay. Blergh.
I'm sure it's in Experience. But otherwise you gotta send in what you wanna get. you know, based on a 40 hour work week. Whatever that amount is. Could be a few pence, might be seven-digit your-ohs. Who nose?
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@BernieTheBernie also, doesnât say how much they pay. Blergh.
Really? I haven't seen the expected salary advertised in any job ads.
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"We are afraid that we cannot consider job applications by snail mail or email ....
Contact
xy@company.com"
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
"We are afraid that we cannot consider job applications by snail mail or email ....
Contact
xy@company.com"They can certainly receive them. It's just, they won't be able to consider them.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
it's in german, but that does not matter here
I'm surprised it's that many words. I'd have expected German to have condensed that down into a single, really long word.
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
condensed that down into a si
ngle, really long wordThat can be condensed even more. FTFY.
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Hi, frist post in the forums. Y'all are a bunch of s. Anyway this fine mesage is HandBrake on linux.
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Hi, frist post in the forums. Y'all are a bunch of s. Anyway this fine mesage is HandBrake on linux.
Seriousl though, "almost full" is a nontrivial concept. We are monitoring a couple thousand file systems between 500 MB and ~50TB and I ended up writing an Icinga plugin for that because the ones off the shelf couldn't do them all with the same configuration. If something fails to delete outdated kernel images and the 500 MB boot FS runs full, you'd like to know when it's down to 100 MB or 20% free. OTOH, even 98% full on at 50T drive is usually just fine, but you wouldn't want to wait until it is down to 100 MB free either. Now I'm calculating the minimum-free percentage as
1/(log10(x))^7 * 10^8
where x is the drive size. This just happens to work for us; a video rendering farm would probably need different values.
Every simple percentage will be ridiculously off in some situations. Unless HB just tries to play it safe and calculates how big the movie would be without compression and warns you if that wouldn't fit.
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Unless HB just tries to play it safe and calculates how big the movie would be without compression and warns you if that wouldn't fit.
The text suggests the warning is during the encoding. So at that point it could estimate the compression ratio either from the compression rate so far, the encoder setting, or a combination of the two, and warn if it looks like it might not fit.
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Seriousl though, "almost full" is a nontrivial concept.
Agree, and fair. Good examples.
@Bulb Yes, during encoding. It just stopped. Further investigation reveals this is a user setting, and 10 GB makes sense for Blue-ray (though this was DVD). On the other hand, 9991 MB vs
9.9 GB10.0 GB is still fail.Thanks for the @Applied-Mediocrity . You do not disappoint.
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On the other hand, 9991 MB vs
9.9 GB10.0 GB is still fail.You're assuming both sides are talking about the same kind of megabytes!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
Thanks for the @Applied-Mediocrity . You do not disappoint.
YMBNH
Hi, frist post in the forums
yes, seemingly.
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Seriousl though, "almost full" is a nontrivial concept.
Agree, and fair. Good examples.
@Bulb Yes, during encoding. It just stopped. Further investigation reveals this is a user setting, and 10 GB makes sense for Blue-ray (though this was DVD). On the other hand, 9991 MB vs
9.9 GB10.0 GB is still fail.Thanks for the @Applied-Mediocrity . You do not disappoint.
I'd suggest dual layer DVDs, but I think those were 9.6gb. to check.
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Seriousl though, "almost full" is a nontrivial concept.
I regularly get emails from our internal computing centre about storage. Apparently these last few weeks we've been filling about 3000 TB more than what we freed. That's enough to get IT to send a email about it, but OTOH it's well within our regular disk usage (we get these emails about once every 2 weeks).
Apart from the fact that a few PB is just loose change for us, the interesting thing here is that our IT thinks in terms of variation of free space, not free space itself. Which sort of makes sense, a system that is full but with no write requests can stay that way for ages, while a system that is even just half-full, but filling very quickly, might create issues very soon.
This is to the point where, while I know from these (semi-)regular emails how much space has been used/freed in the past few weeks, I have no idea what the actual total capacity of the system is.
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Outlook Web Access moved my cheese! Now the to delete appears on the right side of the message. Probably a better place. I imagine people who click on those other actions are now less likely to accidentally delete their messages, but fuck those guys for messing with my muscle memory.
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@boomzilla It does not appear on hover, I hope.
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@Zecc Of course it does. But that didn't change. Only the location of its appearance. Though if it was always visible it would make the message list super busy. I don't mind the show-on-hover.
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I can't move this VS Code window because the title bar now includes the menu bar, the search, forward and back buttons, and the layout toolbar.
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
fuck those guys for messing with my muscle memory.
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@error There's a gap between the ellipsis and back button, and similarly a gap between the search bar and the layout buttons. It's tiny but it's there, reserved for that purpose.
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@TwelveBaud said in UI Bites:
@error There's a gap between the ellipsis and back button, and similarly a gap between the search bar and the layout buttons. It's tiny but it's there, reserved for that purpose.
I really tried to click that area but I failed each and every time. Resizing the window helped.
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Quick! Someone mention tiling managerial window washers!
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Phew! That was close!
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I can't move this VS Code window because the title bar now includes the menu bar, the search, forward and back buttons, and the layout toolbar.Had that problem with Office for awhile:
The most useless part is the 'Saved on "my mac"' bullshit, that's only there because Microsoft is trying their best to make people not understand their computers have local storage, just waiting for a generation that thinks they need cloud garbage to save.
And, of course, if you try to use the part of the title bar that actually shows the title, i.e. the document name, it opens something to rename the file. That's probably got something to do with the above, too.
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@topspin If they had the latitude to use "Start", they had the latitude to use "AutoSpch". There's a few dozen pixels right there.
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Look at those long German words taking up the space
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
Indeed. The problem, though, is that I usually double click the title bar to maximize it (because the macOS maximize button is stupid) and guess what, nowhere to click.
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macOS
:theres-your-problem:
Seriously, macOS's window manager is frankly utter and complete crap in every possible way.
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because the macOS maximize button is stupid
Sometimes it's handy to maximise an app as it makes it so it's just one swipe with the trackpad to switch from any other app to it.
Remote Desktop is especially handy maximised as it then puts each remote Windows desktop onto its own macOS desktop (space?).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
Seriously, macOS's window manager is frankly utter and complete crap in every possible way.
I like how it generally works. The trackpad gestures for switching between apps, windows of the same app, and desktops are good enough that I actually bought a Magic Trackpad for when I used to use an external keyboard. It remembers which apps and desktops were on which display when you unplug them and plug them back in later (and does so across different display setups) which Microsoft only figured that out with W11.
The dock behaviour when macOS is set to have each display as it's own desktop/space/whatever is stupid though.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
because the macOS maximize button is stupid
Sometimes it's handy to maximise an app as it makes it so it's just one swipe with the trackpad to switch from any other app to it.
Remote Desktop is especially handy maximised as it then puts each remote Windows desktop onto its own macOS desktop (space?).Oh, itâs super useful to make any app full screen like that, it just shouldnât be the default. And the actual maximize thing that you get with using whatever modifier that is doesnât work the way it should, either. It just increases to what it thinks is the maximum âusefulâ size, which is bullshit when you e.g. open a pdf and want to maximize + zoom to page width, because it basically does nothing instead.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
macOS
:theres-your-problem:
Seriously, macOS's window manager is frankly utter and complete crap in every possible way.
Disagree there. It has a bunch of annoying quirks, but also some features that work better than anything else.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
macOS
:theres-your-problem:
Seriously, macOS's window manager is frankly utter and complete crap in every possible way.
Disagree there. It has a bunch of annoying quirks, but also some features that work better than anything else.
Everything I do on macOS is ever so slightly more annoying than doing the same on Windows, at least as far as the UI layer goes. I have yet to see any of those "better than anything else" features in the window manager.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
does so across different display setups
Wait, you can have more than a single external display now?
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I can't move this VS Code window because the title bar now includes the menu bar, the search, forward and back buttons, and the layout toolbar."window.titleBarStyle": "native"
Should fix that right up. ď