UI Bites
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@loopback0 I'm grumpy and my brain is not working optimally because of the heat.
Yeah... the heat. I'm just gonna blame it on the heat.Being in heat sucks. Fucking doesn't help too much either....
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But if I had a way to convert a fiver or a tenner into pound coins once every few weeks that'd be good.
I have no problem with that sort of thing; I just buy a newspaper regularly (for the crossword, which is a lot more satisfactory to me to do on paper than electronically).
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I just buy a newspaper regularly (for the crossword
That's certainly one of the more sound reasons to do it.
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I expected someone to post this part:
https://youtu.be/DGscoaUWW2M?t=54
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@Zerosquare What about the people who read TDWTF?
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@Applied-Mediocrity "In other news today: The Garage edition" is my primary source of news.
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Status: Hah. Amazon's credentials are invalid.
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Tried the YouTube app out on my tablet, and it sucks. The worst part? The play/pause controls were stuck on top of the middle of the playing video, and nothing I could do would shift them. That's… not what you want in a video player.
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Glad to see Microsoft's error handling hasn't improved, or its error reporting. Back to Googling hex codes then!
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@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Back to Googling hex codes then!
Hex codes have one huge advantage over text messages: they don't change with language!
(which, while a good reason to include a numeric code, is, of course, no excuse for not including the text message too now that that computer memory and disk sizes are in the range of gigabytes rather than kilobytes)
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@Bulb You didn't want a code that might help you figure out what went wrong, you wanted a gigantic sad
:(
and a reassuring piece of text written by someone with no technical knowledge whatsoever.
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a reassuring piece of text written by someone with no technical knowledge whatsoever
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@topspin I know. But it was too funny not to post it in this context.
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Status: great job sorting there....
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Two entries I created by hand. The rest are automatic registrations.
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@Tsaukpaetra Right, I wasn't paying attention. Now I notice this is some sort of DNS record management software.
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@Tsaukpaetra Right, I wasn't paying attention. Now I notice this is some sort of DNS record management software.
Specifically, Microsoft's DNS MMC console.
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Edit: no need to quote the image again.
My favourite bit:
10/2/2014 10:00:00 PM
10/2/2014 9:00:00 PMIn case you doubted this was lexicographical sorting just by looking at the months.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: great job sorting there....
That's what you get for using any other timestamp format than ISO-8601 (any consistent subformat of it should do).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: great job sorting there....
That's what you get for using any other timestamp format than ISO-8601 (any consistent subformat of it should do).
I'll file a report with Microsoft.
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Dear Microsoft,
When I have three carefully hand-picked files selected in File Explorer and I press Ctrl+C, I expect those three files to be copied.
Either that, or just make the currently focused panel bloody darned obvious already, because I've lost track of how many times I've accidentally copied a whole directory because between alt+tabs the focus moved to the directory tree on the left.
Also would you mind not losing the selection when the view refreshes because someone created or deleted a new file in there? Thankyouverymuch.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: great job sorting there....
Well, they store the TimeStamps as strings. What did you expect?
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make the currently focused panel bloody darned obvious
Sorry, that'd clutter the flat UI.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: great job sorting there....
Well, they store the TimeStamps as strings. What did you expect?
You're right, I forget that this console was made before Windows got natural sorting...
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Iron Maiden's website. Holy
- The "Read More" button about their current tour takes you to a YouTube video.
- Their online shop has a huge tile for each product, which isn't that weird. But the tiles roll through products on a timer instead of being a static list of products. I saw one that had some cool-looking coffee cups, but before I could click it, it changed to a T-shirt or something. I can't find the coffee cups anywhere. Guess I gotta monitor the products page and hope a tile randomly flips back to it.
I think that web developers are going from merely incompetent to unabashedly evil.
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Counting are hard!
Depending on which Google Analytics view I look at, my website is either getting 90 views per day, or 2.
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I can't find the coffee cups anywhere. Guess I gotta monitor the products page and hope a tile randomly flips back to it.
I managed to click before it went away.
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Status: Stupid Spiceworks. Couldn't afford the space to show the full CPU string?!?
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Status: Something tells me that 1280x1024 is not a good resolution for this VM...
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Hex codes have one huge advantage over text messages: they don't change with language!
(which, while a good reason to include a numeric code, is, of course, no excuse for not including the text message too now that that computer memory and disk sizes are in the range of gigabytes rather than kilobytes)
The text message is obviously "Guru Meditation".
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I think that web developers are going from merely incompetent to unabashedly evil.
They might be just trying to fit the theme .
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You'd think this field takes the date in the format
ddmmyyyy
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Nope. It only accepts this format.
Bonus points for the error that I didn't get a screenshot of which just tells you that updating the details was unsuccessful, but doesn't tell you why.
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Terrible spam right? Nope, this one's real:
Maybe make sure your shit-tacular HTML email won't do this, and choose better server names for customer-facing services.
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What kind of names do you expect from a company called "Brainstorm"?
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@Zerosquare They had their top Rockstar Ninjas in charge of naming
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Status: I snapped three windows. You'd think there would be no seam, right?
Fucking hell.
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Whatever happened to auxiliary verbs?
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@topspin: consider yourself lucky.
Filed under:
https://miro.medium.com/max/1890/1*Rjh0ZDqJIz5vPaJguQ_kAA.jpeg
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@Zerosquare It's not wrong.
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Status: Thanks, Ubuntu. Could you tell me literally anything more? At least Muthafuckin' Winblows will tell me which program had a problem!
Also, you'd think with that ellipsis on the second option you'd get a second dialog, maybe asking for more information or providing more information.
NOPE!
It just makes the dialog disappear, same as the Cancel with a graphic on it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Thanks, Ubuntu. Could you tell me literally anything more?
Oh, and while doing Software Updaters...
Which one? Should I be concerned? What should I do about this?
Settings is (naturally) not helpful, it just opens a dialog asking how often I want updates, and close (natch) just closes the window.
Useful!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
which program had a problem!
Turns out it was
msodbcsql17
(From Microsoft, natch).What happens when I try to remove it?
Excellent!
What does the Help button do?
Well, let's click Next and see...Well, fuck.
Guess I needed to tick that random checkbox...
And success!
Have I mentioned recently I hate developers?
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@Tsaukpaetra What kind of unholy black magic are you doing that needs SQL Server and Ubuntu?