The real WTF: Turning a computer off to install a monitor. I don't think I've had to do that since... well, ever actually. Even DOS could cope with hot swapping monitors. Seriously, unplug the old monitor, plug the new one in. It really doesn't need to be much more complex than that.
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RE: That Darn Monitor
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RE: Robust application
@dlikhten said:
Heres the deal... Theres no "TRUE" way to make a remote desktop secure. You can follow procedure BUT on your home computer you can browse any website you want which can install a virus which can track your key strokes. They don't have to crack encryption, they just have to see what you type. Because at work you have a good anti-virus (at least good enough) and anti-spyware and ant-malware and firewall and inability to browse to certain "bad" websites (the ones that will make your company run out of Xs) you are much less likely to have a virus. Also at work there is an IT department just incase they see anything suspicious going on with your machine.
At home you got none of that. Maybe a free anti-virus or windows firewall. In the end if the want to get ultra paranoid the best choice is laptops with VPN access. They control the laptops and can check what sites you browse and install w/e they want on em.
Yeah, we started with locked down corporate laptops, but they're a nightmare to manage. What we've moved onto is an SSL VPN with one time passwords sent to the users mobile phone. Sure it's not perfect, but it's under a grand to install and means malware from the remote machine has no way onto the corporate network, and even if somebody has a keylogger it's not going to grant them access to the network.
The only risk is of data theft from the network, but we're not overly worried about that here. Any user could e-mail out pretty much whatever they felt like anyway.
I'll admit it's a bit weird when you start from the assumption that you *want* employees to be able to work from a virus infested machine, but once you've gotten over the initial shock it's proving to be a very useful tool for our staff.
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RE: Does it hurt?
@morbiuswilters said:
You guys are behind the times. Anonymous is now at war with epileptics. Remember, Anonymous doesn't fight for good or evil, Anonymous only does it for the lulz.
You really believe that was Anonymous and not CoS?
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RE: Medical WTF
@snoofle said:
Ok, so I'm getting older, and had to sign up for a colonoscopy. For those who aren't familiar with this lovely little procedure, they basically shove the medical equivalent of a small garden hose up your butt, complete with camera, electric snare and cauterizer, so they can look at your insides and make sure nothing is amiss, all while you peacefully snooze through it.
I assume you're not familiar with the 'Agent Picolax' story then?
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RE: Two windows active at once?
Now that's potentially a useful trick, except it doesn't seem to work for grouped windows. I can select the whole group, but not an individual member of the group.
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@bstorer said:Don't be silly, the Microsoft knowledge base contains little information of any actual use to anyone.
That's a WTF right there. If you've ever had to troubleshoot a windows PC you'll know the knowledgebase is an invaluable source of information. It's one of the few things Microsoft have ever gotten right. To give you just two examples I've used in the last fortnight:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/219022/en-us - If you can find any other source of information on disabling opportunistic locking to improve performance of a foxpro database I'm all ears
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us - Show me any other documentation covering how to recover and boot a computer with a corrupted registry when the user has taken no backups.
PS: No preview button when replying? WTF?
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RE: XBox360 power WTF
I'm guessing on a non earthed extension lead. I've seen that cause a computer case to register ~120V before on a multimeter. DIY Faraday cage anyone :D
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RE: I hate my life
No sympathy at all here. You know your brother doesn't know computers, but you're too lazy to help your own mother, so you leave him to do it instead.
Then you whinge when your own laziness means you have to waste hours cleaning a problem that you could have prevented with a little bit of work, and to top it off, you then attempt to deliberately infect your brothers computer.
Good god man.
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RE: Microsoft Word WTF
Heh, don't get me started on word and disk space. I have a 32 page document here, that's ballooned to 3.5MB in size. Not a complex document mind, it's mainly text, with a few hyperlinks, a 74KB PDF embedded in it, and a couple of e-mails.
But then 3.5MB wasn't enough for Microsoft, oh no. If I have a look at the folder it's saved in and show hidden files, I can see that word has created twenty four temporary files as I've been saving my work. So that single document is currently taking up 57.7MB of disk space. 57MB! For a 32 page document? The sooner we can get Linux and OpenOffice in this building the better.
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RE: No row with the given identifier exists
On a SoE website, that's not a WTF, it's just business as normal.
I mean we're talking about a company here who have home grown forum software that occasionally corrupts pages in discussions so you can't view them. Not the whole discussion mind, just the occasional page. Provided enough people reply to the earlier posts, the thread will eventually expand past the page you can't read and you can carry on reading the posts.
Their error checking in game consists of bombing the client out to your windows desktop if something unusual happens. When they shutdown their servers for their regular patches, instead of detecting this on the client and closing gracefully, it bombs out with the message "everquest detected your client may have crashed". There are errors logged on the discussion boards that affect thousands of players and have been ongoing for over a year. Now that wouldn't be unusual for some minor glitches, but we're talking about problems like servers crashing daily here...
So, no, seeing that webpage isn't a WTF for me at all.
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RE: Why I Love BT
@misha said:
I phone my bank to register a change of address, and am told I have to do it in person, at my new branch. So I take the morning off, go in, fill out forms etc. As I hand them back to the cashier she says "You know, you could have done this all over the phone - I'm sure that would have been much easier..."
I got so fed up I changed banks. It was easier to rearrange all my direct debits, bills & standing orders than to get Barclays to change my address. Six times I told them; three over the phone, two in writing, and one by e-mail. Six months later my postal redirection was about to run out and they still had stuff going to my old address, so I switched to HSBC and closed my account.
Now all they do is send me occasional statements for an account they've been told to close three times...