I stopped trusting in-browser text editing a long time ago and write anything significantly lengthy in notepad then copy it over
Zolcos
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RE: Had to use IE to contact Google's sales team
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RE: A circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex a circumflex
@blakeyrat said:
Compare to Windows, where it'll ask you for input ONLY at the very start or the very end of the process, so you don't have to sit there and babysit the thing.
That's not really true btw. Whenever Windows Update encounters a new version of IE, or directx, or .net framework, or pretty much anything which also has a redistributable, it will block the entire update until you click OK or whatever to continue
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RE: Don't type anything funny!
To all the people gleefully jumping on the chance to cry ethnocentrism, I'm fairly certain "funny characters" in this case refers more to characters that have special meaning in the contexts where the input might be used, such as \ * < > $ rather than non-latin letters. After all, any modern linux distro has had complete unicode support for years
...and the vague "try to limit" language likely means that advanced users can user whatever they want as long as it's escaped properly, but they know explaining that will confuse the layman so they simply say those characters are bad and hope that people who know what they're doing will pick up on what they mean
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RE: But there was no hacking of our servers!!
@morbiuswilters said:
negligence is negligence, no matter how you dress it up.
The difference that the blog post is trying to highlight is that it was the hosting company's negligence and not the software company's negligence, which is a huge difference imo
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RE: Unsafe at any level!
The article doesn't seem to say anything about there being some amount of money hanging in the balance based on this issue. It looks like business as usual -- CDC does research and makes recommendations based on that research.
Besides, it's not like the CDC is in any danger of running out of legit diseases they could use to justify their funding. AIDS is still a thing for example. -
RE: WebEx is having a banner day
@blakeyrat said:
@morbiuswilters said:
What does it do?
It picks one at random and will only share that one monitor. The one it picks at random will not necessarily be the one with the taskbar (that would be too easy) so you basically have to do a Verizon-style "can you see it now? Can you see it now?" thing before you figure out which monitor its actually decided to use.
There's no option to pick which monitor to share, or to share both monitors, or ... actually the program doesn't acknowledge in any way that the concept of "two monitors on one computer" even fucking exists.
I attribute most of this to its being Java.
This is an outright lie. I use webex almost every day, and while I don't really like it, there is very clearly a dropdown arrow next to "share desktop" that lets you choose which monitor to share. The numbering is the same as in windows' Display Properties, and it even gives a green highlight around the monitor that will be shared as you mouseover the options, so you know for sure what your selection will do. And while you have the monitor shared, it continues to have the highlight so you don't forget which monitor is shared.
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RE: Open Source the new name for crappy software
Your main problem is that it doesn't have a shiny menu to switch whether it starts with Windows? Here's your shiny menu: services.msc
If you don't know how to use windows services then you shouldn't have told it to install as a service
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RE: But you said to do this
@snoofle said:
He starts reverting them, manually, one at a time.
I spent ten minutes writing a script to get the revisions from source control, and to programmatically do the rollback. Then I spent 30 minutes figuring out what my boss was talking about and got it done. Today, my boss and I are going to sit with this guy and try and explain the concepts of a) following directions, b) asking if there's a better way if something seems repetitive, and c) doing small tests before making major changes
If this guy doesn't even know what source control does, I have to wonder about what kind of training he got. Sounds like you give commit access to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that walks in the door.
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RE: Okay, someone please tell me that I'm getting "test driven development" wrong.
TRWTF is them trying to be helpful and explaining how their stuff works, and you talking to them like you're Blakeyrat