Probably just a speck of lint on the lens.
Posts made by Chahk
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RE: Our Poor Help Desk
Ah, that brings back memories of the good old "Please do not use 'REPLY TO ALL' when asking to be removed from the mailing list!" e-mail :)
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RE: You can lead a horse to water...
I can has a competent Linux Admin?
Our IT refuses to ditch our atrocious Webmail host for unknown reasons. Just this month we've has 3 outages that lasted half a day each; their web access is slower than Vista on 512MB RAM; the hold times when you call them are often over an hour.
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RE: Thanks for the export
@belgariontheking said:
I don't see what's so difficult about EDI transactions. I hear everybody and their mother bitching about it lately, but it's pretty straightforward.
The reason everyone's bitching about it is because a better way to describe the data has existed for years.
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RE: Turn your screen into a mirror
Didn't you know? Yahoo Answers is for people who are too stupid to use Google.
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RE: Thanks for the export
Also, quit complaining about CSV parsers. You have seen nothing until you've had to work with EDI and its many implementations such as X12 or EDIFACT. Our company had to create countless maps to convert the convoluted crap they call "transactions" into something readable like XML and back.
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RE: Thanks for the export
@Welbog said:
@bstorer said:
Unless they're on Wikipedia, they don't matter. Wikipedia is the absolute authority on everything. It says so on Wikipedia. And you know it'd never lie to you because it says it wouldn't.
What about Youtube? I saw a video on Youtube that said not to trust anything I see on Wikipedia.Youtube entry on Wikipedia specifically states not to trust anything said about Wikipedia because Wikipedia knows best.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@Jeff S said:
So what should they do instead?
They should do a few things:
- Make games people will actually want to buy. "NHL 2011: Now with even more Shiny" might find a small base of die-hard fans for whom "NHL 2010: More Shiny" has lost its edge. Unfortunately for EA though, a third of that player base will opt for a cracked copy to see what the buzz is all about, realize they're being dupped and not buy the game afterwards. A new game that is trully innovative, fun and engaging will sell well, and far outweigh the revenue lost to piracy.
- Make game patches, updates and online content available to authenticated accounts only, ala Steam and Impulse. Sure pirates can still torrent the original game, but if they want the latest and greatest version - they'd need to either re-download the entire game and re-crack it, or shell out the measly $40.
- They need to stop pissing off paying customers with ridiculously draconian DRM schemes. 3 installations only? 10 activations? Blacklisted software? No thanks, I'd like my money back please.
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RE: E-mail Recall.
@danixdefcon5 said:
@Chahk said:
Of course they'd encrypt them, then put the encryption key and passphrase in the same e-mail. ;)As if VZ or AT&T would send unencrypted spreadsheets.
Ah, I see you've met my friend "Sarah" after all :) You know, it would be funny if it wasn't true. Took us a while to convince her that PGP > password in the same e-mail.
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RE: Click and tell
@belgariontheking said:
@DonkeyRyan said:
@Sabkor said:
dangit, why did you have to go and introduce sense to the conversation. We could have been here all day trying to determine what caused the message.Now this could just be another "inside" meta-joke... But you realize that's an advertisement right?
Sabkor is right. This would be an SMS message that you would recieve telling you that your database has reached a certain size. This is why it is located on the Developer tab of the page.They are saying that this guy standing in the hallway is getting that message due to their SMS software. Checking the other sections of the site, they have similar ads on them all.
Reason never stopped this crowd before...
So whatduya think, DB maintenance disabled?
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RE: E-mail Recall.
@Ren said:
To be fair, it could just be that their automated system sent you the wrong order and that it was easier for you to send her the file so she could check it than her to find the file herself... or maybe they don't save attachments ;)
Trust me, it was her. I know for a fact that they didn't use an automated system for sending out ePIN orders. Generating the ePINS - yes most likely. But e-mailing them out was most definitely handeled manually, as I learned from several prior conversations when I helped her troubleshhot coputer-related issues. And this was the same person who answered "Outlook" to my question "Which operating system are you running?" I don't think she was computer-literate enough to clear her Sent and Deleted foldes to purge the e-mails.
Besides, the entire point of me sending the file to her wasn't that she needed it for reference. Her main concern was so that *I* didn't have the file anymore.
@D0R said:
@Vechni said:
O RLY?
No, when flying to Paris it's better to choose Roissy - Charles De Gaulle. It has direct coach connection with Opéra, Montparnasse and Bastille. But what the Orly airport has to do with this discussion?
I'm sorry, but the correct response is "YA RLY".
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RE: E-mail Recall.
@Weng said:
TRWTF is that you're sending what essentially amounts to usable airtime via email in the first place. Just goes to show that the hack/phreak world still crosses over.
Come on, give us some benefit of the doubt. As if VZ or AT&T would send unencrypted spreadsheets. And on our side the "shipping to stores" would stop when they started using electronic Point-of-Sale terminals to sell airtime to consumers. Like I said, real-time inventory.
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E-mail Recall.
A few years back I was working as a software developer for a company that resold prepaid airtime for wireless providers (Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Cingular, Tracfone, etc.) The airtime was being purchased directly from the provider, and then sold to brick-and-mortar outlets.
In the beginning these were actual prepaid cards (with PINs and bar-codes) that were physically shipped to us. We'd scan them into our inventory system, and after selling them, we'd ship them to the stores. Later on, when we finally convinced the TELCOs that electronic format is the way of the future, they converted to sending us spreadsheets containing electronic PINs via e-mail. It was much easier, faster and cheaper this way for obvious reasons (real-time inventory, no shipping charges, etc.) It was great... Of course this meant that we'd have to deal with often computer-illiterate reps that were in charge of selling airtime to resellers like ourselves.
One time I'm loading an order we got from Verizon and notice that the amounts they sent us don't match what we ordered. Obviously the sales rep sent us someone else's order. It happens from time to time and usually isn't a big deal. What the provider usually has to do is deactivate the ePINs sent to the wrong address (to prevent the wrong party from selling them first) and generate new batches.
So I call them up and tell the rep (let's call her "Sarah") that she mixed up the orders. To this (after the "Oh sh*#!) she tells me to e-mail the file back to her immediately... You know, so that I won't have it anymore. At that point I decided not to argue. I just knew that there was no way I would've been able to keep a straight face while explaining to her how e-mail works. I e-mailed the file back to "Sarah" and spent the rest of the day making my co-workers laugh. -
RE: Korean PMP developers need to learn American jargon
Or maybe you need to lighten up.
Yes, I know what they were probably going for ("sol" = the sun.) However, they should know that it's not the first thing that pops into minds of their targetted customer base (gadget-hungry geeks like yours truly.)
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Korean PMP developers need to learn American jargon
Apparently if you buy any Cowon products, you're SOL.
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RE: Yesterday at our oravanian helpdesk
Are we playing the "most annoying sound you've heard at work" game now?
A few days ago the building we're in started doing some sort of maintenance outside. A copule of guys in the scaffold are making a noise I last heard while I was getting my teeth drilled at the dentist. Needless to say,this sounds just as pleasant as the dentist visit felt.
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RE: Ten Web Design Trends to Avoid
@WhiskeyJack said:
Besides the obvious (that the site itself uses rounded corners when it advises this is an overused trend), does anyone else feel as negatively about rounded corners? I kinda like them.
So say we all!
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RE: Find your country game
Apparently USA is so nice, they listed it twice.
TRWTF is that my company uses their "TeamTrack" product.