Has anyone ever thought that this poor girl might suffer from some form of mental retardation? Maybe she needs all those photos around to remind herself of what she looks like. Wouldn't it be tragic if she glanced into a mirror only to find a complete stranger staring back at her? Then again though, I am an optimist... It is probably more likely she is just narcissistic.
GoatCheez
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RE: Do you have lots of pictures of yourself?
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RE: VB6 WTF
@LoCInuyasha said:
VB6 can do many things important...
The problem here's called not knowing what you're doing..... RoFL......
On a single thread, you're setting doneLoading to true and then IMMEDIATELY setting it back to false before your loop.. Of COURSE your loop's going to keep running infinately..
You're misreading the code. It doesn't get set back to false. It sounds like you are one of those who doesn't even really know what VB is doing... I initialize the value to false. Then, I start the loop. In the loop I call DoEvents, which processes any messages in the queue. One of those message is sent from the com object at some point. The DoEvevnts causes this message to be processed and the event to be called, where the value of doneLoading is set to true. Then, the loop continues.
pcooper had the problem identified correctly. Replacing the event code with below solves this problem.
If bDone Then
doneLoading = True
End IfBasically, this issue arises from VB not handling boolean values like nearly every other programming language. It's also the fault of the COMObject though.
Latest posts made by GoatCheez
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RE: Boss keeps bringing in his home pc and asking the IT staff to fix it.
@tster said:
Not exactly. By saying "a computer" it would normally be implied that the computer belonged to the company and was use for business. Neither of those is true. This was his girlfriend's machine. It neither belonged to the company nor was used for business. It's not like his girlfriend is even near fiancee status either. He had just started dating her recently. If it was my boss' machine, even if it wasn't used for business, it would be different. This is really close to "hey, here's some random person's computer that I think you should fix".@b-redeker said:
So back to the original situation. Boss saying "do this thing which is only tangentially connected to your normal work".
Actually, in the original situation, the boss was asking an IT person to fix a computer which is exactly what their normal work is.
Also, if the business was doing well and we had extra time, I wouldn't be as opposed. The fact though is that the rest of the IT staff is STILL on reduced hour work-weeks, and no one has had a raise in over 2 years. The boss is driving the company into the ground by making us do USELESS stuff when we barely have enough time to keep the company rolling already.
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RE: Boss keeps bringing in his home pc and asking the IT staff to fix it.
Yeah, I actually have an employment agreement. That's why I told my boss "No, I'm putting my foot down. I am not doing it and that's my final answer." He then said "I guess I'll just get one of the other guys to do it." They do not have employment agreements. Our youngest ended up doing it. Of course, I'm sure this'll all happen again in another month or so.
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RE: Boss keeps bringing in his home pc and asking the IT staff to fix it.
@tster said:
So let me get this right... The boss owns the company. He gives you money to do what he says. If you don't want the money I suppose you can always quit. Otherwise, suck it up and get back to work I think.
So, if your boss were to tell you to go to his house and mow his lawn you would do it?
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RE: Boss keeps bringing in his home pc and asking the IT staff to fix it.
I always pawn it off to the younger guys, but I feel bad for them. Also, they have work to do that it's taking away from. What I think I'll do is if he keeps pestering us about it (for now we're ignoring the request) I'll have the youngest completely wipe it and put a linux distro on the machine.
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RE: Boss keeps bringing in his home pc and asking the IT staff to fix it.
1 or none depending on which one you ask.
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Boss keeps bringing in his home pc and asking the IT staff to fix it.
My boss (who is also the owner) likes to bring in his computers from home when they get a virus and have the IT staff fix it. I really dislike this since he could easily do it in seconds, and they aren't company machines or machines used in conducting company business. My boss has a laptop that he does all of his work on, and that I expect the IT staff to handle.
Most recently however, he brought in his girlfriend's computer, which wasn't even broken, and asked us if we could speed it up.
I want to literally tell him to take his girlfriends computer and shove it up his ass. I'm extremely pissed he would even ask us to do that. When I came on board this company, I had a contract that explicitly described my job duties, although I am comfortable going outside of those within reason. The other two guys, who are younger and less experienced, did not have such a thing. Their employment agreement was a handshake. In their situation I can see how they could get fired for not complying and be without legal recourse.
How do I tell my boss to stop treating the IT staff as their personal IT slaves?
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RE: TimeWarner/RoadRunner DNS WTF
@RichinNJ said:
@GoatCheez said:
That sounds completely crazy. The DNS servers are only used to resolve an IP and they in no way impact actual bandwidth. The only thing they can impact is resolution speed. Once the IP is obtained the DNS servers don't matter at all. Can you take a video or screenshots? Are you sure your tests are identical in all other respects? It's.... just.... nuts.....
But the point is that resolution speed ultimately throttles bandwidth by creating "dead air". A reasonable page such as CNN.COM takes many DNS lookups. Bypassing the RR DNS servers seems to be making pages load a couple of seconds faster. That couple of seconds is saved bandwidth. Put a 50ms delay into each DNS lookup and the average user might view one or two fewer pages per hour. That adds up.
The issue being discussed at this point is how DNS resolution can affect streaming video. This takes one resolution. After this one resolution for the video server's IP, the DNS servers are not hit again. The reason the DNS servers appeared to throttle bandwidth was due to the fact that they resolved the name to two different IP addresses. This can obviously affect bandwidth.
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RE: TimeWarner/RoadRunner DNS WTF
That sounds completely crazy. The DNS servers are only used to resolve an IP and they in no way impact actual bandwidth. The only thing they can impact is resolution speed. Once the IP is obtained the DNS servers don't matter at all. Can you take a video or screenshots? Are you sure your tests are identical in all other respects? It's.... just.... nuts.....
I'm also Tampabay area... and the brighthouse guy is coming on Friday lol... I wish I could get FIOS... *sigh*
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RE: TimeWarner/RoadRunner DNS WTF
Interesting that this thread got bumped. I recently decided to ditch BrightHouse/RR yet again due to their customer support incompetence. I'm on an official boycott now but it's really hard since they are the only ISP that can provide me with > 3MB service where I live. What happened this time was that I was late on a bill for the current month and previous month. I had paid for the previous month and had scheduled payment for the current month for the next Wednesday. They cut my service off that Friday. When I called the next week to pay what had been scheduled (when my service was turned off, the scheduled payment was unscheduled) the customer service lady said I needed to pay an additional two months in advance to get my service turned back on. The service was about $160 a month. I had $160 in outstanding charges (for the CURRENT month of service). She wanted me to pay $500 to get my service back on. I asked when it would get turned back on and she said it would take another week or so to get the service turned back on. I asked if I would be discounted for the days in which I had no service and she said no. I asked why it would cost so much and why I would be charged for days when I didn't have service. She proceeded to tell me basically "Because that's what our system shows" At this point I asked to speak to the manager. She proceeded to try and explain everything she had read from the screen again. So I had to repeatedly ask for her manager. Once on the phone, the manager (assuming it was a manager) proceeded to tell me to get my service turned back on I would have to pay $800. How he came up with that number I have NO idea. I asked how he came up with the number and he told me that I would have to pay for yet another additional month to get my account turned back on. I asked why is it that a long-time valued customer has to pay such outrageous fees and he proceeded to tell me that I need to pay $800 to get my service turned back on. They were very, VERY rude during all of this (surprisingly so to the point where I thought I had reached a mom and pop shop that was having a bad day) and provided no information as to why these things would cost so much money. He also said that they wouldn't discount any of the current month of service for the days in which my service had been turned off. It was at this point in which I said "F this, I'll just switch to FIOS" and hung up the phone. A couple days later I called into their automated system and paid the outstanding balance for the CURRENT month and their automated system had my balance correct. The following Friday a representative from them showed up at my door to pick up the DVR and box. It was unexpected. She told me that if I didn't hand the equipment over that it'd be taken up with collections. I made a formal complaint about my experience with her. I gave her the equipment she desired. I asked her what would've happened had I not been home and she said it would've been taken up with collections. I asked her why I wasn't notified that they were coming and she said that I should've been. I wasn't. Lucky I was home at the time. This experience has left me with such a distaste that I hope BrightHouse networks does end up dropping FOX so that millions of BrightHouse subscribers will drop BrightHouse for being so god damned shitty. The only way I would even recommend BrightHouse in the future is if I got a written letter of apology from someone there, free service for half a year, and solid evidence of improvement in customer service. I know that probably won't happen but one can hope.
Unfortunately FIOS is unavailable in my building at the moment... I'm still boycotting Bright House though. Just thinking back to this incident infuriates me to no end.
I've started the procedure to switch ISPs at work off of Business RR. I'm also making sure the rest of the office cancels their BrightHouse accounts. I'm also making sure all of my friends switch as well.
Another humorous anecdote: RR recently implemented a feedback loop in their mail system. Being a good mail admin I made sure we were subscribed to their feedbackloop. We hadn't received a SINGLE feedback complaint from RR since early Nov, yet on Dec 15th they decided to put us on their block list. No notice from them. I didn't catch it for a couple days when I was going through the mail server's log and noticed an ERROR message for RR directed mails with a url as to why it was denied. I requested to be lifted and was. I e-mailed them asking why, and was provided with a VERY thorough and detailed explanation that completely satisfied my curiosity. The one issue though was the fact that it seemed our server was taken off of their feedback loop without any notice. Now I plan on resubmitting the feedback loop request form every month or so assuming we don't get any complaints.
Ugh BH has left the worst taste in my mouth. I feel like puking lol.
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RE: Really Unique Passwords - BOSS WTF
A week later, the Chief Development Manager approached David and each of the other developers from the Build Process meeting and apologized to them.
I’m kidding. He fired them on the spot. As security led them away, one at a time, every developer knew why they were let go and who made it happen.
It looks like today's item matches the norm. I'm thankful that where I am it's not quite like that even though we do have things that just won't ever be changed.