Just thinking that I have not seen that style of writing in ages.
Posts made by Nexzus
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RE: How do i make Hacks for internet
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RE: Which is the bigger WTF?
For that kind of money, you can get a decent Insteon setup going, and start controlling more than just light bulbs.
With the right know and parts, you can setup a (relatively) cheap voice-responsive home automation system.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
And as part of "not using turn signals" (and probably already covered up thread), this happens probably about 75% of the time for me.
Living in Vancouver, BC, I could probably come up with these all day.
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RE: Who needs a Budget?
Oh yeah, been there.
Yeah, we have a budget for five new servers this year, but when it comes time to finally relieve the burden on the 3 year-old Exchange/Phone System Reporting/File Server, there's no funds available.
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RE: Finding a phone number field on a form
Seems a classic case of someone knowing just enough to be dangerous.
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RE: YouTube for Android never gives up
From memory it was dialup speed (9600bps or so) but I was charged by usage, at 0.55c/KB (half a cent plus tax). Never really used mobile data until I got my current plan which included 1GB of data per month. At least now it's 3G data.
I had GPRS service from Fido on my trusty iPaq 6315 back in 2004. It was $25 for 5 MB per month. They offered unlimited for $50, a plan that went away quickly enough, and a couple years back someone tried to sell theirs for $15,000 Not sure if he ever did.
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RE: Title is required *little wiggle*
That's something that's bothered me for a long time. Dialogs used to be OK/Cancel, left to right. When did they start moving to Cancel/OK, or the analogous in this case, Exit/Install?
May be related to the everything-is-a-phone design camp. 90% of the world is right-handed. Most people would use their dominant hand to respond to a dialog on a phone, and having the usually-desired affirmative response on the right would decrease the likely hood of accidently pressing no.
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RE: Conservapedia: The funniest site in the world
So... what is it, this decades version of Adequacy.org?
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RE: Windows 8 Mouse
Also: let me fire up a copy of Excel here and see what Scroll Lock does...turns out, I figured out why Excel-junkies would want it:
It is very handy for Excel.
I also vaguely recall it does something really funky in Lotus Notes Email. Bad funky.
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RE: Windows 8 Mouse
Ooo, ooo, now do Pause/Break!!!
Windows + Pause/Break is of course handy for bringing up the System control panel applet to open up System properties to end up joining a computer to a domain manually. And to turn off visual effects, remote access, etc.*
But for Pause/Break itself, I actually had to it for the first time ever a few months back to pause a console data migration program while I fixed the webservice the program called.
*Not sure if there's a run command/keyboard shortcut to get right to System properties.
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RE: Windows 8 Mouse
The death of function keys isn't just a laptop thing, it's been afflicting desktop keyboards for a few years too. Microsoft started this stupid trend back in 2001, and even Logitech has given into it. Probably because that's how Apple does it. (AFICT OS X doesn't even let mere applications respond to the function keys.)
My Microsoft Natural 4K is the best keyboard ever made (after the IBM Model M, of course), but yeah, sometimes the F-Lock turns off on it's own, turning F5 into "Open", etc.
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RE: Find and Replace, by way of Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V
Never used OneNote. Would it even be easier to copy into notepad, replace there, and copy back? Someone mentioned tables, but is there formatting or anything available too?
I assume ctrl-a still works.
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RE: Youtube advertising fail
Here's some 10 minute BMW ads from a while back. Fairly well made, some big names.
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RE: When even PHP programmers call each other lazy
Personally I think you should have to go through a competence test to use frameworks: if you can build something like it yourself, then you get to play with the grown up toys. If you can't, you have no business playing with one.
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RE: Spend $1,500 to save $150
Not mine, but if you notice there's actually different four devices there: a cable modem, a router, 16 port switch and WAP.
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RE: Spend $1,500 to save $150
I liked Linksys when you could do this:
All stacked and neat. They even made a NAS in this formfactor.
Now my network closet is a jumbled mess. I've a ASUS-N56U used as an AP, and a WRT160N used as one edge gateway.
Sure they look "pretty" (personally can't stand how they look), but they can't stack, and mount awkwardly.
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RE: Anonymous company WTF-s
Not exactly a WTF, but I worked IT for a collection agency. Every week I would upload a file to Equifax that ruined the credit of 10,000s of Canadians.
If you got a ding on your Equifax credit report between 2005 and 2007, that was probably me who told them.
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RE: Am I TRWTF?
The situation you described does sound shitty and would prompt me to leave.
Honestly though, I would have made sure I had something else lined up before I left*, and I would have given two weeks notice. People will remember you for that. I hated my last place, still gave almost 3 weeks notice.
* I have a family to support.
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RE: Clicking the below link will play really awful music
@blakeyrat said:
Ok, as an apology you can click here instead since I did not meet your awful music needs.
I have to ask: what was with the 2 second Robocop clip?
Bonus Round: Here's a worse Final Countdown cover
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RE: Save me from shit UI (you can't be saved)
@RaceProUK said:
@Nexzus said:
First thing I was presented with when opening Word was the stupid start screen. For 30 years, the standard convention for opening a word processing program was presenting a new blank document. I predict about 3% of users will like that change. When 97% of your users will hate your program in the first 500ms of the first time opening it, you fucked up.
So that's 97% of users too lazy/stupid to spend a few measely seconds unchecking a single checkbox.
Also, I'm not exactly finding it hard to see the whacking great 'Blank Document' button. It's even highlit by default. Is pressing Enter such an awful hardship for you? It must be torture writing an entire document
You've never interacted with average MS Office users, have you? Like the kind that fill the ranks of office drones? Most of them bitch if they open a new document and the zoom level is off by 5%.
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RE: Save me from shit UI (you can't be saved)
We're about a to do a company-wide upgrade from 2007 to 2013. I installed it to test out some of my Office-integration stuff. First thing I was presented with when opening Word was the stupid start screen. For 30 years, the standard convention for opening a word processing program was presenting a new blank document. I predict about 3% of users will like that change. When 97% of your users will hate your program in the first 500ms of the first time opening it, you fucked up.
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RE: If you require further information...
@blakeyrat said:
There's far more cultural difference between Washington State and, say, Alabama than their is between England and New Zealand. Seriously, I've visited all four places, therefore I am an expert on everything.
But "uh-huh" as a response is country wide down there.
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RE: Really folks?
@kilroo said:
Bets on sewage treatment facilities with Excel VBA controlling mechanical processes?
You have no idea.
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RE: Seagate hard drives have 120% failure rate
Could think of it in terms of employee turnover. I worked at a 400 person company, that had (no shit) 125% annual turnover. That means about 500 fresh bodies would be put through the meatgrinder each year, and we would still only be left with 400 at the end. Some would quit before lunch on the first day. No, not that industry, the other one.*
During my last 6 months there, I kept track of the AD accounts I created. It was in the neighbourhood of 260.
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RE: Why do I need an "app" to browse a website?
I read slashdot in threaded view, minimum 1. My favourite feature of that for literally the last dozen years is that if a first-level comment has enough replies, sub-replies, sub-sub-replies, etc, then that comment, and all its replies, will be at the top of next two or three pages. I guess real pagination is for the muggles.
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RE: So there's this art installation near my workplace.
@DrPepper said:
A suitcase and a empty plastic bottle in the center of an otherwise empty room is "art" (seen at the Walker art museum in Minneapolis
I guess only in an art museum. Sadly, anywhere else in the western world, those items left alone like that call for a 3-Block-radius law enforcement lockdown.
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RE: Hardware
The Optiplexes are dead simple to tear down and rebuild. That and their ubiquity are pretty much their only redeeming features.
Also, why aren't you letting your domain take care of Outlook setup? Unless he's got some weird signatures or (shudder) PST archives, it should be seamless to the end-user. I think Exchange even sets up the GPs for you.
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RE: Someone somewhere thought this was a good idea
@RangerNS said:
You allow focus to be scriptable because very often the application has triggers on onFocus() and onBlur() (or whatever).
(pulled from ass)
$(document).ready()
{
$("#textfield1").blur() { $("#textfield2").focus()}
$(#textfield2").blur() { $("#textfield1").focus()}
$("#textfield1").focus()
$("#textfield2").focus()
};
Anyway, one advantage of using a nested context menu to focus in a filemanager would be if those menus had keyboard shortcuts. I'm not averse to multi-key shortcuts. (I still use alt+space,x to maximize current window.)
Something like Context key -> F -> F to get the folder listing area could be handy. (assuming it could respond fast enough)
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RE: Big Data vs Stupid People
I assume Swordfish has been linked to (it would be nice if IMDB had user friendly URLs). Anyway, it wasn't so bad. (NSFW)
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RE: Recruiter copy-pasta
@Ronald said:
Is this irony or did you miss the subtle cultural reference? Brandon, Brenda, Jim and Cindy are the reason why people know that zip code.
As for Trend Micro: why are you paying for an antivirus? The only reason I could imagine is that you deploy it on ESX nodes where it can perform in-memory scanning of all the VMs. But as a standalone product I don't get it.
Should have been "that 90% of Canadians who need a US zip code on a US-centric form use". I did understand the reference.
As for Trend, it's on my work PC here. Apparently our divisional manager had some issues with McAffee a decade or so ago and has trouble letting go.
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RE: Assault WTF
@dhromed said:
@boomzilla said:
I'm certainly not blaming the victim
"I'm not going to say X, but still, X".
Goddamnit.
Whenever these kinds of threads popup on any discussion forum, many people seem to forget that there is a line between "blaming the victim" and "should have used better judgement" - and that applies to both genders. It sucks that society (or human nature) has forced us to make that line, but it is what it is.
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RE: Recruiter copy-pasta
@Ronald said:
@DrPepper said:
Ronald, are you here in Minnesota? Sounds like you know the region...
No but I used to date a girl in Minneapolis until she moved to Beverly Hills with her parents and brother.
Where 90% of Canadians who need to fill out a US-centric form say they live.
P.S. Trend Micro reports your counter image URL as dangerous.
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Today's XKCD
is spot on. I've noticed that real estate listing sites (including one where my condo for sale is currently shown) do this a lot.
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RE: I want a REAL database.
Tangentially related:
At my former job, we had an "eager" office manager in a remote office somehow link to the tables in an AS/400 system with Microsoft Access and brought the whole system down. That system wasn't my responsibility so I don't really know how he did it, but him saturating a cross-country 10mbps link while doing that was my issue.
Classic case of knowing enough just to be dangerous.
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RE: Fingerprints are secure, right?
@mikeTheLiar said:
Work email won't sync without a passcode on your phone? That seems a little...over-zealous, shall we say? Is your work confidential/otherwise security-heavy?
I would think that's corporate standard, no matter what industry you're in.
In any case, it's built into ActiveSync to require a level of security (or none at all) before a device can sync.
Admission: My phone unlock is the same as my voicemail is the same as my ATM card PIN (origin was my high school student ID)
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RE: How can you be this stupid
@Arnavion said:
That sounds... backwards. Won't it be easier to first return $5 bills until you can't return any more (so only one), then $1 bills until you can't return any more (so only two), and so on? In your description it seems like the cashier has to plan ahead when determining the number of $1 bills to return so that the remaining amount can be covered by fivers.
As has been mentioned, it sucks when a cashier puts the coins on top of the bills. If the cashier counts out change properly (placing the coins in your palm), you can hold on to the coins with your pinky and ring finger, and easily put the bills in your wallet with the rest of your fingers and thumb. Otherwise you're fumbling around with your purchase, your wallet, and trying to balance metal coins on slipper paper, or even worse, polymer, as with new Canadian bills.
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RE: How can you be this stupid
@pbean said:
@Nexzus said:
I rarely use cash anymore, but I always enjoyed watching cashiers heads' explode when I would round up to the next 25 cents over the next whole dollar, eg 4.88 to 5.13. They'd look at what I gave them, give a perplexed while counting it, and then give me an astonished look as they gave me back the quarter.
What is this 'cash' that you talk about? Cents? Why would you pay $0.25 more than you have to? I am wildly confused.
The total is 4.88. If I give a 5 dollar bill, I get back 3 coins which I have to carry around like a sucker. If I have 5.13, I can efficiencize down 3 (or 4, if 2 nickels were tendered) coins. I hate carrying coins.
The whole point is moot now anyway, as:
1) Canada abolished the penny - rounding (cash) transactions to the nearest nickel. This pisses me off as some retailers will use the cash amount for electronic transactions. Fuck you Dairy Queen. The price for a peanut buster parfait is 5.24 tax-in. Why the fuck are you charging my debit card 5.25?
2) As mentioned, I use cash rarely - about once every 2 months. (though I do have an emergency stash at home)
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RE: How can you be this stupid
I rarely use cash anymore, but I always enjoyed watching cashiers heads' explode when I would round up to the next 25 cents over the next whole dollar, eg 4.88 to 5.13. They'd look at what I gave them, give a perplexed while counting it, and then give me an astonished look as they gave me back the quarter.
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RE: Do it my way or leave it
"Your business analysts and managers were too pre-occupied with whether or not they could use Excel to transfer data between two CRM platforms that they didn't stop and think if they should" *pounds table*
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RE: New-Google-Maps is, in fact, the real WTF
Grand Central Terminal is the subway station, and Grand Central Station is a post office, correct?
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RE: Missing The Point Award for 2013
@TheCPUWizard said:
If that is the poster I am thinking about, one just sold on e-bay for nearly $100 [USD]
I doubt it. This one was just the Poster World one with Watson's ugly mug on it. Currently about $18. Still won't lose any sleep.
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RE: Do it my way or leave it
@Ronald said:
You have no valid point so you go ad hominem. Yet you call *me* a troll.
Ahem.
@Ronald said:
@garrywong said:
@Ronald said:
So I could just as well tell my mechanic exactly how I want him to fix my car, knowing nothing about cars other than how to drive them, and when he rightly refuses to follow my insane directions I can claim that he's trying to shove his dogma up my pass, interfering with the business of the repair shop?Once again stubborn IT people got in the way of business. How hard would it have been to implement the Excel solution; even if it needed some manual tweaking, for a few millions it would have been a no-brainer, even a FTE would have been justified to handle this shit. It was ok to propose a different architecture at first but seeing that the partner really wanted this Excel piece of shit they should have done it that way.
For IT people who want to jerk off writing perfect software in a perfect architecture: open a fucking github account and play with your xml files on evenings and weekends. When you are at work, help the business, don't shove you dogma up the ass of potential business partners.
Yes some people are annoying and it's too bad when it's a client or partner, but that's life. Grow up.
All you can come up with is this retarded example? Tell whatever the fuck you want to your mechanic, you are a moron anyways.
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RE: Missing The Point Award for 2013
Semi-related, at least regarding going out of one's way to receive shitty prizes.
Earlier this year, my spouse tweeted about just having seen the Hobbit, with appropriate hashtags. Our local cable company, Shaw, (I guess) was having some promotion related to the Hobbit. We thought perhaps related to VOD or something, or the DVD set. We actually don't have cable service from them. Anyway, she receives a direct message from their official account saying she was selected to receive a prize related to the Hobbit, and to look for it via mail within 3-5 business days.
2 weeks pass and still no package so she contacts Shaw again, and they said they'd priority-ship it. We missed the delivery the next day, so I had to drive to the depot the day after that.
It was a fucking poster for the movie.
I checked rates. It cost $19 for them to ship it (again) overnight. It probably cost me $4 in gas to drive to the depot and back. All for a $1.50 piece of paper. Which I left in the parking lot.
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RE: Replacing a CRM solution should not be this difficult...
Yeah, that seems par for the course for any outsourced helpdesk. Internal IT feels threatened by you guys, or is otherwise clueless, or this project itself was outsourced to someone else.
Reminds me of the final days of Circuit City; there was:
-us, the helpdesk at IBM Global Services in Vancouver (of course contracted through Kelly Services)
-Server operations, based in IBM Brazil.
-Store field techs, contracted out to ADT.
-Legacy POS (point of sale [system]) support based out of CCity's head office.
-Internal deskside at CCity head office.
About two years before they went under, they decided to replace their POS system with a replacement developed by IBM. Aside from the project itself being a typical corporate clusterfuck, we received very little training and no direct access to the system. Knowledge base articles were outdated or incomplete. We were pretty much flying blind. And direct access was provided to another helpdesk at IBM somewhere (Calgary, I think)
Oh, and they used Peregrine Service Desk. I despise that software.
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RE: Stack Overflow isn't as optimistic about the economy as I am...
@Lorne Kates said:
@El_Heffe said:
Dave's a jerk. I'm not surprised he can't get anyone to work for him and has to resort to advertising on Stack Overflow
You're thinking of Dave (or maybe, if I'm being generous, Dave), not Dave.
Good thing Dave's not here, man.
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RE: Not even escalators?
@PJH said:
@Ronald said:
In Las Vegas there is a casino (the Suncoast) that has two escalators and one elevator so people don't have to climb SIX stairs. It's not even steep. Those escalators are cute, like baby escalators.
Anything like this?:I raise you a gym with escalators in front:
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RE: Here, Let Me Put Some Java In Your Television
@blakeyrat said:
@Lorne Kates said:
Because it's a brand name, not an adjective.
And yet, it costs more, gets the same mileage, and is less safe than a substantially larger Toyota Echo. So it's still fucking stupid.Have you ever driven one? We have a bunch of the 2009 models in our poolcar fleet, and their transmissions are horrible, taking just under a second to actually shift. The result is akin to a bucking bronco, and regular terror as your car seems to stall while making a left turn in incoming traffic. The triptronic mode (or whatever MB calls it in that car) is only marginally better. You only control when it shifts; the actual shift takes just as long.
We also have an electric smart 4-2 in our fleet. As it doesn't have a transmission, it's a bit better in that regard. However, it's woefully underpowered. I'm a bit on the large side at 215 lb, and it struggled to hit 60 kph at wide-open, uh, resistor? up a 7% incline.
Their only redeeming feature is that you can park them practically everywhere.
Oh, and Smart Car tipping was a fad briefly up here in Canada in our version of the fly-over states..
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RE: Read this braille with your fingers .:
It's a horrible picture, but this sign was on the inside door a washroom in a building that [used to be] leased and used by IBM.
Yes, that's real braille below the, uh, sight-readable? caption, raised dots and everything.
Braille that you have to read with your fingers
That's on a door on the inside of the washroom
Right next to the push plate for the door to open outwards.
A push plate (and area) that has probably been touched dozens of hands that have previously touched their owner's junk (or wiped their owner's ass) and not been cleaned.