@CnC said:

 He could really be tricky and call it a tactical soultion.

 Full of guts and blood and dirt and mud and people dying and expensive hardware burning, but hopefully with a minimum of friendly losses.

Yeah, I can remember some projects like that.

@Sutherlands said:

@blakeyrat said:

@Zemm said:

I gave a co(w)orker the link to this thread and now he can't save directly to the server from Photoshop (CS5.5) at all any more.

Oh! So it's this thread that causes the problem!

Well, know that we know the cause, it should be easy for Adobe to fix.

Correlation does not imply causation.

 http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/schroedinbug.html

That is all

On a related note, what other alternatives are there for a general purpose DB-snooping tool?

We used Toad to look at the data from Sybase, SQL-server, Oracle and Access DBs when we had to get data from a buttload of databases into a separate application (Websense DLP).

It was handy to be able to check the validity of all the SQL-statements in the same tool.

 TRWTF is ofc that we have a nice big biztalk infrastructure for this purpose, but Websense couldn't use anything but ODBC or CSV to get the data...

@El_Heffe said:

Your mother's so fat, when she sits around 52.09 degrees north, 5.11 degrees east, she ALSO sits around 5.11 degrees north, 52.09 degrees east.

 FTFY

@Weng said:

This is clearly a squishy fondleslab UI, by the way. Not meant for us superior lifeforms capable of operating a keyboard and mouse.

Yup...

This site was designed to be viewed on standard desktops, laptops and tablets only.

This browser is not supported, please revisit the survey using the latest version of Chrome.

I'm on a desktop with IE 7.. (work machine) OK it's old, but I wouldn't quite call it nonstandard yet.

@fennec said:

He talks about the "elegance of LISP". I'd just like to mock the fact that this iconic language for "elegance" has its two most iconic primitives named after the flippin' contents of address register and the contents of decrement register on the flippin' IBM 704, a system that was obsolete before my parents were born. Then I'll be back off to work on my perfectly cromulent Ruby code (which eats cpus and memory, but nobody cares).

(Lisp is okay when you get down to it though. :)

And all the lovely helpers you define to get where your really want to be... Really elegant those. :P

(defun cadr (x) (car (cdr x))) ;Element 2 of a list

(defun caddr (x) (car (cdr (cdr x)))) ;Element 3 of a list

(defun cdadr (x) (cdr (car (cdr x))))  ;All of element 2 except element 2.1 Only useful for lists of lists, but that happens frequently

etc.

@Ragnax said:

@blakeyrat said:

Knock it up a notch. Remove the Catalyst manager app (or whatever it's called) completely, and update the driver to the version in Microsoft's repository. Unless you need to do something really funky, like rotate a monitor 90 degrees or have two monitors pretend to be one, you don't need the Catalyst thing at all.

QFT. Blakey's spot on here. The Catalyst Control Center management app is a complete piece of trash. Nine out of ten times it doesn't install correctly or boot up correctly, which results in Windows event logs being hammered with error entries continuously. If you have an ATI card and have noticed that something is continuously accessing your harddrive, then uninstall CCC and enjoy the blisfull silence thereafter.

Unless you are a control freak who wants to tune everything you really don't need CCC for anything. The important stuff can all be configured from Windows' own control panel. Atleast with installing the Catalyst driver through Windows Update you'll get a WHQL-certified driver that ATI had to ship to Microsoft for review. Stands within reason those will have been given a more critical review than the flavor of the week ATI directly puts out on the web. (Oh; and you won't have to deal with yet another 'auto-updater-packaged-into-PoS-customized-installer'.)

Oh yes. And I think I've found at least one reason why it sucks. I recently had a HD-failure and had to reinstall on a fresh disk. ATI HD5770 with catalyst and drivers from 2009 on CD. (Not sure why I installed from CD first instead of downloading directly, I guess I was in the groove of slapping in CDs and didn't think). That driver of course had no openGL-support, so upgrade it was or no minecraft for me.

 When I tried upgrading the driver windows (7 x64) bluescreened with the error originating in atiwhatever.sys and upon reboot catalyst was gimped and didn't detect any displays. (Oh, and that bloody overscan-setting is back with its annoying black border. Easily solved but grar!). I rolled back the driver and went online to find out why this happened, and found a certain nugget.. The drivers with openGL-support requires a certain minimum version of catalyst (10.6 iirc). When I did a custom install catalyst wanted to upgrade the drivers first and then itself. So it happily upgraded to an incompatible driver and bluescreened before it could upgrade itself. Billiant depenency handling there. A manual install of only catalyst first and then the driver solved the issue.

(Well, it still bluescreened, but it seems to work when I rebooted, catalyst at least detects my displays now (and I've got my minecraft back \o/))

My POS legacy-system was made in Clarion 6.0 and chose to store dates as Clariondates. Epoch of 1/1/1800.

They also chose to not let the GUI handle conversions, but sprinkled the DB with functions to convert. There are at least 4 functions with names like dbo.fn_ClariondateToDatetime and dbo.fn_ClariondateToISOString and the like. At least they gave them descriptive names...

 Edit for brainfart.

@Seahen said:

@dohpaz42 said:

The absolute worst (aside of no message at all) is the generic "An error occurred", and nothing else. Was it me? The server? Because today is Thursday?

At least you know it was an error. Far worse are Microsoft products, when they give you a message that can mean almost anything except what it says: "The operation completed successfully."

NSS Server liked to throw this at me: "There was an unknown error in an unnamed file." Closely followed by "Service  on Host  is not running".

Yeah, those are double spaces where the service name and hostname should have been. The empty service isn't running on the NULL-host. Nice to know i guess.

@Faxmachinen said:

@C-Octothorpe said:

"how would you move My. Fuji"

That's a stupid question. Mt. Fuji is already moving.

Hah, that's my answer if I'm ever asked.

"Plate tectonics."