Posts made by Tiggrrr42
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RE: [post-title-7]
@El_Heffe said:
21% of support threads have been "solved"!
Given the number of posts on the WordPress forums, that's probably above average for a plugin. A question is only listed as "resolved" if the OP takes the time to do so, which people generally don't.
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RE: The Most Common Password Is . . . . . seinfeld?
Tigger is more popular than I realised....
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RE: Garmany
Well, I certainly learned some new things about the UK.
Sadly, there isn't much to see regarding the British Vrgine Island, but at least we now know that the Isle of Wight is a city...
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RE: Ashes Cricket 2013: Post birth abortion
I've never been able to deal with a game that can go on for five days and end in a draw...
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RE: Vodafone is dumb
You'd be amazed how many people do need to be told that kind of thing. The punctuation is pretty nasty, though.
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RE: Are you clickier than a 4th grader?
I tried it a while ago (days? a week?). It alleged I was 42, which is, of course an excellent choice of number. In what passes for reality around here, I am cough somewhat older.
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RE: Best place to store business critical documents? Try Outlook deleted items!
@Anketam said:
People view their deleted items much like they view the recycling bin. Deleted stuff goes there, but they think they should be able to undo the delete no matter how long it is in there, and that it should not be perm deleted until they hit the empty recycling bin button.
These would be the same people who never have their rubbish bins emptied in case they suddenly remember they meant to keep that pizza box from 2006.
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RE: Adobe hates networking
Network hating isn't confined to Photoshop. Adobe Reader X has a "protected mode", turned on by default, which apparently stops naughty PDFs doing all the things that they can do normally because of the way the format is defined.
Cool. Great. Don't need to worry about users opening malicious PDFs that might sneak past email filters, web filters, AV or the common sense some of them may possess.
Except if a user tries to open a file that lives on a DFS share (which is something we use a lot), there's a slight problem. They can't. Naturally, Adobe provide a helpful message explaining that because of fnargh[1], opening files from DFS shares is not supported. Or not. No, what the user gets is a helpful "Access Denied" message, which led to someone[2] spending far too long checking permissions, group memberships, turning it off and on again, weeping, wailing[3] and generally having a bad day.
The solution is to disable the helpful enhanced security. Or to use a less annoying PDF reader...
[1] Or some other random reason
[2] Not me, fortunately
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RE: Business user emails are nearly as bad as SOAP
Not quite as contrived, but I did once have a user who, instead of using the fully functional network scanner on the photocopier that was located within a couple of meters of his desk, took a document to reception and used the fax machione there to send it to the network fax device thingy we still had at the time[1], then got the receptionist to call me because it hadn't instantly appeared in her inbox so she could forward it to him.
But then, this was the same guy who once complained that "someone" was remotely typing nonsense on his computer. I looked, and sure enough, odd text was appearing. He'd managed to activate the Language Bar and turn on the not all that good speech recognition function.
[1] When people still cared about faxes
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@PJH said:
@Nagesh said:
Chamber of Commers
Chamber of CommerceNope, according to Mr Swamp's site, Commers are the problem. I'm not sure why he should object to a defunct vehicle manufacturer. but it's probably a Random Random thing.
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RE: Gmail Motion is now real
@RHuckster said:
Nobody can beat this email feature. Nobody. It's good. Maybe too good.
Needs more random.
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RE: Open-then-Save-As is *not* the same as copying a file!
@jasmine2501 said:
You need to be a hard ass on these morons. When you get the file, simply send back a message that says something like "this file doesn't work" and don't say anything else. Let them try it again until they get it right, or the situation escalates to upper management.
I generally find that upper manglement[1] tend to be the worst offenders for this kind of thing, so that won't always work. It's quite rare for those people to be prepared to fire themselves.
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RE: From the washing machine's instruction manual
@Zemm said:
Mine has this too, but it's not the best at estimating time remaining: it gets stuck at 11 minutes remaining for about 10 minutes for example.
Haven't we all seen progress bars like that? I once had one that swore it only had 20 minutes remaining, and kept insisting that for the next two hours. Washing machines are models of accuracy by comparison.
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RE: From the washing machine's instruction manual
@da Doctah said:
Do tell. Kids today wouldn't be able to open a tin of beans if the power went out.
So that's why most food tins have ring-pulls these days!
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@Xyro said:
Please stop posting while high. Seriously. Wtf does any of this mean. Just what does it mean. I don't even
I thought it was a Cunning Plan to get this thread over the 2,000 posts mark, at which point the universe will collapse into itself, or plagues of locusts will be released, or the Swamp Thing will explode. Or something like that.
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RE: Ridiculous input validation gone bad (for the some of the world)
Can't believe nobody's said it yet...
TRWTF is BT.
(Example: a couple of weeks ago, BT came to do a site survey - checking that the fibre they needed to use for a new circuit was in order, basically. Today, they came to do some fibre splicing. And decided that the fibre they needed wasn't there, so they'd have to send someone to do a site survey. I expect this to go in circles for months....)
Oh, and on UK Windows keyboards, you just need a shift key to get an @. Which is probably why they didn't notice they were creating a problem
On the other hand, it might be a deliberate act, and part of their overall Evil Plan.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@b-redeker said:
This is probably also how we should read your posts? Disregard the first and the last 3 sentences?
Only for posts with six or fewer sentences.
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RE: What about Fort Happy?
And don't forget the people of Scunthorpe. They have all manner of problems....
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RE: Kaspersky Adverts infected by Spell-Ware
(Is the missing letters thing an attempt to confuse Swampy?)
But to answer your question, no.
Usual British English usage is to use the US spelling for software and the correct spelling for TV and other stuff.
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RE: Just in case...
@RTapeLoadingError said:
Is the WTF that the only place in the universe where the temperature drops below absolute zero is Darlington station?
All UK railway stations are designed to be colder than the surrounding area. In Darlington's case, it was probably built on a Viking burial mound. Either that or it's a portal to some hideous other dimension[1]. And it's best not to ask about Bristol Parkway.
[1] try the 11:35 to Middlesbrough. That should cover it.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@LooseJuice said:
It is deplorable to me that someone like you has suffrage. Will you join me in this cause to end your suffrage, SpectateSwamp?
He seems to be working on that. I'm sure we[1] can all[2] agree that the world would be a better place if people like Mr Swamp had their suffrage removed...
[1] For an arbitrary value of "we", tending to include those with at least a moderately sized vocabulary
[2] Subject to the usual exclusions. And some unusual ones, probably.
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RE: Hertz 404
Surely TRWTF is that an error page on a .de site is displayed in English rather than German?
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RE: Spamming Graphics. Now with testimonials!
Actually, I think you're all being a little harsh, and I had to delurk after {mumble} of reading this stuff to say so. If you read the page, you'll see it's been written by a piece of furniture[1], and I'd say it's not a bad bit of marketing for an inanimate object.
[1] It says "From the Desk of SeanTan", but I suspect it's really a wooden table.