One of my lecturers at university had one of these dialogs pop up within two minutes of starting a lecture.
Nothing to do but reboot.
One of my lecturers at university had one of these dialogs pop up within two minutes of starting a lecture.
Nothing to do but reboot.
TRWTF is that you're attempting to develop a Windows XP Embedded application on a Vista machine.
It's obvious that they'll have to record the set to a C90 and play it back on a decent boombox.
@OzPeter said:
@beau29 said:There is something in Linguistics called the Saapir-Whorf Hypothesis (sp.?) which asserts that people's entire way of thinking is shaped by their language.Not having seen the theorem I agree whole heartedly with the spirit. You don't to go too far down the road of learning a foreign language to realise that there are concepts that can't be expressed in your own native tongue (or at least not neatly). Thus if you can't express it then your thinking really has been shaped by your language.
But OzPeter, thinking and speaking are two different processes. While I can understand that a language would influence how you describe concepts to others, I don't see how it would prevent you from thinking about concepts which are not so easily described in your native tongue.
Email to IT from the sysadmin this morning:<FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>
"Headoffice is now cut over to the new links and the new 2 routers on floor beside the comms rack are now in production. Due to there size, these new routers have to be racked after we remove the old routers. This will be done after the last phase is complete. These things are expensive at around 11k each. So be careful around them."
<FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>To add to the hilarity:
- </FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>The old routers were removed yesterday anyway, so there is plenty of space in the rack.
- The routers (which are about 4U high) are lying on their sides on the floor in front of the rack (ie: top heavy, most likely to fall over)
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While you may see this as a WTF, the solution shown here gets around IE7's annoying popups about "A script is trying to close this window. Do you want to close it?" (or whatever it says).
So it seems that IE7 ignores the closing event if the URL of the window has changed based on an event produced by the user (ie: clicking the Close Window link).
BTW, there aren't many websites left that work without Javascript.
WTF?!
They need to think about what they're saying. You don't work for the company anymore, so you are under no obligation to help them out in the slightest. If you choose to make yourself available to them, at standard consultant pay rates, then they should be greatful. They shouldn't have laid you off if they wanted your support.
Good on you. Stick to your guns.
Carey
Someone tell Dubbyah!
If he just buys Winzip, he will never need to worry about WMDs again...
When we were working on one of our software projects at Uni, we noticed that we were often mistyping:
make run
as:
make urn
So we added a task to the Makefile that echoed something like:
_____ \ / | | | | \ / \ / .:::.
Well I wasn't actually planning to use Google Calculator at all. I intended it to be a text search.
But yes, I could have worded it better.