I a person that works with computers I know that replacing everything overnight is a good idea. That's how we moved 500 jillion users to Windows 7 and by coincidence the company went bankrupt a few months later.
Posts made by Yaos
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RE: Curing poverty.
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RE: Guitar Hero now on Linux
You start to put the guitar together only to find the included hex keys do not support your guitar and you need to get new ones that are being worked on and will be finished in a few years.
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RE: Game Launchers, amirite?
@henke37 said:
That last one looks like it could be the main menu of the game instead.
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RE: Android looks to the future
They really blew it on this one, when the constant of gravity changes they have to go back and change all those numbers.
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RE: More proof that the people are getting more retarded
I'd rather let 1000 innocent people stay in jail than let 1 guilty person go free.
That's all I have to say about that.
I'm a billionaire by the way.
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Dave, you've not filled out your timesheet.
No matter what you do or where you work you probably fill out a timesheet. It could be a simple timesheet showing the hours you worked, or one that shows which projects you've been working on. It could be paper only, a spreadsheet, or a web based application. Let's say you have a web based application and you want to automatically populate fields based on previous input. There's a few ways to do it, a checkbox asking the user if they want use the pervious sheets time, autopopulate the fields, or maybe give them a selection of past timesheets to copy.
This guy decided on a different approach. The AI driven timesheet.
Everybody can click on URLs in emails to open them in a nearby web browser. Obviously all of these URLs need to contain information about the day and the login credentials of the user so that you don't have to login on some site after you click the URL. Every URL would thus contain login stuff and a particular entry to the timesheet tracker. Something like this:
http://timesheeting.com/Xgt4q/_8_hours_Project_ABC
http://timesheeting.com/FpE26/_6_hours_Project_ABC
http://timesheeting.com/2Jt9a/_4_hours_Project_OCHThe first part of the URL is an encoding of the user's login and the date (date of when the email was created) and the second part is so readable that you can find which one suits you by simply reading the URLs. If you need to enter a comment for every piece of work you do, that comment form can be shown when you click the URL on the site.
Why simply show the user what they've worked when you can use a simple AI to generate multiple unique URLs? Just think of the time saved with this method. Instead of loading pages from a web server, processing the commands and then rendering them you simply scroll through a list of URLs until you find the one that suits you.
Anybody else have "clever" solutions to the difficult task of filling out a timesheet?
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Using the file system as a database.
I'm sure some of us may have joked around about using the file system as a database, well probably not. It turns out that somebody thought this would be a good idea.
Each link takes you to another pre-created page. Each city gets it's own page page. From there you type in the address, as we can see from this bit of code
[code]
citypage=city+"_"+ss+".htm";
redirect(citypage);
[/code]
there is at least one page for each letter in the alphabet. The 'ss' variable is the first letter of the address typed in. Once it figures out what the first letter of the street name is, it redirects to the next page. There must be hundreds of pages making this up. Each time a change is made somebody would have to go in and manually change every page that is effected. I doubt they have created any automated way of doing this.Just for a bit of variety the menus are all broken, regx is not used to parse the address, and there is validation on the street number but not on the street name. If you put in a character that does not exist for the street name (any character that has no page for it) you are directed to a 404 page.
I also like this.
[code]
if(thisCookie[i].split("=")[0]=="street"){
ss=thisCookie[i].split("=")[1];
ss=ss.charAt(0);
[/code]
They know they can get a character out of a string, but don't know you can just pluck a character out from any old string.Interestingly enough, this page on the same site actually uses a database, and if you put in information that does not exist you don't get a 404.
I would hate to see what the master that created the voting page would have done for this.
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RE: It only fails in production.
The manager that oversees the production server decided to implement his own, far superior, database that is implemented using text files and an AutoIT script.
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Google Squared, what a mess.
I wanted to see how this new fangled structured data type search Google has works. I found an interesting field name that comes up automatically when searching for "Nvidia". I removed a few columns and did not add any.
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=Nvidia
As I understand it the data is generated from web sources and the tables are not inserted by hand, although you can add columns rows and data yourself and share the results. I wonder where the column name came from so it would come up automatically.
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RE: Clueless
@belgariontheking said:
Why do people talk like that on IRC? Just give me one message with everything, don't give it to me in 4 word increments.
People in a chat will usually type as though they were talking, each time they hit enter is a pause.
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My battery learning program needs to learn to grammar gooder.
I turned on a laptop that had not been turned on in a while, and this helpful message box came up. How do you 'canel' something?
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The pro way to keep your webpage source code safe.
Render everything in a frame, and then render all of that in a frame.
www.wcares.org/index2.html
If you look at the source code it appears that somebody actually did this by hand and did not use Frontpage.
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RE: Apple's program sizes
How is a calculator and a dictionary the same size?
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RE: Grandmother Computer
@zzo38 said:
(She is still alive, even though her birth certificate doesn't.)
Doesn't what? I'm sitting in suspense here!
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RE: Error with drop down box on CNN.
Why live on interest alone when you can be rich on interest alone!
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RE: It's Comcastic!
@DeLos said:
Bottom line is these people are provided a script to handle most of the usual problems in a polite timely manner. The reason they ask you to power cycle all the time? A polite way to check to see if your power cables are plugged in.
I work for the local county and we had Comcast providing Internet access for the library so the library would not be taking up our precious bandwidth. Almost every day the cable modem would have to be power cycled as it would freeze up. Comcast's explanation was that there is no equipment that exists (not just at Comcast, anywhere, and this was not a level 1 saying it) that can handle the load our library provides. I guess the old equipment was just faking it. :(
This story is about Comcast so it's relevant. :stare:
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RE: It's Comcastic!
I'm confused, how did you know it was a general outage for your area? It could have just as easily been a chipmunk that had chewed through your cable line.
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RE: Error with drop down box on CNN.
If you go to the website you'll see that after 19% only even numbers show up, because it's absolutly rediculous that anybody would have a return rate above 19% that's odd.
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Error with drop down box on CNN.
I was checking out how rich I will be in 40 years, and found that the CNN calculator is a little confused. Not only does the allowed range change every time I go to the page, the drop down box goes to two percent. I wonder how they managed to mangle an interest calculator so much that they can't go below a certain percentage.
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/savingscalc/savingscalc.html
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RE: How to have 24/7 uptime.
@andrewbadera said:
... and then?
You're right, any program worth it's weight in code allows any random user to uninstall the server at any time. Keeps us on our feet.
Hint: You run the uninstaller on the server instead of the client.
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How to have 24/7 uptime.
We have a messaging system for a call center, here's what I've learned about it.
1. Use a messaging system that requires a mapped drive to the server that the client (and the user) can write to.
2 . Require the server program (too bad we can't do the entire server), to be restarted every time a new user or computer is added, or any change is made at all.
3. Allow the client to uninstall the server.
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Please use this easy to use email form to spam people, courtesy of CivicPlus.
CivicPlus ( www.civicplus.com ) is a company that offers hosting, design, and a CMS for local governments. CivicPlus has a weird idea of how you should email links to your friends.
[IMG]http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j148/Yaosio/lol.png[/IMG]
This is the standard "email this link to a friend" page for all CivicPlus sites, notice how you can put in any email address and any message you want? Notice how by doing this you are using either CivicPlus' email server or the local government's email server? It's not the best way to send out spam, but if you're in a hurry, or don't believe in all those automated bots, it's perfect. I supose you could automate your spam sending as well with a little time.
CivicPlus likes the idea so much, they use it on their own page. http://civicplus.com/emailpage.asp
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GoHastings has a very interesting username/password system.
The other day I bought Ace combat Zero on from GoHastings through Amazon.com. I did not recall what type of shipping I had choosen (or if I was even given the option), so I went to their website at http://www.hastingsentertainment.com/catalog/ . Gamestop/EB Games allows you to check your order with just your order number, but on GoHastings you need an account. So I go about settings up my account and it claims my email address is in use. This is odd, as I've never been to their website. I go through the "forgot password" stuff and I get the password in my email, which is the same as the first part of my email address! Apparently GoHastings decided that it would do me a favor of creating an account without telling me and keeping my billing information (luckily they don't save the credit card number) in it. I tried to see if it's possible for somebody to order something and have it billed directly to my address, but pretty much every click gave a nice error message so I guess I'll never know.
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RE: Fiber Optic Foul-up
@Volmarias said:
So, I'm confused. The building entry controls aren't actually inside of the building it's controlling? This sounds a little strange.
They follow the Empire philosophy of putting the shield generators outside of the shield they generate.
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To create a new account please log in.
I was shown this a few minutes ago over at Encyclopedia Dramatica.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page
There is a "log in/create account" link in the top right hand corner, but you can only use it to log in.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Special:Userlogin
I guess they are really trying to cut down on drama.
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RE: More (brief) Upper-Echelon WTF
[quote user="DWalker59"]I read somewhere, once, that sites that started with "www" are "on the World Wide Web" and the rest of the sites are not on the World Wide Web but are still part of the Internet. I didn't understand any of that.[/quote]
It's good that you don't understand it because it's wrong. www is a subdomain and only refers to the current site you are on. www is used because it's a standard somebody thought up a long time ago. Sites that don't work without www are run by idiots.
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RE: Proofreading...what's that?
[quote user="R.Flowers"][quote user="shadowman"]
So students aren't allowed to ... get B or better grades?
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The policy is tough, but fair.
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Look to your left, look to your right, now look in 8 other directions, 87 of you will not pass this class.
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RE: Brightwater.ie Jobsearch WTF
If you select ignore as the sector and leave every thing else alone and do a search you get results for manager positions. That explains it! Become a manager that everybody ignores because nothing you do or say makes any sense.
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RE: School WTF
Ask the instructor how they feel about leveraged turn-key solutions when in the context of databases. The answer will be another thing to add.
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Subnetting WTF.
Quite a while ago on the Something Awful forums somebody asked for help with subnetting. They were reading in a book for their class and wanted to know why it was so hard to understand.
Let's get the giggles out about running out of IP addresses in 2005, and the fact that they put in a URL that they don't control which no longer points to any sort of news (spam site?). Now that you don't have the giggles take a look at the table. This table is supposed to tell you how to determine what it he network and host portion of an IP address. ANDing had not been discussed yet, and even if it had the paragraph is very clear that this table will explain all of the reader's questisons. Let's go over what's wrong here.
1. We are not "calculating an IP address with a subnet mask", we are
calculating the network address for an IP address with a subnet mask.
2. The table explains nothing.
3. Those are not "address components".
4. That's not a valid subnet mask; you don't get to skip binary digits
in a mask. If you want 68 hosts per subnet the correct mask is 255.255.255.128
5. The last row in the first cell should say "Number of hosts addresses",
but even then it's still wrong. Hosts go from the network address to
the broadcast address, not some arbitary point in the middle.
I wonder why he found it to be so confusing!