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Ok. Well, did you reboot your computer? :)
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Not sinister. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor.
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I once had a customer who stored all his documents in the C:/temp/ directory. He called it an `old habit from his DOS days'. I've never used DOS much, but I think temporarily back then meant the same thing as it does now.
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But one of the files is "HelpdeskPayrollCheckTemplate.doc" and you want to delete that?
If it is deleted, your department won't get its checks next payday, have it your way!
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Recently my employer replaced my development machine with a new one. On their schedule, not mine, so this was in the middle of the week. It was a standard windows buildout. Here are the WTFs:
Only company-standard software was installed. All my development tools (visual studio, resharper, mvc4, sql management studio, webstorm, git, perforce, on and on) I had to reinstall myself.
The guy they sent to replace my machine backed up, then restored, my NETWORK SHARED FOLDER contents.
He failed to backup/restore my project folders (source code,etc.) I had to basically hold him hostage until he agreed to do so.
All told, about 12 hours of my time in the middle of a tight schedule just to get my new machine back to the point it was at.
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There is a definitive guide to the Windows filename matching patterns.
"File System Behavior Overview", Chapter 7 "Wild Cards"
The patterns get weird because Microsoft never likes to break existing behaviors dating back to DOS but at the same time allow more sophisticated matches.
IRP_MJ_DIRECTORY_CONTROL is the affected filesystem operation. Unlike Unix, filename matching is performed by the filesystem driver.. arguably a WTF itself, although handy over network shares.
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heh
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When I worked for a gov't agency as a contractor I ended up being asked to support various side issues with the clients. Had one guy who was missing important files. Ends up he stores his important files in the recycling bin.
me: "Are you kidding?!" him: "Well I have never had a problem doing so to date!" me: "Yeah, and the janitor never comes into my office to empty my waste paper basket. Doesn't mean I'm going to start putting my important files in there then complain when someone finally comes to clean it out."
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Let's not have a temper tantrum, here...
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Yes - it's called an SOE. Just because you decide to install random crap on a company computer (not your computer), and then don't bother to tell the SOE team about it, or get the software loaded into the deployment repository ... obviously they should spend 12 hours of THEIR time chasing this crap up for you.
Hmmm .. ok, maybe he did this, maybe he didn't. Judging from your rant I would take it with a grain of salt.
Wait ... you chose to store COMPANY (again - not yours) source code on your local machine instead of the secure, controlled location like your "NETWORK SHARED FOLDER"? That's borderline negligence, and yet somehow you maintain "He failed ..."?
Let me apologise on behalf of all support personnel out there. We are soooo sorry. Nobody realised how super-important you are, or how pathetic we are compared to your ... awesomeness.
Just one question. If it took 12 hours of your (super valuable, highly skilled) time to install a few applications, how long does it actually take to you to write one?
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You can’t argue with stupidity, first they will bring you down to their level. Then they will beat you with experience.
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This is brilliant. The Daily WTF staff could contemplate the idea of user-voted feature posts.
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This is brilliant. The Daily WTF staff could contemplate the idea of user-voted feature posts.
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I've got another question for DrPepper though: Why would they change a (by the looks of it) functional computer at all? And if they absolutely have to, why not pick a date / time together with the user?
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Installing the more recent versions of Visual Studio literally takes half a day on a reasonable machine, and more than 24 hours on a VM. You sure as heck have to copy the install folder locally first, because if you install it off the network, then it's slower still. Lets not forget the vital service packs as well. Now factor in that I have 4 version of Visual Studio installed. There's minimum a day and a half gone. Now of course Windows will want to install more updates for this stuff. Now, I must re-download and install all the productivity add-ins I had been using. Lets not forget that all of the above probably requires at least half a dozen reboots, all of which cause your stupid inventory software to run again on login, making the first 5 minutes of using my PC horribly slow. Then, assuming I didn't copy the projects folder across but had everything checked in, I have to rebuild all of the components in the product and let it rebuild it's intellisense data. There's another 45 minutes or so gone. PC is unusuable during this time because all cores are maxed out building the code. That's just the Visual Studio dramas, which are only one part of what I need on a daily basis.
What about my VMs which WONT FIT on my primary hard drive and must be on the second drive? The whole second drive's contents needs to be copied across. There's at least another hour of copying.
What about all the third party things I have installed and configured for the integration I am working on? Another hour at least, setting that all up again, and that's only for the stuff that applies to the current project I'm working on, not the ones I'll have to get back to next week.
30 minutes is an utter delusion.
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At my company, when we get a new PC, we are given at least a week to copy across and reinstall anything required, before giving the old PC back. Even then, I've known some people to justifiably still have the old one up to a month later.
Of course departments will also helpfully install applications that I do not, and will never have, a use for. E.g. SAP.
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Andy showed more tact and restraint than I probably would have been able to muster.
Good job, Andy.
-- Furry cows moo and decompress.
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At some point, there ceases to be a difference. You just need to stop the avalanche of malicious stupidity.
PS: Blindly using these razor rules is part of the problem. These rules tell you where to search first, not if one of the options is true or even close enough.
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Calling the developement software - not being part of the "the secretary-needs-it" company standard software - crap, tells more about you than you tell about DrPepper.
Unless you want your compile at 11°° to be the last thing for the day, you will have a local repository. And depending on what you are coding now, it may contain the work of days.
Another question: How many lines of code do you need to write per hour in order to speed up installing developement environments? Will office install faster, too, if the secretary was able to type one page per minute?
Did you get your IT education from the movies?
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Just another reason to thank myself for choosing Java over .Net many years ago.
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I've found that "rm -rf /" removes most problems.
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Guy is obviously a drama queen - 24h install for VS - definitively possible, only his concept of "reasonable machine" probably means 386 with turbo button on. TRWTF, that nobody spotted, if of course Perforce. It's 2014, after all.
captcha: dignissim - Unwarranted sense of dignity
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Suggestion that setup of VS development environment takes longer than Eclipse one, is of course ridiculous.
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I called a helpdesk to report a broken screen.
After rebooting (of course I hadn't thought of that) the first question was "What do you see on your screen?".
Answer - "nothing, the screen is broken"
Cue many minutes of repeated 'tests' followed by;
"What do you see on your screen now?" "Nothing, the screen is broken"
Sadly the process required that until I had gone through this first level of helpdesk 'support' I couldn't go on to the next level - where the solution was quickly arrived at - provide a new screen!
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When you hire foreign nationals who can barely speak english and following a rudimentary support script written on a napkin then this is what a company will get: Unhappy customers, wasted time and money, and basically in the long term HIGHER COSTS.
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Then again, my last support call went like this (after dispensing with trivialities such as my name, and the model and serial number of the equipment in question): "Okay, what seems to be the problem?" - "the colour just went all funky all of a sudden" - "Was it on one side of the screen?" - "yeah, I was just using it and one side went blueish" - "The left side?" - "yes" - "Okay, you'll need to send a request for RMA and a copy of the receipt if you can find it". I was semi-impressed. Apparently that must be a common issue with that particular display model.
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Are you REALLY asking that?? I think the more proper question would be: Is there one that doesn't?
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Because if you can't, we have no way of knowing what post you are responding to.
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I wish I were joking.
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TRWTF is even having the Reply button
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Not only is the recyle bin a great place to archive important files, but the Deleted Items folder in Outlook is a wonderful place to keep important emails.
I wish I was joking as well.
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Speaking of wells, they are great places to store annoying children while company comes to visit.
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WTF? Having your working-copy on your local disk is completely the RIGHT thing to do.
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Maybe a bit annoying when the replied-to post is on another page and you have to keep the whole reply's URL in the clipboard instead of just its id... But don't say "we have no way of knowing"! :-B
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scnr to write these lines:
Ouch. Now my temples are aching because of all those attempts to contemplate those comments in a contemptuous tone. Time for some breathing space (German: Atempause)
Good thing we aren't developing a game called LastEmperor and we don't use a folder SystemPatches. And we aren't a mine company (Stemple_Order_2013-12-05.docx).
Have to go now. MustEmpowerColleagues. An atemporal problem.
P. S.: I doubt a teacher would believe that the homework about Shakespeare's The Tempest has been eaten by 1st level helpdesk...
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FTFY. Of course, it causes some too...
CAPTCHA: Abbas. I'm not even sure if that support guy has abbas.
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I'd be willing to bet that's the problem too. Guy on the other end is probably hearing "no I don't want you to delete things". He may not even understand what Andy was saying.
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FTFY. Of course, it causes some too...
CAPTCHA: Abbas. I'm not even sure if that support guy has abbas.It really only causes one problem, and it's an easily solved problem at that - by jumping off a bridge.
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OMG, where am I? and how did I end up on this site.... Shit, it's 7:30am?? Just a few minutes ago I searched google for "Linux CLI is a bitch" but that was at 10pm last night!!... Oh dear God.. This has got to be the greatest website ever to be created ever, on Earth, or any other Domain. I've been on a reading marathon for 4 hours and I'm just now looking up at the address bar to see where I'm at, I'm sm!rter, thinner, happier, and it seems I'm cured of my stage 3 Attention Deficit Disorder... I have a beard now too. hey! look at that squirrel outside! I should google "yard squirrel" and then click the Images link.. wheres my wife? I need breakfast . . . root@root> sudo apt-get breakfast
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breakfast --help
error> 'unknown command' try error --help apt-get upgrade belly-content -v
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The original search pattern was intentionally mangled when posting to obfuscate the particular platform.
Suffice it to say, the live-search result that came up just before the "Support Specialist"'s mouse pointer when flying toward the "Delete" button did indeed contain distressingly important filenames.
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For a while, I had Java and Ant installed on a network disk, because that did not trigger the on-access virus scanner. As a result, it ran orders of magnitude faster.
When I complained to IT, the solution was to reimage my computer.
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+1
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FIRST!
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LAST!