• the beholder (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Matt Westwood:
    Nagesh:
    ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
    Everybody aint...
    He aint...
    Here's a bit of advice to everyone: NOBODY should teach Nagesh another word. EVER.

    Thanks for the cooperation.

  • Mark (unregistered)

    TRWTF is a mother with a middle name of Ted, or Tom or Tim, etc. WTF. That's just a weird awkward family situation. Seek therapy!

  • wretcheddawn (unregistered)

    My company isn't the only one to adopt the idiotic N + random 6-8 digit code username convention?

    I have to write down my own username, and I've been here for years.

  • blowhole (unregistered)

    Immigration is not using gettext then.

  • Robot (unregistered) in reply to notromda
    Dave:
    ctd:
    "they probably do a lot of rectangular designs."

    Lots of duplicate work, too.

    PiisAWheeL:
    "they probably do a lot of rectangular designs."

    Lots of duplicate work, too.

    I see what you did there.

    notromda:
    PiisAWheeL:
    "they probably do a lot of rectangular designs."

    Lots of duplicate work, too.

    I see what you did there....

    I see what you did there after seeing what they had saw what they did there.

  • (cs)

    Error: The comment completed successfully.

  • Friedrice the Great (unregistered) in reply to wretcheddawn
    wretcheddawn:
    My company isn't the only one to adopt the idiotic N + random 6-8 digit code username convention?

    I have to write down my own username, and I've been here for years.

    I worked at one place where user login names were constructed from first 2 letters of first name, first 6 letters of last name. Had a coworker whose login name was "suyoshit". Never found out what she thought of it.

  • Lone Marauder (unregistered) in reply to wretcheddawn
    wretcheddawn:
    My company isn't the only one to adopt the idiotic N + random 6-8 digit code username convention?

    I have to write down my own username, and I've been here for years.

    Our company does it, every user ID that has mainframe access is X+7 digits. It's a limitation of the mainframe software from what I'm told.

    I would love for that useless hunk of metal to go away, but alas it is not to be.

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    Nagesh:
    Matt Westwood:
    Nagesh:
    ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
    Everybody aint...
    He aint...
    Here's a bit of advice to everyone: NOBODY should teach Nagesh another word. EVER.

    Thanks for the cooperation.

    I ain't be need your hlep anyways. I am sign up for word-of-day emails.

  • Ruben (unregistered)

    About the two amount not being the same: I see no problem really, you see $-171,223.18 is about $342,446.36 away from $171,223.18, so the error message is perfectly valid. Really, get your maths straight people!

  • (cs) in reply to Symbiatch
    Symbiatch:
    Umm, who has a computer with Windows that doesn't shutdown nicely when pressing the power button? That's just stupid. Or do you really have admins that have disabled user switching, shutting down from the login/lock screen AND power button actions?

    I wouldn't blame Windows for that.

    I had an IT department that required root access for shutdown on Solaris boxes, regardless of whether they were shared servers or personal desktops. So I could pull the plug but not do a clean shutdown. Awesome.

  • Nogush (unregistered) in reply to lrucker
    lrucker:
    Symbiatch:
    Umm, who has a computer with Windows that doesn't shutdown nicely when pressing the power button? That's just stupid. Or do you really have admins that have disabled user switching, shutting down from the login/lock screen AND power button actions?

    I wouldn't blame Windows for that.

    I had an IT department that required root access for shutdown on Solaris boxes, regardless of whether they were shared servers or personal desktops. So I could pull the plug but not do a clean shutdown. Awesome.

    Only flithy haker use Unix for his desktop. Why u a flithy haker?

  • Decius (unregistered) in reply to wretcheddawn
    wretcheddawn:
    My company isn't the only one to adopt the idiotic N + random 6-8 digit code username convention?

    I have to write down my own username, and I've been here for years.

    US civil aviation uses Na-n|p-z|0-9

    I might not have the regex perfectly formed.

  • Meep (unregistered) in reply to Caitlin
    Caitlin:
    Maybe it's my Windows XP experience talking, but you really, REALLY want to avoid hard boots at all cost. If my users try one when it wasn't necessary and I have to rebuild their machine, they're On Notice.

    Need to get work done + machine is hung = hard boot is necessary

  • Robert B. (unregistered) in reply to Joe
    Joe:
    It's somewhat better than requesting the mother's "maiden name". Or it would be if not for the fact that at least in the US it is quite commonly used as the woman's middle name after she's married.

    Define 'quite commonly.' More than one? Never met a married woman in my life whose middle name was her maiden name. Hyphenated last name, sure, met a few of those.

  • Jaded? (unregistered)

    The Event Properties one?

    catch (Throawble t) { throw new InfuriatingPointlessObfuscationException(); }

    Crystal (of ~Reports) fame seem to be fond of this.

  • (cs)

    "I was forced to hard boot my machine since Windows doesn't allow you to edit your username on the locked-login screen."

    Er, what? Of course it does. You just click on the 'switch user' button.

  • El Oscuro (unregistered) in reply to Herohtar
    Herohtar:
    TRWTF is Backup Exec completing anything successfully. Though I suppose it actually didn't since it's still throwing errors.
    TRWTF is anything by Symantec (Backup Exec, NetBackup, Symantec Antivirus, etc)
  • (cs) in reply to Mark
    Mark:
    TRWTF is a mother with a middle name of Ted, or Tom or Tim, etc. WTF. That's just a weird awkward family situation. Seek therapy!
    Go! To! Oprah! Go! To! Oprah! ...
  • (cs)
    "I'm still getting used to my new keyboard, and occasionally hit the '\' and ENTER keys at the same time"
    At the same time? They're on opposite sides of the keyboard! If you have a massive keyboard-sized fleshy blob where your hand should be, that's not "getting used to" a new keyboard, that's cancer!
  • Stu (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    "I'm still getting used to my new keyboard, and occasionally hit the '\' and ENTER keys at the same time"
    At the same time? They're on opposite sides of the keyboard! If you have a massive keyboard-sized fleshy blob where your hand should be, that's not "getting used to" a new keyboard, that's cancer!
    In standard-US keyboards, they're RIGHT NEXT to each other. The \ key is to the right of RIGHT SHIFT, below ENTER and above CONTROL.

    You must be using a foreign keyboard.

    Speaking of keyboards, I profoundly hate keyboards that have a tiny BACKSPACE key and more other keys in that spot.

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    B&S? Ain't being this an American slang words?

    Here in Australia B&S stands for "Bachelors and Spinsters" - the rural version of "Desperate and Dateless".

    Basically a big piss-up and ending with a root. (Translation: Drink lots of alcoholic beverages and end up sleeping with someone in a tent/swag/ute). Interestingly I've only gone to one, with my then-girlfriend-now-wife-and-mother-of-my-three-children-including-a-set-of-twins, so we technically weren't a B or S.

  • (cs) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    Here in Australia B&S stands for "Bachelors and Spinsters" - the rural version of "Desperate and Dateless".

    Which I found to be a very odd name for an interior design company - not sure I'd like drunken bogans decorating my house.

    Also, the weather one - I was surprised to see a weather map containing part of the UK without Prince Charles standing next to it. Got so used to that image over the last few days with it being on the news every 5 minutes.

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Mark:
    TRWTF is a mother with a middle name of Ted, or Tom or Tim, etc. WTF. That's just a weird awkward family situation. Seek therapy!
    Go! To! Oprah! Go! To! Oprah! ...
    Why? Will oprah browser let you enter short name in secruity qustion field? Other browser ain't let you enter that.
  • Wouter (unregistered)

    I found this ad for an interior design company

    [image]

    they probably do a lot of rectangular designs.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Wyrm:
    I can't get enough of the eventlog stating "Successful completion" as an error. I've seen this in some other products and I'm always amazed at how many devs just can't imagine their process running fine.
    That's because something returned false, then to provide a diagnostic, the app called GetLastError() and displayed whatever message was associated with that error code. When GetLastError() returns 0, that's the message you get. It's easy to accidentally clear the last-error by calling other Windows functions that helpfully clear it for you upon success.

    The real issue is that they didn't have architecture for catching errors and displaying what actually went wrong in a meaningful way. For backup software, that's a bad sign. I've worked on semi-similar software in the past and we made sure that if we were going to show an error, it would be meaningful. Sometimes you don't have much to go on (random I/O error when reading the disk--now what?) but you can do much much better than this.

    I have it on good authority that Scott Guthrie made this error once at Microsoft, in the early days of .NET, and it made him look stupid at a presentation. He had taken some C++ Win32 code and ported to .NET, in the form of a bunch of "platform invoke" calls. The series of calls he originally wrote (or copied from someone else) were careful not to do anything between the error and the GetLastError() call. Of course, in .NET, all sorts of other crap got nested between the function calls, resulting in some very inelegant-looking error messages when Scott's program briefly lost connectivity or something. Some of the old-timers in the room laughed at him and at least one made the point that efforts to port core functionality to .NET were driven by politics, were a waste of time, and so on. A few of these guys were "rightsized" out of their jobs shortly thereafter, or exiled to less favorable assignments, but Guthrie didn't escape the incident unscathed, either. At that point he was slated to basically take over everything having to do with development at Microsoft, and because of this little incident and a few other things, that had become untenable. Scott's current assignment, which is some vaguely-defined thing about "server technologies," is the sop they threw him instead, along with "ASP.NET MVC," which basically consists of Scott throwing out confusing advice about how to plug holes in a technology he invented.

  • (cs) in reply to Zed
    Zed:
    Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

    +1 choppas

  • (cs) in reply to Will Leffert
    Will Leffert:
    we really had to check our film closely before we burned it to plate.

    sniff Nazukashii! (an expression of nostalgia)

  • PunctuallyChallenged (unregistered) in reply to db2
    db2:
    Looks like somebody forgot to tie Bangor to the dock over in Maine and it floated away again.
    And Monmouth.
  • (cs)

    I've seen problems like that Interior Design ad on OSX before, usually in Safari shortly before a crash. (Something's corrupted the fonts, so the application is living on borrowed time…)

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    "I'm still getting used to my new keyboard, and occasionally hit the '\' and ENTER keys at the same time"
    At the same time? They're on opposite sides of the keyboard! If you have a massive keyboard-sized fleshy blob where your hand should be, that's not "getting used to" a new keyboard, that's cancer!
    No, they arent. Has you using some non us keyboard? in us keyboard, the "\" is above the enter key, you must have such a big fat finger to press two keys on same time per accident. Or not, then must be cancer and your hand hits all the keys on same time.
  • feas (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    The MAZZTer:
    "I was forced to hard boot my machine since Windows doesn't allow you to edit your username on the locked-login screen."

    Pretty sure it does, you just have to press Ctrl+Alt+Del a second. I think. I've never had to do it myself.

    That doesn't work for me, but if you select "switch user" you can type in the user name.

    Önly User <x> or qan administrator can unlock this machine

  • mwa (unregistered) in reply to AB
    AB:
    This place needs renaming agin:

    "The Daily We Dont Proof Read Anything"

    Seriously guys, I know you're not professional editors or anything, but a cursory glance once would catch 99% of your numerous typos.

    (Cue pedantic dickweed pointing out my obvious typo/spelling/grammar mistakes)

    agin and Dont were the two that leapt out simply by a glancing over your post....Hypocrite!

  • Joe (unregistered) in reply to wretcheddawn
    wretcheddawn:
    My company isn't the only one to adopt the idiotic N + random 6-8 digit code username convention?

    I have to write down my own username, and I've been here for years.

    You been there long time and have trouble remembering 8 digits? How do you go with phone numbers? In most of the world they're uhm...I forget

  • d4jsh (unregistered) in reply to Lone Marauder
    Lone Marauder:
    wretcheddawn:
    My company isn't the only one to adopt the idiotic N + random 6-8 digit code username convention?

    I have to write down my own username, and I've been here for years.

    Our company does it, every user ID that has mainframe access is X+7 digits. It's a limitation of the mainframe software from what I'm told.

    I would love for that useless hunk of metal to go away, but alas it is not to be.

    Seeing as everyoine is explaining their user names we have first digit to represent contractor or permanent (or a few other options like user from another organisation), 2nd digit (number) represents region, then 3 letters that are taken out of your name along the line of (take the highest avbailble in the list - obviously some combinations may already have been taken: First Name's Initial + first and last letter of surname First Name 1st & last + surname initial First name Initial + first letter and last consonant (other than last letter) First name 1st and last + last letter of surname some other permutations....

    So for John Smith we'd have: d4jsh d4jns d4jst d4jnh d4jhs d4jhh

    Remarkably, I'm not aware of any usernames that don't represent the name in some way - but I guess we don't have so many Smiths, Joneses or Nguyens working here...

  • Dingo Bob (unregistered) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    Nagesh:
    B&S? Ain't being this an American slang words?

    Here in Australia B&S stands for "Bachelors and Spinsters" - the rural version of "Desperate and Dateless".

    Basically a big piss-up and ending with a root. (Translation: Drink lots of alcoholic beverages and end up sleeping with someone in a tent/swag/ute). Interestingly I've only gone to one, with my then-girlfriend-now-wife-and-mother-of-my-three-children-including-a-set-of-twins, so we technically weren't a B or S.

    Sounds like you went to pretty mellow ones if you ended up in a tent or swag....other than cars (ute, sandman etc) I would have thought most of these type of pissups just end up with you sleeping with someone (generally of the opposite sex) somewhere....I think you're trying to be overly civil suggesting there'd be a tent or swag involved necessariyl...
  • Dingo Bob (unregistered) in reply to tin
    tin:
    Zemm:
    Here in Australia B&S stands for "Bachelors and Spinsters" - the rural version of "Desperate and Dateless".

    Which I found to be a very odd name for an interior design company - not sure I'd like drunken bogans decorating my house.

    Also, the weather one - I was surprised to see a weather map containing part of the UK without Prince Charles standing next to it. Got so used to that image over the last few days with it being on the news every 5 minutes.

    Actually, according to a recent newspaper article (in a %s/very reliable/South Australian/g weekend paper) the Bogans have risen and there is more money in specialised Blue Collar work than in an office. As a result, Tins of Bundy, Beam and Jacks are becoming the beverage of choice ahead of boutique(?) beers like James Squires or even semi-Boutique beers like Boags and Coopers...

    According to the ads on TV, however VB, Carlton, TED and XXXX (etc) are still being consumed by only the most feral dregs of society...and Dyson Heppell (http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/135357/default.aspx)

  • Scoldog (unregistered) in reply to Mark
    Mark:
    TRWTF is a mother with a middle name of Ted, or Tom or Tim, etc. WTF. That's just a weird awkward family situation. Seek therapy!
    I've got three sisters and they are called Eric, Donald and Basil!
  • x (unregistered)
    My mother's middle name has 3 characters." wrote Julie Crowner.
    Mine's is Jo.

    captcha: venio. i.e. Venio, Vidio, Vicio.

  • (cs)

    The interior design ad seems to be ROT3. Every character is shifted by 3 places. I couldn't be bothered to decode more than a couple of words though, just to confirm I was right.

  • Andre (unregistered)

    Surely a debit amount of $171,223.18 is not equal to a credit amount of $171,223.18? In my book that's a difference of $343,446.36

  • Andre (unregistered) in reply to Andre

    Yes, yes, I did mean $342,446.36

  • (cs) in reply to Luiz Felipe
    Luiz Felipe:
    DaveK:
    "I'm still getting used to my new keyboard, and occasionally hit the '\' and ENTER keys at the same time"
    At the same time? They're on opposite sides of the keyboard! If you have a massive keyboard-sized fleshy blob where your hand should be, that's not "getting used to" a new keyboard, that's cancer!
    No, they arent. Has you using some non us keyboard? in us keyboard, the "\" is above the enter key, you must have such a big fat finger to press two keys on same time per accident. Or not, then must be cancer and your hand hits all the keys on same time.

    Maybe Michael Dowden's previous keyboard had an ENTER key that was two rows tall, while the current one has an ENTER key that is only one row tall - and the current backslash key occupies space that the old keyboard used for the ENTER key's extra height. If you tended to strike the old ENTER key on its upper half, the same muscle movements would have you hitting backslash.

    Which reminds me of one of my favourite (for sarcastic values of "favourite") keyboards: the one where <POWER> <SLEEP> and <WAKEUP> were ordinary keys placed just under <DELETE> <END> and <PGDN>, which were naturally moved upwards to make room for them.

  • uns (unregistered) in reply to Tachyon
    Tachyon:
    Error: The comment completed successfully.

    Depends on your definition of "success".

  • peter (unregistered) in reply to lokedhs

    Darn, you're right! Here's their (back-shifted and then completed with an educated guess) web site:

    http://www.bns-interieur.be/

    Hat off to you, sir!

  • peter (unregistered) in reply to lokedhs

    And in my contribution abote, I forgot to quote lokedhs... sigh

    lokedhs:
    The interior design ad seems to be ROT3. Every character is shifted by 3 places. I couldn't be bothered to decode more than a couple of words though, just to confirm I was right.
  • Bob McKenzie (unregistered) in reply to peter
    peter:
    And in my contribution abote...
    Contribution abote what, hoser? Take off, eh?
  • (cs) in reply to mwa
    mwa:
    AB:
    This place needs renaming agin:

    "The Daily We Dont Proof Read Anything"

    Seriously guys, I know you're not professional editors or anything, but a cursory glance once would catch 99% of your numerous typos.

    (Cue pedantic dickweed pointing out my obvious typo/spelling/grammar mistakes)

    agin and Dont were the two that leapt out simply by a glancing over your post....Hypocrite!
    I don't know about hypocrite, but definitely a hapless victim of Muphry's Law.

  • Ron (unregistered)

    So what's wrong with the accounting one? (maybe its too early and I'm missing something... But your debits must equal credits to balance out the journal...)

  • (cs)

    Nothing wrong here, those are the new Canadian immigration documents.

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