• (cs) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Okay - what other secrets are people hiding? Does SQL Server have regex?

    You can get to the system menu of an MDI Window with ALT - (dash). Nice when you want to resize or move individual windows in an MDI application.

  • Baljeet Singh (unregistered) in reply to CodeRage

    So nice to see a non-racist post. :-(

  • Someone who can't be bothered to login from work (unregistered) in reply to nonpartisan
    nonpartisan:
    I'd hazard a guess they've both existed since Win95. Definitely 98.

    I would point out that the "Windows Key" first appeared on a Microsoft Natural Keyboard in 1994; Windows 95 was the first Windows OS to support the key without requiring an add-on tool (which was made for Windows 3.1).

  • (cs) in reply to CodeRage

    I am glad that all stories had a happy ending.

  • (cs) in reply to Gunslinger
    pgn674:
    I began coping data to one of the workstations immediately. It stopped every now and then, since it couldn't read something at all or just started to infinitely copy a file. I stopped and restarted copy operations, picking single directories one by one until I managed to get about 70% of their data out. The rest was a total loss.
    On Windows, TeraCopy is an awesome little program for getting around this easily. It skips any files that it has any sort of trouble with, then at the end lets you retry the skipped files.

    And if you use Linux, ddrescue is designed exactly for this situation. It will take an image of your drive, getting the easy clusters and blocks first, then can optionally go back and try to get data closer and closer to the damaged sections. Then you mount the image it made, and safely see what files and such you can recover without needing to read the bad disk more than was needed.

    SuperCopier is still perfect after 2 years without update, although most of what those eye candy tools do can be achieved with robocopy.

    Gunslinger:
    Matt Westwood:
    neminem:
    Hortical:
    Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens task manager.
    Holy frell. I thought I knew every Windows keyboard shortcut out there - for instance, I once filed a bug that some custom control wasn't responding to shift-F10 like it should've, totally surprising the rest of my team who had no idea shift-F10 was supposed to do anything. But I had no idea about ctrl-shift-escape; I've always just opened the Run dialog (with start-R, of course), and typed taskmgr. That's moderately useful. Thanks, tdwtf!

    I will admit, though, that I don't maximize things often enough to remember the accelerator for it; while I alt-space on windows frequently enough, if I wanted to maximize a window I'd just use the arrow keys and Enter on the resulting context menu.

    My technique for opening task manager has been ctrl+alt+del and click on the appropriate link. It's good to know there's an alternative.

    Incidentally, does anyone know how to open Outlook 2010 in "safe" mode as an "admin" user? It's got a problem in that it doesn't open when not in safe mode, but in order to disable the add-ins I need to be logged in as admin. To open outlook in Safe mode is "outlook.exe /safe" in the Run dialog, to open as User=Admin is right-click on the taskbar icon. But the two together? Anyone? Not even our tech support guy can help with this ...

    I don't use the task manager any more. I use Process Explorer from sysinternals (before MS bought them), as it's a lot more useful. Just put it in your Startup folder and enjoy.

    Could you expand on this "before MS bought them" thing? Sysinternals was sold to Microsoft in 2006 and the tool has evolved a lot since then, so, there's only one of 3 possibilities:

    1. You wrote this comment because you want to make an stand, but actually you use a recent version. 2 . You're using an outdated tool because you're irrationnaly afraid to use a 4MB executable from Microsoft on your 10GB Microsoft OS.
    2. You have a very good reason to do so, because you know something I don't. In this case, I'd like to know.

    Anyway, as for any elevated-privileges-requiring app, just putting it in the startup folder won't work on Vista/7 unless you disabled UAC. If you didn't disable it, you can still run the app with a task scheduled to start with the system.

    Works like a charm but is a resource hog, so it's not a good idea to replace task manager with it if you're going to try troubleshooting a slow computer.

    Also, to start the task manager, the shortest way is right clic on the task bar > start task manager.

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to dhromed
    dhromed:
    I am glad that all stories had a happy ending.

    Zunesis! You've got work to do!

  • lolshopvac (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    some guy:
    Was anyone else expecting the guy in the first story to get blamed for the server dieing?
    I was surprised they even let him open it. He also claims to have cleaned it out with a vacuum? That's a big no-no; vacuum cleaners produce huge static charges at their ends.

    I probably wouldn't do it to someone else's computer, but I clean my machines with a shopvac all the time.

  • THE zunesis, as requested (unregistered) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    dhromed:
    I am glad that all stories had a happy ending.
    Zunesis! You've got work to do!
    Here: is this what you want?!?
    dhromed:
    I am glad that all stories ended with infants being sodomized by silverback gorillas while their fathers ate sandwiches featuring the vagina lips from whence the children came. And then they came.
    You sick fuck! You just can't get enough, can you?!
  • TheFritziestNagesh (unregistered) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    da Doctah:
    TRWTF is that he had to drag the window to screen center before maximizing it.

    Don't people learn about Alt+Spacebar+X any more?

    No, I guess we don't. Two I discovered on accident:

    Ctrl+Esc opens the start menu. Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens task manager.

    I guess in case you don't have a windows key?

    "Accidentally" or, if you must, "by accident."

    There's a separate circle of Hell reserved for numbskulls who say "on accident" you know? Don't give me bullshit saying that "language is evolving" because I don't fucking care. No-one ever said evolution was easy.

    You may laugh and think "it doesn't matter", but every educated person who sees what you write is judging you with the same vim and vigour as I am and they are repulsed.

  • CDave (unregistered) in reply to Jellineck
    Jellineck:
    "The ice machine doesn't work. The compressor is probably broken. "

    Where I work, that would be followed up with "please replace the compressor". Then you get to argue about wanting to find out what the problem actually is vs. just fixing it like you were told.

    That's nothing. The place I work would call for us to "swap the ice machine", even if the only problem was that the power or water were turned off.

  • Mathias (unregistered)
    I stopped and restarted copy operations, picking single directories one by one
    Here's a command that might help you: 
    rsync -rPz source destination
    Or, if you have a lot of small files, tarring is usually faster: 
    cd destination; find -type f|ssh source_machine 'cd source_directory; tar cz . -X -'|tar xvz
    Either way, you can stop and restart the command at any time if network or hardware should fail.
  • (cs) in reply to Someone who can't be bothered to login from work
    Someone who can't be bothered to login from work:
    nonpartisan:
    I'd hazard a guess they've both existed since Win95. Definitely 98.

    I would point out that the "Windows Key" first appeared on a Microsoft Natural Keyboard in 1994; Windows 95 was the first Windows OS to support the key without requiring an add-on tool (which was made for Windows 3.1).

    Now I'm intrigued. What did it do for 3.1?

    Then I stand corrected and will say these shortcuts preceded popularity of the Windows key. I don't recall ever seeing a keyboard with such a key before 98. I was probably more sheltered in my introduction to keyboard hardware at the time (loved my Alps keyboard and stuck with it; most other commodity keyboards seemed mushy). Nevertheless, it seems obvious that these keyboard shortcuts were put in a long time ago when the expectation of people having a Windows key was low.

  • MrOli (unregistered)

    ...and here endeth the lesson...

    If you work in independent IT support and you install computer equipment for them, assume that if they knew much about computers they wouldn't need you. Visit them every few months (or more frequently) to maintain their machines and their server. Monitor the server locally and remotely.

    Your average person wouldn't consider that dust can get in to a server. They wouldn't think about keeping the room cool and airy, only that the server produces heat and noise and should be out of the way. And hey, if it has always been in a hot room and didn't go wrong.

    The moral of the story is: Look after your customers.

  • Primar (unregistered) in reply to CodeRage

    Please do the needful.

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to TheFritziestNagesh
    TheFritziestNagesh:
    Hortical:
    da Doctah:
    TRWTF is that he had to drag the window to screen center before maximizing it.

    Don't people learn about Alt+Spacebar+X any more?

    No, I guess we don't. Two I discovered on accident:

    Ctrl+Esc opens the start menu. Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens task manager.

    I guess in case you don't have a windows key?

    "Accidentally" or, if you must, "by accident."

    There's a separate circle of Hell reserved for numbskulls who say "on accident" you know? Don't give me bullshit saying that "language is evolving" because I don't fucking care. No-one ever said evolution was easy.

    You may laugh and think "it doesn't matter", but every educated person who sees what you write is judging you with the same vim and vigour as I am and they are repulsed.

    Oh, great. I remember when someone first pointed out that "begging the question" does not mean "raising the question". I shrugged it off, and still don't think it's important to point out, but now, whenever I hear "begs the question" used inappropriately, it drives me crazy. And there's no hope of changing everyone's mind, so now I'm condemned to share your misery. I suppose the same thing happened to you.

    Why'd you have to do it me?

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to TheFritziestNagesh
    TheFritziestNagesh:
    "Accidentally" or, if you must, "by accident."

    There's a separate circle of Hell reserved for numbskulls who say "on accident" you know? Don't give me bullshit saying that "language is evolving" because I don't fucking care. No-one ever said evolution was easy.

    You may laugh and think "it doesn't matter", but every educated person who sees what you write is judging you with the same vim and vigour as I am and they are repulsed.

    Ok. From now on, whenever I'm about to say "on accident", I add later "queue worthless pedantic shitcocks".

  • (cs) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    TheFritziestNagesh:
    Hortical:
    da Doctah:
    TRWTF is that he had to drag the window to screen center before maximizing it.

    Don't people learn about Alt+Spacebar+X any more?

    No, I guess we don't. Two I discovered on accident:

    Ctrl+Esc opens the start menu. Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens task manager.

    I guess in case you don't have a windows key?

    "Accidentally" or, if you must, "by accident."

    There's a separate circle of Hell reserved for numbskulls who say "on accident" you know? Don't give me bullshit saying that "language is evolving" because I don't fucking care. No-one ever said evolution was easy.

    You may laugh and think "it doesn't matter", but every educated person who sees what you write is judging you with the same vim and vigour as I am and they are repulsed.

    Oh, great. I remember when someone first pointed out that "begging the question" does not mean "raising the question". I shrugged it off, and still don't think it's important to point out, but now, whenever I hear "begs the question" used inappropriately, it drives me crazy. And there's no hope of changing everyone's mind, so now I'm condemned to share your misery. I suppose the same thing happened to you.

    Why'd you have to do it me?

    I think he done it on a mistake.

  • (cs) in reply to TheFritziestNagesh

    Cool name, bro.

  • Lord0 (unregistered)

    Surely you just need to switch the ice machine off for 30 seconds and then restart it?

  • (cs) in reply to [trademarked name redacted]
    [trademarked name redacted]:
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    Bailey, Justin :: I have a problem with my dominatrix, and I was told I have to submit before I can cum.

    Singh, Baljeet :: Hello Justin, I can help you with your request. I have created a ticket for you, #S&M102955. Before dispatching local services, I will need to troubleshoot the problem remotely. Can you describe the problem?

    Bailey, Justin :: The dominatrix won't let me cum. That's what I was trying to get done.

    Singh, Baljeet :: I see. I will try to diagnose this problem, but can you first describe for me what you mean by "dominatrix"?

    Bailey, Justin :: She a woman who inserts things into sad men... she's standing in my kitchen with a cucumber.

    Singh, Baljeet :: I am not familiar with this service. Can you describe its purpose?

    Bailey, Justin :: I thought it would be arousing... which would then let me get off?

    Singh, Baljeet :: I see. This will be challenging to remotely diagnose, so I will dispatch local services to help resolve this problem.

    FTFY

  • underscor (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    neminem:
    Hortical:
    Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens task manager.
    Holy frell. I thought I knew every Windows keyboard shortcut out there - for instance, I once filed a bug that some custom control wasn't responding to shift-F10 like it should've, totally surprising the rest of my team who had no idea shift-F10 was supposed to do anything. But I had no idea about ctrl-shift-escape; I've always just opened the Run dialog (with start-R, of course), and typed taskmgr. That's moderately useful. Thanks, tdwtf!

    I will admit, though, that I don't maximize things often enough to remember the accelerator for it; while I alt-space on windows frequently enough, if I wanted to maximize a window I'd just use the arrow keys and Enter on the resulting context menu.

    My technique for opening task manager has been ctrl+alt+del and click on the appropriate link. It's good to know there's an alternative.

    Incidentally, does anyone know how to open Outlook 2010 in "safe" mode as an "admin" user? It's got a problem in that it doesn't open when not in safe mode, but in order to disable the add-ins I need to be logged in as admin. To open outlook in Safe mode is "outlook.exe /safe" in the Run dialog, to open as User=Admin is right-click on the taskbar icon. But the two together? Anyone? Not even our tech support guy can help with this ...

    Try making a shortcut, then right-clicking and doing Run As Admin or fire up cmd as an admin, and then anything you execute should inherit its adminness.

  • underscor (unregistered) in reply to Primar
    Primar:
    Please do the needful.
  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    neminem:
    Hortical:
    Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens task manager.
    Holy frell. I thought I knew every Windows keyboard shortcut out there - for instance, I once filed a bug that some custom control wasn't responding to shift-F10 like it should've, totally surprising the rest of my team who had no idea shift-F10 was supposed to do anything. But I had no idea about ctrl-shift-escape; I've always just opened the Run dialog (with start-R, of course), and typed taskmgr. That's moderately useful. Thanks, tdwtf!

    I will admit, though, that I don't maximize things often enough to remember the accelerator for it; while I alt-space on windows frequently enough, if I wanted to maximize a window I'd just use the arrow keys and Enter on the resulting context menu.

    ctrl+shift+esc is useful when you want the task manager quickly but don't want to send the ctrl+alt+del control signal which might bring up that 6-button Windows Security window (on xp at least).

    I was also once introduced (by a female, no less) the trick of double-clicking the window icon of a Windows(TM) window to close the window. She taught me all sorts of things... When she did our lab report almost by herself.

    Great, man, this is from win3.11, very few people know it. amazing that an girl know. i will imediatelly love her, if it said that.

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to Luiz Felipe

    .....

    Great, man, this is from win3.11, very few people know it. amazing that an girl know. i will imediatelly love her, if it said that.

    *if her said that.

    Yes, i cannot write, i can only code. Even in my default language, portuguese (its shit, i know).

  • SomeGuy (unregistered) in reply to TheCPUWizard

    If you are not spending the premium you can still do much better than Christian Riesen did by using the GNU ddrescue tool:

    http://www.gnu.org/s/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

    This free tool can skip bad sectors and read them after reading the good sector. This reduces the chance of introducing even more disk damage as part of the copying.

  • Maxx (unregistered)

    Ha! I knew a Justin Bailey once. He too was the kind of person that would spend all day in a pointless argument rather than just link to a picture of an ice machine online.

  • Wombat (unregistered)

    Reminds me of :

    http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2247

  • OP (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah

    I dragged it to the center to show the dude that there really wasn't a problem. Apologies for not putting enough details =p

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