- Feature Articles
- CodeSOD
- Error'd
-
Forums
-
Other Articles
- Random Article
- Alex's Soapbox
- Announcements
- Best of…
- Best of Email
- Best of the Sidebar
- Bring Your Own Code
- Coded Smorgasbord
- Mandatory Fun Day
- Off Topic
- Representative Line
- News Roundup
- Editor's Soapbox
- Software on the Rocks
- Souvenir Potpourri
- Sponsor Post
- Tales from the Interview
- The Daily WTF: Live
- Virtudyne
Admin
Frist to notice that I still get notifications of invisible topics to which I can then post!
Admin
If the Discourse doesn't go away, please submit a new Comment.
Admin
you wake up for work 20 minutes before I do, This is terrible, I will never get a frist again.
Admin
Service request raised.
Admin
All hail my glory for i found the way to get here without logging into DISCURSE.
Of course linux uses microsoft. does the person who posted this know that azure also have linux boxes?
Admin
Why does the main page claim there are 5 comments, but Discross only has 3?
[edit]ok, it has improved, the main page now claims 3 comments, Discross 4.[/edit]
Admin
Admin
The first one reminds me of an incident at the last company I worked for. I needed to request a new monthly report, but the help desk software (the only way to log requests) wasn't working on my computer. When I asked for assistance with this, they refused to look into it until I filed a help desk request to fix the help desk software.
This is what happens when bonuses are paid based on the successful resolution of help desk tickets...
Admin
I do like the informative Code Chef username explanatory text: nothing like a Regex for succinct, readable username suggestions.
Admin
Meh, slim pickings today. I suppose they can't all be winners...
Admin
I remember back in the '90s, you could sometimes see Amiga error messages on cable TV info crawl channels.
Also, the other day I saw a rather small LED sign (it must have only been about 64x64 pisels) with "port" on it in BIOS font, clearly from the word "support" on a BSOD screen.
Admin
Yes, one place I worked the help desk would log every contact with a ticket. Even inquiries on existing tickets. So whether or not they managed to resolve the original issue, there would be a stack of "solved" issues which were me asking "are we there yet?" (Spoiler: no, we're not).
Admin
Xth
Admin
I thought the regex was a bit obtuse too, but then I realized the name of the site was Code Chef. I expect coders to be able to parse that regex more easily than the "plain English" alternative "Username must be between 4 and 14 characters long and must start with a letter. The remainder may contain letters, numbers, or underscores." The regex is better.
And then I expect coders to look at that regex and wonder why it's so restrictive. Only 14 characters? Must start with a letter? No punctuation other than underscore? And it looks like only lowercase, unless this parser defaults to case-insensitive regexes. I can't think of a good reason for any of those restrictions. And thus, as a coding site, the entire content is not to be trusted.
Admin
Cool! The talkback[s] in Linux Today time warped from/to dec 31, 1969!
Admin
Linux Today; global.asa?!?! really?
Admin
At least they aren't actually using MS ODBC stuff.
Admin
"Rob wrote, 'I was trying to raise a service request for an Office 365 issue but the service request functionality was broken. I could of course try and report this... by raising a service request.'"
It was broken when I tried it, too. If you have a problem, Microsoft just doesn't want to hear about it.
Admin
Just be glad that it wasn't trying to connect to an Access database.
Admin
Admin
I think someone forgot to reset the Real Time Clock after a power outage. But wait! Isn't that the Linux epoch? WTF are they running Windows Server in a VM or something? Linux: Running Windows better than Windows....
Admin
PDT Epoch
(Pedantic Dickweed Time)
Admin
You know how fucked up my IT career is when I went from Classic ASP + Access databases to PHP/MySQL and found the entire thing an improvement.
Admin
For all that we like to rag on MySQL, Access is significantly less suitable for production use (unless keeping a personal address book or shopping list is your “production”, but then you could do that in Excel). So long as things are configured in the “don't throw away data randomly” mode (i.e., anything with ACID transaction support, such as InnoDB) MySQL is able to support proper use.
Just a shame that their “SQL” dialect is so strange.
(The Access client isn't totally terrible, but the default storage back-end is over-used. Connect it to MSSQL or some other real database. Even MySQL…)
Admin
So, a linux site uses Microsoft, and Microsoft uses Servers that run on Linux, right? I don't know, something seems a bit wrong here...
Admin
[image]
For our non-Welsh speakers, that's a vacation response, and reads, "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."
Admin
You see if they use linux server, they don't have to pay hefty licensing fees to themselves.
Admin
Admin
Obvious typo on last one is obvious. It should say "Upgrade to a VI-cell battery and go X hours."