Re: "stickers are being considered as a way to disguise Macs"
Turn your BS detector on. I know it runs down the batteries but FFS.
And risk another lithium fire on my crotch? No thank you.
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Wsus offline seems a good solution to the freshly fucked win7 update system. I learned this after an incredibly painful night trying to resurrect a fairly critical box.
I don't buy the DNS malarkey. Windows update has worked pretty damn well for years (the update program, not necessarily the updates themselves) and suddenly it's completely screwed everywhere at the same time that MS is installing malware on its customers^W victims computers?
I'll probably need to run 8 and 10 for testing purposes at some point. Those will be virtual and outgoing connections other than those required for the specific tests will be logged and dropped.
"So, I can't help but notice that the test car is driving over the pedestrian dummy, switching into reverse, backing over it and then driving forward over it again and again and again. How long until this bug gets fixed?"
"What do you mean by 'bug'? Management told us to make it work this way, they say it makes for a better user experience. For version 10 we're going to make it so that one pair of tires always goes over the genitals."
There is no need to backup the cloud part of the table, Microsoft will do that for you...
That's nice.
Me drops half a key of pure Colombian cocaine into a burlap sack full of badgers, beats the sack against a brick wall until it's a flailing, screaming ball of pure rage, secures the frayed and ancient straw cord draw string with a poorly tied granny knot and throws it in the back seat of a car.
Me then gets in the driver seat of the car, on which the sunroof, radio, instrument cluster, steering, breaks, engine and exhaust system are totally buggered and goes barrelling down the autobahn at 160km/h.
I wish I had more up votes for you.
I don't mind the drop down with suggestions, but once I press enter the browser should try to resolve whatever I have entered and that's it. If I enter the host name "clatto" then the browser should try to resolve "clatto", not "clatto.com", not "www.clatto.com" and it sure as hell shouldn't do a damn web search for "clatto".
Look at the placement of the thing, it's just begging for someone to come around and start a fire right next to it. Even if a chain-linked fence or razor wire was installed to keep the fire starters away there's still the concern of spontaneous human combustion. Also, a table is sitting within arms length of the thing. That table is made of wood and could explode into flame any second.
And think of the potential effects of letting people do as they please in their own homes. Building boxes? Do you know what comes in boxes? Bombs, guns, smut and satanic literature.
They should lock that guy up along with the owners of the residence and throw away the key.
Thank goodness we have government to protect us from ourselves!
"No matter where they are in the world, those who commit crimes against U.S. citizens will be held accountable for their actions, pursued by our investigators and prosecutors and brought to justice."
That's good to hear. So how long until those responsible for the rampant fraud involved in the 2007-8 mortgage collapse are brought to justice?
I like to do that with phone scum too. I once had someone trying to get me to email or fax them financial information, I managed to keep them on the phone for an hour and a half. Firstly I continuously sent them emails (from a bs account, of course) with the attachment missing and acted surprised each time the guy I was talking to told me that there was no attachment. I then emailed a specimen that I got off of google images and which I pixelated to the point where it was just barely not legible. Then the upside-down version of same image, then sideways, then more pixelated. On to the fax machine...
He finally gave up on email and asked me to fax the information and, after the requisite seven minutes required to send a non-existent fax on a non-existent fax machine, I triumphantly told them that I had sent the fax. The person on the other end had to leave his desk to check the fax machine. He eventually got back and told me that he hadn't gotten the fax, so I "sent it" again. After about five attempts he asked me what the display on my non-existent fax machine said, I said "load error 372". He spent *forever* trying to trouble-shoot my fax machine I finally used an online faxing service to send them the same pixelated image from earlier, followed by 30 pages of pure black.
The person I was talking to, in spite of the pixelization, eventually realized that I was faxing him the wrong version of the document he was looking for and called me on it. I replied, through thinly veiled laughter "hold please" and proceeded to give myself a hernia as I listened to him screaming obscenities.
Successfully introducing a DevOps paradigm realignment to your team members or "vision actualization professionals" can be challenging, but it's worth implementing this result-oriented, future-thinking archetype. They say that there's no "silver bullet", but a proper transition to DevOps will result in a quantum increase in strategic gain conceptualization, as numerous industry surveys can attest.
Lemme see, he measured the speed of his current PC and *worked out the number that would now be required ...
import_time
def_myDelay(seconds):
________start=time.time()
________count=0
________while_time.time()-start<1:
________________count+=1
________for_i_in_range(seconds-1):
________________for_j_in_range(count):
________________________pass
def_getTomorrowsDate():
________myDelay(24*60*60)
________return_time.localtime()
No one will know what to make of it when a cyborg who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger storms a police station, killing everyone in his path with an automatic weapon, repeating again and again "It looks like you're writing a letter! It looks like you're writing a letter! It looks like you're writing a letter!..."
A lot of people have asked me if they should upgrade to Windows 10. It's a hard question for me to answer as user experiences tend to be very subjective.
Luckily there's a way to sample The Windows 10 Experience without actually installing the software:
I once tried to make a light sabre by blowing a mix of aluminium and iron oxide dust through a tube that ended with a mapp-oxygen pilot light. Management was not impressed when five employees went running around a shareholder's meeting, completely engulfed in flame. Luckily there were no witnesses.
It's always been nearly impossible to get bugs fixed.
There are quite a few weird bugs in the IMAP implementation on top of the general slowness. One really nice one I ran into a few months ago happens when moving messages from IMAP to local, TB will create a zero-length record at the destination and then will delete the source. It turns out that bug has been around for years and years.
I've never really liked TB, but it's always seemed like the best of a set of exceptionally bad options. Why are email clients all such bags of rot?
My requests for time to write decent documentation have been ignored
I used to try to convey documentation to whomever was (in theory) ultimately responsible. The same thing always happened, the person I handed the docs to would call "here, Chompy-chompy-chompy!" in order to summon the office goat which would devour the documentation.
Now I just write documentation for myself and, in theory, whoever the poor f&*k is who comes after me. If it's small enough I'll stick it to the device/server/whatever that it pertains to. Otherwise I'll print out a cover sheet with big, bold letters exclaiming "DOCUMENTATION FOR THING". Then I'll put it in a clipboard and nail the clipboard to a wall as close to THING as I can get it.
Another consistent phenomenon occurs when I use the phrase "I'm going to explain something to you, this is something that you really need to know...". The person or people I'm talking to will tip their heads slightly to the side, their mouths will part and their eyes will stare off into infinity. Looking into their pupils I will see things like sports games, episodes of Lost and the like. Once I saw half a dozen clowns going "doo-doo-dee-doo-doo-doo-de-doo--honk-honk" as they sat astride thermonuclear bombs that were dropping onto Moscow. I still have these "conversations" though, with my phone in my shirt pocket set to record audio. That way I have some recourse when someone gets angry with me because I didn't tell them not to douse the office with gasoline and light it on fire.