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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 07:05 AM »

To quote Jack from LOST, "Are you insane?"

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 01:29 PM)

While debatable it's really not the central point...  

-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2011, 01:56 PM)

No no no. Not your sanity - the sanity of using Access... That must be very not fun.

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 11:18 PM)

Well, that was my second choice on how to take the comment. But I thought the first one was funnier, so I went with it... ...But yes it's been about as much fun as being roasted alive.

It makes me wonder if there is any way to "trick" the system into thinking that it's using Access but actually have a different RDBMS there. Then it would be possible to swap it out.

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 11:18 PM)

Sure, it's (a web site) just a bunch of page scripts and an mdb file. The problem is it's a production system and there currently just isn't the time available to risk borking the whole thing if I happen to (miss a db trigger event, etc.) get something wrong.

Sure the SQL syntax is close enough that I could probably just recreate the db and update the connection string to target a MySQL db, and then import the data. But if anything went wrong ... I'd be married to the thing for a string of all nighters trying to stitch the data back together. Sure eventually it will have to be done ... But for here and now, it's (bandaid time) triage only.

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Developer's Corner / Re: New Twist on Basic

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 06:48 AM »

After just glancing at the OP sample code, I'm pretty sure I could do the same sample dialog in pure C with  less code ... *Shrug* ... So I'm lost on an advantage there.

-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2011, 10:28 AM)

With C, you can't use goto without being outlawed

-phitsc (May 02, 2011, 04:32 AM)

goto EEK!

hehehe ...Gotta give you that one! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pirated Software and Viruses? Ahem... No. I don't want to help you...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 06:45 AM »

It's one thing to use a crack for software that you have already licensed, but...

-Renegade (May 02, 2011, 12:14 AM)

And another to use wholly pirated software, which isn't necessarily the end of the world...

but asking a programmer for help with pirated software? priceless

-f0dder (May 02, 2011, 03:59 AM)

(hehe) Yeah, that like flagging down a cop and asking where is the best place to by pot. Renegade should have given the guy the number for the local BSA, and told him to ask for "Tech Support".

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Living Room / Re: Congratz to the US Military Forces!

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 02, 2011, 06:38 AM »

That's assuming they got the right guy - a quick burial at sea seems a bit fishy to me (sorry for he pun).

-Carol Haynes (May 02, 2011, 05:49 AM)

Agreed, however hoisting a body on a petard for a parade through town is rather frowned on these days - And an autopsy was hardly necessary - So there wasn't much need for the carcas going forward...


Also +1 with f0dder, cutting the head off this snake, will only result in more snakes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: corrupt office 2003 file

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 02:37 PM »

email is not involved at all.  the files are stored on our server.

-techidave (May 01, 2011, 02:19 PM)

Oops! ...I Assumed 

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 01:56 PM »

To quote Jack from LOST, "Are you insane?"

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 01:29 PM)

While debatable it's really not the central point...  ...I'm just dealing with what I had (was given) to start with (Personally I much prefer the PHP/MySQL combo). It's a "Production System" with no latitude for downtime. So... A complete conversion was/is just not in the cards at this point. However I may try it later, time permitting. Hopefully before it takes its (Access + large record set = boom) inevitably complete shit.

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 01:27 PM »

No, but my todo list is. Our IT department consists of only one monkey...Me.

The folks that use the report have some of the oldest machines, so it was assumed ... and never mentioned, until I got a request for some new features for the site. Ha! ...That went well.

-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2011, 12:59 PM)

50k???

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 01:19 PM)

5 years of records and counting.

Access???

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 01:19 PM)

Totally not my idea...

New features???

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 01:19 PM)

Yes, management is like that.

WTF???

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 01:19 PM)

Exactly... Welcome to my world.

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 12:59 PM »

I got stuck the last few weeks working on one of our Intranet sites coded in ASP (e.g. VB), and it just makes me want to scream every time I have to deal with it.

-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2011, 11:50 AM)

ASP sucked. It's no wonder MS gave up on it almost a decade ago now~!

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 12:04 PM)

Actually, I left out the best part ... It's an ASP UI, with an Access db back-end. One of the reports that pulled from a table with 50,000 records in it, was parsing the results at the page level ... Which I assumed had much to do with its 3 minute page load time.

I got it down to about 4 seconds now (with a much (more precise) finer tuned query).

-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2011, 12:48 PM)

WTF? Why hasn't it been redone by now? Is it THAT big?

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 12:51 PM)

No, but my todo list is. Our IT department consists of only one monkey...Me.

The folks that use the report have some of the oldest machines, so it was assumed ... and never mentioned, until I got a request for some new features for the site. Ha! ...That went well.

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 12:53 PM »

If you are old, don't care to learn just want to use something and it work, apple is for you.

-Kamel (May 01, 2011, 12:37 PM)

God, Grant me the serinity...

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 12:48 PM »

I got stuck the last few weeks working on one of our Intranet sites coded in ASP (e.g. VB), and it just makes me want to scream every time I have to deal with it.

-Stoic Joker (May 01, 2011, 11:50 AM)

ASP sucked. It's no wonder MS gave up on it almost a decade ago now~!

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 12:04 PM)

Actually, I left out the best part ... It's an ASP UI, with an Access db back-end. One of the reports that pulled from a table with 50,000 records in it, was parsing the results at the page level ... Which I assumed had much to do with its 3 minute page load time.

I got it down to about 4 seconds now (with a much (more precise) finer tuned query).

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 11:50 AM »

They've not managed to make C# in any way useful for MS Office yet... Grrr... While C++ may be great in many aspects, it's still a beast.

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 10:37 AM)

Whereas for me, as long they don't support C++, or at least C++/CLI, on Windows Mobile I won't develop for it. C++ is just soooooooooo lovely to code in.

-Eóin (May 01, 2011, 10:45 AM)

I'll 2nd that, I love working in C++!

I got stuck the last few weeks working on one of our Intranet sites coded in ASP (e.g. VB), and it just makes me want to scream every time I have to deal with it.

Either rigidly define the data types ala C++, or completely ignore them ala PHP...That's fine. ASP/VB have generally undefined data types loosely based on rules I swear they make up on-the-fly. It's a freakin' nightmare trying to get anything done quickly with that mess.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Misconfigured Servers from Tech Companies

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 11:37 AM »

Can't say I've ever tied the two together, but I have run across the sizeless download annoyance a few times. I'll have to watch for it in the future.

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Living Room / Re: Easiest laptop (brand) to take apart ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 11:25 AM »

That's cool - I've just been wondering if you were dealing with a particularly difficult set of environmental conditions that made normal (a term I'm using here loosely for lack of a better one) methods ineffective.

As an example, I have a client that is a (large & small animal) vet. Some of their machines have come in for repair quite literally full of all manner of hair/fur/fuzz/I don't want to know... ...I've recommended that they avoid laptops in their environment.

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Living Room / Re: Five Reasons Why People Hate Apple

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 10:33 AM »

No. At the moment Windows Mobile is clearly at the bottom.

-Renegade (May 01, 2011, 09:48 AM)

Well 3 Cheers for the underdog!

(Sent From My Windows Mobile Phone)

 

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Developer's Corner / Re: New Twist on Basic

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 10:28 AM »

After just glancing at the OP sample code, I'm pretty sure I could do the same sample dialog in pure C with  less code ... *Shrug* ... So I'm lost on an advantage there.

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Living Room / Re: Easiest laptop (brand) to take apart ?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 10:12 AM »

I can't help but wonder how much of what are you having to clean out of these machines? I've generally always just blown (with canned air) through the (air outlet) cooling system backwards and never had a problem getting dust/lint/animal hair out of a machine...Without any disassembly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: corrupt office 2003 file

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 10:05 AM »

Is there any AV software (client or server side) involved?

Is the PP file sender using embeded or locally linked graphics for the file (I've seen this boo-boo happen before).

Are you sure the PP file is getting to the server/client intact? If it is an Outlook/Exchange environment, try sending a known good test file to an account that is not in cached mode, and see what happens.

Also if Exchange is involved, has an ofline defrag (with esutil) ever been run on the server?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Playing With UI Design... (Looking for comments)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on May 01, 2011, 09:41 AM »

Having spent a good deal of time walking people through things. I've come to the conclusion that the reflexive clicking types just can't be helped ... Even if you add a blood curdling scream to the event.

For the rest, the graphic (and crystal clear button text) should do just fine to convey the importance of the next move.

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Living Room / Re: USA Deadly Tornadoes

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 29, 2011, 11:26 AM »

And a simple foul language forecast (I love it!)

-app103 (April 29, 2011, 06:45 AM)

haha wonderful love it

-tomos (April 29, 2011, 07:13 AM)

+1 That was sexellent~!

-Renegade (April 29, 2011, 09:51 AM)

Yepper Gotta save that one to favorites ... When I get home that is.

I'm pretty sure that site would violate the company's AUP ... Which I haven't read ... Since I wrote it... *Shrug*

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Living Room / Re: USA Deadly Tornadoes

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 29, 2011, 06:38 AM »

Do I need a jacket?

-Stoic Joker (April 28, 2011, 11:37 AM)

Look here.

-40hz (April 29, 2011, 04:15 AM)

Not quite as straight-to-the-point as goingtorain.com. I had to type in my zip code, then select from a bunch of nearby locations. It was actually slightly confusing.

-Deozaan (April 29, 2011, 04:52 AM)

GoingToRain requires a zip also, but I already had it saved (long time ago). Next time you visit it jumps to the point. I saved DINAJ now too.

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Living Room / Re: iPhone in White

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 28, 2011, 10:11 PM »

Yes, this is all satire. Everyone can take offense to that ad, and all it shows is that they are narrowminded idiots who feel far too insecure about their place in the world.

-worstje (April 28, 2011, 06:25 PM)

+1

If you showed that to a kindergarten class, they'd never see any racism. They just haven't learned it yet.

People project their own "issues" onto things. What they say about something often says just as much about themselves.

In cases like this, it's rather sad.

-Renegade (April 28, 2011, 07:46 PM)

+1

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Living Room / Re: Apple - not quite grasping the concept of privacy.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 28, 2011, 11:55 AM »

I wish I knew the truth behind all of this.

-Renegade (April 28, 2011, 09:40 AM)

Truth is they are auto-magically generating a log file with a complete disregard for the privacy of the person being logged. How they choose to try and justify said behavior is irrelevant ... The intention is clear enough.

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Living Room / Re: USA Deadly Tornadoes

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 28, 2011, 11:37 AM »

If the media would stop trying to sensationalize the weather forecast into a carnival...People might actually start taking the damn thing seriously.

Fancy graphics and babble come flying out of their heads in such a gushing fashion, that if you don't listen carefully you will probably miss the actual "forecast". Enough with the entertaining rhetoric, just answer two questions:
Is it going to rain?
-and-
Do I need a jacket?

They've been predicting "severe" weather every day for the past month or so ... and It ain't even rained yet. And no, they weren't predicting that it was going to be severely hot & dry.

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Living Room / Re: Anarchists! Unite! Or whatever... :)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 28, 2011, 11:16 AM »

I grabbed this from the articles comments section:

Probably because those of us who spend more time on-line are more aware of what is actually going on in the country and around the world and thus have so much less respect for those who are implementing such laws for their own greedy, bigoted or just downright moronic ends...

I'd say he nailed it right there.

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Living Room / Re: Apple - not quite grasping the concept of privacy.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on April 28, 2011, 07:02 AM »

Well that used up a good bit of my morning (hehe), I liked this one: