Posts Tagged ‘computing’
The errors in Microsoft Visual Studio (C++) can leave a bit to be desired. Or maybe it is just the code that it complains about that leaves much to be desired. The new code that was written bool operator
**Title**: [ 1196285 ] Shit Dont Work **Submitted By**: Dont Release Crap – azureussucksass **Summary**: Shit Dont Work You fucking Linux using pussies. Don’t release shit that doesn’t work. Have a look at the [original](http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1196285&group_id=84122&atid=575154). I couldn’t make this up.
Another re-org. Perhaps this one will go better that [the last one][1]. As with the last time, the categories have again been shifted about. Perhaps this time I really know what I want to be writing about. * Software has been folded into [Computing : General][cg] and [Computing : Mac][cm] (a new name for [OSXcellence][cm]). […]
I tried to send a message though [Yahoo! Mail](http://mail.yahoo.com/) and was presented with a test of typing the following string into the text box so that I could continue to send mail and prove that I wasn’t a spammer.  I found out how sucessful I was when I got the following error: > […]
Can anyone “out there” explain to me why, in the Microsoft Windows version, in Microsoft Excel 2002 (version 10 of this product), file names which conform to the OS standard are not supported? Besides all of the other characters you can’t use in filenames, Excel will not work properly if your filename includes brackets. It […]
At the end of last week, I changed filtering on comments from [MT-Blacklist][1] to [SpamLookup][2]. If you have trouble with your comments getting blocked, send me an e-mail note at plaidcow.net. [1]: http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ [2]: http://bradchoate.com/projects/spamlookup/
My computer at work is being rolled-over to a new model since the three year lease has expired. During this process, the admin tried to delete one of the printers that the old computer was attached to. The computer dutifully told us that the printer could not be found on the server and therefore could […]
At work we have a shiny new time-card system based on SAP. One of the warnings we repeatedly got when this system was first installed was to not double click on the link to enter our time…or we may get locked out for an indeterminate amount of time. And it is all true. If we […]
I remember reading that CSS was supposed to bring some great new formatting options to web pages which would make the use of complex tables obsolete. Unfortunately, CSS misses the boat when it comes to fairly simple pages: I cannot define a left hand column that takes just as much space as it needs and […]
In the cafeteria at work there are several TVs which play CNN thoughout the day. I figured they had a satelite feed into the building. Nope. It’s streaming through Windows Media Player. I noticed this today when the TVs weren’t playing…and the WiMP window was instead, with an error message on the screen with the […]