Randal does it again.
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XKCD OTD: xkcd: .NORM Normal File Format[^] Now, all I need it to code up an app to generate .NORM files ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt -
XKCD OTD: xkcd: .NORM Normal File Format[^] Now, all I need it to code up an app to generate .NORM files ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
A friend of mine used to work in support for a large Accounting software Firm. She asked a client to "send in a copy of your data disk" for diagnostics and repair (I'm obviously going back a few years here!) Next day, a very thin envelope landed on her desk, marked "FAO xxxxx xxxxxx : Copy of Data Disk" You've guessed it - it was a photocopy of the disk. :doh:
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A friend of mine used to work in support for a large Accounting software Firm. She asked a client to "send in a copy of your data disk" for diagnostics and repair (I'm obviously going back a few years here!) Next day, a very thin envelope landed on her desk, marked "FAO xxxxx xxxxxx : Copy of Data Disk" You've guessed it - it was a photocopy of the disk. :doh:
Or a screenshot of the code[^] :thumbsup:
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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XKCD OTD: xkcd: .NORM Normal File Format[^] Now, all I need it to code up an app to generate .NORM files ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
This happens to me all too often... :((
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Or a screenshot of the code[^] :thumbsup:
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Or a screenshot of the code[^] :thumbsup:
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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A friend of mine used to work in support for a large Accounting software Firm. She asked a client to "send in a copy of your data disk" for diagnostics and repair (I'm obviously going back a few years here!) Next day, a very thin envelope landed on her desk, marked "FAO xxxxx xxxxxx : Copy of Data Disk" You've guessed it - it was a photocopy of the disk. :doh:
CHill60 wrote:
You've guessed it - it was a photocopy of the disk. :doh:
Oh, so you know that guy? I have heard that story repeated again and again, from all sorts of sources. Maybe a few details were lost here, a few other detail were lost there, but it clearly is comes from the same, true story. And here we have someone who knows the guy who actuall experienced it! Great!
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CHill60 wrote:
You've guessed it - it was a photocopy of the disk. :doh:
Oh, so you know that guy? I have heard that story repeated again and again, from all sorts of sources. Maybe a few details were lost here, a few other detail were lost there, but it clearly is comes from the same, true story. And here we have someone who knows the guy who actuall experienced it! Great!
I knew the woman it happened to... *just saying* Actually saw the photocopy too. Beaconsfield Arms, Gateshead, circa 1985-6 Did say I was "going back a bit" :laugh: Also personally experienced the "my mouse cable isn't long enough" because they thought it was the thing that paused the voice recorder. S**t, I'm old
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CHill60 wrote:
You've guessed it - it was a photocopy of the disk. :doh:
Oh, so you know that guy? I have heard that story repeated again and again, from all sorts of sources. Maybe a few details were lost here, a few other detail were lost there, but it clearly is comes from the same, true story. And here we have someone who knows the guy who actuall experienced it! Great!
There are a few websites dedicated to the idiocy people in tech support are subjected to. One example: I heard a recording of a guy who called tech support because his mouse reached the edge of the mouse pad but the cursor wasn't where he wanted it and he didn't know how to continue moving it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I knew the woman it happened to... *just saying* Actually saw the photocopy too. Beaconsfield Arms, Gateshead, circa 1985-6 Did say I was "going back a bit" :laugh: Also personally experienced the "my mouse cable isn't long enough" because they thought it was the thing that paused the voice recorder. S**t, I'm old
Don't forget the "broken cup holder" as well!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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XKCD OTD: xkcd: .NORM Normal File Format[^] Now, all I need it to code up an app to generate .NORM files ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Just yesterday a guy who should know better sent me an email with a large ZIP file attached. It claimed to be the individual installers for the 'suite' install I'm creating for him. It wasn't. The ZIP file contained four phone camera photos of the four individual application icons on some random Windows desktop, plus a Word document containing a screen capture of the primary application's installer's opening dialog. I am going to be patient and calm when I explain to him what I actually need. I am allowing myself one and only one chortle, chuckle, or giggle. I will not take a sledgehammer to him as a service to the race.
Software Zen:
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There are a few websites dedicated to the idiocy people in tech support are subjected to. One example: I heard a recording of a guy who called tech support because his mouse reached the edge of the mouse pad but the cursor wasn't where he wanted it and he didn't know how to continue moving it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
When I started working as freelance tech support (mid 90s), an early case was a company (employing about a dozen people) who's PC had died. Their business was pretty much dependent on a small database of customers. It's OK, they had backups - lots of them. I inserted the backup floppy disk from the previous day, and sure enough, there was the backup - of the software. Every day for a year they'd filled a floppy with a copy of the (unchanging) program folder. Zero backups of the data folder. Ooops.
