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Or never forget the beer...
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modified 4-Dec-14 14:21pm.
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I prefer thanking doctors (see below).
I'd rather be phishing!
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"God heals, the doctor collects the fee."
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Sometimes God wants you to visit a doctor before he heals.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Joy...
Happiness...
Health...
All these and many more are my wishes for you all!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Happy Turkey Day!!
Jeremy Falcon
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So, it is Thanksgiving Day here in the USA and this year I have one significant factor to be thankful for: I was discharged from hospital a few days ago after a heart catherization procedure during which four stents were placed in arteries that supply blood to the heart, to rectify blockages. I am so grateful for modern medical technology for curing the angina and diminishing the risk of a serious heart attack, at least for another decade or so!
Winning is not everything. There is also losing. That is why winning is so important.
-- Hagar the Horrible
modified 27-Nov-14 12:24pm.
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Good for you!
Hope you are up and about as normal (or better) real soon.
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Wishing you a long and healthy life ahead of you!
/ravi
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Hope everything is as should be - enjoy your time...Happy Thanksgiving...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Indeed, that is something to be thankful for!
Marc
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Cornelius Henning wrote: here in The United States of America
FTFY
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PEDANTconsult wrote: here in The United States of America
FTFY
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Congratulations, Cornelius !
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Welcome back to the land of the living!
Jeremy Falcon
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Sounds like "less butter, more running" type of thanks.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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When I got my DSL, they gave me this wireless router, which I think is pretty much a piece of crap, but I've never replaced it.
A couple weeks ago, my laptop and desktop stopped "seeing" each other. This was not a voluntary breakup, nor an involuntary one induced by some overzealous admin-parent. I had thought it might be because I had installed some low level TCP/IP drivers on my desktop machine, but no, that was insufficient to drive a wedge between the lovely relationship.
Yesterday was strange. We had a foot of snow. The lights kept flickering, but we didn't lose power, though a lot of the rest of the village did. We have this old coaxial cable line (I don't think it's the DSL, isn't that twisted pair all the way???) between the main house and the carriage house where I live. No, I'm not a horse, it hasn't been used for horses in probably 80 years.
Anyways, several large heavy snow laden branches of fir tree fell on the cable, dragging in to the ground (there must have been a lot of slack somewhere) and across the driveway, which now being 7 PM, pitch black, and accumulating snow faster than fleas on a kitten, I figured something ought to be done.
So I sawed off enough limbs to pull the line free, then we bothered my neighbor on the second floor, whose very handy son climbed out the window onto the second floor "deck" far enough to do something funky with a carabiner and hooked it onto a post protruding from the house (the cable loops through something there as well) while I held the line taught (that's a lot of weight on a cable that's probably 70 feet between the two houses) while watching the snow plows drive by on the street.
So now the line is suspended a good 10 - 12 feet above the ground, out of the way of the future snow plow.
I come back inside, and my girlfriend exclaims that she tried as best she could to keep the fire lit (it was all embers now) and that the wireless had stopped working (yes, we get back to the router now.) Very odd, the wireless light was out, but the Internet light was on, and the Internet still worked (my son breathed a sigh of relief because he does some late night gaming. Sigh.)
Threw some kindling on the fire, closed the doors, and started fussing with the router. A couple hours later I use my cell phone to google resetting the router. I should have done this a long time ago. The directions say, hold the reset button for 30 seconds. Seems like 5 was enough, but I didn't do it right when I tried it earlier - I was holding the reset button while powering on the router, I should have just done the reset after it was powered on.
The default username and password on the website are wrong too. It's not "Admin" and "Password", it's "admin" and "password". Took another 5 minutes to remember that gem from a few years ago.
So, lo-and-behold, after resetting the damn thing, the wireless started working again. Not only that, but my laptop and desktop machines have rediscovered their relationship. Yay! Oddly, the whole Internet experience seems faster too - particularly page loads.
And I think this was just a series of synchronous but disconnected events. I doubt the cable is the DSL line, but I could be wrong. The fire rekindled itself after about 15 minutes and we had a lovely dinner (that is, if you have a passion for lentil soup and brussel sprouts steamed and then covered in butter, and lightly salted and peppered.)
Oh yeah, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Marc
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Only in the sense of being brought in as a consultant to fix the mess.
Marc
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At least you got payed for (I hope so!)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: At least you got payed for (I hope so!)
Yes quite, but it's interesting how frustrating the process can be, working with crappy code. To give you an example, I took one function with 20 or so property "setters" all hand-coded against a database table and replaced the whole thing with one line of Linq and some reflection.
Now, imagine dozens of these functions, because there are dozens of these tables, each of which was hand-coded, and all of which, comprising thousands and thousands of lines of code, could be reduced to my one line general purpose function.
And no, performance is not an issue, using reflection is just fine, etc.
And this code was written by someone (around Jan of 2014) claiming to have 20 years of experience and degrees in Computer Science.
Argh. It's really strange, but I can actually "hear" the code screaming, like a deformed baby from some horror movie. It sure needs a lot of healing.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: And no, performance is not an issue, using reflection is just fine, etc.
Not sure how that it relevant since of course performance would be mostly impacted by the database call itself and of course the overall architecture.
Marc Clifton wrote: And this code was written by someone (around Jan of 2014) claiming to have 20 years of experience and degrees in Computer Science.
Did the code work?
Was it laid out in a consistent manner?
Was the code that was created by the one individual consistent between different entities?
If the answer to all of those is no then it was crappy code.
If the answer is yes then of course you are discussing a preference which has nothing to do with the actual quality of the code.
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