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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 ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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. 
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Or a screenshot of the code[^] 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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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That is some very good advice. 
"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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CHill60 wrote: You've guessed it - it was a photocopy of the disk.
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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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" 
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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Don't forget the "broken cup holder" as well!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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?"
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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.
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This happens to me all too often... 
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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: delete this;
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Cut up <meat> and marinade in soy sauce, salt and corn flour for half an hour.
Deep fry it til it is crispy.
Fry ginger garlic in wok.
Add chopped onions, bell peppers chillies black pepper.
Put in crispy meat.
Add sugar vinegar soy sauce rice wine in varying quantities and call it:
1) Sweet and sour <meat>
2) General Po's chicken
3) Chilli <meat>
4) Sichuan <meat>
5) Mongolian beef
6) General Tso's spicy chicken
7) Stir fried beef and green peepper
etc
etc
etc
whatever the hell you want, its all the same damn thing anyway. 
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And why do they need all those generals to kill a few chickens?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You sir, are patronising the wrong takeaways! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: You sir, are patronising the wrong takeaways!
... And in the wrong country!
There's about as much genuine Chinese food in European countries as there is genuine Indian food.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Look where he's in residence - they'll eat pretty much anything that they can outrun.*
* Don't worry about those bits of yellow jacket in with your noodle - no extra charge.
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The best french cookbooks only have one line:The Best French Cookbooks say: If it moves, eat it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Actually I am back in the UK. 
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A Gastronomical Wonderland if ever there was one!
How do you manage it? Some phenomenally bad Karma earned in a previous life, I expect.
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UH? The UK is better than France!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: UH? The UK is better than France!
Perhaps that's true - some Indian food should be available.
But basically, your statement is very closely aligned with: Leprosy is better than Typhoid!
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I had one of the best meals ever in Cornwall. it was a master piece of balance and subtlety
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A starving man may drool over a fly-covered road-kill.
But it's good that you enjoyed your meal . . . bon appetit.
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Generally food is pretty simple here though, fish pie, fish and chips, steak and chips is what you get in most pubs
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