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.. the unemployment (employment?) website in France www.pole-emploi.fr.
You get an account as an employer to manage your "employees" - we are talking about the nanny of my children here - and they send you a password and identifier by snail mail for your first connexion. And .... *drum roll*
The password does not match the password rules (no special char where one is required, password is too short, etc...) !!!!  
So it gets rejected when you try to connect. OK, let's recover another password using the "recover lost password" : They send you another password over email. Which has the correct length. But still no special char... So I gotta call them on Monday to get my access, which means I need to stay at home because I cannot call them from Germany where I work - it's a special phone number, not working abroad. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Who on Earth performs syntax checks on password at login time ? Who sends out passwords to users that do not match their own password rules ?! WTF ??? 
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And WTF sends passwords in snail mail?
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*cough* This is why you use ASP.NET MVC and lazy evaluation (jQuery Validate) or filters *cough* Or whatever you prefer, I've taken a liking to this as of late. Sounds like a terrible situation, best of luck!
modified 4-Feb-17 13:19pm.
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Jon McKee wrote: ASP.NET MVC and lazy evaluation
is no answer to abject incompetence and idiocy on the part of the developer of the site.
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Very true! Re-reading that I misread part of it. They seem to have some form of validation, just not for their own self-created tokens
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Um ... When TalkTalk bought Tiscali, they inherited a lot of customers, and correctly imported their accounts, including passwords.
But ... the Tiscali passwords were not checked for length, special characters, or anything else, so one old(ish) lady I support had her connection and email password set to something she could remember: "pepsi" - the name of her late cat.
But TalkTalk does check passwords - so when she bought a new machine and tried to set it up, she couldn't enter her password to configure anything. (The old one was hashed and the hash stored, so it "just worked")
OK, no problem, we'll change the password. TalkTalk checks password security - particularly when it comes to changing them, and won't accept a five character password as the "existing password" so you can't change it either ...
Welcome to the nightmare of explaining why she can't log in, or change her password to tech support people working from a script. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Welcome to the nightmare of explaining why she can't log in
Very easy to explain; the company that provided the key (point to real key) is incapable of buying keys that fit their own locks. Some good advice - don't store anything of value there.
And no, I don't understand the mechanic either when he/she is talking technically about cars.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Rage wrote: France
Ah.
I think I've identified the root cause.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Black Sabbath plays final show ever tonight[^]
And given what Ozzie has ... uh ... "consumed" over the years I'm gobsmacked he is alive!
OT: Saw him on a TV series last year - Ozzy & Jack's World Detour - and apart from some understandable age and drug abuse related problems, he is doing pretty damn well!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was lucky enough to see them live a couple of years ago - a fantastic show that I will never forget.
Ozzy was certainly an odd character, though. Two things in particular stood out about him - I'm don't think he knew how much of the show had transpired. He finished every song (even the first one) as if it was the last one, stating "Thank you - you've been a wonderful audience." and stuff like that. Also, whenever the music was playing, he was full of energy, jumping around, fist pumping, etc. When the music stopped, he returned to shuffling around the stage as if he couldn't lift his legs.
He could certainly still pump it out, though!
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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OriginalGriff wrote: apart from some understandable age and drug abuse related problems [alcoholism mainly], he is doing pretty damn well!
So am I! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: he is doing pretty damn well!
And his doctors are doing even better!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nice twist, there.
At first glance, after being informed that the pick-up driver was only 18, I thought "Great, just another idiot kid", but he was the white hat in the story.
However: Quote: WTSP reports that Aponte’s driver’s license was suspended in August for failure to pay child support.
Hunh?
Is payment of child support one of the criteria for driving safely, now? Is it on the driving test?
How does that make any sense at all?
Unless, of course, they want him to be unable to work, and therefore repeat the offence twice more, so that they can lock him up in a slave camp for life.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Probably has to do with makings things inconvenient for the deadbeat dad. I'm guessing it's rather effective.
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No, it's a consequence for being a deadbeat. Further, he probably knew the DL suspension would occur before it did, so he chose it and the inconvenience. All he had to do is pay what he owes or make arrangements to do so and the DL suspension would have been lifted. But, no, he's a complete dick as this incident proves and so deserves everything that's coming to him. Now he's going to go to jail and will serve hard time. Meanwhile his childcare payments will still be owed and will accrue. Fat lot of good that does his children who will still likely continue to suffer due to his poor choices.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If you are using VS2017 RC, you may have noticed that the regular WiX cannot be installed for the most current version of VS2017 RC. However, assuming you already installed WiX for earlier version of VS, there is a manual procedure to extend WiX functionality to add its projects to VS2017 RC solutions, here:
How to Enable WiX Projects in Visual Studio 2017 RC - Stack Overflow[^]
But note the comment from Basim lower down in this post. I had to do what he suggests, before the WiX extension did work, but now it works 100%
If you're not familiar with WiX: It is a potent generator of application install files (*.msi). It is free.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 4-Feb-17 11:43am.
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Time to get familiar with Wix. I've been very interested in it ever since it launched, but just never had need for an installer. My few desktop apps have always just been xcopy install, and web apps FTP or WebDeploy. But now I'm busy on quite a large and very promising desktop app, maybe with accompanying Windows Service. So, time to install in 2017 and start learning.
Thanks!
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Good to see someone is staying on the bleeding edge! Congrats on your anniversary btw! ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: Good to see someone is staying on the bleeding edge!
I have to stay mentally stimulated, or I'll go bonkers! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 5-Feb-17 11:25am.
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string objectRefGuid = objectRef.ObjectTypeId.ToString() + PartDivider + objectRef.ObjectId;
if (objectRef.VersionNumber > 0)
objectRefGuid += PartDivider + objectRef.VersionNumber;
ObjectTypeId is 1, ObjectId is 2, and VersionNumber is 3. PartDivider is '_'.
The expected result was 1_2_3. The output was 1_298.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Implicit conversions are always a pain. 
More importantly, why is it called objectRefGuid when it doesn't contain a Guid?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Guid = globally unique identifier. In our case it's globally unique where we define "global" as being in the scope of the application.
(It's kinda like the World Series  )
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Now assume you are really in a production Environment... Sorry to say that, but a lot what happens here is never allowed in production.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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