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Don't forget to take away the number you first thought of.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Counting binary on your fingers again? You could always throw in 260 for good measure.
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I've got a funny feeling that the user has to press the 4 key to select an option that reads "3".
These stupid mortals just don't understand zero-based lists.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Remember than 1 and 4 are adjacent on a numeric keypad, but 3 ia waaaayyy over there. 
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Seriously - this is a real user problem?
and this person probably drives too.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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No, this wasn't the actual problem.
The real problem was that the user couldn't understand why deleting a record caused it to no longer show up on reports.
I went with the 3/4 problem because I didn't think anyone would believe the actual problem.
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You know, you just can't make this stuff up.
Years ago, my Dad worked at IBM. Every year he was on the team to come up with the division budget. At home, we just hid during that month. He got so fed up with the process that he wrote a program Algol or apl or something to act as a rudimentary spreadsheet - it let everyone punch in their groups numbers and rolled them all up.
Life was good, it worked.
First user.... stuck.... calls my dad:
User: "Hey Chuck, your program doesn't work."
Dad: "Okay, what's it doing?"
User: "Nothing, it just sits there."
Dad: "What's on your screen?" <-- before the days of PCs
User: "It's asked for my username, I typed it, but now it's just sitting there."
Dad: "Hmmm, oh, I know what's wrong... press return."
User: "Hey! That fixed it."
And this was at IBM.....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I hate to be a spoil sport, but often something needs to be deleted for operational purposes, but the history of its existence needs to be kept for reports of past activity. There are a number of ways to handle this, such as marking the record for deletion using a flag for that purpose, but not really deleting the record. Then any queries for currently active records need to take the delete flag into consideration. Or you could maintain a separate history table for reports, copying the record into it before deleting it from the active table.
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All deleted records are stored in a deleted records table.
What was odd is she wanted deleted records to appear in totals - which makes no sense.
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It makes sense if, for example, each record is a customer request, and she wants to report to her superiors how many customer requests she entered, even though she may have subsequently deleted one of them.
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Yes, I'm sure you could fabricate at least a dozen reasons why a deleted record should appear on a hypothetical report - and they'd all be valid reasons. However, in this case it made no sense and the person is objectively stupid.
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For the sake of humanity, please throw this user in front of a bus moving at high speed.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm too old to move at high speed anymore. 
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Hold the 4 key for over 3 seconds to get a 4 
There are always creative solutions for stupid problems.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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I feel your pain - ouch, ooh, ow 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Have you ever dared ask "WHY" a user wants certain behavior? It does seem the regular user wants the program to psychically know what they really wanted to happen.
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1: Because we've always done it that way.
2: I don't know.
3: It is easier.
4: I'm borderline retarded and probably should be weaving baskets for a living.
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So I'm a remote software developer looking for a relatively simple and easy backup and restoring option as I am responsible for managing my own tech.
What I have:
-I have remote source control backup (Visual Studio Online\Github)
-I have GDrive synced for my important files.
I was looking at carbonite (they require an external hard drive) and this article by Scott Hanselman (NAS backup).
My Ideal Setup
-Does not take up room on my current hard drive
-Can be done via network
-Does not require my laptop to physically hook into an external hard drive or other device.
-Can be done (or scripted) to work passively
-If possible I would like an image of my hard drive
-If my drive stops working I'd like to have a mirror up painlessly. (I have an SSD so I'm a little worried about how things will end)
-Allows me to work at different locations without carrying an external hard drive that can be dropped and damaged.
Maybe I'm being to demanding for what I want. Or maybe I'm just too lazy.
Let me know what you all think. Is there an ideal solution for folks on the go? Or any suggestions.
What are your Backup and Restore Solutions ?
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Well, it violates some of your rules, but I image my drive weekly. I'll be moving to a VM setup over Christmas. Then I just copy the container file and we're done.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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What software are you using for Imaging?
Do you intent to work entirely from a vm?
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I don't use s/w - that was the most annoying thing I have ever tried. I went out and bought a disk to disk copy system, http://www.cavalrystorage.com/en-cahdd-u3c.aspx[^]
Because I buy my own laptops, I always get one with easily accessible drives - I'm typing this message now on a Dell Precision). To remove the hard drive, I just flip the laptop, remove the battery, hit the release and out pops the hard drive. So, I pop the hard drive out, slap it into the unit above, put the target drive in and hit the image button. This way, if I lose a drive, I have the complete setup - no s/w installs, etc.
I'm looking hard at the VM concept, mainly because it will make backups even easier. The primary drive will run Windows 7 natively, but it will be a minimalistic install. Just enough to get the VM running. The VMs will contain all of the installed s/w.
Due to a long running project, I run Windows Xp in Microsoft's VM that comes with Windows 7 Professional. It's quick, and I don't notice any degradation in performance, and I do a lot of large compiles in it. I asked about using VMs last month in the forum, there were many EXCELLENT comments and suggestions. So much so that I really wonder why development organizations don't make it mandatory.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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hey there Charlie - what model Dell Precision do you have ? (I need to transition off a Sony Vaio - great machine for portablility and small tasks on the go, but too much stuff on its SSD now) .. I was thinking of a fully spec'd M6800
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Garth - is the Precision M4700. Swapped the drive out with an SSD, 1920x1080 and it does very well. Great keyboard, solidly built. I didn't go core i7, i5 is more than enough for my development needs. I did lose the Radeon graphics card a while back, but three year next day support is worth it. You just need to get past the level 1 support drones insisting you have a driver problem...
The nice thing about this model is that if you are not using the dvd that much, you can get a replacement drive bay and stick another SSD in there. Or a spare battery. I don't do that much road warrior work - more of going to the lab, coming home and working at the home office, repeat.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Hire someone to do it for you.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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