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Discworld..
A few of the managers were Terry Prachett fans and found it very amusing. For the rest of us, it was meaningless 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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This post is the best social engeenering attack ever!  Next can be: What is your favorite password 
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CzimerA wrote: What is your favorite password
A GUID...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, but which GUID? Personally I like ones that end with a number followed by a triple letter, but that's just me...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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CzimerA wrote: What is your favorite password
A super awesome rocket idea for discussion, I must say
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One place we named all the servers after porn stars. The dev server was Jenna.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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In a small place where I worked we gave 4-letters female names (and my PC was Lamù, which is the name of Lum [Urusei Yatsura] in Italina  ).
In another I was the BOFH and we gave LOTR names, so we had Boromir (it died 3 days later, in nomen omen), Gandalf, Galadriel, Gimli...
At the university we had Disney names as Paperino (Donald duck), Goofy and so on...
Now we have corporate given names as Surname## where ## is a totally irrelevant number.
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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All computers are given names containing uppercase, lowercase, digits, and other allowable symbols.
Nice try...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Marco Bertschi wrote: What's the most creative naming scheme you came along in your career?
Workplace has a boring naming scheme. But at home, not sure how creative or not but all my computers get Aliens franchise spaceship names: Sulaco, Acheron, Nostromo, Auriga, Derelict, Betty, Narcissus... ran out of names just recently when I incorporated to the network a recently rescued EeePC701 - poor thing became Hobbit 
-- RP
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Last one was called Hal9000 and my current is called Glados.
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When I worked at Kellogg Canada in the late '80s and early '90s, the VAX/VMS systems were named after Kellogg characters: Tony, Toucan, Diggem, Pop, Snap
Now, servers are named differently depending on the controlling organization:
corporate - more likely to have some site significance
(MARPI - Marshall, BUCKCTPI - Buck CT, ALLENPI - Allen)
infrastructure - more likely to have general area significance
(CIN6AWTPIP1 - Cincy, Room 6A, CLTTVDPIP1 - Charlotte - Toddville area)
Desktops and laptops? The serial number... 2441CQ7R9Y...
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I have it easy... I name all of my computers (And some other devices too) after characters and places in my novels. Plenty of source material, as I have way too many characters.
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At my previous job, we used Norse mythological figures. Heimdall, Loki, Thor, etc...
At my current job, we have a rather unimaginative scheme: aaa-bbb-ccc-xxx-vm (dashes added so you can see the various parts), where aaa is the first 3 letters of the domain, bbb is a 3 letter code indicating the facility the server is housed at, ccc is a 2 or 3 letter code indicating what type of server it is (ad, sql, tfs, web, etc...) xxx is the current server number, zero-padded, new servers get the next number in sequence. The vm part means virutal, we used to have ph (physical) servers as well, but those are all gone now.
At home I use Caesar names. Current gaming rig/desktop is Titus, NAS is Augustus. VM that houses dev servers is Julius.
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Alll my personal PCs, laptops, and tablets are named after characters in the POGO comics:
POGO, ALBERT, HOWLAND, HEPZIBA, CHURCHY, etc
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I've been beating my head against a wall trying to run a simple watchface app in the Tizen Web IDE and it's really doing me in.
You would think that if you open a sample app from a template then you'd be able to just hit "Run" and have it build and run in the emulator. Oh no. Way too easy.
If you have a device connected via USB then you need to have a certificate installed. So you request a CSR. Then a CRT from the CSR, but first you need to register with Samsung so it can email you the CRT. Then a device profile certificate using the device ID. The IDE is connected to the device and can get the IDE, but it won't: you need to run something like SMD in a terminal window then copy and paste, then the cert is emailed to you with the password. Then you register it and... who knows, really. Certainly following what the IDE says to do won't help, because if you right click the device and say "Permit to install apps" it will complain there's no certificate.
OK, I'll disconnect the device and run the sample app on the emulator. Hit "run" and it complains there is no target to launch, please select and emulator in Connection Explorer. So you go to the connection manager and there's not a lot to do. Emulator manager allows you to manage emulators, but there's no obvious way to connect to the emulator once you've set one up.
On it goes. Dark, thick brambles and twisty turning tunnels every which way. And I haven't yet written a single line of code. This is for a pre-packaged sample.
I still can't get it running and it blows my mind that in 2015 it's so difficult. I can only assume either I'm missing a silly, basic step that I'll work out in another 2 hrs, or something wasn't installed correctly.
[Update: The trick with the emulator is you need to click the little "play" arrow in the image of the emulator. It's small. It looks like it's just part of the emulator picture. However you need to click it. How about a "Start Emulator" button, given the massive amounts of screen space wasted in the app? Anyway, start the emulator, then go to the IDE and choose one of the 3 start buttons (I kid you not). Two won't work. The other one? That one will cause a blue screen.
/slams head on desk]
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 5-Jun-15 4:02am.
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Tizen or not Tizen, my opinion is this new "must" of creating apps for mobiles is getting us crazy.
Even without any certificate...
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Writing iOS apps in XCode used to be a similar headache, even if you are just trying to renew a license. The latest released I worked with before moving had a lot of this automated though. It's almost the these companies want makes it as difficult as possible for developers to suggest their devices.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE
veni bibi saltavi
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XYZZY
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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NOTHING HAPPENS
veni bibi saltavi
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What, just like today's WSO CCC (hint, hint)?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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STILL NOTHING HAPPENS
veni bibi saltavi
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It's fair to say that I loathe Tizen too. It's just so unintuitive, and the features that are available are poorly documented if there's any documentation at all.
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Far too much sugar (and suspicious colourings)..
http://tizer.co.uk/[^]
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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i drink to that *heaves glass* 
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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