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Given that I'm the DSJB (Departmental Sh<nobr>it-Job Boy), I write lots of utility programs for managing our source control and build servers, among them the following:
Builder: A Windows service that performs our automated build process for all of our products. It runs on our three department servers, and can be commanded remotely to do product builds. Knownst to me, but ignored by my coworkers, is the fact that you can install it on your development machine and do full product builds. The only difference is that the product installs aren't published and a build archive isn't created.
H***Sys Scheduler: Our corporate IT department, in their infinite capacity for stupidity, has managed to screw up Windows authentication so badly that you can't use scheduled tasks on your workstation if they require the user's login credentials. The Scheduler is a Windows service that runs under a user's login credentials and will execute anything you like at specific times or intervals.
Shadow: Watches for check-ins in our source control for a specific area, updates a local copy as needed, and emails the development group. Used on our build servers to manage asset data files required for certain product installs.
The one program I've written that's seen widespread use among my coworkers is called Trace Viewer. It listens for TCP/IP messages from our various software components in our products and can record them in a file. It provides a rich toolset for filtering and organizing the messages for debugging purposes. As an example, it's the tool we use to tell the Builder service when to build a product, and to watch the build as it proceeds.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The software we were using was being rewritten and I was a bit bored.
First it started out with something to fix the scans that came out of the 100 page a minute copiers. Awesome. 4 hours of work every 2 days cut in half. Ha, winning.
Then I got really bored. So I picked up the Acrobat PDF 1.4 Specs. That was about 10 years ago now..
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How about a survey to pick your favorite (or favorites?) omitted answer from the weekly survey? I'm sure we all have a favorite !
Perhaps we can even get a list of them, here, to give the survey-meister a less daunting task. There are, after all, so many to choose from - but the favorites are, like most sadomasochistic delights, clearly a matter of personal taste.
Best of all, this survey can easily become recursive (ironic descendant of original cursing?)
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What we need is a survey to decide what kind of survey is the survey is the best 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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The omitted answer I'd most like to see is "With a melon?"
I leave up to your fertile imagination to work out what survey that goes with.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Alternatives to the traditional clue bat?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'll have to ask Rumpletweezer.
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Do you also have a cat called mungojerry? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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...and "Who holds the goose?".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Meringue Bacon
FTFY
Keep Calm and Carry On
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- None of the above
- All of the above
- A sledgehammer
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A cyclist as representative (12) edited no. of letters
modified 2-Sep-20 5:44am.
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oops... got number of letters wrong.  I counted twice, too... honest!
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So,
That means it's spokesperson
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I think, given my foul-up with the complex task of counting to twelve, that you should win. My intended solution was SPOKESPERSON (12) so I can hardly deny you the win.
I did briefly toy with selecting the answer in MS Word and checking the character count but instantly dismissed that as stupidity (rightly so). I just underestimated my own stupidity at the same time.
But just for fun and on the cyclist theme (no prize)
How would a sailor greet a cyclist? (4)
(I think I should OK counting to four).
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DerekT-P wrote: I think, given my foul-up with the complex task of counting to twelve
That's what happens when you grow up under the Exchequer standard while the rest of the world adopts the metric system. 
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How would a sailor greet a cyclist? (4)
AHOY (as in Chris Hoy - British (sorry, Scottish) Olympic cycling champion in 2008)?
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Woohoo. Yep 
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Right you are!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I would count this as a remix, rather than a cover. 
It's a great remix, but I probably lean towards the original version.