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1.21 Gigawatts is not actually capable of time travel through the use of Plutonium, common household waste, or even steam trains - although he is working on it.

However, he is capable and has written software to automate the manufacture of prescription drugs for the pharmaceutical industry and currently for offshore Oil and Gas platforms.

This makes him a DCS Engineer, which he has been lucky enough to have been doing for the past 10 years. In this position he has been able to tune the temperature control of Reactors and facilitate the shut down of a few installations (although he asserts that this was a requested feature rather than a bug).

He studied more mainstream software development at college but doesn't use .net technology day-to-day. When he does get the chance to dabble with C# he uses it to develop tools to run the next generation of Flux Capacitors, which will be available on Amazon this spring.

If he does ask a n00b question that's C# related he asks that you cut him a bit of slack, he doesn't do it full time

Wink | ;)

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RantLotus Notes. Pin
1.21 Gigawatts12-Feb-10 21:32
1.21 Gigawatts12-Feb-10 21:32 
I have to use Lotus Notes for work email.

I complain about it bitterly all day.

So much in fact that I thought I should list here everything that it does that pisses me off instead of cluttering up the lounge with rants:

1) I clicked on a folder link in an email I was sent, a folder I didn't have access to (which I didn't know at the time).

So what does Potus Scrots do?
Yes that's right!!

It crashed.

I had to REBOOT MY MACHINE to get it started again.

Mad | :mad:


2) Used a 'quick flag' to flag-up an email to remind myself to look into a query I received.
I duly followed up the initial query, and went to remove the 'quick flag'.

What does Potus Scrots do?
Yes that's right!!

It displayed me an error message "Object variable not set".
Tried it again - nothing, no error.
Tried it a third time and it worked.

Mad | :mad:


3) Copied something to the buffer, closed Lotus Notes.

Lotus Notes clears the buffer.

Why?? Why have you cleared the buffer you useless sack of f***ing crap?
It wasn't even Lotus notes specific data, it was just text, JUST PLAIN F***ING TEXT!

Mad | :mad:


4) Why doesn't SHIFT+CLICK work like any other normal application eh?

Why does it put stupid f***ing ticks next to the items, rather then just highlighting the records from the first record I clicked on to the last record I clicked on?

Why?

I know why!
That would be too f***ing simple.

Mad | :mad:


5)Saving an attachment.

Notes will remember where you last saved an attachment.

Great, except that if you want to change the folder by going up to the folder drop down,
it'll forget where it was and start from the 'default' location.

So now I have to re-navigate my way back through the folder strcuture to where I want to be.


Why not have the drop down list start off where the last attachment was saved to?
You already know where it is!

Piece of crap.

Mad | :mad:


6) Oh and whilst we are on the subject of attachments.
If I save a large attachment it takes FOREVER to save.

The only indication of this is a progress bar at the bottom of Notes that is nearly invisible.

I know why they've done this, to try and keep LN repsonding to the users tasks whilst saving the
attachment.

But FFS, it's soo damn near impossible to see, and when I click save I expect
it to be 'saved' - if it isn't why not pop up a message box, or make the progress bar a bit more easier to see so that the user knows what the f*** is going on before they go to the folder and try to open the attachment - which you can't do because Notes is still saving it.

Piece of crap.

Mad | :mad:


7) Tried to print a selection of an email.

Couldn't do it. Is it even possible?
I have no idea, there is no option to just print a selection of an email on the print dialog.

CRAP.


Mad | :mad:


8) Calendar day events.

Due to the fact I work abroad, I am frequently out of the office for periods of time.
If you book a 5 day event and then later on change the beginning date, Potus Scots will change the end date.

FFS, stop pissing about you stinking dirty dogs anus, I've already set the f***ing end date, leave it the f*** alone.

CRAP.


Mad | :mad:


9) Blinking Web links.

Why?

CRAP.


Mad | :mad:

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein

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Now reading: 'The Third Reich', by Michael Burleigh

modified on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 10:52 AM

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