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Humbug!
Oh, wait!
It's the bit that comes before "humbug"!
Bugger.
I wish it were possible to edit things on the Interwebs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Subtle!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They just wanted to save their school.
Where there's a wool there's a way!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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DRHuff wrote: Where there's a wool there's a way!
Ewe are so right!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Personally I think the powers that be should officially pretend not to see any shenanigans going on with student registration; but instead come down on administration at the end of the year because 6% of the student body scored 0's on every assignment and examination. (Alternately do the same to the admins for falsifying grades.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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... started up Visio to create a flow chart, and my system prompted me to enter my credentials to connect to the MS template proxy server...
I entered my creds and it refuses to connect... because some idiot in the IA department decided that the MS office template proxy needed to be blocked. I can't use ANY of the office apps installed on my system because of this.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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LibreOffice on USB.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I'm not looking for suggestions or help. I'm merely ranting (again). Nothing anyone suggests can be done, because...
I have no control or even input regarding what software the Air Force uses. We also can't use USB devices of any kind, and we don't even have dvd drives in our systems. We also can't download anything from the internet, or install software.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: I'm not looking for suggestions or help. I'm merely ranting (again). Nothing anyone suggests can be done, because...
I have no control or even input regarding what software the Air Force uses. We also can't use USB devices of any kind, and we don't even have dvd drives in our systems. We also can't download anything from the internet, or install software.
That would frustrate the hell out of me.
So, now you are waiting until you get proper permission to use a template?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It is not a pleasant experience, to be sure...
I've spent the last three weeks trying to track down a connectivity problem, and it seems like we're no closer to resolving it than we were when I started. Our software was working great until the beginning of February, and then it suddenly started failing. The symptoms are (and have always been) that the software fires up multiple threads, and each thread is assigned an equal number of items to fetch via a web service. We expect an occasional request failure, and have written code to accommodate this in the form of a user-specified number of retries before terminating the app (the first thread that reaches the retry threshold terminates the app).
After running for a bit, the app starts getting consecutive failures on all threads. This might sound like a memory problem, but remember, up until February, it worked great. The length of time before the failures start is almost always different. To troubleshoot this, we even set up our own "remote" server and web service to return the same amount of data (500k records), which proved our app was working as intended.
I think our primary road block is that nobody wants to do as much work as we have in order to help us track it down. In other words, it's a typical federal government cluster-f*ck.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I hope the pay is good, might make it worth the extra nonsense 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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#realJSOP wrote: have no control or even input regarding what software the Air Force uses. We also can't use USB devices of any kind, and we don't even have dvd drives in our systems. We also can't download anything from the internet, or install software.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
That sounds like an even better excuse to go fishing or barhopping, or something.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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#realJSOP wrote: We also can't use USB devices of any kind, and we don't even have dvd drives in our systems. We also can't download anything from the internet, or install software.
No wonder nothing gets done in gov't. 
Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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That is a good thing.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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#realJSOP wrote: some idiot in the IA department decided that the MS office template proxy needed to be blocked. I can't use ANY of the office apps installed on my system because of this.
Sounds like a good enough excuse to go fishing or whatever floats your boat!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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#realJSOP wrote: I can't use ANY of the office apps installed on my system because of this.
And you reported this to those that can?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Stone tablets. Clay tablets if you are feeling artsy-fartsy. We all need to get back to basics. Screw this technology crap. Nothing but misery and suffering.
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Hah! You try playing Doom on an abacus!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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u can use word for flowcharts ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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he can't use office apps.
I'd rather be phishing!
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So 'IA' stands for 'Idiot Administrators'? 
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Your organisation's security is obviously flaky if you can rant about it! 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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#realJSOP wrote: I can't use ANY of the office apps installed on my system
As one who is compelled to use office 365, at work, I am so frugging jealous of you, right now!
Screw that cr@p! I'll happily do everything in plain text!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Notepad is making a comeback! You can also use WordPad if you want/need to get really fancy.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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