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Entropic posted:Post your best UI buttons with bad vibes The autocomplete in my editor half-broke last week, and now when it can't find any suggestions to put in the tooltip, it just says "No." I'm assuming it's supposed to be "No suggestions found" or something, but it makes me smile every time it does it.
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One of our phone customers has a hunt group for taking calls from customers who are reporting outages, which internally ended up being called the “Trouble” group, so a bunch of their phones have a softkey button on their screen that says “Enable Trouble”
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Feb 3, 2023 20:29
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Entropic posted:One of our phone customers has a hunt group for taking calls from customers who are reporting outages, which internally ended up being called the “Trouble” group, so a bunch of their phones have a softkey button on their screen that says “Enable Trouble” Do they call their shifts being "behind the wire"?
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Feb 3, 2023 20:35
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when i was a small childe using windows 95 i thought the "illegal operation" error meant i was in huge, huge trouble and might go to jail
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Feb 3, 2023 20:41
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Weedle posted:when i was a small childe using windows 95 i thought the "illegal operation" error meant i was in huge, huge trouble and might go to jail Same except all the customers at the small-town ISP that I worked support at
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Feb 3, 2023 20:48
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Weedle posted:when i was a small childe using windows 95 i thought the "illegal operation" error meant i was in huge, huge trouble and might go to jail wicked same
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Feb 3, 2023 20:50
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The number of times I got calls about that when I was on first line helpdesk is insane.
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Feb 3, 2023 20:51
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Weedle posted:when i was a small childe using windows 95 i thought the "illegal operation" error meant i was in huge, huge trouble and might go to jail A friend lent me one of the discs for Command & Conquer and the elaborate animations in the installer where it pretends to be establishing a satellite uplink and decrypting the transmission or whatever while it copied the game files made me panic and think it was detecting that I was installing it illegally.
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Feb 3, 2023 22:51
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Some ancient software (niche industry "SharePoint" type thing) I was using back in 2012 had components that super users could create and these could have further nested components. When you tried to delete the very top level component that existed you would get a browser alert of "Are you sure you wish to delete this component? It will destroy all your children.".
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Feb 4, 2023 08:52
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Weedle posted:when i was a small childe using windows 95 i thought the "illegal operation" error meant i was in huge, huge trouble and might go to jail When I was a kid, my family had an Amiga. I remember being quite confused about what exactly a guru was and why they’d be meditating.
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Feb 4, 2023 10:33
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door.jar posted:Some ancient software (niche industry "SharePoint" type thing) I was using back in 2012 had components that super users could create and these could have further nested components. When you tried to delete the very top level component that existed you would get a browser alert of "Are you sure you wish to delete this component? It will destroy all your children.". Ah yes, "zombies killing their children", what a fun artifact of computing in a certain era that we had to explain about our jobs to our families That ISP that I mentioned working at, the owner was this dude with a really weird prankish sense of humor, the kind we all knew we should do our best to keep from having any contact with customers but we could never really bring ourselves to intervene because it was always just really funny to see him loving with customers, some of which even deserved it. One time our SunOS DNS box lost its mind and had some kind of runaway system process that resulted in name services breaking for all our dialup customers (who were all dialing in to our rack of US Robotics Courier modems at 33.6) and nobody could get to anything on the Internet. We were fielding all kinds of calls from bewildered little old ladies and explaining as best we could that we were experiencing technical difficulties, in between me and Jim, the owner, frantically trying to figure out how to restore named to its previous working condition. In the middle of all this, while the rest of us are all juggling phones in both ears at once, the phone next to the DNS machine (where Jim is flailing away on the keyboard watching processes and trying to restart services) rings, and he snatches it up. We only heard his side of the conversation: "Hello?" "...." "Yes, we're working on it." "..." "Named turned into a zombie process." "...??" "NAMED TURNED INTO A ZOMBIE PROCESS." "........" "Thank you." He hung up, and I stared at him, and he stared at me. "Well, it did!""
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Feb 4, 2023 12:58
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Bit of a crosspost from the games forum but appropriate: So yeah, the people working on a major AAA game-as-a-service title published by a major publisher apparently coded a game patch that managed to blow up their own game build/patch system AND its going on 4+ days of them trying to unfuck it. Do you think they with the Backups by Buffalo option ? 
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Feb 9, 2023 20:41
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New, from the user who brought you EMAIL:
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Feb 11, 2023 03:31
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If the next ticket is WORD you know their O365 sub is fux.
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Feb 11, 2023 03:50
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I'm mostly disappointed they didn't put their preferred method of contact as Teams for the trifecta. I don't think it's in the dropdown but I feel like this is one of those users who would have somehow found a way.
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Feb 11, 2023 06:37
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Knormal posted:I'm mostly disappointed they didn't put their preferred method of contact as Teams for the trifecta. I don't think it's in the dropdown but I feel like this is one of those users who would have somehow found a way. Helpdesks greatest hits: User ticket: my email doesn’t work Help desk agent: emailed user Help desk agent: emailed user Help desk agent: emailed user Help desk agent: user never responded, ticket closed.
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Feb 11, 2023 06:40
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We would get contact forms saying they can't receive email, and then only provide the not working email address as their contact method. Usually it was because their mailbox was full. We could increase their mailbox size a bit to try to get a message in there, but usually there was a queue of stuff waiting that would immediately fill it up. Eventually we got a new web client that would give quota warnings, and they changed students to Gmail as I was leaving.
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Feb 12, 2023 01:40
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I remember having only 50mb space in my mailbox in uni, and every few months warnings would come in and I had to go in and delete stupid old PowerPoint presentations I'd done for classes to make space for new ones. This was BEFORE Gmail existed. I'm old.
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Feb 12, 2023 10:38
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Sywert of Thieves posted:I remember having only 50mb space in my mailbox in uni, and every few months warnings would come in and I had to go in and delete stupid old PowerPoint presentations I'd done for classes to make space for new ones. I still remember when hotmail and yahoo had mailbox expiration dates plus an overall mailbox size of 15-25mbs. I also had my gmail account by invite and not by request. Good god it seems like ages ago.
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Feb 12, 2023 11:42
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Sywert of Thieves posted:I remember having only 50mb space in my mailbox in uni, and every few months warnings would come in and I had to go in and delete stupid old PowerPoint presentations I'd done for classes to make space for new ones. My uni email was only accessible via telnetting into a Unix server and I once had my access suspended and got called into the sysadmin's office because I replied all to a dumb email thread someone started. 
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Feb 12, 2023 12:02
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Your email would be whatever cPanel installed (Horde?), it would authenticate against an IMAP server and everything was in clear text.
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Feb 12, 2023 12:21
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Fil5000 posted:My uni email was only accessible via telnetting into a Unix server and I once had my access suspended and got called into the sysadmin's office because I replied all to a dumb email thread someone started. I once got a stern talking to (as well as receiving dozens of flame emails) after I sent an email to a distribution list to literally every student on campus, asking how to install Quake on lab computers. I was not a very smart freshman.
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Feb 12, 2023 13:11
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Sywert of Thieves posted:This was BEFORE Gmail existed. I'm old. HEY DOES ANYONE WANT A GMAIL INVITE I GOT 3 OF THEM
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Feb 12, 2023 14:32
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I wonder if Google still have records of who invited who to Gmail, and if that's going to cause some mass account suspension episode in the future.
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Thanks Ants posted:I wonder if Google still have records of who invited who to Gmail, and if that's going to cause some mass account suspension episode in the future. Does having a redeemed wave invite and a google plus history counts for not being banned in that night of long dead platforms?
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Feb 12, 2023 15:10
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gently caress, Google Wave was so bad. I never got it to perform anywhere close to decent. It was always a slow laggy mess. So much for reinventing email.
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Feb 12, 2023 15:19
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Sywert of Thieves posted:gently caress, Google Wave was so bad. I never got it to perform anywhere close to decent. It was always a slow laggy mess. So much for reinventing email. Wasn’t that the one that showed you each character someone typed as they were typing?
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Sywert of Thieves posted:gently caress, Google Wave was so bad. I never got it to perform anywhere close to decent. It was always a slow laggy mess. So much for reinventing email. It was incredibly bandwidth hungry. I had a nice VDSL2 at the time and it rarely slowed down(unless you had lot of item history to load) while other friends on adsl or slower pretty much were loading the pages at teletype speeds.
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Feb 12, 2023 15:30
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loving Google Wave  A friend tried running a D&D campaign in it and it ended up being easier to just write everything down with a pen instead.
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Feb 12, 2023 16:00
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5 invite Gmail user (June 2004, I think), Wave user (when I could make it do anything), and Google+ person (actually used it quite a lot for a while). I really wish Wave had turned into something more than a tech demo of what not to do for realtime collaboration. I swear there was another one out there I missed that died quickly. Probably several. But I probably tried them all.
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Feb 12, 2023 16:11
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Wave was released when I was in college, and the biggest use we got out of it was collectively transcribing the professor's PowerPoint slides that he refused to share with us. We could copy a slide in like 10 seconds it owned so hard
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Renegret posted:Wave was released when I was in college, and the biggest use we got out of it was collectively transcribing the professor's PowerPoint slides that he refused to share with us. I remember scoring an invite while my Google loving boss did not, which pissed him off to no end. The live edit part was next gen compared to the at the time standard ping pong of attachments.
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AlexDeGruven posted:5 invite Gmail user (June 2004, I think), Wave user (when I could make it do anything), and Google+ person (actually used it quite a lot for a while).
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Feb 12, 2023 17:03
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Google Wave was a cool tech demo for simultaneously editing Google Docs
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Arquinsiel posted:I had a small number of friends who used it regularly and all but one of us bailed when they decided to force us to ditch our chosen identities. Funnily enough that was illegal under Irish law and about a year after I told them so they got back to me and went "poo poo, yeah, sorry. Here's your account back" but at that point the ship had sailed and everyone was on Facebook... who then did the same thing and now their userbase is our parents' generation getting mad about conspiracy theories. I actually don't recall this kerfuffle about changing identities on Google+, remind me?
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Renegret posted:HEY DOES ANYONE WANT A GMAIL INVITE i still remember getting my account from iSnoop's thread in GBS
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Podima posted:I actually don't recall this kerfuffle about changing identities on Google+, remind me?
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My mom was a little more computer savvy than most people so instead of doing a yahoo or aol account she bought a domain name that was our last name and set it up so that we were firstname @ lastname.net. She eventually let it expire so I looked into buying it back a few years ago and I was able to get it back. I kinda wanna start using it on resumes cause I think it's a neat talking point and I think they're fairly rare to see these days.
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Sywert of Thieves posted:I once got a stern talking to (as well as receiving dozens of flame emails) after I sent an email to a distribution list to literally every student on campus, asking how to install Quake on lab computers. I was not a very smart freshman. Not quite as dumb as a group of 1st years from back in the day (aka very early 1990s) who discovered that you could send messages via their Unix login to other people logged in at the time. Great fun they thought. They found one user called Saul or Steve Imon (name changed to protect the guilty...), and send them a message. It was ignored. So they tried again. And again. Then sent the person a few nasty messages. Next day they went to log in, and found their accounts suspended, with a message to go talk to Simon. Yup, the person they insulted. The only one with a username that wasn't first initial + last name. Also known as the university Sys Admin.
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"Um, I want to know if we have a particular software package.." "Which package is that?" "Uh, B-A-S-I-C it's called." >clickety clickety d-e-l b-a-s-i-c.e-x-e< "Um no, we don't have that. We used to though.."
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