"WE GOT A NEW MONITOR AND NOW MY ICONS ARE ALL SMALL AND I HAVE GLAUCOMA WHY ARE THEY SO SMALL"
You know what I'm dealing with you after lunch.
I just spent 3 hours setting up the SQL reporting services for the web hub for a new bank and I need to replenish my giveafucks, which have been all wasted.
We have this 3rd party software that I have set up on a few workstations. It's a buggy piece of shit, but the alternative costs $texas so I manage around the bugs. One of the bugs is a pop up window that's supposed to show very specific information but is blank. It's not often but it's frequent enough that I submitted a help ticket for it. It's random and I can't duplicate it at-will, but I have provided screenshots. One of the responses I got to my ticket was:
"What kind of monitor do you have? Maybe your monitor is bad."
Our main software, the application that drives our entire business, does not play nicely with Windows's DPI settings. It has to be on 100% desktop scaling or else important buttons disappear and the software becomes unusable.
This has made our transition to Windows 10 and retina-PPI screens "interesting."
And by "interesting" I mean we have to set all of our Windows 10 installations to 1080p or similar regardless of the native resolution of the respective devices, and just nod our heads and look sympathetic when people complain that their screens are "blurry."
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
dynamic DPI scaling is annoying as piss in general to program for
WPF and UWP make it bearable but it's still one of those "uggggggggggggggggggggggggggh" things that no one would ever be okay with me spending 25% of my development time on UIs
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
dynamic DPI scaling is annoying as piss in general to program for
WPF and UWP make it bearable but it's still one of those "uggggggggggggggggggggggggggh" things that no one would ever be okay with me spending 25% of my development time on UIs
*cracks whip*
BACK TO THE XAML MINES, DEV
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
"WE GOT A NEW MONITOR AND NOW MY ICONS ARE ALL SMALL AND I HAVE GLAUCOMA WHY ARE THEY SO SMALL"
You know what I'm dealing with you after lunch.
I just spent 3 hours setting up the SQL reporting services for the web hub for a new bank and I need to replenish my giveafucks, which have been all wasted.
This is super easy. I just give them smaller desktops.
Want the icons bigger? 800x600 or some other variation for you!
Yeah, you'd think that'd be the solution.
That will result in 25 calls of "NOW OUR ICONS ARE TOO BIG WHAT HAPPENED I LIKED THEM THE WAY THEY WERE"
do you have any powershell tools to map a word dictionary on a network drive to a local install of MSWord?
We have a whole bunch of medical words in a custom word 2013 dictionary but doing it manually for every PC isn't feasible.
\\server\publicshare\medical.dic, I want it to be the primary dictionary that words are added to as well, any secrets or tools you might know for this?
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
"WE GOT A NEW MONITOR AND NOW MY ICONS ARE ALL SMALL AND I HAVE GLAUCOMA WHY ARE THEY SO SMALL"
You know what I'm dealing with you after lunch.
I just spent 3 hours setting up the SQL reporting services for the web hub for a new bank and I need to replenish my giveafucks, which have been all wasted.
This is super easy. I just give them smaller desktops.
Want the icons bigger? 800x600 or some other variation for you!
Yeah, you'd think that'd be the solution.
That will result in 25 calls of "NOW OUR ICONS ARE TOO BIG WHAT HAPPENED I LIKED THEM THE WAY THEY WERE"
Working as intended.
Ticket Closed.
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
do you have any powershell tools to map a word dictionary on a network drive to a local install of MSWord?
We have a whole bunch of medical words in a custom word 2013 dictionary but doing it manually for every PC isn't feasible.
\\server\publicshare\medical.dic, I want it to be the primary dictionary that words are added to as well, any secrets or tools you might know for this?
Never messed with that.
The settings appear to exist as registry keys which means you could powershell it without too much hassle once you figure out what the keys are supposed to look like.
Or hell just export it as a .reg
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
do you have any powershell tools to map a word dictionary on a network drive to a local install of MSWord?
We have a whole bunch of medical words in a custom word 2013 dictionary but doing it manually for every PC isn't feasible.
\\server\publicshare\medical.dic, I want it to be the primary dictionary that words are added to as well, any secrets or tools you might know for this?
Never messed with that.
The settings appear to exist as registry keys which means you could powershell it without too much hassle once you figure out what the keys are supposed to look like.
Or hell just export it as a .reg
yeah I tried the reg method and it didn't work at all
I need something that loads up on startup for domain computers
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
it comes down to where and how those settings are stored
if you can find that you can manipulate it
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
if I had my way all application configuration would be in plaintext files
to be honest I don't understand why this isn't the case
who are the devs all like "hey let's make all the settings in a giant blob of binary FUCK anyone who wants to change these without using the GUI"
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
if I had my way all application configuration would be in plaintext files
to be honest I don't understand why this isn't the case
who are the devs all like "hey let's make all the settings in a giant blob of binary FUCK anyone who wants to change these without using the GUI"
Especially since that clutters it up and makes everything dog slow eventually.
All apps should be portable, excluding licensing, just based off the folder they're in. You should be able to drag and drop it anywhere on your hard drive, or another computer.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
do you have any powershell tools to map a word dictionary on a network drive to a local install of MSWord?
We have a whole bunch of medical words in a custom word 2013 dictionary but doing it manually for every PC isn't feasible.
\\server\publicshare\medical.dic, I want it to be the primary dictionary that words are added to as well, any secrets or tools you might know for this?
Just compile a homebrew C++ app.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
do you have any powershell tools to map a word dictionary on a network drive to a local install of MSWord?
We have a whole bunch of medical words in a custom word 2013 dictionary but doing it manually for every PC isn't feasible.
\\server\publicshare\medical.dic, I want it to be the primary dictionary that words are added to as well, any secrets or tools you might know for this?
I'll show you my medical.dic!
No but seriously, this seems like something you should do in Group Policy.
"WE GOT A NEW MONITOR AND NOW MY ICONS ARE ALL SMALL AND I HAVE GLAUCOMA WHY ARE THEY SO SMALL"
You know what I'm dealing with you after lunch.
I just spent 3 hours setting up the SQL reporting services for the web hub for a new bank and I need to replenish my giveafucks, which have been all wasted.
This is super easy. I just give them smaller desktops.
Want the icons bigger? 800x600 or some other variation for you!
Yeah, you'd think that'd be the solution.
That will result in 25 calls of "NOW OUR ICONS ARE TOO BIG WHAT HAPPENED I LIKED THEM THE WAY THEY WERE"
Working as intended.
Ticket Closed.
Follow-up:
Turns out the problem was located entirely within our banking software. It wasn't scaling like the user wanted after they got Windows looking how they wanted.
*redirect ticket to Bank Support*
Ain't a damn thing more satisfying than "not my fucking problem"
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
So a friend of mine was fired from our company, and after he received a copy of his employee file, he strongly recommended I have a look in mine.
Well, that's pretty fucking eye opening. Since we got a new manager (who came from a vastly bigger corporation), they have basically been building a case against he and I (and by extension, I assume every other employee there) to fire you just in case they ever need to.
Every single time I ever emailed or called to say I would be 10 minutes late to work for any reason at all is in there. Any time there was the slightest question about if I handled an issue correctly or fixed something properly is in there. Every time I popped my head in to my boss's office to ask him a quick question is in there. There was a dress code warning that I never saw or signed in there. Every time they could remotely construe that I cost the company time or money is in there. Example, I threw a bunch of hard drives in our shredder box, and forgot to write down the serial number on one of the ~30 drives i dumped that day. I had to open the drop box up and verify the serial numbers on all the drives inside. That cost the company an hour of time. Held against me on my employee file. Example two, I took a PC on site to install at a client and it wouldn't boot after being perfectly fine on the bench the day before. There were other PCs installed but that one had to be brought back and rebuilt. That two hours for the rebuild is held against me. Entries in it omit shit in order to paint me in a very negative light. I assume it's a running document to justify fighting us should we ever file for unemployment.
There's exactly 1 positive entry in the whole fucking thing and it was by the old manager, not this new guy. I've had positive interactions with him. I've been told I did a good job on something. I've been told they were impressed by something or pleased with results. None of that shit is in there. All it has is a log of all the times they felt I either cost the company time/money, or fucked up.
My friend's file included notes that he neglected to fill out and submit his final time card for the week that they fired him, or the ticket details and documentation for the ticket he was still working on when they let him go.
I mean, the more I read, if your ticket summary is "I arrived precisely on time and completed the assignment quickly and flawlessly" then the result in your employee file is nothing. If the incident is any less glowing than that, they note whatever it is that fell short of "on time" or "flawless".
They put a note in his employee file for not submitting his timecard for the week that ended after they fucking fired him and escorted him out of the building, for fuck sake!
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We have this 3rd party software that I have set up on a few workstations. It's a buggy piece of shit, but the alternative costs $texas so I manage around the bugs. One of the bugs is a pop up window that's supposed to show very specific information but is blank. It's not often but it's frequent enough that I submitted a help ticket for it. It's random and I can't duplicate it at-will, but I have provided screenshots. One of the responses I got to my ticket was:
"What kind of monitor do you have? Maybe your monitor is bad."
:?
I don't know how I've retained 20/20 vision.
This has made our transition to Windows 10 and retina-PPI screens "interesting."
And by "interesting" I mean we have to set all of our Windows 10 installations to 1080p or similar regardless of the native resolution of the respective devices, and just nod our heads and look sympathetic when people complain that their screens are "blurry."
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
WPF and UWP make it bearable but it's still one of those "uggggggggggggggggggggggggggh" things that no one would ever be okay with me spending 25% of my development time on UIs
*cracks whip*
BACK TO THE XAML MINES, DEV
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Yeah, you'd think that'd be the solution.
That will result in 25 calls of "NOW OUR ICONS ARE TOO BIG WHAT HAPPENED I LIKED THEM THE WAY THEY WERE"
do you have any powershell tools to map a word dictionary on a network drive to a local install of MSWord?
We have a whole bunch of medical words in a custom word 2013 dictionary but doing it manually for every PC isn't feasible.
\\server\publicshare\medical.dic, I want it to be the primary dictionary that words are added to as well, any secrets or tools you might know for this?
Working as intended.
Ticket Closed.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
Never messed with that.
The settings appear to exist as registry keys which means you could powershell it without too much hassle once you figure out what the keys are supposed to look like.
Or hell just export it as a .reg
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
yeah I tried the reg method and it didn't work at all
I need something that loads up on startup for domain computers
it comes down to where and how those settings are stored
if you can find that you can manipulate it
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
to be honest I don't understand why this isn't the case
who are the devs all like "hey let's make all the settings in a giant blob of binary FUCK anyone who wants to change these without using the GUI"
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Especially since that clutters it up and makes everything dog slow eventually.
All apps should be portable, excluding licensing, just based off the folder they're in. You should be able to drag and drop it anywhere on your hard drive, or another computer.
I'm not sure how to interpret these awesomes!
Just compile a homebrew C++ app.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2012/06/15/use-powershell-to-add-bulk-autocorrect-entries-to-word/
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This might help as well.
http://davidvielmetter.com/tips/quickly-deploy-microsoft-office-customizations-post-install/
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Some people are really happy that users can log in with the correct NetBIOS name.
Oh my dear god, what kind of monster would do that?
No but seriously, this seems like something you should do in Group Policy.
This is a clickable link to my Steam Profile.
Follow-up:
Turns out the problem was located entirely within our banking software. It wasn't scaling like the user wanted after they got Windows looking how they wanted.
*redirect ticket to Bank Support*
Ain't a damn thing more satisfying than "not my fucking problem"
Glorious.
Well, that's pretty fucking eye opening. Since we got a new manager (who came from a vastly bigger corporation), they have basically been building a case against he and I (and by extension, I assume every other employee there) to fire you just in case they ever need to.
Every single time I ever emailed or called to say I would be 10 minutes late to work for any reason at all is in there. Any time there was the slightest question about if I handled an issue correctly or fixed something properly is in there. Every time I popped my head in to my boss's office to ask him a quick question is in there. There was a dress code warning that I never saw or signed in there. Every time they could remotely construe that I cost the company time or money is in there. Example, I threw a bunch of hard drives in our shredder box, and forgot to write down the serial number on one of the ~30 drives i dumped that day. I had to open the drop box up and verify the serial numbers on all the drives inside. That cost the company an hour of time. Held against me on my employee file. Example two, I took a PC on site to install at a client and it wouldn't boot after being perfectly fine on the bench the day before. There were other PCs installed but that one had to be brought back and rebuilt. That two hours for the rebuild is held against me. Entries in it omit shit in order to paint me in a very negative light. I assume it's a running document to justify fighting us should we ever file for unemployment.
There's exactly 1 positive entry in the whole fucking thing and it was by the old manager, not this new guy. I've had positive interactions with him. I've been told I did a good job on something. I've been told they were impressed by something or pleased with results. None of that shit is in there. All it has is a log of all the times they felt I either cost the company time/money, or fucked up.
That sounds like "I'm an asshole/idiot/fuckaroo (pick one) manager" policy
I don't know for what
or for who
but let's do it
My friend's file included notes that he neglected to fill out and submit his final time card for the week that they fired him, or the ticket details and documentation for the ticket he was still working on when they let him go.
You have to request it from HR. I received a copy. I assume that my original file now includes a note that I requested to see my file.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
With blackjack. And hookers.