When is NaN.NaN.NaN?
Trying to select the ‹ or › results in the pop-up calender dissapearing, and the curious “Not a Number” date appearing.
Summary: it is not possible to enter a date using the pop-up calender for other than the current month.
Posts Tagged ‘fail’
When is NaN.NaN.NaN?
Friday, June 4th, 2010SAP Warning
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Do you want to proceed?
When logging on to do submit some expenses, I was asked about the Transaction CO Through-postings from F1, and about how they were locked.
You better ask yourself, ”Do you want to proceed? Well, do ya? Punk?!
Update: Turns out that this means that month has been closed. It remains to be seen what that means for my expense claim.
The IBM Air Movement Device
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Last night, I tweeted about my dead power supply, and mentioned that the AMD was malfunctioning. This was a reference to what I thought was a folklore story about an IBM computer reporting a faulty AMD, and noone being able to figure out what the fell an AMD was.
This morning, I Googled it, and sure enough, there is such a thing as an IBM AMD.
AKA fan
Usually, an acronym is supposed to save letters, but this time, the saving of letters is only because the original term was made needless complicated.
Word trying to raise the dead: Attached templates from servers long gone.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010So, after the IT department failed to upgrade Lotus Notes remotely, they came to my desk, and ran Microsoft Update. Manually. And installed about 40 updates. Why hadn’t these been updated already? Don’t ask.
Some of these updates were for Office, and naturally, something went wrong. All of a sudden, Word started hanging when trying to open documents. Google found some forums, which lead to this article
Documents that have attached templates take a long time to open in Word 2002 and in Word 2003 …
So the solution is unplug from the network, and run a Macro, cutting and pasting into it every directory in which you may have documents with attached templates on non-existent servers. Oh fun.
Not to mention that I also dislike VB, especially VBA, and trying to research recursive directory search code requires the internet, which is disconnected because testing the VBA macro will hang. Nice.
Oh, and by the way, the AutoOpen macro? Yeah, it runs after the templates have been loaded, so no good trying to write a macro that fixes this only when you try to open this document.
Dear Lazyweb: write me an app that searches all my computer for Word files, detects an attached template beginning with “\\” and replaces it with “Normal”.
Lotus Notes Fail: Importing ICS files
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010This is supposed to easy, and I guess it is with v8, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. In fact, this kind of thing typifies my entire Lotus Notes experience. ICS files are common file format for calender entries, and have been around since forever, and Notes can’t import them, which is doubly weird since Lotus was involved in defining the standard.
When you use the “Import…” option, you get this dialogue:
Import Document Dialog
Not a good start really. Nothing in the “Files of type” selection that make sense, so stick with the default “Structured Text”.
Then, you get this dialogue, with a selection list in the middle with about 200 entries in it.
Import Dialog - Select Form
Most of these entries have helpful names like:
- R5 Compatibility Form
- Setup MiniView
- Switcher Form for Calender
- Switcher Form for Folders
- Switcher Form for To Do
- To Do
(Ahh! That looks familiar, we must be getting close to real options, oh wait, what’s this….)
- $$View Template for Calender
- $$View Template for Threads
- $$View Template for TodoByCategory
Anyway, you get the idea. After about 80 mouse clicks, I found an option “Calender Entry” which seems the obvious choice.
Hit OK, and a the screen flickers, and …. nothing. Ok, check the date that the calender entry was for, and …. nothing.
Oh well, write off the last 5 minutes as a total waste of time, try to not curse this confounded software, and add the entry manually, which deep down, you knew you should have done in the first place, because lets face it, nothing works like it should with Notes.
(Someone pointed out this link (via this one), but it only talks about sending calendering information via email. It doesn’t help my import an ICS file.)
More Firewall weirdness
Friday, February 26th, 2010Ok, not weird, just crap.
This link is blocked: http://www.rotronic.co.uk/content/humidity_feuchte/index.php The resulting page said it was in the “pornography” category.
Out of frustration, I typed in “Dirty Sex Sluts” into Google and selected the first link. Can you guess what happened? I wasn’t blocked! Boom! Full-on porn right there, on my screen, in the middle of the cube-farm!
And yet, I’m told that I can’t have the RDP port opened between internal offices on an intranet because of security concerns. Right.
SAP: GUI fail. Behold, the “Easy Access Menu”
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
(The funny scrollbar is because this image is composed of 4 screen captures)
Ok, so which one of these options is to record my timesheet?
Serious GUI fail.
More SAP weirdness
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Following on from my previous post, which described my first experience with SAP, I have continued to be thoroughly unimpressed with this application so far.
Honestly guys, your GUI is shit.
Right click on the system icon, and you get these options:
Both, by the way, kill the client.
Robbed by Ryanair Baggage Handlers
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009December 9, 2009
Ryanair Customer Service Complaints Department
PO Box 11451 Swords, Co Dublin
Ireland
Fax +353 1 8121676
Reservation Number: XXXX
From: Dusseldorf (Weeze)(NRN)
To: Sevill (SVQ)
Flight: 8622
Depart: Dec 8, 2009 16:55
Arrive: Dec 8, 2009 19:40
Luggage Tag Number: 00006XXXX
Excess Luggage Reference Number: 0000XXX
Excess Luggage Fee: EUR120
Re: Theft of item in Checked Luggage
To Whom It May Concern: I am writing to report the theft of a personal item that was inside a piece of checked baggage on a recent flight from Weeze to Seville.
The ryanairbaggage.com website does not include an option to report this.
The item in question was a 125mL bottle of Davidoff Cologne, valued at EUR40, and was taken from my shaving kit. It was obvious that the thieves inspected the camera case that was also in the bag, but not finding a camera, took nothing.
Both the camera bag and the shaving kit were left opened. I have attached a photo of the inside of my bag as I found when I opened it after arriving at my hotel.
It is extremely upsetting to have ones bag interfered with, as anything could have been taken or added. In these days of heightened security concerns, this is a gross violation of personal security.
I demand an apology, replacement of the stolen item, and a reimbursement of my full fare, including the excess baggage charge. To think that I paid extra for the privilege of having my baggage rifled enrages me to the extreme. You can be sure that you will never see me on your airline again, and I intend to make this experience known to as many people as I can.
Yours in extreme dissatisfaction,
Jacob Hawkes
December 9, 2009
This photo was taken after arriving in the hotel, and opening the bag for the first time since the flight. The black shaving kit is opened, as is the blue camera case. The cologne was taken from the shaving kit. Both were left open.
3 months to send a replacement mouse
Saturday, November 14th, 2009Here’s a lesson kids:
If you say that you will eventually follow up with a response, don’t close the ticket.
I draw your attention to exhibit A. Notice the “status” (my highlight).
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