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.
Last 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.
So, 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”.
I started blocking cookies, just for fun, and was amazed how many sites try to give me a 207.net cookie!
This article was interesting, but not as interesting as one of the comments from the author:
Plus, if you think the ads are selling products, you’re sadly mistaken. The ads are selling you to the companies that make the products. You are the product. I find that offensive.
He did go on a bit of a rant however, about his electricity bill, which kind of ruined it. But I like the idea of realising that your anonymity is long-gone, and your browsing habits are a product, and someone if profiting from them.
Maybe someone in the ad industry would like to comment?
While reading Monbiot’s latest, I came across the quote I have always wanted to know the origon of. Being Monbiot, the quote was referenced, so now I know that it was …
Arthur C Clarke who remarked that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
I tend to paraphrase this thus:
Any sufficienty complex software presentation is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Lifehacker – Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router – DIY.
Funny, I had this draft post hanging around for a while, and then I came across this exact router configuration at work. Turns out it was easier, faster and cheaper to buy 2 routers, flash the new firmware, and set up a point-to-point wireless connection into the staging area than it was to rely on the company’s IT department to do it.
They wanted to charge thousands of euros for a similar solution. Thousands. Seriously, the staging area is in the next room.
The IT department is actually outsourced to another company owned by the same parent company. They offer shit service at a high price, and using them is mandatory. I can’t say their name, but I say that it rhymes with this:
Following 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.
Um, Ok…. If you can tell me what to click on …..
Did you know you can have a two row task bar in XP? Yeah, so did I. But did you know that you can arrange the icons like this?
My XP taskbar
And iTunes supplies a pretty nifty little toolbar app too. Pity it doesn’t do mouse-over track info though….
The 3.5 client is so slow and cumbersome compared to their 3.1 client. Also, after waiting patiently for a blackberry device that supports their client, it fails to install due to an unsupported carrier. Srsly. WTF has my carrier got to do with a free web-based app. Oh, and apparently the Evernote BB app is just a redirection into their website, which totally misses the point of having a notes database on your phone, because, well, err, it isn’t on your phone.