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Re: For the love of dogs

Sal Dickinson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:18:45 -0000

Sorry to learn of your loss. While all dogs work their way into our hearts, Vizslas seem to be extraordinarily good at it. They are awesome, great dogs (I too am owned by a V) and I hope you are able to handle your loss of your Vadar well, and perhaps rescue a V who needs a home.

Re: "100 fatals per compile is NOT excessive!”

Clint Edmonson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:12:23 -0000

Thanks for the link. I hope your readers enjoy the series.

Re: If I was a traffic cop for a day,

DaleWiseFaq — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:51:48 -0000

You're right :-)

Re: If I was a traffic cop for a day,

Rebecca — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:03:39 -0000

You would need to change the ease at which people get a licence first. It's basically as long as you have the money you get a licence these days. There needs to be a massive increase in the quality of training.

Re: “Guess I’m buying my own FIGJAM mug then.”

Trika — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:31:10 -0000

Thank you for the glossary. I particularly enjoy ESU.

Re: “No, I don’t have a crystal ball”

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:31:10 -0000

Got an address to send the mug to?

Re: Yet another Farnham come-back.

Rebecca — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:15:34 -0000

Then if you click through the links, there is "Five More In A Row", their follow up single.

Lot of memories for me in the clip, the DJ scenes were filmed at Triple M, back in the days of the studio at Bourke Street, where I use to work.

Re: Yet another Farnham come-back.

Rebecca — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:50:45 -0000

Chaser who?

Ahh the D-Gen. classic stuff, and so many of them still entertaining us, while that Simon Popadopalopadosapoppados, still just gives everyone the shits.

Re: Being short $10 dollars

Andy B — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:31:11 -0000

Many years ago I was in some store somewhere and I was given too much change. Trying to do the right thing, I took it back to the register and said "I think I got the wrong change". The bitch looked at me smugly and said "Well, you should have checked it BEFORE you left the store, too late now!". So I pointed out that I'd been given $20 too much, and was trying to return it, but after that she could go get fucked. Andy = win.

These days I don't give a fuck. Give me too much change, I walk. Give me too little change, I complain bitterly.

Re: The Good, the Bad, and the “Git Off My Lawn, Boy”

DaleWiseFaq — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:04:15 -0000

The X1 is available via Telstra as well. They have a demo one at their Bourke Street Melbourne store.

Would love to do laptops. Getting someone to lend me four current model laptops is going to be difficult through :-(

Re: The Good, the Bad, and the “Git Off My Lawn, Boy”

Rebecca — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:44:08 -0000

A great review, pity you can only get the Sony Xpedia X1 through 3.

Any chance of you doing a similar thing for laptops?

Re: Tilt, Cock, Lock, Look

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:56:12 -0000

Indeedy.

Re: Blah de blah blah

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:51:44 -0000

Migr8tor,

It's worth a follow-up post, that's for sure.

Using line counts gives a raw figure, which allows management to say, we've got 200 KLOC which we need to work on, with 80% of that in module form, that we just need to touch once (ha!).

Tools can highlight the obvious issues, which require attention. But not all of the issues. That will still require a programmer to review the converted code to ensure it works. Y2K code changes on a HUGE scale.

IMHO, the best way way forward for us, would be to get an expert in to convert the code to .Net, and work with us on any functional queries (ie. it looks like you're trying a do XYZ, it that right?)

Regression testing. Yes, testing is where we would be spending most of our time.

Thanks for calling past Migr8tor; I hadn't heard of greatmigrations.com before, I have some reading to do :-)

Re: I’m not the only one annoyed with HP’s UPD print driver.

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:18:47 -0000

Josh,

Yes that's the theory. We've been working with HP and Novell since at least August.

The solution for us is UPD 5.0.x and iPrint 5.12. We've tested it with the UPD 5.0 Beta driver, and it works very well.

We're in a holding pattern until then :-(

Lanier/Ricoh have also gone UPD as well.

Re: Why we ran the biggest ICL shop in the Southern Hemisphere.

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:13:07 -0000

Not sure which piece of junk you're talking about there.

I worked at Clayton occasionally. I remember we had to leave the IBM 3800 Laser print room door open, as it would cause too much heat buildup, and trip the fire alarm.

Re: Being short $10 dollars

DaleWiseFaq — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:09:05 -0000

I like the idea of walking out, and returning. Might do that next time it happens.

Re: Being short $10 dollars

Rebecca — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:32:02 -0000

In this situation, I will pocket the money, walk out. Then after a minute or two, go back in and let them know of their error. I think serves the dual purpose of showing their mistake, and also showing that most people are not honest enough to hand the money back.

Re: Why we ran the biggest ICL shop in the Southern Hemisphere.

john — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:03:03 -0000

I installed that piece of junk, got to hand it to the icl salesman, he got them to buy it 3 times over.

they built a disaster recovery site in clayton which they destroyed by doing their own environmental controls.

what a joke that was.....

Re: I’m not the only one annoyed with HP’s UPD print driver.

Josh — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:41:45 -0000

I have recently downloaded the HP UPD 4.7.2 (not from HP's web site). I was able to used the HP DriverPre-Configuration utility to disable bi-direction communication and set some defaults. This basically makes the driver a discrete printer driver. I was then able to load the printer driver to iPrint on an OES2 Linux server (I can not load to an iPrint Neware server yet) and finally use the Printer Driver Profile in iManager/iPrint to create a unique configuration for different printer models. I know this adds some extra effort that is not idea behind a UPD, but I now only have one HP printer driver for my 20 plus printer models in my company. To make things slightly easier for me, we have standardized on 'classes' of printers, workgroup and departmental in both mono and color. I will only need to create four printer driver profiles for all the different printer models. This means I go from 20 plus printer drivers and 20 plus printer drivers profiles to one printer driver and four printer driver profiles for my HP printers.

*Note, need to upgrade the iPrint client to ver. 5.12

Now I need to get the Xerox Global Printer driver to work and then will only have two printer drivers in the firm!

Re: Blah de blah blah

migr8tor — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:44:41 -0000

I would like to discuss how you intend to use the line counts to estimate effort. IMO source line counts simply do not contain the information needed to estimate migration effort.

The migration effort is driven by redesign and refactoring activities -- and of course regression testing. Clearly generic line counts cannot help you predict these very well. Estimating redesign and refactoring can require some deep, original thought and a tool cannot do that for us. Tools can provide all manner of data about the source, but they cannot tell us how to use that data. Tools also cannot decide for us what our system design should be -- they can only provide very crude feedback on what our design cannot be -- as in it wont compile in .NET or perhaps a little better it contains code that does not pass an automated code review.

It will take effort just to formulate a new design (aka .NET architecture/development standandards) and then more original thinking to understand the various refactoring transformations required to implement that design. The effort of refactoring iitself is not driven by lines of code either: it is driven by how much of the refactoring can be automated and how much must be done by hand. Industrial strength migration tools can help you with both the analysis and implementation in this respect. See for example www.greatmigrations.com.

And as far as estimating regression testing effort -- lets just say it could be big -- but that is a discussion for another day.

Re: Tilt, Cock, Lock, Look

Cazzie — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:16:18 -0000

Absolute classic!

Re: More like giving a baby a loaded shotgun.

DaleWiseFaq — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:06:08 -0000

Some of the stuff I've seen would make a good set of posts for the thedailywtf.com

Re: HP Universal Print Driver – shame it doesn’t work with Novell Netware.

DaleWiseFaq — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:29:10 -0000

"HP Universal Print Driver (UPD) works very well with Novell."

No, it does not.

As I explain here:
http://blog.wisefaq.com/2009/05/28/im-not-the-o...

Re: More like giving a baby a loaded shotgun.

AngryTechnician — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:24:52 -0000

For my sins, I inherited the administration of a PHP-based website when the previous admin lost interest. After a couple of years being spoiled by .NET development in Visual Web Developer, I have been keeping it at arms length ever since.

Re: It’s Wednesday

Rebecca — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:39:52 -0000

Wouldn't it be "If you're a local, it's 6 beers since waking up."