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It's a simple web application.
It tracks requested by, date requested, assigned by, department assigned to, staff member assigned to, date assigned, date resolved, resolved by, date verified, verified by, status ("New," "need more info," "complete", etc) subject, "system", and notes. I use the excellent HTMLArea for the "notes" field, so they can paste in formatted text and fragments of web pages.
The tool, tracking the above data, enfores a four-step process of
Make request
Assign request (optional)
Resolve request
Verify resolution
Items assigned to you or your department, items requested by you, and items assigned by you (where "you" is a particular employee) show up on the intranet home page.
The Earth makes one revolution about its axis each day.
Air at normal pressure and temperature is less dense than uranium.
Microsoft cannot be trusted
How could anyone ever arrive at the conclusion that Microsoft will not screw them?
Microsoft's intentions in this deal are transparent. They tried to crush TRON with Super301. Now they're trying to subvert it. When TRON is just a way to run.Net, why would one need TRON?
Same story, different day: "Microsoft seeks absolute control."
I don't have Win2k BSODs unless I'm working on my ISAPI filter, and screw up a pointer dereference. Apparently IIS on Win2k can torpedo the kernel.
On XP Pro, I can get a spontaneous reboot sometimes by hitting the windows key while in a directx game (such as Rise of Nations). That fucking Windows key is right there next to ctrl, alt, shift, etc. too -- so it's not an uncommon occurence when I'm in a hurry in a game (like Half-Life, etc).
most resource leaks can be recovered by simply logging off. This should work well for any NT system. It actually works fairly well for w9x too.
To people who haven't experienced the resource failures this poster described, might i suggest Netscape 7.1? To improve the chances of encountering the problem, try this: open 3 navigator windows with 20 tabs in each window (also, feel free to open one or more window of each other type), try to browse to lots of foreign sites (to collect characters from various languages and fonts) and lots of pictures. The gecko core isn't actually leaking graphic GDI resources in general, it just isn't recycling them politely. You would get them back if you quit Netscape (at least under NT). The font resources that are allocated might be closer to real leaks. The graphic resource allocations are at least partly fixed in current geckos.
If I'm logging off, I just reboot. Doesn't take much longer, and I'm guaranteed a totally fresh system. If I have to log out, I still have to close all my open apps, etc. so rebooting isn't much more bother.
Windows (I am talking about Win2k, not 9x) itself leaks handles to things like bitmaps; corrupts its own font and icon caches, and -- when it's leaked enough resources -- can no longer properly draw the GUI.
I can quit all running apps, bounce certain services to reset them, and still have the machine swapping to disk and dispalying things incorrectly. Maybe it's I.E. Or Word. Or Excel. Or Access. Or Visual Studio. Dunno.
When all the applications exit, though, shouldn't the resources be freed? Shouldn't the machine become responsive again? Even if all the memory is sucked up by disk cache, shouldn't the cache shrink to give memory to programs? If I quit all programs and bounce services, Win2k still swaps like crazy when re-starting and using the apps. Only a reboot really fixes it.
It's a new Dell Latitude. But it's happened on other machines running Win2k, including a new HP desktop.
"Overly Critical Guy" reads like a total fanboy. "There can't possibly be anything wrong with windows, ever! You're all idiots." And they say Linux users are Zealots. Sheesh.
I didn't say it happened all the time, just sometimes. On both new and old hardware. With factory-installed OS and with hand-installed OS. All four service packs.
It still needs reboots. It acts better once rebooted. In generalm Win2k and XP get alower the longer they run, and start experiencing problems like randomized icon images, windows that don't redraw, loss of fonts, etc. A reboot fixes all. When my Win2k laptop gets to where it's using >350MB of RAM, and I've closed all the apps, it's asking to be rebooted.
While Katie Couric complains about GOP candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger being "the son of a Nazi party member" and international media outlets assail Schwarzenegger adviser Pete Wilson as "anti-immigrant" and "racially divisive," the liberal press has been stone-cold silent on Bustamante's connection to one of the nation's most virulently racist organizations.
[...]
MEChA's liberation agenda, outlined in El Plan de Aztlan, states defiantly:
"We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent. Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner 'gabacho' who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture."
Substitute "Aryan" for "mestizo" and "white" for "bronze." Not much difference between the nutty philosophy of Bustamante's MEChA and Papa Schwarzenegger's evil Nazi Party. To date, however, the only exposure Bustamante's MEChA history has received has been on the Internet.
It would be nice if there wasn't a "KDE VFS" and a "Gnome VFS" on top of the kernel VFS... it'd be nicer if there was, perhaps, a LibC VFS, or kernel-mountable userspace filesystems.
Having suffered through an application (written by a contractor hired by now ex-employees) that used Word 's API to generate files, I can say this:
Word sucks. Its API sucks. It is slow as shit. Hours to generate reports because of all the retarded back-and-forth with Word, when an HTML version (or even an RTF version -- RTF is just text) of the same report gets generated in seconds.
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"Redundant?"
That's Dan Heskett's current web page.
Nice web page:
<html>
</html>
Brief, to the point. No Active-X controls.
Do you belong to the Association Of Wheel Reinventors?
I work for Wheel Reinvention, Inc. *sob*
- Make request
- Assign request (optional)
- Resolve request
- Verify resolution
Items assigned to you or your department, items requested by you, and items assigned by you (where "you" is a particular employee) show up on the intranet home page.Fellow Executives: "We'd like to make market-leading products. And money."
CEO: "Meh."
Thre you have it, a difference of opinion.
So, just decode the GOP in question into discrete frames, edit them, make a new GOP, and re-insert the whole GOP into the MPEG stream.
Then, you want to play games. You happen to use Windows.
Perhaps the earth makes one rotation about its axis once a day.
Yeah, *that* "R" word. Sorry! Sorry everyone!
How about:
How could anyone ever arrive at the conclusion that Microsoft will not screw them?
Microsoft's intentions in this deal are transparent. They tried to crush TRON with Super301. Now they're trying to subvert it. When TRON is just a way to run
Same story, different day: "Microsoft seeks absolute control."
No, XP is Win2k + Romper Room.
I don't have Win2k BSODs unless I'm working on my ISAPI filter, and screw up a pointer dereference. Apparently IIS on Win2k can torpedo the kernel.
On XP Pro, I can get a spontaneous reboot sometimes by hitting the windows key while in a directx game (such as Rise of Nations). That fucking Windows key is right there next to ctrl, alt, shift, etc. too -- so it's not an uncommon occurence when I'm in a hurry in a game (like Half-Life, etc).
If I'm logging off, I just reboot. Doesn't take much longer, and I'm guaranteed a totally fresh system. If I have to log out, I still have to close all my open apps, etc. so rebooting isn't much more bother.
Here's one single GDI resource-leak issue caused by a bug in Visual Studio. It's now been fixed (as of may of this year).
Windows (I am talking about Win2k, not 9x) itself leaks handles to things like bitmaps; corrupts its own font and icon caches, and -- when it's leaked enough resources -- can no longer properly draw the GUI.
I can quit all running apps, bounce certain services to reset them, and still have the machine swapping to disk and dispalying things incorrectly. Maybe it's I.E. Or Word. Or Excel. Or Access. Or Visual Studio. Dunno.
When all the applications exit, though, shouldn't the resources be freed? Shouldn't the machine become responsive again? Even if all the memory is sucked up by disk cache, shouldn't the cache shrink to give memory to programs? If I quit all programs and bounce services, Win2k still swaps like crazy when re-starting and using the apps. Only a reboot really fixes it.
It's a new Dell Latitude. But it's happened on other machines running Win2k, including a new HP desktop.
"Overly Critical Guy" reads like a total fanboy. "There can't possibly be anything wrong with windows, ever! You're all idiots." And they say Linux users are Zealots. Sheesh.
I didn't say it happened all the time, just sometimes. On both new and old hardware. With factory-installed OS and with hand-installed OS. All four service packs.
How am I supposed to "find the real problem," praytell?
I'm running MS Office, MS dev tools, Photoshop and Illustrator on this thing. I quit all running programs. 350MB memory in use. Icons scrambled. Etc.
It still needs reboots. It acts better once rebooted. In generalm Win2k and XP get alower the longer they run, and start experiencing problems like randomized icon images, windows that don't redraw, loss of fonts, etc. A reboot fixes all. When my Win2k laptop gets to where it's using >350MB of RAM, and I've closed all the apps, it's asking to be rebooted.
How about one of his websites?
http://bowieltd.com/
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I was expecting either "funny" or "troll."
"Insightful?" Bad pun, but...
A stick dipped in rancid pork and shoved into my left eye. That would be worse. But not by a lot.
It would be nice if there wasn't a "KDE VFS" and a "Gnome VFS" on top of the kernel VFS... it'd be nicer if there was, perhaps, a LibC VFS, or kernel-mountable userspace filesystems.
... is the Dark Consiracy vast? They've got that other conspiracy going too, you know.
Having suffered through an application (written by a contractor hired by now ex-employees) that used Word 's API to generate files, I can say this:
Word sucks. Its API sucks. It is slow as shit. Hours to generate reports because of all the retarded back-and-forth with Word, when an HTML version (or even an RTF version -- RTF is just text) of the same report gets generated in seconds.
XLS file from a web interface? Here ya go:
<table/> -- add content as needed.
Are they picking on poor wittle Microsoft? For shame! I, for one, apologize to you.