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  1. Click bait is like the 2015 version of the blink tag.

  2. Missing the question on Ask Slashdot: How To Turn an Email Stash Into Knowledge For My Successor? · · Score: 1

    The question is a simple ETL task; take email as the input and output to a document. I have seen powershell able to access Outlook folders, and once you have it in powershell you can pretty much do what you want with it. You might be able to follow threads, only include missing blocks of text, ignore signatures, etc.

    The real question is why make the effort of converting the emails to documents when, really, who is going to look through it? If someone is trying to find out where attribute FooBar is being set in program JarJar2001, how are they going to know which document to open? You need a good search engine, and the best ones are in knowledge management applications. Look at OpenText or Hyland or any other ECM app, or get Altiris to at least index what you have.

    If the company isn't willing to take knowledge management seriously then neither should the OP.

  3. Re:Such a nice, sugary story.... on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    It's not a real Disney story unless somebody's parents die.

  4. Dirt on Microbe Found In Grassy Field Contains Powerful Antibiotic · · Score: 1

    We should all have more dirt in our diets...

  5. Waze is a community sourced map on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    Anyone in the area with a Waze account has the ability to modify the map. There are a few things you can try... Make sure the road is the lowest level of road below highway. Heck make it a dirt road; still routable but Waze should skip it. Make the turn-off red to disable it. Of course other people might complain and want it back on, but if you have active moderators in the area they should know why it's off. Waze is doing what it's supposed to do. It notices a faster route and directs people to it. Any GPS app would have the same problem. As stated above, if you don't like it, get the city to change the road.

  6. Lock-em down on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    I am unimpressed. Call me when they tied the detectors into a system that mag-locks the doors and windows shut to confine the shooter in one location. False alarm? Minor inconvenience in that area until a school constable or principal investigates and signals the all-clear.

  7. Re:Can't wait on Octopus-Inspired Robot Matches Real Octopus For Speed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I want an Octopod!

  8. Beautiful Works of Art on Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While 4chan may be a cesspool of filth and depravity I have found some beautiful and interesting things I would have never known existed. I know it's a matter of taste, but what do you think the ratio of garbage to worthwhile content is on the site as a whole? Which board has the highest garbage content and which has the highest worthwhile content?

  9. Yeah on Where are the Flying Cars? (Video; Part One of Two) · · Score: 1

    Fuck the flying cars, we have a tough time enough just getting electric cars on the road...

    Reminded me of George Carlin...

    "We're gonna go to Mars. And then of course we're gonna colonize deep space. With our microwave hot dogs and plastic vomit, fake dog shit and cinnamon dental floss, lemon-scented toilet paper and sneakers with lights in the heels. And all these other impressive things we've done down here. But let me ask you this: what are we gonna tell the intergalactic council of ministers the first time one of our teenage mothers throws their newborn baby into a dumpster? How are we gonna explain that to the space people? How are we gonna let them know that our ambassador was only late for the meeting because his breakfast was cold and he had to spend half an hour punching his wife around the kitchen? And what are they gonna think when they find out, its just a local custom, that over 80 million women in the Third world have had their clitorises forcibly removed in order to reduce their sexual pleasure so they won't cheat on their husbands? Can't you just sense how eager the rest of the universe is for us to show up?" - George Carlin, Complaints and Grievances

  10. Jackass, future version on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    Send a printer to some uninhabitable planet and print people on there to die.

  11. As Stephen King said... on Games That Make Players Act Like Psychopaths · · Score: 0

    As long as you keep the gators fed.
    Why We Crave Horror Movies

  12. No life... just lots and lots of oil...

  13. Re:First rule of poker on CCTV Hack Takes Casino For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    Protect your cards.

    I thought about this too, but maybe it was at a "feature" table made for TV with camera's built into the table...

  14. I knew it! on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 0

    I always knew Americans were poor examples of human beings!

  15. Re:December 21, 2012 on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is what would have happened if he'd pulled out a Dildo.

    Then they would know they were fucked...

  16. It will never happen on Rethinking Rail Travel: Boarding a Moving Train · · Score: 1

    You always have some yahoo holding open the door for his slow walking friend. What's the train going to do when the moving platform comes to the end of the line? Cut his arm off?

  17. Let the copycats free! on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1

    I cant wait for a PETA shirt to turn into an ad for bacon!!!

  18. I can't wait... on Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars? · · Score: 1

    I look forward to the day that pissing in a gas tank just might help you get to your next gas station.

  19. Not in Canada on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 2, Informative

    We already have the ZENN car, but it is not allowed on most Canadian streets, so unless GM can eliminate government bureaucracy we won't be seeing the Volt any time soon.

  20. Re:Reformat HD = Free Laptop? on Open Source Adeona Tracks Lost & Stolen Laptops · · Score: 1

    What I would do is keep a CD with my laptop with all the drivers on it. If the tech is smart enough to format it, he/she will giggle with glee that they don't have to find and download all the drivers after reformatting the laptop.

    Of course one of the drivers will be the tracking software... or heck with the right install tool ALL of the drivers will install the tracking software...

  21. Sure on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    Google should hand over the hard drives full of logs, as long as they are strongly encrypted with a "forgotten" key. Let Viacom suck on that for a while! Besides we wouldn't want those drives forgotten in the back of a cab and falling into the wrong hands or anything.

  22. Re:Large Hadron Collider on World's Largest Atom Smasher Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    Yes, considering the research will deal with black holes...

  23. BIRDS!!!! on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 2, Funny

    My favorite call I took as a support tech went something like this.

    Me: ADC Support Center, how can I help you.
    Caller: Um... we have feathers falling from the ceiling.
    Me: ... Excuse me?
    Caller: Bloody feathers.
    Me: There are feathers?
    Caller: Ew, and now blood dripped on my desk.
    Me: Where are they coming from?
    Caller: I think it's coming from the vent.
    Me: Ah, well, there's not much I can do for you, but I'll let building maintenance know.

    Turns out a pigeon got caught in the air vent fan of the building, and spewed blood and feathers throughout the building.

  24. Re:Does this mean? on Nanotubes Start to Show their Promise · · Score: 1

    Teletubbies are bulletproof?

    Rats...

  25. Re:Cheetos! on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Further to this, those Crispy Mini's. Nothing like moving a workstation's keyboard and getting a wiff of salt 'n vinegar, bbq, ketchup dust.