Mindless IT questions

I'm pretty sure the word you're search for is spelled.

It's spelled exactly as it's pronouced.

My favourite missused word is drunk.
Drunk is what happens after you have drank too much.

Please use English, none of the above is correct
 
I'm pretty sure the word you're search for is spelled.

It's spelled exactly as it's pronouced.

My favourite missused word is drunk.
Drunk is what happens after you have drank too much.
The Oxford dictionary gives both Spelled and Spelt as the past and past participle of the verb to spell. Spelt is given as British but as both Gary and myself are british and this is a .co.uk website there is no need to mock british usage. I am sure you would not like if we started correcting every time you spelt Colour as color. Lets just learn to accept these variations
 
:D Well I did plead guilty to being a smartass. :eek:

saying "myself" instead of me/I is a real British fad at the moment, along with saying "literally" when not appropriate at all, like

"i was literally outside"

:confused:

"i literally needed a handful of people" what? you needed minature people?

and the worst of all is going up at the end of the sentence like f*cking Australians do
 
The Oxford dictionary gives both Spelled and Spelt as the past and past participle of the verb to spell. Spelt is given as British but as both Gary and myself are british and this is a .co.uk website there is no need to mock british usage. I am sure you would not like if we started correcting every time you spelt Colour as color. Lets just learn to accept these variations


Actually, I spell it colour. I received a proper education. May possibly be that I was in school so long ago a number of the words we misused then have now been accepted in Oxford.

Favourite credit in British films:
"Technicolor colour consultant"
 
Here's another one, on a higher level, technically speaking:

IT LEVEL 1: There's something wrong with the server. One of our computers cannot access the internet.
IT LEVEL 4: Do you have any more information?
IT LEVEL 1: Like what?
IT LEVEL 4: Is the internet cable plugged in?
IT LEVEL 1: I don't know.
IT LEVEL 4: Might want to check that first.
IT LEVEL 1: OK...Yes, it is connected.
IT LEVEL 4: Have you tried to ping the client?
IT LEVEL 1: This is an issue with a computer, not a customer.
IT LEVEL 4: The client computer.
IT LEVEL 1: Which one is that?

Enough said? :rolleyes:
 
It Level 4 displayed all of the arrogant ignorance of one not good at their job. earlier you suggested that as I was retired I should be more cynical, however after 43 years in IT I can say that I have met stupidity and ignorance in all areas at all levels, as I said to the ladies I was helping at the charity "ignorance is not a crime, it is not wanting to know that is the sin".

I could tell you tales of gross stupidity in IT, however this is a last quick visit to the forum as I am getting ready to fly out to the States on holiday at the weekend. :D:cool::p

Brian
 
Actually, I spell it colour. I received a proper education. May possibly be that I was in school so long ago a number of the words we misused then have now been accepted in Oxford.

Favourite credit in British films:
"Technicolor colour consultant"

a mate of mine used to write purposefully unreadable code to annoy everyone in the office

one of his tricks was using Colour and Color as variables and Centre/Center. it was an american bank
 
Coming back in on the end of this I also spelt place wrong......


lol
 
That's one area we haven't done, Denver - Rapid City closest to the Great Lakes on that side.
We are flying into Washington DC and heading south, again. :) , but some different places to last time, which was a while ago.

Brian
 
All this talk of spells, I'm running for cover :eek:
 
She's a hexi from Scotland. She made a funny about spells, the noun that would be a normal part of a "witches" vocabulary (as portrayed by the media) and spells/spelt, the verb that we were talking about. You see, it's funny because...oh, never mind.
 
That's one area we haven't done, Denver - Rapid City closest to the Great Lakes on that side.
We are flying into Washington DC and heading south, again. :) , but some different places to last time, which was a while ago.

Brian

Well I am south of DC... :)

You probably aren't going all the way to Florida though, are you?
I will be in Nashville TN next Wednesday..... until Sunday the 25th!
I wonder wonder wonder...... would you possibly be in THAT area about the same time? :D

Wouldn't that be a fantastic coincidence?
I would adore having the opportunity to meet you face to face!

Tell me.... where are you visiting this year?
Oh..... damn!.... I see you said that post would be your last. Now we have no time to plan our rendezvous!
Well, maybe you'll hear through the grapevine.... someone must have your private email over there... maybe they'll alert you and you'll pop in one... last... time.

Tess
 
She's a hexi from Scotland. She made a funny about spells, the noun that would be a normal part of a "witches" vocabulary (as portrayed by the media) and spells/spelt, the verb that we were talking about. You see, it's funny because...oh, never mind.

Thank you gallant knight.
 
Ok my turn to rant.

I've been building web-based applications for this firm for a while now as a 3rd party contractor. They decide they need to employ someone in-house who who will do all the administrative stuff and help out on some coding (vb.net/c#). Fair enough.

So all the code is written in an n-tier structure where the business objects are seperated from the web pages blah blah blah. I spend the best part of three weeks explaining to the newcomer why we do this. "Yeah cool. I see that. That really makes sense" etc etc is the response.

So I've built a bunch of classes to abstract away from an xml news feed service. All the newcomer has to do is grab a typical class called article and load the webpage with it's properties. Well he's had previous .net experience hasn't he? So when his boss says can you create a list of articles each with a brief summary of the article text, he decides to go it alone.

First off he writes some code to trim the body text to a minimum number of characters. He doesn't check beforehand that the body text is at least the length of the string he's trying to trim down to. So with all short articles an error is thrown.

He then proceeds to NOT place this code in one place in the business object which I had told him about a thousand times to do but in every single webpage where the article is rendered. (It turned out to be 10 different places). He installs it on the live server and of course the news service sends down a short article through the feed and the site breaks.

I have to trawl through the site searching for all the copies of the crappy code and point it to a singular debugged function.

Don't get me wrong. Writing buggy code is human. But if someone has taken hours explaining to you how to do something you don't know how to do and then you proceed to just completely ignore them. Then I start to get aggravated.
 

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