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posted by [personal profile] oldbloke at 10:06am on 17/03/2005
Got a call about a problem floppy yesterday.
Excel files, machine hung, now can't see any of the files on the floppy.
Well, I tried a few things and found some files that had .doc extensions but looked like Excel to me, though Excel wouldn't open them (renamed or not).
This was the engineering department's exam mark spreadsheets.
So, I said, well, this won't be your only copy.
Yes, they said.

duh.... what?

A departmental secretary has the entire dept's exam marks on a single floppy? wtf is wrong with her space on their fileserver? Or even her machine's HD?
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posted by [personal profile] oldbloke at 02:04pm on 17/03/2005
The big story in this week's AutoPorn^H^H^H^HSport is that Sauber may dump Villeneuve.
I imagine they can't before at least race 5, the way contracts get written, and it may be total bollocks, but, well, you have to laugh, innit.
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posted by [personal profile] oldbloke at 03:58pm on 17/03/2005
How do I get a w2003server to email me when the SPSS Data Entry service crashes?
SPSS writes a log file, and the server apps event log has stuff, and I suspect it's not that hard to tell the bit of the system that writes the event log to do a bit extra, or to set an event trigger, or _something_, but I know bugger all about this stuff.
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posted by [personal profile] oldbloke at 09:25pm on 17/03/2005
put a few more pics up - now up to early last december
i'll try to get some more done at the weekend...
http://www.zen18019.zen.co.uk/jack

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