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That’s all very nice, but what if you’ve just knocked off work after a tough day at the office and only want a damn beer!
Great clue Judge (rofl, btw). But I think you’ll find that only works for Internet Explorer.
Firefox users will need an extra bit:
I did it too!
Quite easy really, and he gives you enough clues.
Should we post instructions here or would that ruin it for anyone that wants a go?
PS: This ain’t hacking – it’s just an exercise in seeing if you know how web pages work and if you know a couple of menus in IE/Firefox. Being wrapped up in a login form just makes it look like “hacking”.
One looks bigger that the other because it is a bit closer. The planes fly very close vertically but have a slight horizontal separation so that from the crowd line it loooks like one is atop the other.
@xdc the doc wrote:
Whats you blog addy?
My random prattlings can be found here:
Pushing PixelsIt’s all bollox, and a great cure for insomnia.
A bit harsh there doc. Damning a guy’s entire writing because of one flippant simile. Even Douglas Adams (RIP) did not hit the mark every time.
I disagree with your point on most blog writers. They publish their stuff on the web because they can, not because they can’t get a print publisher to accept them. Most – self included – write to get something out there and because it is easy to do so, and can have a dynamic content that published sources just cannot hope to replicate. I can also write about something that is of relevence in the here and now, and not have to wait ages to get it in WH Smiths. I don’t have the desire to get in print – and although I have in the past in technical publications (conferences etc), that’s been a side effect rather than an aim. Which is just as well, because my writing style truly is crap!
Sure, Joel’s stuff ain’t Shakespeare, but it is written in a very readable, occasionally witty style that is informative too.
Go on Pharts…..you know you want to.
The picture of Ms Knightly eating a flake was particularly (a)rousing…..
Not my intention to cause offence.
But there’s tech support & there’s tech support. Sure, image restores over network are great, but rely upon a decent automated painless backup strategy that is managed with that in mind. Ours isn’t, so this is not an option. I wish it were, but….
Image restore is different in my mind to a complete reinstallation. Former – goood, latter – baad. Former – sign of a half-decent IT dept. Latter not.
No, I don’t tell support how to do their job. Their’s (yours, I guess) is an area that has its own expertises that are beyond mine and which definitely have a value. I’m not “dissing” that at all, and the same argument applies when sales people tell my people what they want – no sales -> no money -> no company. So it’s all a team effort of people with different skills who cooperate for the bigger picture. All-for-one and all that stuff.
My problem is with an IT department whose attitude simply pays the merest lip service to that. I kid you not, their ideal scenario is that they would have no users at all as that messes up their utopioan ultra-secure network and system that is hardened against the sneakiest gang of Chinese hackers you could ever come across. And Legit.
The fact this manifests itself as needless barriers and distractions in the way of the users seems incomprehensible to them.
It’s attitude rather than aptitude that sends me off on one here. It’s the attitude that a reinstall is easy *for them* But either way, all it does really is to fix the symptoms, leaving the cause free to reoccur again. And if it has happened on one persons machine, how confident are you it won’t strike down his mate next door if you don’t understand the cause?
I have had good tech support departments and people in the past, and so I know good from bad.
Finally, before I finish my lunch, here’s a true story. I was somewhat surprised that I only had access to a very old version of MS Office suite. Not a huge problem, as even Office pre-2k does what you want most of the time. But some things are harder or you need to work around them. Again, not massive, just a little annoyance that ofbalances your working day. And then I need to use another piece of reporting software that we buy, but that fails to work as it requires a more recent version of MS Office. So that’s it, part of my job stops.
Not unreasonably, I request an MS Office upgrade. “Can’t have that – it’s unsupported”. What do you mean “unsupported”. Why? Well, it stops internal-tool-X from working. But that was the extent of the investigation, as to get people’s machines going again you simply uninstall MS Office 2003 and reinstall the older version. Why not fix the internal app, FFS? If that’s so mission critical (and it is pretty important), then if you have no capability to maintain it then we are heading for a cliff at some point.
Tail wags dog 🙄
