I have a flu. I need to go out to buy stuff to eat. It's 160km/h wind outside. Unless I find some special item nearby, I'm gonna fail this quest...
Normally the Grammys suck, but...
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Wear concrete shoes.
Woooh. Weird Al is great. Foil is amazing...
Woke up this morning to find my daughter sleeping on the living room floor.
Leak in the roof developed overnight, right above her bed.
Just had the house re-roofed a couple years ago.![]()
Woke up this morning to find my daughter sleeping on the living room floor.
Leak in the roof developed overnight, right above her bed.
Just had the house re-roofed a couple years ago.![]()
Wear concrete shoes.
Ohhh buddy I'd be livid. Someone call Mike Holmes!Woke up this morning to find my daughter sleeping on the living room floor.
Leak in the roof developed overnight, right above her bed.
Just had the house re-roofed a couple years ago.![]()
Here's today's IT story for you.
The program I support runs on Java. Specifically, it requires Java 1.6.0_37 - 1.7.0_71 to run. Once the program is open, it uses its own internal install of Java 1.7.0_45, which is why such a broad range of Java will run it. We updated an Alberta client on the weekend to the newest version. 2 of their 70 workstations were not working. One of the guys I work with determined that it was because those workstations had 1.6.0_25 on it. Update Java on those workstations, no problem.
They call back 2 hours later. Their IT department, rather than update those 2 computers manually, pushed out Java 1.6.0_30 through the Windows Server update feature to all the workstations. Unfortunately, this sucked for two reasons. 1) it was the wrong version of Java. 2) The workstations that had our program opening had javaw.exe in active memory, so it didn't overwrite that. In fact, it removed the file, but did not write the new version of javaw.exe. Once they closed our program and javaw.exe disappeared from active memory, Windows acted as if java had never been installed and jar files would not open.
The punishment as ordered by support? Take a copy of 1.7.0_45 to every computer manually and install it.
Fuckwits.
No kidding, that blowsOhhh buddy I'd be livid. Someone call Mike Holmes!
Here's today's IT story for you.
The program I support runs on Java. Specifically, it requires Java 1.6.0_37 - 1.7.0_71 to run. Once the program is open, it uses its own internal install of Java 1.7.0_45, which is why such a broad range of Java will run it. We updated an Alberta client on the weekend to the newest version. 2 of their 70 workstations were not working. One of the guys I work with determined that it was because those workstations had 1.6.0_25 on it. Update Java on those workstations, no problem.
They call back 2 hours later. Their IT department, rather than update those 2 computers manually, pushed out Java 1.6.0_30 through the Windows Server update feature to all the workstations. Unfortunately, this sucked for two reasons. 1) it was the wrong version of Java. 2) The workstations that had our program opening had javaw.exe in active memory, so it didn't overwrite that. In fact, it removed the file, but did not write the new version of javaw.exe. Once they closed our program and javaw.exe disappeared from active memory, Windows acted as if java had never been installed and jar files would not open.
The punishment as ordered by support? Take a copy of 1.7.0_45 to every computer manually and install it.
Fuckwits.