Posts by MeekMark

‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’

Re: Why weren't they using a read-only database account?

So, is the MERGE command okay, then? :)

Windows: Insecure by design

Re: how much punishment are you willing to take?

Windows 11 and Office 365 at work. Irritating when using MS Excel, occasionally, typing just text into a cell pauses after every few keystrokes, and I have to wait a few seconds after hitting the Enter key to see if it worked...

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Re: Software is hard...

Been a coder for almost 40 years. On a huge ongoing project I was on about 10 years ago, we adopted agile stuff. Managers stayed out of our way, and in progress large tasks stayed in waterfall mode. It worked quite well; far better than I image.

But I certainly agree that new projects, you need to truly understand the real requirements and deliverables. Current project is using MS Azure DevOps and it is nearly impossible to track related tasks, etc.

Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037

Re: It’s Either That Or Move To Linux

I think there are some telecom industry applications that use Solaris.

Support chap put PC into 'drying mode' and users believed it was real

Re: Not his first rodeo - I was a victim

I "fixed" a coworker's PC once in 1986 by adding a Lotus 1-2-3 auto-run macro to beep, pause 2 seconds, repeat.

A month later, when I turned on my PC, it "detected" moisture and started the spin cycle. My brain wasn't quite in gear yet, and my first thought was "Wow, what a neat feature!"

Xerox hopes wining and dining HP shareholders will convince them of takeover

Dinner invite missing!

I own a few shares of HPQ but I have not yet received my dinner invitation! I've checked my junk email folder; any clues? Maybe my name will be at the door.