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MS Event ID 59:
Generate Activation Context failed for C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE.Manifest.
Reference error message: The operation completed successfully.
Hmm, 500GB lijkt mij toch nog altijd vallend onder de definitie "limited"...
Wel 5GB extra met iOffice 
En blijkbaar pas vanaf morgen actief, of heb ik echt zoveel gedownload :-s
De prijs per ml.
Recently, Facebook provided us some information on their server park.
They use about 30000 servers, and not surprisingly, most of them are running the PHP code to generate pages full of social info for their users.
Since an average server consumes about 200 Watt, and with an average SI EER (Site Infrastructure Energy Efficiency Ratio) of 2 this translates to around 400 Watt including cooling and other overhead. In the USA, an average of 560 grams CO2 is emitted per generated KWH, and this brings us to a total CO2 emission by the Facebook server park of about 59 000 ton of CO2 per year.
To put this number in perspective: The entire CO2 emission of the USA is 5 752 289 000 ton of CO2 per year and 66 693 000 ton for Finland.
So, this server park emits an amount of CO2 that is about 1/1000 of the total of CO2 emissions by Finland. I would argue that is not quite negligible.
As they only say that "the bulk" is running PHP, let’s assume this to be 25 000 of the 30 000. If C++ would have been used instead of PHP, then 22 500 servers could be powered down (assuming a conservative ratio of 10 for the efficiency of C++ versus PHP code), or a reduction of 49 000 ton.
Enquete van Belgacom, over een nieuwe bemoeizieke dienst.
Een van de vragen, hoeveel wilt U hiervoor betalen?
Nou, als het dan echt moet, want eigenlijk wil ik hem niet, doe dan maar gratis...
Waarom krijg ik nu het gevoel binnenkort meer te moeten gaan betalen voor weer iets wat ik niet wil?
Yes, I work in IT.
No, I won't fix your computer. Take it to the shop where you bought it, you are not a charity and I am not Santa.
Eindelijk is hij daar!
Wachten, de beste features kopiëren en boem, je hebt de beste browser!
Original article: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/123/1051123/nvidia-cuts-reviewers-gts250
IT IS ALWAYS funny when an unethical company turns on its own supporters as Nvidia did with the latest 'all new' GT250 cards. This time however, their PR stunts cross the line from unethical to purposely false, and hilarity ensues.
What are we talking about? The rebranding of the venerable G92, aka the 8800GT, 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+, and several other variants as the GTS250. The NDA goes up on the third of March, and we have complete scores already, but there is no difference between these cards and the older G92 cards. We will save you from having to pour over spreadsheets scratching your head wondering how it is different... it isn't at all.
The new parts are 55nm, just like the old. The clocks aren't different, nothing from a user perspective is different, other than the card losing 9550, an X and a +. Oh yeah, they are jacking up the price for the stupid as well.
Nvidia, however, is desperate to make this seem like something new. Sales are in the toilet, chips cancelled, and 40nm parts are looking unhealthy. Turd polishing time. Enter the marketeers, but they have a problem, some sites are, *GASP*, honest, and will print the truth. Nvidia has this allergic reaction to the truth, and tries to change how it is presented at every opportunity.
This time however, they crossed the line from plausible deniability to flat out deception. In the middle of last week we heard what Nvidia was up to this time around, but just couldn't believe they would be THAT sleazy. A day or so later, HardOCP published a story about Nvidia stock 'plummeting', basically an indignant backhand for being cut out of the GTS250's launch. Point one confirmed. The rest soon followed.
Just what are the green fumblers doing this time? Two things: one bad, the other downright deceptive. The bad one is simple, if you don't review Nvidia cards and say that PhysX is the greatest thing since sliced bread and CUDA makes sex better, you aren't doing a good enough job. They will gently nudge you to change your tune, basically praise PhysX and CUDA until you wear the letters off your keyboard.
The carrot and stick approach might help here, but Nvidia doesn't like carrots. They just threaten. Kyle at HardOPC made the deal-breaking mistake of being honest, so it is doghouse time for him, and the site. Welcome to the club, we even have a fort. I assume Kyle got the list of who got cut too, so will know we will have quite big-name company soon joining us soon. Punch and pie.
So, short story, Nvidia is playing with the press once again. And since it has no new product, it is desperately afraid of the truth getting out. And if you didn't drool over PhysX and CUDA enough, you are cut out. This is exactly what Apple does to keep the press in line, but Apple has something Nvidia doesn't: competence.
If that wasn't bad enough, the next part is. Normally, when a vendor cuts you out, if you really care, you can go to one of their partners and get boards/chips/whatever. Sometimes this is even a better idea because one or two tend to have a special card, overclocked, shiny metal cooler, or box with bigger breasts on the model. This time Nvidia specifically forbade partners from giving sites parts if they were on honesty hiatus.
Not only that, but the flat-out dishonesty is that Nvidia gave its board partners 'special' boards to send to reviewers. They are not allowed to give out their own vanilla cards, they MUST use the special set supplied by Nvidia.
Why is this dishonest? Want to bet that those boards have cherry-picked chips and RAM that clocks to the moon? That they will do everything better than any card you will ever be able to buy? Basically, Nvidia supplied ringers to the press that are not representative of what you can buy, and forced OEMs to give them to review sites without telling them. The technical term is 'mushrooming', feed them [scatological reference deleted] and keep them in the dark.
Remember now, this is the same 55nm G92 that you have been able to buy for six months or more, there is NO difference between that and the 9800GTX+. Nvidia has to show a difference to avoid their new hare-brained branding/stupid fanboi-fleecing scheme from tanking, so they are stacking the reviews.
They cut out anyone they thought would be critical and gave the rest cards that are nothing like what anyone can buy. They shut up OEMs, and forced them to give out cards that were flat out fantasy parts in the hopes that it would generate some good press. If they don't, well, you can always cut them out of the next round.
This behaviour on Nvidia's part is not only unethical, but it is purposefully dishonest. They are knowingly giving out parts that are not representative of retail pieces, and doing so without telling the reviewers. Readers won't know, sites may or may not know, and in general, it hurts everyone but Nvidia. Unless the word gets out, then hilarity ensues.
Spread the word guys, and don't trust any of the upcoming reviews where the part was not purchased at a retail outlet using real money. µ
As our server is getting some much needed upgrades, the website might be unavailable during certain periods this evening.
Everything should be permanently online again at 22h00 GMT+1.
If you can guess what we changed, I'll come and fuck your wife for free (if she looks nice).
Well, if you work at Elecrabel maybe...
En deze applicatie vertrouwen wij om onze bankzaken af te handelen? Ze kan nog niet tot 16 tellen.
Maarja, Isabel moet wel in de top 3 staan van 's werelds slechtst geschreven software...
Ik dacht al, nu overdrijven ze toch een beetje
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Earlier this morning, you may have been surprised to see that every Google search you performed resulted in links to sites which were, according to Google, potentially harmful to your computer. As it turns out, Google's malware detection system got a little trigger-happy - due to a human error.
Google's malware detector works via a partnership with the non-profit organisation StopBadware.org, who aid Google by supplying them with a list of sites known to install malware. Google updates these lists regularly, but sadly, the URL "/" got accidentally added to the list- effectively blacklisting every asite on the internet (except YouTube, actually).
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The head of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows development confirmed that Windows 7 will take the unusual path of moving straight from a single beta, which was launched earlier this month, to a release candidate.
Sinofsky fleshed out the plan today and hinted that just as there would be no Beta 2, the company would also not provide a RC2 build. In other words, there may be only one released build of Windows 7 before it ships, possibly much sooner than even some of the most aggressive rumors about Windows 7.
How much different can Windows 7 really be with such a shortened beta cycle?"
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OMG, it's gonna suck, suck and suck some more. Let's all buys Macs.
Amai, een dure maand weeral...
Slaapwel baby...
B: Brand (Model)
R: Reason
A: Alternative
B: ATi video cards (All)
R: Unreliable or non-existing complex drivers, compatibility issues
A: nVidia
B: SiS chipsets (All)
B: ATi chipsets (All)
R: Compatibility and stability issues
A: nVidia and Intel
B: Iomega (All non-Windows 2003 storage server NAS devices)
B: Linksys (NSS6000 NAS)
R: Reliability issues
A: Netgear, Conceptronic, Synology, LaCie
B: Datawrite (All DVDR media)
B: Princo (All DVDR media)
R: Slow and unreliable
A: Verbatim, Sony, Plextor, Maxell
B: Datawrite (All USB Sticks)
R: Slow and unreliable
A: Kingston, Apacer
B: McAfee (SIG, ESW Spam Filter)
R: Unreliable, limited features
A: SonicWall
B: Symantec (All)
R: High performance impact, annoying limitations
A: McAfee for AV, Acronis for BU, hardware for firewall
B: Samsung (PC Studio)
R: Non-standard interface, annoying limitations, inconsistencies
A: none
B: AVG Free-Antivirus
R: Unreliable
A: McAfee Enterprise
B: McAfee Anti-Virus Home
R: Non-standard interface, annoying limitations and features
A: McAfee Enterprise
B: Cisco (VPN Client)
R: No x64 version
A: none
B: Lotus (Notes)
R: Unreliable and slow
A: Microsoft Outlook
B: Novell (GroupWise)
R: Unreliable and slow, massive and unmanageble archives
A: Microsoft Outlook
Voor de aandachtige surfer, de website is daarstraks een goed uurtje offline geweest voor de nodige maintenance.
Gelieve al uw schadeclaims in drievoud schriftelijk te e-mailen.
Can someone please explain me why drive encryption is only possible when using a QWERTY keyboard???
Hail to Elmo, your endless stupidity keeps to amaze us...
Een man in een luchtballon is verdwaald. Hij zakt wat en ziet een vrouw op de begane grond lopen. Hij roept haar toe: "ik heb vrienden van mij beloofd hen over een uur ergens te vervoegen, maar ik heb geen idee waar ik juist ben".
De vrouw roept terug: "U bevindt zich in een ballon op ongeveer tien meter boven de begane grond. U zit tussen de 51 en de 52 graden noorderbreedte en tussen de 5 en 6 graden westerlengte".
"U bent informaticus", zegt de man.
"Inderdaad, hoe weet u dat?" vraagt de vrouw.
"Wel", zegt de man, "u heeft mij een technisch perfecte uitleg gegeven,maar ik weet niet wat ik met die informatie moet doen en heb nog steeds geen idee waar ik me bevind. In alle eerlijkheid, u hebt me niet veel geholpen en u hebt mij bovendien nog eens kostbare tijd doen verliezen."
"En u bent Manager neem ik aan ?" antwoordt de vrouw.
"Klopt, hoe weet u dat?"
"Wel, u weet niet waar u zich bevindt, noch waar u naartoe moet. Een grote massa lucht heeft u gebracht waar u nu bent. U heeft een belofte gedaan waarvan u geen idee had hoe u die moet nakomen en u verwacht dat mensen die onder u staan, uw problemen oplossen. Het feit is dat u in net dezelfde situatie zit als vijf minuten geleden, alleen is het nu ineens mijn fout".
Fucking bloated piece of shit crap software.
Jawel, we hebben een winnaar...
De Samsung PC Suite, U weet wel, die fantastische software om je telefoon te synchroniseren met Outlook en gelijken.
Laat ons simpelweg de automatisch synchronisatie gebruiken, unidirectioneel, van de PC naar de telefoon.
Wat gebeurt er nu? Van waar komen al die dubbele contacten in Outlook?
Jawel, Samsung vindt dat hoewel U unidirectioneel selecteert, bidirectioneel nodig lijkt.
OK, de manuele manier dan, via de contact manager, import uit Outlook, ziet er goed uit.
Copy-Paste naar de telefoon, "Some data have been lost" [sic].
Lost? What data? Logfile? Nooit van gehoord.
Even bekijken, hmm, accent letters zijn weg en nota's bij contacten ook gedeeltelijk.
Even manueel opruimen in de contact manager, alle contacts zonder accenten en alle nota's weg...
Copy-Paste, "Some data have been lost" [sic]. F*cking piece of sh*t...
Even verjaardagen importeren dan maar.
Import uit Outlook, importing 166 items...
Hmm, de lijst blijft leeg...
Nog een keer...
Weer, 166 imports, maar geen enkele te bespeuren in de Phone Manager.
Even via omweg dan, export naar CSV en import vanaf CSV.
"Please select valid import".
Oh go fuck yourself Samsung!
Dit weekends meest interessante hits op search engines die eindigden op deze site:
teelbalring
kippecut
Tycho Reniers (2e keer)
After reading some computerhistory stuff online, I decided to get the iWoz book by Steve Wozniak, I even ordered the signed copy because Woz seemed this nice guy who's worth spending an extra $5 and waiting three extra weeks for an autographed book.
Well, it's nice if you want to know what Steve did in his life, but I'm kind of annoyed with the story.
I don't know Steve, but after reading through half of his book, he seems so full of himself.
O I can do this, and I was the only one that had that, I was great, blablabla...
Sorry man, but I can't recommend it...
And the award goes to...
The McAfee SIG/SCM series. Highly unreliable and require reinstallation often.
Go SonicWALL GO!
Dankzij de mensen van Matbe.com weten we nu hoe snel alle CPU's zijn zie.
Deze benchmark bestaat uit games, office apps, photoshop, WinRAR en enkele video-editing softwares.
- I really think I know people like this... -
Ralph's rage was the stuff of legend – and it was equaled only by his anal-retentiveness.
Ben had heard horror stories about Ralph and shrugged them off as exaggerations fostered by years of oral tradition. If the rumors were to be believed, Ralph could breathe fire and was the height of three men. Probably the stereotypical Nick Burns-esque IT guy, he reasoned.
That is, until Ben was at a colleague's downed PC. During the process, he moved some icons around on the desktop. "OH MY GOD DON'T DO THAT RALPH WILL BE SO ANGRY," she shouted with genuine fear. She begged Ben to move the icons back and not tell Ralph. Ben arched his eyebrow with confusion, but agreed.
After moving the icons back to their original positions, a wave of calm passed over his colleague. "Thank you. I can't tell you how upset and embarrassed I was last time." She went on to explain the tirade she'd received for setting her desktop wallpaper to the default, rather than the one that had received Ralph's blessing. She told of another colleague that had been reduced to tears after being chewed out for her copy of Outlook crashing. He'd refused to help users that used unauthorized mouse pads. Seriously. He wasn't Nick Burns – he was worse.
Not even their hardware vendors were free from Ralph's scorn, though at least they didn't have to deal with it directly. He arrived to work furious one day when he learned that HP was changing its numbering schemes for ink cartridges. Previously, each was identified by six or so characters (for example, "C8727A"), but now they're two numbers and (sometimes) a letter (in this case, "27"). It was a good move on HP's part, as they'd made everyones' lives easier.
Everyone except Ralph that is.
Ralph did the same thing that any poorly-adjusted, chemically-imbalanced, borderline-psychopathic IT guy would in this situation – fix their numbering scheme. His invention took him a morning to set up and put into practice. First, he drew up what was basically his numbering scheme's decoder ring. Each printer model was assigned a letter. The one nearest to his desk became "A." The second-closest on his floor was "B." And so on, until he'd hit all the printers in the office and used up a good portion of the alphabet. Similarly, he'd apply one of these labels to the corresponding ink cartridges.
After some unruly staff members rejected his numbering scheme, favoring the inferior labels from the vendor, Ralph had to take action. He reprinted all of the labels, this time using huge 5"x7" ones, which were large enough to obscure the whole box.
Still, the labels weren't completely opaque, so the users adopted a habit of holding it under a light to read the packaging beneath the labels. Of course, this made Ralph even more furious, so he took a Magnum 44 black marker which he used to angrily scribble over the entire label, any other exposed information not covered by the label, basically everything except for its Ralph Code. Users could no longer see the manufacturer's cartridge number or compatible printers; mission accomplished.
Unfortunately, Ralph had overlooked one crucial detail in his original plans – the 27 cartridge works in over a dozen different printer models. And since Ralph's brillant labeling system was printer-specific, he had to come up with something that would work without him having to admit that his original idea had been poorly conceived. When the next order of cartridges arrived and he had 27s that would work in printer A and printer N, he simply applied the label A to half of them, and N to the other half. Problem created by a solution to a non-existent problem created by Ralph solved!
Finally, he set out to make the master key document that would be used to match printers' locations to their Ralph Codes, and their associated ink cartridge numbers. The first draft of this document, however, was wildly inaccurate, effectively obliterating any real or imagined value from this crackpot labeling system.
Ralph has since been let go. And sadly, despite his best efforts, his ink labeling system didn't last beyond his termination date.
THE FLEMISH GOVERNMENT is making a move towards unilateral online independence by demanding its own top level web domain extension.
Kris Peeters, the Prime Minister of Flanders, is apparently miffed at his Vlaanderen having to share the .be domain extension with a bunch of French-speaking Krummen honds.
Contrary to what most people think, .be is not short for beer. Peeters wants to take advantage of a recent ICANN decree allowing a whole host of riff raff to take out top level domains like .london, .frites, and .vandamme.
The whole van de Sarma (lousy) business of getting the Flemish their own separate domain names could cost in the region of €100,000, and could be ready as early as next year. A double-letter extension wouldn't be possible, as Flanders, despite what it may believe, is not an independent state recognised by the United Nations.
With tensions between the rich Flems and the poorer Francophone Belges at an all-time high, Flemish politicians are suggesting domain possibilities like .vla, .vln, .vlaanderen or .fla. Members of the Flemish nationalist N-VA party welcomed the move reckoning it would "make Flanders more visible on the worldwide web". Guys, seriously, no one even notices Belgium, why would they notice Flanders? Komm On!
Still, the move is likely to go ahead, the only real problems being what to do about bilingual French/Flemish Brussels, and the fact that ".fla" is well known file extension for flash.
But we’re sure the Afgelekte vleerenbols will sort something out, godverdomme!
And today's winner is the world's most irritating mail memoclient, indeed IBM's fucking (K)Lotus Notes.
The way to go if you want unreliability, unstability, slow performance, impossible archiving features and at random failures.
Fuck you IBM, in fact, all of your software sucks. You should deliver a free mouse with any one of your software products, clicker-de-click.
Yes, we did it. We are now officially dangerous I need a sticker that says hot-surface...
Congrats to the fucking idiots of linuXploit_crew, kernel_attack, Xarnuz, DeRf-, spykids and Persian Boys Hacking Team.
Thank you for uploading your personalised index pages on the KHDE forum. (As I was the only one who ever posted there, I simply took it offline)
Let me give you some tips for the future:
- Check if the file you uploaded actually is used as a default document.
- If you upload PHP files, please let me know, so I can install you some PHP support.
- Please decide who actually was the first in downloading some else's script instead of continuously overwriting each others pages.
So I graduated in 2003, at the depth point of the dot com bubble crash recession as a Network Engineer.
Jobs were spead thin, so when I got a call 4 months later to do some basic IT stuff, that sounded great.
It was a technical support firm for a large European bank. You called in at 8am and they'd tell you where to go.
As I only had the basic internal training, I was only allowed to do printers and workstations.
So most of the days there wasn't anything early in the morning and I had to call back half an hour later, and another half an hour...
Also frequently occuring the last intervention was around 3pm.
During the day you could do some shopping in between interventions which was great, as we're talking about the holidays season.
Of course, beginning of january, there wasn't much shopping left to do and replacing toners and monitors wasn't really a brainteaser, so I decided to apply internally for an open application.
I aced the technical test, best of all applicants and it was located at a single site, close to my home.
But the jobs was given to someone else, with longer experience inside the company.
A few months later, another position opened in one of the main sites of the bank, where we were allowed to do some actual troubleshooting on the machines.
It still was end-user stuff, but it was a great improvement and the team was wonderfull.
About four months later, a new batch of cattle was hired in the firm, so there had to be some moving around, and as I was the highest educated in the building, I got tranfsterred to a "software testing team", actually the highest position in existance in the company (except for a phone support team for the field technicians).
What had to be cutting-edge research turned out to be boring, repetitive pseudo code writing in Excel before being executed with a trial version of a major automation program.
It was actually a jumping board to leave the company. Two of my colleagues left before me, two left right after me.
There was time enough to study, surf, play, do anything you want, except work .
I took the chance of changing to the bank itself, in stead of working for the technical subsidiary.
The job interview promised a nice time, a lot of interesting technical problems.
Sadly, none of these hypothetical problems turned out to be ours to handle. We didn't do hardware, nor OS.
It's a big company, so there was no networking (seperate team), as with storage and any other major hardware part.
We did second line support, but as first line was filled with a bunch of nitwits, we did most of the supporting, they made calls in the management system, without noting any necessary information.
It was a broadband support job, end users, back-end applications and some shit called "IBM WebSphere".
Then there were a lot of reorganisations, support teams were split, moved, renamed, changed...
We ended up with the back-end applications and the WebSphere.
The backend applications were nice, but bound to a massive amount of documentation, burocracy and "I didn't do that". The WebSphere still sucked.
Life slowly moved on, without any change even after some clear signs to the supervisors.
After working there for 3 years in total (all previous functions combined) I decided I was done there and had to go look elsewhere if I ever wanted to see a cisco router again.
I applied at a very small company and was promised great technical independance, high-end configurations and total system implementation control in my task as field engineer.
What wasn't included in the jobdescription, is "total system implementation control" is only applicable if I happen to think the same as the CEO. "High end" is read only for me and "independance" means I can do everything I'm told to, on my own.
Turns out most of the customers actually get first line support from us. We mostly get questions about printers and word documents.
We've got our customer A, part of a large international group, we do their PC's there and we get to manage some local servers, within the lines drawn by the group.
Customer B is getting their first server soon and has a lot of end-users.
Customer C calls us to assist in the most repetitive jobs on the planet. Phone support like scripts to follow to deploy some local application on 500 workstations.
Customer D has some nice infrastructure, configured by a third company, we get to do, computers yes indeed, and there a Dutch jackass who asked me last week to fix something he had been fucking up for weeks while he could go get credit by finishing of something I had worked on for several days.
And the list goes on.
There are slow periods, allowing me to do research for several days a week. Sadly, I think I've researched everything I could think of.
And there are days everyong thinks their personally created problem is the end of the world. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to touch computers.
So, I'm wondering, what should I actually do to see some networking?
Verveling: de nieuwe kantoorziekte
Ziek van het nietsdoen
Vijftien procent van de werknemers verveelt zich. Nietsdoen levert net zoveel stress op als te veel moeten verzetten. Moeheid, irritatie en lusteloosheid slaan toe: symptomen van een boreout.
9.00 Vol goede moed schuif ik achter de computer: vandaag ga ik het anders doen. Ik ga werk zoeken, mezelf bezig houden. Ik sla het studieboek ‘hoe schrijf ik een overtuigend beleidsrapport' open en zoek krantenknipsels waarin ons bedrijf wordt genoemd.
10.15 Een gevoel van ultieme zinloosheid bekruipt me: wat doe ik hier in godsnaam? Waarom hebben ze me aangenomen als er toch niets te doen is? Ligt het misschien aan mij? Vraag ik niet actief genoeg om werk? Je zou zeggen dat een keer per week genoeg is...
11.10 Het etentje van gisterenavond schiet me te binnen: zou mijn vriendin al teruggemaild hebben? Ik open hotmail en voor ik het weet ben ik een loodgieter aan het regelen en mijn ouders aan het bijpraten over de ontwikkelingen op het werk van mijn vriend.
11.30 ‘Ouders uit Nieuw-Zeeland hebben hun dochter ‘ Tula does the Hula from Hawaï' genoemd.' Een collega leest een nieuwsbericht van internet voor. Een hilarisch gesprek volgt.
12.00 Lunch, eindelijk.
12.45 Mails versturen, een rapport lezen. Het lange aftellen begint. Nog vier uur te gaan.
15.00 Koffie halen. De nek- en hoofdpijn die ik de laatste tijd bijna dagelijks voel, komt weer opzetten.
16.30 Een van de projectleiders belt: of ik even kan komen, hij heeft een klusje voor me. Halleluja! Ik snel naar zijn kantoor. Of ik een inleidend stukje wil schrijven voor een rapport. Het hoeft pas volgende week vrijdag af. Terug aan mijn bureau lees ik de achtergrondliteratuur die hij meegaf en maak ik me op voor het schrijven van een fenomenaal stuk. Ik typ de eerste zin. Haal hem weer weg. Ik typ een andere zin en haal die vervolgens ook weg. Ik kijk uit het raam, bij de buren zijn ze bezig met het schilderen van de kozijnen.
Lethargische lege werkdag
Dit is geen fictieve werkdag van Maarten Koning, Voskuils' raamambtenaar uit de romancyclus Het Bureau, of een aflevering van de komische BBC serie The Office. Het is de harde realiteit van een werkdag voor Alexandra Prins (niet haar eigen naam).
Een jaar geleden begon de 27-jarige historica aan een baan als consultant. Een vriendin vertelde er enthousiast over en het leek haar een uitdagende en afwisselende baan. De eerste tekenen van verveling treden echter al op tijdens het inwerktraject. Dan volgen vijf drukke maanden. Prins is in haar element. ‘Ik werkte mee aan een project waar een heel optimistische planning voor was gemaakt: alles moest gisteren af. We maakten dagen van tien à twaalf uur en werkten soms zelfs in het weekend. Ik vond het onderwerp van het project niet geweldig, maar blijkbaar was de positieve stress voldoende om mijn aandacht erbij te houden. Ik werd steeds opnieuw uitgedaagd en leerde ontzettend veel.' Nu is het stil en het wordt alleen maar stiller. Had Prins de afgelopen maanden nog een project waarmee ze halve dagen zoet was, nu dat is afgelopen, volgt de lethargie van de ene na de andere lange lege werkdag.
Verveling is taboe
Prins is vast een uitzondering zullen hoogopgeleiden geneigd zijn te denken. In een tijd waarin drukte en stress zijn uitgegroeid tot statussymbool, is verveling taboe. Werk moet leuk zijn, een lange aaneenschakeling van uitdagende ervaringen die leiden tot zelfontplooiing. Wie een saaie baan heeft of weinig te doen heeft op het werk, houdt zijn mond uit angst te worden gezien als klaploper, een aartsluiaard die zichzelf niet kan vermaken.
Maar ze bestaan wel degelijk: werknemers die hun dagen slijten met doelloos met papier schuiven en een actielijst die past op een postzegel, schrijven de Zwitserse organisatieadviseurs Peter Werder en Philippe Rothlin in het onlangs verschenen managementboek Diagnosis Boreout. Zij stellen dat ongeveer vijftien procent van de kantoorwerkers zich verveelt. Zo erg zelfs dat ze er ziek van worden.
Verveling op het werk is een onerkend probleem, vindt John Klein Hesselink, senior onderzoeker bij TNO Kwaliteit van Leven. ‘Het is niet onderzocht want onderzoekers vinden te veel stress spectaculairder. Degenen die zich vervelen, zitten weg te kwijnen in een hoekje, die hoor je na verloop van tijd niet meer.' In de Nationale Enquête Arbeidsomstandigheden, een jaarlijkse vragenlijkst over de arbeidsomstandigheden in Nederland, stelt TNO wel vragen over extra hard werken. Als Klein Hesselink die vragen omdraait, komt hij op een percentage van vijftien procent van de Nederlanders die te weinig te doen heeft op het werk, ongeveer tien procent van de hoogopgeleiden. Dan gaat het alleen om kwantitatieve verveling, letterlijk onvoldoende werk. Een ander aspect van verveling is onderbelasting; er is voldoende werk, maar de werknemer heeft het gevoel meer te kunnen. Hij ervaart zijn werk als saai en voelt zich niet uitgedaagd.
Het rapport schoolverlaters tussen onderwijs en arbeidsmarkt 2006 van het Researchcentrum van Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA) geeft een inzicht in de omvang van dit probleem: een derde van de wo'ers en twintig procent van de hbo'ers werkt anderhalf jaar na afstuderen onder zijn niveau.
Privé-zaken op het werk
Het onderzoek van de twee Zwitsers onder ruim honderd managers, bankiers, pr- en communicatie executives, borduurt voort op een in 2005 uitgevoerd Amerikaans onderzoek naar tijdverspilling. Hieruit bleek dat een derde van de tienduizend respondenten twee uur van hun werkdag verspilt aan privé-zaken, simpelweg omdat ze geen uitdagend werk hebben.
Intermediairlezers maken het niet zo bont, bleek uit een enquête over verveling op het werk onder 370 lezers. Bijna driekwart van de respondenten is minder dan een halfuur per dag bezig met privé-zaken, twintig procent besteedt er een halfuur tot een uur aan en de rest meer dan een uur. Privé mailen (72 procent), bellen (71 procent) en internetten (66 procent) zijn verreweg favoriet. Veertien procent zoekt een andere baan tijdens het werk en twaalf procent boekt zijn vakantie op kantoor. Maar ook boodschappen en de was doen, studeren, en langzaam werken om de tijd vol te krijgen, worden genoemd.
Inderdaad grotendeels om de lege uren op kantoor op te vullen, want maar liefst ruim de helft verveelt zich wel eens op het werk, bijna een op de tien verveelt zich regelmatig of altijd. Er is niet genoeg werk, ze hebben het idee dat ze meer kunnen dan van ze wordt gevraagd zowel kwalitatief als kwantitatief of ze voelen zich niet betrokken bij het werk.
‘Ik deed mijn werk in minder dan de helft van de tijd die ervoor stond', zegt Joris Leenders (34) over de periode dat hij als financieel manager in loondienst werkte. De rest van de tijd zat hij zich te vervelen, met een dreigende depressie als gevolg. Omdat hij dacht dat ze bij interimmers wel efficiënt gebruik zouden maken van de (duurbetaalde) uren, verruilde hij zijn vaste baan voor het zelfstandig ondernemersschap, maar ook dat valt tegen. ‘Managers doen vaak of een opdracht heel complex is, maar als je een beetje slim bent en je plant het goed, dan heb je het zo af. Veel banen zijn gewoon niet fulltime.'
De oorzaken van verveling
Zowel onderbelasting als verveling en desinteresse kunnen leiden tot een boreout, schrijven Rotlin en Werder. De drie elementen hangen onderling nauw samen: wie zich permanent niet voelt uitgedaagd, gaat zich vervelen en wie zich constant verveelt, verliest op den duur de interesse.
De oorzaken voor verveling zijn legio: van de keuze voor een verkeerde baan - je doet iets wat je niet wezenlijk interesseert - en werken onder je niveau tot een baas die niet delegeert. ‘Het is de kunst om je eigen werk te creëren', zegt Klein Hesselink, ‘maar junior accountants, advocaatstagiairs of beginnend consultants hebben het netwerk niet waardoor ze afhankelijk zijn van de opdrachten die seniors doorspelen. Als dat niet gebeurt omdat ze te druk zijn of omdat er tijdelijk minder klussen zijn, dan hangt zo iemand aan een touwtje te bungelen.'
Een scheve taakverdeling binnen teams is een belangrijke oorzaak van verveling, schrijven Werder en Rothlin. Een team moet een bepaalde hoeveelheid werk verzetten, maar er zijn altijd personen die meer doen dan ze eigenlijk moeten en die dus werk wegnemen bij collega's, die zich op hun beurt gaan vervelen. Als dat lang genoeg duurt, raken ze gedemotiveerd waardoor ze nog minder gaan doen. Het werk dat zij laten liggen, wordt zonder pardon opgepakt door de overijverige collega's.
De een krijgt een boreout, de ander een burnout; de symptomen zijn nagenoeg hetzelfde. Want wie een burnout heeft, voelt zich uitgeblust en gestresst van te veel werk; wie een boreout heeft, heeft juist stress van nietsdoen. Beiden voelen zich prikkelbaar, apathisch, lamgeslagen en soms zelfs depressief.
Onderbelasting maakt ziek
Wetenschappelijke experimenten tonen aan dat mensen die langer dan twaalf uur geen enkele prikkel van buitenaf krijgen, behoorlijk kunnen doordraaien. De menselijke geest is zelfs zo gehecht aan activiteit dat ze die bij gebrek aan prikkels zelf creëert in de vorm van hallucinaties. Een Amerikaan die maandenlang eenzaam in een donkere cel werd gegijzeld, hoorde hele orkesten spelen.
Op kantoor zal het niet zo'n vaart lopen: het licht blijft gewoon aan en er is altijd wel iets te beleven. Toch kun je van onderbelasting op het werk behoorlijk ziek worden, wees de onderzoeksscriptie van bedrijfsmaatschappelijk werker Tenno Bloos uit. Hij deed onderzoek bij drie productiebedrijven in twee verschillende branches: de chemie en de energie. In de chemische sector was volgens een Arborapportage sprake van overbelasting, in de energiebedrijven kampten de medewerkers met onderbelasting: vanwege de afbouw van de activiteiten had het personeel het idee minder (zinvol) werk te verrichten. Gemiddeld bleek ruim vijftien procent van de werknemers in de gevarenzone voor een burnout te verkeren, er was geen verschil tussen de bedrijven met overbelasting en die met onderbelasting. Onderbelasting heeft dezelfde negatieve gevolgen voor de gezondheid als overbelasting, concludeerde Bloos.
Een opvallend verschijnsel: de onderbelaste medewerkers in het energiebedrijf deden geen enkele moeite een andere baan te zoeken. De angst voor verandering en ingrijpende beslissingen, en de nauwe band met collega's hield hen tegen. Bloos: ‘Sommige medewerkers gaven de moed op, ze gingen twijfelen aan zichzelf. Dat stimuleert niet om te gaan solliciteren.'
Prins herkent de twijfels en de onzekerheid goed. Ook zij zit na maanden duimendraaien nog steeds bij het consultancybureau: ‘Het is een goede baan, die zeg je niet zomaar op en bovendien zijn mijn collega's superleuk.' Ze gaat inmiddels zelfs aan zichzelf twijfelen. ‘Het valt me tegen hoe ik op de situatie reageer. Ik was altijd perfectionistisch en legde de lat hoog. Mijn ambitie lijkt door de verveling wel te veranderen.' Sinds kort is ze in gesprek met een loopbaancoach: een baan in de consultancy wil ze niet meer. ‘Ik verwacht dat ik dan tegen dezelfde problemen aanloop, ik vind dit werk niet echt interessant.' Maar als het zo blijft: elke dag hoofdpijn en 's avonds chagrijnig op de bank voor de televisie zonder energie voor wat ook, dan zegt ze haar baan op. ‘Dan maar op een houtje bijten.'
Verveling verhullen
Mensen pakken hun verveling niet aan omdat ze zichzelf voor de gek houden; ze verhullen hun verveling. Om de indruk te wekken dat ze druk bezig zijn (uit schaamte durven veel boreout slachtoffers hun verveling niet bespreekbaar te maken) gaan verveelde werknemers op zoek naar alternatieve bezigheden. Het digitale kantoor biedt voldoende mogelijkheden: van online de krant lezen tot jezelf mee laten voeren op een stroom van nutteloze informatie op internet - de filmpjes van Johan Derksen van Voetbal International hebben honderdduizend hits per dag, de website Geen Stijl 120 duizend, vooral tijdens kantooruren.
Om niet het predicaat van luiaard of nietsnut te krijgen, blijft de boreout patiënt wel lang op kantoor, liefst langer de baas - Werder en Rothlin noemen dit de pseudo-commitmentstrategie - of hij neemt een tas vol werk mee naar huis, die natuurlijk ongeopend blijft. Een andere vaak toegepaste strategie is die van strategic delay: om verder te kunnen met een project heb je input nodig van iemand van een andere afdeling. Je belt precies op het moment waarvan je weet dat diegene afwezig is - in een meeting of onderweg - zo wordt een ander verantwoordelijk voor het feit dat je niets kunt doen, voor uren of misschien wel dagen.
De oplossing: productief vervelen
De enige uitweg uit een boreout is het ontplooien van initiatief, denkt hoogleraar arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie Toon Taris. ‘Er zijn allerlei manieren om de saaie situatie op je werk beter te maken. Je kunt privé-zaken regelen en contraproductief gedrag vertonen zoals andere mensen van het werk houden en pesten, ook een uiting van verveling. Maar je kunt de tijd ook productief doorbrengen: vraag om een cursus, kijk hoe je het werk dat je doet nog mooier en beter kunt doen, maak een voorstel om processen te verbeteren en verbreed desnoods je vakgebied.'
Leenders doet in de verloren uren de administratie voor zijn eigen bedrijf, werkt aan acquisitie of gaat op zoek naar een inhoudelijk interessante klus om erbij te doen. ‘Ik doe dat voor een laag tarief of zelfs gratis. Ik moet mezelf toch blijven uitdagen.'
En wie extra klussen binnen zijn huidige baan niet bevredigend vindt, die moet het laatste restje energie verzamelen om toch op zoek te gaan naar een andere baan. Die vast ook niet altijd even spannend is, voorspelt Taris. ‘Werk is niet altijd leuk. Als je het voor de lol doet, hoef je er niet voor betaald te worden.'
Tien manieren om verveling te verhullen
Privé mailen of internetten met altijd een zakelijk document open zodat je kunt wisselen als er iemand binnenkomt.
Druk typen, daarbij boos mompelen en aandachtig kijken, niemand zal je storen
Veel printen (om vervolgens de nutteloze documenten in de prullenbak te gooien)
Vragen stellen aan anderen om die aan het werk te zetten
Druk heen en weer lopen met een mobieltje tegen je oor en dan maar: ‘ja, ja, nee, nee'
Het werk uitsmeren over de dag en tussendoor privé-dingen doen.
Lezen en vervolgens onzin opschrijven, alsof je een lijst maakt.
Tijdsdruk neerleggen bij anderen voor dingen die eigenlijk geen haast hebben
De telefoon van de haak leggen
In excel allerlei schermen openen en voortgangsbalken produceren waardoor het lijkt alsof je met iets heel belangrijk en ingewikkelds bezig bent.
Zelftest: ben jij vatbaar voor een boreout?
Doe je privé-zaken op het werk?
Voel je jezelf niet uitgedaagd en verveeld?
Doe je soms net alsof je druk bezig bent?
Ben je moe en lusteloos als je thuiskomt van werk zonder dat je een drukke dag heb gehad?
Ben je ontevreden met je werk?
Vind je je werk zinloos?
Zou je het werk in minder tijd kunnen voltooien dan je nu doet?
Ben je bang om van baan te veranderen omdat je dan minder verdient?
Verstuur je privé-mails naar collega's in werktijd?
Heb je weinig interesse in je werk?
Heb je vier of meer vragen met ‘ja' beantwoord, dan kun je een boreout hebben...
(Bron: Intermediair)
This has got to hurt...
Maybe I shouldn't save anything important anymore on this machine...
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Please hire real software developers for your junk applicaiton!
Shoud I be worried?
This is after a 15min 30% load...
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After six years, Todd D. couldn't take the tedium anymore — his company refused to change with the times, and Todd wanted something more engaging. Seeing an opening at a publishing company, it sounded like the ideal change. He'd be going from a big software company to a more progressive publishing company with a software department; a good place for him to show his chops and actually make a difference. He aced his interview, as did the company — they'd proudly told Todd that they were happy to work with cutting-edge technology, had brand-new hardware, and a near-zero turnover rate. It was a no-brainer for him to accept their offer.
As he was about to head in to his first day of work, he got a call from HR. "Hi, Todd? I forgot to mention the dress code earlier. You'll have to wear a jacket and tie." Ugh, he thought, wondering if his suit was in presentable shape. At his last job he'd show up in a t-shirt and shorts. I guess I'll have to go shopping tonight. He dusted off his old suit, found a tie that didn't completely clash, and hopped in his car. If having to wear a suit would be the worst thing about his new job, it wouldn't be so bad.
Arriving to the office, he was escorted to his new cube. His wooden cube. One of the owners' sons liked to work with wood and had been contracted to build several things around the office — all of the cubes, some shelves, some tables — all of which conveyed the feeling that one was working in a coffin with shelves. It sucked, but Todd could deal with it.
Next, he was shown the time tracking application, and introduced to the company's related policies. "OK, so you're just getting in, so you click here to punch in," the well-dressed woman from HR began. "And when you need to punch out, like if you're using the restroom or something, you click here."
"Wait," Todd began. "I'm supposed to punch out when I use the restroom?"
She chuckled, "of course! I mean, unless you plan on getting work done in the restroom! You have to punch out any time you're not working."
"So if I'm making a phone call?"
"You punch out."
"If I'm stopping by the snack machine for a candy bar?" Todd asked in disbelief.
"You punch out." She seemed to think Todd was a slow learner, while Todd just couldn't believe the absurdity of the policy. It was becoming clear that she thought they should both punch out for the discussion they were currently having. Ugh. That's pretty draconian. At least I'm salaried, he thought.
"Also," she continued, "you have to get forty hours of punched-in time each week. Otherwise you get docked or will have to make it up over the weekend."
...But I'm salaried, Todd thought. "And if I work more than 40 hours?" he asked.
"That's good; that's what we want."
She went on to explain what happens if more break time than is allowed is taken. That is, every day you get 30 minutes for lunch, 15 floating minutes for other breaks (bathroom, snack machine, etc.). If you needed more than 45 minutes, you had to get a special dispensation from your boss. In Todd's case, his boss was the owner's son, Quincy — who had never, ever given out a special dispensation. If you were on fire, you'd better finish your shift before you stopped, dropped, and rolled.
Todd was given internet access, but warned that it was closely monitored and that a lot of sites and services were blocked — for example all major free email services, all major news sites, instant messaging clients, etc. Todd later found a program that he could use to bypass the filter and access GMail, however.
As his training was wrapping up, he was asked if he had any questions. "Well, just one," he said, noticing that no one had left office supplies on his desk. "Where can I get a pen?"
"Oh, we'll have to get you one tomorrow."
This'll be good, Todd thought.
"Janice has the key to the supply cabinet, and she's only in once a week." Janice was the boss's wife. "She'll be in from 11:00 to noon tomorrow. I'll show you where the line starts."
He'd have to wait in line for the one hour window to get any office supplies. And if you missed the window, you didn't get any supplies — you should've planned better, slacker. Either wait until next week or buy it. After work. At your own expense. And to put the icing on the cake, you had to punch out while you were waiting in line.
After two weeks in his coffinlike cube, Todd and the other developers were summoned to the warehouse. As a publishing company, they had a lot of "magazine junk" that they sold — t-shirts, logo'd stuffed animals, hats, and other similar tchotchkies — and they were practically swimming in the crap.
"The reason I called you all down here is that we need to take inventory of all our promo items," his boss began.
"So why'd you bring all the developers down here?" Todd asked what everyone was thinking.
"The warehouse staff is busy fulfilling orders. Fulfilling orders makes us money; fixing bugs in our software doesn't. I'm going to need you guys to count and sort everything." Todd rolled his eyes, knowing that most of the warehouse staff were friends with the boss's sons and had probably leveraged that to get out of inventory duty.
Todd knew that protesting this would get him nowhere, as they already had a crappy work environment with crappy management. "Can we at least wear something more comfortable while we work?"
"...I didn't say anything about our dress code changing," the boss replied with a sinister smile.
All of the developers had their changes put on hold and started going through dirty, grimy boxes under the boss's unblinking eye. Todd's suit got covered in dust, cardboard fibers, and bits of tape, not to mention that everyone was getting sweaty in the hot warehouse in suits and ties, climbing up 20 feet of shelves (that had been cobbled together by the owner's son), carrying 50lb boxes of stupid crap that no one could ever want. Todd figured that his boss had a printout of OSHA regulations and had made it his goal to break every single one. By the end of the day, everyone's clothes were ruined (as were their spirits).
Todd was so fed up and pissed off that he decided he'd treat himself to the unthinkable — leaving three minutes early. He figured that he'd earned one hundred and eighty seconds of malfeasance, plus he couldn't take another minute of being sweaty and miserable in his coffin cubicle. All that he had on his mind was his frustration, and the desire to treat himself to a good dinner, a long shower, and an early bedtime.
The following day, Todd was called into his boss's office.
"Todd, do you know why you're in here?" Before he could answer, his boss continued. "You're in here because you left three minutes early yesterday. Why don't you walk me through what you were thinking."
Again, before he could answer, his boss answered for him. "I know what you weren't thinking. You weren't thinking 'I should ask for my boss's permission to leave early. I think I should be allowed to leave whenever I please.'" The voice he was giving to Todd's internal monologue had a nasally, sing-song tone.
"And," he continued, "you were also thinking, 'I shouldn't have to do any work. I should be allowed to use the internet whenever I want, however I want.' Yeah, we know you're looking at blocked web sites." He leaned forward in his chair. "Listen, Todd. You've got a bad attitude. It's almost like you don't like working here." That was the first thing he'd gotten right so far.
At this point, Todd decided to end the relationship by formally giving his two minutes' notice. On his way out, he suggested his boss do something anatomically impossible.
We've even specially translated the name of our restaurant...
Now that's what I call cleaning up your disk!
Some bug was found in the latest release of Ubisoft's RainbowSix Vegas 2 game.
THey release a patch, as usual, only this time, some interesting info was revealed using a HEX editor...
OMG, did they just steal an illegal no-CD crack?
Limboooo, how looow can you gooo?
Hmm, is Bill sick, mentally disabled or a computerilliterate?
---- Original Message ----
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame
I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.
Let me give you my experience from yesterday.
I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.
The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.
This site is so slow it is unusable.
It wasn't in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.
These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:Documents and SettingsbillgMy DocumentsMy Pictures seem clear.
They are not filtered by the system ... and so many of the things are strange.
I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.
So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?
So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.
They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).
I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.
I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.
In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.
This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?
So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.
Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?
Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.
This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.
So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn't use it for anything else during this time.
What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.
Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?
So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.
So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.
So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.
What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.
So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.
At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.
So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.
The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.
So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.
It is not there.
What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.
But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.
What an absolute mess.
Moviemaker is just not there at all.
So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.
I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.
I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.
I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.
So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.
The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)
When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.
Crappy Outlook 2000 client generated some error. Here are the proposed solutions:
Wanneer heeft U voor het laatst uw software geopdateerd?
Dell was found guilty on Tuesday of fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices and abusive debt collection practices in a case brought by the New York attorney general. The Albany County Supreme Court found that Dell deprived customers of technical support that they bought or were eligible for under warranty in several ways, including by requiring people to wait for very long times on the phone, repeatedly transferring their calls and frequently disconnecting their calls.
Dell also often failed to provide onsite repairs for customers who bought contracts for such support and often blamed software when hardware was actually the problem, the court found. The company also sometimes refused to offer support when a support contract ended, even though the user had first complained about a problem before the end of the contract. Subscribers to a "next-day" repair service sometimes waited as long as a year for support, the court found.
Dell and affiliate Dell Financial Services also advertised special no-interest financing, but denied almost everyone those terms. It often sold customers products without informing them that they didn't qualify for the special financing terms and then charged them interest rates as high as 30 percent, the court said. Dell and DFS also often incorrectly billed people for cancelled orders and for accounts they didn't authorize. The companies then harassed the people for payment, using illegal billing and collection practices, the court said.
The court will determine how much Dell will have to pay in restitution to affected customers and will also require Dell to pay the state of New York the profits it made on these deceptive practices. In addition, the ruling prohibits Dell and DFS from continuing to engage in the fraudulent activities.
The court laid out plans for investigating how many people have been affected as a way to determine restitution. Dell hopes that the court will find that only a few people had bad experiences. "We're confident that when the proceedings are completed, the court will determine that only a relatively small number of customers have been affected," Dell said in a statement. "We believe that our customer service levels are at or above industry standards."
A group in Santa Fe says the city is discriminating against them because they say that they're allergic to the wireless Internet signal. And now they want Wi-Fi banned from ublic buildings. Arthur Firstenberg says he is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless Internet and cell phones.
"I get chest pain and it doesn't go away right away," he said. Firstenberg and dozens of other electro-sensitive people in Santa Fe claim that putting up Wi-Fi in public places is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The city attorney is now checking to see if putting up Wi-Fi could be considered discrimination. But City Councilor Ron Trujillo says the areas are already saturated with wireless Internet.
"It's not 1692, it's 2008. Santa Fe needs to embrace this technology, it's not going away," Trujillo said. The city attorney hopes to have a legal recommendation by the end of the month.
[Lol, fucking American idiots]
OK, dat was pokketraag, ik hou hem wel als failover ;)
Zo, vanaf nu op een ongeloofelijk stil servertje, IIS migration tool gebruikt, dus als er iets niet meer werkt, laat maar weten!
So you've made the mistake to install WHS, Windows Home Server
And now you want to use your normal administrator password and the f*cking system won't let you.
So, you're lazy and have 15 systems with the same password because you don't want to remember a new password for every computer you have.
You've tried changing the password using control-alt-delete, but that doesn't work, apparently your password doens't meet the 0 days old, 0 length, 0 complexity requirements 
You've tried using the MSC control, but that doesn't work either.
You've tried lowering the complexity requirements in the WHS control center, but apparently those do not apply to the administrator password.
So you're about to give up, when you found this site
Well, the trick is simple, the fixed complexity rules apply not to the account called "administrator", but to the built-in administrator UID.
So, you simply openup the compmgmt.msc and rename the administrator account to anything you like and the you create a new account, called "administrator", add it the "administrators" group and you're done!
Log off and on again, and use your nice standard password for all your connections 
Jaja, de klotezever is weer bezig.
Als ge tegenwoordig nen URL googled met de hoop hem in de googlecache te kunnen zien, krijgde deze voze foutmelding.
Afgezabberde schijtlullen.
Blijkbaar toch een beetje schade geleden door de hitte, want de server was ongeloofelijk onstabiel.
Moederbord, CPU en memory vervangen en we zijn weer up and running!
Voor diegenen die het gemerkt hebben, de site is enkele dagen uit de lucht geweest...
Kort samengevat, een CPU fan die 0 rpm draait, is niet ideaal
Have you been getting these stange errors as well lately?
Internal System Error
Errors in system registry were found.
KL0x010013DB SYSC: 1f SYSLVL 0xe615025 NTKernel error 7645 (unhandled exception)
A system is unstable An error has been detected and Windows has been shutdown buggy
application to prevent damage to your computer. [sic]
NTLDR - Address C8D460BA base at D00010, DS 76a032B3 KDbg: COM1 (Port 0x38f, Baud rate 192000)
Critical error occured SEGFAULT: 0x100B05E (0xA502D4, 0x00100, 0xBC0D36)
Inaccesible handler or device.
IEXPLORER.EXE - Application Error
The instruction at 0x02b52a37 referenced memory at 0x0a554d67. The memory could not be read.
Click on OK to terminate
...
Posts alike are appearing on many usenetgroups as we speak. Everytime, a sympathetic support employee from Saliar will reply on the message telling you should install the SaliarAR software.
Strange thing is, google for any of these errors, and all results you get point to Saliar related sites.
At first, there were netsend like messages, asking you to install the software. Then there came direct pop-unders. Then you got these fake error message. And now, we
get balloons in the systray.
There generated by an executable located in your personal \Local Settings\Temp directory, random name, icon from Windows Update.
They are downloaded from this IP address: 88.214.208.31, the www.saliar.com resolves to 88.214.200.140, registered to the "Real International Business Corporation", real name: Soldatov Maxim.
Oh my, isn't that the same name I read checking out the source of the downloaded executable? Yes it is! And indeed, the address and phone number is also the same.
Must be a very trustworthy software, that SaliarAR thing, and it's advertised on all major download sites...
inetnum: 88.214.192.0 - 88.214.255.255
netname: UK-UAONLINE-20060118
descr: Real International Business Corp.
country: GB
org: ORG-RIBC1-RIPE
admin-c: MS9776-ripe
tech-c: MS9776-ripe
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: uaonline
mnt-domains: uaonline
mnt-routes: uaonline
source: RIPE # Filtered
organisation: ORG-RIBC1-RIPE
org-name: Real International Business Corp.
org-type: LIR
address: Real International Business Corp.
MARYLEBONE HIGH STREET 78
W1U 5AP LONDON
United Kingdom
phone: +380 50 4986406
fax-no: +12012218228
e-mail: makc@center.hqhost.net
admin-c: MS9776-ripe
admin-c: VK1045-ripe
mnt-ref: uaonline
mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Soldatov Maxim
address: Marylebone high street 78
address: W1U 5AP London
phone: +380 50 4985406
e-mail: makc@ipipe.net
org: ORG-RIBC1-RIPE
nic-hdl: MS9776-ripe
mnt-by: uaonline
source: RIPE # Filtered
inetnum: 88.214.208.0 - 88.214.208.255
netname: uaonline-nj-1
descr: iPipe Inc. webhosting block
country: GB
admin-c: MS9776-ripe
tech-c: VK1045-ripe
status: ASSIGNED PA
remarks: INFRA-AW
mnt-by: uaonline
source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Soldatov Maxim
address: Marylebone high street 78
address: W1U 5AP London
phone: +380 50 4985406
e-mail: makc@ipipe.net
org: ORG-RIBC1-RIPE
nic-hdl: MS9776-ripe
mnt-by: uaonline
source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Vladimir Klenov
address: London, United Kingdom
phone: +380 50 4985406
e-mail: maple@ipipe.net
nic-hdl: VK1045-ripe
mnt-by: uaonline
source: RIPE # Filtered
I think I see a large infection spreading...
*** Update: to clean this junk, delete the file %windir%\system32\cache\actmxl.dll. These should also be a .000 version in your temp directory under your local settings. ***
Voor ieder die zijn PC om zeep wil helpen, hier de laatste nieuwe oplossing:
SaliarAR!
Met fake error melding als deze
en product beschrijvingen en newsgroup posts als deze
You can stop the adware, spyware, malware, trojans, dialers, worms and
thousand others critical objects by using SaliarAR. It scans your PC
and removes these dangerous objects automatically. It boosts
protection with up to date automatic updates. It also very safe. It
doesn’t do anything that can destabilize Windows. It adds no
complexity to Windows and works outside Windows as much as
possible.
Learn more abour SaliarAR at http://www.saliar.com/saliarAR.htm
Latest Signature Updates: Win32.HotBar.bt adware, MNESICOM.EXE
spyware,Win32.BHO.ald spyware, adpopctr.com spyware, RegistryCleanNow
adware, PCDiskDefender adware, DBULIGMA.EXE spyware, WINSYSLDR.EXE
spyware, ...
Proberen ze de aandacht te trekken van onschuldige PC gebruikers om hun eigen spyware geinstalleerd te krijgen...
Een gewaarschuwd PC slaafje...
"If it doesn't move, force it. If it breaks, it needed fixing anyway."
Miljoenen worden betaald aan idiote acteurs die amper hun eigen naam kunnen schrijven. Maar iemand aannemen die iets kent van PC's?
CSI Miami, webcams in studentenhuis, ff een IP adres "authenticeren"...
En het adres is:
311.92.310.23.1108
WTF?
Maar in flikken ging het nog beter, de link naar de website was een favoriet, en de mouse over liet zien dat de site gehost werd op...
127.0.0.1
Da zijn pas corrupte flikken!
De laatste vier dagen ben ik bezig geweest met het installeren van 8 updates voor Vista, op één machine.
Elke keer mislukken ze, bij elke reboot duurt het wat langer en bij elke nieuwe controle op updates zijn er meer.
Daarom dus, KLOTE SCHIJT KAK Vista gaat eruit en een mooie, goeie XP x64 komt in de plaats.
En Vista? Die zien we nooit meer... ... terug!
Is het nu "Annuleren" of "Opheffen"?
En wat is bekindigen?
Greetz to the Brazilian script-kiddie who's been running a brute force attack on my ftp server.
Go home, mummy backed you some fish-sticks!
Zo zie, een Paypal donate knoppeke, ge weet wel op de hosting en den elentriek en zo te helpen betalen he...
Karl's laptop...
Gisteren is de site even down geweest, om bandbreedte te voorzien voor een enorme upload (bijna 500MiB!).
De nieuwe flash player voor de foto's was net iets te veeleisend van mijn lijntje, dus alle foto's, de oude site van KHDE en de site van SJieK zijn verhuisd naar een hosting partner.
Sinds deze namiddag is ook de licentie voor de flsh player geregeld (thx Dhina) en zijn de laatste bugs weggewerkt (PHP script voor case correction, directory browsing script voor de /foto).
De lokale IIS redirect de oude URL's dus voor jullie verandert er helemaal niet, buiten dat de meeste dingen wat sneller zouden moeten gaan nu!
cya.
Na jaren heb ik vandaag nog eens van examenstress mogen proeven.
Vanaf nu heet ik Ing, MSc, VCP
[Industrieel Ingenieur, Master in Sciences, VMWare ESX3 Certified Professional]
Jaja, het is eindelijk gebeurd. De kuren en errors van Vista kwamen gisteren zo mijn strot uit dat één van mijn twee Vista PC's regelrecht werd omgetoverd in een XP...
We hebben nu 4 XP's, 2 2003's, 1 2000, 1 Vista en 1 Lui-Nix.
850 * 77,1 = 100 000 volgens Excel 2007
100 000 / 77,1 = 1297,017
Dit is een van de banners voor de nieuwe versie van Windows Home Server.
Let vooral op de Mac Notebook die niet compatible zal zijn
"This is a remanufactured product some (sic) of the components may have been replaced and/or repaired. This Product meets Iomega's quality Assurance standards."
Of om in't kort samen te vatten: 't is kapotten brol van een ander waar ne getrainden aap ne keer naar heeft gekeken.
Pech Iomega (eigenlijk pech voor mezelf), want het ding werkt even goed als het kapotte ding dat het eigenlijk moest vervangen...
[ 265.000 hits op Google voor "Iomega sucks" en nog eens meer dan 7.000 in de newsgroups ]
OK, het is officieel, naast een Xubuntu PC staat er nu ook een MacOS X in mijn Windows koninkrijk.
Before you get too excited: 't staat te draaien onder Windows 2003 x64 in VMWare Server 1.0.3
Met gemengde gevoelens las ik vandaag deze advertentie...
Na het 4e bezoek van een HP technieker, na het vervangen van de RAID controller, het moederbord, de cache module (verkeerd model) en nogmaals de cache module (het juiste model) werkt onze DL360 G5 eindelijk.
Gelukkig moesten we niet te veel gokken en konden we het probleem onmiddellijk aanwijzen: ergens in de behuizing.
Vandaag is eindelijk de volgende versie van mijn fix DVD klaargekomen.
Het is versie 8.21 geworden.
Enkele van de nieuwigheden: Knoppix Live CD, BackTrack v2 Final, alle oude bugs weggewerkt...
Allé, op algemene aanvraag, het vervolg van het Windows 98 verhaaltje:
De vertaling van de HEX text:
One OS to rule them all,
One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
Als er iemand zin heeft om eens een Windows CD in de oven te steken, laat mij weten, ik ben benieuwd of dit echt is of een hoax.
Ik heb gelezen dat het enkel zou werken met de release 1 en op andere sites staat Windows XP.
Please feel free to try and report back.
PS: Ik ben niet verantoordelijk voor schade aan de CD, de oven, eventueel brand bij jou of iemand anders!
"Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, payed me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows 98 on my PC and that I am very happy with this operating system. I also showed him the Windows 98 CD, to my surprise he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned on the oven. Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.' "
"After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but then on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F5320746 F2066696E64207468656D2CDA4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67207468656D20 616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062696E64207468656D
"'I cannot understand the fiery letters,' I said.
"'No,' he said 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:
... to be continued
For those who care:
Windows XP SP2 has currently 98 updates available,
Windows 2000 SP4 has 81.
I'll teach you killing processes!
Warning: Dangerous software detected!
Een leuk artikeltje gelezen vandaag over waarom mensen niet overstappen naar Pinguin.
Een van de argumenten was dat er teveel distro's zijn. Hier is een schemaatje...
Het volledige artikel staat op het forum.
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Spijtig dat al die posts van mij zijn, anders had het al lekker druk geweest
Een korte samenvatting van de nieuwsbrief van McAfee vandaag:
PS: een "detection" is een nieuw virus, of virusvariant.
- Since 4400 engine released over 2 ½ years ago, we have more than doubled detections
- The last 3 months alone account for ~11% of our total detection count
- The last 3 months account for ~24% of all detections since the 4400 engine released
- No other 3 month time frame in the history of the DAT files has counted for more detections
- 4,044 new detections have been added in the month of May alone; at this rate we will total over 11,400 detections for the month of May.
- The first half of 2007 is on track to have more detections added to the DATs than were added in all of 2005 or 2006
(Fortune Magazine) -- Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile - it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task - and it's blessedly crash-resistant.
A broad community of developers, from individuals to large companies like IBM, is constantly working to improve it and introduce new features. No wonder the business world has embraced it so enthusiastically: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers.
But now there's a shadow hanging over Linux and other free software, and it's being cast by Microsoft. The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of such high quality is that it violates more than 200 of Microsoft's patents. And as a mature company facing unfavorable market trends and fearsome competitors like Google, Microsoft is pulling no punches: It wants royalties. If the company gets its way, free software won't be free anymore.
Be afraid Pinguin, be very afraid!!!!
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