The IT Thread

[Minimalist]

So, here's what happened.

While I was reaching behind the computer to get the wireless usb connector I heard a little ding from my machine.  I counted out ten seconds and then reinserted the connector and stepped back to look at the message.

Lo and behold it was a notice from WPS Office ( an open source knockoff of Microsoft Office ) that my version was no longer functional and I should download the new version.  I did as I was told and the problem is gone.

I suspect that they put out some kind of "upgrade" (and if there was a notification of it, I missed it) and they caught holy hell from other people who suddenly found their computers all fucked up too. 

I appreciate all the suggestions but it appears this was a man-made catastrophe rather than some random Windows miscue!

[Inkubus]

Lo and beold it was a notice from WPS Office ( an open source knockoff of Microsoft Office ) that my version was no longer functional and I should download the new version.  I did as I was told and the problem is gone.

What are these open source knockoffs of which you speak?

Ah Jim lad, shiver me timbers and roger the cabin boy.

[Fireball]

No need to roger the poor cabin boy!  I have an old version of OpenOffice that does the work for me, even though it is no longer supported. I might have bought MS Office, but wasn't willing to pony up the cash.

[Minimalist]

There's a couple of them for people who are not running a business but still need a decent word processer or spreadsheet.  I mainly use the spreadsheet for my dog rescue activities and a number of wargames use .csv spreadsheets for data.

If you put this string into Google it will give you a whole list of them.

best open source office suite

Even Microsoft has one... but you have to watch out on some of them.  They are not fully functional unless you "upgrade" to the the premium version.

[Inkubus]

No need to roger the poor cabin boy!   I have an old version of OpenOffice that does the work for me, even though it is no longer supported. I might have bought MS Office, but wasn't willing to pony up the cash.

Well he could download (legit) the latest Libra Office but he said specifically he was using MS Office.

[skyking]

I quit all my IT consulting gigs. This was one of my favorite com cabinets that I thankfully did not have to do much work in. Note the roll of wire that lives there on the lower left.


I also like the dangling 66 block on the right, being held in place by decades of 'seismic reinforcement'. That was our term for the layers of wire that build up and are left in place as the tech changed.
Here was the threat in the upper left corner in the IT guy's tool of choice, the fine point sharpie. I can't make out that riposte in pen above it. It was like an exchange on the bathroom stall door, LOL.

[Minimalist]

Rube Goldberg would be proud.

[SYZ]

At least the colour-coded wires made it easy to trace them.    Ha, ha.

[SYZ]

Firefox has the "flexible space" addition in order to customise its toolbar in
order to separate the icons if you so choose.  The later versions of Firefox
however have increased the fixed(?) width of the space by around 4 times
that of the old "flexible space".

Is there any way to manually decrease the width of this spacer?

This is the "old" flexible space...


      

[SYZ]

Disabling "end cards" on YouTube videos.

Does anybody know a way to do this?  I've tried a few  3rd party alleged fixes
for this annoying function, but none has worked.  They still show under Firefox
even if you uncheck the "show" checkbox in YouTube tools.

These are the bloody things I'm talking about...

[no one]

Tim Curr...... wrong IT, my bad.