Well I just had an interesting call today.  Thankfully I knew the answer without doing any research but I figured I would verify what I knew was true.

When you get an error dictating that the path is too deep, it is mentioning the source path and the destination path is too large to store in the buffer.  I had the person copy the files to the temp folder on the desktop and then to the actual source and worked perfectly.

Chalk that one up to Microsoft ingenious at its best!

For those of you that need this information, the default administrator password for the Lanier Printer LD145 is as follows:

Username: Administrator

Password: password

I really hate how it is impossible to log into these printers without knowing what the password is.  There should be an option to set it or not.  99% of the world just leaves it as default anyways so it is like not having a password…

 Oh well and enjoy!

There comes a point in the development of a webgame where it starts to breathe. Being the one who gave it the ability to breathe and watching it come to life is truly remarkable. Sometimes it’s even a little startling. Ultimately, though, it is one of the most satisfying moments of the whole process.

I’m currently working on a baseball management simulator, SimYard. I figure it will be ready for some sort of beta testing sometime in the next couple of weeks. You create a team by picking a name, team colors, and a logo. Then, you head to the park to find another team to play against.

The park is a pretty standard multiplayer lobby. There are fields displayed, and you pick a dugout to enter. Once two teams are in the same field, they are taken to a setup page. When they’ve both selected their starting pitchers and set their lineups, the game starts. I wrote the script to handle this a while ago, and I was working on building the live game screen when the site startled me.

On the live game screen, both lineups are displayed. There were more than nine players in the lineups. I didn’t understand it, since I had been testing the lineups before they were displayed, and I knew that it was all working correctly. Why were there extra people there? Frustrated, I headed back into the code and started tracking what the script was actually doing to find out where these extra players were coming from, and I found it.

The website had come to life.

The script that I was running, now that the games were being set up correctly, was doing exactly what it was supposed to be doing, and it was running the game. The game was proceeding through the innings, and pitchers and batters were getting substituted in and out by the virtual manager. This was adding the extra players to the roster. I might have caught on to this earlier, except that this particular game happened to be a 17-inning marathon which emptied both bullpens!

I’ve never been so happy before to find the source of a bug.

Well, just as I say, I am running out of people stupidity comments go, I have enough to post two different entries on it in one day!  I digress, on to the idiocy!

A woman in her late 50s early 60s (I hope) walks up to me and inquires about why her aol mail was freezing and how to write emails in aol.  Now, I think to myself, I do not work for aol, why would I really know the answer!  I also know that these people cannot figure out how to tie their shoes properly if they thought it was computer related.  Common sense goes out the window when it involves the baby boomer generation and computers.

So we walk over to her desk and I see 40 internet explorer windows open all regarding to aol.  I was not able to close any of them.  It appears that AOL has some kind of advertising on the left hand side of the screen and I believe that was what was causing the windows to freeze up.  It was not displaying this information properly.  So I close down the windows and had her go back into aol and made sure that this worked correctly.  Now I agree, this did require an IT person if you don’t know how to use a computer.  The next thing out of her mouth floored me though!

How do I compose a message!

WHAT?!?!?!!? You click on the button called compose..

Why can’t people read what is right in front of them.  I was always embarrassed to ask the completed stupid questions but these people have no problem doing so.  Oh well..at least it makes for a good post!

Well I haven’t had a lot of good content to throw in the humor part of this site for a long time.  I would like to change it with a story of a person trying to get into outlook.  First let me give you some background…yes I know, the background is the boring part!

Yesterday morning, I setup a user to use outlook as opposed to web access.  Outlook is by far much better than using the web access and I question why there are people on my network that use web access at all!  It is so idiotic.  Well anyways, I set up the user.

I receive a voicemail this morning stating this…

“Hi Koopa, I just wanted to give you a call and let you know of the problem that I had.  After we talked, I was using outlook great but then I had to shut my computer off.  Once I turned it back on, I have no idea how to get back into outlook!  I know how to access the website for webmail, but I just don’t know how to do it normally.  Give me a call so we can discuss.  Thanks!”

Seriously?  How do you not know where the icon is to get into outlook email?  I wish people would take a moment and figure things out on their own.  I would think that it would be more rewarding than asking someone like me about it!  Oh well, I suppose some things you cannot control in life.  At least this is how I can keep my job….