HELLO! Fixing 39000 out of 54000 records THAT YOU GUYS fucked up deserves a little more than a hello how ya doin. This was NOT my job. I just knew that you fucked up and pulled your ass out of the fire.
And I dumped my ass right into the frying pan.
And to top it off. I can’t send the damn data. This is CRITICAL information for a DB conversion and I can’t send a fucking .mdb attachment. I renamed it to .ZZZ and it still won’t go. Our email is now locked down tighter than a well diggers ass.
I’m in IS and my own IS dept won’t help. They are chasing down viruses.
My boss got it on his desktop and they took his machine away from him (ha, that is sort of funny).
Had to get that off my chest. DB conversion is fun. Really, it is.
And to continue, while I’m thinking about it. dfjd;ah;erke
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I’ll be cooking dinner tonight. And take the dogs out for a hike tomorrow.
I am at the point where I will copy the damn DB to my BlackBerry and send it from there. This is beyond absurd.
The email at my school was locked down horribly like that too. It’d strip out any Javascript or PHP code in an attachment, which is logical, except when you’re in a web programming course. Yes, people, that’s right. We couldn’t use our school email addresses to send our assignments to our instructors (who couldn’t use their school email to receive them anyway). We got around this by uploading everything to the server and emailing the instructors telling them they could download the files from whatever URL.
It’d even strip out things from files in zip files!
[hijack]Conflating two expressions. Tighter than a cat’s ass (if you’ve ever had to take a cat’s temperature, you will understand this one) or Colder than a well-digger’s ass (I have this one on good authority from my father, who had to dig a well by hand once in the 30’s)[/hijack]
Now back to your rant, very entertaining. I went through a db conversion only once, and all the headaches belonged to the vendor. So I got to be the one to complain and make them jump. Ah, fun times.
Roddy
Yes… It’s colder than a well diggers ass. But I thought that my simily would work. What ever. It’s my pit thread.
Well and good everyone. I just deleted 2 pages of rant about my boss to my bosses boss. That is best left alone.
It’s coming around. People see. I have this new DB pretty much under my belt.
If anyone wants anything done around here they come to me or my co workers.
What is tough is that my boss and I are on a huge project database conversion project together. He is completely clueless about DB design. Mix in the spatial aspects of GIS and you have a fish not just out of water but in air at 10,000 feet.
I’ll make it work. That’s what I do. I’ve been in GIS data conversion for 20 years. I’ve been doing GIS conversion before anyone knew what GIS was.
(I make maps on a computer was the simple answer)
I’m off to cook. I’m going to do a non traditional Egg foo young. I’m going to use noodles instead of bean sprouts. The test with left overs last night worked very well (can you tell I’m a programmer?)
I also bought a bottle of wine to help create the sauce. And keep me entertained.
Huh? Buy default? I know that .zips are blocked at work for incoming, but an .mdb?
I did not set this. Perhaps I should have a word with the system admins about this.
Wonderful. So now I have to put this on our ftp site and hope that they can get it. Or convert it to an .xls and have them intepret it. Or ASCII dilimited and have them import it.
I was talking to a friend the other day about the weather and problems at work with computers.
He said, jokingly, “If you need me, I’ll be up on the roof with a rifle”.
I kind of agree. There is just too much. Or as Gary Larson would say “My brain is full”.
Íf it’s less than 2gb, you can use FileMail.com for free. It uploads your file to a server and sends an e-mail to whoever with the download URL as an “attachment.” Since the file isn’t directly attached, you avoid the size limitation in your inbox. I just tested it, it works fine with .mdbs.
What I need is some green bar tractor feed paper. And a box.
I think the .ZZZ did go after all. The additional failure notice was about the original .mdb delay. Outlook, if you aren’t gonna send it just tell me so.
Delay my ass.
Thanks all. I’ll make some phone calls on Monday to make sure it got through. I’m stunned that .mdb is blocked by default. Even if it can be a malware vector.
Outlook blocks things by default? And the message just says that the delivery has been delayed? Hokay. Thanks MS.
You jest (I hope…) but something similar happened at my office recently.
We are working with an outside contractor on one of our projects and as part of the agreement, we get to use and modify a program he wrote. So one of our engineers asked for the source code.
He faxed us 100 pages of Fortran code. It took a week and various threats to get him to send us a digital copy of his code (per the contract he signed).
I was kind of surprised he didn’t just send us a .pdf
Me too. Thankfully, I was just an amused observer and had no actual contact with this man known by many names (most being long strings of four letter words).
