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- mazerrackham, on 01/09/2008, -10/+768Ha! I give 100-1 odds that this message was written by someone with a helpdesk background.
- tmccool, on 01/09/2008, -5/+540I AM ACTING AS AN IRRESPONSIBLE DATA OWNER BY PROCEEDING WITHOUT BACKUP
this message really wanted to make me backup my data, actually. - slimjim5811, on 01/09/2008, -6/+518For the love of God...back up your data NOW!
- lnxfi, on 01/09/2008, -3/+487I love when programmers get bored. One program we have at work here has a black cat walk across your screen for the first person to log in every friday the 13th.
- herkalees, on 01/09/2008, -2/+234So... did you?
- woohhaa, on 01/09/2008, -5/+219Never tell me the odds.
- Dunhamzzz, on 01/09/2008, -4/+206Dugg for effectiveness. Id rather backup then type all the crap at the bottom out.
- BillGod, on 01/09/2008, -0/+185Ha thats lightspeed. It is a parts catalog / inventory system for RV,Motorcycle / ATV shops and the likes. I used to work for that company. As soon as i started to read the error I said.. hey I know that error. and yes you have to type in I AM ACTING AS AN IRRESPONSIBLE DATA OWNER BY PROCEEDING. We used to get computers back from customers for repair that said its been 300+ days... that means they had to type that EVERY day to log in.
- frenzy3, on 01/09/2008, -8/+146this sould be on all software lol
- Tokyosexwhale, on 01/09/2008, -4/+117Not my ENTIRE Parts Inventory! I've been collecting parts for so many years!
- woohhaa, on 01/09/2008, -7/+118That Ipod Nano advertisement on the right side today is going to make me kill myself.
- Bizarrkley, on 01/09/2008, -3/+90Get Firefox with Adblock and be done with it.
- Masakatsu, on 01/09/2008, -2/+81I have to agree. I have code in our BI platform that checks if month = 4 and day = 1 then it checks to see if user_sec_class = admin. It then tells the user if all those conditions are true that they shouldn't be working today and are they sure. Badgers them for a couple minutes then closes the app. Next login, it doesn't happen. This year will be the 5th year running of this gag, which usually has the newest fuctional admin (who tends to have been with the company less then a year) being given a whole bunch of work on aprils fools day that has to be done before they leave.
- fstorino, on 01/09/2008, -0/+78Jesus saves. Buddha does incremental backups.
- h4mx0r, on 01/09/2008, -4/+78Another one shatters the monitor of the first person to login with a CRT screen.
- Firehed, on 01/09/2008, -1/+71This isn't the result of bored programmers. This is the result of programmers who are sick of dealing with stupid users and want to be able to give a very thorough "I told you so, now ***** off" response and get back to doing something important.
- fatlip, on 01/09/2008, -9/+71why dont you go bitch about it on reddit. because here on digg, no one really wants to hear it.
- etandrib, on 01/09/2008, -0/+61I agree… fear is a great too.
- Renton, on 01/09/2008, -1/+62I just reformatted my drive to spite them.
- madjack3, on 01/09/2008, -2/+63I once wrote a program that, when someone did something on a Saturday said "Wow, working on a Saturday, Huh?".
And two years later, after I was at a different job, got a call from a friend who said it made her day when she saw it. Pretty cool. - maddla, on 01/09/2008, -3/+63"When someone gives you 10000:1 odds on anything, take it. If John Mellencamp ever wins an Oscar, I'm going to be very rich." -Kevin
- zzzpoohzzz, on 01/09/2008, -1/+56who cares? theyre different sites... they shouldn't have the same content at the same time... (unless its some breaking news story or something)
- braudio, on 01/09/2008, -3/+55Backup. You'd rather backup than back up.
- tekhna, on 01/09/2008, -9/+60Than. You'd rather back up than type.
- EricMiIIer, 17 hr 4 min ago, -2/+52shoot just an IT background of any kind. Freakin' Users.
- Chrispyc1211, on 01/09/2008, -2/+51No. It's a warning message from the program, "Lightspeed." Take a look at the frame of the picture.
- piesforyou, on 01/09/2008, -2/+50I read this and I'm going to go ahead and not backup my data. I laugh in the face of danger! MWahahahaha
- merreborn, on 01/09/2008, -0/+47...and when they lost their data, they *still* complained to lightspeed.
- cmoney298, on 01/09/2008, -11/+58seriously WTF! Sarcastic error programming is great though. I have done it before and it makes the unknowing, non-techi, do what you want them too. Fear is a great too.
- Akaji, on 01/09/2008, -1/+42In size and energy waste, sure!
- bjornski, on 01/09/2008, -0/+37So simple, isn't it?
And yet they refuse.
Let them suffer with their ads. - GawtMilk, on 01/09/2008, -1/+35I think you spelled ***** wrong.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 01/09/2008, -1/+35You sir, are evil...
- Klowner, on 01/09/2008, -0/+33It makes sense if you say that with a Mario voice..
"Fear, it's a great too!" - jambarama, on 01/09/2008, -1/+33Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
- Linus Torvalds - dougmc, on 01/09/2008, -3/+31I just reformatted your drive to spite them too.
- Namaha, on 01/09/2008, -1/+30Your deduction skills are astounding.
- R3j3ct, on 01/09/2008, -0/+29I had to plug up a keyboard and monitor into our alarm monitoring server the other day and when I logged into the system the greeting message was something along the lines of "Have fun ***** with our system"
This is a computer that probably only has someone log in directly to it like that maybe twice ever after install, all other connections are remote connections. - rameznabel, on 01/09/2008, -2/+30i read this now and I'm backing up my data also
- p_o_b, on 01/09/2008, -5/+32Just started visiting reddit a couple of weeks ago and I was surprised to see things that were way old there just beginning to show up on digg. Then again I have seen a few stories on reddit and when I hit the firefox extension the digg article is 100+ days old. No one has got it all.
- GhostyBoy, on 01/09/2008, -0/+26I like it. It seems like the guy giving you the message actually cares about you.
- mstoneburner, on 01/09/2008, -0/+26It actually looks like an inventory tracking database, based on the error message, and those aren't exactly "ghetto progams." They often cost many many thousands of dollars.
- ajchavar, on 01/09/2008, -1/+26correct syntactically but probably not in context, since its unlikely he wanted to do both, and very likely he wanted to just backup.
- Metropolis, on 01/09/2008, -2/+26I would hate to get that error drunk.
- miketherazor, on 01/09/2008, -5/+29I really am starting to hate people who seem to just lay in wait for a misspelled word so they can point it out so they can seem like the bright Betty! See if you can find this misspelled word, "FCUK YOU"
- bjornski, on 01/09/2008, -1/+23And did they get mad when their machines were ***** up?
How much of a ***** did they feel like when you told them "It's been over 300 days since you backed it up. Didn't you see the warning as you typed in the sentence EVERY SINGLE DAY?"
God, I used to love working customer service just for those moments. - MacEnvy, on 01/09/2008, -3/+24If Rudy Giuliani would fear monger about proper backup procedures, I'd have more respect for him. At least that's a legitimate threat.
/IT person - doctechnical, on 01/09/2008, -0/+21There's another way: failure.
Back in the day when "Backing up" was supposed to be done daily and took at least half an hour of the user shuffling floppies, most users conveniently "forgot" to do it. So one day I get a call from a customer, turns out she had a habit of shutting her PC off *before* exitting the application, so over time the database became more and more corrupt to the point of it being utter garbage. I spent an hour on the phone talking her through every scheme and recovery procedure I could think of, but in the end there was only the dreaded question left:
"When was the last time you did backups?"
"Uh, about seven months ago."
"Well, you're *****."
That was actually my response - it didn't get me any tact awards, but it was the truth. I told her there was going to be an awful lot of data entry in her future as she re-typed all the customer data into the database.
But she'll never forget to backup again. Once bitten, twice shy. - phyx726, on 01/09/2008, -0/+21Don't be a too.
- simondotcalvin, on 01/09/2008, -0/+20Actually, LightSpeed is sort of an industry standard for power sports dealers and the like.
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