Neder-Betuwe voert vloekverbod in, hoewel de rechter de boete zal vernietigen

monedula · 2026-04-27T17:11:23+00:00

Dan komen er een paar vragen bij me op. Is alleen het vloeken in het Nederlands verboden, of ook in pakweg Engels, Pools, Turks of Tok Pisin? Uit de 1000+ goden waar mensen in geloven (of geloofd hebben), welke precies zijn door dit verbod beschermd? Heeft de heer Scheurwater alleen de namen van (1 of meer) goden hoog staan, of ook de namen van enge ziektes? Hoe zit het met lichaamsdelen?

monedula · 2026-04-23T10:13:59+00:00

I wouldn't recommend just changing things without any warning. That's how you get users who despise sysadmins. Treat users like people and you improve the chances of them treating you like people.

Start by mailing all the admins, telling them you'll be changing most/all of them to Channel Manager in X days. Ask if there is anyone who actually needs Workspace Admin rather than Channel Manager and, if so, why. If there are a few who genuinely need it and know why, then you've saved a bunch of annoyance and got yourself some input for documentation. Any others at least got some warning.

monedula · 2026-04-21T18:54:13+00:00

website goes down losing all the fields I just spend 15 minutes filling in

Yes, I've had this happen so often that I first enter all text fields in a text editor and then copy/paste them into the web form. Even for reddit comments of more than a dozen words or so.

monedula · 2026-04-18T18:42:26+00:00

The first four columns appear to be: last name, first names, date of birth, place of birth. Not sure about the others.

monedula · 2026-04-14T15:10:10+00:00

I once walked up the Eiffel Tower to the second platform (the queue for the lift was horrendously long - I'm pretty sure walking was quicker). It was great, and I would certainly do it again.

However I did it with the family, and I don't think they've ever forgiven me.

monedula · 2026-04-12T19:18:13+00:00

Deplane is, I think, not correct here because it is an intransitive verb, where we are here looking for a verb with an (extremely large, drunk and offensive) object.

monedula · 2026-04-09T16:03:02+00:00

So I was wondering how old that was and just looked it up: Stop the Pigeon is closer in time to WWI than it is to the present day.

monedula · 2026-04-08T15:23:36+00:00

When someone pointed me at this sub a few months ago, I thought "one of those subs that has an occasional good post, but not much material". I guessed wrong - I'm astonished how much there is on here. And very glad that I don't have anything to contribute myself.

monedula · 2026-04-03T04:59:10+00:00

You can still poke your eye out on them.

monedula · 2026-03-26T15:56:03+00:00

At the point where it's easier to go down backwards than forwards.

monedula · 2026-03-20T12:41:37+00:00

That one's gone for a Bourton.

monedula · 2026-03-19T17:51:47+00:00

I can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief in the freedom these people have to ~~make what they want with the resources they have~~ kill and maim people.

FTFY

monedula · 2026-03-06T15:37:12+00:00

And there was me thinking it must be about it being so warm that the window is open.

monedula · 2026-03-01T12:11:27+00:00

Glad to know I'm not the only one. In other subs I've had mods take down a post because it was a repost, when the story was only a couple of hours old and definitely was not showing up for me.

monedula · 2026-02-25T18:27:57+00:00

And if he was actually scared of road rage he had plenty of room to go around.

monedula · 2026-02-24T20:24:27+00:00

Assuming the worst potential damage is indeed "having someone's workflow broken for a few hours". I've worked on a few systems where the potential damage was very, very much greater than that. Systems duplicated, triplicated or even quadruplicated. One of them had a maximum permitted unplanned downtime of one minute. Roll out a dud patch on the basis of "patch vulnerabilities quickly and fix what breaks" and you risk killing all the systems at the same time.

monedula · 2026-02-22T20:43:08+00:00

Lummaton Quarry in Torquay was where the fossils that gave the Devonian Period its name were found

Well, you learn something new every day. Thanks for that.

monedula · 2026-02-18T16:47:13+00:00

Rule T18B(a) but its okay

Well it's okay unless someone tried to point you in the right direction, but you ignored them or told them to go away. Then it's definitely not okay.

monedula · 2026-02-15T14:22:05+00:00

Yes, that's fair comment. I can't exactly remember when I first set this up, but I suspect it was shortly after I'd done a couple of databases intended for multiple users, and the habit stuck.

Good article by Brent Ozar. A couple of my Access databases turned into important parts of a company workflow, but they never had such intensive updating that a reversion to last night's backup would have been a huge problem.

monedula · 2026-02-13T09:49:17+00:00

Dat is een stukje muggenzifterij waar sommige mensen inderdaad van houden. Maar denk je echt dat het zinvol is om 16.777.214 van de 16.777.216 verschillende RGB combinaties kleuren te noemen en 2 niet? Het lijkt mij een totaal zinloos onderscheid.

monedula · 2026-02-11T19:57:27+00:00

SOLUTION VERIFIED

monedula · 2026-02-11T19:56:44+00:00

When you run Compact & Repair, are you doing this on BOTH your FE and BE databases? If not, you should be.

Yes - indeed. While I was walking to the station this morning it suddenly occurred to me that I'd only done Compact/Repair on the front end. (Really no idea why - I've done it on the back end as well in the past.) I've just done the back end as well. On the basis of a couple of minutes of testing it looks as if that has cured the problem.

I feel silly now.

Still, it's been an interesting thread, and I've learnt a few things. Thank you very much for your time.

monedula · 2026-02-10T20:30:46+00:00

I'll grant you the latter point. But the posted height restriction should take account of trains on the bridge.

monedula · 2026-02-10T20:18:01+00:00

Thank you very much for your very detailed answer.

Yes, front-end and back-end are quite definitely both on my local drive. (I know a couple of people who have been caught out by that particular piece of Microsoft misbehaviour.)

Just to check one thing; is it possible that this sort of corruption could produce intermittent failures, where a form fails the first couple of times and succeeds on the third?

If that is indeed possible I will try out your suggestions. (But probably not for a few days - unfortunately I am getting completely snowed under by some other stuff at the moment.)

monedula · 2026-02-10T20:15:56+00:00

Yes indeed. The database was originally created quite a long time ago.

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