Perennial Favorite - Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work

20. "That's weird..."
19. "It's never done that before."
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
14. "There is something funky in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything!"
9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
1. "It works on my machine"

litsupport summary for the week ending on 02/22/08

A lot of important and useful information is posted to litsupport  each week. The following is a distilled summary, in the form of questions and answers.

Q. What is the best way to record an audio of something that plays on a website?

A. 

• Audacity 
  
• Camstudio 
  
• Record It 
  
• VMWare's record to AVI function
  
• Camtasia ($$$ but good for the price)
  

This summary from the Litsupport Group postings created by the wonderful and talented members of the group has been culled by Mark Kerzner and edited by Aline Bernstein.

litsupport summary for the week ending on 02/15/08

A lot of important and useful information is posted to litsupport each week. The following is a distilled summary, in the form of questions and answers.

Q. How to create a listing (spreadsheet) of all folders, subfolders and network paths for files on various network drives?

A. 

• On command line, do DIR / S > C:\filename.txt;
  
• LogParser, free from Microsoft 
  
• SmartDir 
  
• EasyDos, use "tree" command
  
• No-nonsense print folder
  
• PTDIRPRN from Karen Kenworthy 
  

This summary from the Litsupport Group postings created by the wonderful and talented members of the group has been culled by Mark Kerzner and edited by Aline Bernstein.

litsupport summary for the week ending on 02/08/09

A lot of important and useful information is posted to litsupport each week. The following is a distilled summary, in the form of questions and answers.

Q. Clean up a noisy audio file, such as wav and rcd formats?

A. Sony's Sound Forge.

Q. Extract the audio portion of police in-car videos - they are in an .avd file format?

A. Assuming that one can play the .avd file on one's computer, use Audacity (freeware). It will record ANYTHING audio that is playing. Use the "Stereo Mix" setting and export as a .wav file.

This summary from the Litsupport Group postings created by the wonderful and talented members of the group has been culled by Mark Kerzner and edited by Aline Bernstein.

litsupport summary for the week ending on 02/01/09

A lot of important and useful information is posted to litsupport each week. The following is a distilled summary, in the form of questions and answers.

Q. Accessing Yahoo and Google Email Accounts?

A.

• For Gmail set up Outlook with an IMAP connection. This is better than POP3 because it will translate the "labels" in Gmail to folders in Outlook. It also enables you to selectively download messages based on those labels. POP3 does not offer this functionality at all- all messages would just download to the inbox in Outlook. Step-by-step to set up IMAP in various mail clients. Yahoo offers POP3 access only and requires a paid account;
• GMail Backup;
  
• Fetchmail and fetchYahoo;
  
• Be mindful of the Storage Communications Act, verify having the rights to use the user name, password. and obtained information.

This summary from the Litsupport Group postings created by the wonderful and talented members of the group has been culled by Mark Kerzner and edited by Aline Bernstein.