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Nickname: newbie69
Registered: Jan, 2008
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Re: The Code C.R.A.P. Metric Hits the Fan - Introducing the crap4j Plug-in
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Posted: Jan 2, 2008 1:58 PM
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Three months ago I downloaded the crap4j with great anticipation. Since I'm an armchair programmer with 25 years experience with computers I thought I would be able to load your software. Yes, 25 years smart arse. I wrote my first program on a DEC PDP10. Some of you probably don't know what that is!
I found your software by googling 'crap'. It wasn't hard and as usual I was lead to the Shit Fabrication (SF) site.
I digressed for several hours on the SF site. Seems like every piece of open source software is there.
Before I could download your software I had to download and learn how to use a program named Crap Virtual Shit or CVS in short. I went out and spend $120 a text book on CVS to learn how to use it. After spending what seemed like fucking weeks to read the book as I am a slow reader. Even now I don't really understand this Extreme programming but it seems it doesn't matter as it has been superseded by Even More Extreme programming. They refactored it or something!
My wife wants to know why I didn't come to bed last night
After downloading your crap software I googled again and finally found a tutorial that set out how to install crap. It said that first I had to install a Crap server. It referred me to a web site that had hundreds of crap server installers that would automatically?? install the 'A Phree Although Confusingly Hopeless Engineered' server.
Next came the task of installing your software. Why couldn't you have compiled it for me first? Once again I had to learn a new programming language. I've tried them all you know. Fortran, Basic, Cobol, Pascal, C, C++, Lisp, C#. I'm familiar with them all. I purchaced a commercial compiler. I found that I could get a cheaper 'Educational version' using my son's student id card. He's studying at university. These days you need a degree to be trash removalist.
I installed that software and then installed your Crap4J only to be informed that the A.P.A.C.H.E. version from CrapServ was out of date. I got your message that said the dependencies or someting needed to be upgraded, so I downloaded the latest version and tried to wedge it into the Crap server. I spend another afternoon googling and fiddling with some obscure variables in various config files and finally it worked.
The main problem I had is that after I change the root password in the database the DB front end nolonger had permission to access the database. I had to find the location in a config file that set the database password. Not knowing how to encrypt the password I simply typed an ascii string into the field of the text file. Everything seems to be working fine. I just hope some pimply nosed short assed geek Phacker can't find the config file and access my password.
Now I can finally start playing with your crap sofware. I wanted to change the 'skin' to make the theme look more like the livery required by the company I work at. After I fiddled another four hours with your crap software I had no luck in ghanging it. I left a message on this forum but after two days waiting for a reply I thought I would try some other avenue.
After googling again I found another program called 'OtherCrap' that should do the same as your software, so I have abanoned using your software for now
The OtherCrap loaded more easily and I have the Other Crap working but everytime I start it up I get a messge complaining thet I an using a 'Paid operating system'.
Seems these people have a bee in their bonnet about paying for something hat is wasy to install even if it does have a few minor problems. They want me to offload my OS that just installed without a hitch. Their recomendation is that I do a degree in IT along with all the other suckers so I can manage my computer and keep the Phackers out.
After three months I have the other crap working and have some trial data loaded but it seems it doesn't quite do everything I want it to. I guess I'll just have to come back to your software to see if I can get it going.
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