The Official First World Problems Thread™
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These two barked almost constantly. I am not entirely certain they ever slept.
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These two barked almost constantly. I am not entirely certain they ever slept.
There were actually four of them, they slept in shifts.
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I am not entirely certain they ever slept.
Mine rarely do anything else. I think they are quite bored in the house all day while I'm at work, but when I let them out in the yard, within a couple of minutes they want back in, whereupon they immediately flop on the floor.
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I think I remember my dentist using a hammer and chisel to break the tooth into pieces when I had a wisdom tooth extracted, but it's been over 20 years, so my memory is a bit vague.
The one time I had a tooth extracted I went to a dentist who used conscious sedation.
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Who? Who? Who? Who, who?
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I can't say definitively how big yo mama
jokes werewas in the 80s
FTFYyeah, yeah hanzoed. What evz
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FWP: Trying to guess the secret "give me a person" command for those voice-activated robots. "Talk to a person" or "talk to a human" usually work, but today the robot only understood "customer service"
Related. When you phone through an issue with you Foxtel cable box the first time through the system all you can do is get the robot to remotely reboot it for you. I haven't been able to get to a person on this trip through.
Once when we had an issue that lasted a few weeks* I was constantly calling them, getting a reboot, waiting, calling them back and jumping through the hoops to get to a person. This wore quite thin after a while so at the point where it asked me to describe the reason for my call I said "Foxtel's fucked". The robot's response was "Did you say 'technical issues'?"
Bravo.
*FWIP - No cable for two weeks
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Tasted Soylent (strawberry mind you) today... wasn't that bad, but not something I would live of.
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They have flavors now or was the strawberry added?
Also the status thread is V<><^><V^><VV><>V^<^><V>^<^ that way.
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They have flavors now or was the strawberry added?
Strawberry Soylent is flavoured using people?!?
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Today's FWP: a colleague commented that the (free) lollipop he got along with his (free) flu vaccination was "pretty average". Yeah, my heart bleeds for you.
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My other forum changed hosting at the weekend and my work's web proxy is a d*ck and won't update the cached DNS, so I can't visit it during the day except on my phone.
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Why not access it directly by IP?
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Why not access it directly by IP?
Doesn't work properly for HTTP due to shared hosting; while the connect itself could be done by IP (and in fact necessarily must be!) the client's got to pass the
Server:
header with the right host name too. Hacking browsers to do what you want for this is a lot harder than simply waiting out the cached DNS…
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Set it manually in the hosts file?
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Just tested, no it doesn't.
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Why not access it directly by IP?
What @dfk said. Also I think when we were in the middle of changing hosts Avi said that if he tried to redirect people for whom the DNS change hadn't propagated directly to the IP then a lot of the links would take them right back to the old site, so it would be a right pain trying to navigate.
harder than simply waiting out the cached DNS…
Well. I'm beginning to doubt whether it will ever update for this site. One of my colleagues seemed to think it was unusual even for our proxy that it hadn't updated by Monday, which was three days ago.
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Worth trying for the like 30 seconds it takes to find out.
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30 seconds
I can't even navigate to the hosts file in less than 30 seconds on Windows. I call shenanigans.
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I can't even navigate to the hosts file in less than 30 seconds on Windows. I call shenanigans.
I can. But then I know where to find it ;)
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I can't even navigate to the hosts file in less than 30 seconds on Windows
If you know where to find it, it's less than that to find it.
I call shenanigans.
Meh. I said:
@loopback0 said:like 30 seconds
Shenanigans denied.
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I can. But then I know where to find it
I do, too.
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
.That is after I had to:
- start a text editor as administrator by right clicking and hoping Windows is merciful enough to offer it on this computer*. Otherwise you have to open
cmd
and fuck withrunas
And then:
- convince Notepad (because of course there wasn't another editor available) to show all files, even the ones without
txt
extension - convince Notepad that yes, I would really really like to save it without extension, cross my heart, I know what I'm doing.
I think I'll stick to
sudo vim /etc/hosts/
, thanks.
* Only applies to computers connected to a domain, obviously
- start a text editor as administrator by right clicking and hoping Windows is merciful enough to offer it on this computer*. Otherwise you have to open
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start a text editor as administrator by right clicking and hoping Windows is merciful enough to offer it on this computer*. Otherwise you have to open cmd and fuck with runas
You could copy the hosts file to a non-protected folder, edit it there and then copy-replace (which will automatically make explorer.exe trigger the permission warning).
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Start -> Run ->
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
Right click
hosts
->Open in Notepad++
.INB4 having UAC disabled is cheating.
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You could copy the hosts file to a non-protected folder, edit it there and then copy-replace (which will automatically make explorer.exe trigger the permission warning).
That works? As in, I know it wouldn't let me save if I open it from explorer, no matter what I click.
And does it help if it's a domain computer? I really have to test that...
INB4 having UAC disabled is cheating.
Oh, yeah, wonderful, you have UAC off. You do realize I don't have to do this on my computer, yes? I had to set this shit up on computers that people managed to fuck up completely on limited accounts with AV running. They ain't gettin' local admin, no way, no how.
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That works? As in, I know it wouldn't let me save if I open it from explorer, no matter what I click.
Drag-and-dropping a modified hosts file from desktop to
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
works perfectly fine for me, yes.
It tells me that I need admin rights, I accept and voilà.
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Oh, yeah, wonderful, you have UAC off.
To be fair it's just as quick on the other desktop where it's still enabled, just opening Notepad++ as admin then opening the file from there.
That works?
It should do.
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Drag-and-dropping a modified hosts file
It should do.
Well, I'll give it a go next time, thanks.
To be fair it's just as quick on the other desktop where it's still enabled, just opening Notepad++ as admin then opening the file from there.
Which, IMHO, is not really that fast. It takes some effort, even if not really hard. Certainly more than it should. Also, I still don't understand why "Run As..." is unavailable on some machines. And TBH, I don't care, this bit of my life where I had to be a half-assed sysadmin as well is over now, and I'd rather just forget about it, TBQH.
Edit: Also, why the hell doesn't Windows have a GUI for setting up manual routes yet? WTF?
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I can't even navigate to the hosts file in less than 30 seconds on Windows. I call shenanigans.
Really?
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Really? Win+R, cmd, "notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts", enter.
Access denied on save!
Also: Alt+F2,
gedit /etc/hosts
gksu gedit /etc/hosts
if you're not an idiot and not running as root. Adjustsudo
frontend / editor as desired.And no, your editing shall not save you!
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Access denied on save!
What, you didn't previously remove the read-only flag and/or change the ACL on the file? Chump.
And no, your editing shall not save you!
Dammit.
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My wife won't accept any Netflix suggestion with only one star as a movie worth investing time in...
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Can you be more specific? What movie were you trying to watch?
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It was clearly a movie of the utmost quality—an hour or so later, I have no idea which movie it was. (But I suspect it was a cheesy budget horror...)
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[url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/scotswood-road-live-updates-burst-9062954]This happened[/url].
That's the road my place of work is on, just a little way down from it in the direction of where I live. Traffic was absolutely crawling some way from there and I knew something was up but thought it must just be the rat-run that everyone heading my way uses closed again, and I'd have to go up the hill and through town. Sure enough, it was blocked.
Traffic still crawling the whole way, I met road-block after roadblock, police everywhere, and at one point when I had to go straight on because the turn I'd meant to take was block I found myself on a bridge and had to go right across the river to turn round.
Clearly wasn't going to get onto Scotswood road from this direction so I went round to the north and met still more roadblocks and started to think there was a major fire or a bomb threat or something at my workplace and every route would be blocked, but eventually I did find a clear road and got in to find everyone talking about it.
Nearly an hour later than I meant to be in, of course, and will have to stay late to make up the hour.
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Well, that's world-news-no-one-cares-about for today
Thanks to CarrieVS
Did you hear the news about a couple which hide they were having twins and then recorded everyone when they found it they had, not one, but two babies???
Yeah, that was on the news today.
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This is the thread for problems that don't really matter, isn't it?
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Sure it's, but I found the article so... covered? For a broken pipe? Even with a gallery and a guy going by the water with his bike. TRWTF is the state of journalism this days.
Not a problem with your tale anyway.
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Sure it's, but I found the article so... covered? For a broken pipe? Even with a gallery and a guy going by the water with his bike. TRWTF is the state of journalism this days.
It's a local paper; they're all like that over here. It's the only way they can get enough material to actually make a newspaper every day; if they published only what they need to, it'd be a weekly pamphlet instead of a daily newspaper ;)
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Oh right.
I mean, it is a local newspaper, and between the roadblocks and half of Newcastle having their water cut off, it was a fairly significant issue, locally. But yeah, they do milk things like this for all they're worth and then some.
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TRWTF is the state of journalism this days.
But, hey... Reporter Daniel Milligan followed up and returned to the site to post a picture of clear road!
unfortunately, even that degree of diligence seems pretty rare these days... +1 to Daniel!!
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The first thing through my head when i saw this picture was: "Why the belgium are they taking a break to do a selfie‽" then i realized that the foreground guy wasn't holding a cellphone..
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Clearly, this is all boring because there's a key person missing from this story:
Filed under: That post / thread might be the (legitimately) most-liked post on the forums.
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My other forum changed hosting at the weekend and my work's web proxy is a d*ck and won't update the cached DNS, so I can't visit it during the day except on my phone.
It's now been somewhat over a week and I still get 503. I think something isn't right here. But I can hardly complain since the only site I can't access is one I have no business need to visit.
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But what if you need to ask something in coding help???
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It isn't that kind of forum.