The Official Status Thread
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Status: Dagnabbit, Microsoft! If you needed a UNC path, validate it before letting me select it! FFS!
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Status: Just saw a commercial displaying a Nissan car surrounded by stormtroopers and various combat robots.
The caption at the bottom reads "optional features shown".
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Obligatory XKCD:
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Accepting challenges, teaching beginners and/or schooling experts
Good place to play reversi with yourself... although I'd more prefer an offline one.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Hmmmmmm...I wonder if you guys realize she is 13?
She looks 28 to me, so there's no problem.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
one you can ogle
nice rack ... drum, I mean nice drum!
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Status: Opened tin containing gift from lady who runs my previous project. Cake inside. :)
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Guess what I'm going Saturday?!?!
Postal?
I have nothing to mail. Actually, that's a lie, I have a ballot to mail, but that's due today, so...
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Status Found another non-porn use for private browsing ... stupid Google won't let log on with your personal account and then access the companies analytics pages. The account I got doesn't have enough rights to add people so I can't add my personal Google account ...
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Status: spent nearly half an hour this morning attempting to instil some semblance of order into the cable spaghetti on my desk. Managed to scavenge two more twist ties and a rubber band off the floor, doubling my inventory of such. Reasonable success overall, and I actually feel like that was a productive use of time.
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@JazzyJosh I have two episodes left.
I'm not an expert but it felt relatively realistic, until the episode where a woman plugs in two USB sticks in a row at the first go.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
non-porn use for private browsing
It's a nice testing tool. It'll start a new SSL handshake, get new cookies, not use anything possibly stale from the cache...
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Status: Still somewhat frustrated over the "priority service" shakedown the only installer of Nintendo 3DS video capture cards is running at this point. Ordered a new capture card for my new 3DS over last weekend. Their website didn't make any indications of expected delays / abnormally high demand for the cards (though I did kind of expect some, since the new Pokemon release is 2 weeks out), and the pricing was the same as the last card I got a couple years ago.
Monday afternoon, I go to ship the console to them, having heard nothing from them but the standard auto-responses for "we got your order" and "we got your payment, here's where to ship". They're in Tokyo, so I pretty much have to ship it via their standard shipping method in order to not pay $$$$$$$ for the international shipping. Get that sent out, forget to send the tracking number to them Monday night, send it when I get back home to the receipt on Tuesday. They've now had my order for two full business days and not communicated with me at all except for the auto-responses.
Until Wednesday morning (after getting my tracking number), when they respond with: "Oh, hey, we're currently looking at an approximate wait time of 3 months for installing your card. But for the low low cost of $200 (the base price of the card is a shade under $300), we can put you in an Express Service Queue that should get your card installed and back to you within the next 2 weeks. Otherwise, we can't guarantee how long your delay will be, depending on how many other Express Service Requests come in."
I get that you have to prioritize somehow, guys. And that hiring staff and training them to do the necessary soldering and other installation work for these capture cards isn't something you can just do overnight. But, it's a bit sketchy that you didn't communicate any of that with me, I don't know... right away? Instead of waiting 2 full business days and until you had my tracking information to confirm that my console was on the way?
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Draw game.
Four corners and still didn't win?
I assume you're addressing my opponent?
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@error I didnt know which player you were
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I didnt know which player you were
I've been playing no-corner games, to be fair to my opponents.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
She is 32.
That's almost too far in the other direction now. Almost.
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@mott555 nothing wrong with glamorous older women.
Of course, in a year's time 32 won't be "older" for me
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@Jaloopa The original drummer that began this mess will be legal by the time 32 isn't older than me.
Filed Under: Things that are probably too creepy to post, but I did anyway
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Status: Oh god.... who's letting the system admins code...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
That's almost too far in the other direction now. Almost.
Ouch.
Filed under: /me is 32.
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@mott555 so, mid 20s? I dated a few women in their early to mid 30s at that sort of age, plus a one night stand with one who wouldn't tell me her age but had an 18 year old daughter. I don't regret any of it
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Status: appreciating the irony of being upvoted by @CreatedToDislikeThis
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 so, mid 20s? I dated a few women in their early to mid 30s at that sort of age, plus a one night stand with one who wouldn't tell me her age but had an 18 year old daughter. I don't regret any of it
Makes sense if you're into short-term relationships. If I were to start dating a woman who is already in her 30's, by the time we married I think we'd have some friction over her biological clock being years ahead of mine, as in she wants kids while she still can while I want to finish out my 20's in a quiet and non-hectic manner.
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@Polygeekery Different warehouses.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
while I want to finish out my 20's in a quiet and non-hectic manner.
You are doing your 20's all wrong.
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Status: Today I ran into my least favourite error code. ORA-00600.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
while I want to finish out my 20's in a quiet and non-hectic manner.
You are doing your 20's all wrong.
I don't think I quite chose my words correctly. More like I'm not ready to tied down by starting a family. It's pretty hard to do things like impulsively go camping and dirt-biking in the Rockies 700 miles from home if you have toddlers.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
It's pretty hard to do things like impulsively go camping and dirt-biking in the Rockies 700 miles from home if you have toddlers.
Get one of these:
No worries.
Might need to make a custom bracket though.
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@Polygeekery Yeah, about that...I am very well-known for crashing dirt bikes. Sometimes in ways that you don't expect people to get up and walk away from relatively uninjured. (I can also vouch for Hondas. They're more durable than the rider.)
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@mott555 I had that same talent in high school, except with Suzukis. I would wager that is why my knees are trashed today.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Today I ran into my least favourite error code. ORA-00600.
Because it is an Oracle one?
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@Polygeekery Internal database error. There's a second, internal, code, which you can google. I will not paste it here because the number of google results on that code is currently 1.
These are generally a pain to work around. And filing a bug? Against database? Don't make me laugh.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I am very well-known for crashing dirt bikes
Road bikes here. I've crashed a Yamaha twice and a couple of Kawasakis. ranging from 125 to 600cc. The last one broke both my elbows and ended my biking career, especially since I had a baby on the way at the time.
I used to ride in my dad's side car from a very young age, which was one of the most fun things for a toddler to do. Unfortunately the side car and everything else you can strip off a bike with a couple of spanners were stolen one night
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@Jaloopa I only have two road crashes so far, both single-vehicle accidents at low speed while I was first learning to ride. One of them was an accidental wheelie because my clutch lever had snapped and was too short, and my hand slipped and popped the clutch while leaving a stop, the bike did a wheelie, I fell off the bike, and watched in embarrassment as it continued on through the intersection without me during peak traffic hours. I still have a spot on my palm where fingerprints don't grow because of road rash (I didn't wear much safety gear back then).
I do credit all my off-road riding and crashing for helping me stay safe on the road.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
ORA-00600.
..... what is....?
Each argument has a specific meaning which can only be interpreted by an Oracle support analyst. The arguments may also change meaning from version to version therefore customers are not advised to memorize them.
oh fuck you oracle! FUCK YOU!
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TIL Google Drive trash is not automatically deleted after any set time and it counts toward your storage. Was trying to figure out where all my storage had gone, had several gigs of trash to manually delete via Ctrl+A, Delete, Confirm, and waiting a few seconds or refreshing when it bugged out.
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL Google Drive
trashimportant document storage is not automatically deleted after any set timeFTF little old ladies' usage patterns.
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Investigating a defect. Turns out that the shell script that launches a Java process depends on the exit code of said process to know whether it executed successfully. Guess what java returns when something throws a an exception?I might try catching the exception and calling System.exit(1), but this is a spring-batch job and I don't want to mess with whatever happens under the hood after a step fails.
I might try developing some other way to determine if it failed but a) I can't think how and b) all the other spring-batch jobs we have use the same pattern.
I've been trying to see how said other jobs make sure that an aborted job results in a non-zero exit code, but I can't find anything in the source code that could do it. They all have Listeners on every step which might conceivably do something about this but those come from a shared library.
I can't find any documentation or the source code for any of the shared libraries anywhere. None of the other batch jobs use the same listener this one does, but they don't all use the same one either. The guy who wrote the Java code for this thing doesn't know of any documentation and seemed to be making an educated guess as to what it actually did. The guy who wrote the shell script doesn't do Java and it's not even worth asking him. The guy who actually knows stuff about things doesn't do Java but it's possible he'll either know where to find out about shared libraries or that he'll know who I can ask. However, he's not here on Fridays.
It's occurred to me that it's worth checking whether the other jobs actually do report failures correctly, but I don't know how they work or even really what they're for; I certainly don't know how to make them throw up and die. Nobody else here knows anything much about them either. I presume the wretched things have been tested at some point but can't access any test documentation to find out if anyone bothered to check this kind of failure. It wouldn't be the first time.
I have another 45 minutes to go before I've done my required number of hours for the week so I can't just leave early and pick this up on Monday.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa The original drummer that began this mess will be legal by the time 32 isn't older than me.
Filed Under: Things that are probably too creepy to post, but I did anyway
So you've predetermined your date of death? Weird...
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
while I want to finish out my 20's in a quiet and non-hectic manner.
You are doing your 20's all wrong.
Well I only have two more of those left, so why mess with a good thing?
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Status: After watching that video yesterday of the girl playing drums, YouTube has filled my recommended videos full of tweeny girls playing instruments. I am probably now on a watchlist. I will likely never again get TSA Pre-Check. My next flight will probably come with a free cavity search.
But...holy shit she is pretty amazing. Playing all the instruments for rapper's delight, keeping tempo well enough that all of the individual tracks can be merged together coherently...kinda rubbish on vocals though.
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Things that make me :rageface::
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10142. Programs that prompt you to restart for an update immediately after you just restarted for an update. (Bonus points when it's the same program for both prompts.)...
Filed under: is going on with that list number?
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@error You mean like...Windows?