The Official Status Thread
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Stop helping.
There's helping, and then there's "helping." Pretty sure that's the kind with the quotation marks.
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status: optical calibration drift detected. Either that, or the house is filled with fog unexpectedly...
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@jaloopa By the way, if you're still not convinced, I just remembered her academic advising, professional email's signature is mostly in Comic Sans with a somewhat-obnoxious color.
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@pie_flavor OK, does that reduce your dickishness or entitled snowflake mentality in any way?
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@jaloopa I'm still not certain where you're getting this 'entitled mentality' shit from.
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@pie_flavor This is how I imagine it going down:
: OMG THIS SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK IT SAYS I HAVEN'T MET REREQUISITES FIX IT!
: Hi Mr. Flavor, usually when something like this happens it's because you haven't signed up to this course which is also needed, assuming your scores are as you said
: OMG YOU IDIOT I'M NOT AN IDIOT OF COURSE I'VE DONE THAT YOU IDIOT
: Oh, OK. It looks like the score you're reporting means you're not eligible for that course, try this one instead
: OMG I TRIED THAT AND IT DOESN'T WORK FIX IT YOU IDIOT
: Are you sure you added this required course?
: OMG YOU IDIOT I'M NOT AN IDIOT OF COURSE I'VE DONE THAT YOU IDIOT
: Jesus, this guy's an arsehole. Who can I hand him off to? Sorry, with all the information you've given me I can't see a reason why you wouldn't be able to register. You might have more luck talking directly to the maths department
: logs in, discovers he never did one of the initial prereqs better not admit my mistakeI will say this though: a system that just says "prerequisites not met" instead of "You haven't met prerequisites X, Y and Z for this course" is less than ideal. If you'd seen at the start that the score wasn't recorded you would have been able to save everyone involved a lot of trouble
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@jaloopa No, that's not actually how it went. I certainly wasn't in all caps, calling anyone an idiot - any implication of such is simply TDWTF rhetoric. Furthermore, I explained the entire situation in the first email, including mentioning the workshop classes, so she should have already known that I was meeting the corequisite, and if the credit means I can't do the class, that should have been the first response. And I did the prereq, what I didn't realize was that they didn't get turned in with the rest of the school records or SAT scores (which they should!). I'm not even pissed that she didn't realize that right off the bat - she probably deals with more actual idiots than the school IT does. But I am pissed that it took her half a week every time.
And yes. The system is a less-than-latest copy of Oracle PeopleSoft, which is let us say a moderately shitty piece of software. It does what you tell it to, although what precisely you can tell it and furthermore how it does it seem to be undefined behavior. It's Oracle-y the same way enterprise Java so often is.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I certainly wasn't in all caps, calling anyone an idiot
But you did, according to your initial telling, "tell her that I'm not an idiot". That never goes down well and makes you sound like a dick as you're implying either that they're insulting you or that you consider everyone else an idiot and you're above all that. The fact is, when people have a problem it's more than often something simple that they've overlooked so going through the obvious bits is a better strategy than assuming all that's fine and looking for weird corner cases.
My interpretation, from everything you wrote, is that you presented yourself like a child who thinks they know better than the experienced adults. That's not necessarily a bad thing, most teenagers go through that phase before maturing and realising that they're as much of an idiot as everyone else/
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@jaloopa And notice that no part of that initial telling was quoted. I informed her that I was absolutely taking the workshop class. The idiot part, like I said, was TDWTF rhetoric. And it's not a weird corner case thing. All the information was presented, and if she had actually looked at it, she would have come up with the second answer without having to even bother with the first.
I did not know better than the experienced adults. For the fourth time, my chief beef here her is the far-too-long timeframe, with a very minor second of the, yes, assumption that I was an idiot (there is more to the story, trust me), when the answer that banked on that assumption could have been invalidated just by looking at my initial email again.
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Status: So, I have a bunch of boxes with stuff for experiments, among them a box which provides the basis for measuring everything about magnetic / electric fields, capacity of capacitors, ...
Only problem: The connectors for the amplifier and the frequency generator board are not standard and smaller than usual, which means that the normal cables don't fit. But there's a pair of "adapter" cables (i.e. a miniature size plug on one end, normal size plug at the other) so you can use a multimeter to measure current or voltage.
Note the singular. One pair. Now, guess what happens if a particular experiment requires you to measure both voltage and current (say, if you want to measure the relationship between current (i.e. Amperemeter) through a coil and the resulting magnetic flux density (i.e. the Hall sensor's voltage)?
Yeah. I just asked my supplier what an additional set of 10 such pairs will cost me.
It's a mere 130€.
Too bad cannot find the miniature plugs anywhere or I'd do a bit of soldering in the afternoon.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So, I have a bunch of boxes with stuff for experiments, among them a box which provides the basis for measuring everything about magnetic / electric fields, capacity of capacitors, ...
Only problem: The connectors for the amplifier and the frequency generator board are not standard and smaller than usual, which means that the normal cables don't fit. But there's a pair of "adapter" cables (i.e. a miniature size plug on one end, normal size plug at the other) so you can use a multimeter to measure current or voltage.
Note the singular. One pair. Now, guess what happens if a particular experiment requires you to measure both voltage and current (say, if you want to measure the relationship between current (i.e. Amperemeter) through a coil and the resulting magnetic flux density (i.e. the Hall sensor's voltage)?
Yeah. I just asked my supplier what an additional set of 10 such pairs will cost me.
It's a mere 130€.
Too bad cannot find the miniature plugs anywhere or I'd do a bit of soldering in the afternoon.
As you mentioned multimeter it sounds like they might be 2mm bananna plugs as opposed to the more-standard 4mm? If so, this may do you:
If not then post/PM me a picture and I might be able to identify it for you.
Edit: Geändert zu einem deutschen verknüpfung
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
The idiot part, like I said, was TDWTF rhetoric
Ah, I misread that as you saying my take on it was rhetoric. To which I would have retorted with some sort of Duh if I was feeling a bit more trolly
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Thanks to Chrome being the only thing running I don't have to worry about running out of memory for other apps.
Somehow this seems to translate to lower memory usage...Try opening up some Stack Overflow tabs
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa I'm still not certain where you're getting this 'entitled mentality' shit from.
You're young. That's the default assumption.
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Once again, this IT department surpasses expectations in just how badly they can cock up a lync/skype for business call
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Best. Tournament. Ever.
That's why you buy a kit.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor This is how I imagine it going down:
: OMG THIS SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK IT SAYS I HAVEN'T MET REREQUISITES FIX IT!
: Hi Mr. Flavor, usually when something like this happens it's because you haven't signed up to this course which is also needed, assuming your scores are as you said
: OMG YOU IDIOT I'M NOT AN IDIOT OF COURSE I'VE DONE THAT YOU IDIOT
: Oh, OK. It looks like the score you're reporting means you're not eligible for that course, try this one instead
: OMG I TRIED THAT AND IT DOESN'T WORK FIX IT YOU IDIOT
: Are you sure you added this required course?
: OMG YOU IDIOT I'M NOT AN IDIOT OF COURSE I'VE DONE THAT YOU IDIOT
: Jesus, this guy's an arsehole. Who can I hand him off to? Sorry, with all the information you've given me I can't see a reason why you wouldn't be able to register. You might have more luck talking directly to the maths department
: logs in, discovers he never did one of the initial prereqs better not admit my mistakeFake News
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, I'm on AT&T, so I probably won't have to worry about that...
When Microsoft was announcing EOL of WP7, I called AT&T to ask about updates. They were still working on NoDo (the six-month update from two years before) and expected to release it to handsets "shortly". No knowledge of Mango (7.1), Tango(7.5), or Portico(7.8).
I have no idea WTF is wrong with them.
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, I'm on AT&T, so I probably won't have to worry about that...
When Microsoft was announcing EOL of WP7, I called AT&T to ask about updates. They were still working on NoDo (the six-month update from two years before) and expected to release it to handsets "shortly". No knowledge of Mango (7.1), Tango(7.5), or Portico(7.8).
I have no idea WTF is wrong with them.
Money.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Once again, this IT department surpasses expectations in just how badly they can cock up a lync/skype for business call
Q: How many tech support people does it take to make a Skype for Business call work reliably?
A: Always at least one more than you can reasonably have available.
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@dkf Just after they congratulated the IT service desk people for getting it installed across all sites, the sound cut out for the second time.
The first time was in the middle of a self back-pat about delivering reliable software. You couldn't make this shit up
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Status: So, my Surface Book showed a small issue - you know how you can detach the screen as a tablet from the base (which has a larger battery and, in my case, a dGPU in it)?
Well, if for some reason detaching the tablet does not work you get a red popup message in the lower right corner telling you that "detaching did not work (and please don't try to pull it off)"
I'm now getting that message every time my Book wakes from standby. The message vanishes after a few seconds and there are no other issues, detaching does still work, I just get the message after waking up the Book.
Just talked to the support - the agent thought my problem to be very weird, as in: "Usually people contact us because it's the other way around!" but still recommended an exchange. So, after nearly two years with my Book I'll get a new one. And the warranty will be extended 3 months to boot.
The way they go about this exchange is nice as well - they'll send me a new one first while blocking the purchase price on my credit card. I return the old one to them and upon receiving the old unit, they'll unblock the CC again. This has the advantage of not leaving me without a working unit and given the height of my credit limit, the blocked portion won't inconvenience me (unless I need to buy a whole new VW Polo with my CC, that is).
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@jaloopa
Maaaaaybe you could join the call from a wired network connection that isn't using HideMyAss VPN through their Siberia node?
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@ben_lubar Just be aware, LW2 is not currently compatible with War of the Chosen (if you've bought that DLC). The LW2 original team have stated that they're not planning on continuing work on it, as they're now working on their own game of the same kind of genre, but I do remember something about another group starting up with their blessing to try and update LW2 to be WotC compatible eventually.
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Status+: Microsoft emailed me to say they'll send me motion controllers for the WMR headset I bought before the controllers were out.
Status-: Blizzard tried to process a transaction on my card overseas, so the fraud department froze my card. But it's a transaction I specifically tried to make.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
First, C:\Windows\Installer is taking up 26 Gb.
Dang. Time to uninstall some shit. DO NOT delete the contents of that directory. (Unless you never want to uninstall a program - which includes updating to a newer version)
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
WTF previous owners.
They probably had something fancy/expensive in there. Replaced with whatever was laying around when they moved.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa I'm still not certain where you're getting this 'entitled mentality' shit from.
You're young. That's the default assumption.
I just watched Orny Adams on ShowTime last night. He went off on millenials. I was dyin.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
They probably had something fancy/expensive in there.
Expensive LIGHT BULBS?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
They probably had something fancy/expensive in there.
Expensive LIGHT BULBS?
Gourmet small-batch artisanal light bulbs
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@hungrier
Free electron organic chemical free light bulbs
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
They probably had something fancy/expensive in there.
Expensive LIGHT BULBS?
Those LEDs bulbs were very expensive a few years ago... They're still significantly more than an incandescent (assuming you can even find those anymore).
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier
Free electron organic chemical free light bulbsBet people would buy those... hmmm
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@dcon
Buy yourself a nice little retirement range, get some seed capital from @Polygeekery, and start up your organic light bulb farm!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon
Buy yourself a nice little retirement range, get some seed capital from @Polygeekery, and start up your organic light bulb farm!Aww. Look at all the cute little baby light bulbs!
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I hate it when Windows crushes!
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@blakeyrat smart bulbs maybe
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
First, C:\Windows\Installer is taking up 26 Gb.
Dang. Time to uninstall some shit. DO NOT delete the contents of that directory. (Unless you never want to uninstall a program - which includes updating to a newer version)
That's the problem. From inspection, looks like he only has a few more programs besides the base Office and Chrome.
I think it might be all the Office Security Updates that have been steadily applied over the last four years.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate it when Windows crushes!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
From inspection
You can use Orca (VS SDK) or InstEd(my favorite) to open those MSIs and directly inspect what they are... (Yeah, BTDT - earned the horrible kludge-fix badge)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
From inspection
You can use Orca (VS SDK) or InstEd(my favorite) to open those MSIs and directly inspect what they are... (Yeah, BTDT - earned the horrible kludge-fix badge)
I really don't want to do that just to find out they are indeed just Office patches...
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@tsaukpaetra You can script it too. "WindowsInstaller.Installer" is a com object. And then you can SQL-ish your way into the MSI. (search for "windowsinstaller.installer vbscript") (many years ago, I used python to talk to the msi via com)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra You can script it too. "WindowsInstaller.Installer" is a com object. And then you can SQL-ish your way into the MSI. (search for "windowsinstaller.installer vbscript") (many years ago, I used python to talk to the msi via com)
*whines* But, effort!
It's so much easier to just shrug, nuke and pave, then scold the user for never deleting anything and indeed keeping everything in Desktop.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate it when Windows crushes!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
First, C:\Windows\Installer is taking up 26 Gb.
Dang. Time to uninstall some shit. DO NOT delete the contents of that directory. (Unless you never want to uninstall a program - which includes updating to a newer version)
... have I ever ranted about how much I hate the Windows system of installing and managing software?
Yes? Oh, carry on then.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra You can script it too. "WindowsInstaller.Installer" is a com object. And then you can SQL-ish your way into the MSI. (search for "windowsinstaller.installer vbscript") (many years ago, I used python to talk to the msi via com)
*whines* But, effort!
Google "wisuminf.vbs"
cscript WiSumInf.vbs c:\Windows\Installer\100f4a.msi
(first file to expand from *.msi on my system)Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. 1 Codepage = 1252 2 Title = Installation Database 3 Subject = Microsoft Azure Quickstarts 4 Author = Microsoft Corporation 5 Keywords = Installer 6 Comments = This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Microsoft Azure Quickstarts. 7 Template = Intel;1033 9 Revision = {79E63B8E-58B5-4E57-B003-E6AB381F39A8} 12 Created = 3/24/2015 3:55:18 PM 13 Saved = 3/24/2015 3:55:18 PM 14 Pages = 200 15 Words = 2 18 Application = Windows Installer XML - SOC (3.6.3303.0) 19 Security = 2