The Official Status Thread
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra
Probably a security measure that prevents the program from activating in a virtual machine, to prevent the pirating.I'm not activating it in the VM though, that's the thing. It seems to be doing something really wonky and trying to be a know-it-all, but failing.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Decided to get Sony Vegas out of a recommendation post here on the forums.
WTF is it doing eating my CPU? How could you fuck up downloading a file over the internet so badly ?!?!
DRM?
Were that the case, it probably shouldn't have left the real installers it downloaded hanging out in the my documents folder... Unencrypted of course.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Can anyone explain the difference between these two batch files:
The filters look identical (once concatenated) apart from the
[1:a]
at the start offilter_b
, which might be a simple ignorable artefact (I don't comprehend the filter syntax). I don't think I can begin to compare theffmpeg
invocations themselves; they have some similar bits I guess?1:a
means "take the first audio channel of the second (1, zero-indexed) input", which is theaudiotmp
file the previous invocation made.0:V
is "the first video channel of the first input", and0:m:title:[some word]
means "take the channel with this title in its metadata from the first input".Commands with
[foo]
before them takefoo
as input, putting[bar]
after a command saves the output inbar
, and using a comma instead of a semicolon means the output goes directly into the next command.The commands being used are:
- loudnorm - normalize the (in this case, microphone) audio volume levels
- aformat - a hint for the previous command to know what type of audio should be emitted
- asplit - copy an audio stream to multiple identical audio streams
- volume - pretty self-explanatory. it changes the volume of an audio sample by some multiple
- sidechannelcompress - here's where the ducking magic happens
- amerge - combine multiple audio streams into a single stream with multiple channels
- pan - merge the audio channels from an effectively meaningless 4.0 configuration to stereo
Does it work if you omit the volume filter? Seems to me that loudnorm and volume would conflict.
loudnorm is running on the microphone audio and volume is running on the game audio. They should be acting like piped-together shell commands, where none of them care about how any of the others work.
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@anotherusername The app gives me other notifications that I do want to receive though.
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Status: It's been at least two months and I don't think anyone's noticed my title in Active Directory is "BOFH" yet.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
my title in Active Directory
Does anyone even know how to do that? Unless its been federated into an application that actually displays such fields...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Does anyone even know how to do that? Unless its been federated into an application that actually displays such fields...
It appears in the GAL as well, so Outlook, Skype, etc. should show it. :>
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Does anyone even know how to do that? Unless its been federated into an application that actually displays such fields...
It appears in the GAL as well, so Outlook, Skype, etc. should show it. :>
Shows how much attention to detail is spent.
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@heterodox
The first rule of working with the BOFH is to not talk to the BOFH about how he is a BOFH.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It's been at least two months and I don't think anyone's noticed my title in Active Directory is "BOFH" yet.
So how many bosses have you... inconvenienced... in those two months?
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Status: I'm not sure if this is actually OK, but Chrome seems to think it is...
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STATUS
Saw Star Wars 8.
It was good. Almost as good as they could possibly make it.
Still too burdened by all the history and loose ends to beat out episodes 4 and 5.
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Status: I was mentioned twice since the last time I checked in. Both times were in the context of murdering someone. Uh.... thanks? Glad to know my skills are missed XD
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@yamikuronue I thought the aliens were the ones murdering.
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@pie_flavor truefax, I'm better at dying than murdering :D
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@yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
the last time I checked in.
Yami checks them in, but vacates so they don't check out.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Sony Vegas 14 Pro is not taking very kindly to being virtualized...
Uh.
It's gun run like shit that way, you realize.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Sony Vegas 14 Pro is not taking very kindly to being virtualized...
Uh.
It's gun run like shit that way, you realize.
Why?
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@yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I was mentioned twice since the last time I checked in. Both times were in the context of murdering someone. Uh.... thanks? Glad to know my skills are missed XD
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Status: Just discovered that apparently our database query manager thing in the game can cause major system hanging when too many requests are fired off at the same time.
I think it's because each individual query is getting its own thread, and then each thread is opening up the SQL client with a new connection.
All I know, is that shooting off fifteen queries shouldn't lock the whole system (as in, mouse doesn't move, everything is frozen). And shooting off 900 queries (during testing) definitely made it worse.
This previously wasn't a problem, because we'd get at most two or three queries at once as people join. But now that the levels themselves can have objects that are database dependent, there's the potential to add many things that want information from the database at startup, and this is where we discovered the issue.
TL;DR: I get to make a connection pool manager thingy tomorrow!
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Web developer discovers ONE WEIRD TRICK to instantly internationalize your product!
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Status: Windows can't tell if it's unreachable or just simply not responding.
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Status: Woooooooooooooo! First ever FF14 raid tier clear!
Though my celebratory 7km walk is gonna hurt tomorrow...
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status: Lol
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why?
The rendering might be ok, but all the effects processing for the preview is done in the GPU.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
TL;DR: I get to make a connection pool manager thingy tomorrow!
What are you using that doesn't already have one?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
TL;DR: I get to make a connection pool manager thingy tomorrow!
What are you using that doesn't already have one?
Unreal Engine. The in-house-grown (not by me, I'm stuck shoplifting it now) plugin is basically directly opening ODBC and making calls as you do.
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@tsaukpaetra Blearck.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why?
The rendering might be ok, but all the effects processing for the preview is done in the GPU.
Oh! You misunderstand, this isn't being run in a virtual machine, it's virtualized in that all filesystem and registry calls are being redirected into the virtualization apps' container. It will still have normal access to the GPU and everything.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Blearck.
Edit: it's one of the primary reasons we can't run the game servers in Linux IIRC, that and something called "substance".
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@tsaukpaetra Ok but you could just you know use Windows directly. It's not going to steal your bitcoins, I can vouch for it.
EDIT: also I think that's called "containerized" not "virtualized", but I'm not super genius dev-ops man so I'm not sure.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Ok but you could just you know use Windows directly. It's not going to steal your bitcoins, I can vouch for it.
I don't recall claiming it would steal bitcoins. Why are you putting words in my mouth I never said?
Besides, that's not the point. I reinstall my computer regularly, and installing things I don't use on a regular basis is annoying so I typically portable-ize them if possible. This App is right on the path to "shove it on a VM, because it's likely not going to be worth it to deal with in the long run".
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I reinstall my computer regularly,
(both the text and the actual face).
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I reinstall my computer regularly,
So... don't do that?
"I do crazy irrational things, so I have to do all these other crazy irrational things that make my life way too hard to compensate!!!"
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I reinstall my computer regularly,
(both the text and the actual face).
Windows now does this regularly on its own now, so I don't do it quite as often intentionally. I think I'm currently at about seven months since the last refresh.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows now does this regularly on its own now,
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I reinstall my computer regularly,
So... don't do that?
"I do crazy irrational things, so I have to do all these other crazy irrational things that make my life way too hard to compensate!!!"
There's a reason behind crazy irrational behaviours sometimes.
For instance, at
one point in timepresent installing and uninstalling programs left a bunch of cruft on your drive that nothing seems to clean up. Easy solution? Clean install.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows now does this regularly on its own now,
Oh, they don't call it Reinstallation. what is the term... Oh yes,
"feature upgrade". Anniversary, creators, fall creators, each of those is technically a re-install in-place upgrade.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
EDIT: also I think that's called "containerized" not "virtualized", but I'm not super genius dev-ops man so I'm not sure
Oh, yes. That's it. Though even that term isn't so clear.
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@tsaukpaetra That's not reinstall as you describe it, though. It doesn't remove your programs, your documents, your cat images. It just upgrades the system. When you say you reinstall regularly, you mean wipe and reset, yes?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra That's not reinstall as you describe it, though. It doesn't remove your programs, your documents, your cat images. It just upgrades the system. When you say reinstall, you mean wipe and reset, yes?
Just because it migrates (mostly) your things, doesn't make it a reinstall. It's not a clean install, like I do, but it's still an install just the same.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
For instance, at one point in timepresent installing and uninstalling programs left a bunch of cruft on your drive that nothing seems to clean up.
And does that cruft affect your user experience in any way whatsoever? No?
Oh so you are a crazy irrational person whose hobby is probably standing outside a deli and handing out poorly-xeroxed religious propaganda.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
And does that cruft affect your user experience in any way whatsoever? No?
Yes, it leaves me wondering why I have 2gb of space left on my drive.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes, it leaves me wondering why I have 2gb of space left on my drive.
Probably all the hundreds of pointless virtual machines.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes, it leaves me wondering why I have 2gb of space left on my drive.
Probably all the hundreds of pointless virtual machines.
No those are on my server, and number in the 9.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
No those are on my server,
Yeah look another source of unnecessary complexity in your life.
This is why software developers produce such awful software. They just LOVE adding complexity to everything. It pisses me off.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah look another source of unnecessary complexity in your life.
Why?