The Official Status Thread
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
12 items seemed to be a reasonable number of parts + accessories for a machine. The quantity of 6 SSDs was tiny in comparison to the other text.
Also for some reason didn't notice newegg.
6 M.2 SSDs would be excessive for a single PC. :-)
they're going to be basically this build (only 3 will have the spinning HDD as only 3 are for the Data team. Appdev doesn't need the 3TB of storage..... )
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3qr8WX
i get the budget JAN1 so the exact parts will obviously change by then because prices, but it will be basically this.
and yes, i know that's a K SKU on a work PC.
i know what i'm doing. :-)
I'm overclocking them.
Mildly because i don''t have the budget for even an AIO water cooler but still. the hyper212 is a fukking champ!
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I really need to stop staring into the Query Store abyss. It's starting to stare back...
(But man, those graphs really take the "uh, hey, you might have a problem here" data that used to be buried in system DMVs that required SA access to read and really throws it right up in your face. Very nice feature to be able to give the developers access to and say "go fix your shit" without having to worry about permissions in prod or replicating DMV data somewhere else. And pretty graphs. Pretty much a 12/10 feature as far as updating to 2016, and they made it part of Standard Edition for 2016 SP1 and forward!)
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Status: Bought XCOM 2: War of the Chosen.
It's such a big expansion pack that it includes an entirely separate copy of the base game.
I don't think I'll be publishing videos of me playing it, but I'll keep going with the Long War 2 mod of the base game.
Only 6 hours to download it!
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Status: TIL that Pepe Platypus's original name is Perry. Polish translators of Phineas and Ferb certainly had fun with names.
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@gąska That makes me wonder what the name of the mad scientist is, whether or not he rants about '-inators', and if they selected an equally awful voice for him.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
everything seems to work fine!
Until it didn't. Turns out, you kinda need to be able to reconnect the server if the server kicks you and you still expect to be able to run queries..
Fixed that, and it looks to be more efficient than ever!
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Status: Dammit Microsoft, Servers don't have "Active hours"! They're fucking SERVERS, they're ALWAYS active!
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@tsaukpaetra I always wondered how Windows Server users deal with the lengthy reboots.
I guess just buy a second server, load balance them somehow, then program them to reboot at non-overlapping times?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I always wondered how Windows Server users deal with the lengthy reboots.
I guess just buy a second server, load balance them somehow, then program them to reboot at non-overlapping times?
Or you just schedule a maintenance window. The security team tells me in our weekly meeting, "We're going to be applying Windows patches and rebooting next Thursday at 0200R; if your applications need any manual startup, you can log in and do them shortly thereafter."
It only happens once a month; it's not that big a deal. If I need a patch blackout because something important is going on and we can't afford any downtime at all, I put in a ticket a little bit in advance.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska That makes me wonder what the name of the mad scientist is, whether or not he rants about '-inators', and if they selected an equally awful voice for him.
Name's Heinz Dundersztyc. The -inators are all there with just as crazy names. And yes, he's pretty bad:
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@tsaukpaetra
Servers should be managed by WSUS / SCCM so that you can schedule your updates
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I always wondered how Windows Server users deal with the lengthy reboots.
I guess just buy a second server, load balance them somehow, then program them to reboot at non-overlapping times?
I mean, where load balancing is possible, sure. But in our case where it's a service that's overseeing stuff? Not so much...
Yes, that means a DDOS attack could easily take us down, but I don't have the time to make our Master Server distributed like that...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra
Servers should be managed by WSUS / SCCM so that you can schedule your updatesYeah, the ones on Azure sure the fuck aren't. Or, that interface isn't provided.
Edit: And I'm not setting up a VPN into the office just so I can add them in just to do that either.
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@tsaukpaetra Just because you choose to run your OS on Somebody Else's Computer doesn't absolve you of the responsibility of providing it a full management infrastructure.
That's managed hosting.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Just because you choose to run your OS on Somebody Else's Computer doesn't absolve you of the responsibility of providing it a full management infrastructure.
Why should I have to do something the OS should provide inherently? You know, there used to be a setting to "Don't install updates automatically, I'll do it when it's best for me." But Microsoft decided it knew better than their customers.
That's managed hosting.
Yeah. There should be an Azure control panel for this, I agree. Wouldn't it be nice if they had a simple easy-to-use interface where you could control what updates get installed, when, and how?
Oh, wait, they do! It's called WSUS! But... it has to run on an F2 size or better, their processing is really inefficient so you're gonna need 2+Gb RAM for the SQL Server instance alone. Oh wait, WSUS settings aren't configurable within Azure Active Directory? Well, better install a full-blown AD setup then. Make sure you don't make a mistake! Don't want to do that, but have your on-premises domain already set up and good to go? Ok! You can site-to-site VPN!
And all this, just to say "Windows, I don't want you to install updates until I say so, during our scheduled maintenance windows that we choose, not 'outside Active Hours', not 'because it's been a while since you rebooted', when we want to do it."
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Status: Alright, who's trying to impersonate my router?
Dec 21 01:45:35 storagesrv kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 moved from 6c:b0:ce:bb:b6:43 to f0:23:b9:eb:34:05 on em0 Dec 21 01:45:35 storagesrv kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 moved from f0:23:b9:eb:34:05 to 6c:b0:ce:bb:b6:43 on em0 Dec 21 01:45:38 storagesrv kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 moved from 6c:b0:ce:bb:b6:43 to f0:23:b9:eb:34:05 on em0 Dec 21 01:45:42 storagesrv kernel: arp: 192.168.1.1 moved from f0:23:b9:eb:34:05 to 6c:b0:ce:bb:b6:43 on em0
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@gąska I'm actually surprised, they got the voice exactly right!
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@magus Poland has some very good voice actors. Almost all cartoons are on par with the original versions, and in video games they often sound even better.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
in video games they often sound even better.
Except for the fact that they're speaking Polish.
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@hardwaregeek nie rozumiem co to ma do rzeczy.
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Status: I'm amazed by Google Translate getting it 100% correctly from Polish to English.
Edit: and inserting random kurwas in the middle doesn't completely derail it anymore. Progress!
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
and in video games they often sound even better
I think The Witcher series doesn't actually count for the purposes of this discussion…
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@dkf BF:BC2 had great Polish dubbing. Also, Gothic, but it's German, so shit ass English version is understandable.
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Status: 4AM and I'm reading TVTropes.
In a GrailQuest game book, you enter a room containing "a man eating plant". The next line informs you that the plant he's eating is a carrot
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My computer is broken, it's an emergency!
Can you describe what happened?
It went 'BEEEEEEEEEEEP' and the monitors are black. Now the light on the front is flashing.
What programs were you using before that happened?
Just email!
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And I opened the side to hoover it as it was dusty, would that be related?
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STATUS
The terrace of our brand new office space is leaking water on the office underneath. Apparently, the tile guys didn't (forgot to?) add any hydro isolation underneath the tiles.
Whelp.
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@cartman82
Typical East-European contractors ...
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Status: Contemplating how you format a timestamp in a signal handler. I strongly suspect the answer is "You don't".
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
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My computer is broken, it's an emergency!
Can you describe what happened?
It went 'BEEEEEEEEEEEP' and the monitors are black. Now the light on the front is flashing.
What programs were you using before that happened?
Just email!
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And I opened the side to hoover it as it was dusty, would that be related?Casualty: One stick of RAM.
At least that answers the question "would vacuuming a computer really cause enough static to damage it?".
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Contemplating how you format a timestamp in a signal handler.
Is it necessary to do so? It's not that formatting times needs to do lots of system calls, but rather that it is one heck of a lot of work for something that should run quickly in a deeply uncertain stack context. Even doing I/O at all in a signal handler would worry me.
I strongly suspect the answer is "You don't".
Quite…
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(Client) sends ticket complaining that the color of required fields was switched from grey to something that stands out more ...
(support_rep) yeah, as mentioned in the release notes that color was changed for readability
Oh alright ... now it matches my car
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why should I have to do something the OS should provide inherently? You know, there used to be a setting to "Don't install updates automatically, I'll do it when it's best for me." But Microsoft decided it knew better than their customers.
There is and it's the default. What are you even talking about.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Is it necessary to do so? It's not that formatting times needs to do lots of system calls, but rather that it is one heck of a lot of work for something that should run quickly in a deeply uncertain stack context. Even doing I/O at all in a signal handler would worry me.
These are on-crash self-diagnostics. For that intersection of circumstances where we want the crash fixed yesterday and coredumps will be enabled some time after hell has frozen over.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
My computer is broken, it's an emergency!
Can you describe what happened?
It went 'BEEEEEEEEEEEP' and the monitors are black. Now the light on the front is flashing.
What programs were you using before that happened?
Just email!
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And I opened the side to hoover it as it was dusty, would that be related?Casualty: One stick of RAM.
At least that answers the question "would vacuuming a computer really cause enough static to damage it?".
It's possible the static was generated somewhere else and discharged by vacuuming. In addition, it sounds like was trying to get the dust out while the computer was running, so if the vacuum attachment is metal, touching any part of the computer's insides would probably damage it.
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@gąska Unrelated to the point, but for some reason that video is so sharp.
There's no antialiasing or compression artifacts whatsoever, and it made me realise it's been literally years since I last saw moving images like that.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm amazed by Google Translate getting it 100% correctly from Polish to English.
Edit: and inserting random kurwas in the middle doesn't completely derail it anymore. Progress!
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Status: Apparently my computer, blindingly fast at nearly everything as it is, can't actually handle an additional 4k monitor without lagging everything.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently my computer, blindingly fast at nearly everything as it is, can't actually handle an additional 4k monitor without lagging everything.
One 4k monitor is the same number of pixels as 4 1080p monitors, so imagine you just plugged in 4 extra monitors.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Contemplating how you format a timestamp in a signal handler. I strongly suspect the answer is "You don't".
Is it going to be read by humans directly? ISO 8601.
No? Milliseconds since epoch.
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@ben_lubar Yeah, but I figured my GTX 1060 would handle it just fine. It didn't.
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@anotherusername Please find at the link the exhaustive list of library functions safe to call inside a signal handler. Please note the complete absence of string and time formatting functions.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
complete absence of string and time formatting functions
Yeah, think you're stuck either reinventing the wheel or buffering unformatted values to memory and having code outside the signal handler empty the buffer.
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Status: A day late: Peet's "Winter Solstice" tea.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf BF:BC2 had great Polish dubbing.
The Polish fought in Vietnam?
Wait, there was a BLACK Polish soldier? Doesn't sound believable!!!
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
There's no antialiasing or compression artifacts whatsoever,
Both of those stills have tons of anti-aliasing. (Although it looks intentional.)
Since it was actually put up by the TV channel itself, I'd be more surprised if it weren't really good quality video. I mean, it's their JOB to do that, right?
Unfortunately the dialog hurts my ears so I could only watch a few seconds.
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@blakeyrat You're right, bad choice of words. There's clearly anti-aliasing, but the lines still look "jagged" somehow.
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@anonymous234 Well, again, you have to assume the art director of the series got the exact amount of sharpness he was aiming for. Anti-aliasing is a tool, not just some kind of flaw in compression.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why should I have to do something the OS should provide inherently? You know, there used to be a setting to "Don't install updates automatically, I'll do it when it's best for me." But Microsoft decided it knew better than their customers.
There is and it's the default. What are you even talking about.
Then explain to me how the above happened? Because I certainly didn't do it.
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@pleegwat So you're even less certain of the system state. In that case, the only formatting I would do is
itoa()
and even then I'd think twice before doing so.You can fix it up in whatever eventually receives the diagnostics.