WTF Bites
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@scarlet_manuka said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 How big is your C drive? Can you move 10GB off it to your SD card, at least temporarily?
It's only 32 GB, and everything non-Windows is already on the SD card.
Actually...I just noticed the SD card doesn't even show up in Explorer or Disk Management...
SD card reseated and now detected. Still not a valid target for Windows Update temp space.
The tablet rebooted as part of the update. Now it is stuck at a dialog that says "Please insert the external storage media and press OK." Inserting the external storage media and pressing OK does nothing.
EDIT: I guess I didn't click "OK" enough times. I spammed the button and now it's advancing.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I love computers.
I hate people...... Beep? ;)
Still looking for dating options, I see.
I'm not desperate, but...
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Why are numbers and computers so difficult? I have an advertisement for my e-book that has 0 impressions which means nobody has ever seen it. But, it has 1 click and 2.0133 sales.
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@mott555 is a fractional sale of an ebook? Someone paying for a paragraph?
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@coderpatsy That's what confused me at first. I figured there was some data caching/update stuff that hasn't happened to explain how someone clicked an ad that was never shown, but then I realized the "Sales" result was not an integer multiple of the e-book's price or the royalty amounts.
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@scarlet_manuka said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 How big is your C drive? Can you move 10GB off it to your SD card, at least temporarily?
It's only 32 GB, and everything non-Windows is already on the SD card.
Actually...I just noticed the SD card doesn't even show up in Explorer or Disk Management...
SD card reseated and now detected. Still not a valid target for Windows Update temp space.
The tablet rebooted as part of the update. Now it is stuck at a dialog that says "Please insert the external storage media and press OK." Inserting the external storage media and pressing OK does nothing.
EDIT: I guess I didn't click "OK" enough times. I spammed the button and now it's advancing.
So, all this time after the reboot and it's only up to 3% on "Working on Updates". While running on battery power. On a screen that doesn't show the battery meter. While presumably updating using data from the USB flash drive, which I'd have to disconnect to plug power in.
I wish Nuvision had spent the extra $0.50 to put a second USB port on the device, because it could be really handy about right now. Or of the authors of the OTG spec weren't pants-on-head-retarded and allowed for simultaneous charging and USB usage. I have a feeling my tablet is about to be bricked.
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@mott555 If you had a desktop power supply you could pop out the battery and hook up the power supply instead?
(will that even work? how much battery-interface firmware is there)
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Weird, my debit card doesn't seem to be working-oh, I got an email...
Yeah, these all match, lemme click on the link...
:headdesk
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@bb36e oh, it loaded:
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@mott555 And there it goes. Screen went dark, unit will not power on from battery power only.
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@aygeeplus said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 If you had a desktop power supply you could pop out the battery and hook up the power supply instead?
(will that even work? how much battery-interface firmware is there)
I'm not even sure how to get the thing apart. There are no screws anywhere.
Anyone have any clue how much of a Bad Idea™ it is to make some kind of USB Y-cable that connects data pins between the tablet and flash drive, while connecting power pins on all three?
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what the FUCK
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@aygeeplus said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 If you had a desktop power supply you could pop out the battery and hook up the power supply instead?
(will that even work? how much battery-interface firmware is there)
I'm not even sure how to get the thing apart. There are no screws anywhere.
Anyone have any clue how much of a Bad Idea™ it is to make some kind of USB Y-cable that connects data pins between the tablet and flash drive, while connecting power pins on all three?
Not bad at all. I have a y-cable for a few dollars specifically for this reason.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
@polygeekery If you're not using POEor more than 100BaseT, Ethernet only uses 4 wires anyway, just patch the working ones
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@tsaukpaetra I don't think COBOL has SQL support
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@tsaukpaetra I don't think COBOL has SQL support
Representative code piece only.
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So a while back we were asked by a developer and real estate company that does business spaces to do all of their cabling, etc. They wanted someone they could trust to be the one to pull cable in their buildings for new tenant build outs. Sort of a preferred vendor sort of arrangement. It has worked out really well so far.
A month or two ago a job comes in for bid in a high rise office building downtown. They send me prints, I go look at it, put in a bid and good to go.
Yesterday I go stock the job and this afternoon the boys were going to finish their day by mounting the wallmount cabinet to terminate the drops in to.
Today they call me after they get there.
"How are we supposed to mount this? There's no structure to mount it to in this room."
"What do you mean?"
"The walls are just three layers of drywall, there's no structure to mount to."
"What do you mean three layers of drywall? Do you need longer lags to get in to the framework or something?"
"No, I mean the wall is three layers of drywall. There is nothing to mount to. It is just three layers of drywall."
"That's impossible. There has to be something in the wall, inside the drywall."
"No. It is just three layers of drywall."
"So there is nothing inside it?"
"That's what I said the past five times you asked me. What do you want to do?"
"Hold on, I will head that way. I have to see this shit."I drive over there. I am 100% sure that I misunderstood what he was saying or he missed something. I grab a ladder, pop a ceiling tile and look at the top of the wall.
"So what do you think?"
"That wall is just three layers of drywall. There's no structure."
"...that's what I told you..."
"I've never seen anything like that before."
"Me either."
"That's fucked up."A few calls later, some perusing of the blueprints and some investigating the narrow chases of the building and then a trip to the hardware store later and we through-bolted a double layer of plywood to the wall to another layer on the other side of it in a chase that runs to the column that the room was built around. I'm a problem solver!
Three or four years from now you can expect the WTF Bites post about a maintenance man cutting bolts he did not think went to anything and all our shit falling off the wall.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Not bad at all. I have a y-cable for a few dollars specifically for this reason.
Will try later. Hopefully I don't release the magic smoke.
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@polygeekery Wow. That's.... really special. How did they think anything was going to be put on it??
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@erufael no clue. These walls were not changed in this build out. They were preexisting from a previous client.
In another area of this office they mounted cabinets to the walls for a kitchenette area by using a shitload of mollys. 8-16 per cabinet where you would usually use 2-3 screws in to structure. It seems all the outlets had the wire routed through the middle layer in channels. I have seen panelized construction before, but never three layers of drywall like that.
Now I have to reorder a lot of stuff because all our new boxes will have to be surface mount. We are hoping that for existing boxes we can use the old cabling as a pull wire to pull new in to place. If not those will be surface mount also.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@bb36e Because
select count(*) from smessage where userid = ? or unread = 0
is difficult.
fixed that for what they probably did
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
A few calls later, some perusing of the blueprints and some investigating the narrow chases of the building and then a trip to the hardware store later and we through-bolted a double layer of plywood to the wall to another layer on the other side of it in a chase that runs to the column that the room was built around. I'm a problem solver!
This one deserved a picture. The wood went hidden between the layers of drywall?
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@sockpuppet7 said in WTF Bites:
@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
A few calls later, some perusing of the blueprints and some investigating the narrow chases of the building and then a trip to the hardware store later and we through-bolted a double layer of plywood to the wall to another layer on the other side of it in a chase that runs to the column that the room was built around. I'm a problem solver!
This one deserved a picture. The wood went hidden between the layers of drywall?
It sounded to me like they went all the way through the wall to the other side and put the wood there.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Not bad at all. I have a y-cable for a few dollars specifically for this reason.
Will try later. Hopefully I don't release the magic smoke.
The things I do for
scienceWindows Updates. I made this abomination:Plugged it into the flash drive like so:
And we're off to the races!
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Anyone have any clue how much of a Bad Idea™ it is to make some kind of USB Y-cable that connects data pins between the tablet and flash drive, while connecting power pins on all three?
I'm probably too late now, but that's pretty much a Bad Idea™. USB OTG is not designed to work like that, and forcing power into a USB host can screw things up, including potential hardware damage is you're unlucky.
Of course, the real are manufacturers that think it's a good idea to include only one connector-that-does-everything on their hardware in 2018 (unless it's , in which case it's "innovation" ).
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@mott555
What's that burning smell?
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra the unfortunate thing is that most cyberpunk universes are dystopias, so you really wouldn't want to live in them
Oh, not live in. Just visit.
Not sure if I could survive on just soycaf even for a visit though.
Filed under: BYOC
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@mott555 Still updating as of this morning, but the battery was down to 36%. It still discharges, just slower.
It might be literally impossible to run Windows Updates on this system, since Microsoft switched to the "OS updates are in-place OS re-installs" model that requires oogabytes of storage space. Which would be fine if the damn thing didn't nag me every 12 microseconds to install the update!
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@sockpuppet7 said in WTF Bites:
@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
A few calls later, some perusing of the blueprints and some investigating the narrow chases of the building and then a trip to the hardware store later and we through-bolted a double layer of plywood to the wall to another layer on the other side of it in a chase that runs to the column that the room was built around. I'm a problem solver!
This one deserved a picture. The wood went hidden between the layers of drywall?
It sounded like they sandwiched the wall between two pieces of plywood and bolted through to hold it up. He lost me at "...in a chase that runs to the column that the room was built around".
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@zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
USB OTG is not designed to work like that, and forcing power into a USB host can screw things up, including potential hardware damage is you're unlucky.
But it's not just a host port, it's the (only) charging port on the unit.
And I could have sworn there was a power delivery addendum thing that says (supporting devices) should be able to do this.
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Yes, but with OTG the port is either acting as a host (driving and powering a device), or as a device (being driven and powered by a host). What you're describing is a mixture of both at the same time (being powered by another host while driving another device).
But it looks like you're right, there is indeed an addendum for it:
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@mott555 Still updating as of this morning, but the battery was down to 36%. It still discharges, just slower.
It might be literally impossible to run Windows Updates on this system, since Microsoft switched to the "OS updates are in-place OS re-installs" model that requires oogabytes of storage space. Which would be fine if the damn thing didn't nag me every 12 microseconds to install the update!
Failed again. Fortunately the tablet still boots to Windows. So I give up.
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@mott555 Still updating as of this morning, but the battery was down to 36%. It still discharges, just slower.
It might be literally impossible to run Windows Updates on this system, since Microsoft switched to the "OS updates are in-place OS re-installs" model that requires oogabytes of storage space. Which would be fine if the damn thing didn't nag me every 12 microseconds to install the update!
Failed again. Fortunately the tablet still boots to Windows. So I give up.
Did it fail because it died, or failed because it successfully failed?
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 Still updating as of this morning, but the battery was down to 36%. It still discharges, just slower.
It might be literally impossible to run Windows Updates on this system, since Microsoft switched to the "OS updates are in-place OS re-installs" model that requires oogabytes of storage space. Which would be fine if the damn thing didn't nag me every 12 microseconds to install the update!
Failed again. Fortunately the tablet still boots to Windows. So I give up.
Did it fail because it died, or failed because it successfully failed?
This time, just "An unknown error occurred while updating Windows."
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 Still updating as of this morning, but the battery was down to 36%. It still discharges, just slower.
It might be literally impossible to run Windows Updates on this system, since Microsoft switched to the "OS updates are in-place OS re-installs" model that requires oogabytes of storage space. Which would be fine if the damn thing didn't nag me every 12 microseconds to install the update!
Failed again. Fortunately the tablet still boots to Windows. So I give up.
Did it fail because it died, or failed because it successfully failed?
This time, just "An unknown error occurred while updating Windows."
Does it say anything in the panther logs?
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@tsaukpaetra At this point I'm inclined to just leave it be and quit trying. I soldered together a USB Y-cable trying to get this work, and still didn't succeed. Time to move on to other projects.
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still didn't succeed.
Better block it then.
Anti-iFramely-izing: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft-windows/how-to-block-windows-10-april-2018-update-from-installing.html
Should theoretically work?
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@tsaukpaetra Just what we need, another onebox with autoplaying, unmuted video. @ben_lubar
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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra Just what we need, another onebox with autoplaying, unmuted video. @ben_lubar
Well fuck, it didn't have a video in the preview and when I submitted it. :/ Editing...
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Uh...this partition seems a little strange
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@zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Anyone have any clue how much of a Bad Idea™ it is to make some kind of USB Y-cable that connects data pins between the tablet and flash drive, while connecting power pins on all three?
I'm probably too late now, but that's pretty much a Bad Idea™. USB OTG is not designed to work like that, and forcing power into a USB host can screw things up, including potential hardware damage is you're unlucky.
Of course, the real are manufacturers that think it's a good idea to include only one connector-that-does-everything on their hardware in 2018 (unless it's , in which case it's "innovation" ).
Missed this somehow.
Welcome to the forums!
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Uh...this partition seems a little strange
FAT12 is very strange. It's a floppy disk filesystem (from the early days of the PC) and uses bit packing (12 bits of metadata per disk sector) to keep most of the space for files. It was pretty horrible to work with directly back in the day, and nobody ought to use it now.