WTF Bites
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@Cursorkeys Plus you can think of this image while doing it and laugh:
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Apparently my sister's cat discovered how to activate the shredder by sticking her whiskers into the slot. Other than the constant noise from a shredder running unnecessarily, it's harmless, because whiskers are far too thin to get dragged into the machine.
This same cat used to stick her whiskers into the front fan of a desktop PC because the noise of her whiskers bouncing off the fan blades was amusing.
Ricky (he’s a black cat, his sister Lucy is an orange tabby) likes to “yodel” into the floor fan. Possibly because the fan makes it sound strange...
He’s, umm, kinda special...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
fact I don't think I ever had a ZIP disk or drive fail.
Lucky!
Make that two of us.
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What the hell do I need to restart for?
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
What the hell do I need to restart for?
Is it a Windows phone?
That's Android. I got that a couple days ago.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
The real problem was spinning rust, either in floppy or hard form. Spinning rust drives hate me. They fail on me all the time. The best thing I ever did in college was spend $125 on a ZIP drive and guess what? The instant I got rid of the spinning rust, those ZIP disks lasted for eons. In fact I don't think I ever had a ZIP disk or drive fail.
Glad that the spinning rust of the Zip disks worked for you (tech-wise, Zip disks are much the same as floppies). Sadly, my drive developed the "click of death", and it took out all of my disks before I learned what was going on. :(
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
I still use HDs. But I only buy Western Digital drives, so I don't have any issue
My last Seagate died after 7 days
Back when I worked for WD Retail Tech Support people would complain about us (if their drive was broken) or someone else (if they wanted install help). They all break and everyone swears they'll never buy (insert brand) again. Some of those have come true; I doubt you'll get a Conner, Maxtor, or Quantum drive nowadays.
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They all break and everyone swears they'll never buy (insert brand) again.
I refused to buy Seagate for years, than gave them another chance. They blew it, spectacularly.
Last home server I retired was running on 6 WD Blue (yeah, not even Black ones).
After 5.5 years running 24/7, they were still good. I just decided that I should build another one before anything breaks.
FileUnder: Writing data on ice is more reliable than on Seagate drives
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
They had a Maine Coon with a really floofy tail and an automatic shredder.
This is why I keep a box on top of mine. And it's turned off except when I'm actually using it! (for me, dogs)
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Last home server I retired was running on 6 WD Blue (yeah, not even Black ones).
For server use, you'd probably best off looking at WD Red. I've found them to be remarkably trouble-free, which is exactly what you want in storage. (The last pair of NASs that I built had a total of 24 6TB drives in them, and none have caused any problems to date…) The cost premium for the extra reliability isn't bad either.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
In fact I don't think I ever had a ZIP disk or drive fail.
I have. The Click-O-Death...
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For server use, you'd probably best off looking at WD Red. I've found them to be remarkably trouble-free, which is exactly what you want in storage. (The last pair of NASs that I built had a total of 24 6TB drives in them, and none have caused any problems to date…) The cost premium for the extra reliability isn't bad either.
I know that.
But even the Blue ones (for desktop use) ran 5.5 years 24/7 trouble-free
My current NAS is on WD Red drives
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
What the hell do I need to restart for?
Is it a Windows phone?
That's Android. I got that a couple days ago.
Yeah, I got that too. Wasn't doing anything so I said fuck-it-reboot.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Today was a good one. It was the third call for a desktop going to sleep when it shouldn't. Their LOB application cannot handle that and does not even gracefully fail. It spams you with a dialog telling you the connection to the database has failed. A competent person would open task manager and kill it and get back to work but these people are not what one would call "competent" so they had to reboot every time it happened.
First time we touch it the tech makes sure all power options are set to never put the desktop to sleep. Should be good to go.
Second time we touch it I send a tech onsite and tell him to check everything and to look for anything stupid that might be causing it.
He missed something because today was the third time so I handle it myself. I check everything I could think of, everything looks fine. Then I notice there is a paper shredder right in front of the tower on the floor. I give it a little kick and the computer goes to sleep. The paper shredder lined right up with the power button on the tower and when they would get up they would use their feet to spin the chair, bump the paper shredder and put the computer to sleep. When they would wake it up their LOB would spam them with notifications so they would reboot every time it happened.
Today I get a call about this issue again. The person who usually sits at that workstation was not in on Wednesday when I looked over it.
"So the machine is still going to sleep sometimes if I leave it too long."
"That's impossible. Let me remote in to your machine."I check and literally every single setting is as it was and as it should be.
"Everything looks fine, when did it happen?"
"This morning when I left for a few minutes. I came back and the screen was black and when I woke it up it kept giving me that notification that I could not get rid of."
"That is so odd. Let me check a few more things."I check everything over again, expand every option in Power Options. Everything is fine. I Google around and look to see if there is anything I might have missed.
"Did you by any chance move the paper shredder back?"
"I did.""Didn't Anita tell you why I moved it?"
"She did, but that paper shredder has been in front of my computer for 15 years and there is no way that it is causing the issue."
"Can you please move it back to the other side of the underside of your desk?"
"No, I like it on that side of my desk and I can tell you with 100% certainty that I am not kicking it when I get up."
"You don't have to kick it. If you tap it toward the computer at all it will put it to sleep."
"Well, I am not moving my paper shredder. It is not causing the issue."
"Is that your final answer?"
"Yes."
"OK then, let me call you back."Then I called the owner of the company and explained the situation to him. is losing his paper shredder and it is getting moved to the back area of the office 50' from his computer. I get the feeling that he is going to be a dick about it and even if this fixes the issue he will say that it didn't and we are going to get fucking nowhere on this stupid little issue.
Also, @Atazhaia, while I was in there I did exactly what you recommended:
@Polygeekery May I suggest changing the setting for the power button being pressed to do nothing? That's what I had to do due to cat jumping on top of the computer and stepping on the power button being very unhelpful.
Done.
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What did you do to my video, Twitch?
Oh well it appears to be watchable but I've never seen this before...
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@LB_ Uh seen what? Not sure what's unusual about that screenshot...
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
What the hell do I need to restart for?
Is it a Windows phone?
That's Android. I got that a couple days ago.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@LB_ Uh seen what? Not sure what's unusual about that screenshot...
It's scheduled for release at the end of 1969?
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@ben_lubar Oh I've seen that bug in some many thousands of Linux-based webapps I don't even notice it anymore.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar Oh I've seen that bug in some many thousands of Linux-based webapps I don't even notice it anymore.
Looks like a few people are running Windows on Linux Hardware.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Now‽‽ The last release of time zone database was 1st of May, to take into account a change in North Korea scheduled to 5th of May. There are some pending changes for Fiji, but that's for January 2019, and Chile, but that's for April 2019, so there should be no strong reason to push it now.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Oh, there's a new "Turn off the display" option? Nice!
But it's still missing the "Halt and catch fire" option
Filed under: Just like the :evil_laughter: emoji
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Looks like a few people are running Windows on Linux Hardware.
I don't have that problem at all. I've literally never seen it on any hardware or OS that I've owned. It must be Fake News!
But the very start of 1970…
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Spotted a Windows user
Most of those unreliable shitty computers were Mac Classic, so it would have been command-S. Happy?
The real problem was spinning rust, either in floppy or hard form. Spinning rust drives hate me. They fail on me all the time. The best thing I ever did in college was spend $125 on a ZIP drive and guess what? The instant I got rid of the spinning rust, those ZIP disks lasted for eons. In fact I don't think I ever had a ZIP disk or drive fail.
Now SSDs make computers a heck of a lot more reliable, but I still save like a fiend and backup anything I write to DropBox in real-time.
never heard the click of death? Lucky you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04nBp5u_Zg
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https://i.imgur.com/bUCUYUW.png
excuse me what
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@Tsaukpaetra Hmm?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Hmm?
To serve stuff. Usually (from the server's perspective) it's better to have higher upload than download.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
https://i.imgur.com/bUCUYUW.png
excuse me whatAre you downloading through MilwaukeePC?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Hmm?
To serve stuff. Usually (from the server's perspective) it's better to have higher upload than download.
TCP has about 5% overhead, so just from the ACKs, he'd saturate his whole connection.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Hmm?
To serve stuff. Usually (from the server's perspective) it's better to have higher upload than download.
TCP has about 5% overhead, so just from the ACKs, he'd saturate his whole connection.
Does it ACK from the wrong direction? I must not be awake enough for this to make sense to me...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Hmm?
To serve stuff. Usually (from the server's perspective) it's better to have higher upload than download.
TCP has about 5% overhead, so just from the ACKs, he'd saturate his whole connection.
Does it ACK from the wrong direction? I must not be awake enough for this to make sense to me...
If you're uploading stuff, you need to download the ACKs from the remote end to know they got it.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Hmm?
To serve stuff. Usually (from the server's perspective) it's better to have higher upload than download.
TCP has about 5% overhead, so just from the ACKs, he'd saturate his whole connection.
Does it ACK from the wrong direction? I must not be awake enough for this to make sense to me...
If you're uploading stuff, you need to download the ACKs from the remote end to know they got it.
And an ACK is necessarily 5 percent of each packet and must be received for each packet?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Hmm?
To serve stuff. Usually (from the server's perspective) it's better to have higher upload than download.
TCP has about 5% overhead, so just from the ACKs, he'd saturate his whole connection.
Does it ACK from the wrong direction? I must not be awake enough for this to make sense to me...
If you're uploading stuff, you need to download the ACKs from the remote end to know they got it.
And an ACK is necessarily 5 percent of each packet and must be received for each packet?
Not necessarily, but TCP packets have an upper limit of about 1500 bytes of payload.
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@Bulb
The Japanese calendar rollover for the new emperor, maybe?
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@izzion And you have to reboot your phone because some far away country uses archaic calendars based on monarchs? That would be TR.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Now‽‽ The last release of time zone database was 1st of May, to take into account a change in North Korea scheduled to 5th of May. There are some pending changes for Fiji, but that's for January 2019, and Chile, but that's for April 2019, so there should be no strong reason to push it now.
I blame AT&T. Takes forever to release old updates.
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Zendesk WTF:
So.... you want me to rate the service before it's been finished? :/
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
And an ACK is necessarily 5 percent of each packet and must be received for each packet?
Very much not; in simple mode, an ACK will acknowledge all packets up to its sequence number, and in selective mode (supported by almost everyone now), they can list which packets they're acknowledging and so handle out of order transfers (which will be put back in order before delivery to the user as a stream).
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And you have to reboot your phone because some far away country uses archaic calendars based on monarchs? That would be TR.
The Japanese official calendar is enough of a that it's only really used by the Japanese for documents that legally require it. And the politicians regard changing the legal requirements as vastly insulting to the imperial family. I guess I can understand that, but it's still dumb.
Among the dumber aspects is that nobody knows the name of the new era for a while when there's a change of Emperor, yet legal documents are required to use it anyway. They get around this by using the old scheme from the previous Emperor and then updating the document once the new era name is known. Which, as even cheques are legal documents for the purposes of needing a date (in the Japanese system), explains a lot about why the Japanese have been long keen on using electronic funds transfers…
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And the politicians regard changing the legal requirements as vastly insulting to the imperial family. I guess I can understand that, but it's still dumb.
The Japanese regard pretty much everything as an insult to someone. Dealing with them is a mine field.
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@Zerosquare I've experienced Windows turning off networking because I've put off updates for too long a few times actually.
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I've imported some pictures from my phone using the Photos app the other day. It's actually more sane than using iTunes (low bar to jump), so that was fine.
Just got a notification from the fucking Photos app that "You have new memories" (translated, don't know the original wording). It's taken one of the pictures and added a date text to it. Awesome! What the fuck is this, Facebook?!
How do I turn this shit off?!
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@topspin You can't. I just ignore it.
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@loopback0 That's what I do - I completely ignore the existence of facebook. This has worked fine for me so far.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
They had a Maine Coon with a really floofy tail and an automatic shredder.
This is why I keep a box on top of mine. And it's turned off except when I'm actually using it! (for me, dogs)
Everyone should be doing this. All pets should be properly disabled and sequestered when not in use.
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I just randomly discovered something: The EU has a system for sharing information about dangerous consumer products, so when something is discovered to be dangerous in one country, they can share the information with everyone else and everyone can have it pulled off the shelves very fast. The system is called "Rapid Exchange of Information System".
Apparently, someone realized that the full name doesn't roll off the tongue very nicely, so they wanted a short name. A sane person would just call it REIS, it's nice enough. Not enough for the EU though, the short name is RAPEX, which totally doesn't sound like Elon Musk's next project featuring some kind of a high tech rape factory to rapidly populate his Mars colony.