The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, in theory, I'm off... so...
So… use someone else's credentials and push the current state of everything to prod, then go and enjoy the rest of the holiday nowhere near any computers at all?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, in theory, I'm off... so...
So… use someone else's credentials and push the current state of everything to prod, then go and enjoy the rest of the holiday nowhere near any computers at all?
In this case, I was resetting the master server VM, and only one other person knows (kinda) how to do that.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I had forgotten how awful it is to live with your parents. The constant noise. Being unable to browse anything mildly NSFW. Having to eat at predetermined times. It's all bad.
Think about me, who has to live with them for about 4 more weeks until bathroom renovations are complete...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, in theory, I'm off... so...
So… use someone else's credentials and push the current state of everything to prod, then go and enjoy the rest of the holiday nowhere near any computers at all?
In this case, I was resetting the master server VM, and only one other person knows (kinda) how to do that.
Maybe you should write an instruction for others to refer to.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, in theory, I'm off... so...
So… use someone else's credentials and push the current state of everything to prod, then go and enjoy the rest of the holiday nowhere near any computers at all?
In this case, I was resetting the master server VM, and only one other person knows (kinda) how to do that.
Maybe you should write an instruction for others to refer to.
- Log into Azure Portal.
- Click "Master Server" on the dashboard.
- Click "Restart" on the toolbar .
- Wait for Windows Updates...
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- PROFIT.....?
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@Tsaukpaetra Considering your quests documented here for posterity of getting Windows / WU to run correctly even without Azure in the mix, I feel step 4 is a long list.
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@Tsaukpaetra TIL something that starts with "Log into Azure" can actually end with PROFIT!!!!!
Is this a joke?
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra TIL something that starts with "Log into Azure" can actually end with PROFIT!!!!!
Is this a joke?
Not for Microsoft.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I feel step 4 is a long list.
It was certainly a long wait.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: people starting shit on Christmas Eve, who woulda thunk it?
That's called family!
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Status: Pecan pie in the oven.
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Merry Christmas everyone I'm full of turkey, my own weight in assorted snacks, and port. Bed time.
I wasn't doing work stuff, but I got an email that the phones are all down. I can VPN into everything apart from the PABX so it looks like it's failed but hasn't set everything else on fire, ergo it can wait a day or two.
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Status: Goddammit pink snek, where are you. I have 200 candies to shove down your gullet, now spawn already!
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@Tsaukpaetra
I was leaning towards naming it @Karla
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pecan pie in the oven.
Update: Green salad, ham, mashed yellow, red-skinned and purple potatoes, acorn squash with balsamic reduction, homemade gluten-free bread, and pecan pie eaten and initial phase of digestion mostly complete. Much arguing between offspring, accompanied by doors slamming, complete (for tonight; sigh). Wrapping paper residue discarded. Kitchen is a disaster zone. Time for bed.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Much arguing between offspring, accompanied by doors slamming, complete (for tonight; sigh).
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Status: Two days of feasts (a Swedish Jul Smörgåsbord on Christmas Eve, a great mass of perfectly roasted beef on Christmas day) means that we've now passed peak calorie intake for the year. Today we'll just have to make do with “meagre” leftovers…
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status: the fuck am I doing awake right now?
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@Tsaukpaetra reading, posting to WTDWTF.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra reading, posting to WTDWTF.
Well, I mean, besides that...
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@kazitor
You must be a computer programmer. Your answer was entirely correct and at the same time not useful at all.
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I managed to eat all the stilton cheese. Forgotten how much I love the stuff.
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Status: survived Christmas, including having to help one family with their Chromebox and survive full-contact Yahtzee at the other. Little kids were very sweet and loved their new toys and books. Brought home a lot of leftovers.
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Status: Back at work. Don't want to be here. Most coworkers aren't. Very quiet. Very boring. Zzzz.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Back at work. Don't want to be here. Most coworkers aren't. Very quiet. Very boring. Zzzz.
Perfect opportunity to regularize style and imports, and rewrite <idiot>'s code.
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Anybody got a line on the current Tamagotchi source code? Am wanting to dive in to see if I can tell my daughter when this thing'll chill out a bit.
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Status: Back at home from Christmas and the Internet connection is still as slow as when I filed a ticket with the ISP about 6 weeks ago, maybe even worse. SIGH
Firefox takes ages to load anything, AppStore won't even show anything other than a blank screen (good jorb, Apple), ssh to work (just for testing purposes) timed out. Interestingly, Netflix on the TV works after it 1) complained there's no network available (go to "network status", oh look there is a network) and 2) started buffering for a long time. Internet on the phone over wifi works, too.
Almost might make you believe there's something wrong with the laptop instead of the internet connection, but I'm positive there isn't, as it works everywhere else. Also, the TV and phone show the same signs, just much less strongly.With Netflix working it feels like once a connection is open it kind of works (bandwidth just sucks), but any kind of handshakes / establishing connections takes forever. Or maybe there's bursts of high bandwidth followed by long times of "none at all", so a buffered connection like video streaming smooths out the problems.
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@topspin: I had something very similar happen here a few weeks ago. It was definitely ISP-side (a friend in the same area had the same problem at the same time). Dunno what it was, but they eventually fixed it after a few days.
What kind of connection do you use?
Have you tried using a different DNS server and/or a VPN?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
I was leaning towards naming it @KarlaAww!
Is that from Let's Go? I just got that for Christmas, now I literally haven't owned a game console since Atari 2600 as a kid.
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@Karla said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
I was leaning towards naming it @KarlaAww!
Is that from Let's Go? I just got that for Christmas, now I literally haven't owned a game console since Atari 2600 as a kid.
Hmmmm... guys usually name their snakes something more, um, manly...
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@Zerosquare I have a 16Mbps DSL connection (slow enough), which currently actually gets about 2-4Mbps. The line is sync'd at around 14, so that's not the problem. I've called the ISP about it, they've opened a ticket and said it's a "regional problem" so nobody needs to check my line at home. Sounds to me like it's congested somewhere ISP side.
I wasn't sure if they'd send me another notification when they think the problem is fixed and the ticket closed, so I called them again two weeks ago to ask about it. They assured me they're still working on it. So far: nothing.
Now, what's interesting is that while they can't deliver the measly 16 Mbps, they always tell me "we're offering cable too, why don't you get our 200 connection?" I would have, that wasn't possible for other WTF reasons (landlord related), but makes me wonder how separated their backbones are if that one isn't congested when the offered bandwidth is that much higher.I don't have access to a VPN without jumping through hoops. I might try a different DNS tomorrow, good idea. The phone and TV both use the router assigned DNS, too.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
but makes me wonder how separated their backbones are if that one isn't congested when the offered bandwidth is that much higher.
The backbone might be shared between Cable and DSL but the regional/local infrastructure should be sufficiently separate.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Back at home from Christmas and the Internet connection is still as slow as when I filed a ticket with the ISP about 6 weeks ago, maybe even worse. SIGH
Firefox takes ages to load anything, AppStore won't even show anything other than a blank screen (good jorb, Apple), ssh to work (just for testing purposes) timed out. Interestingly, Netflix on the TV works after it 1) complained there's no network available (go to "network status", oh look there is a network) and 2) started buffering for a long time. Internet on the phone over wifi works, too.
Almost might make you believe there's something wrong with the laptop instead of the internet connection, but I'm positive there isn't, as it works everywhere else. Also, the TV and phone show the same signs, just much less strongly.With Netflix working it feels like once a connection is open it kind of works (bandwidth just sucks), but any kind of handshakes / establishing connections takes forever. Or maybe there's bursts of high bandwidth followed by long times of "none at all", so a buffered connection like video streaming smooths out the problems.
I don't know where you are located. But at the moment there is obviously a lot of people using the internet in the day and as I am working on some personal project I am seeing the Windows 10 indicator flash on and off every few minutes with lost connections etc. I have a regional issues as well. I did see a marked improvement in reliability after a technician replaced some of the bits and pieces in my phone line.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Back at work. Don't want to be here. Most coworkers aren't. Very quiet. Very boring. Zzzz.
Status: At work. Prepping for moving the whole office. Nobody has had the foresight to plan anything, and we must be out by new year's morning.
This will be Fun™.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This will be Fun™.
So basically, you will be having Mandatory Fun Days™?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't have access to a VPN without jumping through hoops.
You could try booting a Tails image: https://tails.boum.org/
It uses TOR, so it probably won't be very fast, but it should be enough to check if it makes your connection more reliable.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Back at home from Christmas and the Internet connection is still as slow as when I filed a ticket with the ISP about 6 weeks ago, maybe even worse. SIGH
Firefox takes ages to load anything, AppStore won't even show anything other than a blank screen (good jorb, Apple), ssh to work (just for testing purposes) timed out. Interestingly, Netflix on the TV works after it 1) complained there's no network available (go to "network status", oh look there is a network) and 2) started buffering for a long time. Internet on the phone over wifi works, too.
Almost might make you believe there's something wrong with the laptop instead of the internet connection, but I'm positive there isn't, as it works everywhere else. Also, the TV and phone show the same signs, just much less strongly.With Netflix working it feels like once a connection is open it kind of works (bandwidth just sucks), but any kind of handshakes / establishing connections takes forever. Or maybe there's bursts of high bandwidth followed by long times of "none at all", so a buffered connection like video streaming smooths out the problems.
That sounds exactly like a DNS problem.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
That sounds exactly like a DNS problem.
Yeah, it does. But when it happened to me, using a different DNS server didn't fix it. Cue major disappointment.
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Status: A downvote in the Funny Stuff thread? I must’ve really struck someone’s nerves.
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@topspin
The funniest part about downvotes on this forum is getting to read all the epeen groomers complaining about mah downvotes.
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@izzion even funnier is reading people being mad that I CSS-blocked someone!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion even funnier is reading people being mad that I CSS-blocked someone!
Hm, so would peak funny be complaining about how someone's posts all read "downvote downvote downvote" because of a user extension you installed to hellban them by replacing every word in their posts with the word downvote?
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@izzion can you draw a graph of this sentence or something? It's too complex for my parser.
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@izzion I’m not complaining. It’s just not something you’d think could upset anyone. You know, unlike the ton of shitposting everyone does in the rest of the forums.
I guess it’s too late to INB4 Internetpointzzzzz.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Back at home from Christmas and the Internet connection is still as slow as when I filed a ticket with the ISP about 6 weeks ago, maybe even worse. SIGH
Firefox takes ages to load anything, AppStore won't even show anything other than a blank screen (good jorb, Apple), ssh to work (just for testing purposes) timed out. Interestingly, Netflix on the TV works after it 1) complained there's no network available (go to "network status", oh look there is a network) and 2) started buffering for a long time. Internet on the phone over wifi works, too.
Almost might make you believe there's something wrong with the laptop instead of the internet connection, but I'm positive there isn't, as it works everywhere else. Also, the TV and phone show the same signs, just much less strongly.With Netflix working it feels like once a connection is open it kind of works (bandwidth just sucks), but any kind of handshakes / establishing connections takes forever. Or maybe there's bursts of high bandwidth followed by long times of "none at all", so a buffered connection like video streaming smooths out the problems.
That sounds exactly like a DNS problem.
I've tried in the past using the Google DNS to get around the silly "Government are playing whack a mole on banning sites" (torrent sites). But ISPs in the UK let you think you are connecting to that DNS even though you aren't. I am sure this is some network trickery they are pulling.
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iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination isp.dns.svr.addr:53
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@sweaty_gammon said in The Official Status Thread:
I've tried in the past using the Google DNS to get around the silly "Government are playing whack a mole on banning sites" (torrent sites). But ISPs in the UK let you think you are connecting to that DNS even though you aren't. I am sure this is some network trickery they are pulling.
It's much more likely they're not relying on DNS to block websites, so that the block isn't trivial to circumvent.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Anybody got a line on the current Tamagotchi source code? Am wanting to dive in to see if I can tell my daughter when this thing'll chill out a bit.
Try opening the little door on the back and taking the battery out.