The Official Status Thread
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@hungrier
Or stop emulating games IRL. We already established that eating the mushrooms doesn't make you bigger.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier
Or stop emulating games IRL. We already established that eating the mushrooms doesn't make you bigger.Incorrect. Fly agaric makes you as big as God.
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status: I think they lost my truck on the dealer service lot somewhere. It's been half an hour and they can't seem to retrieve it.
Granted, dark grey is their more common color, but I'm almost positive it's the only manual-transmission Tacoma in the place!
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@Tsaukpaetra If only it had some kind of remotely activated mechanism that could get it to make some noise and flash its lights.
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Making this week's batch of cookies. This has pretty much turned into a weekly thing since I got the stand mixer as a Christmas present.
Must always have cookies.
Cooooooookiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss
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@e4tmyl33t I should do that, too. It would be much more productive than reading the .
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra If only it had some kind of remotely activated mechanism that could get it to make some noise and flash its lights.
It does, but the remote is broke.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
as a Christmas present.
Strangely enough, despite that I got a Soda Stream for Christmas a while ago, I've got been the primary user.
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Status: the fuck? Who put 32-bit Windows on this thing?
Only 4 gigs too.... Wonder if I should just suggest swapping it with one of the other improperly-overpowered machines in this office...
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@Tsaukpaetra Wouldn't it always be 4 gigs? Since it's 32-bit?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Wouldn't it always be 4 gigs? Since it's 32-bit?
Well it's less, because 32 bit. But still, why did they choose 32 bit? Just because it has only 4gb of RAM? That would be incredibly stupid of HP...
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In any case, took four hours to create a system image. The C: drive holds perhaps 370GB of data. And I was transferring it to another hard drive attached directly to the SATA controller.
Turns out it's a SATA II interface, because that's how old this thing is...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Just because it has only 4gb of RAM?
Based on the estimated age of that machine... Yeah, pretty much. The general wisdom was 32 on anything 4 or lower case the system overhead wasn't worth it.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
the system overhead wasn't worth it.
Is it still now?
I don't really feel the want to download 32-bit...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
the system overhead wasn't worth it.
Is it still now?
I don't really feel the want to download 32-bit...
I've always considered it a matter of opinion. If you may upgrade or if it's inconvenient to do 32, I've never noticed a problem with 64 on a 4 gig machine.
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Status: I'm the fucking administrator. Why can't I view other users' Recycle Bins? FUCK!
*2 Runas later*
I'm impersonating this user. WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I VIEW THAT USER'S RECYCLE BIN?!?!?
FUCK!
Edit: Indeed.
Fucking bullshit.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm the fucking administrator. Why can't I view other users' Recycle Bins? FUCK!
*2 Runas later*
I'm impersonating this user. WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I VIEW THAT USER'S RECYCLE BIN?!?!?
FUCK!
Edit: Indeed.
Fucking bullshit.
Because it might contain private information from protected directories, or something? I don't think Windows's Administrator is the same "do literally everything you want and I really mean it" kind that the Linux's root is.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm the fucking administrator. Why can't I view other users' Recycle Bins? FUCK!
*2 Runas later*
I'm impersonating this user. WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I VIEW THAT USER'S RECYCLE BIN?!?!?
FUCK!
Edit: Indeed.
Fucking bullshit.
Because it might contain private information from protected directories, or something? I don't think Windows's Administrator is the same "do literally everything you want and I really mean it" kind that the Linux's root is.
You're correct, but this is the user's own Recycle Bin folder. That has files owned by that user (and, coincidentally, allows Administrators full access, except, not really I guess).
Whatever, I pulled out my fuck-you-and-fuck-your-acls script and obliterated it through the command-line.
All that effort for a few gigs of data.
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Status: Made an owl.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Wouldn't it always be 4 gigs? Since it's 32-bit?
On consumer windows versions, yes. Although later 32-bit windows versions do support PAE (since you get that automatically if you want the no_execute bit), maximum memory is still restricted to 4GB.
Linux (and I think certain windows server versions) are able to use more system memory on 32-bit systems with PAE, although of course the amount of memory per process is still restricted to 4GB.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm the fucking administrator. Why can't I view other users' Recycle Bins? FUCK!
*2 Runas later*
I'm impersonating this user. WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I VIEW THAT USER'S RECYCLE BIN?!?!?
FUCK!
Edit: Indeed.
Fucking bullshit.
You cannot Runas Windows Explorer, because raisins. See the link below, and note the part that says "Windows Explorer’s design does not support the running of multiple process instances in different security contexts in an interactive user session".
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Because it might contain private information from protected directories, or something? I don't think Windows's Administrator is the same "do literally everything you want and I really mean it" kind that the Linux's root is.
It is. An Administrator has the ability to change permissions and/or ownership of files/folders. In fact, if you're an administrator, then clicking a protected user folder that you don't have access to should pop up a message asking you to confirm that you want to get access to it. If you confirm, you'll be added to the access control automatically and you'll permanently have access to the folder and its contents (unless you go back in and remove yourself from the permissions).
In addition to requiring UAC to be active, it requires the location to not be a hidden/system folder, which is probably why it wasn't working for Recycle Bin. The admin should still be able to modify its permissions by hand and set "full control" for administrators, though.
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Status: What kind of a fucking Starbucks opens at NOON?
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@brie
With the catch that, in some cases (mostly related to network storage of roaming profiles), if you change the default permissions of the folder and grant additional users permissions, it will thoroughly break the folder for the original user. Not an issue for that recycle bin that really needs to get nuked, but does cause a problem in other places.
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Status: Opening the same website 20 times by manually typing address to teach my browser a one letter shortcut.
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@Tsaukpaetra That's a lot of files.
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@brie said in The Official Status Thread:
You cannot Runas Windows Explorer, because raisins. See the link below, and note the part that says "Windows Explorer’s design does not support the running of multiple process instances in different security contexts in an interactive user session".
Yeah, and it's a pain in the ass. It's like the main application you might need to run as a different user.
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@brie said in The Official Status Thread:
You cannot Runas Windows Explorer,
Your assumptions are leaking. I wasn't doing this through Explorer, and the other users worked fine, just not this one.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That's a lot of files.
They to back to 2010,and are essentially the equivalent of raw video frame captures.
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@Tsaukpaetra Ah. Well... were you just deleting it? Because you should could do that from Explorer just fine, if you turned on hidden & system files, and used the permissions GUI to take ownership/give yourself control.
If you actually wanted to see what was in it, then I don't know any other way than using Explorer, because the filenames are different and Explorer can read the database that says what they originally were named and where they were.
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@brie said in The Official Status Thread:
Because you should could do that from Explorer just fine, if you turned on hidden & system files, and used the permissions GUI to take ownership/give yourself control.
Hahaha no you can't, otherwise I wouldn't be fucking around with workarounds.
Yes, showing hidden and hidden files (and protected system files) gives you the ability to view the other recycle bins, (all helpfully named Recycle Bin) but that does not mean Explorer treats it like a regular folder.
@brie said in The Official Status Thread:
If you actually wanted to see what was in it, then I don't know any other way than using Explorer, because the filenames are different and Explorer can read the database that says what they originally were named and where they were.
Nope. While it would have been useful (and was working for every other user I was doing this against), that's not what I needed.
There are programs that can read the recycle bin database, but I wasn't terribly interested.
I was just saying WTF my normal method of doing this magically didn't work for this user and so I had to delve deeper into the command-line than normal to fix it.
Wait, are we still talking about Windows?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait, are we still talking about Windows?
No man. Just let it happen.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
so I had to delve deeper into the command-line than normal to fix it.
The progression goes Windows Explorer -> fiddle with permissions window -> command line -> fiddle with permissions via the command line -> direct calls to WinAPI functions -> direct calls to undocumented filesystem driver functions -> booting a Linux distro from USB and manually editing the bytes in the disk
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
booting a Linux distro from USB and manually editing the bytes in the disk
Went there. Failed to boot because the kernel tried to do something impossible from the perspective of the CPU and kernel panicked because
init
got killed. Didn't research it further.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
That would be incredibly stupid of HP...
From the Department of Redundancy Department.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Wouldn't it always be 4 gigs? Since it's 32-bit?
Well it's less, because 32 bit. But still, why did they choose 32 bit? Just because it has only 4gb of RAM? That would be incredibly stupid of HP...
Unfortunately 64-bit does use noticeably more RAM than 32-bit. For low-RAM devices, using 32-bit is very reasonable.
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status Just spent lots of time addressing some issues found with VS2017's static analysis. Changed a lot of naked-
new
s to unique_ptr/make_unique. Moved to Mac. Well, fuck.make_unique
is part of C++14, not 11. Screw it. <ups compiler requirements> (I keep forgetting VS targets C++14 by default now)
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Wouldn't it always be 4 gigs? Since it's 32-bit?
Well it's less, because 32 bit. But still, why did they choose 32 bit? Just because it has only 4gb of RAM? That would be incredibly stupid of HP...
Unfortunately 64-bit does use noticeably more RAM than 32-bit. For low-RAM devices, using 32-bit is very reasonable.
Cos all the pointers are twice as big. 4GB is what I would call memory-constrained...
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Pain. There's a stone moving through my system that decided last night to take a vacation in my urethra, about 2cm from the end. Standing up is (mostly) ok, lying down is a bit painful, but sitting (or transitioning between postures)? Ouch.
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Status: Fuck. Cabbage down the drain. It's going to be a long night...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Pain. There's a stone moving through my system that decided last night to take a vacation in my urethra, about 2cm from the end. Standing up is (mostly) ok, lying down is a bit painful, but sitting (or transitioning between postures)? Ouch.
Stay hydrated and push that sucker out.
I was dealing with a 5mm stone last year which made for an "interesting" month and a half, though the pain only flared up for like two days at a time every two weeks. But when it flared up, it felt like a dagger through the gut.
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Status: Speed dating. Holy fuck, was it loud when there were 30 of us crammed in a small room. After basically screaming for a couple hours, my voice is shot. Most interesting encounter of the night:
So what are your political leanings?
Already bringing out politics, eh?
Of course! Gotta find out if there are any dealbreakers and make sure you aren't a Republican.
Well, I am a lifelong Democrat (her expression changes to one of intense skepticism and scrutiny), but I had to vote for my first Republican this past election. Is that a prob-
Nope. Bye!
Well, nice meeting you.Lots of teachers tonight, and lots of educational professionals as well. I feel like every time I go to one of these, I could tolerate a relationship with maybe a third of the people I meet, and of them, only a couple really stand out. Had a chat with another guy who said, "You seem like the type not to be particularly fussy" about thirty seconds into the conversation. I feel like when people say these things, they're either bullshitting, or have some superhuman power to read signals in ultraviolet/infrared light that we mere mortals lack.
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Status: Cold. Something isn't working right with the furnace; maybe the fan? House is at 55°F if the thermostat is reliable. It's still above 0° outside for now, but Tuesday's low is supposed to be -30°. Someone should be here in the morning to look at it. Will hide under blankets for now.
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@Groaner How do y'all get them in the first place? Is this something that happens because of lifestyle or some people are inclined to get it no matter what?
Reading about kidney stones scare the fuck outta me.
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@Tsaukpaetra Still rolling.
Maybe Windows is getting tired?
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@Tsaukpaetra I want to make an obligatory node_modules joke but fuck it.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
fuck it.
Ah, that must be what's going on. The CT machine is downloading prons! Which somehow affects its ability to upload to the NAS inside the same network....
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@Tsaukpaetra You're welcome?
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@Groaner How do y'all get them in the first place? Is this something that happens because of lifestyle or some people are inclined to get it no matter what?
Reading about kidney stones scare the fuck outta me.
For the most part, it's basic chemistry. If you have a lot of oxalate ions in your diet (e.g. spinach, chard, chocolate, almonds, tea) and just the right conditions, they can precipitate out of solution as masses of calcium oxalate. This can be counterbalanced by citrate ions (which lemons are a much better source of than oranges). Drinking lots of fluids also helps as more liquid = more capacity to dissolve ions. Despite oxalate pairing up with calcium, I've heard extra calcium can also be beneficial.
In my case, I was trying to do more cooking at home and ended up cooking and eating a couple huge batches of chard a couple weeks in a row. This was the only real change to my diet in the last ten years, and once I eliminated chard from my diet it hasn't happened since. Now, I can't prove this theory, but it makes too much sense so I'm going with it. They say that 50% of people who have kidney stones will have more than one in their life, but a few professionals I've talked to say that that number is basically a measure of how many people change their diets in response to this event.
The treatments for large kidney stones can be rather unpleasant, but if you get to that point, you're already pretty miserable. Smaller ones will pass on their own, depending on how big the stone is and how big your "tubes" are.
In terms of what it feels like, imagine that someone stabbed you in the stomach and pushed the knife all the way out your lower back. Now, imagine that sensation but in addition you also feel nauseous.
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@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
In terms of what it feels like, imagine that someone stabbed you in the stomach and pushed the knife all the way out your lower back. Now, imagine that sensation but in addition you also feel nauseous.
Wow holy fuck. I drink about two glasses of water per day. I probably am running on just luck. Need to up the water intake I definitely don't want what you describe happening