The Official Status Thread
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Upgrade the Hyper-V host cluster, I said. Microsoft supports rolling cluster upgrades and it'll be straightforward, I said. Trying to auto-drain the 2nd "to be upgraded" node without manually moving the cluster ownership to the node I upgraded yesterday... not so good an idea.
Status: There... may have been some operator error involved in this morning's failure. Drivers, how do they work?
Yup, definitely an ID-100-T error. Kind of stupid oversight, between the wrong storage driver and then flubbing up the NIC settings and not realizing the "warning" thrown by Failover Cluster Validation was actually a "this isn't going to work, stupid" error.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation to confirm it's not going to be a problem, but I should probably get on that at some point this month...
Yeah, I did the estimate before the deadline, but filed an extension rather than the return, because I didn't want to try to get a last minute appointment with $taxCompany when I didn't really need to. Unless I screwed up rather badly, I should be getting money back, at least from the feds. I didn't do any calculations for the state, but hopefully it isn't too different; as long as the definition of "head of household" is the same, I should be ok.
One thing I learned from calculating the estimate, the tax reform didn't make filing any easier. If anything, there's even more copying numbers from one form to another. You may not need to file all those forms, but you still need to fill them out to figure out whether you need to file them.
And the free online filing site the IRS links to doesn't help all that much. It has all the forms and instructions, but I only found one place it transferred a number between forms (and the SPA structure doesn't let you look at more than one form at a time, and copy/paste doesn't work, so you have to remember the number you want when switching forms), and its "basic arithmetic" is somewhat lacking. Some lines (subtract line 8 from line 7; if less than zero, enter 0) are calculated and you can't enter a number yourself. Others, where you'd like it to do the calculation (65% of line 10, or add lines 11 through 18), nope; use a calculator yourself.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Riding a motorcycle inside a sphere is perfectly safe as long as you don't stop in the wrong place.
I think the main risk is colliding with the other motorcycles.
The main risk is probably the carnies. The sphere could be on fire and the main risk would still be the carnies.
I don't get it, Google said me "carnie" is anyone that works in a circus
Carnivals, not circuses. In popular culture, at least, they have the stereotype of being, at best, a bit shady and disreputable. The midway games are portrayed as rigged and the workers who operate them as con men, letting you win just enough to keep playing, but never enough to recoup what you spent to play. Sometimes they are portrayed as engaging in even more nefarious goings-on behind the scenes of the carnival.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, I did the estimate before the deadline, but filed an extension rather than the return, because I didn't want to try to get a last minute appointment with $taxCompany when I didn't really need to. Unless I screwed up rather badly, I should be getting money back, at least from the feds. I didn't do any calculations for the state, but hopefully it isn't too different; as long as the definition of "head of household" is the same, I should be ok.
Yeah, I just finished the actual numbers and I'm indeed getting a refund so I have like three years to file. I'm not gonna lie, even if I had dependents I'd probably claim the minimum allowances on my W-4 just so I would be guaranteed a refund and would have more time to file. My entire financial life is centered upon giving me the maximum time possible to make any given decision.
And the free online filing site the IRS links to doesn't help all that much. It has all the forms and instructions, but I only found one place it transferred a number between forms (and the SPA structure doesn't let you look at more than one form at a time, and copy/paste doesn't work, so you have to remember the number you want when switching forms), and its "basic arithmetic" is somewhat lacking. Some lines (subtract line 8 from line 7; if less than zero, enter 0) are calculated and you can't enter a number yourself. Others, where you'd like it to do the calculation (65% of line 10, or add lines 11 through 18), nope; use a calculator yourself.
I've used that before. And then I got audited because I copied the wrong number from federal to state, so... I'll stick with the tax filing software I get on discount through my bank. :)
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Update: I've installed emulators on the PS Classic and ordered a USB stick to use with it
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@Tsaukpaetra Well, that were some really short 6 days.
Status: Got the beer, got the meat, let the BBQ season begin.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Speaking of classic mini consoles, I just picked up one of these piece of shits for cheap:
But why? The device you're posting from is capable of playing more games with smoother framerate and higher resolution than that... thing.
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@Gąska
Not so long ago I stumbled upon ePSXe folder on my backup drive and it... went downhill from there.
Spanning several days, I think, I had my own glitchfest of playing (with) lots of pixelated and in many other ways crap at 1440p, so I sort I understand the excitement. In a DF sort of way.An actual PSOne off the eBay would have been a better deal. I remember reading a review on the internets that this thing is so underpowered, the emulators can't even deliver the same framerate as the real deal. But who knows, these days they have things like updates :>
I'm obliged to add that modern consoles are utter shite, of course.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Not so long ago I stumbled upon ePSXe folder on my backup drive and it... went downhill from there.
Spanning several days, I think, I had my own glitchfest of playing (with) lots of pixelated and in many other ways crap at 1440p, so I sort I understand the excitement. In a DF sort of way.Yeah, it takes a while to setup the emulator right. And it doesn't help that ePSXe 2.0 line has introduced some updates that make emulation 10x slower. It's better to stick with 1.9.25, but you won't find this information anywhere.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
An actual PSOne off the eBay would have been a better deal.
Well, there's a very high chance it's already dead or soon to be dead. PSX was known for mechanical failures of the drive. Also, you're going to spend shitloads of money on memory cards.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
And it doesn't help that ePSXe 2.0 line has introduced some updates that make emulation 10x slower. It's better to stick with 1.9.25
Goddammit! Why do I find about this only NOW!?
I was having lengthy rants (sprinkled with the most creative мат I could think of) about the entire industry of turds (IT), and almost denounced the modern lifestyle to instead live as a hermit in a tree hole (assuming there's running water).
but you won't find this information anywhere.
I see.
Well, there's a very high chance it's already dead or soon to be dead. PSX was known for mechanical failures of the drive. Also, you're going to spend shitloads of money on memory cards.
It's still a better deal
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
let the BBQ season begin.
BBQ season is all year long, even in
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@TimeBandit
How does one BBQ food that's still in one's freezer?
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@izzion The BBQ is in the giant freezer
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
let the BBQ season begin.
BBQ season is all year long, even in
But I meant outside the igloo.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got the beer, got the meat, let the BBQ season begin.
Just got told you’re not supposed to eat meat on Good Friday.
Oh well, I’m going to hell anyway, so bring it on.
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Status: finally puzzled out the penultimate puzzle on the penultimate planet of Spacechem. The defence after that was a little too manual, but sorted out. In summary, ugh.
On to the final level now! It looked overwhelming but it's actually fairly generous and I don't think the reactions will be too hard, but it's too late to do tonight.
Then I'll just have to finish the last challenge level and buy the DLC to get full achievement completion!
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Status: 08:00 I have finished essentially everything I need to do at work today (except attending a meeting this afternoon), at home, before breakfast. I have launched a bunch of jobs that will finish around 22:00 tonight, and a few others that may (or may not) finish by Monday morning.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Speaking of classic mini consoles, I just picked up one of these piece of shits for cheap:
But why? The device you're posting from is capable of playing more games with smoother framerate and higher resolution than that... thing.
That's true, and I also have several other devices that can play the same games and more. But they were having a huge sale on these things and I like tinkering around with devices.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
An actual PSOne off the eBay would have been a better deal.
Maybe. I think I've got a working PS somewhere, either at my parents house and/or in a box along with one or two broken ones, and a slim PS2 as well.
I remember reading a review on the internets that this thing is so underpowered, the emulators can't even deliver the same framerate as the real deal. But who knows, these days they have things like updates :>
I haven't tried very many games yet but so far it's been good. NES, SNES and Genesis games run perfect, as does Symphony of the Night. Once the bigger USB stick arrives I'll see what else I can put there.
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, there's a very high chance it's already dead or soon to be dead. PSX was known for mechanical failures of the drive.
I've had a few PSXes and out of those, the only one whose drive failed (at least last time I looked at any of them) was the first generation one with some plastic part that wore out, which was replaced with metal on later models. And even then it would still work if the console was stood upright or upside-down.
Also, you're going to spend shitloads of money on memory cards.
That's what a modded PS2 where you can move the stuff to USB is for
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, there's a very high chance it's already dead or soon to be dead. PSX was known for mechanical failures of the drive. Also, you're going to spend shitloads of money on memory cards.
That's true for early models. But the PSone was released much later, after this flaw had been fixed.
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Status: Good fucking lord, how hard is it to make a cable that actually charges the fucking phone when I plug it in, Apple?!
Plug in, bzzt bzzt "charging", bzzt bzzt, stops charging. Unplug. Repeat 6000 times until it keeps charging.
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@topspin
That's why you don't buy gas station "Apple" charging cords and just buy a new iPhone with an official charging cable every time you lose it
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@izzion Well, it is an official cable, and even though those cost 20 times as much, they still don't last.
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Status: This server upgrade project is trying to undo all the weight loss gains I've made this year
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Good fucking lord, how hard is it to make a cable that actually charges the fucking phone when I plug it in, Apple?!
Plug in, bzzt bzzt "charging", bzzt bzzt, stops charging. Unplug. Repeat 6000 times until it keeps charging.
Just be thankful the port didn't change while you weren't looking.
Why Every New Macbook Needs A Different Goddamn Charger – 02:17
— Dropout
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, there's a very high chance it's already dead or soon to be dead. PSX was known for mechanical failures of the drive. Also, you're going to spend shitloads of money on memory cards.
That's true for early models. But the PSone was released much later, after this flaw had been fixed.
But do you think it lasted over 15 years? None of my PC drives lasted that long.
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I've been involved in retrogaming events for more than ten years, and people bring old PS1s (and countless other retro game consoles) that still work fine. Of course, it depends on how much use they got, but the failure rate for later models isn't that high AFAIK. On the other hand, early models are a time bomb.
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status:
https://i.imgur.com/I8sNU85.jpg
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Status: Bored. More than two hours left at work, with nothing to do, and ran out of unread topics a long time ago.
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Status: I have no voice, because I've been yelling.
I just spent 12 hours at work. The last 3 were running a D&D game as part of a charity gaming event. 6 new players, in a very very very noisy room. Voice is shot.
It was a good event though. Student run, student initiated. They raised over $5k for a local children's hospital. All sorts of games--card games, 2 tables of D&D, Smash on the big projector, VR games, old-school games, board games, everything.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
On to the final level now!
Status: taken care of. I liked the part where I defeated the final boss and then, while the level was ending and I couldn't do anything, it decided to fire a laser anyway.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
requires that you say what DLL each function comes from.
I know nearly nothing about making DLLs, but cannot you put the library that the program provides inside another DLL?
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@marczellm You can, and I know of programs that work exactly like that. There's only one thing that absolutely has to be in the actual executable for a program, and that's the main entry point for the program (and details about what shared libraries to load). That can then delegate into a DLL for the actual main code of the application.
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I just completed Syberia, a point and click game from 2002 (so this is spoilers for that game, but I doubt anyone will care).
You're a lawyer from New York, riding a train from France that goes to some place in Siberia, to find a person who disappeared there. Your train stops somewhere in Russia, in a (seemingly) abandoned soviet industrial mining complex. A strange man steals a thing from your train, meaning you can't continue.
Talking to this man, you discover he's living alone, obsessed with a random opera singer he saw once, several decades ago. She was last seen in public 15 years ago, claiming she was retiring because she was ill. He says he'll only give your thing back if you can bring that opera star back to his industrial mining complex for a performance.
It's clear he's quite insane and you can't spend months tracking down a forgotten opera star who is probably dead by now. What's your next action?- Distract him and steal your thing back
- Find or make something you can trade him for your thing
- Trick him with a costume and an old recording or something
Well, apparently the reasonable action according to the game is to call your mother, who coincidentally just started dating someone who happens to have dated her in the past, so he knows where she retired to, which coincidentally happens to be really close to the industrial mining complex you happen to be in, which coincidentally happens to have an airship that's programmed to take you there and back. Then go there and convince her to fly back and sing for the first time in years because a random obsessed fan wants her to.
But wait, here comes the best part. After all this ridiculously convoluted plot, there's a shocking turn of events where the crazy man goes crazy and locks her up in a cage, presumably so he can keep her there for the rest of her life. What kind of long intricate adventure will you have to go through now to rescue her?
Spoiler
You use a pair of pliers to break the lock and let her out.This has to have been intentional humour by the developers.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I just completed Syberia
That would be Syberia II, I think. The first one may have helped to understand the plot better (for those actually paying attention anyway). It's certainly strange, but I can't find anything convoluted or shocking there. That and the comical art style makes it pretty much a modern fairy tale, suitable for almost all ages.
Now, the puzzles, as point-and-clickers used to have, do border on game logic and no trace of logic whatsoever. I might add that the long awaited Syberia 3 was a bit of a let down, what with going a bit Lara Croftey, but all in all I'd easily say the series is one of "they don't make 'em like that anymore".Obviously that means you're dumb and I'm the renowned curator of fine arts and exquisite artful imagery
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I just completed Syberia
That would be Syberia II, I think.
I played 2 but not 1. I don't remember any breaking of locks with pliers. So pretty sure @anonymous234 is talking about 1.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't remember
Right. It's the first one then. I haven't played them since I had the bootlegged CD-Rs of those.
On Steam I just checked if they're even working these days. I have them in Google Play, but only for sentimental value, because they do not work - music is playing, but the screen remains black. And the Onslow's method doesn't help either. Good jerb, fucktards.
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Status: Doing some work at my old work today. Trying to fix their Android tablet, which is refusing to connect to the wifi. Worked fine before, randomly stopped working. No longer sees the 5GHz network, stuck on "Obtaining IP address" for the 2.4GHz network. Connects to my phone just fine if I make a hotspot of it. Searching for the issue gives loads of people with similar issues where the solution that works the best is "Recycle the tablet and get a different one." Fuck this cheap Lenovo crap.
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@marczellm said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
the Onslow's method
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Sorry. I forget that not everyone has had the opportunity to enjoy the fine TV programmes I have in my time :>
Keeping Up Appearances: Onslow & Daisy whacking the TV set – 00:43
— Dr. Octor
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@Applied-Mediocrity back in the day we had a TV that needed that treatment. We got good at hitting it in just the right spot for the picture to come on.
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@Benjamin-Hall I had a PC monitor that required it. Not for the picture to come on, but when switched to text mode or low resolution (so I could play Worms from DOS mode) it gave off an annoying high-pitched tone. An appropriate slap on the right-hand side stopped it.
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I bet Microsoft would have had a better time pushing Edge if they had made Google its default search engine. Bing is just bad.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I had a PC monitor that required it. Not for the picture to come on, but when switched to text mode or low resolution (so I could play Worms from DOS mode) it gave off an annoying high-pitched tone. An appropriate slap on the right-hand side stopped it.
It's also known as "percussive maintenance" if you want to sound fancy. (Note how the article says it also applies to persons, not just objects).
And I've seen it recommended (using a rubber mallet) as a fix for stuck heads on old hard drives in a serious computer repair book.
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I used percussive maintenance a lot to make my PSX read scratched disks. Years later, I found out why it worked: PSX had builtin shock sensor that when triggered, it would restart boot procedure without resetting.
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Yeah, it can be effective. If only we were allowed to use it on dumb people...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, it can be effective. If only we were allowed to use it on dumb people...
In my case, it was probably something someting capacitors something something techno mumbo jumbo. But to this day I'm only a software person, and teenage me quite certainly wouldn't want to mess around with CRT electronics even if I had a clue. These fuckers are high voltage even when off.
Percussion worked fine, though.
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Status: feeling pretty good after finally getting on antidepressants and a BiPAP machine for my severe obstructive sleep apnea.
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Status: installed the XKCD substitutions extension. Suddenly the forums perform like ass. I blame NodeBB.
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Status: Hey, maybe I don't completely suck at system administration. Got through the other two node upgrades without excitement.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: installed the XKCD substitutions extension. Suddenly the forums perform like ass. I blame NodeBB.
NodeBB is the new Windows.
