The Official Status Thread
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My girlfriend just cancelled our plans to have sex all weekend, because I have a light persistent cough that might be COVID-19.
So that sucks on multiple levels.
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Status: Let's see if that fixed my latency-spike issues...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
spike issues...
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status Got the new system running, OS updated (not to 2004 yet, not offered). Installed Office 2010 (hey, I got a license, it works, I don't need to buy another!). Now I have over 2 pages of updates being installed.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Installed Office 2010 (hey, I got a license, it works, I don't need to buy another!)
It's even still supported for 3-4 months!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Installed Office 2010 (hey, I got a license, it works, I don't need to buy another!)
It's even still supported for 3-4 months!
I think I still have Office 2003 on one machine... (I do have Access 2007 on one)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Installed Office 2010 (hey, I got a license, it works, I don't need to buy another!)
It's even still supported for 3-4 months!
I think I still have Office 2003 on one machine... (I do have Access 2007 on one)
Office XP here! But lately it's been having trouble opening
Normal.dot
and crashing...
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Is there anything that's not broken on your machine?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there anything that's not broken on your machine?
He's hosting @error_bot
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there anything that's not broken on your machine?
He's hosting @error_bot
That's on the server, not my personal PC, so it's Different™.
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@error_bot 8ball Are you still broken?
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8ball Are you still broken?: Unexpected parameter:
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Status: I really should stop obsessing over these tiny details when playing video games. Yes, French Revolution to World Fair of 1900 was a little more than three generations as this young lady claims, and yes, the World Fair of 1900 wasn't even in London. Now, stop it, brain, and enjoy the game goddammit!
Edit: And why is this noble kid so obsessed with reminding everyone they have Bohemian royal blood? Why don't they say Austro-Hungarian? In 1900? Argh, I know too much history for my own good.
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@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
8ball Are you still broken?: Unexpected parameter:
Is that a yes or a no?
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Status: So, I went out skating for the second time and this time I decided to live dangerously and switch to a full rocker setup.
I originally wasn't gonna do that until I learned to skate on a flat setup, 'coz the rocker's more wobbly (only two wheels making contact with the ground), but then I saw a video about transitioning from ice skating to inline and they suggested setting a rocker as the first thing to do. By Jove, they were right! Last week I felt like I was skating on rails. Today, I can suddenly turn and carve and all that good stuff. Life is good!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
8ball Are you still broken?: Unexpected parameter:
Is that a yes or a no?
It's clearly File Not Found.
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Status: When I recently painted the walls/ceiling at mom's place ("you can't take your vacation flight because of the 'Rona, so you have time anyway") I messed with the ceiling lamp while trying to remove everything possible that shouldn't be painted, and it stopped working. After disassembling it turned out the cables got loose in the screw terminal, which was easy enough to fix.
So today I figured that the ceiling lamp in my own living room only has 2 of the 4 light bulbs working (there is no power on the sockets (I think I mentioned before how I fucked everything up measuring that), it's not the bulbs that are broken) and maybe it's the same problem. Might as well try that!I opened the case to have a look at it, but it looks just fine to me, can't see a problem.
There's still power at the screw terminal and all cables for the 4 sockets are connected together, so there's no way only two of them were loose. On the other hand, I took the right arm of the lamp apart and there's just the two black cables (which each wrap the phase and neutral cable for one socket) running down there independently with no indication of anything being broken. And if there was a broken cable in there, why would both of them in the right arm of the lamp happen to be broken at once?
I couldn't actually unscrew the frame of the bulb holder the cables run into (some security screw you can only tighten but not loosen), but it really doesn't look like there'd be anything broken in there.
So I guess I give up.
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@topspin Let me see if I understand what I'm seeing correctly: you've got four leads (black) for four bulbs on two arms. The four live wires are crimped together, as are the four neutral ones and the crimps plug into the terminal. There's clearly power at the terminal, because the left arm works, but neither of of the sockets on the right arm work. Is that right?
Are you able to access the cable ends at the lightbulb sockets? My first instinct would be to test the leads of the right arm (I'd take the lamp down for this purpose, 'coz doing that at ceiling level would be a bitch). It looks like you could clip (or even hold) a probe below the crimp, but I don't know if you have any sort of access at the socket end (technically, you could always strip a bit of the sleeve and then patch it up with electrical tape). If you know that the wires are okay, then either there's something weird going on with the crimps (doesn't seem terribly likely, but stranger things have happened) or the sockets are busted.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
8ball Are you still broken?: Unexpected parameter:
Is that a yes or a no?
Situation Normal: All Fucked Up
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
8ball Are you still broken?: Unexpected parameter:
Is that a yes or a no?
Situation Normal: All Fucked Up
Fucking will continue until the situation improves!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking will continue until the situation improves!
How do you propose to achieve an improvement in this instance?
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@GOG said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking will continue until the situation improves!
How do you propose to achieve an improvement in this instance?
Spawning more @error_bots, clearly!
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@Tsaukpaetra How much of an improvement on the fucking experience per @error_bot spawned? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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@GOG It would have to have diminishing returns. Something like a logarithmic curve.
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@error Hmmm... pass on that one, then.
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@GOG said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin Let me see if I understand what I'm seeing correctly: you've got four leads (black) for four bulbs on two arms. The four live wires are crimped together, as are the four neutral ones and the crimps plug into the terminal. There's clearly power at the terminal, because the left arm works, but neither of of the sockets on the right arm work. Is that right?
Yes, that is correct.
Are you able to access the cable ends at the lightbulb sockets? My first instinct would be to test the leads of the right arm (I'd take the lamp down for this purpose, 'coz doing that at ceiling level would be a bitch).
No. I've removed the right arm from the ceiling to see that there's nothing going on there except the two black cables (leads?) running in there, visually undamaged. From there they run into the bulb holders which I didn't manage to unscrew, so I couldn't check if the cables are still live there. Only at the socket itself I checked that there's no more power.
It looks like you could clip (or even hold) a probe below the crimp, but I don't know if you have any sort of access at the socket end (technically, you could always strip a bit of the sleeve and then patch it up with electrical tape). If you know that the wires are okay, then either there's something weird going on with the crimps (doesn't seem terribly likely, but stranger things have happened) or the sockets are busted.
Not quite sure what that means. The wires look okay along the part that I see, I can't see or access them in the bulb holder / behind the socket. I'd kind of assume that the terminal there is less likely to become loose as it's not "user-servicable" like the central terminal where it's connected to the outlet, but that might be illusionary.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
8ball Are you still broken?: Unexpected parameter:
Is that a yes or a no?
Situation Normal: All Fucked Up
Fucking will continue
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
8ball Are you still broken?: Unexpected parameter:
Is that a yes or a no?
Situation Normal: All Fucked Up
Fucking will continue
I think i adjusted the firewall so we're not as likely to get the coronavirus, we'll see!
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@topspin One thing that did come to my mind just now: if I'm seeing this right, the way the wires are crimped is that you have a double crimp for each set, with the wires from each arm going together into one side of the crimp? If that's the case, it may be that there's something wrong with how the right arm wires are crimped (either live or neutral), which breaks the circuit? If you're willing to undo the crimps, you could test each pair of wires in the socket alone and see if that gets it working. The downside is that you'd have to re-crimp them afterwards (or twist them together, so all four go into each terminal end - which may or may not increase chances of them coming loose at some point in the future; solder might help here).
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@GOG said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin One thing that did come to my mind just now: if I'm seeing this right, the way the wires are crimped is that you have a double crimp for each set, with the wires from each arm going together into one side of the crimp? If that's the case, it may be that there's something wrong with how the right arm wires are crimped (either live or neutral), which breaks the circuit?
I don’t think so, they’re all 4 crimped together. It’s just that with the blue wires you see the “under side” of the crimp so it looks like two separate pieces, with the brown wires you see the “top side”. Both of them are the same, so I doubt there’s a way that at this point not all 4 are correctly connected together.
If you're willing to undo the crimps, you could test each pair of wires in the socket alone and see if that gets it working. The downside is that you'd have to re-crimp them afterwards (or twist them together, so all four go into each terminal end - which may or may not increase chances of them coming loose at some point in the future; solder might help here).
I’d prefer not doing that (I’ve mentioned it often enough but you might not be aware: I’m pretty much a klutz). I’ve read that solder is advised against here, though (even illegal).
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@topspin Yeah, on reflection solder does seem like a bad idea (inb4 Bad Ideas Thread). I don't usually work with these sorts of currents.
If you're not comfortable with it - leave it be. Always the safest.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
8ball Are you still broken?: Unexpected parameter:
Is that a yes or a no?
Situation Normal: All Fucked Up
Fucking will continue
I think i adjusted the firewall so we're not as likely to get the coronavirus, we'll see!
:coronavirus:
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Shipment status: I ordered a few things from Amazon a couple days ago. Amazon broke them up into multiple shipments, supposedly because some of the items would arrive faster, and indeed I had two shipments with two tracking numbers. I just got two email notifications from the courier, showing that both shipments were delivered at the same time by the same driver.
My last Amazon order was like that (4 "separate" shipments) but everything showed up in one box a few days before they said it'd be here.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I’ve read that solder is advised against here, though (even illegal).
I don't know if it's illegal, but soldering things that should be crimped is a Bad Idea™ indeed.
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@topspin You could continuity check the hot and neutral leads to the actual sockets - that would hopefully give you an idea of where things are breaking down..
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin You could continuity check the hot and neutral leads to the actual sockets - that would hopefully give you an idea of where things are breaking down..
What does that mean? How do I check along the insulated wire?
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@topspin Check the exposed end of the terminal to the corresponding end on the actual socket. Obviously, at least one of them is likely not connected, but it'll narrow down which one (and if they're all connected, that's a sign that maybe things are not as they seem)
I even drew up a remarkably shitty drawing to illustrate
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@sloosecannon as I said, there’s power at the terminal, there’s no power at the socket, I don’t know where it “stops working” in between. Maybe I didn’t understand you.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon as I said, there’s power at the terminal, there’s no power at the socket, I don’t know where it “stops working” in between. Maybe I didn’t understand you.
Rather than checking for voltage between + and - in the socket, test for resistance between + in the socket and + at the terminal, and between - in the socket and - at the terminal.
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...just don't forget to turn off your breaker BEFORE checking the resistance.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon as I said, there’s power at the terminal, there’s no power at the socket, I don’t know where it “stops working” in between. Maybe I didn’t understand you.
Rather than checking for voltage between + and - in the socket, test for resistance between + in the socket and + at the terminal, and between - in the socket and - at the terminal.
I don’t have the tools for that.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon as I said, there’s power at the terminal, there’s no power at the socket, I don’t know where it “stops working” in between. Maybe I didn’t understand you.
Rather than checking for voltage between + and - in the socket, test for resistance between + in the socket and + at the terminal, and between - in the socket and - at the terminal.
I don’t have the tools for that.
Got a Harbor Freight nearby?
https://shop.harborfreight.com/storelocator/location/map
A cheapo multimeter (in the range of a cuppa) will be enough for this purpose.
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Sure, Grubhub. $17 markup on a $22 order seems reasonable.
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Status: elevated temperature but not fever, chest hurts when I a take deep breath (feels like it's my ribs not my lungs?)
maybe I do have COVID-19
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Odometer status
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status: Pat Pat.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: elevated temperature but not fever, chest hurts when I a take deep breath (feels like it's my ribs not my lungs?)
maybe I do have COVID-19
going to the er
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: elevated temperature but not fever, chest hurts when I a take deep breath (feels like it's my ribs not my lungs?)
maybe I do have COVID-19
going to the er