The Official Status Thread
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Status: somehow I feel worse than I did yesterday, so my sickness is progressing backwards.
EDIT: also I got called up for jury duty next week, so that'll be fun.
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Status: Downloaded Starmade. It's some kind of Minecraft with planets or something. The game decided to install in my Downloads directory. That's a great start.
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Status: finally got pissed-off enough at Steam's constant errors/not-working on startup that I'm reinstalling it.
Which means I'm also reinstalling about 30 games. Which means this entire day and most of next will be spend downloading. Oh well.
Things that make me nervous: installers that spin-up my D: drive (which I can hear, you tricky installers, you can't get that one past me!) when they have absolutely no need to touch any files on the D: drive.
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Starmade is a great example of "Programmers shouldn't design UIs." Once I got it installed (getting it installed in a reasonable location was a chore, also the game somehow doesn't work if you install it into Program Files
) it failed to launch because port 4242 was in use...okay? I'm in single player....? Why do I care what port it's on?Had to manually choose a random port to get it started. It launches, goes into the tutorial, tells me it'll start by teaching me how to move....then proceeds to instead tell me about health, and planned future features, and focusing on items, and a whole bunch of rather boring things. So I skipped the tutorial and now I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.
Closed the game and going back to Civ:BE instead.
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That reminds me, whatever game I reviewed by "psychotic psoftware" (Power-Up maybe?) installed a folder on the root of my C: drive. That's a definite no-no guyz.
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I don't understand why so much software has difficulty with this. Even Python and Perl still install to new folders in the C: root.
Haven't we had decent free installer stuff for like decades now? We use InnoSetup at work. It's simple, it works, and it's not a WTF.
The Starmade guys...just wow...if you want to see a bad hand-rolled installer, that one takes the cake. It's like OMGWTF contest material.
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I don't understand why so much software has difficulty with this.
Shitty software that wants paths without spaces in, and which doesn't trust Windows to do provide that for them (with some justification). That the software chokes on spaces in the pathnames is just inexcusable, and has been for decades now, but crappy developers are crappy…
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I don't understand why so much software has difficulty with this. Even Python and Perl still install to new folders in the C: root.
I never used Perl, but I've hit that in Python and also MongoDB.
The really annoying part is that if you install them in Program Files, where they fucking belong, they work FINE!!!!! (In fact, MongoDB works better as you can set it up as a service with fewer WTFs. Why it doesn't just fucking install a service in the first fucking place! is left as an exercise to the shitty developers who produce this shit.)
So they install to the wrong location for literally no reason. Except some snotty open source asshole was like, "well Microsoft says to do it this way, but fuck The Man!"
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also I got called up for jury duty next week
Got relatives out of state? "Sorry, I can't show up, I'm in Alabama and I don't know when I'll be back."
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I like jury duty, fuck you.
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Here's hoping you get something interesting and not one of those unholy tax law cases where even the lawyers can't stay awake.
PS - Status: I've just found a wonderful vein of WTF - Classic VB project configured to use an ancient (and very much WTF'y in its own right) machine vision library that connects to a .NET 1.1 era COM library designed to use Remoting to pass in images... Cthulhu eat me now.
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Status: This was the first free Saturday I've had in at least two months, and I don't know what to do with myself. Probably going to make a short grocery store run and get a bottle of Pine-Sol to strip the paint off my BattleTech minis and prepare my own paint job. Three of them are flat white, the fourth I already painted and didn't care for how it turned out.
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Basically anything can go with shitty vodka
When in the no mixer predicament for vodka I have used:
- chocolate ice cream. This worked quite well.
- the vinegar from a jar of pickled onions (we were in a caravan with literally* nothing else). Did not work well.
Filed under: [Yes, literally][1]
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Status: Looking at my queue and wondering where to start
<spoiler>Obviously, by going for coffee </spoiler>
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Status: felt better today, but now it's 4:30 PM and I feel awful. Not like sneezing like crazy or anything but completely energyless.
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As a side note: what gets called top shelf in the US isn't a good idea anyway as people here seem to think that vodka is supposed to be flavorless (or worse yet needs flavoring added to it).
Vodka is, by definition, odorless, tasteless and colorless. "Flavored" vodka is an oxymoron. Vodka is basically watered down moonshine and should be completely flavor neutral.
Current status: Drinking a vodka and tonic after spending the day cleaning the garage. I am so worn out and tired that on the first one I sat down, took a sip and knew something was wrong. I had forgotten to squeeze in the wedge of lime that was sitting on the cutting board waiting for me.
Also, pondering the difficulty in getting an accurate "time to completion" for a file transfer. The backup software that we built, I thought we had went about calculating a time in a sane way, but I just checked in and one of the clients is reporting something like 972 days before it will finish. I know it will be done before I wake up tomorrow though. That might be more difficult than working with DST. ;)
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Status: Trying to debug a SQL stored proc that calls a metric fuckton of other procs, including async stuff, and doesn't reliably fail on any one call. It also fails in different ways, or decides to succeed, when I copy the SQL out of the tool that's running it and do it in management studio instead.
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Status: Week two into the "entire company infrastructure on a 15/1.5 Mbs internet". Started a deploy to 2 servers at once. I can already hear the screams of frustrated remote workers and "WHO'S HOGGING THE INTERNET" from the other office.
I feed on their angst.
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FUCK!
That is all.
Ok, I'll give you this: two (unrelated) systems developed two different (unrelated) problems. No trivial solutions. Phone ringing constantly due to both of them. Can't get any programming work done due to this shit. Can't fix this shit because phones are constantly ringing. Urge to kill rising.
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Ok, I'll give you this: two (unrelated) systems developed two different (unrelated) problems. No trivial solutions. Phone ringing constantly due to both of them. Can't get any programming work done due to this shit. Can't fix this shit because phones are constantly ringing. Urge to kill rising.
Solution: Introduce a third problem, to the phone system.
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Solution: Introduce a third problem, to the phone system.
One of them IS a phone system. Fucking people have mobile phones.
And no, killing our own phone system is not an option.
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Thatsss a nice phone you have there ...
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That's what I was going for.
- They have my mobile number
- Failing that, they have my boss' mobile number
- My boss would not appreciate killing our PBX. Especially since he's constantly on the phone, even more so now since he's TRYING to slow the torrent of calls down at least partially.
Aaand the server booted, hopefully that did SOMETHING, away to test things.
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Thatsss a nice phone you have there ...
[default] exten => _,1,Explode() exten => _,2,Hangup()
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Hmm... Does that work? I'm pretty sure that it should be at least
_.as what you wrote would be interpreted as an empty regex.
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Does that work?
It’s been a long time since I last messed up with Asterisk conf files, so it’s probably wrong.
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Status: So I screwed up my linux at work by messing around with pinning repositories of sid/unstable and trying to update just select packages to newer versions. This morning the linux was restarted and a bunch of stuff didn't work anymore.
Fuck it, I was cranky, and knew I'd probably end up reverting to an earlier version anyway. So I just started randomly commenting various software sources and pins under
/etc/aptand running stuff likeapt-get install --autoremoveandapt-get install -f... I might as well look busy, while perusing TDWTF, right?Five minutes later, looks like I fixed it. Everything works.
Yay me?
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Status: waking up after the weirdest dream ever.
Addendum status: do you think TDWTF needs a public dream log? i think there would be some humdingers in there if the general population of TDWTF participates....
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Addendum status: do you think TDWTF needs a public dream log? i think there would be some humdingers in there if the general population of TDWTF participates....
Err... no? Who wants to listen to dream descriptions? That's like the boringest shit ever.
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not sure if serious or hiding something...
;-)
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Can't you just abuse /t/1000/ for that?
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can, sure. but should i?
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So... great. Debian server got infected by something. Assuming DDOS / spamming botnet. Located 2 files and startup scripts that do the actual damage / regenerate the files if deleted. Deleting that is not enough, something else is still regenerating files on reboot. Starting in
singlemode stops it from starting at least.Suggestions welcome, I really don't want to rebuild this damned thing.
Edit: Will attempt ClamAV, just need to isolate this thing first.
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So is that what /t/1000 is these days? Dream logs, tarot card seances, "I feel like color..." updates...?
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So... great. Debian server got infected by something. Assuming DDOS / spamming botnet. Located 2 files and startup scripts that do the actual damage / regenerate the files if deleted. Deleting that is not enough, something else is still regenerating files on reboot. Starting in single mode stops it from starting at least.
Suggestions welcome, I really don't want to rebuild this damned thing.
Edit: Will attempt ClamAV, just need to isolate this thing first.
Just rebuild the server. It'll be faster in the long run.
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Mostly funny things @Luhmann finds in Yammer, atm.
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So is that what /t/1000 is these days? Dream logs, tarot card seances, "I feel like color..." updates...?
Don't forget the topic title changes ... that title can't stay too long the same ...
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Just rebuild the server. It'll be faster in the long run.
Yay... If the damned thing didn't multitask as much as it does, I'd do that already. The fun bit is I didn't configure all of the stuff myself, so grabbing all the relevant config files will be a gamble.
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@Intercourse said:
Current status: Drinking a vodka and tonic after spending the day cleaning the garage. I am so worn out and tired that on the first one I sat down, took a sip and knew something was wrong. I had forgotten to squeeze in the wedge of lime that was sitting on the cutting board waiting for me.
Better than leaving the salt out of a batch of bread, as at least you can fix it by adding the lime in when you realize you forgot it.
Filed under: saltless baker's blob
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Mostly funny things @Luhmann finds in Yammer, atm.
In retrospective I should have started a separate thread about that ... It is one funny social media.
Although I see a desperate lack of cat pictures in our present environment. Maybe I can be the bringer of change ...
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Yay... If the damned thing didn't multitask as much as it does, I'd do that already. The fun bit is I didn't configure all of the stuff myself, so grabbing all the relevant config files will be a gamble.
Ugh. All my installs are scripted to hell, so I can just throw away everything and start from scratch.
I have no idea where I'd even start trying to clean this thing manually. However clever you are, whatever trick you think of, the hacker has probably heard of it and has a counter in place. Unless you're a white hat and are into this shit, the only solution I see is find some kind of virus/botnet cleaner. Or copy over configs and reinstall.
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Although I see a desperate lack of cat pictures in our present environment.
If I can note the name of my significant other and children then why is there no field for the names of my pets?
Surely this is a lack in Yammers profile page ...
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Ugh. All my installs are scripted to hell, so I can just throw away everything and start from scratch.
Usually, mine are as well. But this particular one, of course, is a patchwork job that also serves as a DNS server, DHCP server, and fuck knows what else. So while I can restore the things I did in under an hour, anything else is... yeah...
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Here's hoping it's not something obscure and clamAV manages to find it... Time for a smoke break.
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Here's hoping it's not something obscure and clamAV manages to find it... Time for a smoke break.
You can also try
rkhunterand/orchkrootkit. Not sure if they work in single user mode, though.
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I don't dream.
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My suggestion is to find 10 users who switched to Linux because "fewer viruses" and clock them in the head.
Then you can burn the server or whatever. Eat it, maybe.
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I don't dream.
given what my subconsciousness has had in store for me lately i can only say:
Lucky bastard.
