The Official Status Thread
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Well at least the game they released is fun and playable, unlike DayZ or Rust.
But they're still pissing me off. I bought this game like a year and a half ago and it hasn't BUDGED, as far as I can tell. Not one tiny bit. That's not what "early access" is supposed to be.
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Oh, it finally connected after like 20 tries. I guess that's what "fully operational" means, it works 5% of the time.
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I briefly tried Starbound a while ago, seemed like it was going to be a fair Terarria clone, but they wiped out my world about every third day due to updates and I got frustrated and haven't tried it since.
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Compiled a list of 23 items for how messed up the new help desk system is.
Compiled a list of items for what it improved. This is currently an empty instance of Notepad.
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You should collect 95 items about the messed-up-ness of the help desk system and nail them to the front door of the company that created it.
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Yeah, that's a large part of why they froze the standard version and moved the fast moving stuff to the unstable build, where people are warned about the wipes.
That said, the game is incredibly unfinished in the standard version. Like 3 bosses, and then the rest of the tiers are just a matter of mining.
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It's a piece of third-party software that looks like it wants to be a Salesforce.com checkout system, customized by a contractor for the company that I work for.
It was pretty much doomed from the start.
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Status: Ok Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is SO MUCH better than Ghosts I'm giving it a pass on having connection problems.
SO MUCH BETTER.
Then again, Ghosts was excrement. But still.
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Current status: pretty sure that I have food poisoning.
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Status: breaking out in hives from who knows what.
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Status: breaking out in hives from who knows what.
Stress hives? Got something that you're hiding?
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Current status: pretty sure that I have food poisoning.
Horrible stomach pain plus listening to comedy equals a bad idea, but I can't stop.
"What would you choose: all booze in the world is replaced with light beer, or do you adopt five children?"
"........do I like booze more than I hate children.....?"
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Pretty sure it's something environmental - been happening since the weekend. Loads of Sudafed and Benadryl are keeping it in check.
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Status: just got off the phone with a customer who's moving our software to a new system.
Update: "we only installed [your two installers] on the server, so it must have messed up the permissions.
Uh, no, there's nothing we have that would do anything like that. You guys bobbled the ACL somehow. If you can right-click on a directory and choose "new" and the only option is "folder", then you've got...I'm guessing "create folders" but not "create files". I think they eventually redid the install as Administrator.
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Their justification is that people complained about bugs when they released their updates frequently.
Snort. The correct reply is "it's still in development!" They only said that a billion times before they opened the beta!
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I briefly tried Starbound a while ago, seemed like it was going to be a fair Terarria clone, but they wiped out my world about every third day due to updates and I got frustrated and haven't tried it since.
They stopped doing that when phase 1 was over. They did say that would happen.
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Status: Today was my Friday: two days off. In spite of that a coworker wanted my cell phone number in case she had problems doing training on her Friday.
I set her ringtone to Pinkie Pie going "twitchy twitch a twitch!"
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Current status: contacting a tattoo artist in Pennsylvania with the same name as me since I keep getting emails intended for him.
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Current status: contacting a tattoo artist in Pennsylvania with the same name as me since I keep getting emails intended for him.
Some bimbo thinks she has my gmail address, the one I've been using for 9 years or so. She signed up for Pinterest. I sent a password change request, and then pounded random keys. Before that she signed me up for some mailing list with her friends, and I put up with that for a couple weeks before asking them to unsubscribe me because I wasn't her.
Then I had months of quiet, but then she ordered something online. I came real close to cancelling her order for her.
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Yeah, I don't take well to that. We all have stories about phone number mixups, right? I got tired of a pizza place the next town over not caring that their customers were always calling me, so I started taking orders. I know I had at least one person call back and complain about not getting their delivery. I don't remember but I may have told them to come in, and the pizza would be free.
The pizza place didn't appreciate that AT ALL and all of a sudden I stopped getting their calls.
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STATUS: So I'm off my greenfield and back in the bowels of my quickly-becoming-legacy main project, updating one of the oldest subsystems.
Representative comment:
//TODO Disgusting
I agree, past me.
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Status: Today was my Friday: two days off.
I clicked like, but I hate you so much now. This week has been hell and I just want it over! Thankfully, it seems to be looking up.
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Status: Waiting ...
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it's so hard! i want it now!
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you're not @algorythmics, but that'll do for innuendo i guess. ;-P
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Baby, by the end of the day I will have been delivered, hiding inside a cake. I will fuck my way out of the cake, and I won't stop until the building and everything in it has been appropriately serviced.
for I am an employee of your local architect/gigolo in a cake service
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that's the algorythmics i was expecting! :-D
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Status: Holy shit this is quite a storm the Seattle area is having. I heard they're considering closing the floating bridges, the guideline for which is 50 MPH wind for 15 minutes. Hope my power holds up, because I got nothing to do today that doesn't rely on electricity.
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That sounds like you need to locate an actual book in case you do lose power.
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Don't worry, my Kindle's right here and it has like 20 days worth of battery in it.
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That works too I guess. Didn't realize that their battery lasts that long, maybe I do need to pick one up.
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The new ones don't, they have that new "paperwhite" screen which admittedly looks nice, but gobbles up battery. (Relatively-speaking. All Kindles are pretty efficient.) I have a "classic" 2nd generation Kindle.
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Do they still sell the ones without the paperwhite screen (hrm, wait they own comixology now and paperwhite would probably be better for comics)?
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I dunno. I pray to God mine never breaks, because I love it.
I also bought it back when they came with free mobile internet FOREVER. FOREVER FREE INTERNET.
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Free Internet on a browser that works about as well as IE 2.0. I make my purchases on a PC instead.
I do love the battery life though. I only have to recharge my Kindle 3 - 4 times a year.
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Do they still sell the ones without the paperwhite screen (hrm, wait they own comixology now and paperwhite would probably be better for comics)?
With the paperwhites, the only real difference is the backlight. Since you can control how bright the backlight is, you can effectively control the life of the battery. I generally keep my paperwhite at about a 6 (out of 25, I think), because in bright rooms I don't need the backlight, and in dark rooms that's plenty bright. That usually lasts me about two weeks between charges.
You can also extend battery life by turning off WiFi and data (if you get a model with data).
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I only have to recharge my Kindle 3 - 4 times a year.
In other words, you don't read a whole lot. At least not on your Kindle.
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In other words, you don't read a whole lot. At least not on your Kindle.
Unfortunately true. I'll read extensively for a few days in a row and then not again for 3 months.
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Status: and the storm cleared up pretty much instantly, and now it's blue skies. Weird.
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MOST ONLINE SERVICES ARE OPERATIONAL, BUT ONE OR MORE SERVICES MAY BE DEGRADED OR OFFLINE.
You must have caught them on the leading edge of service failures, because that is what it is saying now. Maybe that "one or more services" notification pertains to a linchpin service?
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Status: Just came from a meeting where at the end of it they told me they had some e-scrap for me to take with me. Two Drobo B800i units and some other stuff. Both of them work perfectly, we just replaced the functionality they were providing. Both of them loaded with 3TB drives. Now I have new toys to play with.
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I'd be willing to take one of those off your hands. I mean, it's not like you really need two. ;)
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Ha! Actually, I already have a plan for them. I am going to migrate our home media files and such on to one of them and these models have a function where they will mirror each other over a network connection. So the second one will likely end up in the rack at the datacenter for an off-site backup.
Although, I am not certain how well that is going to work when I decide to binge on media files again. Replicating a few hundred GB of data over our internet connection here might take a while...
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Well, it was worth a shot ...
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Can't blame a guy for trying.
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I bet they have some kind of auth server that was down or overloaded, and they didn't hook their monitoring software up to it.
Once I got in, it was solid like a rock. It was just the initial connection that had issues.
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Something like that would be perfect to back up Robots in the News.
But I just shove it on Amazon Glacier and call it good.
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No UPSes?
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I got one for my PC but my Xbox ain't on it. EDIT: nor is my router. It's a "prevent damage" UPS, not a "keep surfing internet" UPS.