The Official Status Thread
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I mean, you could set up a completely independent non profit (e.g. Boomzilla's Boy Scout Works Association) that does things for the community and said non profit could charter the troop.
Yes, you probably could. Ain't nobody got time for that.
http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/operating_orgs.aspx
##Overview of Chartered Organizations Civic, faith-based, and educational organizations operate Scouting units to deliver the programs to their youth members, as well as the community at large.
Over 100,000 Scouting units are owned and operated by chartered organizations. Of these:
71.5 percent of all units are chartered to faith-based organizations.
21.3 percent of all units are chartered to civic organizations.
7.2 percent of all units are chartered to educational organizations.Responsibilities of chartered organizations include:
Providing adequate meeting facilities.
Providing quality leadership for the Scouting unit.
Appointing a chartered organization representative to coordinate all Scouting unit operations within the organization.More detailed breakdown at the link.
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Status: Got a "oh gods shit is broke" ticket that a submit button isn't working. Have spent the past 45 minutes trying to get someone to tell me if it is page1 or page2's submit button. Still no answer.
EDIT: finally got an answer by asking for a screenshot.
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Is this what it's like to actually live in Seattle? (It's rained for about a week straight)
It rains often, but not a lot. Except for the occasional storm, it's mostly just an intermittent drizzle. We seem to still be in our summer weather pattern of warmish (~70°F), sunny or partly-cloudy days with occasional rainy days. We've had a particularly dry summer this year, with the summery weather starting mid-spring and apparently stretching into autumn.
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Status: needing a hardcover copy of "Design Patterns - GoF". so i can smack Junior #2 with it
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We have these at work (not that particular brand). I've resisted until before summer, but now I've got one as well. Ran into one big problem immediately. I am 1m90cm tall, and when I sit at the desk I bang my knees into an iron bar that connects the legs of the desk. All desks I could find are made in the same way, and no-one has stopped to think that "if we move the bar 20cm further back, @mikael_svahnberg will not bang his knees".
I even had a salesperson visit us to observe me bang my knees. He promised to call me back. That was one month ago.
Hell, a triangular lath in front of the bar would suffice.
If he doesn't call back in another monthh, I'll build my own desk. If I ever want to asjust the height, I can use a car jack.
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Ststus: Got on a train actually made in the 21st century. It has WiFi! I'm living in the future right now!
Yes, our other trains are ancient. There's like 5 of these new ones in service.
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Good thing to keep in mind. The main reason I'm buying a new desk is that my old desk is too constrictive for my legs. I like to spread out my legs and stretch out, not sit like a Victorian secretary all the time. Having a lot of space underneath is a must.
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Ststus: Got on a train actually made in the 21st century. It has WiFi! I'm livibg in the future right now!
Yes, our other trains are ancient. There's like 5 of these new ones in service.
You mean the train didn't break down in the middle of nowhere and you had to wait 10 hours for it to start moving again?
What sorcery is this!?
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Oh, don't worry, the people who are going to the end of the line will have to change trains.
See, this one is electric, so...
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That's why I kept my old desk for so long. It had a support beam which was perfect for putting your legs up on. Now, I have to settle for an upside-down beer crate. It works, but there is a significant comfort difference to have the support under your ankles vs. under your heels.
...another order for my woodshop, I guess.
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@JazzyJosh said:
I mean, you could set up a completely independent non profit (e.g. Boomzilla's Boy Scout Works Association) that does things for the community and said non profit could charter the troop.
Yes, you probably could. Ain't nobody got time for that.
AFAIK: But not if things work "as they should" - there's multiple layers of things that are there to protect the boys from adults who are too interested in boys and to protect the BSA (and all the boys involved there). So they want an independent chartering organization.
The poor sap who signs the charter (and I believe its a legal charter for the pack or troop) is attesting that nothing untoward is going on. I.e. there are no "goings-ons".
Not really relevant, but TFTDWTF and all:
"I'm not here to protect John Rambo from you. I'm here to protect you from John Rambo".http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/square_small/1/18660/674259-gman.jpg
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Status: Automated system is having problems printing an excel file, why?
Oh the file someone uploaded has well over a million rows, no wonder.
Been there, done that. With a bonus WTF of the Excel file not actually being an Excel file and being a half-gigabyte HTML <table> element instead.
Let's see if I can dig the OP...
Status: a client complains that a half-gigabyte HTML file masquerading as .xls doesn't always load properly.
I'm fairly amused it does work occasionally.
Fun fact: if you save it (an html <table> - M.) as .xls instead of .xlsx, it seems to suppress the warning.
Another fun fact: if you use this method and get past the 1M row mark, the resulting half-gig file will cause Excel to work flawlessly half of the time, and shit itself in various violent ways the other half.
Yet another fun fact: if you pull all this shit from an Oracle stored procedure, a squad of trained assassins will hunt you down until your rather untimely demise.
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Status: Fervently hoping that we do, in fact, fire our Hindiglish-speaking NOC soon.
Related Status: Anyone know of a NOC that they would actually recommend, who don't perform Atwoodian-level management of the servers they're co-responsible for?
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Status: Client is in the middle of a "time sensitive" go-live. Meaning they're just now starting to do UAT.
Just got a panicked email. "Half the images on category listing pages aren't showing up in Chrome omg wtf bbq!!!!"
Weird. All we do is that the user specified image and barf the URL onto the page. What url are they using:
http://example.com/images/category1.tif *Edit note:* The above broken link is Discourse trying to onebox Example.com. EXAMPLE.COM. Fucking Discourse! ######.tif #####.tif ####.tif ###.tif ##.tif #.tif So I'd like to welcome everyone 1992, the last time anyone thought .tif was an acceptable file format.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
the last time anyone thought .tif was an acceptable file format.
I deal with them everyday, there are reasons to use it (file sizes when dealing with 100Ks of images a day matter).
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@Lorne_Kates said:
.tif
KILL IT WITH FUCKING FIRE!
Every goddamned piece of software that can handle it, handles it differently. And don't even get me started on multipage TIFs...
I deal with them everyday
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Well, especially since the file extension should be .tiff
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and it should be pronounced yiff
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STATUS: I've been away from C for too long, apparently using a language where
#is the comment delimiter. Now none of my new C code compiles because I used#to make comment lines everywhere.
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But there's nothing more soothing than setting up Fax For Asterisk to receive ye olde faxes, capture them into .TIF(F) files, run ye olde (undocumented, because OSS) PDF converter, and e-mail them to end users.
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You should start using a language that uses
;for comments instead!
@ScholRLEA can recommend you a few ...
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Mmmm-hmmm. Especially when
tiff2pdf(that's the one I used) has a bug where it inverts colours on 2-bit monochrome documents. Hey, guess which type of TIFs Asterisk spits out!Here, have some free WTF, it's on me:
// Remove this if it's not needed anymore, I beg you! // So... Qt keeps stretching the input TIFF if I try to use QPrinter. // I tried passing it all sensible options I can find, no dice // tiff2pdf currently has a bug where it inverts monochrome TIFFs produced by Asterisk // This is a horrible hack to fix this... but it works. QImage image; image.load(inputFile); image = image.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_ARGB32); image.save(inputFile);
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Status: Fixing some stuff up on someone's phone. Fucking Viber keeps flashing notifications at me. I hit fucking
Exit10 times! Every time it warns me that I won't be able to receive messages if I do that. And then it proceeds to receive messages!
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Status: Is this what it's like to actually live in Seattle? (It's rained for about a week straight)
Are you time-podding it?
It hasn't rained in Seattle today or yesterday. Maybe a sprinkle Monday, I can't remember.
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"I'm not here to protect John Rambo from you. I'm here to protect you from John Rambo".
You mean after Murdock screws him in Rambo II? I don't think you have the quote right. Here, IMDB:
Murdock: And if I were you... I'd never make the mistake of bringing this subject up again.
Trautman: Oh you're the one who's making the mistake.
Murdock: Yeah? What mistake?
Trautman: Rambo.
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PNGs are better, if you need lossless.
JPEG's better if you're ok with lossy.
TIFF's advantage is you can pack multiple images in a single file. AFAIK there's absolutely nothing else it does well.
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STATUS: I've been away from C for too long, apparently using a language where # is the comment delimiter. Now none of my new C code compiles because I used # to make comment lines everywhere.
The syntax highlighter of your IDE didn't draw your attention to this?
Oh wait.
Let me guess.
It's fucking VIM.
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Notepad++ actually. And I was mentally on autopilot while coding.
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Notepad++ actually. And I was mentally on autopilot while coding.
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New Discourse bug! One of the errors I got while posting was ACTUALLY an error! Hence a double-post instead of the expected triple-post, and the one where I added the HTML comment "Attempt number 2" never made it.
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My electric utility just added a Captcha to their bill payment page. To prevent robots from paying utility bills. I guess this is a problem?
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multipage TIFs..
Fax those! And all people too stupid to see the page button can get faxed too!
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@ijij said:
"I'm not here to protect John Rambo from you. I'm here to protect you from John Rambo".
You mean after Murdock screws him in Rambo II? I don't think you have the quote right. Here, IMDB:
Murdock: And if I were you... I'd never make the mistake of bringing this subject up again.
Trautman: Oh you're the one who's making the mistake.
Murdock: Yeah? What mistake?
Trautman: Rambo.It's from First Blood (as I thought), but the quote isn't exactly right, though the idea is close enough (and makes more sense in a BSA context):
Trautman: I don't think you understand. I didn't come to rescue Rambo from you. I came here to rescue you from him.
First Blood (1982) - Quotes - IMDb
First Blood: Directed by Ted Kotcheff. With Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney. A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
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Oh. That movie doesn't have crazy over-the-top Russians in it, so it's not as good.
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It was before they just said, "Fuck it, let's have fun and go crazy." Good movie, but very different.
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Status: Stream live now: http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2
They built a wall and then put a banquet table on it and deleted the wall. And then the crowd cheered.
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Wow I did that once in CreationKit, but it never occurred to me to stream it.
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Well that's kind of why they changed the name of the movie series from First Blood to Rambo. And then gave the first Rambo movie that weird ass title Rambo: First Blood Part 2.
Anyway, when most people think of Rambo, 99% of the time they're not thinking of First Blood. Which is actually a well-done thought-provoking movie and not a crazy action-fest.
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The difference is that this is available to players of the game, not just developers.
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Status: Just received a quote from a major tier 1 provider for L3VPN service with a local loop (and corresponding port charge) for a DS3 for our main office. Seriously, guys? It's the 21st century, and we're in one of the 100 largest cities in the US. There has to be a fiber-optic / MetroEthernet provider that can get us from our office to your data center.
I mean, WTF, $2500 MRC port charge, plus the actual 10Mbps L3VPN service.
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Related Status: Anyone know of a NOC that they would actually recommend, who don't perform Atwoodian-level management of the servers they're co-responsible for?
What part of the country?
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All our work is remote, so any NOC that has 24x7 staff, a monitoring agent that doesn't suck, and speaks actual English should work fairly well.
To clarify: the current NOC provides remote-hands assistance with our MSP offering. Except they suck at it. Hence my frustration level.
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To clarify: the current NOC provides remote-hands assistance with our MSP offering. Except they suck at it. Hence my frustration level.
Oh, well, good luck finding one with that qualification... I love our datacenter, but I won't even let them touch our servers.
"I have a machine not responding, can you reboot it please? It is in rack #3, 4th from the top, and it should be labeled EXAMPLE-DB-02".
I told them the exact position and yet of course they hard rebooted the wrong machine. Now we have IPMI on everything.
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I just finished watching Interstellar. That was sad.
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STATUS: Started learning go.
Declaring variables is so needlessly convoluted, it's mind boggling. WTF, wasn't the whole point to make a simple language?
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STATUS: Started learning go.
Next up, obscure languages that 12 people speak, writing compilers that turn 12 lines into executables that will barely fit on modern hard drives and keeping digital midget slaves for your own amusement.
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Status: For about a month, when our son needs a diaper change I say, "I am become Mr. Poopypants, destroyer of diapers". Today was the first time someone got the reference.
I need nerdier friends.
What, this?
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I bang my knees into an iron bar that connects the legs of the desk.
Buy a pool noodle. Cut it to the width of the bar, cut down the length, slip over the bar. (Almost) instant padding.
