The Official Status Thread
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Success! Sort of. Except now I have to be at work an hour earlier than normal (or make other flex time arrangements) to be home in time for the service tech.
And given the symptoms, the problem is more likely a flaky / failing line card at the CO anyway...
sigh
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Last time that happened to me, Comcast wouldn't take it seriously without an in-home visit.
So the Comcast engineer came over, and I demonstrated the problem (complete with traceroute to tell him EXACTLY which router had the error), and he was like, "oh yeah the other day I was trying to play Halo and I noticed it was laggy..."
Then he called it in and we bullshitted about Halo and Arkham Knight for awhile, then he left without actually touching anything. Was actually an ok customer service experience, except what I explained to him I'd already explained over the phone and got brushed off.
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over the phone and got brushed off.
Yeah, unfortunately without proof it's difficult to get anything better than a prem tech out, and phone-proof just isn't substantial enough, no matter how intelligent you sound (yet we'll potentially waste time with a prem visit ).
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Having done ISP tier 3 support, and the experience of "experts" that went with that, I'm fairly sympathetic to the position of the Comcast guy.
But doesn't make it any less frustrating to have a week of spotty internet, finally gets so bad today I can't stream or League of Legends or even watch Twitch (Netflix sort of works because it buffers enough ahead), and then get the run around and "oh you have a bad modem, go buy a new one or we can send you one". Shockingly, it wasn't a bad modem!
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status godfuckingfuckitall. I have a 2011 Hyunda Elantra Touring. I'm trying to get new shock absorbers for it. But every fucking part store or site I go to only has for the Hyundai Elantra (coupe/sedan). I don't want to deal with the dealership. Fucking fuck you fucking part-hoarding fuckers.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
2011 Hyunda Elantra Touring
Sucks to be
youCanadian?$162, claims to fit the Touring GLS and SE.
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**Status:**strong text For raisins that are fairly boring, I am wiping an oldish laptop, reinstalling the original Windows 7, and upgrading it to Windows 10. But before upgrading, I had to install a specific old version of a certain piece of software I need, because when I tried to install it on Windows 10, some registry settings didn't and it wouldn't work properly.
But now I have a build system that isn't the server where the primary application code "repo" is, from which I can build.
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I had to install a specific old version of a certain piece of software I need, because when I tried to install it on Windows 10, some registry settings didn't and it wouldn't work properly.
Yeah, certain features of my Sony Vaio Flip don't work or can no longer be changed because some decided the VaioCare software should not be capable of being installed "properly" by clean-installers.
Well, whatever, at least a
BIOS flashUEFI Firmware update reset most of it to defaults, so now at least the battery charges above 50%...
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Rockauto.
Canadian mileage may vary.
This reminds me I need to do shocks and springs on the BRZ. May as well go to coilovers. Goodbye $2000.
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Status: Um... Great. Apparently I'm missing a core Windows app....
*Checks start menu...*
Oh! It looks like it really is gone!
Filed under: Not sure if happy or...
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Well it even categorized it as newsgroups/forums!
Really? Our filter always ways porn.This does not fill me with confidence.
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This does not fill me with confidence.
Of course you have no confidence; Yodel is the Discourse of parcel delivery.
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Status: Logged into the Azure portal to be greeted by the message 'We need to refresh to apply updates; your work has been saved'.
Nice of Azure to save my work. Of course, it would have been nice to have actually been able to do some work first...
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STATUS Utterly befuddled!
I had to go back through old versions of the tool I'm debugging to fix an issue with parsing xml. I found the version it was introduced, did my write up on blaming the outsourced crowd(it was an odd edge case that I spotted while debugging other code so I wasn't harsh). Went back to the eclipse to start investigating how to fix the problem. Took me over ten minutes to realize why my breakpoints weren't being hit. I was looking at the wrong instance of the tool. The debugger wasn't even running...
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Status: Just had to boot into safe mode because nVidia obviously does not consider having more than 1 monitor connected to their graphics cards something they need to test.
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Odd; I've never had an issue with nVidia drivers and a multi-monitor setup, and my home machine has three screens attached.
I tell a lie: I did once, but that was because the installer fucked up; once I'd managed a clean install, everything was fine again.
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Then don't update to the newest drivers. The forums are currently filled with people who cannot even login because they only get flickering / corrupted displays.
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I suspect I'll never get to know whats in it.
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In other news I'm trying to wrap my head around why the outsourced team implemented a List interface that acts as a wrapper around a LinkedList just to override .iterator() with a filtered list. I feel that there may of being an easier way to do this.
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Pay-per-class ?
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Pay-per-class ?
per class or per public class? Your statement would explain why it feels like there is at least six anonymous classes per java file.
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Status****strong text:
Excellen, Smithers.... Excellent.
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Do I hear the sound of cupcakes being baked?
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I see more efficient bots in our futures?Excellen, Smithers.... Excellent.
I just spotted this on my desk after letting IT at it. I know I could google it but I like the idea of sinister program installed on my computer hidden behind a rubber duck icon.
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STATUS:
Dealing with a third party service provider who
- insists on using FTP as their api (they are long-pooling FTP on my server)
- requires precise directory structure and naming convention which they can't configure on per-user basis
- will compress result data using zip, instead of gzip
- will naively upload file without any renaming scheme, so I have to figure out on my end when can I start reading
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I know I could google it but I like the idea of sinister program installed on my computer hidden behind a rubber duck icon.
It's probably this but who really knows?
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Status: Did you know indexing tables can greatly increase performance?
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Yikes, someone needs to introduce their web designer to the concept of white space and margins.
That page is going to take HOURS of bleach to clean my eyes.
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rubber duck
All computer consoles throughout the ship ping and a message scrolls: "Automated security systems have found @swayde's empty pressure suit in the decompressed area at frame 38981. @swayde was surrounded by a circle of 13 rubber ducks. There whereabouts of @swayde are unknown, but he is presumed dead."
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Back before I gave up on OS X forever, Cyberduck was a pretty poor FTP program.
I assume it still is.
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will compress result data using zip, instead of gzip
That's reasonable.
The others... not so much.
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Status: Can't find that thread due to DiscoSearch, but I am now getting text messages from a friend whose Windows 7 work PC just auto-rebooted while he was doing work so that it could auto-start upgrading to Windows 10.
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will compress result data using zip, instead of gzip
That's reasonable.
The others... not so much.
Problem with zip is, you can't just stream it. You need to download the zip file locally, then parse some kind of headers with file and directory "entries", then stream each entry separately... blah blah. Pain in the ass, when all I need is a simple stream of data, without separate files.
It doesn't help that node's zip library is shit, and would just freeze silently if zip file is in any way corrupted (like when it is being slowly streamed in through FTP).
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It's also MUCH more widely supported.
It doesn't help that node's zip library is shit, and would just freeze silently if zip file is in any way corrupted (like when it is being slowly streamed in through FTP).
Oh; so you are angry at them because you picked a shit environment to write your shit program in. LOGICAL.
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Oh; so you are angry at them because you picked a shit environment to write your shit program in. LOGICAL.
But no, you see, it's their fault! Got to be, right!? Work with me here!
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Problem with zip is, you can't just stream it. You need to download the zip file locally, then parse some kind of headers with file and directory "entries", then stream each entry separately... blah blah. Pain in the ass, when all I need is a simple stream of data, without separate files.
Zip can't be streamed because the metadata is stored at the end of the file, whereas with gzip the metadata is stored at the beginning of the file. Storing the metadata at the end made sense in the days of floppy disks and machines with minute amounts of memory, but now… not so much. OTOH, gzip is strictly a single-file compression format.
The silly thing is that zip and gzip use the identical compression algorithm.
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STATUS: In line at post office, picking up my pi. Hoping people ahead of me realize they miss something and have to step out of line.
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Oh shit, the dude ahead has like 5 packages.
Come on, explosive diarrhea! Come on!
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Is WTFCorp your third party?
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uhm, you may want to rollback that update
http://www.destructoid.com/don-t-install-the-newest-nvidia-driver-it-s-breaking-pcs-347362.phtml
Blue screens, failing to boot up Windows, restart loops, losing sound, graphical artifacting and even burned out cards are all problems which are being reported by users on various sites. It doesn’t seem to be specific to one brand or generation of card, either.
how do you even manage to fuck a driver that much?
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STATUS:
Mah pie!
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Nvidia has released a statement saying that the problems lie in the express installation settings, and that it is “actively investigating the issue”.
So use the 'Custom Installation' method, and it'll be fine, yes?
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Dad, why do I have to learn English?
It's a lingua franca.
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THEY CAN'T HAVE MY BRAND! I have special pie...
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I guess I now need to replace my Pi 2 B.
Which made it out of the box and to my desk.
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I've yet to buy a Pi on the basis that I've yet to think of something I'd want to make with a Pi.
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Is this why my video driver keeps crashing today? (Note that I have automatic updates disabled but it's Win10 so that doesn't mean it's actually disabled...)