The Official Status Thread
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Y'all are missing ... plaintext ... reducing the keyspace to bruteforce.
I don't know who you think is missing them; both of those points seemed to me so obvious as to be unnecessary to comment on.
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I think it's Windows Defender getting in the way myself. I've had it keep files locked that I want to delete; wouldn't be surprised to see it do the same with folders.
That specific thing I could probably work around by waiting a second or so. This is an internal tool, not for end users, after all.
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any travel is at my own expense
I have never had to pay for travel to an interview. That's the recruiter's responsibility.
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There's also a red one somewhere.
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I think there's a bug in Win10. I often have folder deletes claim to fail, but actually succeed, when using Explorer.
Win10 looks like such a fine OS, I can't wait to
be a beta-testertry it
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@Lorne_Kates said:
they're storing the passwords in plaintext
Probably. It's IBM iSeries servers.
Huh. I should see if there's some sort of system table I canSelect * From sys.Users
on...Edit: Apparently there is:
DSPUSRPRF USRPRF(*ALL) TYPE(*BASIC) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(QTEMP/TEMP1)
Now to do it without anyone noticing...
so obvious as to be unnecessary to comment on.
^^ This.
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Oh and he's a dragon, apparently?
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Status - convincing coworkers not to expose C APIs like:
void my_c_api(<...>, char *out_name) { strcpy(out_name, <...>); }
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Status: I think Outlook has multiple thread disorder.
Outlook, you're the only one who's even looking at this file...
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Except for your overlord spies...
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Status: My Raspberry Pi 3 showed up today!
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I'm hoping I hear something definite from Company A before I have to buy tickets to go to the interview with Company B.
Well, I heard something from Company A. They said good things about me, but they have another candidate they think is better. There is a possibility that the other candidate might not work out, but for now, it's full speed ahead on the Company B interview.
Side : What is it with air fares? I'm comparing fares; Expedia says there's a round-trip available for as low as $x, so I select the outbound and returning flights I need to see if those actually add up to $x, or whether to get $x I have to leave before the interview is over, or some such. Expedia says: "Congratulations, the fare has gone down to $x - 100." This makes it the best deal, and the times are (mostly) convenient, so I start to book it. Between the time I start and the time I click "Purchase," the fare goes back to $x, making it no longer the cheapest fare. Sorry, Expedia; back to southwest.com.
I have never had to pay for travel to an interview. That's the recruiter's responsibility.
In my experience, for a permanent position, the employer will generally pay; although I may have to pay out-of-pocket for things like a car, the employer will reimburse me (eventually). For contracting, no; travel, relocation and other such expenses are a business expense for me, potentially tax deductible, but out of my pocket for now. In this case, the recruiter will reimburse me, but only if I actually get the job; if not, I'm doubly screwed.
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In my experience, for a permanent position, the employer will generally pay; although I may have to pay out-of-pocket for things like a car, the employer will reimburse me (eventually). For contracting, no; travel, relocation and other such expenses are a business expense for me, potentially tax deductible, but out of my pocket for now. In this case, the recruiter will reimburse me, but only if I actually get the job; if not, I'm doubly screwed.
I don't have a lot of experience with this, but my very first job as a contractor, the recruiter paid for me to fly down to an interview and a hotel. When I took the job, yeah, I drove down on my own dime, but the recruiter actually gave me an advance.
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I don't have a lot of experience with this, but my very first job as a contractor, the recruiter paid for me to fly down to an interview and a hotel. When I took the job, yeah, I drove down on my own dime, but the recruiter actually gave me an advance.
I don't have a lot of experience with contracting, either, but AFAICT, your experience with the recruiter paying the interview expenses seems to be the exception rather than the rule. An advance for relocation seems to be at least somewhat common; I've had a couple of recruiters offer to do that, but I haven't actually gotten the jobs (yet).
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STATUS:
So I completely forgot about this.
Reminder: a del loop, emptying badmail directory in IIS. Started.... hmm, was it two weeks ago? Started with the entire disk full. Freed 18GB so far.
Something's got to be filling this in as I'm emptying out. A responsible admin should look into it.
Me: Meh, we'll get there.
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Something's got to be filling this in as I'm emptying out. A responsible admin should look into it.
Me: Meh, we'll get there.
Ok ok, fine. I'll do something about the bitcoin miner and memory leak in my script. Jeesh.
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Ok ok, fine. I'll do something about the bitcoin miner and memory leak in my script. Jeesh.
They hacked into the Fonts directory somehow.
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Status: I think Outlook has multiple thread disorder.
Do you have any kind of folder redirection/sync to a server for your My Docs? Having the archive .pst in a sync'd or network location is actively prohibited by Microsoft and causes all sorts of bizarre behaviour if you try it.
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STATUS Mauling a gui that is some how burning through 10000 handles.
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Status: Once installed my program fails without displaying a window or any indication it ran at all. Setting the exe as startup in Visual Studio only gives 'The program '[15340] xxxxxxxxxx.exe: Managed (v2.0.50727)' has exited with code 0 (0x0).'
WinDbg thinks:
[code]Probably caused by : memory_corruption[/code]Of course it works absolutely fine in Visual Studio under debug. A morning of wrestling WinDbg then, yay.
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Status: Once installed my program fails without displaying a window or any indication it ran at all. Setting the exe as startup in Visual Studio only gives 'The program '[15340] xxxxxxxxxx.exe: Managed (v2.0.50727)' has exited with code 0 (0x0).'
I wouldn't even know where to start.
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STATUS Mauling a gui that is some how burning through 10000 handles.
I've lost the will to live.To @RaceProUK I leave my cat ear headphones. May they help you think of @accalia when you need something to cheer you up.
To @Vaire I leave the last 11 months of safaribooksonline to gift to their new protege.
To @Arantor I leave my heavy design pattern book that he may kill his protege with.
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STATUS:
This was set to accept any connection and relay any email, with no auth.
If you received spam email from our dev server over the past few months, sorry!
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Status****strong text: HOLY CARP! my profile loaded the first time to change my avatar! that NEVER happens anymore!
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Status: My first post on @ben_lubar's NodeBB test system, and I find a bug:
That grey circle? Means I'm offline. Despite having just posted. For which I need to be online.Yeah.
Edit: Bug #2:
Ededit: OK, maybe the first isn't a bug; I must have 'gone invisible' or something.
The second is still a bug though.
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Status: Just found this template called
reportColumnWidener.mustache
<!-- Any explanation would cause crying, screaming and violence... --> {{#data.pdf}} {{/data.pdf}}
... I'm inclined to believe him (the guy knows his CSS, this is probably some idiotic
cross-browserPDF generator hack or similar, not ignorance).
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I think that's just a manual setting. For whatever reason.
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Status: Hey Mother Nature, ok the storm last night was great and stuff, but we all need to go to work now, could you stop storming? It's worn-out the welcome.
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your experience with the recruiter paying the interview expenses seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
Interesting, because everything I've ever heard since that time suggests it was the norm.
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Something's got to be filling this in as I'm emptying out.
You know you can check that trivially, right? But you're probably right. It's probably Chinese porn spam or something. You should firewall port 25 and see what happens.
ETA: hah!
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@HardwareGeek said:
so obvious as to be unnecessary to comment on.
^^ This.So it was so unnecessary to comment on, not only did HardwareGeek comment on it, but you then commented on his comment.
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Bug #2:
Um, actually, a Discourse forum isn't an appropriate place to do bug tracking in.
Instead, use a NodeBB forum.
{blink} I mean, we've all been in the Cult of Discourse so long, surely our brains have atrophied to the point where there is literally no other known way of filing bugs. Right?
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Hm now my power's blinking. Well Seattle has buried power lines, so.
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Status: We had a little network outage this morning. Someone was trying to configure a production firewall and made “a bit of a mistake”. Access to the outside world ceased to be for 45 minutes. Access from our wireless networks ceased entirely. Our datacenters were cut off (both from the outside world and from the campus network). Lots of our outsourced systems were entirely unreachable, including our ticketing system which is supposed to be used for reporting problems. About the only thing that really continued to work were our IP phones.
Ooops.
Doubly oops was that the new head of IT noticed it almost immediately as he was in a conference in the university where wireless failed completely.
Apparently (according to a friend who overheard a conversation in the corridor) the head of networking thought that there was no detectable problem at all, and his line manager replied that nobody could use the network at all to reach anything so definitely there was a problem; merely having the cables still physically in the ground is apparently not enough in itself. Who knew? The head of networking is someone that has ever inspired much confidence in his understanding of what networking is really about. I think this incident will have encouraged many other people to think exactly the same…
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@Tsaukpaetra said:
@HardwareGeek said:
so obvious as to be unnecessary to comment on.
^^ This.So it was so unnecessary to comment on, not only did HardwareGeek comment on it, but you then commented on his comment.
I commented on it, and @Tsaukpaetra commented on my comment, only because your comment indicated that you thought we should have commented on it. If you hadn't commented on it, I would have let it go without comment, and @Tsaukpaetra would not have commented on my comment, because my comment wouldn't exist to comment on.
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Hm now my power's blinking.
I haven't noticed that here. At least the rain has let up, and the wind seems to be (mostly) dying down — maybe. Of course, just as I type this, the rain and wind pick up again...
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Status Wondering who the fuck thought 28 days was a reasonable expiry for Windows passwords! Yes, we could all be zombies by the time we need to change it again but it is more likely we will just want to hurt somebody when we realise they store our last 24 passwords to check against...
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The head of networking is someone that has ever inspired much confidence
I think you a letter in that word.
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@dkf said:
The head of networking is someone that has ever inspired much confidence
I think you a letter in that word.
Or I twisted the meaning wrong somehow. Occasionally my sentences get a bit overconvolutificated without good reason. I usually remember to fix them but not always.
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February, 4 weeks exactly
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I commented on it, and @Tsaukpaetra commented on my comment, only because your comment indicated that you thought we should have commented on it. If you hadn't commented on it, I would have let it go without comment, and @Tsaukpaetra would not have commented on my comment, because my comment wouldn't exist to comment on.
So I can clearly not choose the glass of wine in front of me.
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based on my recent experience on "getting started" guides, you need to install node, no matter what tech stack you are working on
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Ededit: OK, maybe the first isn't a bug; I must have 'gone invisible' or something.
Everyone is imported as invisible for some reason.
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Edit: Bug #2:
So you're saying the bug is that NodeBB doesn't make long names unreadable like Discourse does?
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Yep; instead, it makes post count and 'rep' unreadable
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You can't read white on white? How have you been using Discourse?
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Really, the issue is simply the fact they used a gigantifont for the long name when a normal-sized font would have worked just as wekk