The Official Status Thread
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@Erufael said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Erufael said in The Official Status Thread:
@Erufael ...I have no idea why thats rotated. Just turn your screens 90 degrees clockwise.
What's funny is that it looks fine when viewed direct.
I can see the headlines now: are the headlights horizontal, or vertical?!?
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@Tsaukpaetra Stay tuned to find out! Right after these messages!
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Status: the Scouts are working on their communication merit badge:
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@Tsaukpaetra the EXIF data for the image has 'Rotate 90' set in its 'Orientation' value. I'm guessing that browsers don't automatically rotate images embedded in web pages (to prevent layouts and stuff from getting broken), but do rotate it when the image is viewed directly.
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Status: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error). Https://what.thedailywtf.com/nodebb.min.js?07529d83cb64
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@Tsaukpaetra um...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
um...
Oh for the love of... That's the dead drive, moronic machine!
....no,you think?
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@Tsaukpaetra for crying out loud 😭
This just in: @tsaukpaetra's computers want him to go to bed early tonight...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error). Https://what.thedailywtf.com/nodebb.min.js?07529d83cb64
(applied locally, which is what the cooties you just experienced were)
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error). Https://what.thedailywtf.com/nodebb.min.js?07529d83cb64
(applied locally, which is what the cooties you just experienced were)
Oh. Well my entire system crashed shortly thereafter, so I thought it was just me. ;)
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Nodebb killed @Tsaukpaetra 's laptop? 😱
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
Nodebb killed @Tsaukpaetra 's laptop? 😱
No, the failing hard drive in my laptop killed my laptop. Probably shouldn't have Online-ed it in my WinToGo instance...
Speaking of (seeing how well a mostly empty VHD compresses): Great UI, 7-zip!
If I can resize a window, make the elements react correctly!
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Status: Good gravy. That Internet Explorer Icon is, what, 5.0-ish?
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Status: exams
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Status: Huh. Windows did it's "attention notification" tone, but since I was full screen in a video I didn't see it, and it didn't magic its way into the Notification balloon bubble thing, so...
Maybe it was the elusive 3-day notice I've heard about?
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Status: Facebook, which I haven't logged in for about a year, is getting desperate. It started to send me "<person_I_know> updated their status" emails a while ago, now it's sending "<person_I_know> commented on <person_I_don't_know>'s status" emails...
No, I'm not logging in, fuck off!
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@Onyx Every time they add a new notification type, they automatically opt you in. "This user has disabled all email notifications and hasn't been seen in years, I bet they're gonna love this!"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Great UI, 7-zip!
Every possible avenue to make the user's life more difficult, 7-zip took it.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Not that anyone was playing it.
We were, just not making much progress. I've always sucked at adventure games, and text adventures in particular.
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Status: hey Blakey, got a new game for ya.
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Tried to send a PM to @DogsB but he has it blocked for users he is not following.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Quote: "That's not a social worker. It's a parole officer."
I guess that's what they are, really: an armed social worker.
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STATUS:
Due to a hiring spree, the office is getting reshuffled. I fell on the sword for the company and agreed to move into a secluded corner, away from people, underneath the only air conditioner in the office.
Inside: YES! YES! YES!
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Status: Damnit! Why is getting gigabit networking enabled for two further network ports so damn hard? The switch at the other end already has the capability, but that it is a service that IT can do is fucking deeply hidden (i.e., you need to know that it is possible from the grapevine as it is certainly not an advertised capability). I despise our network team… :(
Also, our ticketing system uses UUIDs in the URLs it issues, despite using small sequence numbers as ticket identifiers told to users. Because using one identifier for both purposes is too easy!
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Status: Booted up a Win10 test system that hasn't been on in ages so I could run a little 2 MB exe to test something. Nope. Windows Updates is consuming 100% of the disk I/O and there isn't enough left to launch a 2 MB exe. It's just sitting there frozen. Nor can I get anything on the system to respond, so I can't even shut down Windows Updates.
One again, a half-hour task has turned into a 4-hour job because of Windows 10. I should start billing Microsoft.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Every possible avenue to make the user's life more difficult, 7-zip took it.
Another entry for the "why do you hate open source" thread.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: hey Blakey, got a new game for ya.
You sure? Steam doesn't seem to agree with you.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Facebook, which I haven't logged in for about a year, is getting desperate. It started to send me "<person_I_know> updated their status" emails a while ago, now it's sending "<person_I_know> commented on <person_I_don't_know>'s status" emails...
No, I'm not logging in, fuck off!
there's a reason i deleted my account.
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Status: Music copy over to my new phone failed, because
/sdcard
isn't actually the MicroSD card and the phone's internal storage is too small for my music collection.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus I never used it either, but Skype seemed like a first-class citizen for any Microsoft platform so losing it is quite surprising. Like if the next Halo game didn't support Xbox360.
There we go, better comparison.
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@dkf It's possible some Cowboy Network Technician wired the jacks up with his own personally favorite color pattern, completely ignoring all specifications to the contrary. Those will work great at 10/100, since that only really uses 4 of the 8 wires and in such a way that cross-talk from not having the right wires twisted together doesn't matter. But once you try to hook it to a gigabit capable link, SHTF, and your best case is that the ports negotiate and stay at 10/100 (but the more likely case is they just wobble back and forth and flat out don't work consistently until some network admin fixes the switch to not offer gigabit any more).
Source: some of my previous cow-orkers' work product.
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
No, I'm not logging in, fuck off!
Won't you please generate them some advertising revenue?!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Because using one identifier for both purposes is too easy!
Ah, the old "let's have lots of different global IDs" syndrome.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Booted up a Win10 test system that hasn't been on in ages so I could run a little 2 MB exe to test something. Nope. Windows Updates is consuming 100% of the disk I/O and there isn't enough left to launch a 2 MB exe. It's just sitting there frozen. Nor can I get anything on the system to respond, so I can't even shut down Windows Updates.
Status: you should've expected this, not that older versions of Windows wouldn't also want to update.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Booted up a Win10 test system that hasn't been on in ages so I could run a little 2 MB exe to test something. Nope. Windows Updates is consuming 100% of the disk I/O and there isn't enough left to launch a 2 MB exe. It's just sitting there frozen. Nor can I get anything on the system to respond, so I can't even shut down Windows Updates.
Status: you should've expected this, not that older versions of Windows wouldn't also want to update.
I did the same thing simultaneously on a Win7 and Win10 box. The Win10 box was the only one that gave me trouble.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
The Win10 box was the only one that gave me trouble.
Maybe you're just not cut out for Windows 10. :)
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Won't you please generate them some advertising revenue?!
No, fuck 'em, all they ever managed to generate for me is annoyance. Avid users can pay for themselves already, they don't need my help.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
The Win10 box was the only one that gave me trouble.
Maybe you're just not cut out for Windows 10. :)
I'd rather just not use it now, but the Apocalypse is happening. A bunch of our Win7 customers using old versions of our software from 2 - 4 years ago are now getting auto-upgraded to Win10, and our drivers from back then are not Win10 compatible so all hell is breaking loose.
Some of these guys even have to have their systems certified, so upgrading any software requires massive audits and truckloads of paperwork. Typically they don't upgrade anything for 5 - 10 years at a time, but Win10 slipped itself into the equation. Big ouch.
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Status: We gave up some of the square footage in our office. Unfortunately the network interface panel is in the space we gave up, and so it has to be moved. Even more unfortunately, nobody listened when I suggested it at first, so they couldn't just unhook the stuff from the wall and move it 6 feet, and now there's a new wall in the way, so it has to be unhooked, carried out the door, 50 feet up the hall, back in the other door and back down to the new wall.
Somehow I got to be in charge of this, and I just got this email from the corporate office:
[provider] do not assign Case/Ticket numbers. Email MOVE/DISCONNECT details to [person] who is on the email string yesterday afternoon and copy us on it. Please line list specifics, how many, what they are and attach photos if any of you has smart phone/iPhone.
Now I already sent them pictures, and they had a guy out here a month ago to look at the hardware and make an estimate, but I guess he got eaten by a landshark on the way back to the office.
Ediit: Also, the email above says they don't issue case numbers, but when I called them this morning the first thing I was asked for was a case number. Although then it turned out I was talking to the wrong department.
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@FrostCat I wonder if there's a correlation between people who use "email string" (instead of the correct "email thread") and incompetence.
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@Tsaukpaetra Dear god don't tell me that's a federal loan servicer?
Looks like no. That site looks frightening.
Wow, I'm glad I'm with a good servicer, some of these sites look absolutely dreadful
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STATUS Amused!
My tech lead was having trouble debugging a problem on a remote server for about two days. So me being out of jiras to make a balls of he assigned me the problem. I solved it two minutes after pulling the source code and trying to run it. The config files were bolloxed in a recent untested merge. He was following a wiki to the letter but the outsourced crowd wasn't and was lying about it.
My inability to read simple instructions has served the company once again!
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Dear god don't tell me that's a federal loan servicer?
Looks like no. That site looks frightening.
Wow, I'm glad I'm with a good servicer, some of these sites look absolutely dreadful
Yes. They want me to pay for my $300 loan over the course of 8 months for some reason.
I'm like, "They overestimated the loan needs on the other two loans which resulted in them refunding me ~$1200 (idiots), so why keep track of this tiny (in comparison) loan, when I can pay it off immediately and just keep track of the two main MASSIVE loans?"
Of course, there's no obvious way to do this before it enters in the repayment period so... Sticky note on the calendar, hooray!
Status: Foot is being stupid so I'm workin' from home.
Well, I would be, except my asinine computer refuses to connect my RDP session!Why do you authenticate me (NTLM blah blah blah), show me the domain-mandated "Don't use this computer badly" message, then promptly disconnect me?!?!?
When I get back,
\\TP100865
and I are going to have a... talk...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
so why keep track of this tiny (in comparison) loan
Obviously because then they'll miss out on that $8 interest!
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Status: 27 minutes into a GoToMeeting a customer wanted because they're too stupid and/or lazy to install our software. I'm still waiting for them to call the conference #. I emailed them 2 minutes ago to ask if they could join, and got a reply "10 minutes, restarting server".
don't you think you should've done that BEFORE the meeting?
I swear, next time they pull this shit I'm going to charge them, including for time spent staring at their stupid desktop.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Foot is being stupid so I'm workin' from home.
Status: Adding insult to injury, I just got notice of imminent layoff. October, but it's definitely set in stone.
Whelp. Guess who's halting their efforts to get work done for the rest of the day?
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
I swear, next time they pull this shit I'm going to charge them, including for time spent staring at their stupid desktop.
Why wait until next time ?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Of course, there's no obvious way to do this before it enters in the repayment period so... Sticky note on the calendar, hooray!
... you can't just send in a check for the payoff amount? Why not?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Whelp. Guess who's halting their efforts to get work done for the rest of the day?
Is it me? I think it's me.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
you can't just send in a check for the payoff amount
Ah, someone unfamiliar with the majesty of the wild loan management corporation.
If you start paying a loan before i'ts ready they'll just tear up your check. It's in my loan servicer's FAQ, weirdly enough. Some of the nasty ones fine you for prematurely paying back your loans(loans not in repayment etc etc).