The Official Status Thread
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American postal workers would be much too entitled to be so overworked.
Those lucky bastards.
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@ben_lubar said:
Considering most Linux machines are running servers, suspending them would be a very bad idea.
Ben, nobody would accept that answer from Microsoft.
Microsoft's definition of "server" didn't include "native SSH" until this month and it still doesn't include "can be operated without a GUI"
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Filed under: Frist mobile post
The geezer police will be around shortly to confiscate your belt onion.
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it still doesn't include "can be operated without a GUI"
Not entirely true...but you're going to have a bad time if you try to do so.
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Microsoft's definition of "server" didn't include "native SSH" until this month
it still doesn't include "can be operated without a GUI"
Also
"the Explorer shell is not installed as part of a Server Core installation. Instead, the default user interface for a server running a Server Core installation is the command prompt." but also wrong.
Been there since Server 2008 .
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Didn't we figure out it still ran the window manager last time that quote came up?
And how were you supposed to operate it if it was headless and didn't have SSH? Telnet?
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I think I once got a delivery guy reprimanded or maybe even fired.
Picture this: A 14 story students' dormitory, housing about 1,400 students. We called it the Ape Rock because it was designed like the rocks for apes in a zoo.
Anyway, all very anonymously, it didn't happen very often that you ran into other people on your floor - basically, you stepped out of the elevator (of which there were several, usually paired) and into your appartment. No common rooms, no shared kitchen or anything. I saw one of my neighbours after 3 years for the first time when he moved out. I also think there was a cult somewhere - I sometimes faintly heard a Hammond organ from below (I was on the 11th floor) and once found a flyer on the floor: "To the mass this way! "Anyway, to the story: I stepped out of my appartment to go to university a bit early, wanted to do some photocopying of other peoples' homework before lecture. During my ride in the elevator, I heard the delivery guy deliver some parcels (the "ping" from the PDAs was noticable). Upon my arrival at the ground floor I immediately noticed two things:
a) The asshole had parked directly in front of the entrance, blocking it partially and making it a pain to get your bicycle out.
b) He also had quite a bit of packages to deliver - so many, in fact, that he wasn't able to deliver them in one go. That's why he stacked 15 of them beside the elevator.This put me in a bit of a quandary: You remember the anonymous nature of the dorm? It would have been quite easy for someone to simply walk off with the packages. So, being the White Knight that I am, I decided to guard them for a while until the delivery guy returned.
I waited 10 minutes.
10 minutes inside which no one came by. However, I had to go to lecture at some point but I also simply couldn't let someone nab the packages. So I put them in the elevator, carried them into my room and went to my lecture.
Please note: No one had seen me do this.After the lecture I called DHL to let them know I had done this, delivered the packages myself and told the recipients that they also should call DHL to give them a piece of their mind.
There were two new mobiles in the packages, an expensive software suite, several expensive lecture books.
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Didn't we figure out it still ran the window manager last time that quote came up?
I dunno, why don't you go look it up for us.
And how were you supposed to operate it if it was headless and didn't have SSH? Telnet?
MMC has supported remote since approximately forever. You should be able to do nearly all[1] of your administration stuff that way: IIS admin in particular is just an MMC snap-in.
[1] That's of MS-provided stuff, of course.
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Microsoft's definition of "server" didn't include "native SSH" until this month
That's because they had the vastly superior RDP.
and it still doesn't include "can be operated without a GUI"
That is a blatant lie and you know it.
I've complained about Windows Server no longer installing the GUI by default several times, because it's a stupid idea and the last thing Microsoft should be doing is emulating Linux based on mythology that the GUI consumes so many resources that it slows down your printer server, or whatever the fuck insane Linux users think will happen with a GUI installed.
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And how were you supposed to operate it if it was headless and didn't have SSH? Telnet?
Remote MMC, when I believe uses RDP protocol but I'm not 100% sure on that.
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That's because they had the vastly superior RDP.
Does RDP include support for private key based cryptography?
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Does RDP include support for private key based cryptography?
It supports "good enough go fuck yourself Ben and stop debating about things you're entirely ignorant of" cryptography.
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Filed under: Frist mobile post
I think I did that, once. However, lately I can't get any reply button to work at all; I can read but not post.
Filed under: Old device and outdated version of iOS protects me from the full horror of Discomobile.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
A colleague and his GF "went to Norway in a car, with a tent".
Is that a dirty euphemism?
Is there any other kind?
I, and at least one other colleague, chose to interpret it as such. The rest whooshed as to why I choked on my coffee.
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I, and at least one other colleague, chose to interpret it as such. The rest whooshed as to why I choked on my coffee.
I think that at your workplace you should try to get "went to Norway in a car, with a tent" to be a well-known euphemism for anal sex, because their descriptor seems like a very uncomfortable place to have sex.
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So, I was waiting for a parcel, to be delivered through DHL Express International. Signed up for SMS notifcations. And since we're on summer holidays at the moment, I was reasonably confident that I would be able to receive the package in person.
An hour I got an SMS: "Delivery attempted, recipient not home"
A couple of years ago I ordered something from eBay and it was scheduled to be delivered on the day we got 12" of snow. The roads were unpassable without 4WD and my wife and I joked about what the tracking update would say on the USPS website. I had my laptop right there so I check and it was shown as delivered to our front porch at 10AM. All that morning, we had been in our living room with a clear view of the entire street as it was remarkably peaceful to watch the snow fall. Not a vehicle had passed since we got up and made coffee. There was not even a squirrel track in the freshly fallen snow.
I call the USPS, and they assure me that if it said it had been delivered, it had been delivered. They also told me that shipment went out with a package delivery driver and it was not our normal postman. No shit? We did not get mail at all that day, or for two days after (there was a huge debacle with the snow removal). I try to explain all of this to the woman, she says that if it says it was delivered, it was delivered and that one of my neighbors or a passerby must have stolen it.
Yeah, that was also an impossibility as #1, we were right there in view of the street the entire time and literally no traffic had passed and #2, there was not a single track in the snow anywhere. I repeatedly try to reason with her, she will have none of it.
Fine, the package was insured, at least give me my damned money. Nope, the USPS only insures for a package lost in shipment and since it was shown as delivered then it was obviously delivered and they do not cover theft after delivery. Neither of those things happened.
"Is it possible that it was delivered to the wrong house?"
"No, we never deliver things to the wrong house."
"Bullshit. My neighbors and I are constantly walking packages and mail over that your drivers deliver to the wrong spot."
"I don't appreciate your tone, and I can assure you that never happens."
"Yes it does, at least once a week. Usually more."
"No sir, it does not. The USPS never loses packages."
"Then what is the insurance for, if you never lost packages and they never get delivered to the wrong address? If you just screwed me over, just say that you screwed me over."
The next day, I call back and get a different woman. I tell her what the previous woman said, she chuckled and said something to the effect of, "Well, if that were true, no one in this office would have a job because that is all we take care of."
Regardless, due to some asshole driver not wanting to go out in the snow (can't blame him), or get behind on his deliveries (tough shit, suck it up), my package probably got dumped in a dumpster and he went home for the day and their insurance would not pay as the package was shown as delivered.
I hate the fucking USPS.
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There was not even a squirrel track in the freshly fallen snow.
You should've told her you'd email her a picture of that. "I guess you guys are using hover technology now."
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Over here, drivers are required to get your signature upon delivery. If you then were inclined to take them to court and they show a falsified signature, that will land them in quite a bit of hot water. Punishable with jail time up to five years (though for that amount they'd probably have to dump their whole load and falsify the signature of multiple people).
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Over here, drivers are required to get your signature upon delivery.
That is only required here if the sender requests it. That is now SOP around here, as the USPS is fucking horrible and I do not trust their package delivery drivers.
The only thing that they ever get right is Amazon deliveries, because if Amazon pulls their business the USPS is done for.
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Over here, commonly you can only enter the building after someone living there let you in. In that case, someone letting you in has only given you (implicit) permission to go to their door and back. If you need to visit someone else in the same building subsequently, you should go back down and ring from outside again.
Some apartment buildings do not have doorbells inside for this reason.
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If you need to visit someone else in the same building subsequently, you should go back down and ring from outside again.
That seems justifiable but annoying.
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That seems justifiable but annoying.
Also, it seems like something that no one will ever do.
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It's something nobody ever does do. But probably still something the package delivery driver can get an official warning for.
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probably still something the package delivery driver can get an official warning for.
One of those "damned if you do; damned if you don't" situations — warning if you don't do it and someone complains; warning if you do, because it takes you 10 times as long to deliver all your packages.
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It's something nobody ever does do. But probably still something the package delivery driver can get an official warning for.
That's what I figured. Which means some busybody Mrs Grundy has probably done it somewhere at least once.
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still doesn't include "can be operated without a GUI"
The fuck you say? Server Core installs (available since 2008) use CLI only. Good way to install a light version of Windows Server. In fact, the free version of Windows Hyper-V is, and has always been, a GUI-less Server Core install.
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Status: You have to love people's propensity to put shit that should be very secret on Post-It notes stuck to their monitor. Today I saw a monitor with a bezel full of Post-It notes, the highlights of which were:
- His domain password
- The alarm code for the building
- The combination to the lockbox that holds the petty cash
- His login for the online banking
- Etc.
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Status: $27,000 worth of servers demolished by UPS.
God. Damnit.
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How destroyed are we talking? I assume it wasn't where you could just look and tell that they had.
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You know what you should do? You should go translate Dorf Ortress into lojforeveralone, thereby creating the single most useless, niche thing ever.
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Status: Frustrated about a project at work that is seemingly so important despite:
- the deadline is, supposedly, the end of the month. We didn't even get any concrete information to start on it until 2 weeks before the beginning of the month (from our PM, which he says is because they took so long to get to him), and given the slip and slide scope of work (seriously, I've yet to get anything done on a single pass without revisions coming in the next day), it's well over a 1 month project even if I could focus entirely on it.
- it's a project that should be worked on by more than one person. At best, right now, it's between me and my boss for "tagging in" the other person to work on it, yet most of the work has been on me and not my boss because the component that they wanted next is "like what I did already" which is partially true but when I did it originally, it wasn't just me.
- it is currently unpaid. We were supposed to get a big pre-payment to start, then payments in progress, yet we didn't get the pre-payment yet and the first progress payment isn't here either. In fact, there was even supposed to be a "good faith" payment to stagger out the pre-payment and progress payments because they convinced my boss that they needed to pay the other guy (the one who will end up using what we wrote) to keep him on board, yet as far as I've heard, still nothing.
- I have other things to work on, which have similar deadlines as this project, and are from actually paying customers. Plus I have at least two projects from two more actually paying customers that the PM is supposed to be making a work plan for and yet has let fall aside for progress on this not getting paid for yet and
timeline project. - I absolutely hate this project, and the project it is related to, because that project was the same type of shit (scope changing, seemingly a "death march" timeline, stints of non-payment, etc.).
- I've worked at this company for nearly 5 years now and I've had maybe a total of 7 days of non-sick time off, and my boss knows I've been burned out for nearly a year now and said I should take a vacation when I originally mentioned it, only to hear on the next day at work that "we don't have time to screw around, we have too much work to do" and my workload really has never lightened up.
Effectively, it's my boss telling me, and just me, "we have other stuff to work on, we have paying customers that we focus on and when we get time to spare, put a bit of effort into it, but not before anything else" and the PM going "we need to get all this and that done and they need to have it usable by the deadline" and my boss not interjecting what he's told me, so the PM comes down on me about it to get things in and get things changed and where I'm at with it.
Point to note, this company only has 2 software developers. Myself and my boss. We had a third who walked out after the PM just got on his case about slipping quality (which he was, but not entirely through his own lack of care).
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I've worked at this company for nearly 5 years now and I've had maybe a total of 7 days of non-sick time off, and my boss knows I've been burned out for nearly a year now and said I should take a vacation when I originally mentioned it, only to hear on the next day at work that "we don't have time to screw around, we have too much work to do" and my workload really has never lightened up.
Dude. You're letting them stomp all over you.
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How destroyed are we talking?
On a scale from 1-10, they are completely fucked. All the mounting ears are folded flat, I can't budge any of the hot-swap trays on the edges, the rails are bent all to shit and unusable, roughly half of the drive LEDs are not lighting, the handles are broken off of the power supplies, etc.
I assume it wasn't where you could just look and tell that they had.
No, you could tell. It looked like the boxes had been dropped down a flight of stairs.
This really sucks because these were meant to be loaded up and sent back out by the end of the week for a demo where the contract will probably go for mid-high 7 figures.
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$27,000 worth of servers demolished by UPS.
Considering you say "demolished", I'm guessing you mean the United Parcel Service, not a bad battery backup system.
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Considering you say "demolished", I'm guessing you mean the United Parcel Service, not a bad battery backup system.
Correct. I should have been more clear, but I was dwelling on how much I just got screwed.
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How destroyed are we talking?
Due to raisins, I cannot show all of the damage. But here is some of what I can show.
There used to be a mounting ear here....
Hmmmmm, this might be difficult to slot in to the rack...
This drive shall never be removed again.
All of these drive activity lights should be on...
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Holy Belgium. And UPS does not consider themselves liable and the shipment was not insured?
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The shipment was insured. If they don't pay out on this, I will burn someone's house down.
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With that kind of damage did the delivery guy also hand you papers for reporting it and save you the trip to get stuff?
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With that kind of damage did the delivery guy also hand you papers for reporting it and save you the trip to get stuff?
He signed off on the external damage. A quick call and they are supposed to come pick it up tomorrow. A check should follow shortly after. Well...it fucking better.
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@ChaosTheEternal said:
I've worked at this company for nearly 5 years now and I've had maybe a total of 7 days of non-sick time off,
Dude. You're letting them stomp all over you.
+1. Polish your resume now.
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Holy
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[expensive computers ruined]
That sucks, dude.
The shipment was insured.
Yay!
If they don't pay out on this, I will burn someone's house down.
Make sure that house is insured!
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@NedFodder said:
You weren't exaggerating. I can't even use the site anymore. All I want is a list of headlines to see if I'm interested in reading anything, but now I have to page down three times to get all of them. And that social media feed on the right hand side is really distracting.
It's hard to exaggerate "infnite" ;)
Yes, all those complaints... we haven't heard from @wood lately, I wonder if was a highly-paid consultant on this.
I can neither confirm nor deny my involvement. So I'll let the money I earned from a recent consultant gig speak for me.
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Status: I just glanced at my sister's Macbook Pro and it has a big "BY THE WAY WE DO THIS THING CALLED UPDATES" toaster in the upper right corner of the screen. I don't think she's installed a single update since she got it.
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Did you know that you can run ANY video on YouTube as an ad? Even ones you didn't upload.
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Wait, I could run a video like this as an ad?
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Absolutely.
You'd probably run out of budget quickly, due to the 8 minute countdown at the beginning + the fact that you can't seek in an ad. Ad views get billed at 30 seconds.
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Status: Just tried to work on the way in, and (re)discovered just how shit the coverage is on that rail line. Ugh.
