The Official Status Thread
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STATUS:
-- Hey boss, I need to get out around 2PM today, urgent business to take care off.
-- No problem!
-- Thanks boss! (on the phone) Yes, confirm that Star Wars reservation for 3PM.
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Qué?!
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It's instructing you to bend over for an emergency application of a purple device of unknown origin
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Obviously you need to change the semicolon to a period, duh.
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Status****strong text:
Zombies: Death is for Quitters
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Yes, confirm that Star Wars reservation for 3PM.
Funny thing: For my employees, I would consider the new Star Wars movie to be "urgent business". Hell, for we nerds that would be as sacred as FMLA.
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Aaand now you've changed the passwords again, I presume?
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Status:
Updated from Java 1.8_45 to 1.8_66 using the Java Control Panel on OSX. The Java Control Panel now reports that it's running 1.8_66.
Runningjava -version
on the Terminal returns 1.8_45. For every singlejava
binary on the computer.
I have no idea what Java thinks it updated.
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Where did you get that mug?
Custom made in some printing shop over here, no special place online or anything.
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Did you try rebooting?
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Did you try rebooting?
TrollDeniedException: Yes.
I solved it but when I tried to edit the post to put that in, Dicksaws kept chucking 500 errors.
The solution is to install the JDK for 1.8_66 manually, which makes the Java auto updater completely fucking useless.
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which makes the Java auto updater completely fucking useless
That's not what makes the Java auto updater useless
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That's not what makes the Java auto updater useless
It's the only thing it does, and it can't even do it right.
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Enjoy your .
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solved it
it did?
Laat nu je bloot gat zien!
<and now waiting for the first one to search for that Dutch expression ... I hope nobody uses GIS right away
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That is a very good point. I've got need of a box in the kitchen, and an iMac would be nearly ideal.
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Status: 3rd time reading this morning's new statuses, cuz cooties.
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I've got need of a box in the kitchen, and an iMac would be nearly ideal.
I want a computer for the kitchen also, but I am on the lookout for something touchscreen so I don't have to fuck with a keyboard and mouse. Something with VESA mounting so I can attach it to the wall by the kitchen island.
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I am on the lookout for something touchscreen so I don't have to fuck with a keyboard and mouse
I've been using one of these at work today. Nice responsive screen but the hardware is a bit weak so it can be laggy.
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what Java thinks it updated.
The configuration file that contains the currently installed version, I presume?
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I've been using one of these at work today. Nice responsive screen but the hardware is a bit weak so it can be laggy.
Pleasant design, but I could not easily find pricing on them.
A while back I came across an elo touchscreen monitor that was 20" and I could have used it, but it had failed which is why it was sitting in the storeroom. It had been part of a digital X-Ray machine. It would have been close to ideal as the garage is on the other side of the wall I want to mount it on. I could have put all the other hardware on the other side of a passthrough and kept all the noise out of the kitchen.
Meh. Some day. We may be moving soon anyway.
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Status: Fucking hell. I confused RDP sessions and just installed software meant for a client on one of my servers.
Shitballs.
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I confused RDP sessions
Something something set theme colors according to dev/test/prod status?
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Better than the inverse, I suppose...
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Perhaps, but that is an hour I won't get paid for now.
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Status: Episode 40
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That's why you give each one a distinct desktop background, preferably one which also includes a text description of what the machine is. NEWB!
Amazon AWS actually does that automagically when you boot a Windows virtual image.
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Those were a really nifty design, but something from this millennium would be more suitable.
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So.. many... peripherals!
Today's AIO devices would balk!
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Pfft. MacOS 7.5 does everything you need.
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That's why you give each one a distinct desktop background, preferably one which also includes a text description of what the machine is. NEWB!
That doesn't work so well if you have something full-screened over top of the desktop background.
Not a bad idea for something to start doing though. Normally I can keep them straight by putting different things on different monitors, but I am working from my MacBook today so everything is on different desktops and I swiped across too many times and passed over top of the one I wanted.
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That doesn't work so well if you have something full-screened over top of the desktop background.
Hence my comment about the theme. Sure, setting the Dialog Background to Blood Red is an eyesore, but you usually shouldn't be on that server for long enough to matter much.....
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That doesn't work so well if you have something full-screened over top of the desktop background.
... so don't do that? What are you, an infant? Engage your brain and solve problems for yourself.
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If I used GUIs on Linux, I'd probably set the root account's theme to something with hot pink everywhere.
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I would too, then it would be as visually offensive as it is technically offensive under-the-hood.
As this Linux-based software tells me, that idea is "500 - OK!"
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So @aliceif runs everything on a production server? Makes sense, now.
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STATUS: Watched Star Wars 7.
Visual identity: A
Characters and emotions: B+
Actual plot: C-That said, since I was spoilered, I'll return the favor and spoil it for you too. Here's the opening crawl with story details. You're welcome, suckers.
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Status: About to punch something. This VMWare "technical training" isn't really suitable for much more than Buzzword Bingo. But dang, could you blackout your card in a hurry.
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No thanks. I saw that before it was posted on here. That thing is a fire hazard.
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Status: Porting some code to from Windows to Linux. On Windows, it needs a simple kernel call that returns true or false. On Linux, it requires opening a new process and running commands while intercepting stdout, then doing C string comparisons on the output to figure something out, then hoping the possible values I discovered in testing will match what happens in the wild when it gets in the hands of our customers with dozens of goofy and unorthodox Linux or Linux-like operating systems.
On an aside, we're getting so many weird requests now from Linux users who are doing bizarre things. I will not be surprised when we finally get a phone call saying "Your stuff doesn't work on my system! I'm running Red Hat 0.4 with a 7-bit user mode, kernel version 4.3.0, 10-bit PAE but we're using bits 3 and 7 of every pointer to store application data; there's no shell installed at all, and it's running on an embedded single-board computer that uses Post-It Notes, a webcam, and OCR for storage; and no compiler; all built by an intern who left three years ago using microwave parts he pulled from the dumpster."
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Status: I just attempted to click on a button in a screenshot. I am ready to check out for the year.
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And whichever system detail you are querying isn't available in
/proc
? As that's the most likely place your shell script is pulling things from.
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I need to find out if the kernel is 64-bit or 32-bit so our code can connect to the proper driver for our hardware. Apparently 32-bit processes on 64-bit Linux exist, and now we need to support it.
The best thing I could find was calling "uname -i". I found suggestions for querying the environment variables but the suggested variables don't exist on my test system, plus I just know there's going to be someone somewhere using the platform variable to do something really retarded so we can't trust it.
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Yeah, environment isn't likely to be reliable. I'm not on linux right now, and a quick look at the man page isn't helpful.
strace uname -i
might provide some handholds as to where it's looking?EDIT: Otherwise,
FILE * fp = popen("uname -i");
is pretty straightforward. There might be someFILE * fp = fopen("/proc/sys/kernel/whatever");
you can do instead but it's gonna give either the same output, or something that requires more parsing. Whichever string literals it's returning you're going to have to deal with anyway.i386
andx86_64
are the usual values for intel systems; I believe there'sia64
for itanium, and a whole host of ARM and other RISC identifiers but I wouldn't know what they are.The full list may be in the kernel docs?