The Official Status Thread
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I already have something working using
FILE* fp = popen("uname -i");
but this feels so wrong compared to the Windows equivalent.So far I've seen
i686
andx86_64
but I've only tried one distribution so far. I'm expecting to encounteri386
andamd64
as I move on. AFAIK we don't have an Itanium or ARM customers.The big problem is going to be with the guys who do the super stripped-down custom real-time kernels with odd C standard libraries. Unfortunately most of them are classified and aren't really allowed to talk to us, leading to all kinds of painful drawn-out remote trial-and-error debugging until we accidentally get enough detail to make something work on their platform.
Filed Under: Help, I need tech support but the government won't let me read you the error message!
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Apparently you can get the info by opening
/proc/cpuinfo
and reading the right field out of that. There's nothing much else for that (except for things built on top of that foundation) since most processes never need to know.
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Also. The guy doing the voice-over on this training is definitely proving why you should always pay for professional voice talent, instead of having Bob from the mail room do your scripts. And why most professional voice talent in Leftpondia is female.
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I tried that earlier. Unfortunately that shows me the hardware info and not the kernel, so if it's a 32-bit kernel on 64-bit hardware it'll say 64-bit. (Actually, it'll say something really weird like "36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual")
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I have an idea!
Write a Windows program, wrap it in Wine, and talk to that via popen! :evil_grin: You'll always know the output format to parse!
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Bad Ideas thread is over yonder somewhere. (no funny arrows because Discourse is currently running slower than a sloth in a diabetic coma)
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Status: Pretty sure one of my cats is a master troll. Knocks a bunch of stuff over in another room forcing me to get up to investigate then she steals my seat.
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All cats are master trolls.
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Status: Just found out about
enum class
in C++, which is what I had thoughtenum
did. Does anyone know if MSVC2010 can compile that? I'm writing a DFHack plugin and that needs ABI compatibility with Dwarf Fortress.
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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.
Status: I just attempted to click on a button in a screenshot. I am ready to check out for the year.
Yeah, I need to hang it up for the year. I was just RDP'd in to a different clients network and had been working for a little while. I needed an application on a different server, so instead of opening another session I tried to RDP to it.
I was immediately booted. Yep, I was connected to that machine all along, and had actually RDP'd over to the machine I had been working on. I booted myself out of their network.
As soon as I finish this, fuck it, I am done for the year. Today has been nothing but fuck ups anyway.
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Status: Another day, another stupid issue in prod. I hate this.
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Yep, I was connected to that machine all along, and had actually RDP'd over to the machine I had been working on
I hate when I do that. Sometimes it's worth it to keep the stupid connection-bar thing at the top pinned (well, only sometimes)...
Three for three, Best four out of seven? ;)
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Sometimes it's worth it to keep the stupid connection-bar thing at the top pinned (well, only sometimes)...
Yeah, but when you are 2 deep in RDP, they stack and it is not that helpful unless you remember to spread them out.
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you are 2 deep in RDP
Since we're apparently doing image macros today:
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unless you remember to spread them out.
Yes, I really wish there was more customizability for that. Even if has no auto-detect-screen-scraping to move itself out of the way, it would be nice to adjust it more than "a little wider/thinner"
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Sometimes it's worth it to keep the stupid connection-bar thing at the top pinned (well, only sometimes)...
That's exactly why I keep the bar pinned.
I try to keep Production and non-Production connections on different machines (which makes switching more deliberate) but sometimes you're rushing and don't bother and, well, we've all been there.
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Ah, so you were the Captain of the Costa Concordia...
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Pretty sure one of my cats is a master troll.
All cats are master trolls.
Yeah, cats are just furry little dicks.
INB4: Giggity - No, just no.
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Status: Just found out about
enum class
in C++, which is what I had thoughtenum
did. Does anyone know if MSVC2010 can compile that? I'm writing a DFHack plugin and that needs ABI compatibility with Dwarf Fortress.Partial (not sure what that means, don't have VC10 here to check): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
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Sometimes it's worth it to keep the stupid connection-bar thing at the top pinned
Always.
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@loopback0 said:
furry little dicks.
Paging @Fox.
Why, do you have experience of how big his dick is?
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I was immediately booted. Yep, I was connected to that machine all along, and had actually RDP'd over to the machine I had been working on. I booted myself out of their network.
Congrats on achieving, briefly, the networking equivalent of the Hall of Mirrors effect!
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Since we're apparently doing image macros today
Every day is image macros day, if you're doing it right.
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STATUS: Finally can go and watch/listen to spoiler discussions about the new Star Wars.
Didn't miss much. Everybody is either nerding out or nitpicking stupid little niggles. No one seems to be bothered by the awful story structure and plot in general. Even the red letter media guys (who are usually pretty jaded about this stuff) didn't give the movie the ribbing it deserves in that regard.
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The big problem is going to be with the guys who do the super stripped-down custom real-time kernels with odd C standard libraries.
Either you're shipping source, and it's their problem, or you're shipping binaries, and they're going to have to run compatible libraries.
Thinking on it further, the name you get is probably the exact platform name used when compiling the kernel. And that probably has to match up with your kernel driver. So if the kernel says
i686
, then the kernel driver you need is the one compiled fori686
, and anything else (such asi386
orx86_64
) won't work. There may be kernel version/build dependencies too because apparently the kernel is very much only source-compatible with anything.
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Didn't miss much. Everybody is either nerding out or nitpicking stupid little niggles. No one seems to be bothered by the awful story structure and plot in general. Even the red letter media guys (who are usually pretty jaded about this stuff) didn't give the movie the ribbing it deserves in that regard.
That surprises me because they railed on First Contact, despite it being the best of the Next Gen movies BY FAR.
Their main complaint centered around the genre shift towards action movie, but guess what? The original cast movie series did that too. Compare Wrath of Khan with The Voyage Home, they're completely different genres.
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On this note... I've not really watched the films before "Into Darkness" - if I want to just watch the films, is there a better one to star at, or am I just best of starting at the first Star Trek film and going from there?
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They're of very variable quality. So far, the reboot series has been pretty reasonable but the other films before that were patchy (and it's worth watching 2009's Star Trek before Into Darkness). And you don't need to watch anything before that either; the back-references are there, but you can ignore them and still enjoy the film.
The good films seem to be (in release order) The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact, Star Trek, and Into Darkness. Unfortunately, some of the turkeys need to be seen to understand the rest.
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Status: how the fuck did CSI:Cyber got to a second season?
Just saw the Stallman like dude disarming an SpecOps guy with an Ak47... And shooting him!
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In my opinion the ones worth watching are 2, 3, 4, 6, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection. You're not missing much by skipping the others.
Star Trek 1 might be worth watching if you turn on subtitles and run the whole thing at 2X speed.
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Side note:
5 is the potentially fun kind of bad film.
10 is the worst kind of bad film.
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10 is Nemesis, right? The first time they decided to remake The Wrath of Kahn.
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The "joke" is that the even numbered ones are good, and the odd numbered ones are awful. This works up until 8 (First Contact.) Every film past First Contact is awful.
You should watch them all though. Because there's a lot of variation in what people think. I think Star Trek V was, all told, pretty damned good if you go into it with the right attitude. For example. Most people would disagree with me. Star Trek 1 is basically a 2 hour movie with 1:45 of it consisting of Douglas Trumbull effects, which frankly I'm perfectly ok with. A lot of people hate it.
One thing dkf alludes to: Star Trek III, IV are basically direct sequels to Star Trek II. Those movies aren't really designed to stand-alone, and for example, watching III without having watched II first would be very weird. (There's flashbacks and stuff, but. It's not designed to be watched in isolation.) IV works ok on its own, but you're bound to be pretty confused at the start of it (why is the Enterprise crew in a Klingon Bird of Prey!? Why is Spock back in high school?) and the end of it (wait, now there's a trial? What the hell!)
Other than those three, pretty much every film stands alone just fine.
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Cheers. I've got a few days off, I think I'll just watch them all from the start.
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BTW, I think the absolute worst one is VII: Generations. Especially if you're a fan.
Paramount: "Ok, we're going to do this HUGE. We got Next Gen, the most successful TV series we've ever done, and they get a movie. And then we add in the original Star Wars cast. We get Malcolm McDowell playing the bad guy, he's an awesome bad guy. This is going to blow Star Trek fan minds!"
(A week later)
"No, we won't budget more than $50. Just re-use the special effects from Star Trek VI. Nobody will notice. Leonard Nimoy turned it down because he said the script sucked? Well. Don't drop the original crew, just cast the ones who returned our phone calls. You forgot to even call Nicholle Nichols? Oh. Whatever. Oh and since we used the entire budget on cheez whiz on the snack trays, you'll have to use the Next Generation TV series sets. Just drape shit around so people can't see it's obviously the Next Gen sets. Or have a bunch of extras stand in a tightly-packed line. Oh and with the budget goes that great Kirk sacrifice at the end. We can't afford that. So... just have him fall off a bridge. Then the bridge falls on him. Yes. Good. The fans'll love this!"
It's even MORE painful if you watch it right after VI, which ended up on that great great great bit where the cast all basically signed the film and then rode off into the sunset. Why did Paramount feel they had to shit all over that beautiful ending? Why didn't they think the Next Generation cast could anchor a movie on their own? Jesus.
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Probably because the secret deal with the devil that William Shatner signed to get cast as James T Kirk meant that he's like the Stan Lee of Star Trek movies.
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a 2 hour movie with 1:45 of it consisting of Douglas Trumbull effects, which frankly I'm perfectly ok with.
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Hug you Oracle and your stupid special snowflake Java root ca store that refuses to accept StartCom certificates for raisins and ignores the system cert store. Hug you with a dull carving knife.
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Did you make sure the intermediate certificates were in there and in the right order? If the TLS is on a publicly accessible HTTP server, try running it through https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html
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Netflix used to have the whole Star Trek thang. Now they still have the TV shows, but all the movies are gone except Nemesis. What a poop.
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intermediate certificates were in there and in the right order
This burned me when setting up my web server, but I don't think this is what is going on in @sloosecannon's case.
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Yep happened to me too. No, this is a case of "Java's built in cert store just flat-out doesn't have StartCom as a recognized CA." Even though Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, everyone else ever of all time has them as a CA
And it doesn't use the system keystore (or even look at it...) because who knows why not.
So I have to use plain http to host executable code (I'm hosting a private Minecraft modpack and the launcher fails to download with a
SSLHandshakeException
). Because ORACLE IS SECURITEH CONSCIOUS.