The Official Status Thread
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
we're in a tornado watch until like 8pm.
Is it like, you gather the whole family and go watch tornadoes together?
It's an analog watch with really fast-moving hands.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
actually, I don't remember if he said it was a watch or a warning
I can't imagine watching a trailer park would be much fun unless there were actual tornados, so my money's on warning.
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@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
actually, I don't remember if he said it was a watch or a warning
I can't imagine watching a trailer park would be much fun unless there were actual tornados, so my money's on warning.
I suppose it depends on what the trailer trash are doing.
For those unfamiliar with US National Weather Service severe weather terminology, I'm sure there are more precise definitions, but it basically boils down to this:
- X watch (where X can be any severe weather phenomenon, like tornadoes): There's a possibility of X in the next Y hours.
- X warning: There's a fairly high probability of X in the next Z hours (Z < Y).
- X emergency: X is happening now.
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Status: Storm has calmed down. Power is out in our town and many places in the area. House is too quiet.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
- X emergency: X is happening now.
Not in my experience.
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My first introduction to angular and typescript. I feel like I'm looking at a more verbose Java. Is this right?
Also, the Santa book is surprisingly bitter and human. I quite like it.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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My first introduction to angular and typescript. I feel like I'm looking at a more verbose Java. Is this right?
Also, the Santa book is surprisingly bitter and human. I quite like it.
Sounds about like my experience with Angular. Except it also carried over all the dumb JS shit it could muster. So it's the worst parts of both more or less.
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@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
actually, I don't remember if he said it was a watch or a warning
I can't imagine watching a trailer park would be much fun unless there were actual tornados, so my money's on warning.
Well, alcohol was involved. As always.
edit: And the fact that it really annoyed some people in the park.
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Status: Annoyed that my desktop computer rebooted at 04:30 with no warning whatsoever. I don't think I lost any unsaved files, but it's annoying that most of my applications were closed, and I will have to recover the documents that were open at the time. Some things restarted automatically — Task Manager, Thunderbird, Firefox, Notepad, Character Map, and Snipping Tool, but not Calculator. However, Blender, Gimp, MuseScore, and LibreOffice did not. Actually, come to think of it, I did lose work in Gimp; I have the PNG I uploaded to here, but not the original, editable, multi-layer image with text I created in Gimp — not that it's any great loss (if I cared that much, I would have saved it), but it's the principle.
Event viewer shows a bunch of errors about the time of the reboot, a whole bunch of DistributedCOM errors about a server {GUID} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout, and two VSS errors, Volume Shadow Copy Service information: The COM Server with CLSID {GUID} and name CEventSystem cannot be started. [0x8007045b, A system shutdown is in progress.], and Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x8007045b, A system shutdown is in progress. I don't know whether the system shutdown is the cause of the errors or the response to them.
Also, a new SMART event. Disk is starting to degrade. New SMART event detected. However, every diagnostic tool I have says nope; it's fine.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Annoyed that my desktop computer rebooted at 04:30 with no warning whatsoever. I don't think I lost any unsaved files, but it's annoying that most of my applications were closed, and I will have to recover the documents that were open at the time. Some things restarted automatically — Task Manager, Thunderbird, Firefox, Notepad, Character Map, and Snipping Tool, but not Calculator. However, Blender, Gimp, MuseScore, and LibreOffice did not. Actually, come to think of it, I did lose work in Gimp; I have the PNG I uploaded to here, but not the original, editable, multi-layer image with text I created in Gimp — not that it's any great loss (if I cared that much, I would have saved it), but it's the principle.
Event viewer shows a bunch of errors about the time of the reboot, a whole bunch of DistributedCOM errors about a server {GUID} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout, and two VSS errors, Volume Shadow Copy Service information: The COM Server with CLSID {GUID} and name CEventSystem cannot be started. [0x8007045b, A system shutdown is in progress.], and Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x8007045b, A system shutdown is in progress. I don't know whether the system shutdown is the cause of the errors or the response to them.
Also, a new SMART event. Disk is starting to degrade. New SMART event detected. However, every diagnostic tool I have says nope; it's fine.
DCOM errors are pretty normal for system restart and can be ignored. The VSS errors are caused by the shutdown.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Annoyed that my desktop computer rebooted at 04:30 with no warning whatsoever.
Mine did that Wed morning. Well, Tue was Patch Tuesday... (Firm reinforcement to me about closing/saving all apps when leaving the computer)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Tue was Patch Tuesday
Yeah, my work laptop rebooted Tuesday night, but it warned me that it needed to reboot within two days, and I scheduled it for evening when it was sorta not totally inconvenient, and I shut it down gracefully first. My home desktop? No, MS thinks they own it and can do whatever they want whenever they want without notifying, much less asking, me.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
My first introduction to angular and typescript. I feel like I'm looking at a more verbose Java. Is this right?
Angular (especially Angular 2+) has a ton of boilerplate, but Typescript itself is just a
betterless worse version of Javascript
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
My home desktop? No, MS thinks they own it and can do whatever they want whenever they want without notifying, much less asking, me.
Same thing. No warning. But I know... Even tho I close all programs, I still leave a couple cmd prompts open. When they're missing...
My work one is on Ubuntu, so . (And whenever I boot into windows, it never does updates because of how IT has it locked down. Guess I need to leave it up/running and connected to VPN overnight so it will actually do them...)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Blender, Gimp, MuseScore, and LibreOffice did not.
Obviously, you should complain to the vendors for those apps that they do not properly restart after a reboot.
IME, the only warning windows gives is that in the shutdown menu the 'Shut down' and 'Restart' options are replaced by 'Update and...' alternatives. You can still put the PC to sleep or just lock it at that point, but it will unavoidably reboot that night.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I need to leave it up/running and connected to VPN overnight so it will actually do them.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
you should complain to the vendors for those apps that they do not properly restart after a reboot.
I'm mostly surprised that the others did restart. Not Task Manager and Thunderbird, because they're configured to start automatically on boot (and calculator would be, too, if I could do that in Win > 7). I'm pretty sure Firefox is not configured to launch automatically, because there are times I don't want it hogging all the resources. Notepad et al. certainly are not configured to launch automatically.
IME, the only warning windows gives is that in the shutdown menu the 'Shut down' and 'Restart' options are replaced by 'Update and...' alternatives.
My chances of seeing that "warning" are approximately zero. My desktop is configured to sleep automatically after a (rather long) idle timeout; I practically never put it to sleep explicitly. So I never look at that menu unless I need to reboot, which means something has already gone horribly wrong.
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@HardwareGeek Please notice I said "I need to" - I didn't say "I will"!
The is strong in this one.The only thing I use the windows side for is changing my password. Because it's easier than jumping thru hoops doing it via the web. Plus, I always forget what the URL is - so CtrlAltDel is easier. The drawback is that I have to remember to login (and connect VPN) on the windows side at least once a month. Or the Windows side will get bricked. Ain't IT+Security wonderful!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
you should complain to the vendors for those apps that they do not properly restart after a reboot.
I'm mostly surprised that the others did restart. Not Task Manager and Thunderbird, because they're configured to start automatically on boot (and calculator would be, too, if I could do that in Win > 7). I'm pretty sure Firefox is not configured to launch automatically, because there are times I don't want it hogging all the resources. Notepad et al. certainly are not configured to launch automatically.
This is not normal autostart after bootup. There is a special mechanism where if the system was rebooted for windows update, applications which were running before the reboot are started again and restored to their previous state. I know firefox supports this.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
if the system was rebooted for windows update, some applications which were running before the reboot are started again and restored to their previous state. I know firefox supports this.
Obviously, this requires some effort by the application developers, because the vast majority don't support it. And even MS doesn't always support it fully; Character Map and Snipping Tool started again, but they didn't restore their state. (Not a big deal; nothing of value was lost, but if you're going to support restart after update, support it properly.)
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Update: Power will be out until at least tomorrow due to bigger problems elsewhere. Power is on about a mile north of us; can't they plug in an extension cord or something? :(
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@HardwareGeek What state does Character Map have? Font selection?
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@hungrier And "group by", neither of which it preserves. Yeah, not a big deal, but if it's supposed to restore state, it should restore it.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
leave it up/running and connected to VPN overnight
Yeah apparently (as I've been told) our VPN force disconnects the connection after sixteen consecutive hours of use. Better hope you don't have anything long-running!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
leave it up/running and connected to VPN overnight
Yeah apparently (as I've been told) our VPN force disconnects the connection after sixteen consecutive hours of use. Better hope you don't have anything long-running!
I almost never stay connected. I often have to
sudo somethgin
. Our VPN adds about a 2 minute delay because it has to "phone home to make sure the user is allowed to do that".
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Obviously, this requires some effort by the application developers, because the vast majority don't support it. And even MS doesn't always support it fully;
FWIW Hypatia's control servers do support it in the rare event that Windows decides to unceremoniously reboot for updates.
Not like it has much state to store either...
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Status: I want to share so many bits from Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness because they're just so damn funny, but hell, I spent 12 bucks on it, buy your own!
Seriously though that book is great.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
MuseScore
Interesting. I didn't know you wrote music.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Disk is starting to degrade. New SMART event detected. However, every diagnostic tool I have says nope; it's fine.
Aka
E_TSAUKPAETRA_SYNDROME
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
MuseScore
Interesting. I didn't know you wrote music.
Maybe a reboot would help? Or
chkdisk
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
MuseScore
Interesting. I didn't know you wrote music.
Maybe a reboot would help? Or
chkdisk
I do miss the sound of spinning rust sometimes.
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Trolled by NodeBB.
A popup about.. something.. appeared under my cursor while I was upvoting a post, and I got sent to a completely different thread.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Annoyed that my desktop computer rebooted at 04:30 with no warning whatsoever.
See: I shut my computer down when I do not need it. That may look cumbersome at first view, but the problems you report are gone. As are other oddities of Windows.
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@BernieTheBernie yes but then I don’t have my applications and files right where I left them.
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Did you know?
Wired headphones work much better once you plug them in.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Did you know?
Wired headphones work much better once you plug them in.
status: corollary: did you know?
USB-powered speakers can be susceptible to EMI between the audio card and USB controller...
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Status: downstairs is on day 5 of their DIY project which sounds like an unholy combination of some kind of power tool working on a material and a vacuum cleaner sucking up the debris of said operation at the same time.
Two near-constant mechanical drones that are almost, but entirely not quite constant pitch.
It’s given me a fucking headache.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
It’s given me a fucking headache.
Trust me: The brain bleach does not help with this!
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
I didn't know you wrote music.
I know I've mentioned it before. I've even finished one or two things (modulo looking at it later and saying, "That bit sounds odd; WTF was I thinking when I wrote it?"). I'm pretty much entirely self-taught, and it takes me forever to work out harmonies and progressions and such, and I tend to get distracted by less frustrating things (like TDWTF). I've tended to dabble now and then, with long gaps between; coupled with not-good memory, the gaps don't help my mastery of music theory.
I've been writing my Symphony #1 for over 40 years, but even if I finished it (and it's getting somewhat close), I wouldn't be able to publish it; it's become too politically incorrect. (Cultural appropriation. It's based on folk tunes from people whose skin is darker than mine.) The scherzo is done (modulo revisions). The largo is almost done; it's already longer than I planned. I've modulate to a (very) distant key; I just need to work out how to modulate back. The first movement is progressing reasonably. I haven't touched the finale for a while; it needs some work.
I remember someone here asking if I'd be willing to share some of what I've written, even if it's incomplete. I'd like to, but that would necessarily have a copyright notice with my real name, so I declined.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I remember someone here asking if I'd be willing to share some of what I've written, even if it's incomplete. I'd like to, but that would necessarily have a copyright notice with my real name, so I declined.
A shame, but understandable.
I should dig up my old songs and maybe try to finish one.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I've been writing my Symphony #1 for over 40 years, but even if I finished it (and it's getting somewhat close), I wouldn't be able to publish it; it's become too politically incorrect.
Are they still not allowing new classical music to be published unless it's either 12-tone or pops?
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I should dig up my old songs and maybe try to finish one.
Everytime I return to that old folder, I begin with "it's not so bad" and then minutes later "damn, it is, it is actually"
Won't delete it, though. Something to remember...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe a reboot would help? Or
chkdisk
Damn! @Tsaukpaetra's syndrome is contagious!
Filed under: who will reboot the rebooter?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe a reboot would help? Or
chkdisk
'chkdisk' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
That spellaring command mentioned above might help...
chkdsk
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@dcon That would be if was running Windows (). It's clearly a one-off custom job. Something like a circuit-bent TR-505, perhaps
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon That would be if was running Windows ().
I did actually see if that was a ubuntu cmd first.
: It's notIt's clearly a one-off custom job. Something like a circuit-bent TR-505, perhaps
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@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I've been writing my Symphony #1 for over 40 years, but even if I finished it (and it's getting somewhat close), I wouldn't be able to publish it; it's become too politically incorrect.
Are they still not allowing new classical music to be published unless it's either 12-tone or pops?
I've definitely heard new music that's not 12-tone and definitely not pops. Some of it is very much " was that???"
But I have no idea how the formal music publishing industry works. For me, publishing would be just posting it to someplace like musescore.org (except I remember reading about something — I think it was copyright licensing terms, but I don't remember the details — that makes it an unattractive forum) and seeing if anybody notices. I have no delusions that I will ever hear a performance of, much less make money from, any of my music.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe a reboot would help? Or
chkdisk
'chkdisk' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
That spellaring command mentioned above might help...
chkdsk
ITYM
scandsk
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Status: I may be developing symptoms of a URI.