The Official Status Thread
-
Status: Seriously, how asinine is it that Microsoft now makes you download the MSSQL libraries and forces NuGet to boot? Yeah, include it with every version of the framework for ~20 years and then "uh oh Spaghetti-O!" it's gone in .NET 5. So smrt, Homer...
-
Status: the earbuds that came with my Sony Ericsson phone, the ones I used daily, have died*.
They are barely, what, 25 years old?
-
@Zecc Didn't all Sqny Ericsson earbuds have their proprietary plug? Or you've got the adapter? Had K700, have had some sort of a brand loyalty to this day, but damn that plug was total shit. Then again, it's not what, 25 years ago. That's... only... only... 17
-
@Zenith Rather you than me. Eventually they'll pry the ol' Framework from my cold, not dead yet, hands, but it won't be today.
I irrationally hate almost everything about the 5+, but this new way of separately releasing a bunch of "fast-moving" nuggets that should absolutely be in the BCL or at least FCL is, as you say, asinine.
-
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a meeting. What else is there to do?
Yeah. But there is always at least one person that insists on disturbing other people's sleep by talking
-
@Applied-Mediocrity These have a standard 3.5mm jack.
I don't know/remember what proprietary plug you are talking about.
-
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: the earbuds that came with my Sony Ericsson phone, the ones I used daily, have died*.
They are barely, what, 25 years old?
Missed this part in my previous post
:
* They still produce clear sound, last time I checked, but one of the earpieces is falling apart and has become more difficult to keep in my ear. It also gives me a mild shock while in there. I might trying gluing it**.
** So it doesn't fall apart. Not to my ear.
-
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't know/remember what proprietary plug you are talking about.
Flimsy plastic piece of shit. Older models must have had the standard jack then
-
@Applied-Mediocrity Oh yeah! I had one of those too, for a different phone though.
The phone I was talking about was a Live with Walkman. It would have been awkward if it didn't come with a standard jack.
Wikipedia says this phone was released in 2011, so it's not as old as I thought. Come to think of it, I was confusing these with my previous Sony earphones, which also lasted a decade or so.
-
@Applied-Mediocrity oh hey, I've seen that plug.
Also, while rummaging for old stuff, I found this:
What the fuck is that a key for?
I wonder what LPL would have to say about picking this one.Filed under: and as always, have a nice day
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Although there's v60, which should still work with most sites, that I haven't tested myself.
Well, unlike previous XulRunner stuff, this one didn't crash right upon startup.
Very compact, too. Two DLLs that compress down to 609 KB + Firefox folder with stuff (<=40 MB zipped).
-
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, while rummaging for old stuff, I found this:
What the fuck is that a key for?
Guessing it's a plug for ignition keyholes. It might make continuity, but it's missing the part usually thought of as the key, and the surface seems weird such that it would break continuity. Is that corundum?
-
Status: Once, I found a screw whose head had not been scored at all, and I kept it for years. I miss my snail.
-
@topspin Sometimes riding lawn mowers have keys like that. You just need something to turn the ignition switch.
-
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
What the fuck is that a key for?
I'm pretty sure I've seen it before, but I can't remember what it comes with. Maybe something that has a rotary switch like this?
-
@Zerosquare assuming those are voltages, pretty spot on. I think it was from a universal laptop power brick. But probably for ranges like 16V, 18V, etc.
Who ordered these numbers, though? Those make US date formats look sane.
-
status Waiting for 7zip. I'm zipping up a VM so I can back it up. 1.5hr running so far. 3hr more (from their estimation) to go. (Yeah, it's big. The last backup was a 153G 7z file.)
(My backup drive for the VMs is 500G. I have 5 different VMs to backup, the smallest (XP) is 18G, the largest (above) is 500G)
-
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare assuming those are voltages, pretty spot on. I think it was from a universal laptop power brick. But probably for ranges like 16V, 18V, etc.
Who ordered these numbers, though? Those make US date formats look sane.
Complete WAG, but the ordering could be a side effect of how it works mechanically
-
@hungrier If it's a switch, it works according to what wires you connect to which terminals. Want the numbers in a different order? Connect the wires in a different order.
-
-
@HardwareGeek Right, but maybe there's some special way to arrange and connect some voltage inputs that efficiently gives those outputs in that order. Like I said, it's a WAG.
Fake edit:
with actual info
-
Status: Screw 1, tire 0
-
-
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm zipping up a VM so I can back it up.
Compression to "Off" or at least "Very Fast", right? Because compressing disk images is not usually very efficient...
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm zipping up a VM so I can back it up.
Compression to "Off" or at least "Very Fast", right? Because compressing disk images is not usually very efficient...
500G to 165G? I'd say that compressed pretty well! (Looks like I have level 7 (Maximum, 7z UI has 1 higher: 9 (ultra)) It's a Hyper-V directory.
-
Status: Got my "free" server (a discard from the company since we moved our operations into AWS). Glad I chose the one I did. I can handle a little 1U machine way better than one of the monster (and monstrously loud) 4U-with-20+ drive bay monsters.
Sadly getting a static IP isn't an option on my ISP so I can't drop my rented servers. I mean, I could go to business class (if they offer it at residential locations at all), but that'd be a price increase for a service drop. I'm currently paying ~$100/month for ~1115 Mbps down and 42 up (as measured at the gateway (service plan of 1200 down/35 up). The roughly comparable cost business class one is only 600 down/35 up. And to go up to my current plan it'd roughly double my cost. Which isn't worth the ~$35/month I'm paying between
- Cheap hosting for my wiki site + domain name (~$20)
- AWS EC2 + storage + bandwidth for a VTT instance (~$15)
-
@Benjamin-Hall You could look at a dyndns service, though I don't know if such things are available for 'normal' domain names.
-
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall You could look at a dyndns service, though I don't know if such things are available for 'normal' domain names.
I don't have control over the gateway (cf "consumer-class US ISP") and from what I recall, dyndns requires something set on the gateway side. Although if I have a server running 24/7 anyway, it seems I can use that as the notifier box instead.
I might look into that. But probably not until I decide whether I'm moving in 1.5 months or not (locally-ish, because I'm tired of living in the college student ghetto).
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Sadly getting a static IP isn't an option on my ISP
Overrated unless you're in the habit of unplugging your modem for stretches of time.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
dyndns requires something set on the gateway side.
..... no? I mean, some routers have an updater client built into the firmware (which effectively calls a URL whenever the WAN interface is noticed to have changed its IP address), but by no means is it required to be done on said edge device.
I personally have a cron job on my server that just goes "Hey can I talk to myself over the internet? No? Ok send web request to $dnsProvider to update my IP address"
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Overrated unless you're in the habit of unplugging your modem for stretches of time.
I'd wager that the "public" IP is CGNAT-ed.
Reminds me that I should probably stop paying for static. I keep wondering why the price hasn't been raised all this time.
-
If you stop paying, you'll need it the following week.
If you keep paying, you won't need it.
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall You could look at a dyndns service, though I don't know if such things are available for 'normal' domain names.
I don't have control over the gateway (cf "consumer-class US ISP") and from what I recall, dyndns requires something set on the gateway side. Although if I have a server running 24/7 anyway, it seems I can use that as the notifier box instead.
I might look into that. But probably not until I decide whether I'm moving in 1.5 months or not (locally-ish, because I'm tired of living in the college student ghetto).
I use the dyndns feature of my synology nas. Works fine despite the two layers of NAT router in front of it. Of course those two do have forwarding configured.
@Applied-Mediocrity's point does apply - if you're on carrier grade NAT, or you cannot configure port forwarding in your ISP-provided mandatory router, you're screwed.
-
-
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm zipping up a VM so I can back it up.
Compression to "Off" or at least "Very Fast", right? Because compressing disk images is not usually very efficient...
500G to 165G? I'd say that compressed pretty well! (Looks like I have level 7 (Maximum, 7z UI has 1 higher: 9 (ultra)) It's a Hyper-V directory.
Mostly depends on if the disk was FDE or already compressed... per "you can't compress random data".
-
Status: Locked my computer to walk around back of the cabinet while waiting for the switch to pull the new firmware image via TFTP from my computer. Windows disabled the network card mid-transfer for power saving purposes. Thanks, Windows!
-
@izzion you shouldn't have told it you were going round back the cabinet - should have caught it by surprise. How big of a case is this, that "Windows" considers the time to get back of it a security concern?
-
Status: Took apart the whole PC to get to and check on the chipset thermal pad. Wasn't anything wrong with it after all. Swapped it anyway. No meaningful change in temperatures. Might have to put in a closed positive pressure case. Or just sell it all and do another one, with different, but equally stupid, terrible and puzzling problems
The
is not amused.
-
@Applied-Mediocrity what's the physical air routing look like? Total CFM can be completely adequate and there can still be doldrums / vortices / ifrits and other gremlins.
-
@Gribnit Very bad. Everything's as cramped as it can be on an mITX board. And it's open frame, so there's no airflow getting to any hotspots. Thing is, interwebs tell me it's perfectly normal for X570 to go into high seventies, so it looks like it's not the real issue
Status: Removed the second PSU, which didn't do much good anyway. Now saving as much as 10 watts of zombie power. Look at me saving the
!
-
@Applied-Mediocrity perhaps evaporative cooling of some sort is the best option. As a traditionalist in these realms (for reasons of habit and superstition, as it regards my health such as it is), I use ammonia for my purposes. However, it is not a dielectric and some find the smell disagreeable. The modern "chemists" (ha!) have produced perhalogenated carbonaceous ephemerae which they claim superior.
If you have access to a watchsmith of discretion, perhaps some sort of conduced heat-pumping arrangement could be made? An Hindu or those who have learned their metalcraft may also be wanted, and of course your brass or copper must be of quality, to achieve the thinnesses needed. I would not presume to suggest that you use gold, but if such is available it is esteemed for these purposes.
-
@Gribnit Right. If I ever win big (or @DogsB eats too much good stuff again and due to totally unforeseen consequences happening leaves me his dogecoin profits), I'll build the submersion thing with 3M Novec. As it stands, 100β¬/l is kind of too good to... flush down the drain, so to speak.
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
I keep wondering why the price hasn't been raised all this time.
Because the actual cost is nothing to the provider.
-
Status: "New" server powers on, fans turn on, but no video output, no beeps. Is it even POSTing?
-
@Tsaukpaetra Well... yes. But wasn't there supposed to be this IPv4 shortage?
-
@Benjamin-Hall How long did you wait? Servers can take minutes to POST.
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall How long did you wait? Servers can take minutes to POST.
A decent amount of time, but maybe not minutes. The fans went really high for a while, then settled down and the hard-drive light blinked at a steady rate (once every second or so). All with no beeps and no video output. The display (known good) acted like it was connected but receiving no signal.
-
@Benjamin-Hall Video output might have been disabled then. Check in your router if any network interface comes up. If it does, perhaps kind of management over IP is active (guess you don't have the login, but at least you'll know it's actually working). If not, nuke the settings.
And if that doesn't do it, welcome to the club. In all likelihood you will not enjoy your stay. The trouble with shooting trouble is that trouble shoots back.
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Video output might have been disabled then. Check in your router if any network interface comes up. If it does, perhaps kind of management over IP is active (guess you don't have the login, but at least you'll know it's actually working). If not, nuke the settings.
And if that doesn't do it, welcome to the club. In all likelihood you will not enjoy your stay. The trouble with shooting trouble is that trouble shoots back.
Supposedly these were entirely wiped. And the server guy said he'd had to (in the past) plug straight into them when provisioning them. I'll try a few things. Probably reset the bios.
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall How long did you wait? Servers can take minutes to POST.
A decent amount of time, but maybe not minutes. The fans went really high for a while, then settled down and the hard-drive light blinked at a steady rate (once every second or so). All with no beeps and no video output. The display (known good) acted like it was connected but receiving no signal.
Maybe if you'd like a new topic to give deets.
No joke though, literally must wait for minutes.
-
Status: I knew that cupcake was a mistake even before I went up to get it. But dang it, itβs just unconstitutional to go to Golden Corral and not get dessert!