The Official Status Thread
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or just get a dog, which is better than any cat breed.
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Status: getting web advertisements for... thanatopraxy courses, aka handling deceased bodies and making them look good. Dafuq google?
And no, I have a lot of fetishes but necrophilia is not one of them.
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Is your name Jack?
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Status: after procrastinating for the last couple of days, finally getting down to write a new installment of the story.
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Winning 3 games in a row with my skaven team in Blood Bowl.
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Audio tags are supported now? Or did you figure out another exploit?
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80 degrees, perfectly sunny. pool again.
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That's a onebox.
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That seems so usefully confusing.
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Status: posted a new installment of the story. Now featuring an old lady who is talking about tree spirits.
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80 degrees, perfectly sunny. pool again.
Just curious: are you posting from mobile/tablet while in the pool?
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no, after I got back.
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Status: just discovered that when the CASIO fx-180P (1980) loses power for an exact amount of time, the screen switches to a random non-number like "555555554055", "8.8.8.8.8.8.8.8.0.0", or "111-49389719"
So that's amusing I guess.
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Status: just discovered that when the CASIO fx-180P (1980) loses power for an exact amount of time, the screen switches to a random non-number like "555555554055", "8.8.8.8.8.8.8.8.0.0", or "111-49389719"
What happens when it loses power for an inexact amount of time?
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The universe stops existing. It's not pretty. You have to be careful around this thing.
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Is it like dividing by zero?
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It's a bit like when you ██████████ with ████████ in the ████████ and it [DATA EXPUNGED].
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Status: Genuinely surprised
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Installed 3 new hard drives in my pc-server type machine, managed to corrupt the original boot loader by not formatting the new drives (yanked from old machines, only 2/3 were reformatted)
Going through the process of downloading a windows 7 iso so i can create a bootable usb for win7 to restore the boot loader...
sigh.
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Cancel that, miracles do happen! (Kind of...)
Changing the active partition to the system restore of the old drive appears* to have resolved the issue.
- It's booting, it indicates the correct user names, but I haven't logged in yet. I'm afraid.
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Fucking magic... I get it to boot one time, reboot to the (same) device just to make sure all is well, and now it's saying there is no valid boot mgr.
Son of a slut.
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Seriously. How the fuck does windows break its boot manager so easily?
I can select 'recover from an image', reboot and select the secondary drive - it will boot correctly and show everything exactly as it should be on disk partitioner... but if i reboot again it says that the boot manager cannot be found.
I've formatted the offending drive that caused the original issue and am just going back to the 'repair from win7 iso image' route.
Fucking waste of my night. I just wanted more storage space T_T
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Going through the process of downloading a windows 7 iso so i can create a bootable usb for win7 to restore the boot loader...
One of the many problems with Windows that Microsoft refuses to acknowledge. "Oh, your boot process broke? You better have an original install CD of the exact same version you have installed. What's this, you got it preinstalled like 99% of users? Well fuck you then. What do you want us to do, give out a free system restore CD in our web site? Don't be silly"
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Oh man, I was about to go critical. I finally rebuilt the MBR, used the command prompt to fix / rebuild, Beat on it for a bit longer and finally got it to work. Rebooted 3/4 times to make sure, moved the computer back to its normal home and hit power...
Disk read error.
FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Ok, don't panic. Dooooon't panic. Open the case, make sure the disk cables didn't get jarred loose... reboot... NOOOOO! WHAT THE FUUUUUCK!
In a fit of anger I unplugged the western digital 4TB mybook and booted it back up.
It worked just fine.
I plugged in the mybook, it worked just fine.
I rebooted
It worked just fine
Ok. Fuck it. It works. I'm just going to close my eyes and just never turn it off again.
This fucking '1 hour project' to install the three drives (along with some case dry wipe down to get rid of the dust on the removable covers and such) ended up taking like 4 fucking hours.
Good lord. Such a waste of time.
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Status: Tired. Back to work on the virtual machines which should have been done by now.
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Trying to figure out what celery is.
It has negative calories, too, so I'm told.
Goes down a treat with sweet and sour chicken.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzz gotta get to bed
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Status: just spent 2 hours recording more Marlow Briggs, then erased the video file due to a stupid mistake.
I am failure at let's playing, as with everything else.
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Guess how this bug: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950683 can cause data loss?
Answer: when rubber-banding the 567324324 files erronously placed in the FUCKING DUMBEST PLACE ON FUCKING EARTH, you might accidentally select actually important files. And Windows 8 no longer confirms deletion. And the important files are too big to fit in Windows' default small-ass non-expandable Recycle Bin quota. And fuck my life.
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Windows is the only OS I know of that allows anyone to write files to the root of the system drive by default.
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It doesn't by default, hasn't since Vista came out in 2007. The problem is installers have to be run as Admin, so they can do basically anything.
In any case, it wasn't the system drive. Read the bug description again. It was the spinner I use to store my videos on. If those junk files had been on the root of my system drive, it would have been harmless-if-annoying.
EDIT: By the way Ben L., I'm grateful that you're continuing the tradition of posting wrong shit all the goddamned time. It's nice to have something solid you can always fall back on. Sure, my job might change, my personal life might change, but they'll always be a completely wrong-headed post from Ben L. to ground me afterwards.
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Guess how this bug: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950683 can cause data loss?
Oh shit, I remember seeing those on roots of some of my drives. I thought I was an idiot. I guess not.
Status: just spent 2 hours recording more Marlow Briggs, then erased the video file due to a stupid mistake.
I am failure at let's playing, as with everything else.
Why the hell would you record a video to the root of a drive? Also, if you're careful you can almost certainly recover it.
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I've used the root of a secondary drive as a dumping ground before now.
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Why the hell would you record a video to the root of a drive?
Maybe he created a “Videos” folder there?
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STATUS: doing some silly work because someone pushed the wrong button and management is not allowed to fix their own damn mistakes.
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Status: trying to find out why I'm the only one who sees the link to our new online payment facility I just set to status "live".
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I just set to status "live".
Because "live" isn't really, really live? SharePoint has this too ... it might be "Published" but you'll have to publish your publishing to actually get it to FREAKING PUBLISH MY CHANGE TO EVERYBODY. And maybe say a little prayer along the way.
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Because "live" isn't really, really live?
Close, but more PEBCAK: I thought I was on the live server when I edited the file, when in reality I was on our test server.
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This fucking '1 hour project' to install the three drives (along with some case dry wipe down to get rid of the dust on the removable covers and such) ended up taking like 4 fucking hours.
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I've used the root of a secondary drive as a dumping ground before now.
YOU PEOPLE DISGUST ME! YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING YOU GET!
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So you always make folders on thumb drives and CD-Rs now?
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Time to mow the lawn.
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I approve of this. This is also why i never install harddrives without reformatting the entire machine3.14159. Windows or Linux it's still good to reinstall occasionally to remove the cruft that builds up over normal use.
3.141.59: This is made easier by the fact that nonvolitile storage is kept on my specially set up server that controls my RAID, and i am extra super special careful to avoid FSCKing with that box.
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Yeah, pretty much.
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Oh shit, I remember seeing those on roots of some of my drives. I thought I was an idiot. I guess not.
Some idiot installer developer was a proxy-idiot for Microsoft's idiocy.
Why the hell would you record a video to the root of a drive?
Why wouldn't I? There's literally nothing on the drive other than RITN-related files. Well, until some video game I installed shat out all those redist installers in it.
Also, if you're careful you can almost certainly recover it.
Look, I know you dumbfucks don't think much of me, but you don't think maybe I'd already have tried that before posting here? Christ.
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Look, I know you dumbfucks don't think much of me, but you don't think maybe I'd already have tried that before posting here? Christ.
Hey what do I know, maybe you learned undelete is open source or something and decided to leave the vid deleted rather than risk it.