The Official Status Thread
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What...are you running software on the hardware or something? Classic rookie mistake.
You still turn on your hardware? I got one of those fancy new quantum computers that work better when they are off.
5-10 more years of work and I should be able to run GW-BASIC on it...
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Fusion is not a sports car.
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I zoomed 34 posts to a new topic (if you can even call it that): Sports car hipsters and the foxes who love them
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Status:
Currently, on my testing instance:
- a fox is covering her eyes
- a hedgehog is curling up into a ball
- Rimmer is biting his fist
- and a cat is wearing a silly hat
No, I'm not drunk. That's just what happens when you manage to cause error 500 on servercooties server...
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Status: Texting a friend and wanted to type the F-word, but what I started typing was B-e-l-g-...
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That's just what happens when you manage to cause error 500 on servercooties server...
..... what did you do?
:-D
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Fusion is not a sports car.
That's fine. It is not a sports car. That does not mean it has to drive like a warm bowl of mush.
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..... what did you do?
Moved
{{flavor}}
to a partial. Put{{>flavor}}
inindex.html
.Then, by magic of not paying fucking attention, put
{{>flavor}}
inflavor.html
... :P
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Status: "Water? I never touch the stuff. Fish fuck in it."
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I seem to remember a discussion here about the lower-left panel of today's Ripley's.
I believe it was @CarrieVS.
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Status: just spent an hour trying to figure out why the AI was breaking on an Alien Swarm map. Turns out the mapper decided to include a navigation mesh - which stock Alien Swarm ignores but my version supports - that told the marines they could walk through several walls and over several ceilings.
So the marines basically think "ok, I need to get to somewhere near the squad leader" and they choose a place on the ceiling and try to walk through a wall to get there.
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Status:. Just had the Discourse tab in Safari for iPad crash because I tried doing a Discosearch. Always forget that Discourse features weren't really fixed for iOS.
Also, for some reason the iPad spellchecker was suggesting "regally" when I'd typed "really".
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Status: It was snowing when I woke up this morning. Last week I was seriously considering having a beer in the garden after getting home from work. Belgium!
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That seems to be creeping down the country. Feel free to keep it up there.
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Status: Reconsidered complaining about the rain after reading @dkf's post.
I even survived without a jacket, despite the lower temperatures. And I'm pretty cold intolerant.
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Same. Brass monkeys ATM.
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Status: Clicked 'ok' and the power went out ...
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Status: Found a bug in Office/SharePoint365. Word/Excel/PowerPoint crashes instantly when saving/modifying meta-data (if you are lucky) or opening (if you are less lucky) files in a SharePoint Library that has a people picker column.
Got a reply on our ticket. Yes it is a bug and it affects a lot of users. There is no work around but good news: it's solved in Office 2016!
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Status: contemplating a quick and nasty hack because the alternative involves gaining a deeper understanding of the internal workings of our software and the program it's an add on for than I really want
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Status: The Marketing Department believe they are the most important department in the company.
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Status: Texting a friend and wanted to type the F-word, but what I started typing was B-e-l-g-...
The invasion has begun... All hail the king, fries, chocolate and beer!
@Luhmann, prepare yourself for world domination by our glorious country!
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Status: Clicked 'ok' and the power went out ...
That's even worse than clicking Reply and having Discourse go out...
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Status Belgium crapware-infested windows machine. There are exactly two programs that my wife uses and is only available on windows that is standing between me and a fresh and working linux install.
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world domination
I'm ready!
our glorious country!
ERROR_GLORY_NOT_FOUND
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There are exactly two programs that my wife uses and is only available on windows that is standing between me and a fresh and working linux install.
Not wineable?
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Not wineable?
Don't know; This is not a computer for experiments -- it should just work. We use it for things like banking, filling in the tax returns, etc.
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Status:
Just finished on a piece of code that parses data structures intended to be represented as JSON into some kind of CSV-like monstrosity. The code is mostly sane and handles multiple levels of nesting fine.
I still cringe at the concept, though.
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STATUS: My 2 month old laptop's hard drive is clicking and freezing. And I can't install an SSD because who the hell knows why not. Belgium.
Addendum status: Please for the love of $diety copy correctly!!!!!
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My 5 year old hard drive is running checkdisk every time I start it up. At some point I'm going to have to get a replacement, but I'm just hoping it will hold on until Windows 10 is released so I can get a license and a download rather than reinstalling 7 just to get to 10
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Yeah, see, that's 5 years old. Mine's 2 months....
Side note: anyone have an idea about how to fix Windows being 'unable to boot' from a drive? My very nice 512 gig SSD is sitting on my desk doing nothing right now...
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My 2 month old laptop's hard drive is clicking and freezing
It's dying, from the sounds of it…
It should still be under warranty though, at least
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I'd very much hope it's under warranty...
I should've known better, it was making a buzzing noise since I got it.
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Status: Fifth place in a poker bar league yesterday. (Only 16 people there this time, but whatever)
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Side note: anyone have an idea about how to fix Windows being 'unable to boot' from a drive?
if you can try putting the bois into traditional bios mode rather than UEFI, some SSDs don't play nice with some UEFI implementations. that might be the issue.
also some BIOS implementations refuse to boot from an MSATA drive when a SATA drive is installed. so if that's what your SSD is that might be the reason.
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Tried that already, no joy :/
I've only got one drive bay so the SSD was the only drive installed
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Oh, I also got a beer for dealing out the last 4 from the winner.
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Tried that already, no joy :/
well it was worth an effort...
got another computer that you can use to zero fill the first 64MB of the drive? maybe it's GPT partitioned and the BIOS is confused by that?
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got another computer that you can use to zero fill the first 64MB of the drive? maybe it's GPT partitioned and the BIOS is confused by that?
Shouldn't first 512 blocks do it even with GPT?
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scorched earth approach. doing 64MB also practically guarantees you'll nuke the superblock of the first partition
;-)
but yes technically 512KB or 1MB will ususally be sufficient
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scorched earth approach. doing 64MB also practically guarantees you'll nuke the superblock of the first partition
Well, that's fine if you want to make it harder to recover. As far as anything other than a recovery tool that goes around combing for such stuff nuking first 512 blocks virtually cleared any drive I ever did this on.
Of course, my goal wasn't to make recovery hard, rather all I wanted is to use
gparted
to create some partitions the easy way, but the damned thing loves to throw a hissy fit if you have a damaged GPT on it. Which I saw on multiple USB drives. They will usually even work due to backup GPT and other wizardry, but tellgparted
to do anything with them and it will turn it's nose in disgust and refuse to cooperate.
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Status: Misread "Tri-state boolean" as "Tri-state bacon" and a reference to "KSC" in the Kerbal Space Program topic as "KFC." I don't know why; I've already breakfast, and the caffeine should have kicked in by now.
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Side note: anyone have an idea about how to fix Windows being 'unable to boot' from a drive?
Who says it's unable to boot, and when? Is this coming from Setup when you're installing Windows? From a boot disk, or the "install Windows on Windows" app?
You should open a coding help topic, and give some actual information. AFAIK, there's no such thing as an SSD that can't be used to boot Windows.
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Setup, unable to boot because "this computer's configuration does not support booting Windows". Or something to that effect, it's been a while since I tried.
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Does this help: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/35448-63-windows-installed-disk
TL;DR: set the disk controller mode to AHCI (not IDE), and ensure SMART is turned on.