The Official Status Thread
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Status: Frog's Theme still, except when another part of my mind gets mad and starts yelling "You could have called this game bird vs camel and no one would have argued with you" at it.
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Status: Desiring chili. With beans.
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MindWare KEVA Contraptions
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I was thinking of something...different. :-P
I know of a mint condition 1999 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 that may be for sale soon.
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I was thinking of something...different.
Oh, one of tho-
@Polygeekery said:I know of a mint condition 1999 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 that may be for sale soon.
Oh. Those are pretty cool
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You're not just a furry pervert, you are a normal pervert also.
Never claimed otherwise ;)
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Oh. Those are pretty cool
In my teenage years, I had an SL version I could borrow whenever I wanted to. I always wanted a VR-4 of my own.
I graduated HS in '97. The 3000GT, Eclipse, Supra and RX-7 were pretty much the coolest (achievable) cars of the day.
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Status: Today we upgraded a Xenserver for a client from 6.1 to 6.5. Normal procedures, we pulled backups before we moved forward just in case, etc. Upgrade seemed to go off without a hitch, reboot and all of the VMs are great...except for the most important one. It was the DDC for a XenDesktop environment that is grandfathered in from when they still had a free edition with 10 free seats.
Mother.
Fucker.
That's fine, we can restore from backup. Yeah...not so much. All of the backups for this VM are incomplete, even though the one we just did said it was successful.
God.
Damnit.
I scour all of the message boards. I Google the error code that it telling me that the virtual disk cannot be attached. Nothing. I just keep coming up with people saying that it usually happens because there is an ISO in the virtual DVD drive. XenCenter shows the DVD drive as being empty. I fuck around for over an hour and everything seems fine. Finally, just for shits and giggles I click on "Eject"...and then the fucking VM starts.
Fucking Citrix. This particular client is a NFP that really would not have been able to withstand the $2,100 hit that upgrading to the current version would have entailed. I really like them and their cause, so we either work for them at cost...or if I do it myself I usually don't even bill them. I would have really hated to tell them the bad news if the whole thing had went tits-up.
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Did you start that download when you were an infant?
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Pay no attention to the guy in the clown suit designed by Michelangelo. It's the SWAT-team behind him you should worry about.
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It's pretty impressive that I aged 21 years in 1 day.
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This is a little pantomime I like to play out with our web team every few months.
5pm
Web Team Manager: I need a DNS change for whatever.com.
Me: No problem. I'll do it now, but it can take up to 24 hours to propagate.
WTM: OK9am the next day
WTM: That DNS change hasn't gone through, did you do it?
Me: Yes, but it can take up to 24 hours.
WTM: Well it's not working, can you check you did it right?
Me: checks Yes it's right, you'll just need to be patient.
WTM: OK10am
WTM: Hey that change isn't working, there must be a problem with the server!
Me: I made the change at 5 last night, it can take up to 24 hours.
WTM: So why isn't it working yet?
Me:Repeat every hour until mid afternoon.
WTM: Hey that change started working, thanks very much!
I wouldn't mind so much but it's literally the same conversation EVERY TIME. And now I'm a grumpy cat.
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How about:
I will only do that change at Friday afternoon, when you and I won't be working until 24 hours later when the DNS change is guaranteed to have gone through.
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For fuck's sake, shouldn't the web devs know how DNS works?
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I wouldn't mind so much but it's literally the same conversation EVERY TIME. And now I'm a grumpy cat.
i see your problem. You said this:
Me: No problem. I'll do it now, but it can take up to 24 hours to propagate.
when you should have said this:
Me: No problem.
I'll do it now, but it can take up to 24 hours to propagate.I'll put in the ticket with our name server guys, they'll take care of it by this time tomorrow(alternatively you could reduce the TTL of you DNS records to something like 2 hours, or invalidate your in office DNS cache so that the change appears to take place immediately)
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@Magus said:
That uniform...
I would describe the color palette as "clown vomit".
http://www.copiosa.org/images/despair.jpg
Filed Under: Sad Michelangelo
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Our problem is we've set the user's expectations too high. Back in the day our ISP was also our hosting company so changes appeared to go through relatively quickly. Now we're hosted with a different company, who are based on the moon or somewhere so changes take much longer.
Now, the manager in question is an intelligent guy, he's capable of understanding what I've said. The problem is, he think that if he pretends he doesn't get it, we'll fix something and the problem will go away.
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(alternatively you could reduce the TTL of you DNS records to something like 2 hours, or invalidate your in office DNS cache so that the change appears to take place immediately)
Just not within the period that old TTL had set. I had an incredibly frustrating argument once after I stupidly mentioned TTLs in this kind of situation. The other person could not understand why the change wouldn't go faster by decreasing our TTL at the point of change. Other resolvers that have the DNS info cached are not going to be checking back until the TTL they saw expires...how is that hard to understand
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how is that hard to understand
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status: debugging why my travis-ci tasks aren't doing what i want them to... it's rather slow....
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For fuck's sake, shouldn't the web devs know how DNS works?
Well to be fair to the web devs, they're running (apparently) the world's slowest DNS server. They usually update every 5 minutes or so now, and propagate worldwide in less than 4 hours. Not sure what they're doing wrong to make it take so long.
The web devs are probably thinking, "jeez, when I did this on my hobby site it only took like an hour."
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Well to be fair to the web devs, they're running (apparently) the world's slowest DNS server. They usually update every 5 minutes or so now, and propagate worldwide in less than 4 hours. Not sure what they're doing wrong to make it take so long.
The web devs are probably thinking, "jeez, when I did this on my hobby site it only took like an hour."
I recently had to wait 24h for google's servers to see the new DNS. But yeah, it's usually much faster.
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There's a sheep, biting his calf. I'd be sad too. Even if I had a monkey-wrench in my hand some three hundred years before it was invented.
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Belgium! I got up this morning and discovered I'd left the Crock Pot of chili sitting out at room temperature all night. :(
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Some Texans roofied you in an attempt to wipe that half-breed monstrosity from existence.
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There's a sheep, biting his calf.
Is that what it is? I thought it was a turtle.
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it can take up to 24 hours.
Stop saying this. "Sure, I can do that. Normally it takes an entire day, but sometimes it goes through faster."
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they'll take care of it by this time tomorrow
Nope, that's the same thing. You gotta invert the sense of the sentence.
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Back in the day our ISP was also our hosting company so changes appeared to go through relatively quickly.
Oh, you kids today. Back in the day it could take 3 days or longer--and usually did. Cue derisive laughter when NCIS or whatever had an episode about a guy who was changing the IP of his website every 15 minutes or something.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
There's a sheep, biting his calf.
Is that what it is? I thought it was a turtle.
The lower right is Michelangelo’s depiction of Hell, and is one of the strangest, darkest and most fascinating works in art. In the space between Hell at the bottom and the saints above, poor souls sent to Hell are being pulled down by demons. Michelangelo’s devils muscular and human in appearance, but grotesque with animal ears, horns and green, grey and blue skin. What’s worse is that they very much seem to enjoy the pain and torment they are inflicting. One of the most striking is this scene called “the damned soul”, which shows a condemned man at the moment of full knowledge and grief of his upcoming punishment. He cowers in in shame, even as 2 demons drag him downward and a third reptilian creature bites into his thigh. Perhaps one of the few mistakes by the artist is the demons hand around the other thigh, which is not colored gray as the rest of the creature is.
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woosh? Turtle?
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If there was a joke, I definitely missed it.
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Turtle power.
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I'm going to have to take your word on this one.
EDIT: Eh..oh...I guess you're talking about the artist and not the art.
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>Michelangelo’s devils muscular and human in appearance, but grotesque with animal ears, horns and green, grey and blue skin.
That sentence a verb — unless the author thinks Michelangelo himself is a devil
s,, muscular and human..., in which case there are other problems with the sentence.
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Yes, it could have used some proof reading, but I think most of us will be able to divine the intent.
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Cue derisive laughter when NCIS or whatever had an episode about a guy who was changing the IP of his website every 15 minutes or something.
Back in high school, some kid stole a laptop from the school. Before they knew it was him, he was telling everyone how stupid the thief was because the police would be able to track its IP address and they'd probably catch him before the end of the school day.
(Techno-nonsense aside, they did catch him before the end of the school day, and he ended up in prison for it. He was an 18-year-old high school sophomore...)
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18-year-old high school sophomore
We had sophomores that could legally (and did) legally walk to the bar that was 1/2 block from our high school and have a beer with their lunch. I would have given up and gotten my GED.
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have a beer with their lunch
Don't see a problem ... that is rather normal ... when legal drinking age is 16.
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Don't see a problem ... that is rather normal ... when legal drinking age is 16.
Your country apparently never demonized alcohol the way the WCTM did back in the day here in the US. These "kids" were 21, sophomores in high school, and they previously drove themselves to junior high.
I think they just planned to get their diplomas via attrition.
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These "kids" were 21
Yes, I got that ... that is why I was showing off how as high school students we just went out after school to sit in the sun and have a beer.
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Status: …and reply notifications have stopped completely. For me, anyway.
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I think they just planned to get their diplomas via attrition.
This reminds me, I really need to draw up my crazy idea for partial-post Likes in Discourse...
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Same. And quotes.