The Official Status Thread
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and didn't explicitly disable it
The only reason that usually happens is if you install a different AV package.
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yes, it does auto disable on AV install, but you can manually disable it if you like living dangerously.
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Saus: waer d keoards sill do' mix
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Status: water and keyboards still don't mix
.... i think i translated that correctly....
wait, no. it's all correctly spelled.... that can't be right.....
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I thought he was speaking Welsh.
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@accalia said:
wait, no. it's all correctly spelled...
It wasn't when you first posted it
i have no idea what you mean.....
>_>
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Status: trying to take some sort of mandatory training. Apparently, not today though...
Well, I can either poke around in the Javascripts and maybe fix that, or send a mail to tech support and wait until they figure it out...
...screw it, not my job *opens Outlook*
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o m keooard does o work as i should
dammi !
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o m keooard does o work as i should
dammi !
okay.... that one is a little beyond me....
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Status: swapped keyboards
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Is this one waterproof? I think you should test it...
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I think you should test it
Doubt it since it is the same type as the previous one and I just swapped it with the one sitting on the unused desk next to me. I'm running out of keyboards.
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Status: swapped keyboards
ah. the good old, SEP* solution
* Also known as the ISEPN solution if a VETLA is required
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Status: Found a cheap beat-up Fender bass on Craigslist that needs refinishing. Also found where to get Mossy Oak vinyl wrap...hmm...
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Not really because the desk is used by some external dude. Guess who he will turn to if the keyboard doesn't work.
I'll hit someone in the head with the defect keyboard tomorrow morning. They don't see that coming early in the morning and their reflexes aren't that sharp without enough coffee. I'll claim they broke the keyboard with their head and they need to fetch me an other one from the stock pile.
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Guess who he will turn to if the keyboard doesn't work.
Just tell him to swap it with one someone else's desk, and hope that enough people don't swap that it ends up back on your desk in a few weeks.
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Status: The Microsoft hololens team emailed me this morning, saying that they have an important announcement tomorrow at 10AM EST, and I'm free to stream it. I will definitely be on a train at that point, but maybe...?
This is the first time they've sent me any information though, so that's cool at least? Does someone feel like watching the show and posting a thread here about what's happening tomorrow?
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STATUS!!! re-writing documentation. Best comment so far. This does something with the object passed in. Who wrote this! Why would you waste effort doing this! Let me check the blame annotations and sort this out now.
LET US NEVER TALK OF THIS AGAIN?!!?!?!?
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Just tell him to swap it with one someone else's desk, and hope that enough people don't swap that it ends up back on your desk in a few weeks.
With a bit of luck, it will get swapped to the desk closest to the keyboard stock and that guy will then just swap it from there, breaking the chain...
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I'll hit someone in the head with the defect keyboard tomorrow morning. They don't see that coming early in the morning and their reflexes aren't that sharp without enough coffee. I'll claim they broke the keyboard with their head and they need to fetch me an other one from the stock pile.
The evil ideas thread is .
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//sorry, but I really hate magic strings Expression<Func<IEnumerable, IEnumerable>> castExpression = (x => x.Cast<object>()); var castMethodName = ((MethodCallExpression)(castExpression.Body)).Method.Name;
Someone's gonna hate me for this, but if I just slapped
"Cast"
there I probably wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
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###WARNING: Discussion of hot political topic ahead. You have been warned!
<rant>
Status: Getting pissed off at the liberal gun grabbers in the US using cherry picked stats to push their agenda. An extremely liberal cousin of mine posted a meme on Facebook that made the claim that no mass shootings have been stopped by an armed citizen in the last 30 years. I did some digging and found that the claim traces back to a [Mother Jones article][0] from 2012 that was updated after the shooting in Oregon last week. The most telling line in the article (emphasis not mine):We used the following criteria to identify cases:
• The shooter took the lives of at least four people.
Now a little bit of critical thinking would tell you that this automatically excludes cases where an armed civilian stopped the shooter before they killed four individuals. Wouldn't those situations count as cases when an armed civilian stopped a mass shooting? After all, they stopped it from developing into a mass shooting. And what about the fact that many mass shootings happen in gun free zones, where law abiding citizens will not be armed? Could that be a factor?
In any case, here is an article with counter examples showing armed citizens stopping mass shootings:
So, gun grabbers, stop cherry picking your data!
</rant>
[0]:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map
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Servercooties.io: not my fault! i only monitor this tuff!
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Next time I re-install Windows, I'm going to "forget" to install antivirus.
That's what I did. It helps that I'm the person in the office who provisions new PCs.
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Status: This is a fascinating audio illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzNzgsAE4F0
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Servercooties.io
Just out of curiosity is there a place to get cheap .io domain names. Anywhere I look they're like £40 a year
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And how can we trust any new laws when many existing (and perfectly adequate) laws are not even being enforced? Will the new ones be unenforced as well? And if they go unenforced, why do the laws even exist and why do so many fret that we need more laws?
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
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Status: Just 16 days until I get a gun that shoots cakes!
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21 posts were shot to a new topic: YAGT
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As promised, @accalia:
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I'd rather have a flamethrower that shoots chocolate hundred dollar bills...
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I hear Bubs is giving those away.
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Status:
Wasted most of my day due to having to deal with this for an extended period of time on system startup:
I didn't think that it was a serious problem until I accidentally discovered that the application I am working on will happily allocate many times more memory than I actually have if I set some settings too high, causing the system to grind to a halt due to swapping, which forced me to restart my workstation and wait for far too long for it to start up due to disk I/O. The configuration application is very particular about how you update those settings (I'm guessing it's because we are doing something not quite right with the WPF binding), so I fixed the settings, re-ran the application, and found out very quickly that they weren't "fixed".The good news though is that I identified several serious bugs and finally convinced my employer to let me wipe this workstation clean and reinstall everything from scratch.
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Today's questionable news quote:
The search crews spotted so much Styrofoam, a common packing material in cargo containers, floating on the water that a pilot said it looked like a “golf course, a driving range” said Petty officer first class David Schuhlein, a Coast Guard spokesman.
From: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article37779879.html
Is Stryrfoam something frequently found on golf courses and driving ranges? I have absolutely no idea what that Coast Guard officer was attempting to communicate with that sentence, or why the journalist who re-reported it expected me to know.
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i'm on namechap and i think it was $39.99/yr
whcih isn't that bad....
not great,either
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Also another example of "it ain't Boeing, I ain't going":
Flight 550 was on an Airbus A320
See? Airbuses actually give the captains DEATHLY ILLNESSES.
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Is Stryrfoam something frequently found on golf courses and driving ranges?
No, it's not. That sentence doesn't make any sense. Wait, unless he was talking about a driving range, not a golf course (as in he was correcting himself half-way through the sentence). On a driving range that's in use, you'd have golf balls all over a field, and I guess it the one could be reminiscent of the other.
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Status: Someone just sent me a link to a web page by taking a picture of their browser's address bar with their cell phone camera and texting me the image, and expects me to type it in myself. ERROR_WOODEN_TABLE_NOT_FOUND
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Someone just sent me a link to a web page by taking a picture of their browser's address bar with their cell phone camera and texting me the image
Cut'n'paste on a phone isn't exactly fun.
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Last I checked, Homsar was still his normal self, so it's unlikely we've ascended to that universe yet.
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here an excerpt from the written minutes of another school.
The summary of the conference: Instead of change for the better on communications, everyone spent the conference fighting and bickering. Now everyone is more pissed off than when they walked in to the conference. We expect multiple physical altercations this week. Carry pepper spray.
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See? Airbuses actually give the captains DEATHLY ILLNESSES.
My brother is an Airbus pilot and he only has good things to say about them. Married a stewardess too, you probably don't get a complimentary wife with Boeing products...
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@mott555 said:
Someone just sent me a link to a web page by taking a picture of their browser's address bar with their cell phone camera and texting me the image
Cut'n'paste on a phone isn't exactly fun.
With a Windows Phone, I can OCR it right off my screen with the phone camera and get real text I could have sent. Doesn't look like I can OCR from a saved image though, only the raw camera.
I'm pretty sure he has Android though and not WP so it's a moo point.
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Well if you have a Windows phone, you can just copy the URL by clicking in the URL bar then clicking the clipboard icon thing. Or use the Share icon, I think it has that also on that screen, which shoves it directly into a SMS or Tweet or whatever.
More likely it's not a failure of the phone UI, but of the knowledge of the person using it.
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More likely it's not a failure of the phone UI, but of the knowledge of the person using it.
In my circle of friends, this one is "that guy" who wouldn't know a Russet potato from an Excel spreadsheet.
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Agreed. It was implied that they took a photo of the computer monitor, so perhaps said picture taker doesn't have access to email? Or... well shoot there's a ton of link-sharing apps or apps that let you share links somehow.
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In my circle of friends, this one is "that guy" who wouldn't know a Russet potato from an Excel spreadsheet.
That's easy. The potato doesn't have the "sort by color" feature in tables and PivotTables. (You need to upgrade to Yukon Gold to get that.)
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Status: after the "stuff" last week and more stuff this morning, I am feeling down in the shitter morale-wise.