The Official Status Thread
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Today is the first day I've ever actually seen "Please do the needful." in an e-mail, not being used as a meme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnIuCX3VIfg
Filed Under: Though I guess 'schlick' might make more sense in this case.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
ο § jacking it in san diego β 01:40
β Porny McgeeFor some reason I'm not inclined to watch that at work.
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@heterodox I wouldn't really think you would, no.
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Status: @HardwareGeek is back!!
He hasn't posted, but hopefully he will soon. I miss annoying him with grammatical mistakes and botched metaphors and other such shenanigans.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: pondering how conniving it would be to create a company named "Spyware Inc" with the flagship product "Spyware"...
Well, spyshops were a thing for a while. I think they mostly sold things like tiny cameras.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: pondering how conniving it would be to create a company named "Spyware Inc" with the flagship product "Spyware"...
Well, spyshops were a thing for a while. I think they mostly sold things like tiny cameras.
I was more going for the humor of "I installed Spyware on my network, now I'm safer than ever!"
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: You know when we had that conversation about search bars and address bars and when not to assume I want to search?
This is one of those times...
Friggin IE. Whenever I
wantneed to test something in IE11, I typelocalhost:8080or whatever in the address bar like a normal person, only to be greeted by some search results instead of whatever thing is running. Has anyone in the history of the world ever intentionally searched for "localhost:8080"?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Has anyone in the history of the world ever intentionally searched for "localhost:8080"?
I guarantee it.
EDIT: It's worse than I thought. Frequently.
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@magus WHYYYY
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@magus WHYYYY
With the Arabic? No idea. IFramely has been acting really weird lately.
It's probably been hacked.
Edit: I didn't realize the second post was a screenshot. Lol whoops I'll wear this cute hat for a while...
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Status: Whargablarghar!
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
He hasn't posted, but hopefully he will soon.
I was wondering how long it would take anyone to notice. I've been lurking and upvoting sundry posts for a couple of days.
It's been almost exactly 6 months. I never intended to stay away that long β maybe a week or so, at most, to let the notification storm die down β but I noticed I was getting a lot more accomplished when I wasn't spending so much time here, and I didn't really have any particularly compelling reason to start posting again, so I did other stuff instead.
Whether any of the stuff I accomplished was actually worthwhile is another matter entirely. A lot of playing with Blender. A little playing with writing music. And my Skyrim character is now a level 37 battlemage who is about to finish the main story quest.
I also finished my contract at the company I was working for (which I won't name because there is a high probability of going back there). After much frugality and stress because I knew my contract was ending and recent experience suggested I might be out of work longer than I had money to survive, I found out on the last (or next to last; I don't remember for sure) day of my contract that I had a new contract lined up, with just one week off between them. Even better, this job will give me experience with a framework the lack of which was a major factor in the difficulty I had finding a job last time I was out of work; it won't be the 2 β 5 years that employers say they want, but it'll be a heck of a lot better than no on-the-job experience.
The new job started with
leavin' on a jet plane , including my first ever international business travel. All of the team I'll be working with is located in Tundraland, but at least they're in the same time zone and speak the same language (except for humourous spelling), so it's not bad.I probably won't (and definitely shouldn't) spend as much time here as I used to. I have resolved not to log into TDWTF from any device that goes to work with me. There aren't many people who sit near me in the office here, and the few who do have no idea who I am or what I'm supposed to be doing. With everyone who knows what I'm supposed to be doing hundreds of miles away, it'll be way too easy to lose huge blocks of time to goofing off if I'm not careful. We'll see how long my resolve lasts, but for now (and hopefully for the duration of the contract), no TDWTF in the office.
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@hardwaregeek well, welcome back. I am truly happy that things are going your way. I hope the run of good luck continues.
You should have known I would be the one to notice you were sort of back. I have missed tormenting you. I even wasted a good incorrect euphemism on someone else.
Do what you have to do, stop in when you can, keep the run of good fortune going. Glad to hear from you old friend. Emphasis on old. ;)
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
no TDWTF in the office.
Hmm second user I've seen mention that this month...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: You know when we had that conversation about search bars and address bars and when not to assume I want to search?
This is one of those times...
Edge also needs a lesson on what website addresses look like:
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
no TDWTF in the office.
Hmm second user I've seen mention that this month...
Come to think of it, I'm not even sure I could get to it in the office (without using all my phone's data). Like, I assume, a lot of companies, we have a separate WiFi network for employees' personal devices. I'm not sure how tightly it's locked down, but my first day on the job, I'm told "connect to the WiFi network called [redacted]; use the same credentials as the corporate network to authenticate." So I do, and the very first thing I see when I open Chrome is "This site has been blocked by corporate policy." That the very first site β that I didn't even try to visit; it just happened to be the current tab in Chrome β ran afoul of the filter makes me a little leery of pushing any boundaries. And no, it wasn't a "bad" site; I don't remember exactly what it was, but something with hints on how to get through a particular situation in Skyrim.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: You know when we had that conversation about search bars and address bars and when not to assume I want to search?
This is one of those times...
Edge also needs a lesson on what website addresses look like:
Edit:
google.com:80
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Do they not have such a thing as "Live migration"? What's the point of a cloud if it doesn't cloud?
Not on a raw EC2 instance; those are Infrastructure as a Service. Migration is part of the higher-level Platform as a Service offering, along with other things like auto-scaling, (maybe?) distribution across data centres, etc.
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Status: Stupid Healthcare.gov. When trying to apply, I basically got flat out told "You're not eligible, Open Enrollment isn't now, try then."
So, I said OK, fine nothing to do but wait.
Then I get an email saying, essentially, "Hey, you don't make the right amount of money, so you can't get a tax credit. Hey, Open Enrollment is closed, so you can't apply. Hey, you don't make the right money, so you can't share stuff."
Ok, fine, I'll wait, dammit!
Today, I got a bona fide letter (containing two letters
) basically saying, "Hey, you didn't provide us proof you have an income, and so you might lose access. Hey, you don't make the right money, so you can't get a tax credit. Hey, you didn't provide us income proofs, so we used the info we had, and since you don't make the right money, you can't share stuff. Hey! You dumbass, you didn't have any life changing events, so why you asking to enroll outside of Open Enrollment?!?! But don't worry, if something happens to you, let us know, we might change our mind if you're special."FFFFFFFFFSFSFSFS SHUT UP! I KNOW ALREADY! What's next, you gonna give me a call? Maybe a personal visit from a government representative?
See, this is why I despise insurance. As far as I can tell, it's almost worse having it than not...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Do they not have such a thing as "Live migration"? What's the point of a cloud if it doesn't cloud?
Not on a raw EC2 instance; those are Infrastructure as a Service. Migration is part of the higher-level Platform as a Service offering, along with other things like auto-scaling, (maybe?) distribution across data centres, etc.
In other news, RIP that instance, it was running straight from July 2015. Not bad for a Windows server... Well, it was already dead and inaccessible, so it was no big deal.
Stopping it and starting it again, and all is well.
Well, as well as well can be considering my OpenVPN certs expired and forgot all the hoops and loops required to refresh them, so it still doesn't actually work...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Stupid Healthcare.gov. When trying to apply, I basically got flat out told "You're not eligible, Open Enrollment isn't now, try then."
So, I said OK, fine nothing to do but wait.
Then I get an email saying, essentially, "Hey, you don't make the right amount of money, so you can't get a tax credit. Hey, Open Enrollment is closed, so you can't apply. Hey, you don't make the right money, so you can't share stuff."
Ok, fine, I'll wait, dammit!
Today, I got a bona fide letter (containing two letters
) basically saying, "Hey, you didn't provide us proof you have an income, and so you might lose access. Hey, you don't make the right money, so you can't get a tax credit. Hey, you didn't provide us income proofs, so we used the info we had, and since you don't make the right money, you can't share stuff. Hey! You dumbass, you didn't have any life changing events, so why you asking to enroll outside of Open Enrollment?!?! But don't worry, if something happens to you, let us know, we might change our mind if you're special."FFFFFFFFFSFSFSFS SHUT UP! I KNOW ALREADY! What's next, you gonna give me a call? Maybe a personal visit from a government representative?
See, this is why I despise insurance. As far as I can tell, it's almost worse having it than not...
Could it be
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Stupid Healthcare.gov. When trying to apply, I basically got flat out told "You're not eligible, Open Enrollment isn't now, try then."
So, I said OK, fine nothing to do but wait.
Then I get an email saying, essentially, "Hey, you don't make the right amount of money, so you can't get a tax credit. Hey, Open Enrollment is closed, so you can't apply. Hey, you don't make the right money, so you can't share stuff."
Ok, fine, I'll wait, dammit!
Today, I got a bona fide letter (containing two letters
) basically saying, "Hey, you didn't provide us proof you have an income, and so you might lose access. Hey, you don't make the right money, so you can't get a tax credit. Hey, you didn't provide us income proofs, so we used the info we had, and since you don't make the right money, you can't share stuff. Hey! You dumbass, you didn't have any life changing events, so why you asking to enroll outside of Open Enrollment?!?! But don't worry, if something happens to you, let us know, we might change our mind if you're special."FFFFFFFFFSFSFSFS SHUT UP! I KNOW ALREADY! What's next, you gonna give me a call? Maybe a personal visit from a government representative?
See, this is why I despise insurance. As far as I can tell, it's almost worse having it than not...
Could it be
Maybe? I'm not sure how though...
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Status: weird, the latest defecation routine completed without issue. I must be sick or something...
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@cartman82 Maybe hire this one:
https://slack.atlassian.io/
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Status: Good morning to you as well VS 2015
Please tell me more about your issues with the localhost
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STATUS:
Between user selecting a filter in UI and that filter being applied to a graph there are 6-7 different services that pass the data linearly between each other, spread between 2 (or 3, TBD) iframes and a service worker.
And I made all of it. I had my reasons, but jeesh. Talk about Rube Goldberg.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Please tell me more about your issues with the localhost
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
Between user selecting a filter in UI and that filter being applied to a graph there are 6-7 different services that pass the data linearly between each other, spread between 2 (or 3, TBD) iframes and a service worker.
And I made all of it. I had my reasons, but jeesh. Talk about Rube Goldberg.
I'd prefer if we went back to framesets and static HTML over the current "every website is one page even websites with many pages", because at least then there wouldn't be unhandled errors causing pages to do nothing at all when a problem happens instead of showing an error message or trying to recover.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
no TDWTF in the office.
Hmm second user I've seen mention that this month...
Come to think of it, I'm not even sure I could get to it in the office (without using all my phone's data). Like, I assume, a lot of companies, we have a separate WiFi network for employees' personal devices. I'm not sure how tightly it's locked down, but my first day on the job, I'm told "connect to the WiFi network called [redacted]; use the same credentials as the corporate network to authenticate." So I do, and the very first thing I see when I open Chrome is "This site has been blocked by corporate policy." That the very first site β that I didn't even try to visit; it just happened to be the current tab in Chrome β ran afoul of the filter makes me a little leery of pushing any boundaries. And no, it wasn't a "bad" site; I don't remember exactly what it was, but something with hints on how to get through a particular situation in Skyrim.
"Gaming" websites tend to get pretty quickly blocked. Tech humor is somewhat less likely to be. Possibly because IT folks enjoy reading it...
Although, the occasional WTDWTF that I've done on mobile data really didn't seem to do that much to my data allotment; I think most of the resources get cached once. It'd probably mostly just begin to be a problem if I visited threads with large images and/or watched video embeds.
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Status: I think either my Pixel or the whole Android Bluetooth stack (at least N and O) are borked.
My E-Bike which has a BT unlock / lock function - works only sometimes and if it doesn't work, requires me to reboot my phone. The key fob which also uses BT works find and reliably.
I installed a BT-audio to 3.5 mm audio-jack in my car. This also only works sometimes (rebooting the phone fixes that).
My BT headphones? Lose their connection if my phone is currently charging over USB-C.
My smartlock at my door? My phone takes ages to connect to it, sometimes not finding it at all (fixed by, wait for it, a reboot). The included BT key fob? Works flawlessly.One incident is coincidence. Two make a pattern. And three definitely point to malicious intent.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Friggin IE. Whenever I wantneed to test something in IE11, I type localhost:8080 or whatever in the address bar like a normal person, only to be greeted by some search results instead of whatever thing is running. Has anyone in the history of the world ever intentionally searched for "localhost:8080"?
Seriously, fuck this IE behavior. It happens any time you specify a port without a protocol. I'm glad we are fine with leaking intranet URLs to Bing.
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Friggin IE. Whenever I wantneed to test something in IE11, I type localhost:8080 or whatever in the address bar like a normal person, only to be greeted by some search results instead of whatever thing is running. Has anyone in the history of the world ever intentionally searched for "localhost:8080"?
Seriously, fuck this IE behavior. It happens any time you specify a port without a protocol. I'm glad we are fine with leaking intranet URLs to Bing.
Isn't the phishing check function already leaking them?
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Status: We have a Time and Attendance system that also links with keycarded doors and our fire alarms. It can send out an email when the fire alarm is triggered with a register.
It also has a box for which printers the register should come out of, it's currently blank.I rang them up to find out how to make it not blank. Turns out we need to pay for 2 hours of engineer time at 110 quid an hour to do this.
So, we're going to have to pay every time we add a printer?! This is software we pay a huge annual maintenance charge on already.I've got a better idea, I make a little C# service to watch one of those inboxes via IMAP and just send that email to all the printers.
Edit: it's not even my money and this is making me angry.
Edit2: Management is less than pleased, something about Golden Eggs and Geese comes to mind.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I've got a better idea, I make a little C# service to watch one of those inboxes via IMAP and just send that email to all the printers
Could you not do this just as easily with an Outlook rule?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I've got a better idea, I make a little C# service to watch one of those inboxes via IMAP and just send that email to all the printers
Could you not do this just as easily with an Outlook rule?
I believe Outlook rules run on the local machine not the Exchange server, if that's right it wouldn't be acceptable as it requires a machine to be on and Outlook open.
I'll double check that though.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
"Gaming" websites tend to get pretty quickly blocked. Tech humor is somewhat less likely to be. Possibly because IT folks enjoy reading it...
Opposite here.
Dilbert and XKCD are very blocked here, but Steam works JUST fine.
Of course, none of that applies to Firefox :D
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I will probably check in my first code at the new job this morning. If I can figure out the version control system. It's basically SVN, but wrapped in scripts that add a bunch of complexity in the name of efficiency. But the system doesn't seem to work as documented. (One's working copy is supposed to consist only of symlinks to a cache, and only when one checks a file out does the symlink get replaced by a real, mutable file. However, my entire working copy seems to consist of nothing but mutable files. There are also wonky things about updating one's working copy with other people's changes; some directories don't get updated, or something; there was a massive failure to communicate between my technical lead and I when I asked about this.)
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Why the fuck would you print fire alarms?
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@weng To add more stuff that can burn
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Why the fuck would you print fire alarms?
So you know everyone is out of the building by doing a rollcall. All doors are keycarded and you have to swipe in and out (of your shift) so the system knows who's in.
Email is fine because people can see it on their phones but the fire brigade wanted paper too.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
VS 2015
Just opened mine. What are the odds I'll have to use taskmgr to kill it before the end of day? Based on past experience, I'll go with 100%. Or is that 200% because I'm sure I'll have to do it more than once...
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@dcon You could always stop using resharper and/or C++
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
resharper
Don't.
and/or C++
What??? And learn a new language???
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@dcon Though to be fair, people here have managed to make their microservices spin up 5 copies of msbuild, and then not ever build.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
spin up 5 copies of msbuild
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Whargablarghar!
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Status: The year is 2017 and this fucking framework decides to use active fucking x for XHR on IE 11
active fucking X
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Status: Fucking hell. Just noticed that the battery in my phone is starting to swell (it's only 13 months old, damnit!) and replacing the battery isβ¦ for someone with more bravery than me due to the amount of glue, delicate cables, etc. :( I guess I could fix it with enough time and effort β there are a few helpful videos online β but I'm short of those for the next month (for raisins) so such fixit work is precluded by circumstance anyway.
Bought a new phone online (thanks, Amazon!) and it will be delivered tomorrow. Bye bye money! At least it'll beat worrying about
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<gasp> HAHAHAHA