The Official Status Thread
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Exhausted after doing some work in the garden. Well, the "ony-day-this-will-be-a-garden" patch of ground around the house.
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Status: probably going to get out of bed
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Status: preparing dinner.
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Status: Just finished eating lunch, now I feel like I need to take a nap.
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Spent the last hour trying to figure out wtf was wrong with my nginx-php-vm install, only to figure out the default nginx user was still configured instead of www-data user.
Fuck.
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Just bought 'FunModding.com'
It's for sale if anybody wants it.
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Status:tryingtoreplacespacebarsprings
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You Don't Need Them With Discourse.
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Welp.
I felt really sleepy an hour ago ... and right now I'm fully awake.
So much for going to bed.
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Just starting to integrate something that requires jQuery as a dependency and comes bundled with its 'preferred' version.
All 263KB of it for the unminified version. Awesome.
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Current status: got GitHub to work last night with the TortoiseGit context options, only took about two minutes of work.
Now cleaning paperwork at home.
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Deploying mail server.
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posting to the status thread.
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Watching the horrible Deadpool movie.
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About to hit paragon 200
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#Sniping the 666 post
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Carrying out an idea that seemed brilliant the other night and terrifying in execution.
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It's raining! I'm so happy!
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Status: considering implementing a function that's an equivalent to PHP's
preg_match_all
in Qt and wondering if I'm the WTF or if PHP did something right for a change.
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Wondering if it's worth converting a list to a dictionary or something else when the values should be keyed off of one field, but the legacy data keys it off of another field.
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Break time over: back to yard work.
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Status: just created topic 2014.
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Status: Wondering why Postfix won't accept connections from the internet when:
- It's accepting connections from localhost
- It's listening to 0.0.0.0:25
- There is no local firewall.
- I just talked to the ISP and they don't block ports.
Updated status: hating mail servers.
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There is no local firewall.
But is there a port forward in place? Since you haven't mentioned it...
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I have a public IP, but thanks. :)
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I have a public IP.
Ah, ok. Used to dealing with shit myself so the first idea was, of course, working around freaking limitations.
Filed under: Like using a service from provider that gives cheaper Internet access to students but allows only one machine to use it at the time, Because having a router open a PPPoE connection and putting all other computers behind a NAT is impossibru!, Suckers
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Modified my linux/windows server VMs to a static IP and outside the normally assigned DHCP range... and my mediawiki installs both broke! Why does mediawiki hardcode the installation ip!
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Just finished watching "Screamers". Rather faithful adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's "The second variety". Some flaws here and there, but still, would watch again.
List of genuinely good adaptations now extended to three. A few more awaiting for appraisal after I read the original stories.
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Just finished watching "Screamers". Rather faithful adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's "The second variety". Some flaws here and there, but still, would watch again.
List of genuinely good adaptations now extended to three. A few more awaiting for appraisal after I read the original stories.
What are the other two adaptations that you consider genuinely good?
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What are the other two adaptations that you consider genuinely good?
Blade Runner - Though it is heavily modified, I feel it keeps the feel of the paranoia well, and Deckard's character is well balanced. Sebastian is spot on, and Roy Batty is excellent. I feel the spirit is in there, even though there's a lot of stuff missing (the whole animal angle is pretty much gone, most likely the main reason for the title change). An awesome movie in it's own right anyway.
A Scanner Darkly - Near perfect adaptation. Surprised at Keanu Reeves really pulling it off. And I still refuse to believe Robert Downey jr. didn't read it because his Barris was insanely good.
Stuff left to check out - Next / The Golden man, Paycheck / Paycheck, still haven't either watched or read Radio Free Albemuth.
Note: Total Recall is a fun movie, but I wouldn't dare calling it an adaptation, because other than the basic idea it has nothing to do with the story. Maybe for the best, the story is kinda silly.
Minority Report can go burn in hell.
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Current status: replacing iterators with generators in Python
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Which version of Total Recall? The original or the remake?
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Which version of Total Recall? The original or the remake?
Oh, right, there was a remake. It enticed a "meh" from me.
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Oh, right, there was a remake. It enticed a "meh" from me.
Yup. I thought there were some interesting ideas, like the phone-in-the-hand, and the fact that both of Howser's partner females looked borderline interchangeable (unlike the very different women in the original) but overall a meh too.
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Finalizing deployment scripts while production app builds.
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The learning curve of MVC is painful, I regularly do C# development, but getting MVC configured to play nice is a fucking pain.
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Go play with Salesforce.com
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No. Fuck you for wishing that on me.
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Haha. I have an app on there. From my last job. If anyone asks if I know how to code for SFDC, I say, "yes, and I know not to ever again."
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List of genuinely good adaptations now extended to three. A few more awaiting for appraisal after I read the original stories.
I can recommend Rainer W. Fassbinders Adaption of "Simulacron 3" by Daniel F. Galouye. It's a tv adaption originally aired in two installments, which then vanished for > 20 years but has been released a couple of years back on DVD.Very close to the original and great acting & directing!
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Status: @work, general maintenance / bug fixing. Waiting for coffee to work as well.
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I can recommend Rainer W. Fassbinders Adaption of "Simulacron 3" by Daniel F. Galouye. It's a tv adaption originally aired in two installments, which then vanished for > 20 years but has been released a couple of years back on DVD.
Will check it out. My initial list was PKD only though. If I were to extend it... well, need more books tbh :P
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need ... more ... coffee ...
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Screaming at Python bullshit. 2.7 is installed,
/usr/bin/python
points at the 2.7 version but nooo, the fucking installer keeps using 2.6 and then complains it's too old.
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Android phone decided to mysteriously use up all battery at night again. So I missed the morning alarm and an important call. God fuck shit crap dammit
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Android phone decided to mysteriously use up all battery at night again. So I missed the morning alarm and an important call. God fuck shit crap dammit
It's ok. At least an overly complicated piece of technology failed you. I have a regular dumb alarm clock that decides to miss alarms at random (and no, it's not an AM / PM thing, it's uses 24h format).
I'm going back to mechanic, I swear.
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Status: bathroom manglers day 9. They are only 2½ hours late.
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At my last job we wrote an iPad app. It was rejected because we had a link to our web-based help pages included in the app! They were upset because that link was to our company website where users could contact us for quotes on our services and somehow that's against the EULA. We actually had to remove our help link for the app to be accepted.
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iPad apps should just work, right? Providing help to users is Doing It Wrong.
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Oh I know Apple is full of questionable app guidelines and not very intelligent reviewers.
I mean, as mentioned, the app is basically just a website wrapper. Last year it was approved, then this year it was rejected twice, once because the one reviewer didn't see links on the page after logging in, then again because it's just a website wrapper. Yet, the previous version is still in the app store.
Another time, they rejected an app because they said it "exhibited" bugs, because the reviewer couldn't log in, because they were putting the password in the user name field and (I assume) the user name in the password field.