The Official Status Thread
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(a 10 minute brisk walk)
2m/s * 60 * 10 = 1200
So it is 1200 meters from your desk to the NAS?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/fire-recognising-microagressions/49822/1876
Filed under: I immediately thought of @Groaner's post from the other day.
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I remember upgrading a computer by installing Windows 95 from floppy…
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I wish I'd had that floppy. 95 would've been an upgrade over ME.
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Continuing the discussion from The One Word Story Thread:
Thus
Status: "Thus becoming greatly homosexual mute rats."
Those poor rats, they're both homosexual and unable to talk!
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Being greatly homosexual is, well, great, actually.
Being mute, on the other hand... Not so great.
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About a year ago, I was in one of our other offices, and I found a Windows 95 PC sat in the corner of a desk. Turned on and apparently there for a purpose.
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You said it wasn't "registered" on the wired network though, right?
Oh, that's just because of the complexity of all the partitioning of various things. It's just bureaucracy. (Getting the wired address binding moved between network segments would mean doing some shenanigans with finance and Life Is Too Short.)
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Status: Looking at a cheap 42" 4K TV to use as a PC monitor. The reviews are frustrating though. Lots of claims that its input lag is far too high to use as a PC monitor, but there's a firmware upgrade which fixes that. Some claim the firmware fix did nothing or didn't do enough. And nobody has bothered to actually measure and report the "fixed" input lag in milliseconds.
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Being greatly homosexual is, well, great, actually.
You only have experience with Fox homosexuality. For all you know, rat homosexuality could be terrible.
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So it is 1200 meters from your desk to the NAS?
Maybe? Not in a straight line though; it involves going around a large-ish building site, and quite a few stairs because some architects thought that was a good idea. (The NAS is sitting next to the main systems that will be using it; it just happens that my office is some distance away.)
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Being greatly homosexual is, well, great, actually.
Being mute, on the other hand... Not so great.
It would be great if you were mute.
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95 would've been an upgrade over ME.
I'm not convinced. 95's networking support was actually poor; that was one of the things that was improved in 98 (and I never owned ME; my machine purchasing cadence took me to using XP as an early adopter).
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If he said this with the tone of "I shouldn't be put on anything advanced"...then it is still a .
More like "Learning is hard and takes time, so if you put me on things that require learning then it's your fault it takes me a long time"
I think my silence was close enough to "Oh how about you learn to do your fucking job and learn the fucking technology you're working with like any competent professional would do".
Fuck-- I mean if this was a chemistry lab, and the junior assistant didn't know how to light a Bunsen burner, I'd be but give them the benefit of the doubt. I'd show them once.
If they then said "I should have to do any work I don't know how to do", and that list included every basic thing you need to know to run a lab-- and they expect me to do it-- well, fuck, why do I need a lab assistant? I can't just do your job on my own. Or hire someone who WILL do it.
And if they double down on that by saying "I don't really understand chemistry, but if you tell me the chemicals to mix and in what quantity, I'll do it"-- fuck off again! This is basic knowledge of your trade.
And if they quadruple down on THAT by not learning what they don't know over the course of ten months, then fuck off! If you don't know something required for your job, spend all your goddamn free time learning it or get another job.
AND FUCK YOU DISCOURSE FOR GIVING ME A 500 ERROR THEN SAYING MY POST IS TOO SIMILAR! I DON'T SEE MY GODDAMN POST AT THE END OF THIS THREAD SO I ASSUME IT ISN'T POSTED. FUCK YOU.
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For all you know, I am mute. Typing is quite possible without speech.
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Windows 95 did fine with IPX. I don't know if I ever tried IP on it. Though Doom-engine games were the extent of my Win95 networking experience.
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Holy shit, ouch.
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Hire slowly, fire quickly.
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To this day, Windows ME is the only OS on which I have seen a BkSOD. Not only that, but it was sporadic. For no apparent reason. Try rebooting it the next day and suddenly it starts again.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I mean if this was a chemistry lab, and the junior assistant didn't know how to light a Bunsen burner, I'd be but give them the benefit of the doubt.
I wouldn't wait. Unless they were a schoolkid, I'd kick 'em out for that. A lab assistant needs a lot of expertise; they do a lot of preparatory work to make the experiments possible. Or to put it another way, the lab assistants I know already have their PhD…
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STATUS:
Sleipnir is made out of Chrome.
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Windows ME is the only OS on which I have seen a BkSOD.
Dodgy hardware or bad drivers. Usually linked nowadays to having a cutting-edge graphics card…
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Dodgy hardware or bad drivers. Usually linked nowadays to having a cutting-edge graphics card…
Also, third-party extensions and/or Linux hardware.
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Sleipnir is made out of Chrome.
Actually, Sleipnir is made out of Loki/Svadilfari
(An interesting side note: Svadilfari is a stallion)
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Dodgy hardware
Seems legit. However, even if all of my issues with that desktop were hardware-related, I think I would still rather have 95 over ME anyway.
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Was there a purple dildo inside it?
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I didn't think to look inside it. Missed opportunity, maybe.
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rather just for visitors.
Nothing warns customers off faster than shitting guest wifi.
ETA: I meant "shitty guest wifi". I can't even use swype as a scapegoat.
Dammit, @accalia, you are contagious!
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Hire slowly, fire quickly.
I hear the exact opposite is how they do things in Europe.
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Correct. That's why it's weird.
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Not even having no operational WiFi?
Net result seems to be that patch cables seem to be reproducing at alarming rates
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WtfCorp: Hire on a whim, job for life.
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Doesn't Windows Sleipnir have the option to use Trident?
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I've never met a hotel with WiFi that functioned when the hotel is anywhere remotely near capacity. Seems they generally have substantially fewer DHCP addresses than rooms.
In fact, I've only really seen it work when the hotel is basically empty.
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Not even having no operational WiFi?
Not that we get visitors much in my office, but we have a switch in our conference room, which is where we usually put them. We used to have a wifi from when my office was a separate company, but when it died and we asked for a replacement router, IT had a hissy fit. Apparently wifi on a corporate network is dangerously unsafe.
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I've never met a hotel with WiFi
The last hotel I stayed at had a cable. Before that, the wifi was down or something. One of my coworkers had a small AP and a large antenna and leeched the wifi from the next hotel.
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Status: Couldn't sleep last night until about 5am and then slept right through my alarms. Very late for work, yay.
Must be something in the air. An hour late for me... (And thanks to FitBit, I can see why.)
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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions
I continue to make my annual resolution: I resolve not to make a resolution.
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Nothing warns customers off faster than shitting guest wifi.
IIRC, we allow through ports 80, 443 and whatever is needed for common VPNs, and none of our internal address ranges can be reached from the guest wifi. That's usually enough for visitors, but really f'ing annoying to work on.
The other one (which also serves as a guest wifi system for visitors from most EU academic institutions, by a clever piece of security federation) lets me into the internal network with only very light port blocking. The only things I can't just do when running on it are run DHCP, DNS or SMTP servers. I can live with that. (Outsiders on it get magically transparently VPNed into their home institution. It's actually rather awesome when that works.) Oh, and our printers are blocked from it too, but that's because they're not configured sanely. Like I print things these days…
No, the problem seems to be something horrible at this other site, and even then not in the whole building. If I go into the actual lab, I can get a signal, but that involves putting on protective gear and most of the guest lab-coats don't fit my shoulders.
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In fact, I've only really seen it work when the hotel is basically empty.
I've seen conferences rewire their hotel's wireless network during the conference just to make things work properly… Yes, I knew more network engineers back then.
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I have no idea. Maybe? I wouldn't expect that to be the default, though.
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What kind of hotel has 16,000,000 rooms?
What kind of hotel decides that a home router is suitable for 400 rooms?
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That wouldn't stop him from posting.
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Whenever I visit one of our offices, the corporate WiFi refuses to work properly with my laptop despite working fine at the others. It's usually easier to connect to the non-corporate entirely open WiFi and use the VPN to connect back into our network than battle with the corporate WiFi there.
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`http://$THEIPADDRESS:5000/
AhHa!
strictly, fails to load some dynamic page by background load, not real hang
Browser fail? I can't use FF (almost, but eventually wants java) or Edge (holy fuck that's bad) to view Vanguard's website.
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Actually, Sleipnirs are made out of the following:
- 1 Cyclone
- 200 Construction Blocks
- 220 Morphite
- 15 R.A.M.- Starship Tech
- 206 Plasma Thruster
- 561 Ladar Sensor Cluster
- 503 Nanomechanical Microprocessor
- 693 Fernite Carbide Composite Armor Plate
- 253 Nuclear Reactor Unit
- 401 Electrolytic Capacitor Unit
- 496 Deflection Shield Emitter
And the Cyclone is made up of:
- 1,785,815 Tritanium
- 445,501 Pyerite
- 107,628 Mexallon
- 31,875 Isogen
- 1,917 Zydrine
- 752 Megacyte
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Ben, we don't care about dorfortress!