The Official Status Thread
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Whatever. It's a great sport. The game yesterday was awesome.
(I was only thinking of team sports, BTW. Didn't think about stuff like tennis.)
And while a lot of other sports on that list are interesting as well, I'll never get why people watch basketball. It sucks compared to handball.
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And while a lot of other sports on that list are interesting as well, I'll never get why people watch basketball.
I used to play basketball as a kid. It's a cracking sport to both play and watch; non-stop action for the entire match
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Status: LinkedIn spam. So, I have my Yahoo! account associated with LinkedIn but today I received a contact request to my GMail account. What the hell?
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@asdf said:
It's quite interesting how popular basket ball is in Europe despite the pitiful coverage. I watch mostly soccer and ice hockey but a lot of those sports will show up in my news feeds occasionally but rarely basket ball.And while a lot of other sports on that list are interesting as well, I'll never get why people watch basketball.
I used to play basketball as a kid. It's a cracking sport to both play and watch; non-stop action for the entire matchWhere is curling though? We don't talk about it but we all watch. I fucking know you do!
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Where is curling though?
The only thing I know about curling is from The Simpsons™ which basically is that it exists and that it's dumb.
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@DogsB said:
I use to think that too but one day when I was hung over and needed to pass the time I discovered curling. It's fantastic white noise...Where is curling though?
The only thing I know about curling is from The Simpsons™ which basically is that it exists and that it's dumb.
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I used to play basketball as a kid. It's a cracking sport to both play and watch; non-stop action for the entire match
Handball is the same, except that there's a goalie and that it's way more intense. ;) But to each his/her own…
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Status: beached. Hopefully I will get out of here before I spontaneously explode from the pressure of decomposition gases.
Happily, I bagged a seat in the 'pond' that overlooks a plot which is being levelled, presumably for some construction project, with an enjoyable view of the digger. There's something inexplicably animal-like about the hydraulic arm of a digger and I find them mesmerising. If I was to ever drive one I'm sure I would end up patting it affectionately every time I dismounted and probably naming it Bessy.
It's also a corner seat with my back to the window, so I'm only overlooked from one side, and not by anyone who might have an interest in me not messing around on a forum or looking at job advertisements.
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I prefer my Galaxy S5 to my Nexus 5.
-sigh-
NURSE!
We've got another one infected with the Samsung Disease.... Call the sanatorium and let them know we've got another patient for them will you?
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STATUS:
Forgot to open up RDP ports on my home PC.
TeamViewer, you the real MVP.
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Status: I need to get the network connection to our NAS upgraded…
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TeamViewer, you the real MVP.
indeed.
Work uses Juniper networks VPN?
the VPN refuses to work for me unless i install this horrible java client? and if i do install the client i've got a 50/50 chance on boot that the only way i'm getting online is via the VPN?
TeamViewer to the rescue!
: VPN? what VPN?"
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I have a Galaxy S5 with Microsoft's Arrow Launcher.
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handball
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Since when is Opera doing this kind of scummy advertising?
I was going to joke that Opera is desperate to regain it's market share, but it never really had one in recent history.
Then I was going to joke that it was probably malware disguised as Opera to try to get some social engineering installs.
And then I did a Google, and I may not be joking:
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STATUSI didn't hold my headphones while gulping my expresso and my headphones fell off my head =(
The FWP thread is up there:
Also, the "expresso" thread is right there through the tunnel of swinging phonebooks. Please strip before entering.
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Status: LinkedIn spam.
But you repeat yourself.
So, I have my Yahoo! account associated with LinkedIn but today I received a contact request to my GMail account. What the hell?
Someone else has your GMail in their contact list. LinkedIn fooled them into giving up their contact list password. You will forevermore get LinkedIn spam, because they're a good company and useful in today's networking-driven employee ecosystem and they shouldn't be burnt to the ground.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
because they're a good company and useful in today's networking-driven employee ecosystem and they shouldn't be burnt to the ground.
I feel like you're holding back what you really think.
Let it out Lorne, let it out!
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The only thing I know about curling is from The Simpsons™ which basically is that it exists and that it's dumb.
But it's nice to watch:
http://www.worldcurling.org/_upload/galleries/1116/7279-640.jpg
Filed under: Yes this is horribly sexist and I don't care, Google for Russian Women's Curling Calendar 2014 if you aren't at work, In all fairness, the Men's team is also
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Are those actual Canadians or are they just imported to pretty up publicity photos?
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Are those actual Canadians or are they just imported to pretty up publicity photos?
Obviously imported. Canadians are asexual trolls.
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Are those actual Canadians or are they just imported to pretty up publicity photos?
"Into every Canadian generation a Skipper is born: one girl in all the country, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to skip the rocks, sweep the ice, and the forces of geometry; to stop the spread of the evil of Americans who think they can play ice games and the swell of their number. She is the Skipper."
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Obviously imported. Canadians are asexual trolls
HEY! I'm very sexual. {thong dance-- thrust thrust}
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Want to watch the handball final again. And again. And again. Also still wondering why this sport is not popular on the other side if the pond.
I've seen a few games. It looks like a weird version of basketball.
Filed under:Yes, I'm American, why do you ask?
The only thing I know about curling is from The Simpsons™ which basically is that it exists and that it's dumb.
There was one interesting curling match I saw a few years ago. The woman casting the stones (no idea what the correct term is) and the woman at the other end were calling out conflicting instructions. When the 2 sweepers got to the other end, they said "we're only listening to you."
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Status: Sitting at my local car dealership because a marten decided that some cables in my car were oh-so-yummy. Let's hope he only gnawed on the cables for traction control and tire pressure surveillance.
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STATUS Dug myself into quite the hole and digging up doesn't appear to be working. Might need a bigger shovel.
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Have you tried digging up at an angle? Just make sure you're not near any large bodies of liquid.
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Actually, that could work out quite well for him; the liquid could fill the hole he's in, and he just swims to the surface
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They are dwarves ... they deserve whatever it is that is coming for them
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From TFA:
Any contact with magma results in nearly instant immolation, followed by death if water is not close at hand. Additionally, dropping large items into magma will generate clouds of magma mist which can set your haulers on fire if you aren't careful. Magma is also home to various fiery creatures which can present a significant threat to unprepared fortresses.
Magma is very well known for being the perfect solution to any problem encountered by dwarves. Giant badger invasion? Pour magma on it. Noble being his usual snotty, useless, arrogant self? Pour magma on it. Door locked due to invaders? Pour magma on it! Flooded your fortress with magma? Congratulations, you just won the game!
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What the fuck is gom player?
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STATUS There was the most horrifying noise coming from a corner of the office that blew the wind up our skirts. Turned out to be a long forgotten fax machine.
Still haven't fixed the bug and this line of inquiry turned out to be a red herring..
git reset --hard
and start again.
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I've seen a few games. It looks like a weird version of basketball.
I think it's water polo for places where it's too cold to swim or something.
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STATUS There was the most horrifying noise coming from a corner of the office that blew the wind up our skirts.
What sort of skirts? Pencil, skater, circle, skort, other?
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@DogsB said:
STATUS There was the most horrifying noise coming from a corner of the office that blew the wind up our skirts.
What sort of skirts? Pencil, skater, circle, skort, other?We like to stay classy around here ;)
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Status: why uploading a file to GDrive turns my laptop into an A380?
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uploading a file to GDrive
Because it's actually doing so via (usually hidden) Chrome window, which contains animations et al, and probably doing the rendering in software?
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STATUS Okay I've thought of my stupid purchase of month.
An expensive bottle of Gin or 16 gigs of ram? I'm learning towards Gin. I don't think I'll ever use that much ram on my home pc even when gaming.
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An expensive bottle of Gin or 16 gigs of ram? I'm learning towards Gin. I don't think I'll ever use that much ram on my home pc even when gaming.
I thought that once. But this weekend I upgraded from 8GB to 16GB, and GTAV stopped lagging. Completely.As I always say:
You can never have too much RAM ;)
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I don't think I'll ever use that much ram on my home pc even when gaming.
QFH. Let's see if we can make you famous!
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skort
There are literally the worst thing to ever be invented.
First it fucks with my brain. I look at someone wearing one, and my pattern recognition software goes haywire. It tries to identify one object as two objects. Edge detection doesn't work because I keep slipping between seeing shorts and skirt. It's an optical illusion in moving 3D and it fucks my shit up
Second, it's a teasing lying liar. I look and go "ooo, short skirt, this will be nice view from behin--- OH WHAT THE FUCK SHORTS COME ON!!!!!"
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Status: Currently wondering which dingbat did the rework of electricity in my physics room.
So, upon taking official possession of my freshly-renovated physics room, the first thing I noticed: The overhead lights don't work. Luckily, the facility manager was nearby: "Quick, to the breaker board!" Only, no such luck. All the breakers were in the "on"-position.
Maybe something about the emergency-switches? I have three of those in the room, one each near each door and one more on the teacher's board. And the two door ones have a blue light above them - which did not glow! Suspicious! And I did complain before the renovation that pushing the emergency switch did not cut off all the power to the room (nevermind that I was talking about the wall plugs).
But, it couldn't be the emergency switch because the status light on the teacher's board was still glowing, indicating that it had power! Undaunted, we still tried to reset the three switches. Success! The teacher's board switch had indeed been pressed and now the blue lights above the other two switches was glowing!
Still no overhead lights, though.
That's when I went for the idea of: "Let's switch off everything and start again!" and pressed the "Off" button on the teacher's board.
Expected result: The status light on the teacher's board should go out.
Actual result: The blue lights above the emergency switches went out. The teacher's board status light stayed on.I'm not sure which monkey did the cabling but he sure did smoke something not quite healthy.
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I thought that once. But this weekend I upgraded from 8GB to 16GB, and GTAV stopped lagging. Completely.
Odd. I don't recall ever seeing total RAM usage go over 6GB when playing GTA5.
I don't think I'll ever use that much ram on my home pc even when gaming.
I've never seen any game push total RAM usage over about 7.5GB but that's cutting it quite close if all that's available is 8. I've got 16GB anyway, I'm thinking of going to 32GB when I can justify another 16GB of DDR that I don't need.
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@RaceProUK said:
I thought that once. But this weekend I upgraded from 8GB to 16GB, and GTAV stopped lagging. Completely.
Odd. I don't recall ever seeing total RAM usage go over 6GB when playing GTA5.
I thought it was odd too. But there's no denying the results. Best guess, the system is hitting swap a lot less.
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Status: I have the local TDWTF instance set up behind a reverse proxy, and I had forgotten to set up IIS to accept the IP addresses that nginx gave it. Unfortunately, I still can't figure out how to have IIS's logs show the right client address, but at least the rewrite rules work for the commenting form. I fixed the existing comments by going into the load balancer and using a combination of
grep
andcut
and then pasting the results into SSMS.Of note: @Lorne_Kates has several different IP addresses in several different countries. Interesting.