The Official Status Thread
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To be fair, this beast is frickin' huge. It's bigger than my Vaio Flip 17' unit.
You have a 17 foot laptop?
You must have a huge lap.
Also discovered that it doesn't support Stepping in the CPU, but it almost appears that the CPU is user-replaceable.
It likely is, but you also likely have the highest performance supported CPU in it already.
Almost considering it, actually. What's the max RAM we have available for DDR1 again? This might almost make a good homework PC...
Save your pennies and buy something else. Nearly anything else will give you better performance and battery life. A couple of weeks ago I dumped a 17" Dell Vostro 3700 on craigslist for $150 with 8GB of RAM and an i3 and it had a fairly new extended capacity battery in it. A laptop that is literally a decade newer can be picked up for the $100-200 mark.
As for limits on DDR RAM, well, there wasn't really one. Sticks over 1GB got pretty expensive though. The last DDR machine that I had I installed 4GB of RAM in it and I can pretty much guarantee that I paid more for that than I did for the 32GB of RAM I have in my current desktop.
Battery: 50% after 50 minutes, so 1%/min.Since the CPU can't ever scale down, I guess that's the going-rate then.Also, not bad for such an old battery. The other Gateway's battery is shot (though to be fair it was actually used).
Not bad for an old battery, but still pretty shit. Play around with it, have some fun, then recycle it. Machines that old are literally not worth the power that they draw or the time you consume in getting them running.
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Eh, forgot to push Shift. Whatever,highest performance supported CPU in it already.
Yeah, was looking to see if I could get it to cool down though. The fans in this thing almost NEVER turn off! I could probably fry something with the heat output of this thing... And I'm not talking about the 150 Watt PSU.Save your pennies and buy something else.
I'll drop $10 for an easy memory upgrade that should (in theory) allow this thing moderate performance for doing homework.
A laptop that is literally a decade newer can be picked up for the $100-200 mark.
Can a laptop of equal or greater value be picked up for the amount I got this one? (Free) I'll take that too.Sticks over 1GB got pretty expensive though.
Yeah, Manufacturer-stated max was 2 Gb (Which assumes two sticks of 1 GB each).still pretty shit
For how much power this thing sucks?! That's borderline amazing!recycle it
I am, that's why I slapped the latest capable Windows on it to give to someone who needs a working PC. Oh wait, you meant another definition of "recycle", didn't you?getting them running.
To be fair, this thing was 100% perfectly operational when it arrived in my possession, it hadn't even really been used. So... No effort was spent (really) getting it running. Everything I've done is hobby/experimentation.It plays YouTube fine, gets on to any moderate website (Discourse excluded) pretty well, good enough for people who only need to do Word, email, and Job Search.
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gets on to any moderate website (Discourse excluded) pretty well
How about this one? https://discourse.local.lubar.me/
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not always software is to blame.
But if you want to bet, just blame the software and you would be correct 90% of the times
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(uint64_t)(osffset * BLOCK_SIZE)
is not the same as((uint64_t)osffset * BLOCK_SIZE)
the former is just a foolish cast to hide warnings helpfully given by the compiler, to let you destroy your file system with pleasure.So here is the corollary:
Any one who has not written C for at least 15 years should not write C.
With the theorem:
Just do not write C
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Status: The new ESO expansion is out, Thieve's Guild. It's all about khajiits and stealing shit. Yay.
... it's also a 3 GB download on ESO's slow-ass update servers, so. Whee. I guess.
Oh it's forcing Bittorrent on me and it's going so slow because it's uploading 4+ times what it's downloading. I am just your drug mule, Zenimax, abuse me.
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Was @Lorne_Kates selling off some of his extra machines?
@Tsaukpaetra said:This was part of a group of recovered stuff from an old lady
@Lorne_Kates How much RAM would it take, for you to murder old ladies? Does it include winking or you charge extra?
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How about this one? https://discourse.local.lubar.me/
Checking...
Initial page load: 4 seconds. Ajax-complete-bar: Indefinite (Unknown cause Unsecure resource?).
Loaded login screen... Logged in... OK!Tab memory usage: 130,112k after browsing upward in the Status thread for ten minutes (Ending at post 37897). Memory usage dropped back to 64,032k due to unloading shortly afterward.
Site is deemed highly performant!
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khajiits
That's not a khajiit. This is a khajiit:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/b/b0/M'aiqTheLiarCC.png
What you have in that picture is a man in a fursuit stealing from this part of RuneScape:
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Site is deemed highly performant!
Discourse on a professionally hosted VPS with an SSD over some really high bandwidth dedicated line: 0
NodeBB on an old computer in @ben_lubar's basement with a spinning rust drive over MilwaukeePC: 1
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Discourse on a professionally hosted VPS with an SSD over some really high bandwidth dedicated line: 0NodeBB on an old computer in @ben_lubar's basement with a spinning rust drive over MilwaukeePC:
1∞FTFY
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Khajiits in ESO look way better than the Skyrim ones.
Argonians look slightly worse however.
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If you compare the screenshot of Skyrim in my post to the screenshot of the MMO, Skyrim looks a lot better.
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I guess I can't argue with that stupid logic.
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Stupid logic wins again!
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This is all assholes giving unsolicited advice, assholes who have been here long enough to know I hate unsolicited advice.
You should ask them to stop doing it. And if they keep doing it, tell them to f* themselves.
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Try getting thicker windows, or something.
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According to my most recent visit, they take the card away and do stuff for a while, then waddle back with something that you sign and you get your card back. Bent.
That's how you get your card cloned
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You must have a huge lap.
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That's how you get your card cloned
Not so far. I've not yet needed to buy gas in the US…
Cloning a chip-and-pin card is much harder. Requires very specialised equipment. Getting the info off the magstripe is easy — it's pretty much just what is embossed on the front anyway — but the chip is a hardened crypto module.
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Status: Last day of the con, and DST has already taken an hour of it. :'(
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Come to Germany!
We have DST a week or two later than you!
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Cloning a chip-and-pin card is much harder. Requires very specialised equipment
I assumed mag-stripe because US
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But the only fur con I know anywhere nearby is Eurofurence! :<
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You assumed wrong because PCI DSS
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on to any moderate website (Discourse excluded)
Seems redundant. Discourse is definitely not moderate.
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I keep this tool in a kitchen drawer because it is the only way I've figured out to get into a bottle of maple syrup:
How do others do?
Status: pancakes
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y not moderate
It doesn't need a massive Silverlight/ActiveX/Flash/bbq download to run, right?
Oh, right, JavaScript.
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Status: If you are not a believer in Zombie Jesus, Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs are easily the best part of Easter.
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Status: watching old movies again. What amazes me about old movies is how few soundtracks there were shared by ALL of them. (The movie from Spacemaster X-7? Yes, also the music from the Brain that Wouldn't Die.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAFdKYsk7TA
Also the narrator at about 1:20 pronounces "Soviet" in the best way possible.
EDIT: Unlike The Brain that Wouldn't Die, this movie is actually pretty genuinely scary.
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How do others do?
Flip-top bottles.
http://retailpackagingmag.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Clarks-Lineup.jpg
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Lies. Cadbury Creme Eggs are superior.
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Diabeetus
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glad to see that @ben_lubar is working to make us feel at home
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Wow, you caught me right in the middle of me deciding to update all my docker containers. Which requires deleting them and remaking them.
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Needs to be renamed to 502 OK Gateway.
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ha! i tought it was something like that, but it amused me to find it.
also, i had to recheck the URL twice to be sure i wasn't looking at discourse
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I wonder if I can make a zero-downtime updater. Something like keeping the old container running until the new container is completely ready and then switching over the unix socket as fast as possible.
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keeping the old container running until the new container is completely ready and then switching over the unix socket as fast as possible.
This sounds very familiar to a kernel upgrade thingy I heard about recently...
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The only hard part would be making sure the old version doesn't write anything anywhere while the new version is being run.
NodeBB doesn't seem to have a "read only" mode. That's not a point in Discourse's favor, though, since Discourse's "read only" mode still writes huge amounts of data to the database.
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The only hard part would be making sure the old version doesn't write anything anywhere while the new version is being run.
Shouldn't be a problem if they're careful with their document structure. But trying to do rolling upgrades is probably more effort than necessary, I'd just tell the reverse proxy to respond with a static 'upgrade in progress' instead of generic 502, and schedule upgrades for low traffic hours.
Also you can minimize downtime by building an image with all the steps other than database upgrade prebaked, so the switch-over is "stop old, run --rm upgrade, run new".
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Discourse's "read only" mode still writes huge amounts of data to the database.
Status: Power restored after the wind knocked it out for maybe an hour or so.
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Status: Upon further reflection, "this NoSQL database is faster than a relational database because it doesn't support JOINs" is like saying "this truck bed sedan is faster than a car because it doesn't support driving".
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Status: trying to decide whether to contest the ContentID match against Horizon Shift, or just delete the video. Leaning towards delete.
If you really want to see it, it's available on Twitch replay still: https://www.twitch.tv/blakeyrat/v/54138486 (skip to 31 mins) until Twitch deletes it (I think 2 weeks? Don't remember)
EDIT: I'll just use the "remove song" feature and upload it with a weird silence of the game audio during that 20 seconds. It's one of those horrible CD Baby matches, and I understand that those guys are total dicks.
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Status: I've spent all day thinking I'd have to have some instant or veggie-based dinner because I was too lazy to go shopping today. I look in the fridge to grab out the veggies, and lo and behold, there's a half-pound of hamburger and exactly two hamburger buns left in there. It's a miracle!
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contest the ContentID match against Horizon Shift,
Contest it, and if they don't respond if a few days, then do music remove.
Status: Manually disinfecting Windows 2003 Server. With no installation ISO, this might be fun!
So far WebRoot has been so helpful, securely erasing cmd.exe, ctfmon.exe, and now DSynchronize (from network share)!Every reboot, it selects a new file to delete! It's file roulette!
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The problem is if you contest it, the "owner" has the ability to punt the video-- and if they do that you get a copyright strike and are limited to 15 mins.
So it's only risk-free to contest a ContentID hit if you already have a strike. In that case, it would remove the strike. In my case, I have no strike, so.
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the "owner" has the ability to punt the video
Well, is their music legitimately in the video?
I got a strike once from a vid I uploaded of some girl's piano recital. Content ID said it was some baby music CD thing, I contested and they released it (because it was very obviously not the same song at all).
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My Dwarf Fortress videos don't get ContentID'd. Yay for the 9 hour extended cut of 4'33" being public domain!
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Well, is their music legitimately in the video?
Yes, in that the person who made the game's soundtrack uploaded it to CD Baby and then turned on CD Baby's "music Nazi" mode.
Whether or not the creator of the game approved of that action, I have no way of knowing.
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