The Official Status Thread
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Root canal success! With the help of two valium.
That's nice. And the absence of the problem that caused you to need the root canal work done will probably leave you feeling much better even when you reduce the painkillers. It certainly did for me a number of years back (and it got me out of a shitty conference I didn't want to go to, so double win!)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
even when you reduce the painkillers
oh yeha, they didn't give me vicodin, because they were worried it'd interfere with my other drugs. So I've got ibuprofin when the novicaine wears off and that's about it
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Status: A ticket just came in with a subject line that says, "I got it to stop talking, but I guess there is still a virus?! :("
There is nothing in the body of the email.
There is a page long signature.
That single ticket puts us over our quota for stupidity for the day and it is not even lunch yet.
The tech that pulled the ticket just responded with "Huh?". :)
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
virus
Non computer-savvy user -> techy translation:
virus -> something happening that I don't understand/like
Kind of like Blakey's definition of a bug, everything unexpected is a virus for some people
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STATUS just looking over my comments before a commit. Every second sentence ends with a "!"! It makes it all seem very exciting. :D
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@Jaloopa like the last guy that called me about "a virus".
Blown PSU, for the record. It was completely dead.
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@Onyx when I worked as a waiter at a restaurant, the manager was convinced that the errors in end-of-day totals on the ancient, non Windows based, non Internet connected POS system was a virus.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Non computer-savvy user -> techy translation:
Much like how "hard drive" can mean anything from the tower itself, to the actual hard drive and tons of other shit.
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@Polygeekery more advanced users "know" it's called the CPU. Because that's short for ComPUter, right?
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@Polygeekery They turned on a screenreader.
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
They turned on a screenreader.
It turned out to just be one of those stupid webpages that starts talking and tells you to call a number for support because you have a virus.
No real virus, but a real bastard to shutdown. They rebooted the computer and it is gone.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I found these "new" mice still in their original packaging. The box states "Designed specifically for Windows 95" and they come with a 3.5" floppy disk with drivers.
I bet they're ball mice, too. Probably the ball is state-of-the-art hand-carved ivory.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
A ticket just came in with a subject line that says, "I got it to stop talking, but I guess there is still a virus?!
The malware ads that are getting injected into the network talk.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
No real virus, but a real bastard to shutdown.
The big problem I've seen with those is the constant alerts. At least Chrome has a "don't let this page open any more message boxes" checkbox, that lets you just close the page.
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STATUS
Why do I end up writing so much more test code than application code when I'm allowed to write unit tests
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
They turned on a screenreader.
It turned out to just be one of those stupid webpages that starts talking and tells you to call a number for support because you have a virus.
Me and my browser with NoScript, AdBlock and Ghostery don't see that shit.
It's funny how often I can reply to a post with "See, this is why I run NoScript"... and yet I've never encountered a case where someone can reply with "See, this is why I DON'T run NoScript".
:smug_asshole_bastard_fucker:
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
and yet I've never encountered a case where someone can reply with "See, this is why I DON'T run NoScript"
Just one reason. Websites that fucking work
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
and yet I've never encountered a case where someone can reply with "See, this is why I DON'T run NoScript"
Just one reason. Websites that fucking work
Selective whitelisting. Next.
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@Lorne-Kates sounds like effort.
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@Lorne-Kates I hear you have to do a lot of that when you use fire fox 20 on windows xp
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ut oh.....
that's never a good thing to find in your invoicing sprocs.
if i find the person who wrote this system i'm giving them a right ding about the ears
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
i'm giving them a right ding about the ears
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@blakeyrat no, with a baseball bat.
one of the metal ones. that go *DING* when they hit
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Me and my browser with NoScript, AdBlock and Ghostery don't see that shit.
You will with AB+GS, though.
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Status: so apparently i can sleep with a hand on my mouse, thinking really hard about the article I was going to write. oops.
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Status: Spent basically the entire morning researching XML parsing, and now I'm ready for death. ... I mean lunch. Cyanide lunch.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a really fucking long way of saying, "the idiots who designed GitHub used the word 'move' when they meant 'copy'."
Awe, thanks! It's good to be appreciated....
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status I want a brain-to-computer interface to be invented.
Then I want @accalia to buy one.
Beacuse I want to know if she thinks in typos.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Beacuse I want to know if she thinks in typos.
No, however the interface probably won't be able to work so well due to the uber-cleverness inherent in foxes.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I want a brain-to-computer interface to be invented.
agreed.
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Then I want @accalia to buy one.
do want.
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Beacuse I want to know if she thinks in typos.
nope. i think in thinkos.
:-P
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@Tsaukpaetra E_CUNNING_OVERFLOW
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Status: The Keurig just did its best showerhead impersonation, spraying in every direction except that of my mug.
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@mott555 it committed suicide for the good of the planet.
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Status: Doing a lot of research into various JMS Servers/Systems/MQ-Brokers/Whatever-the-fuck-they-are-called-in-Java-land. At some point I'm going to have to learn the *nix ACL system. FML.
At least Windows had ACL auditing/logging(SACLs for you pedant badgers) built in since a minimum of XP.
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra E_CUNNING_OVERFLOW
If you're a cunning enough linguist, you'll always get overflow.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 it committed suicide for the good of the
planetforce obsolescence of the product requiring you to buy a new one. And hopefully your office manager is enamored with jangling keys, so will buy the new KURIG TWO POINT OH so that they can thump some DRM on you and prevent you using UNAUTHORIZED PODS=(
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
UNAUTHORIZED PODS
People have long since figured out how to spoof the machines. As was predicted.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
If you're a cunning enough linguist, you'll always get overflow.
@vote flip tables
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Tails.
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@vote said in The Official Status Thread:
Tails.
If you're a cunning enough linguist, you'll have no trouble getting tail.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
you'll have no trouble getting tail.
Well, unless I'm not out there chasing them, eh? Self-imposed house-arrest is usually a to IRL unless you're prepared...
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@Lorne-Kates It worked fine on the second try, so if it was a suicide it was only a temporary one.
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Status:
Time in new job: 2 months (calendar) and 2 days
Kit provided to me:- one non-tech laptop, on which I can use Office, read my emails, and access internet using IE9 (on which, amongst other sites*, StackOverflow doesn't work very well). I should also be able to access internet through an annoyingly locked-down version of Firefox, which is on all the machines for the purpose of using the tech support app, which I presume doesn't work properly in IE9. However, my machine's developed a strange fault that means amongst other things that I can't open Firefox. I haven't yet got around to finding out the tech support app's URL - it's usually accessed via a desktop shortcut that opens it in Firefox - and seeing whether I can raise a ticket in IE.
- one developer's laptop borrowed from the supplier from whom we're attempting to in-source our dev work. This can't access the internet but can access the supplier's remote network so I can actually get code and stuff. It's Kensington locked to the desk as we're not trusted with their machines otherwise. For raisins related to network access, mine is locked on the border between two other guys' desks. We have two laptops each. Despite my best efforts to be assertive and claim a third of each of their desks, they manage to encroach from either side so that I have to put one laptop behind the other. In addition, my laptop is missing some key bits of software and I learned today that it can't be installed over remote access, the laptop has to be returned to the supplier's site on the other side of the country.
On the plus side, weather: didn't bother with a coat today but should probably buy a bottle of sunblock sometime soon.
*WTDWTF displays surprisingly well in IE9 but is read-only. The same is true on my phone.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
has to be returned to the supplier's site on the other side of the country.
Well, that should only take an hour or so then, right?
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, that should only take an hour or so then, right?
Three hours drive each way. That's if I'm going with an actual employee of my company, as they can drive a company car. My non-contractor co-worker doesn't actually have his borrowed laptop yet so the software can be installed without him having to go there. If I have to go without him I'd have to get the train and that apparently takes even longer.
Basically, this country's so narrow no-one saw the need for any decent transport links going across it. (Plus in the Northern half we have what passes in England for a mountain range in the middle.) It's quite easy to travel up and down, but across is a different matter.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
but across is a different matter.
That depends where you are. Some parts have decent East-West transport.