The Official Status Thread
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@Onyx Oh, and if you're having trouble, I strongly recommend trying to get it to work from (root) command line first. Network manager error reporting is suboptimal.
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@PleegWat oh, yeah, I installed that as well, excuses... it wants a certificate, yes. I only have the host, username and a password. Is the certificate downloaded by anyconnect and stored somewhere I can extract it from? Or are these guys using some idiotic setup? I never used Cisco VPN stuff until now, I have no idea what's usually involved.
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@Onyx If your cisco client is anyconnect then you need openconnect, not vpnc.
If I remember correctly, the pre-anyconnect cisco client will indeed download a certificate automatically which you need to provide to vpnc. Or it's included in the bundle - both cisco clients seem to be designed to be shipped by your employer with prepackaged configuration.
If you're on anyconnect however, you can just type
sudo openconnect myvpn.company.com
, it'll prompt for user/pass, and then it'll work. Or it will complain about a missing secure desktop trojan, in which case you're in for a fun time.
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@PleegWat Ok, cheers, will give it a go on Monday, right now my weekend officially started, screw work stuff, woo!
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@Tsaukpaetra
The BE lunch room? Why do you have a lunchroom in Belgium?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
The BE lunch room? Why do you have a lunchroom in Belgium?
Probably because the Main lunch room got too small?
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@Luhmann dunno, but when the office straddles the border there might be some legal reason to have lunch rooms on either side? Seems far-fetched though.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
the office straddles the border
Pro-tip: don't start an office in Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau
Thanks useless OneBox!
The community of Baarle is an enclave in an enclave on the Belgian/Dutch border.
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@Luhmann From the article:
There is a landmark in the Belgian area in the centre of Baarle. This landmark is a symbolic landmark and is not located directly on the border. The pole is on the Kerkplein before the Sint-Remigiuskerk in Baarle-Hertog. The monument is a replica of the original monument. The monument was unveiled by both mayors of Baarle on 4 April 1976.
This sounds like a description from Dwarf Fortress ...
@ben_lubar?
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@aliceif That's precisely what I was thinking.
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Status: Invalid data
All I did was tap the button, NodeBB; you're the one who attached the data, whatever it is, to the button. If it's invalid, it's your own fault. Quit bitching at me about it; I can't fix it.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
CON: Milk is white, and therefore you are appropriating racial inequality. Therefore you can't use milk.
PRO: You can use chocolate milk and make a faux mochalarff.
And fuck "faux" mocha:
http://i.imgur.com/ENgVt9d.png
That, my friend, is 1.3kg of high quality dark chocolate. I also have the same in milk chocolate (though I need to restock it). If I want a mocha, I break up 4-6 of those little wonders, and make an actual mocha.
(And yes, they are in cracker boxes. Those cracker boxes are amazing for storage, and just the right size for 1.3kg of chocolate)
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Status Filling in my timesheet for the week.
Expectation: 7.5 hours per day
Expectation up to Thursday: 30 hours
Actual hours worked, mostly doing other people's jobs for them: 36+ (I might have missed a few minutes here and there)Conclusion: goofing off for the rest of the day.
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@Lorne-Kates Fuck you, give me dark chocolate.
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Status: Linked from today's article's comments:
http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/memory-storage/ssd/750-evo/MZ-750120BWLets take a look, shall we?
Wait, did they stop writing.. or....
FFS!
Edit: Because the "thumbnail" helpfully provided by NodeBB probably won't show it, I increased the width of the browser window.
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Status: PJSIP is literally the devil. I have never encountered a thing that's harder to install properly, for the sole reason of it NOT FUCKING MAKING SENSE! I PASSED THE DAMNED FLAG YOU'RE ASKING FOR!
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Status: You had it spelled correctly literally two words ago!
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I wondered when they started putting things out around PJSIP how it was going to go. Guess I'm glad I got out before it became more or less mandofun
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@izzion well, I didn't have to use it, but since this is a toy project I figured hey, I can afford fuckups, let's try it now.
Basically, I'm not sure if it's broken or I'm still doing something wrong. Apparently, default config flags are shit, I initially compiled it with defaults, and now Asterisk keeps finding that version, even though I'm bloody sure I deleted it and recompiled stuff properly.
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@Onyx OMG IT WORKS!
I have no idea what I deleted this time that I didn't before BUT IT COMPILED!
I'm connecting to work VPN, adding the config line to the docs, and making 17 copies of that note, because I'm not figuring out this shit again!
10 minutes. 10 minutes it takes me to install this shit usually. Four and a half hours this time. YAY, MY FRIDAY EVENING!
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
PRO: After drying, I smell like really nice coffee
That's really not that great after a while, even if the original coffee was superb. Otherwise I'd be deliberately spilling a few drops of coffee nearly every day.
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status Converting to python3. Finally. 2to3 is having no problems. Life is good. (Once I fixed the damn .py association in regedit so 'x.py some params' would actually work)
update: Evidently IO from pipes is different. And 2to3 didn't catch that. I think everything's done now...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
CON: Milk is white, and therefore you are appropriating racial inequality. Therefore you can't use milk.
PRO: You can use chocolate milk and make a faux mochalarff.
And fuck "faux" mocha:
http://i.imgur.com/ENgVt9d.png
That, my friend, is 1.3kg of high quality dark chocolate. I also have the same in milk chocolate (though I need to restock it). If I want a mocha, I break up 4-6 of those little wonders, and make an actual mocha.
(And yes, they are in cracker boxes. Those cracker boxes are amazing for storage, and just the right size for 1.3kg of chocolate)
Ooooooooh what brand?
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Status: Sent a screenshot in response to a "Where is the file, we've been waiting for it to appear?" question (at 4pm, when the file generates at 5 AM).
Pony got through just as I was taking the snap and didn't think about it before hitting "Send". Whoops?
Totally sums up my feelings though....
Edit: INB4 files that are named "Daily" are apparently not being produced daily...
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@Tsaukpaetra Whoa, it's insured for 35 total bytes written?
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Status: preparing for moving (boxing mostly) was very tiring last night, but I realized I really like a glass of Oban while doing some physical excercise. It is time to mix a good habit with a bad one, jut to balance things out
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Whoa, it's insured for 35 total bytes written?
Yes, I think that's what the entry in today's article insinuated.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Status Filling in my timesheet for the week.
Expectation: 7.5 hours per day
Expectation up to Thursday: 30 hours
Actual hours worked, mostly doing other people's jobs for them: 36+ (I might have missed a few minutes here and there)Conclusion: goofing off for the rest of the day.
Status: I kind of want to be a dick and post my timesheet.
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@dse I picked up some Japanese green tea grape wine at the grocery store. I have no idea what it tastes like. 9% alcohol by volume.
MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: do I drink it from a shotglass or a wine bottle?! I think it's more wine than anything so wine bottle.
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Status: I finally found an excuse to switch from Safari to Chrome on iOS. One of the topics here (Evil Ideas, maybe; I don't remember for sure) crashed Safari. This is not unusual, of course; Safari crashes an average of about every 10 minutes, or so, while browsing TDWTF. However, this time it crashed so hard that when I launched it again, it had forgotten all of its open tabs — tabula rasa — so no reason to keep using it.
Status 2: The mobile UX of NodeBB on Chrome/iOS is just as borked, if not moreso, than Safari. :(
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@HardwareGeek All browsers on iOS are just reskinned Safari. Apple does not allow other browsers to be installed on iOS. At least from what I have heard.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: do I drink it from a shotglass or a wine bottle?! I think it's more wine than anything so wine bottle.
Did you mean wine glass? With you it could really go either way.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek All browsers on iOS are just reskinned Safari. Apple does not allow other browsers to be installed on iOS. At least from what I have heard.
Even if that's true, the Chrome skin at least allows the existence of more than 8 tabs — not that my ancient device can handle that many, but in theory.
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Status: You have one minute to complete 3 boss fights simultaneously without allowing any of the healer NPCs that spawn every few seconds to revive the bosses. And then you'll have access to a boss fight.
Spoiler alert: we didn't make it
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Status: I think I may have borked the charging system of this computer. It's powered by two 500 mAh 3.7 V Li Ion batteries, and is currently reporting 7% battery level despite having a voltage reading of 4.012 V (double-checked with a multimeter).
Eventually if I run it down (takes a few hours) it does drop the last few percent necessary to get Windows to force a shutdown (I've tweaked the settings to not turn off until the minimum, which is apparently 4%).
All hints and tips on how to "recalibrate" the battery don't seem to be working, and I can't have it stuck at 7% because under normal settings that forces a hibernate/shutdown immediately when unplugged...
This project is literally fighting me every step, every glance, every thought of the way.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Fuck you, give me dark chocolate.
PM me your address and I'll mail you some.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Ooooooooh what brand?
I forget. If I remember, I'll check on Monday.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek All browsers on iOS are just reskinned Safari. Apple does not allow other browsers to be installed on iOS. At least from what I have heard.
I think (NO GOOGLE FOR ME) that it's Chrome, but it uses the Webkit engine instead of the Chrome engine.
I know this because the .Net framework, in some cases, chokes to death because it doesn't recognize Webkit above a certain version number (unless you add an entry to App_Browsers).
Both Chrome and Safari on iOS claim to be Webkit.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek All browsers on iOS are just reskinned Safari. Apple does not allow other browsers to be installed on iOS. At least from what I have heard.
I think (NO GOOGLE FOR ME) that it's Chrome, but it uses the Webkit engine instead of the Chrome engine.
I know this because the .Net framework, in some cases, chokes to death because it doesn't recognize Webkit above a certain version number (unless you add an entry to App_Browsers).
Both Chrome and Safari on iOS claim to be Webkit.
Hahahahaha!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I may have borked the charging system of this computer.
Took some battery logs from the system, one set taken a few days ago during testing, the other now, and spliced them together.
That top left portion is the now, the bottom right portion is what it should be (ish).
Oh well...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I think (NO GOOGLE FOR ME) that it's Chrome, but it uses the Webkit engine instead of the Chrome engine.
Then it is Safari. For all intensive porpoises anyway. It is running the iOS engine. The rest is window dressing.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Status Filling in my timesheet for the week.
Expectation: 7.5 hours per day
Expectation up to Thursday: 30 hours
Actual hours worked, mostly doing other people's jobs for them: 36+ (I might have missed a few minutes here and there)Conclusion: goofing off for the rest of the day.
Statusbolded text****bolded text what actually happened
(2 seconds of goofing off)
Lorne how do I implement SpecialThing in GetItem() so FunkyPage.aspx uses it? It's going to be a lot of work.
... just put DoSpecialThing() in the GetItem() function.
Which one?
??? The only one.
There's more than one.
???
{Visual Studio, go to ItemHandlerCode, and see at least eight versions of GetItem(multiple signatures), and GetItemSpecial, and GetItemChild, etc}
I thought in the latest version we refactored the code so there wouldn't be all these GetItem functions all over the fu-- all over the place!
{shrug} (in all fairness, she isn't in charge of the core product design...)
(still ranting) Like seriously! The only difference between these two is a variable in the signature! Literally-- look!
(copy and paste both versions of GetItem into BeyondCompare-- there is only a single line of difference amongst dozens of line of handling code)
SERIOUSLY! These should be merged, and just have an if/else block at the end. This is why we keep having bugs where SpecialThing works on one page but not another-- because someone forgot to put SpecialThingHandler in every version of "GetItem". ARG!
So what should I do?
.............. this is for a change, right? The customer only wants SpecialThing on FunkyPage.aspx?
Yes
(opens FunkyPage.aspx-- finds the one signature for GetItem() it uses) Put DoSpecialThing in that version of GetItem, and call it a Friday. If they want DoSpecialThing elsewhere in the future, we can charge them to refactor our code.
kthxbye(five more seconds of goofing off and then)
(by email) Lorne the code you wrote in ProcessThing doesn't work it doesn't process my thing.
WTF? That's rock solid code that's been in use for a long time. Let me check.
(get latest on ProcessThing-- no changes since my last checking)
How are you calling it?
ProcessThing()
No-- like WHERE are you calling it in the project?
(screenshot of two lines, none of which uses ProcessThing(), but I can at least identify where in the codebase that is)
(get latest on her code... look it over)
ProcessThing is:string function ProcessThing(string format, string thing) { string retval = thing; retval = DoFunkyStuffWith(format, retval); retval = DoOtherFunyStuffWith(format, retval); // Moar stuff return retval; }
Okay, got that? So her code she's been debugging for at least an hour is basically:
string strSomething = GetSomething(); string strFormat = WebsiteSetup.GetDefaultFormat(); ProcessThing(strFormat, strSomething); response.write(strSomething); // this is not Processing it is still original!!!!!!
(email back) My code is fine. It is a function. It returns.
oh (end of email thread)(7.55423974 more seconds of goofing off)
Lorne want to bounce something off of you. When we load a saved cart, it takes a non-linear amount of time to load for each item in it. I found out the code does this:
savedCart = loadCartFromDatabase(cart_id); while(savedCart.HasNextItem()) { i = savedCart.PopNextItem(); AddToCurrentCart(i); } function AddToCurrentCart(i) { Cart.Add(i); DeletePersistentCartFromDB(cart); foreach(item in Cart) { SaveItemToPersistentDatabase(item); } }
That's idiotic
Yup. 100 items in cart. It calls SaveToDB n(n+1) / 2 times-- 5050 times.
That's extremely idiotic
Yup. I have an idea, but how would you fix it?
like this (mockup)bool BeStupid = false; savedCart = loadCartFromDatabase(cart_id); while(savedCart.HasNextItem()) { i = savedCart.PopNextItem(); if(savedCart.isEmpty()) { BeStupid = true; } AddToCurrentCart(i, true); } function AddToCurrentCart(item i, optional bool BeStupid = true) { Cart.Add(i); DeletePersistentCartFromDB(cart); if(BeStupid) { foreach(item in Cart) { SaveItemToPersistentDatabase(item); } } }
....... that's better than my idea. Want to code it?
Monday
k(It is now 4:45, half an hour later than I planned to leave, so I leave)
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@Lorne-Kates I think I need to start a Look At Me thread.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates I think I need to start a Look At Me thread.
Make sure you set contradictory rules in the OP.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates I think I need to start a Look At Me thread.
Make sure you set contradictory rules in the OP.
Rule 1 supersedes Rule 2
Rule 2 supersedes Rule 1
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Did you mean wine glass? With you it could really go either way.
I meant fuck you get the alcohol into my mouth!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I meant fuck you get the alcohol into my mouth!
I will take a WAG that you skipped the glass in lieu of drinking straight from the bottle.
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Status: Getting ready to go down a 1000 foot slip-and-slide on a street downtown.
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@El_Heffe The bad jokes thread is yadda yadda yadda