The Official Status Thread
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Accalia was inquiring if you had a hot sister? Saucy.
meh. blakeysister would have to be pretty damn hot for me to put up with blakeybrotherinlaw.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't think Hillary is in any trouble.
That's why even people in the media are accidentally calling her "Crooked Hillary", eh?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you satisfied to learn that I have no concept of shame?
Based on evidence, nothing satisfies him except for managing to enrage people. Perhaps that's why he's so dyspeptic lately.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
put up with
Who knows? Maybe she's annoyed with him too and would be willing to move away to minimize contact. It's not as if it's never happened before.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
If it's spinning, check the DMA level in the driver for it.
Huh. I will definitely check that on my coworker's computer. IIRC you can do that in the device properties in Device Manager.
Status: Went to do just this. As soon as I finished entering my password and hit enter, this happened:
Thanks for that 3AM reboot, I guess...
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@Tsaukpaetra In other news, at least I know DMA is not the issue with my Work PC's idiocy:
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@Tsaukpaetra The HD itself might be toasted then. You could try a disk check and see if it reports any bad blocks.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't think Hillary is in any trouble.
All the Americans are becoming the faithful for their less hated party before the elections.
Typical.
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My headphone mic is giving me problems, so I wanted to test it out. Typed "sound recorder" in the Start Menu.
WTF is this?
Where do I pick the audio device? Where do I save? What?
I know Windows always had some bare-bones default programs, but frankly this is ridiculous.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Where do I pick the audio device?
In the Sound control panel, under "Recording". Like always.
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
I know Windows always had some bare-bones default programs, but frankly this is ridiculous.
Apple makes shitty featureless crap like that and they rake in billions. So why wouldn't Microsoft emulate them? It's what people want apparently.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra The HD itself might be toasted then. You could try a disk check and see if it reports any bad blocks.
Oh right! I scheduled a disk check upon reboot, then scheduled the reboot (along with Windows Updates, because why not) at 3AM.
That would explain why it rebooted as soon as I tried to unlock the machine, but not why it didn't do that at 3AM...
Windows: Reboots when you don't want it to, can't reboot when you do.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
blakeysister
Which one of us dating her would piss @blakeyrat off more, do you think?
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@cartman82 At http://www.audacityteam.org obviously.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
The HD itself might be toasted then.
My coworker's Dell--which is about 2.5 years old, I think, maybe a year longer than that, is on its 4th drive. It shipped with a drive that was DoA, the first replacement made nasty grinding noises, and the second replacement only lasted a year. I'm thinking "bad disk controller" but as I said, the Dell Diagnostics don't see anything wrong, so Dell doesn't either. Very annoying.
If it were my machine I'd buy a cheap PCIe SATA controller and test that theory, but my coworker puts up with it.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
In the Sound control panel, under "Recording". Like always.
Yeah, if you want to switch audio device by changing the "default", like animal.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Apple makes shitty featureless crap like that and they rake in billions. So why wouldn't Microsoft emulate them? It's what people want apparently.
With Apple, it's more like they target iOS first, and then port back to Mac. So all the spare featureless crap people are complaining about on Mac (eg. the new Photos app) are just hasty mobile ports. They rake in so much money from iOS, they don't give a shit about Mac any more.
WTF is Microsoft porting from? They don't have a viable mobile platform any longer. All they have is the desktop, with some convertable tablets shyly butting in.
It's more like, they want something that looks pretty on screenshots. Being actually usable is a distant second.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
Lunchtime was the wrong time to discover /r/natureismetal.This is one of the best ones.
http://i.imgur.com/wCGagUu.gif
I love how the others are like: "Whelp. There goes Steve."
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Went to do just this.
I don't have the item under "IDE/ATAPI Disk Controller", so I went Googling to see if it moved. If you don't have "Secondary IDE Channel" (like if you have SATA, I guess) then PIO mode supposedly can't be the problem, at least, according to one website.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't have the item under "IDE/ATAPI Disk Controller"
I suppose that means you're using AHCI or whatever?
Will check on my not-work PC whenever it finishes rebooting (It still hasn't after all this time, but now I'm at a black screen so... profit?)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I suppose that means you're using AHCI or whatever?
Yeah, what i have is "SATA IDE/AHCI Controller" IIRC.
Check this out, from my last, 2011-era, work PC, which is exhibiting the same problem (but is running UDMA mode 5):
Oh, I bet that's not good at all.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Check this out
HD Tune! That's what I was looking for and forgot the name of!
*goes to download*
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@FrostCat
do you know if that works on windows 10?edit:
Supported operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.
=/
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@Jarry If it works on 8, there is a good chance it still works on 10.
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Status Found the cause of a MyBatis bug that breaks our slightly code.
Now to get home and write a repro sample.
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@Jarry I've used it on Windows 10. Works fine. (As long as Windows Updates doesn't auto-reboot halfway through your disk benchmark, that is.)
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@clippy said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
as high as 15K ms
also known as 15s
Thank you for the translation, I'm sure that someone will find that most helpful!
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Status: I hosted a talk on performance and reliability for the BA group....
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@Yamikuronue you monster
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
All the Americans are becoming the faithful for their less hated party before the elections.
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I hosted a talk on performance and reliability for the BA group....
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
that
HDTune? I didn't even check OS compatibility; I just downloaded it and tried. (Well, on Windows 8. I'll try 10 now and see what happens.) (the non-pro version says Windows 7, but like I said, it worked on 8).
Oh, it does work on 10.
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Status: I feel old. I didn't have a USB cable to hook my phone into a computer, and I was in a position of accepting a few people's media dumps (cameras, one had a flash drive but wouldn't let me take it, and a phone or two).
I didn't own the computer, so I couldn't keep the stuff on it very very long at all.
However! It did have a DVD burner in it!So I found myself burning 4 Gb of data into 5 CDR discs. Took a little less than two hours.
Maybe this is embarrassment?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
However! It did have a DVD burner in it!
So I found myself burning 4 Gb of data into 5 CDR discs.You realize DVD burners take... um, DVDs too, right?
Though two hours for 5 disks means the burner is shit, so maybe better not.
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@Yamikuronue Were there any Zytrons in range?
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
You realize DVD burners take... um, DVDs too, right?
Though two hours for 5 disks means the burner is shit, so maybe better not.The location I was in only had CDs, and that was after I took a trip looking around the whole office asking if anyone had some. They all responded with: " What do you mean 'Do we have any burnable discs?'"
Otherwise, yeah, I would have been done in less than half an hour.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann I like the third option.,. Not sure why though .
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
It was the most SFW version I encountered during my 30 seconds search ...
Alright you are right ... I contemplated another 30 seconds over the other images ...Now that I'm not on a screen that's red-saturated and lowest-brightness-allowed, I can see what the picture actually is.
Full disclosure: at the time I had no idea what that picture was, being on a dark theme, the transparency does not help, the only thing I could detect were what I decided were "some kind of butterfly compression plates around calves of someone wearing black socks"
Now I know it was inverted, and through context something a bit different...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise, yeah, I would have been done in less than half an hour.
I still occasionally burn CDs — photos for aged relatives of youngsters' birthday parties — but don't recall ever needing close to that long for that much data. Well, not in many years…
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@Magus Hmm, I was going to have a Day Of Meetings instead.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise, yeah, I would have been done in less than half an hour.
I still occasionally burn CDs — photos for aged relatives of youngsters' birthday parties — but don't recall ever needing close to that long for that much data. Well, not in many years…
An average burn rate for a typical 700 MB CDR at 24x (4 MBPs) should take about 25 minutes, not including any image building or other pre/post processing that happens in the meantime.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra The HD itself might be toasted then. You could try a disk check and see if it reports any bad blocks.
Oh right! I scheduled a disk check upon reboot, then scheduled the reboot (along with Windows Updates, because why not) at 3AM.
That would explain why it rebooted as soon as I tried to unlock the machine, but not why it didn't do that at 3AM...
Windows: Reboots when you don't want it to, can't reboot when you do.
WTS! My laptop has been stuck "Rebooting" with swirling circles since I posted that screenshot 3 hours ago.
Apparently it borked, so I used another computer to send a shutdown to it, which happened to work.
Now of course, I get to wait for several hours while it performs the chkdsk I told it to nearly 15 hours ago!
FML.
Good thing I don't typically need my home computers working while at work...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
24x
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Check this out
HD Tune! That's what I was looking for and forgot the name of!
*goes to download*
Just for quacks and gaggles I ran it on my VM while I'm waiting for my laptop to come back up.
Not bad, I guess? Funny how accessing the end of the disk is so varied though... Might have to redo when booted with a PE disc...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
...700 MB CDR at 24x (4 MBPs) should take about 25 minutes...
How do you figure?
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
...700 MB CDR at 24x (4 MBPs) should take about 25 minutes...
How do you figure?
Experience.
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Status: booted my win10 machine after two months. windows update is currently on a rampage downloading ALL TEH UPDATEZ and doing nasty things to my hard drive.
let's see how long it takes to be responsive again
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@Tsaukpaetra Hm. I guess if it's likely to happen again, you could get a tiny USB BT adapter and put it on your keyring, so that instead of burning CDs you could just BT the files to your phone.
Although now that I think of that, 4GB would take forever to go via BT, so maybe a tiny uSD card reader would make more sense.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Hm. I guess if it's likely to happen again, you could get a tiny USB BT adapter and put it on your keyring, so that instead of burning CDs you could just BT the files to your phone.
Although now that I think of that, 4GB would take forever to go via BT, so maybe a tiny uSD card reader would make more sense.
Yes, I just need to find out what I did with my flat OTG cable and shiv it into my wallet.
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Status: Someone has a small child in the office break area. The small child is crying and screaming at the top of its little lungs. This is clearly audible even through closed office doors.