The Official Status Thread
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@FrostCat Well, the problem there is you said "South Carolina" whose only redeeming qualities are Clemson and Myrtle Beach
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I assure you that explanation is not an accepted excuse by MS Licensing.
i direct your attention to my signature block. :-P
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@Boner
I hope you insisted that Google buy you a few drinks first.
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@JazzyJosh I assure you, nobody has ever given even half a fuck.
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Status: Apparently Chrome decided I needed a large print browser. The system font is HUGE and the zoom settings do jack shit to it. The only thing it seems to listen to is window 8.1's size settings but if change that it obviously affects more than Chrome.
Anyone know how to fix this?
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Status: Ordered a power supply and CPU fans for my dual LGA-2011-3 game server build. All the cheap parts are accounted for, now I just need to suck it up and buy a CPU and RAM.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
dual LGA-2011-3 game server
..... hmm...... i seriously considered the 6950X for my recent (extremely ill advised from a budget standpoint) upgrade.
that chip...... so sexy...... I had to change my panties twice while looking over the specs.
Eventually common sense took over though and i went with the 6770K instead. a card with 6 fewer cores, but a significantly higher clock speed, which is what's more important for a gaming desktop these days.
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@accalia I'm looking at Xeon E5-2630 v4's, which I think is just a downclocked 6950X. But I'll eventually have two of them for 20 physical/40 logical cores.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia I'm looking at Xeon E5-2630 v4's, which I think is just a downclocked 6950X. But I'll eventually have two of them for 20 physical/40 logical cores.
....... damnit! now i need to go change my shorts again! why must you tempt me with such sexy technology?!
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
And ain't nobody got actual keys.
This is gonna be awesome. I bet you only expected to temporarily lose access to inside doors.
Could be worse. You could lose access to the inside doors-- and then immediately after lose access to the outside doors.
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@coderpatsy said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently Chrome decided I needed a large print browser. The system font is HUGE and the zoom settings do jack shit to it. The only thing it seems to listen to is window 8.1's size settings but if change that it obviously affects more than Chrome.
Anyone know how to fix this?
E_NO_REPRO, it must just be your browser.
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Status: We have a 1 year old and a 5 year old and we went through 4 gallons of milk this week. Those boys will have a skeleton like Wolverine.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: We have a 1 year old and a 5 year old and we went through 4 gallons of milk this week. Those boys will have a skeleton like Wolverine.
you plan on replacing their bones with an adamantine skeleton?
i like that plan. probably better if you wait till they are full grown before you do that though. could cause problems when they try to outgrow their new metal skeleton.
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@accalia At this rate, I will need a dairy farm by the time they are teenagers.
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@coderpatsy said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone know how to fix this?
Control-0 didn't do anything?
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@coderpatsy said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone know how to fix this?
Control-0 didn't do anything?
Nope. Zoom settings do not in any way affect menus and the tab bar.
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I found a command line option "--force-device-scale-factor=1" that seems to mostly solve my problem (after resetting my zoom to 125% which was what it was before they "fixed" their scaling problems and fucked me over). Just have to deal with a small omnibar.
Shit like this just reaffirms my decision to never use chrome as my default browser.
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@coderpatsy said in The Official Status Thread:
resetting my zoom to 125%
any dpi other than 96 (aka 100%) is Different.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia At this rate, I will need a dairy farm by the time they are teenagers.
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Status: I FOUND THE FUCKING "CONNECT TO BLUETOOTH HEADSET" BUTTON ON WINDOWS!
So, ok, let's go down the line, do logical shit, k?
Yup, that seems sensible, ok...
Mmmm... nope.... ok... Let's try
Open Settings
from that menu then?Nope, nothing there...
OOOOH! I should go and try manage stuff for an unconnected device! A-DOY! Of course! Because why would it be under "Bluetooth", you know, the place where I went to set it up, nonono, it's in "Playback Devices", because fuck you!
Yes, yes, it makes some kind of twisted sense, but holy fuck, could it be more obtuse?
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Status: Preparing to debug a failed job. In order to debug the failure, it needed to be rerun with what, for the sake of simplicity, I will call very detailed logging enabled. Running it with the logging enabled took over 40 hours. The log file is >70GB. This should be fun.
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@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dse always use official installers. Chocalatey is more trouble than its worth.
Only if the package is out of date...
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@HardwareGeek
Clearly, you subscribe to the definition of "fun" that requires a safe word
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
because fuck you!
Yes, yes, it makes some kind of twisted sense, but holy fuck, could it be more obtuse?Yeah, now try to do the same for a bluetooth keyboard/mouse. Good luck!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Preparing to debug a failed job. In order to debug the failure, it needed to be rerun with what, for the sake of simplicity, I will call very detailed logging enabled. Running it with the logging enabled took over 40 hours. The log file is >70GB. This should be fun.
You either log nothing, or EVERYTHING!!!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek
Clearly, you subscribe to the definition of "fun" that requires a safe wordNah, mostly I just subscribe to Sarcasm Daily.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
because fuck you!
Yes, yes, it makes some kind of twisted sense, but holy fuck, could it be more obtuse?Yeah, now try to do the same for a bluetooth keyboard/mouse. Good luck!
One battle at the time man!
Also, I have none available to test with but... yeah, I can imagine...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, now try to do the same for a bluetooth keyboard/mouse.
I appear to have taken my BT KB home but IIRC it's not very difficult--just select it when it appears in the device list, and a window will pop up saying "type this 8-key combination on the keyboard and hit Enter to pair".
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Status: Okay, so Facebook deleted this posting of a Norwegian newspaper which included the rather famous "Vietnamese children (one of them naked) running away from napalm" photograph due to the nakedness.
Which was then reposted by the prime minister of Norway.
Which in turn was deleted again by Faceboo without comment.
My opinion: You may think whatever you want about the rules and stuff. But deleting the postings of the Norwegian prime minister when you're already under fire in the EU for your haphazard appliance of your rules, that falls very much under the category of "Definitely not a clever move". Because that is how you get laws you won't like in the least amount of time.
Morons.
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@FrostCat Problems come when you try to RE-connect it though. Now, BT devices will mostly try to reconnect to the last device they were connected to when you turn them on, so it's not that much of a problem with keyboards since you usually don't connect them to multiple devices that much, I guess. Headphones... different story.
Also, I can imagine connecting the keyboard to a tablet or something on occasion. In which case, well, unless there's another hidden dialog, you need to re-pair it with Windows. Every. Fucking. Time.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
mostly I just subscribe to Sarcasm Daily.
I read this morning, but can't find it ATM, that sarcasm was just declared illegal in North Korea.
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Clearly, your problem is using Windows. If you just get an Apple payUsMac with their new AirBoardPro and AirMouseExtreme, you'll be fine.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, now try to do the same for a bluetooth keyboard/mouse.
I appear to have taken my BT KB home but IIRC it's not very difficult--just select it when it appears in the device list, and a window will pop up saying "type this 8-key combination on the keyboard and hit Enter to pair".
Ah, but what happens when Windows decides it suddenly doesn't like it, despite still being paired? I.e. how do you "disconnect" and "reconnect" it without flat out un-pairing and re-pairing every time?
Asking for a friend...um.. because, you know.,... he has this problem he described to me a few days ago....
Edit: 'd by Onyx
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@izzion No problems on Linux. Nor Android. Both have obvious
Connect
buttons under Bluetooth section in settings / tray icon.
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@Onyx I'm pretty sure a keyb/mouse only needs to be paired once (unless, as you mention, you're switching between two machines. I guess it's not unreasonable to make you re-pair in that case. Imagine if you had paired your keyboard to a laptop and a tablet, and then put all three devices in the same room. Where do your keystrokes go?)
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@FrostCat It will reconnect to the last device it was connected to. Keyboards probably won't let you connect to multiple devices. When you want to switch you hit disconnect/turn off BT on one device and hit connect on the other one.
I do that with my headset all the time - I get home, deactivate BT on phone, connect to computer.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Preparing to debug a failed job. In order to debug the failure, it needed to be rerun with what, for the sake of simplicity, I will call very detailed logging enabled. Running it with the logging enabled took over 40 hours. The log file is >70GB. This should be fun.
Are you using The Modelsim Shotgun™, also known as
add wave -r /*
? I'm stuck in a similar hole, but at least my run time is only 45 minutes.
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@NedFodder said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you using The Modelsim Shotgun™, also known as add wave -r /*? I'm stuck in a similar hole, but at least my run time is only 45 minutes.
Not Modlesim, and not
/*
— I only have to add most of the chip — but pretty much, yeah.Follow up: 40+ hours to run. 1 hour to debug. After lunch, when a couple of colleagues take a look and agree, 1 minute to fix. Another 40+ hours to verify.
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Status: feeling so lazy I got the delivery people to bring me KFC at my house.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: feeling so lazy I got the delivery people to bring me KFC at my house.
That's win!
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@Arantor Status: Now craving a
clogged aortaDouble Down sandwich.
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Status: diagnosing failing computer with two hard disks, one old, one brand new. Launch Ubuntu, run SMART self-test on old disk, big red error, yep, the disk is bad.
Reboot computer, BIOS shows error message "Device SATA-2 not responding to SMART commands". Well, I already knew the disk was bad so that's not a problem...
...except....
...wait a minute...
...SATA-2 is the OTHER disk
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: diagnosing failing computer with two hard disks, one old, one brand new. Launch Ubuntu, run SMART self-test on old disk, big red error, yep, the disk is bad.
Reboot computer, BIOS shows error message "Device SATA-2 not responding to SMART commands". Well, I already knew the disk was bad so that's not a problem...
...except....
...wait a minute...
...SATA-2 is the OTHER disk
I'd check that on a different PC at this point...
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@anonymous234 Controller failure.
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@Tsaukpaetra But that's work.
Actually I've booted Windows from the new disk several times and it has worked fine until now. So I'd bet that the disk is not actually bad. More data points needed.
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Why!? The whole reason I used the extension instead of the app was to get away from the single window experience. Now October 17 is the day I am forced to switch to the thing I was trying to avoid in the first place.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor Status: Now craving a
clogged aortaDouble Down sandwich.For McDonald's, this is not bad.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 Controller failure.
I have a coworker with a Dell that I am almost positive that's the problem. It shipped with a nearly-dead disk. The first replacement was DOA. The second replacement lasted 6 months. Disk four is about a year, maybe a year-and-a-half old, but his computer runs like shit, and Task Manager shows an average response time that will hit 15K ms. But the Dell diagnostics don't show a problem so they want me to reinstall Windows.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Follow up: 40+ hours to run. 1 hour to debug. After lunch, when a couple of colleagues take a look and agree, 1 minute to fix. Another 40+ hours to verify.
Status: Took a bit longer than 1 minute to fix, but only because it took longer than that to find which of the 700 editor windows the file I needed to edit was already open in. Haven't started running the job again, because waiting for colleague input on unrelated (?) weirdness observed while debugging.