The Official Status Thread
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
Surface
Idiot.
Aside from the stupid Windows Update timing, it's proving to be way more useful for school than my Samsung Tab 3 before it was.
I use the desktop version of the same app I used for note-taking on the tablet, FiiNote, which is super useful on anything with a touchscreen and a keyboard.
In addition to that, I also have a web browser and a processor capable of running it with multiple tabs without bogging down the entire device.
I have Drawboard PDF, which has proven to be really good for completing my homework assignments in the two classes which assign homework as .pdf's filled with questions.
I have Secure Shell SSH, which is all but required for doing work in my class which requires all work to be done via SSHing into the machines in the CS Department computer lab.
And I have Eclipse Neon for my fourth class, which requires all work to be done in Eclipse and submitted as exported Eclipse projects.
Plus I have a proper drawing tablet now.
Oh and my screen resolution is absurd. Like, i almost dont even need antialiasing.
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My new Surface decided to do a Windows Update in the middle of class
Stop lying. Windows Update is perfect and would never ever interrupt important work.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra at least it'll be x86 or x64 architecture, PPC was dropped a while ago...
But, does it run Windows?
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Status: Thanks, Windows Defender, for telling me nothing happened!
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@Tsaukpaetra
I have noticed those too ... talking about useless notificatioins
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
Surface
Idiot.
Luddite
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But, does it run Windows?
Through Bootcamp or virtualisation, yes
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@thegoryone said in The Official Status Thread:
"Blah blah Cisco VPN has been removed because it's not compatible with this version of windows blah blah". It's now been removed every single time I power on since the anniversary update. I know your pain.
Sounds like the driver signing is fucked. Since it's Cisco, that's to be expected. The official fix is probably horrible and doesn't work in any modern version of Windows either. Because anything else wouldn't be Cisco…
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Status:
What the fuck did you just fucking hide from me, you little abstraction? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in architecture-aware code optimization, and I've submitted numerous patches to GCC, and I have rewritten over 300 production programs in assembly. I am trained in Verilog and I'm the top hardware designer in my entire company. You are nothing to me but just another layered system. I will understand you from top to bottom with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with hiding all those algorithms in just a few function calls? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am launching my set of decompilers and analyzers and your code is being reverse engineered right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out that pathetic object-oriented design. You're fucking dead, kid. I can understand anything, in any language and I can optimize you away in over seven hundred ways, and that's just at the software level. Not only am I extensively trained in the x86 architecture, but I have access to an entire integrated circuit fabricator, and I will use it to its full extent to reimplement your miserable ass right at transistor level, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" design was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have tried to be a bit more efficient. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn library. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra goes on a date (Late 2016 edition) ?
Maybe! Probably not though...
Sounds more like a porn setup.
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Status: Still OCD about x86's POP instruction being at 0x8f /0 instead of 0xff /7
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thanks, Windows Defender, for telling me nothing happened!
You needed to be interrupted RIGHT NOW with that important information.
I hate notifications
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@cartman82 are they more or less annoying than "your connection to the Daily WTF appears to have broken"?
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Status: Still have a headache (day 7), so I spent the day writing an emacs package that checks how many unread mails I've got on gmail, using their atom feed.
TODO:
- integrate in modeline
- add a hook so that I can take action if a mail is from someone special (e.g. my wife) and ignore them otherwise
- change the output to also be hook based
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Status: Too much low-quality pizza. The pasta from the same place is fine, but I had that too recently. Still, I shouldn't have really had that pizza.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Still have a headache (day 7), so I spent the day writing an emacs package that checks how many unread mails I've got on gmail, using their atom feed.
Fox Butterfield, is that you?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
have a headache
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
spent the day writing an emacs package
there's_your_problem.pdb
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thanks, Windows Defender, for telling me nothing happened!
You needed to be interrupted RIGHT NOW with that important information.
I hate notifications
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Status: Finally getting a new workstation since mine has serious instability now. I searched long and hard for an LGA1151 motherboard that has PCI slots, and found one. But then upon use I found it has a stupidly-placed southbridge heatsink that prevents our PCI card from being inserted in the slot.
Once everything proves stable, there will probably be some Dremel-work done on this PC. I'll need to cut a few millimeters off the front of that heatsink to clear the PCI slots, and I also need to open the back of the PCI Express x1 slots so longer cards can be installed. One of which has the BIOS battery right next to it, so it'll be useless for anything that isn't physically x1.
I wish PCI would go away. There were some really nice motherboards out there if I didn't need PCI compatibility.
At least I'm getting 32 GB ECC DDR4 RAM and a 512 GB NVMe (PCI Express x4) SSD.
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
...my fourth class, which requires all work to be done in Eclipse and submitted as exported Eclipse projects.
TRWTF
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
There were some really nice motherboards out there if I didn't need PCI compatibility.
Why do you need plain Jane PCI compatibility?
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
There were some really nice motherboards out there if I didn't need PCI compatibility.
Why do you need plain Jane PCI compatibility?
One of the products I support comes in PCI format. We're finally updating it to PCI Express but that model won't be out until next year, and we still have years worth of customers who will likely never move off the existing PCI format.
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I almost got rear-ended this morning by a guy who was taking a picture of my vanity license plate ("ERROR") with his smartphone instead of driving his car.
At least it was "almost."
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra goes on a date (Late 2016 edition) ?
@Tsaukpaetra bangs some random guy's daughter (Late 2016 edition) because that's totally what happens when people are called into tech support it is really i swear stop ruining my fantasy.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
Surface
Idiot.
Luddite
Yeah, well you're a big flaming pile of
Firefox 22 has encountered an error and will be shut down
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Too much low-quality pizza. The pasta from the same place is fine, but I had that too recently. Still, I shouldn't have really had that pizza.
Did it make you late to your job interview with @cartman82 ?
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@Lorne-Kates Love you too buddy
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Did it make you late to your job interview with @cartman82 ?
You're in disagreeable form today.
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STATUS:
Considering if I should consolidate a couple DO droplets into this: https://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/e3-ssd-2.xml
The price looks pretty freakin reasonable, given the specs. Anyone had any experience with them? I'll probably consolidate 2 or 3 $5/mo droplets and a Linode 4g RAM VM.....
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@JazzyJosh I meant SSH Secure Shell Client
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
...my fourth class, which requires all work to be done in Eclipse and submitted as exported Eclipse projects.
TRWTF
I mean basically. We also have to submit class diagrams made with VioletUMLEdit
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
VioletUMLEdit
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status
So the IT department has been going around installing SSDs on people's machines in order to make things go faster.
I've been avoiding it so far, because I know Windows doesn't play nice with hardware changes and/or having it's files moved to a different hard drive. There's a non-zero chance I'd have to start with a fresh version of Windows, and I've done way too many tweaks to this install to want that.
BUT WAIT, you say-- SSD will give you a massive performance increase, right?
BUT WAIT, you also say-- you're just being a control freak luddite whatever with all your "windows tweaks" you don't need that with good hardware.
Well-- except for the fact that right now, my work machine is a four year old Asus. The only after-market hardware change is a boost in RAM, and that was done 2.5 years ago when I first started working here.
And yet, despite everyone other developer having a newer machine AND having a RAM upgrade AND having an SSD, every single one of them has shit performance. No joke. Some of them can't run multiple instances of Visual Studio. Others take 30 minutes to boot up. Others take 5 minutes to compile a solution that takes me 30 seconds. Most of them can't run all the dev tools without error (like SQL Management Studio randomly crashing or running so slow it bogs down the machine).
It's almost as if-- and stick with me on this-- me making a series of performance tweaks like adjusting graphic settings, modifying what cruft services do/don't run, and doing virus protection by means of safe browsing+noScript+selective virus scans of downloads-- and a whole host of other little things-- makes the entire system run more efficiently-- rather than having to throw expensive hardware at a sluggish, bloated machine just so that MAYBE it'll run like normal.
I honestly don't get it. How. How can you work with a tool 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week of the year-- and not learn how to make that tool the most efficient thing possible. Like, would a mechanic work day in and day out with a set of pliers that were rusted, when there's a can of WD-40 right there?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
VioletUMLEdit
Yeeeeaaaah. What really sucks is it doesn't support high resolution screens so I basically need a magnifying glass to use the program adequately.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Did it make you late to your job interview with @cartman82 ?
You're in disagreeable form today.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/992826
He's now officially 25 minutes late :/
Our last exchange:
He: So see you at 2 PM. We could stop by the local pizza place I know.
Me: Ummm.... yeah we could
He: Once you see me, you'll know whyWTF was that!?
I guess he ate too much pizza...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
:/
Okay, @ben_lubar what sort of inconsistent magic is this?
- Highlight the smiley above
- Right click
- Copy
- Reply
- Paste
- You get
:/
, then text for the smiley.
And yet do this:
- Highlight the smiley above
- Click REPLY
- OH LOOK THE EMOJI DOESN'T CARRY OVER INTO THE QUOTED REPLY!!!
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@error Did you dox yourself?
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@groo said in The Official Status Thread:
@error Did you dox yourself?
- He didn't say which state
- If you have access to the department of transportation's license plate database, you don't need an Internet rando to dox themselves.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
status
So the IT department has been going around installing SSDs on people's machines in order to make things go faster.
I've been avoiding it so far, because I know Windows doesn't play nice with hardware changes and/or having it's files moved to a different hard drive. There's a non-zero chance I'd have to start with a fresh version of Windows, and I've done way too many tweaks to this install to want that.
BUT WAIT, you say-- SSD will give you a massive performance increase, right?
BUT WAIT, you also say-- you're just being a control freak luddite whatever with all your "windows tweaks" you don't need that with good hardware.
Well-- except for the fact that right now, my work machine is a four year old Asus. The only after-market hardware change is a boost in RAM, and that was done 2.5 years ago when I first started working here.
And yet, despite everyone other developer having a newer machine AND having a RAM upgrade AND having an SSD, every single one of them has shit performance. No joke. Some of them can't run multiple instances of Visual Studio. Others take 30 minutes to boot up. Others take 5 minutes to compile a solution that takes me 30 seconds. Most of them can't run all the dev tools without error (like SQL Management Studio randomly crashing or running so slow it bogs down the machine).
It's almost as if-- and stick with me on this-- me making a series of performance tweaks like adjusting graphic settings, modifying what cruft services do/don't run, and doing virus protection by means of safe browsing+noScript+selective virus scans of downloads-- and a whole host of other little things-- makes the entire system run more efficiently-- rather than having to throw expensive hardware at a sluggish, bloated machine just so that MAYBE it'll run like normal.
I honestly don't get it. How. How can you work with a tool 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week of the year-- and not learn how to make that tool the most efficient thing possible. Like, would a mechanic work day in and day out with a set of pliers that were rusted, when there's a can of WD-40 right there?
I'd be willing to bet you'll still see a significant performance increase with an SSD though - unless your PC's specs are really, really shitty, the IO performance increase will help a lot.
Although, yes, your Windows install will almost certainly break. Which.... sucks.
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@Lorne-Kates
In my experience, if you use a block-copy method to transfer from ye olde spinning rust to New Shiny SSD, and if you stay within the same physical connectivity method (SATA -> SATA, no changes to AHCI settings), then Windows will be happy.Changing from IDE -> SATA, or turning on AHCI (which is basically changing from half-ass-emulated-IDE-SATA to real SATA) can cause Windows to require a reinstall (or, more accurately, a new driver for the boot section, which can be done within the existing version of Windows but is such a PITA that the re-install is the typical IT drone solution).
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd be willing to bet you'll still see a significant performance increase with an SSD though - unless your PC's specs are really, really shitty, the IO performance increase will help a lot.
I've noticed that updates are faster here (Linux). I guess programs start up a bit faster, but it's not like I spend much time starting up new programs. Boot time is probably faster, but that probably happens less than once per week.
I'm kind of disappointed in the lack of dramatic improvements.
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status: I just learned that Terry Davis is still lurking on OS-Dev despite having been banhammered there a long time since. He twatted one of his usual brillant screeds about this guy Brendan after I brought up TempleOS, despite the fact that Brendan was the one who didn't bash on Terry.
I set some bait for him, asking him to come here and add his two cents to one of @SpectateSwamp's threads. Prepare to be amazed.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux
Well there's your.... uh... yeah.
Windows is pretty IO-heavy for some reason, so the SSD really improves performance there. Linux is Different(tm)
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@Fox But why not just use PuTTY or KiTTY :/
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows is pretty IO-heavy for some reason, so the SSD really improves performance there. Linux is Different(tm)
Well, I remember, e.g., Linus talking about how much of a difference he saw on the desktop when he went SSD. Not that I had any real complaints before.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Although, yes, your Windows install will almost certainly break. Which.... sucks.
I've already pointed this out to my boss.
"I can get a negligible performance boost that might add to up 5 minutes this year... but the cost will effectively be a week of downtime while all my tools are broken and I need to fix them."
I'm not getting the SSD upgrade. =)
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@ScholRLEA said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Terry Davis ... He twatted one of his usual brillant screeds about this guy Brendan ... despite the fact that Brendan was the one who didn't bash on Terry.
TIL Fox's real name.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Although, yes, your Windows install will almost certainly break. Which.... sucks.
I've already pointed this out to my boss.
"I can get a negligible performance boost that might add to up 5 minutes this year... but the cost will effectively be a week of downtime while all my tools are broken and I need to fix them."
I'm not getting the SSD upgrade. =)
FWIW, SSDs do help with software dev stuff too, that's where I saw the biggest performance increase. Compiling and even launching the IDE takes a fraction of the time. But yeah, if you've invested a ton of time into that install, moving it over is probably.... tempting fate