The Official Status Thread
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
we should have a Mandatory Fun Day at the local
laser tagpaintball joint.FTFY
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
we should have a Mandatory Fun Day at the local
laser tagpaintballfiring range joint.FTFY
Boy, that escalated quickly.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
we should have a Mandatory Fun Day at the local
laser tagpaintballfiring range joint.FTFY
Boy, that escalated quickly.
It escalated even more quickly for me. These posts arrived out of order. Thanks, :nod: .
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I keep trying to convince manglement that we should have a Mandatory Fun Day at the local laser tag joint. Because shooting cow orkers.
One place I worked had a "team building" event at a flight sim place. IIRC, I shot down my manager at least twice. That was a good day.
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Status: Um, installer, you know that Visual Studio 2013 Enterprise is already installed, right? Why have you taken hours to re-do this?
I better not have a broken installation after this...
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Status: Just benchmarked my new Samsung 950 Pro M.2 drive with HDTune. Maximum transfer rate of 1008 MBps (yes, megabytes, not megabits) with a latency of 0.0 ms across the board.
SATA is dead to me now.
EDIT: I can put a screenshot here later once I'm done setting up the new workstation.
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@Tsaukpaetra It installs it's own shell copy of VS, separate from yours. It'll be fine.
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@mott555
Meh, they're making 12Gbps (1500MBps) SATA-III and SAS specifications (and hardware, for the really high end server market). I'm sure it'll filter down to commodity hardware Soon(TM)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Um, installer, you know that Visual Studio 2013 Enterprise is already installed, right?
WhyHow the f****n hell have you taken hours to re-do this?I
better notwill probably have a broken installation after this...FTFY
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Status: Apparently Lync shoves conversation history into Outlook, because why wouldn't it.
WTF why are there no scrollbars? This conversation is half a mile long!
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@izzion If you're talking about SATA Express, that's just raw PCI Express 3.0 x4 lanes over a bastardized SATA connector and has nothing to do with the SATA/AHCI protocols. This M.2 drive also uses PCI Express 3.0 x4, but it's over an M.2 connector instead.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Um, installer, you know that Visual Studio 2013 Enterprise is already installed, right? Why have you taken hours to re-do this?
I better not have a broken installation after this...
I hope that means it's just "cleaning up the rollback files" and not "Cleaning up by rolling back"...
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@Weng try paintball, it leaves marks
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Status: Someone removed the awesome new PATH environment variable editor from the latest Windows 10 build and went back to the stupid hard-to-use one.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This conversation is half a mile long!
It continues. Participant sent me this:
Looks like someone needs to download more RAM...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like someone needs to download more RAM...
I was going to make a joke about pirating RAM, but then I remembered the Bad Old Days when RAM was scarce and I downloaded some RAM extender app that did unspeakable black magic to compress the contents of my memory and trick the OS into thinking that virtual memory was physical memory etc. Ugh.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like someone needs to download more RAM...
I was going to make a joke about pirating RAM, but then I remembered the Bad Old Days when RAM was scarce and I downloaded some RAM extender app that did unspeakable black magic to compress the contents of my memory and trick the OS into thinking that virtual memory was physical memory etc. Ugh.
ZRam was awesome! Well, kinda...
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Status: I hate afternoon meetings. Hour-long meetings in which my actual participation lasts about 30 seconds. Post-lunch doldrums. It takes all the concentration I can muster just to keep from snoring.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
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.
Windows reinstalls are inevitable. Better just to accept them and keep a text file with the list of programs to install and customizations to make.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just benchmarked my new Samsung 950 Pro M.2 drive with HDTune. Maximum transfer rate of 1008 MBps (yes, megabytes, not megabits) with a latency of 0.0 ms across the board.
SATA is dead to me now.
EDIT: I can put a screenshot here later once I'm done setting up the new workstation.
I just installed Visual Studio from scratch in 3.5 minutes. That took nearly two hours on my previous workstation with a SATA-III SSD.
:jaw_drop:
(Old system had a quad core Sandy Bridge-E Xeon with 10 GB RAM, new system is a quad core Skylake Xeon with 32 GB RAM)
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Status: It is time that our oldest learns how to ride a bike, which means our whole family needs bikes. So I bought three bikes, a bike trailer and kid seats for the two big bikes. Put all of it together this afternoon.
I have been a bike owner for 4 hours and I have already lost all the caps that go on the Schrader valves. Some things have not changed since my childhood.
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Status: "my dear Windows, would you be so nice as to convert this "basic" disk into one of those dynamic disks you have?"
"Sorry, there's not enough free space. I need at least 1MB of unallocated space at the end of the disk to store the data"
"But there's 40GB of unallocated space..."
"I SAID THERE'S NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE AND THAT'S FINAL"
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just benchmarked my new Samsung 950 Pro M.2 drive with HDTune. Maximum transfer rate of 1008 MBps (yes, megabytes, not megabits) with a latency of 0.0 ms across the board.
SATA is dead to me now.
EDIT: I can put a screenshot here later once I'm done setting up the new workstation.
I just installed Visual Studio from scratch in 3.5 minutes. That took nearly two hours on my previous workstation with a SATA-III SSD.
:jaw_drop:
(Old system had a quad core Sandy Bridge-E Xeon with 10 GB RAM, new system is a quad core Skylake Xeon with 32 GB RAM)
Hey, are you looking to get rid of your old machines? I'm pretty sure I can even make it tax-deductable for you!
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
"But there's 40GB of unallocated space..."
What it's not telling you is that there's a hidden-from-the-OS partition that your rootkit is using to store data.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just benchmarked my new Samsung 950 Pro M.2 drive with HDTune. Maximum transfer rate of 1008 MBps (yes, megabytes, not megabits) with a latency of 0.0 ms across the board.
SATA is dead to me now.
EDIT: I can put a screenshot here later once I'm done setting up the new workstation.
I just installed Visual Studio from scratch in 3.5 minutes. That took nearly two hours on my previous workstation with a SATA-III SSD.
:jaw_drop:
(Old system had a quad core Sandy Bridge-E Xeon with 10 GB RAM, new system is a quad core Skylake Xeon with 32 GB RAM)
Hey, are you looking to get rid of your old machines? I'm pretty sure I can even make it tax-deductable for you!
lol...old machine got parted out already. It had a flaky USB controller, flaky SATA controller, and some kind of flaky PCI Express bridge in it. The RAM and SSD got scooped up by a coworker with 4 GB RAM and a broken-down spinning disk, and the SATA DVD burner got placed into my secondary workstation that still had an ATAPI CD (yes, you read that right) reader in it...
The rest is either broken or proprietary HP junk that isn't compatible with any other system in the universe.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
lol...old machine got parted out already. It had a flaky USB controller, flaky SATA controller, and some kind of flaky PCI Express bridge in it. The RAM and SSD got scooped up by a coworker with 4 GB RAM and a broken-down spinning disk, and the SATA DVD burner got placed into my secondary workstation that still had an ATAPI CD (yes, you read that right) reader in it...
The rest is either broken or proprietary HP junk that isn't compatible with any other system in the universe.I guess you have not read any of his posts about his systems? Most of his machines are old and broken. :)
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
lol...old machine got parted out already. It had a flaky USB controller, flaky SATA controller, and some kind of flaky PCI Express bridge in it. The RAM and SSD got scooped up by a coworker with 4 GB RAM and a broken-down spinning disk, and the SATA DVD burner got placed into my secondary workstation that still had an ATAPI CD (yes, you read that right) reader in it...
The rest is either broken or proprietary HP junk that isn't compatible with any other system in the universe.I guess you have not read any of his posts about his systems? Most of his machines are old and broken. :)
Hey! As of this moment only 21% of my machines are in an unusable state!
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Status: just installed Microsoft Lync for mac because Skype for business is not available yet.
that interface....
Also: WE WERE THE HIPSTERS HERE. WHAT GOOD IS IT ALL THE REACT REDUX AND PYTHON IF WE HAVE TO USE FUCKING ICQ
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hey! As of this moment only 21% of my machines are in an unusable state!
According to you. For most of us, we would consider P4 laptops with .3 seconds of battery life and 256MB of RAM to be "in an unusable state". :P
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It is time that our oldest learns how to ride a bike, which means our whole family needs bikes. So I bought three bikes, a bike trailer and kid seats for the two big bikes. Put all of it together this afternoon.
I have been a bike owner for 4 hours and I have already lost all the caps that go on the Schrader valves. Some things have not changed since my childhood.
Addendum: My ass hurts. Anyone have a good recommendation for a mountain bike seat?
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@Polygeekery
I recommend you trade the bike in for https://www.btod.com/dx-oh-rw-106?gclid=CNKo4dLBks8CFdc9gQodT28DrgAfter all, by the time your youngest reaches the rite of passage age, it'll be all about learning their first MOBA instead.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just benchmarked my new Samsung 950 Pro M.2 drive with HDTune. Maximum transfer rate of 1008 MBps (yes, megabytes, not megabits) with a latency of 0.0 ms across the board.
SATA is dead to me now.
EDIT: I can put a screenshot here later once I'm done setting up the new workstation.
I may have to build a new machine soon. Especially after:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I just installed Visual Studio from scratch in 3.5 minutes. That took nearly two hours on my previous workstation with a SATA-III SSD.
:jaw_drop:
(Old system had a quad core Sandy Bridge-E Xeon with 10 GB RAM, new system is a quad core Skylake Xeon with 32 GB RAM)I am sold. Hmmmmmm, when do the new AM4 components become available? I am an AMD guy. I am basically the Cubs fan of CPUs.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: "my dear Windows, would you be so nice as to convert this "basic" disk into one of those dynamic disks you have?"
"Sorry, there's not enough free space. I need at least 1MB of unallocated space at the end of the disk to store the data"
"But there's 40GB of unallocated space..."
"I SAID THERE'S NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE AND THAT'S FINAL"Windows File Explorer is not as smart as the aftermarket.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery
I recommend you trade the bike in for https://www.btod.com/dx-oh-rw-106?gclid=CNKo4dLBks8CFdc9gQodT28DrgI actually bought an office chair better than that one a while back. It reclines all the way, so I can nap at my desk.
I toyed with the idea of getting a C5 or C6 Corvette seat from a junkyard and making it in to an office chair, but common sense prevailed (for once).
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
After all, by the time your youngest reaches the rite of passage age, it'll be all about learning their first MOBA instead.
I have no fucking clue what a MOBA is.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no fucking clue what a MOBA is.
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Status: Lol'd
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@Tsaukpaetra
UNSUBSCRIBE
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Statues; guys, this is disgraceful. Are you standing across the room or something?
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Status: So, we have an image downloader for our internal images database. Users have complained that the resultant folder is too big (they take the results and burn them onto discs), so they have to manually determine where the split should be by hand.
So, I'm tasked with an automatic splitting functionality. So far, this is my UI (red circle is the new stuff):
Does (the new part) look understandable enough to not require explanation?
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@Tsaukpaetra
Are the discs CDs or DVDs? Because CDs have a limit in MBs, so you might be better off using a different unit on the limit box...
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
My ass hurts.
According to the BOFH, the correct reply to that (when said by the PHB) is to deliver a signal to the male NMI, via the foot.
Later, in Mission Control, I explain the rules of 'Management Stack Theory' to the PFY because he has no idea why the meeting deteriorated so quickly.
"Managers are stack-based," I explain. "Rule one is that they have, at most, a two-item stack limit. Mention a technical term and they'll push it onto their mental stack. Mention another, they push that up there as well. Mention yet another and they stack overload and reboot. That is, they think about what they're going to do after work, how sore their bum is, whether the marketing assistant knows her blouse is almost see-through, and so forth."
"But then they'd be rebooting all the time," the PFY says.
"Afraid not. Rule one, subsection B, deals with Stack Leakage. Technical terms leak from the stack at about one per sentence."
"Oh."
"Rule two of Management Stack Theory is that the frame size on their mental stack is pitifully small ‚ terms are compressed to fit into the available frame. I mention 'Disk seek latency', they hear 'Disky Latex', 'Seek Latex', 'Disk Lazy', or something similar."
"So they didn't get much out of your presentation, is what you're saying? But they can't be that stupid," the PFY comments.
Oh, such innocence...
"Which brings me to rule three of Manager Stack Theory," I cry. "After a manager reboots, Volatile Memory is not zeroed, meaning that the contents are indeterminant. What the manager is left with is a jumble of terms, which, after Manager Internal Logic has finished with it, might become: 'Seek a see-through Latex Blouse'."
"Ah," the PFY doesn't quite believe me.
I can see that some form of proof is required...
"Right, you apply my rules to the following sentences. Use the whiteboard as your Manager Stack."
"OK," the PFY accepts the challenge.
"I think we need some redundant switches."
The PFY dutifully writes redundant switches on the board.
"You forgot rule two," I point out.
The PFY amends it to randy swatches.
"Which we could dynamically route to..."
‚ dynamo root.
"Which would allow us to multi-home..."
‚ My bum hurts, writes the PFY, erasing everything before it.
"Correct," I comment. "And what's left in memory after booting?"
"I need a new swatch for the randy man with the root password."
"Sounds reasonable to me."
"And a load of bollocks to me!" the PFY splutters, only to be interrupted midflow by the boss poking his head around the door.
"Yours too?" he asks, noticing the PFY's whiteboard scribbles. "Mine was aching all through that last meeting. Now, which one of you needed the new watch for rooting?"
Vindicated, I smile at the PFY.
"That'll be me," I say, grabbing hold of the tasteful new wrist accessory.
"What was it for again?"
"Oh, I'll be using it to benchmark the L2 cache performance of the new symmetric multiprocessor machines."
REBOOT
If the boss had a console screen option, I'd be watching a memory test at this point...
"I'm sorry, what was that again?" he asks.
"I just said I'll be needing a Dual-ported PC to run my Lempel Ziv compression ‚ apparently it's a new algorithm."
REBOOT
"Cyclic redundancy checking! Electrically erasable EPROM! File read lookahead!" I blurt it all out, before the boss has gathered his wits about him.
The boss has a faraway look in his eyes.
"What happened?" the PFY asks, waving his hand in front of the boss's face.
"I've heard of this. I think he's stuck in reboot mode. He needs a manual reset."
"How the hell do you do that?" The PFY is worried.
"Uh... The male non-maskable interrupt..."
"I couldn't!" The PFY cries.
"It's that or have him stand in front of your desk all day..."
Reluctantly, the PFY kicks the boss in the crotch, and he goes down.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
Are the discs CDs or DVDs? Because CDs have a limit in MBs, so you might be better off using a different unit on the limit box...DVDs, thankfully, though more and more were working with disks (apparently) so that's why GB was decided.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I seriously love Roadkill. They are us, with cars and motors.
Finnegan - "I have never understood why they require fire extinguishers in race boats. I mean, if it catches fire, you're there."
Freiburger - "Yeah, water doesn't burn."
Finnegan - "Exactly."
That depends entirely on what you're trying to burn it with.
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Oooh, overlay scrollbars (an experimental flag in Chrome) look nice when stacked:
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Onyx
If you ship the replacement headset and $10,000, we will run it through our patented AAA process (audiophile awakening augmentation) and return the headset to you with improved sound quality. So good it'll be like you were at the front row of the concert.Why would you settle for that? Only a complete tin-eared SUCKER would settle for AAA.
For $20k (now on sale for $15k TODAY ONLY) my quantum-spacial realignment uses entanglement theory, and will make you seem like you're in the front-row AND acoustic center AND back-row vantage all at once. You will hear all the sound from everywhere, all at once, like a transcendent experience.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
how many unread mails I've got on gmail, using their atom feed.
Wait, RSS is still a thing?
Did you know that you can still access the rss feed for a user or playlist?
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=blakeyrat
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=blakeyrat
"Like and subscribe!"
How about go fuck yourself and your analytics and bullshit UI, Youtube. Imma RSS it up!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Our office decided to do a Mandatory Fun Day type thing, and so we had to play Family Feud.
Which is great for those of us with social anxiety. No pressure at all.
Take the bullet for the team. Just shout "PENIS!" for everything.
You'll get a talking-to by HR, but everyone else will just get the email that says "All, Unfortunately, company-wide games will no longer be occurring".
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
we should have a Mandatory Fun Day at the locallaser tagpaintballfiring range jointsex club .FTFY
Boy, that escalated quickly.
And how!