The Official Status Thread
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Also, status: saw King Crimson live, now I can die in peace.
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STATUS:
The bad ideas thread is where?
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
The bad ideas thread is where?
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
The bad ideas thread is where?
Like, 5th topic down in the General category.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/11465/the-bad-ideas-thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
The bad ideas thread is where?
Like, 5th topic down in the General category.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/11465/the-bad-ideas-thread
The question was rhetorical :)
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Status: Life is about to be complete.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Life is about to be complete.
Looks staged, else they were just standing there looking at the door waiting for someone to knock...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Whoops, looks like the NodeBB counting engine ran out of batteries:
It's too busy counting upvotes.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks staged, else they were just standing there looking at the door waiting for someone to knock...
The hell you say...
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@Onyx @Tsaukpaetra @Magus @boomzilla @Erufael
Here, I'll help you... go to the "all notifications" view and run this from the JS console.
[...document.querySelectorAll('.notifications-list .unread[data-nid^="upvote"]')].forEach(n => { if (n.querySelector('strong:nth-of-type(2)').innerText == "The Official Likes Topic") { var nid = n.getAttribute('data-nid'), text = n.querySelector('a[component*="link"]').innerText; console.log('Clearing notification:', nid, '\n', text); socket.emit('notifications.markRead', nid, e => e ? console.log(e) : 0); } }); ajaxify.go('/notifications');
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TIL Arrow functions work in the console.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Onyx Ha!
Hmph. I've gotten 99+ twice today. No screenshot, though.
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Status: I just took a without my phone. I felt like a damned savage. I could not go back to ing before smartphones.
Edit: Goddamned autocorrect.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Consumed an almost inconceivable quantity of Mountain Dew.
Status: My gastrointestinal system seems to be somewhat unhappy about this. :(
I love explosive diarrhea. No, not really, of course, but at least the excruciatingly painful high pressure gas now has an unimpeded exit path, so the pressure no longer builds up to be excruciating.
At least it didn't come back out the way it went in, too, although that was quite in doubt for a few minutes.
I no longer think excessive Mountain Dew intake to be the cause of the upset.
Filed under: Didn't we have an "Oversharing" thread ? I don't remember where it is, so this is it now. You're welcome.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just took a without my phone. I felt like a damned savage. I could not go back to ing before smartphones.
I have an old Android tablet (E-Reader) that has a solitaire game on it. I play 1,000 games and then I reset the stats.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Optional: Fail to finish unloading. Stop unloading about 20:30 to secure whatever is left so that we can leave before we get locked in. Extend truck rental for another day. Repeat as above, except can get an earlier start because don't have to wait for the office to open.
Failed to finish unloading, but got really close — within maybe 15 or 20 minutes. Exited the gate with 10 minutes to spare. Finished this morning early enough to not need to extend the rental, although the side quest to refuel the truck before it ran out encountered unexpected difficulties in finding a service station that (1) had diesel, (2) had enough clearance to drive the truck under the canopy, and (3) could be seen to have diesel before it was too late to position the truck to get to the station.
Following this, it became possible to complete the quest to return the truck to downtown San Jose, which was mostly uneventful (except for a near collision with an 18-wheeler in the lane to my right who suddenly decided he needed to be in the lane to my left to make a left turn).
Finally, the most important quest, going to work. Walk to downtown train station, buy ticket, get on train with about 2 minutes to spare. Ride to destination station. Don't see any shuttles to get to work. Walk almost a mile and a half to "home," get car, drive to work. 11:15 and the morning commute traffic is still backed up. Get to work exhausted and sweaty at 11:30.
14:00, I break the build. 19:00, I'm still trying to un-B*****m that. WOMM, why not on the build server?
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Status: I need to go out and get milk before I can have my coffee, becuase yesterday me decided it was a problem for tomorrow.
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So I was doing system maintenance on the couple hundred servers we're running. Mostly boring stuff on CentOS 6, but there are quite a few remnants running CentOS 5 and some other mostly unmentionable relics from the early 2000s, and they are always exciting because you never know what will break next. Usually something related to the Java monstrosities they run on Java 6.2.3.8.252 and when you upgrade to the latest and greatest 6.2.3.8.1199 or something because as usual it has like a gazillion critical security bugs fixed, everything goes down in flames.
Not the one I just spent a couple of hours fixing. It was a virtual SFTP server and didn't run anything Java. It had an obscenely long uptime (couple of years) and obviously someone had done a kernel upgrade before without bothering to reboot. The last update pulled in a handful of new packages, nothing exciting, so I reboot and it comes back up. Everything but SSH.
Usually if even SSH is hosed, the whole system is completely broken, but Icinga is all green except for that big red SSH blot. Including SFTP, which is served by sshd.
Conventiently,virsh console
also shows an empty, unresponsive screen, so no way to get in.
Shut down the VM, jump through a few hoops to mount the disk on the hypervisor, poke around in the logs. All seems fine, except no trace of sshd even starting up. Of course the log is being rotated into devnull on a monthly basis so I don't even know when it last started.chkconfig
says it's on, all the rc.d links are there. Colleague comes up with the idea the box might have been haxx0rd. But any backdoor must have been hidden really well, nothing but the mysterious breakage points to there being any.
So boot up the VM again, try and get the console working. Turns out someone has configured it to use VNC . At least I can get in now even if the keymap is fuct. If I start sshd by hand, it works fine. Solves that keymap problem. So I hack the sshd start script to log its progress at a few key points. It's not even being called at startup. Hack/etc/rc
to log each startup script as it's being run. Every single one inrc3.d
is being run, except for sshd's. More logging, at every conditional in the startup function. Finding:/var/lock/subsys/sshd
exists andrc
thinks the service was running already. But CentOS is supposed to clear out/var/lock/subsys
at init, so it can't be a leftover file from before. So I check for that file before and after each startup script is run. It springs into existence just after/etc/init.d/sftpd
. A-ha.Turns out someone had hacked that sftpd startup script in (it's not packaged), starting with an sshd script as a template, and just forgot to change the final
touch /var/lock/subsys/sshd
. And the reason it didn't fail before was that the box simply hadn't been rebooted since before I even joined the company.
Never mind, just half a working day sunk into this shit.
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@LaoC Bookmarked, in case I ever have to deal with this on my own.
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@Onyx
Only 42? I reached 72!
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My PC at work has been doing Windows Update stuff for over 20 minutes now. I want to work, damnit.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
I want to work,
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
My PC at work has been doing Windows Update stuff for over 20 minutes now. I want to work, damnit.
Requisition another so at least you can catch up on emails while you wait?
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Status: Apparently I've been listed as the recovery email for some yahoo account, any they've changed their password twice in the past half hour.
Apparently, their first name is the same as the account name.
Edit: Nevermind, I had a note in my Contacts list about this, it a friend of my grandma's. Wonder if I should call her up and ask what's up?
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@aliceif fucking post-login bullshit as well? Urgh.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif fucking post-login bullshit as well? Urgh.
So, how has your day been so far? :D
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Status: Can it be? Is my Windows 10 LTSB finally getting the Anniversarary update that everyone's been whining about?
Edit: Looks like it:
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@Tsaukpaetra It is. Have fun waiting for an hour the next time your PC starts up.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra It is. Have fun waiting for an hour the next time your PC starts up.
Well maybe I'll do it now instead of later.
I wonder if they still have the shifting colors thing during "Your stuff is right where you left it" thing.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can it be? Is my Windows 10 LTSB finally getting the Anniversarary update that everyone's been whining about?
Edit: Looks like it:
Oh, I'm holding you to that 20 minutes, Microsoft. I got my Android phone right here with the stopwatch ready and waiting!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can it be? Is my Windows 10 LTSB finally getting the Anniversarary update that everyone's been whining about?
Edit: Looks like it:
Oh, I'm holding you to that 20 minutes, Microsoft. I got my Android phone right here with the stopwatch ready and waiting!
Here we go!
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@Tsaukpaetra My bet's on 20 minutes if it's on a SSD, 40 minutes otherwise.
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Status?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can it be? Is my Windows 10 LTSB finally getting the Anniversarary update that everyone's been whining about?
Edit: Looks like it:
Oh, I'm holding you to that 20 minutes, Microsoft. I got my Android phone right here with the stopwatch ready and waiting!
Here we go!
Still working on it!
I think that's the lowest amount of RAM I've ever seen Windows use since Windows 7...
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@Mikael_Svahnberg it's a continuation of a status, the status marker is implied, I think.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just took a without my phone. I felt like a damned savage. I could not go back to ing before smartphones.
I have an old Android tablet (E-Reader) that has a solitaire game on it. I play 1,000 games and then I reset the stats.
How long are you in there for???
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@Boner said in The Official Status Thread:
How long are you in there for???
Typical old men troubles ...
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@Tsaukpaetra I was more wondering whether you were done or not..
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I was more wondering whether you were done or not..
Lol nope!
Curiously, though there's clearly disk activity, task manager can't report on it. Yay quirks of Windows PE!
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@Fox said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I've become the web dev guy and I am now in charge in such bullshit going forward....
WE'RE TAKING THIS SHIP TO THE ICE-BERGS!
/jealous
I'm the web dev guy, but I'm not in charge. I'm at the wheel, but I have to steer the way the captain says
Now I'm actually jealous of you!
STATUS Jesus fuck me christ!
Cloud provider doing upgrades and decided to take a ten hour break in the middle of it. Bye bye sla and hello punitive penalties!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can it be? Is my Windows 10 LTSB finally getting the Anniversarary update that everyone's been whining about?
Edit: Looks like it:
Oh, I'm holding you to that 20 minutes, Microsoft. I got my Android phone right here with the stopwatch ready and waiting!
Here we go!
Still working on it!
I think that's the lowest amount of RAM I've ever seen Windows use since Windows 7...
At 60 minutes, and I'm not going to wait up for it.
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@Tsaukpaetra Be sure to bill Microsoft for the excess time.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
At 60 minutes, and I'm not going to wait up for it.
Wow. That's horrible.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can it be? Is my Windows 10 LTSB finally getting the Anniversarary update that everyone's been whining about?
Edit: Looks like it:
Oh, I'm holding you to that 20 minutes, Microsoft. I got my Android phone right here with the stopwatch ready and waiting!
Here we go!
Still working on it!
I think that's the lowest amount of RAM I've ever seen Windows use since Windows 7...
At 60 minutes, and I'm not going to wait up for it.
Nevermind, I lied and stayed up anyways.
Nu-uh!
Final time:
Of course, I'm not counting logon thrashing, that's normal.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Of course, I'm not counting logon thrashing, that's normal.
Well first fail detected: Discord does not know which channels I'm in anymore. NFC why.
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I used to frequently typo
git pull -r
command asgit pull 0r
. One day I was so annoyed by this that I decided to write a script replacinggit
that checks if I've writtengit pull 0r
, and if so, replaces it withgit pull -r
- otherwise passes the command as is. Since then, whenever I typegit pull 0r
, I'm quick to backspace and correct the typo before hitting Enter.
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Friend: "McAffe antivirus costs 60€, but I got an offer to buy it for just 20€. Is it worth it?"
Me:Maybe if they get the price down to negative money.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
McAffe
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Status: No! Fuck you! You do shit without announcing it, not my emergency!
Also, if I tell you I'll call you in 5 when I'm back in office, why the fuck don't you answer me if it's a fucking emergency?
I hate people.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just took a without my phone. I felt like a damned savage. I could not go back to ing before smartphones.
I have an old Android tablet (E-Reader) that has a solitaire game on it. I play 1,000 games and then I reset the stats.
In one sitting? :do_not_want: