The Official Status Thread
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Got a new work related ID badge. The picture cuts off part of my beard.
It's that sharp on the edges?
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Status: frustrated because I showed up to my only final exam, but the proctor didn't.
I briefly conflated proctor with proctologist which significantly changed the meaning here.
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Status: Cooktop is installed and sounds like a fucking jet engine when you crank up one of the big burners. Holy christ this thing puts out a lot more BTUs than the old one!
Also, amused by @mott555's comment above because I thought the same thing and had the same confusion.
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Status: New hard drive arrived today, just a bog-standard Western Digital Blue 1.0 TB which was around $60 new. I figured it would be worth the upgrade, I had a 1.0 TB Western Digital Black from who knows when. Or so I thought.
I pulled out my failing hard drive, and it's a Western Digital Blue 1.0 TB with a manufacture date of Feb 03, 2014, same model as the replacement. Apparently my last drive failure was much more recent than I remembered.
Going to call up Western Digital and RMA it. When I get a replacement I'm going to finally start living on a RAID-1 setup since I have two identical drives. Or maybe buy a couple more and move over to a large RAID-5 array and quit doing the separate OS and data drive thing.
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quit doing the separate OS and data drive thing.
I thought that was generally so you could have the OS on an SSD and large capacity drives for data.
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Generally yes, in my case at some point I collected enough data that I couldn't store my OS and programs and data all on a single 1 TB drive, so I got two. One for OS and programs, one for bulk data. I also have a 2TB drive for backup purposes, File History is supposedly doing some magic there but I've never had to do a full restore so I can't verify that it works.
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Ugh, the Windows 8 DVD I had on hand was 8, not 8.1. Going to spend the next quadrillion years or so downloading Windows Updates.
Screw this, I'm burning another disc.
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This sucks. I don't have a Windows 8.1 ISO on hand but I know they exist because I have one at work. Pirate Bay is down, and all the "Windows 8.1 Pro Untouched" ISOs I can find on other torrent sites are unrelated malware EXEs.
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Craziness.
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ugh...found a way to get the Windows 8.1 ISO from Microsoft but I have to enter my license key and it claims it's invalid.
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ugh...found a way to get the Windows 8.1 ISO from Microsoft but I have to enter my license key and it claims it's invalid.
I'm not surprised by that. You don't have an 8.1 license key.
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Status: frustrated because I showed up to my only final exam, but the proctor didn't.
IIRC that means instant pass? right? or is that just a roumor?
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ugh...found a way to get the Windows 8.1 ISO from Microsoft but I have to enter my license key and it claims it's invalid.
8.1 uses a different license key set than 8.0. Which is stupid, I 100% agreed.
IIRC Microsoft did the same thing when XP SP2 came out. SP2 CDs wouldn't take license keys for plain ol' XP.
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I had Windows 8.1 installed before...
In other news, waiting for Windows Updates gave me time to finally finish this guy:
Just needs a coat of lacquer and I can move on to the next one.
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Yep, you cannot do a clean install of 8.1 with a 8 license key. Yes, that is just as retarded as it sounds.
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I had Windows 8.1 installed before...
But it was upgraded from 8 and not a clean install of 8.1.
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Status: Upgraded code from the past two weeks is showing backups times reduced by 80%. Pretty happy about that.
Now, to verify that it is not faster because it is not working properly...
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@Intercourse said:
Now, to verify that it is not faster because it is not working properly...
Looking good so far...I am cautiously optimistic...
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IIRC that means instant pass? right? or is that just a roumor?
Optional final in this case, so no
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nooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Whoa....apparently the reason Ubuntu is so slow (1 - 3 fps on Unity animations) on my secondary desktop is a bug. Adding some parameter to my boot fixed it. Still slow, but not unbearable. Even Discourse feels faster!
(I may be TRWTF for running Ubuntu 14 on an old dual-core Atom desktop.)
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I may be TRWTF for running Ubuntu 14 on an old dual-core Atom desktop.
No, TRWTF is stock Ubuntu. Kubuntu or UbuntuGnome is where it is at. Vanilla Ubuntu feels like...Discourse. Like they made shit pretty before they made it work.
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I guess it's all I really know. Unity was my first real dive into Linux GUIs (most of my previous Linux experience was headless CentOS servers via SSH). I can't find crap at all on some of our CentOS 6/7 systems at work using GNOME.
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To each their own. You should give UbuntuGnome or Kubuntu a try though. KDE and Gnome just feel better to me, but our Linux servers are pretty much Ubuntu. We run the KDE or Gnome equivalents to maintain commonality between dev and production. Unity just never felt right to me.
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i prefer lubuntu or xubuntu if going with a *buntu
same core as ubuntu, but much lighter UI and way faster on old hardware (it might help you actually)
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It's an occasional-use system so I'm not too particular what's on it. I'm only using it now because of my hard drive woes on my primary desktop, and I don't feel like using a laptop/tablet form factor at the moment.
I remember trying Kubuntu once, but KDE was slower than balls (was some new high-graphics thing that was supposed to compete with Windows Vista and Aero) and documentation was sparse. Most of the normal Ubuntu tutorials didn't seem to work for me on Kubuntu so I gave up. But that's been years ago so it's probably worth a look if I need to set up a new desktop Linux system.
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I know it would not help with the hard drive/desktop woes, but you should try Linux virtualized on your primary desktop. I run a couple of Linux installs under VMWare Workstation on my desktop for dev purposes and it is quite handy to share hardware and not have to reboot, etc.
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Yeah, I was planning to do that. I think Windows 8.1 Pro has Hyper-V built-in now so I've been meaning to check it out. I need a few different Linux distros so I can check compatibility on my Node.js MUD codebase when hosted from Linux, as well as test a Unity project (game development, not Ubuntu desktop environment) which supposedly will be cross-platform compatible between Windows, Linux, and OS X.
Now doing the upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Slow!!!!
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because i plan on using it one of these years.
If you save it up long enough, you can use it all up at once and take off an entire year before you quit!
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If you save it up long enough, you can use it all up at once and take off an entire year before you quit!
not if you live in the US. "Use it or Lose it" is the rule here, not the exception.
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I pulled out my failing hard drive, and it's a Western Digital Blue 1.0 TB with a manufacture date of Feb 03, 2014, same model as the replacement. Apparently my last drive failure was much more recent than I remembered.
We had 250GB WD Blue fail last month in a coworker's newish computer. Actually, we got it in March, the drive failed in July, and the replacement failed in November, and the second replacement was DOA, caught fire, and sank into the swamp, but the third replacement's working so far!
Anyway, I brought this up to point out that all of them had recent manufacture dates, so as of October or so, WDC was still making 250GB drives. WHY? (So Dell can be cheapass SOBs, I know, I know.)
I will admit I was hoping that they'd all have Jan 2014 dates, because I told him I suspected they did a lifetime buy and had an entire office or two full of them to send out to people with problems, rather than give them larger replacements.)
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I think Windows 8.1 Pro has Hyper-V built-in now
It does, but it is shit. Compared to VMWare Workstation anyway (which is pricey). With VMWare Workstation I can go full screen across multiple monitors and it feel native. The only tell is the drop down bar at the top if you hover on it. Pretty seamless.
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Ugh, the Windows 8 DVD I had on hand was 8, not 8.1. Going to spend the next quadrillion years or so downloading Windows Updates.
Screw this, I'm burning another disc.
Criminy. I need one of those that will work with a Windows 8 retail CD. The last time I set up a new machine I ran into all kinds of problems doing the upgrade, the worst of which was the one where a failed update prevents you from being able to download 8.1.
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I'm not surprised by that. You don't have an 8.1 license key.
There's supposed to be some kind of trick involving starting the 8 setup, and then cancelling right after entering your key, and then starting the 8.1 setup, but it wouldn't work for me.
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not if you live in the US. "Use it or Lose it" is the rule here, not the exception.
Why would you think I didn't know that?
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There's supposed to be some kind of trick involving starting the 8 setup, and then cancelling right after entering your key, and then starting the 8.1 setup, but it wouldn't work for me.
Same here.
@Intercourse said:
It does, but it is shit. Compared to VMWare Workstation anyway (which is pricey). With VMWare Workstation I can go full screen across multiple monitors and it feel native. The only tell is the drop down bar at the top if you hover on it. Pretty seamless.
I'm sure it's great, I have a lot of experience with ESXi and nothing else comes close to that as far as ease of setup and use (assuming you're not using the new vSphere 5 web management suite of extremely painful WTFs). But $250 is way more than I'd want to spend to get desktop virtualization at home.
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Why would you think I didn't know that?
your comment indicated that you do not have the US style vacation rule apply.
this indicated that you were outside the US (or are a really lucky bastard (i'm choosing to believe that you were telling the straight and narrow))
thus i had an opening for pedantry.
but it does not appear to have been sufficiently dickweedish.
I'll probably never get that badge.
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This is a bit scary, and also a WTF. Windows somehow knows I have a Razer mouse and pre-downloaded the Razer Synapse installer. The best part is it's showing me the installer window during some kind of spinning "Getting Ready" screen that I presume is the Windows 8.1 upgrade installer pre-environment.
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your comment indicated that you do not have the US style vacation rule apply.
Or that I was making a joke. I really do live in Dallas.
I actually knew a guy who did that, only it was only about 6 weeks of vacation time and he was retiring.
Supposedly some union people can manage months-long vacations-before-retiring.
I'll probably never get that badge.
Maybe not but I'll whoosh-flag you anyway. Maybe if you collect enough you can trade 'em in for the other one.
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Windows somehow knows I have a Razer mouse
The mouse probably identifies itself as such. Windows can identify a lot of hardware items.
That's my actual mouse, and almost the right picture. The keyboard name is almost right, and it's at least an accurate description, although the icon is wrong.
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Maybe not but I'll whoosh-flag you anyway. Maybe if you collect enough you can trade 'em in for the other one.
eeeh... i'd rather not be the queen of wooshes.
but if my attempts at pedantry give me woosh flags i'll simply not bother anymore.
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*mumble* jaded buncha bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep *mutter*
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no idea why my mouse and keyboard show up twice... i've only got the one set plugged in.
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also.... why does my mouse have the icon of a keyboard?
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no idea why my mouse and keyboard show up twice... i've only got the one set plugged in.
Windows is weird and frequently puts in multiple devices for keyboards like that. It might be you've had it in multiple USB ports, but I don't know.
As four your mouse, if it's a Proteus Core 502, maybe it's implemented that way because of all the extra buttons? Supposedly Windows can sometimes get better icons.
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Proteus Core 502
that's the one. got it when my trackball gave up the ghost after 5 years of solid [spoiler]ab[/spoiler]use and my gaming buddy dragged me away from the trackball mouse i was going to order and told me i was getting that one instead.
well actually he wanted me to get a R.A.T.9 but I balked at the price (never had a gaming mouse before)
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RAT9 is overkill. RAT5 is enough for 99% of people, and a reasonable price.
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