The Official Status Thread
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Super Additional Status: The kids have spent an hour playing in a dog crate. If DCS were to show up right now we would have some 'splainin' to do.
LOL. My dog friends sometimes use their xpen as a kid pen.
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Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2003?
Maybe they don't realize Server 2003 means Server XP?
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STATUS: My engine light was on, So I took my car to an oil change place so they could at least tell me what to do. They replaced my wipers, and then told me I'd need to go to another place.
Okay, work from home day 1 half wasted.
So I take my car to the other place, they have no garage, but give me a printout with the engine code data on it.
Wfh day2 mostly wasted.
So then today, I took it to a place that had a real recommendation, but them they sent me somewhere father away, and the people there said I should just take it to the dealer. Meanwhile my front tire had just gone flat, So they gave me enough air to get to a place that sells the kind of tires it's got on already.
My dad contacted someone he knows in my area to pick me up from there, because they're busy at the tire place. Who eventually got there and picked me up, but had to visit her mom in some kind of clinic and dropped me off at a spot with restaurants for half an hour.
Assuming I ever get home, I don't know how much help I'd be at work. It's painfully hot out, too.
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Status: Managed to hack our Owin middleware to transparently accept SteamSessionToken to log in. Not sure if proud or worried this house of cards is going to fall down hard...
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"IT professionals wanted [...] LotusScript knowledge will be considered a plus"
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Super Additional Status: The kids have spent an hour playing in a dog crate. If DCS were to show up right now we would have some 'splainin' to do.
The result is good, but the technique of using a charcoal grill for a single sammich-- pass.
Using a flat grill is good enough.
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Status: Leave me alone Microsoft, I know what I'm doing.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Leave me alone Microsoft, I know what I'm doing.
learn to change the settings
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Status: ...
Well, fuck, I probably won't be able to finish that backup that's been ongoing since the 17th, huh?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
since the 17th
Are you backing up to floppy disks controlled by Dwarf Fortress or something?
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@ben_lubar Maybe he's backing up onto a cloud provider on MilwaukeePC
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
since the 17th
Are you backing up to floppy disks controlled by Dwarf Fortress or something?
A floppy-disk-based Raid array even!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
thus get your H-1B wage slave!
I would apply, but I'm afraid of all those serial killers
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@wharrgarbl
Don't worry, here you're allowed to carry self-protection, so you can delete criminals before they delete you.
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@izzion and how would I explain the deleted facebook and twitter posts for the TSA?
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion and how would I explain the deleted facebook and twitter posts for the TSA?
I'm not sure why the TSA would be looking at Facebook or Twitter posts.
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@ben_lubar s/TSA/Customs and border patrol/
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Status: WTF, Windows!?!
It's not supposed to be auto-configured, I set the static IP address straight up!
Edit: Huh, seems the actual reason was that IP address was taken already, and Windows did the autoconfiguration thing as a way to be nice?
Wish it would have just said "Hey, some computer already has this IP" instead...
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GUYS! I MADE A THING!
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Leave me alone Microsoft, I know what I'm doing.
Famous last words
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
GUYS! I MADE A THING!
Good craftsmanship, AND it's pictured on a wooden table. A+.
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Status: WTF is with so many people posting videos and them removing them by the time I get to watching them?
And also, why does YouTube constantly say videos I've added to a playlist have been removed because they've been removed from the user, but I don't notice anything missing??? WTF?!!
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Car getting valeted tomorrow. It stinks of farts at the moment so it will be so much better.
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Status: We have this code inside a key inner loop. We can't easily optimise it. It looks to a casual glance as if we're incompetents, because surely there's got to be an easier way, but there really isn't.
uint32_t accumulation = ring_buffers[ring_buffer_index] + weight; uint32_t sat_test = accumulation & 0x10000; if (sat_test) { accumulation = sat_test - 1; saturation_count += 1; } ring_buffers[ring_buffer_index] = accumulation;
(For context,
*ring_buffers
andweight
are bothuint16_t
and we know that they will yield auint32_t
as the native result type when added on the platform we're targeting.saturation_count
is used to track how many times the math has gone wonky; it shouldn't ever do it, but we'd rather know if it does so that we can warn the user that their results are utter BS.)
The real horror is that I looked at this code and spotted the horribleness virtually immediately, and that nobody on the team needed to use
git blame
to identify exactly who was the culprit for this chunk of nastiness.
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@Rhywden I'm more familiar with the term "power transistor", but I think we're talking about the same thing. And yes.
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@hungrier
Oh, you done foxed up now...
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Status: So I did get home, after the person who picked me up had to go do something and dropped me off where there were restaurants for an hour. I lost three hours of work, so I took the fourth off too and put in a PTO request for it. I can't recover that time, and my team is low on work at the moment.
Then my parents visited and took me to get my car back, and we found a pretty good Korean restaurant, where I ordered squid stirfry for the first time in a few years.
Tiring day, but not all bad.
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@Magus I approve of the squid stirfry. I could definitely eat more of that! Maybe the next warm day I can get lunch from the thai streetkitchen and relax next to the river.
@thegoryone 2011 was a good year for CPUs. Both mine from that year are still in use in my house. (Main computer and my old laptop.)
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Fucking hell Microsoft. Lose the damn transparency or at least make it an option. (v1703)
It's only translucent when it has focus.
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status r-click on solution to build. Missed. Selected rebuild all. Damn. Oh well, catching up here... I suck at mousing.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking hell Microsoft. Lose the damn transparency or at least make it an option. (v1703)
It's only translucent when it has focus.
E_NO_REPRO Program in Dark Mode like
Deity
intended!Edit: Added version screeny.
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@dcon Wow that looks terrible.
I guess a little transparency here and there could look neat, but if they start making everything look like glass again it's going to suck.
There's a middle point between "everything completely flat and square" and "everything half transparent with 3D shadows and reflections".
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STATUS: Dreamhack here I come! A weekend of gaming and the like in Jönköping! I wonder if I can pick up another free graphics card this time around...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking hell Microsoft. Lose the damn transparency or at least make it an option. (v1703)
It's only translucent when it has focus.
E_NO_REPRO Program in Dark Mode like
Deity
intended!Edit: Added version screeny.
Also 1705, also norepro in light mode:
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@Tsaukpaetra They're doing A/B testing with the Acryllic stuff iirc.
Their goal is much more mild transparency than they've done previously, with only background regions of apps. If you're getting that effect, you should notice a glow as you move your mouse around (though that may only be very visible in the dark mode) - because one of their other principles is 'light'.
I personally like the new effect.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
They're doing A/B testing with the Acryllic stuff iirc.
That must be it. I've used calc before on this version of windows and this is the first time I've seen it. I find it extremely annoying with windows of differing intensities under it.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra They're doing A/B testing with the Acryllic stuff iirc.
Their goal is much more mild transparency than they've done previously, with only background regions of apps. If you're getting that effect, you should notice a glow as you move your mouse around (though that may only be very visible in the dark mode) - because one of their other principles is 'light'.
I personally like the new effect.
Oh, so like certain elements in Hololens apps? Your cursor does this, actually...
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@Tsaukpaetra Yeah, from what I understand, they want Holographic/MR and Desktop and Mobile to all use elements that look good on all of them, with a focus on making things look tangible but abstract.
The stuff they were demoing was pretty great, and I really want to see it all in practice after the release.
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Status: Murkying around Windows Licensing information because (apparently) Microsoft intends to audit 1/3 of their business customers every year, so statistically we should be prepared just in case.
Reading their blog post on the subject
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Next scenario: We're going to (eventually) get a pen-test (which we will likely fail spectacularly on), and I have to imagine: Say the pen tester simulated an attack on the network which simulated thousands of computers trying different things to the server for probing purposes. I then need thousands of CALs to support this?
Am I wrong? What the hell?!?!?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Murkying around Windows Licensing information because (apparently) Microsoft intends to audit 1/3 of their business customers every year, so statistically we should be prepared just in case.
Reading their blog post on the subject
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Next scenario: We're going to (eventually) get a pen-test (which we will likely fail spectacularly on), and I have to imagine: Say the pen tester simulated an attack on the network which simulated thousands of computers trying different things to the server for probing purposes. I then need thousands of CALs to support this?
Am I wrong? What the hell?!?!?
There was only one actual computer connected. It needs 1 CAL.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Am I wrong? What the hell?!?!?
My reading is that the key thing is that you've got to not let the auditors use DHCP.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Am I wrong? What the hell?!?!?
My reading is that the key thing is that you've got to not let the auditors use DHCP.
Also this. TLDR, if a device ever sends or receives a packet from a Windows Server OS, it needs a Device CAL (or a user CAL for the meat driving the device). Doesn't matter what the packet is or how many there are.
Also, FFS people, segregate your fucking guest networks.
Frankly, IMO, MS should knock the CAL shit off and just license by core/VCPU.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
if a device ever sends or receives a packet from a Windows Server OS
Wait, does that mean webservers running Windows need a separate license per user of the website?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Am I wrong? What the hell?!?!?
There was only one actual computer connected. It needs 1 CAL.
Ah, but how would they tell? Because as far as I can tell, VMs count as individual devices.
Sure, it would be "more cost efficient" to say they were using 1 "user" CAL (or not, technically they could be attempting to impersonate any number of users, so that's hella grey), but that's not really the thing, is it?@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, FFS people, segregate your fucking guest networks.
Our employees aren't guests, but their phones are "accessing" the server, so CAL!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
if a device ever sends or receives a packet from a Windows Server OS
Wait, does that mean webservers running Windows need a separate license per user of the website?
Yes. Or, there's a different CAL for Internet-Facing services (or so I read).
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Status: Working on re-working our server system to run on Linux, because there's no way in HELL I can justify tens of thousands of CALs just because our players (which we can identify and are not anonymous to us) are connecting to Azure VMs running Server software.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: My engine light was on, So I took my car to an oil change place so they could at least tell me what to do. They replaced my wipers, and then told me I'd need to go to another place.
Okay, work from home day 1 half wasted.
So I take my car to the other place, they have no garage, but give me a printout with the engine code data on it.
Wfh day2 mostly wasted.
So then today, I took it to a place that had a real recommendation, but them they sent me somewhere father away, and the people there said I should just take it to the dealer. Meanwhile my front tire had just gone flat, So they gave me enough air to get to a place that sells the kind of tires it's got on already.
My dad contacted someone he knows in my area to pick me up from there, because they're busy at the tire place. Who eventually got there and picked me up, but had to visit her mom in some kind of clinic and dropped me off at a spot with restaurants for half an hour.
Assuming I ever get home, I don't know how much help I'd be at work. It's painfully hot out, too.
That's a pretty shit day. I hope it got better.