The Official Status Thread
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Good news: Shockwave works fine.
Bad news: my laptop can't handle virtual XP. I blame fried GPU.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Good news: Shockwave works fine.
Bad news: my laptop can't handle virtual XP. I blame fried GPU.Give it less RAM. You probably only need like 512 Mb. ;)
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I blame fried GPU.
I recommend sauteing in garlic butter.
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status: Google Play doesn't think I have enough space to update a 300kb App.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Google Play doesn't think I have enough space to update a 300kb App.
Why do you have so many apps you haven't used?
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@adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra How do you sort it?
I'm guessing a non-stable sort using
!isPrime
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Google Play doesn't think I have enough space to update a 300kb App.
Why do you have so many apps you haven't used?
Because Google doesn't seem to be able to tell I've used them? Who knows. Two of those visible I run every time before trying to update Apps because I know the Play Store App will complain that 200mb isn't enough free space to update a 1mb App.
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Status: Amazon reversed three of the five orders I placed on Saturday. Then charged me again today. I nearly had a heart attack, as that would overdraw that account (it's not used to high value transfers). Luckily (?) BoA seems to be applying the pending reversals in front of everything else so my balance is still (barely) positive....
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First snow of the year.
And me not wearing my winter coat yet... I must really be adapting to the North. Appropriate enough since as of last Friday I have firm plans to stay in Newcastle indefinitely.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Google Play doesn't think I have enough space to update a 300kb App.
There were versions of the common installer core (a part of Android itself) that would leave around an astonishing amount of rubbish when they failed. Which wouldn't be too bad, except they were “temporary” files that would never be deleted, and you'd end up filling up a usually-fairly-small partition with crap that you couldn't see, never needed, and couldn't get rid of. Because that's what everyone wants.
I was under the impression that newer Android doesn't suffer from this, but that might be more to do with just having devices where the space constraint was much larger.
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Status:Went to look at a user's workstation. Before I could stop them they shouted their password at me. I obviously don't need it for anything and I can't know it, for operational reasons if nothing else, so now I have to get them to change passwords as well as fixing their issue.
Best bit: the password was
{incredibly obvious dictionary word}
123
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
at least now you are save because it's
{incredibly obvious dictionary word}
456
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I blame fried GPU.
I recommend sauteing in garlic butter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsQDTB3Na2M
Fallout 4 and breakfast
Edit: Good job they used foil, I cooked a sausage in a jet exhaust once...it tasted how you'd imagine.
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Status: I think I broke something
Unable to deliver message to: <root> Delivery failed for the following reason: <lJOHTNRGEeeiugzE> invalid address 'root' found in queue
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Finally figured out how to add a response header to an internal team webapp we have, and was permitted to add GNU Terry Pratchett.
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Lync presentation on ISO 27001.
As with every one of these presentations so far, it's not gone well. The usual beginning of the presentation and getting a couple of slides in before the presenter realised they weren't transmitting audio, followed by the sound suddenly dropping off, then the entire presentation.
The messages window is particularly amusing with people massively taking the piss
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Luckily (?) BoA seems to be applying the pending reversals in front of everything else so my balance is still (barely) positive....
:GASP: !!!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Luckily (?) BoA seems to be applying the pending reversals in front of everything else so my balance is still (barely) positive....
That is indeed astonishing. They used to do the reverse so they could charge as much by way of NSF/OD fees as possible.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait. XP installer has sound!?
ACTION NEWS ALERT FROM 2001:
Yes it does.
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@gąska XP's not going to have the correct TLS version to access pretty much every HTTPS site. Good luck.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Why do you have so many apps you haven't used?
This is a Google product. More likely "last use: unknown" means he uses it every day, but the feature that keeps track of when it's last used is utterly broken.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Luckily (?) BoA seems to be applying the pending reversals in front of everything else so my balance is still (barely) positive....
Some banks purposefully re-sort transactions to guarantee overdraft fees if possible. BoA is still one of those who just goes through the transactions first-come, first-serve. Of course they could change that at any moment...
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Lync presentation on ISO 27001.
Isn't Lync deprecated for like 3 years now? Not that Skype For Business would likely have worked better.
I love how people giving presentations will rehearse their slides and speaking, but never the technical stuff. When people can easily overlook errors in the slides or speaking, but if your technical stuff is broken people can't see anything at all.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status annoyed. Don't know if it's FF or WTF, but every time I click 'Unread' or one of the unread links, I get a blank page. F5 or clicking the link and pressing return makes the page appear. Whatever. I'm going home now.
Hmm. Things are working better at home...
Ah fuck. Forum just updated. Now pages never refresh here either.
@ben_lubar
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska XP's not going to have the correct TLS version to access pretty much every HTTPS site. Good luck.
Well, this one simple fix worked for Google and worked for Shockwave installer. That's all I care about.
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Fun fact: Virtualbox has the feature that when you input VM name, it tries to guess what operating system it'll be - "vista" makes it Vista, "w10" makes it Windows 10, "ub" makes it Ubuntu. Apparently, "Galidor" is some codename for Oracle Linux.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Fun fact: Virtualbox has the feature that when you input VM name, it tries to guess what operating system it'll be - "vista" makes it Vista, "w10" makes it Windows 10, "ub" makes it Ubuntu. Apparently, "Galidor" is some codename for Oracle Linux.
I was wondering about that icon choice, but didn't comment.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
The messages window is particularly amusing with people massively taking the piss
What if it was official practice for that to resemble the craziness of Twitch chat? That'd be fun.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Amazon reversed three of the five orders I placed on Saturday. Then charged me again today. I nearly had a heart attack, as that would overdraw that account (it's not used to high value transfers). Luckily (?) BoA seems to be applying the pending reversals in front of everything else so my balance is still (barely) positive....
Amazon is usually awful about not charging you for ages (I think they charge when your item actually gets boxed / ships, which apparently can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 days). I can't recall them ever having charged, then reversed it, then charged again though.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:Went to look at a user's workstation. Before I could stop them they shouted their password at me. I obviously don't need it for anything and I can't know it, for operational reasons if nothing else, so now I have to get them to change passwords as well as fixing their issue.
Best bit: the password was
{incredibly obvious dictionary word}
123For very liberal definitions of "dictionary" and "word"...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Amazon reversed three of the five orders I placed on Saturday. Then charged me again today. I nearly had a heart attack, as that would overdraw that account (it's not used to high value transfers). Luckily (?) BoA seems to be applying the pending reversals in front of everything else so my balance is still (barely) positive....
Amazon is usually awful about not charging you for ages (I think they charge when your item actually gets boxed / ships, which apparently can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 days). I can't recall them ever having charged, then reversed it, then charged again though.
Yeah, I really should have taken a screenshot, the initial charge and reversal rows are gone now.
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Status: I've been off since wednesday afternoon, and someone else was supposed to pick up my work.
He sent me an email yesterday, knowing I'd get in first today, saying its down to just a few more issues, which he describes. But those things make no sense, and would require a different inheritance structure than exists at minimum, and even then I don't know how you'd get there. I'll have to wait until he's in regardless :/
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Luckily (?) BoA seems to be applying the pending reversals in front of everything else so my balance is still (barely) positive....
That is indeed astonishing. They used to do the reverse so they could charge as much by way of NSF/OD fees as possible.
I'm pretty sure they've been posting credits before debits for at least a few years. I'm not sure if it was competitive pressure or regulatory pressure that made them change.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Google Play doesn't think I have enough space to update a 300kb App.
i'm more concerned at the <3GiB internal storage capacity..... how old is your device?!
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@hardwaregeek Regulatory pressure.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Google Play doesn't think I have enough space to update a 300kb App.
i'm more concerned at the <3GiB internal storage capacity..... how old is your device?!
It's an Oppo Find7. Idiots decided their userbase would want more space on the "virtual" SD card, so they partitioned it like asshats.
Technically I could fix the partitions to something more my liking (since I do have a 64 Gb uSD card installed that's literally empty because fucking Android), but that would break almost everything (since I'm on a custom ROM that wouldn't understand the changes, sigh).
Maybe when I have a long weekend I'll try updating and see...
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Status: I'm considering extreme diet in order to lose 40lbs within one month so I can join army. I think I might have an early stage of depression.
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Status: We almost figured out the problem. Then we almost figured out the new problem. 23 iterations later, we're almost there...
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Status: Considering ways to generate enough network traffic to significantly load our product, but not so heavily that the network fabric gets swamped (which would invalidate the results).
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I love how people giving presentations will rehearse their slides and speaking, but never the technical stuff.
If you (or anyone else reading) ever end up running a session at a conference, make the presenters check whether their laptop works during the break before the session. If one can get them to preload the presentation in a portable form onto something known to work, so much the better, but that's definitely not always a practical option; sessions with live demos just aren't amenable to much more preparation than a quick display compatibility check, yet are often the most popular with a tech audience as they also are so much harder to fake.
Of course, there'll probably still be the idiot who wasn't listening to the order to not waste everyone's time looking like what they are, and who can only display on something powered by asthmatic gerbils, but its still worth trying to get as many people as possible to actually be prepared.
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@pleegwat Good luck. Our app died with just a thousand things for weeks.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I love how people giving presentations will rehearse their slides and speaking, but never the technical stuff.
If you (or anyone else reading) ever end up running a session at a conference, make the presenters check whether their laptop works during the break before the session. If one can get them to preload the presentation in a portable form onto something known to work, so much the better, but that's definitely not always a practical option; sessions with live demos just aren't amenable to much more preparation than a quick display compatibility check, yet are often the most popular with a tech audience as they also are so much harder to fake.
Of course, there'll probably still be the idiot who wasn't listening to the order to not waste everyone's time looking like what they are, and who can only display on something powered by asthmatic gerbils, but its still worth trying to get as many people as possible to actually be prepared.
Yes, that's also what I try to (figuratively!) beat into my pupils: TEST your presentation on the actual hardware you'll be presenting on.
Our final exams (i.e. the stuff you have to pass for graduation) allows you to have a presentation exam in one of the subjects (basically, you have a 15 minutes presentation on a topic the teacher hands out, then you grill them for 15 minutes on this and related stuff).
I've now had two incidents where a pupil turned up with a non-working presentation file. Non-working, as in: "What do you mean, you don't have Keynote on this PC?" and "Why is my presentation I created in OpenOffice now completely black font on a black background?"
I've also had the classic: "Umm, this USB stick only contains a link to the file. Unless you carried the computer with you, that doesn't help us much."
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
I've now had two incidents where a pupil turned up with a non-working presentation file. Non-working, as in: "What do you mean, you don't have Keynote on this PC?" and "Why is my presentation I created in OpenOffice now completely black font on a black background?"
I've also had the classic: "Umm, you created a link to the file on your USB stick. Unless you carried the computer with you, that doesn't help us much."The only things that stand a chance of not being a total crapshoot without testing are PDFs and the better online presentation systems (there are a few to choose between), with the latter still being at risk from network trouble and everything is up in the air if there's embedded video. OTOH, Powerpoint — still my favourite tool for presentations as it can be coaxed into producing really good results — is utterly not a good idea unless you test with the actual hardware, as all sorts of bizarrenesses can occur with differing displays and software versions. And video is still a crapshoot on any system than your own.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm considering extreme diet in order to lose 40lbs within one month so I can join army. I think I might have an early stage of depression.
I'm sure it doesn't need to be said, but I wouldn't recommend this. If you lose that much weight that quickly, you're not going to be well enough to pass the APFT or possibly even a MEPS pre-screen. Easy does it when it comes to physical training.
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@heterodox if I don't lose weigh, I won't pass them either, although for different reason.
Relevant: I've just got myself a big bowl of ice cream. My depression is getting stronger.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox if I don't lose weigh, I won't pass them either, although for different reason.
Relevant: I've just got myself a big bowl of ice cream. My depression is getting stronger.
Depression is also something you don't want to have when you're considering a life-altering career change. That's something that they screen very hard for, considering the liability involved in handing a depressed person an M16 or an M9 and showing them how to use it.
If you have earnest questions about Army recruitment, feel free to PM me. You may want to just set the weight loss goal for yourself at this juncture, though, and focus on that and what it'll enable rather than what comes after.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
a life-altering career change
My current career is "unemployed".