The Official Status Thread
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@sloosecannon
If crying bloody murder happens over going down, you're going down wrong...
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
I know because I've got VMs on there that will cry bloody murder if they go down for 5ms.
That's some special VMs there
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Status: it's raining but I need to go and buy a tape measure.
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@Arantor
Might be a little late to start construction of an ark if it's already raining
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@Arantor It's not raining for me...
Did someone turn England around 180° without me noticing?
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@izzion if that's the case, I'm already fucked because there is a sea visible from this office if I stick my head out the window.
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It is sunny in Hampshire ...
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Alas poor hedgehog I knew him
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Alas poor hedgehog I knew him
Unfortunately, Horatio's not in right now: he had to go to the shops and buy some milk. He'll be back soon though.
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Status: an acquaintance called me because he got hit hard with ramsomware. all his files and the backups. he runs a small family company and this is going to hit him hard enough he may be looking at closing shop :(
it was really hard to tell him that he's royally fucked and that he should start talking really seriously with the fuckers he paid to do IT for him.
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Status: sort of in an 'eye of the storm' situation. We have a deadline for deployment to UAT and an impending release, but everything I need to do or can do towards it is either done or waiting on someone else to do something else first. We deliberately left the dev team's workload light this sprint so we could focus on fixing defects but none of my code has had any.
I was going to help the other guys on the other project (shinies) but the guy in charge of that who was going to assign me something to do left for the week about fifteen minutes before I got done with all the little loose ends of stuff for this project which took priority.
It's Friday afternoon and I have nothing to do and my brain's going fuzzy from lack of stimulation. The company allows flextime so the sensible thing to do would be to go home early and make up the extra hour next week. But I'm a contractor and my actual employer requires me to supply them with 40 billable hours each and every week, so I can't carry flex balances over weekends.
So I'm messing around on here and in order to try and look busy I'm going to have another go at trying to put a gnu Terry Pratchett header in one of our things, though I doubt I'll dare leave it in for code review.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor It's not raining for me...
Did someone turn England around 180° without me noticing?
TIL England is so small that all them experience the same weather
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Update: Version 51.0.1 and holding. Seems better. Much better.
Oddly enough, version 52, which disabled support for Java unless you toggle an
about:config
setting to temporarily re-enable it, wanted to lock up for fairly long periods of time (around 30 seconds I'd estimate) when trying to use Java on sites where it worked fine under the previous version. But it's not just the freezes that went away; the memory consumption of the process after it's been open for a while also dropped by about a gig when I downgraded.In other news today, on the other computer, where I am letting it keep itself up-to-date (53.0.2 as of now), I found the "Firefox did a poopie, additionally we couldn't flush because our shit reporting service is stupid" popup this morning. Good Jorb, Firefox.
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Status: I am in line at a drive-in and the person in front of me is a ~80 year old woman driving a Buick Lacrosse with a bale of hay in the backseat.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I am in line at a drive-in and the person in front of me is a ~80 year old woman driving a Buick Lacrosse with a bale of hay in the backseat.
Maybe they ewe her at the register?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I am in line at a drive-in and the person in front of me is a ~80 year old woman driving a Buick Lacrosse with a bale of hay in the backseat.
Maybe they ewe her at the register?
Paging @Groaner.
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@PleegWat Shame. So near, yet so far. ;)
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
he should start talking really seriously with the fuckers he paid to do IT for him.
Like with lawyers?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
(53.0.2 as of now)
You're behind. It's 53.0.3 now.
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If we impeach 2 presidents in a row, is it a world record?
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
If we impeach 2 presidents in a row, is it a world record?
It's a target for the USA to pitch for!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
(53.0.2 as of now)
You're behind. It's 53.0.3 now.
It wasn't when I posted that.
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Status: Attempting to launch 50 headless clients...
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Status: SQL Math: 250 million line items divided by 16 million invoices means an average of 1k-4k line items per invoice!
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
an acquaintance called me because he got hit hard with ramsomware. all his files and the backups.
The hell? How is that even possible? Were their LOB applications not running from a server? That is a shit IT plan if they got the backups also.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: All day I have been thinking it is Thursday. But no...
All day yesterday, I was thinking (feeling like) it was Friday. I was disappoint.
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
If we impeach 2 presidents in a row, is it a world record?
Are we already talking about Pence? Because, contrary to many wet dreams, Obama was never impeached.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
(53.0.2 as of now)
You're behind. It's 53.0.3 now.
Obviously: a minute has passed
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
All day yesterday, I was thinking (feeling like) it was Friday. I was disappoint.
I traded you. It worked out well for me.
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@Weng no, I'm talking about local stuff. We just impeached one, and the guy that took his place just got taped planning to bribe someone to stay silent about his robbery
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@wharrgarbl It remains amazing to me that someone who's just ousted their predecessor over corruption would not at least take care to not be caught being crooked. To get into the same sort of mess despite that incredibly clear warning is a way to look really really stupid…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@wharrgarbl It remains amazing to me that someone who's just ousted their predecessor over corruption would not at least take care to not be caught being crooked. To get into the same sort of mess despite that incredibly clear warning is a way to look really really stupid…
It wasn't him who exposed his predecessor. He was the vice-president, elected together with her. He was caught planning to bribe the one that did the exposing.
And the one that recorded him saying that was another dirty person that made a deal with the police.
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@dkf I'm reminded of that scene from Blackadder the Third where they're filling out Baldrick's MP application form, and it asks for criminal charges. Baldrick says 'none', and Blackadder makes some charges up because he's going to be an MP :D
Fraud and sexual deviance, IIRC
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Bought a bottle of wine on the way home tonight. It's 21:13, and I'm out of wine.
Status: Thinking about going to buy more wine.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 21:13, and I'm out of wine.
since you're in the future relatively to me, can you say me the lottery numbers?
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
It's 21:13, and I'm out of wine.
since you're in the future relatively to me, can you say me the lottery numbers?
Steven, Mary, orange, peanut, staple, mermaid.
Status: Remembering I have beer.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Steven, Mary, orange, peanut, staple, mermaid.
I knew I shouldn't have chosen Mr Bun the Baker. :(
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
he should start talking really seriously with the fuckers he paid to do IT for him.
Like with lawyers?
that was my suggestion.
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
an acquaintance called me because he got hit hard with ramsomware. all his files and the backups.
The hell? How is that even possible? Were their LOB applications not running from a server? That is a shit IT plan if they got the backups also.
shitty indeed. i'm not sure about their actual configuration, since i didn't wanted to pour more salt into the wound.
the sure thing is that someone did a horrible job there.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Remembering I have beer.
Status: Concluding beer from Lidl is bad beer.
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
that was my suggestion.
It is unlikely to do any good. Unless he was paying them for a backup service or something guaranteed to protect against ransomware, they are unlikely to have any liability.
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng no, I'm talking about local stuff. We just impeached one, and the guy that took his place just got taped planning to bribe someone to stay silent about his robbery
Oh yeah. I forgot for a second you live in International.
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@Weng international is a cool place, full of international stuff
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@Jarry make sure they have checked everything, including (hopefully they are doing them) the VSCs. How much is the ransom they are wanting?
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So I'm playing X-COM UFO Defense, which is a strategy game from 1994 if you didn't know. And I'm playing on "super easy" difficulty because it's my first playthrough.
I fill an airship with 10 soldiers (the maximum I can fit). Each with a heavy cannon, a missile launcher, and/or a bunch of grenades. And next to them, a fucking tank. Basically everything I have.
I land. Immediately after the soldiers leave the ship, an alien throws a giant fucking bomb at them and kills all but 2. The 2 survivors and the "tank" then proceed to throw away all their weapons and run in random directions for 4 turns.
Yup, seems totally fair.
EDIT: oh god, I just restarted the mission. Literally first turn, first action, deploy tank, IT GETS KILLED IN ONE SHOT BY SOME RANDOM ALIEN! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
Edit: 3rd attempt, it happened again, tank comes out, tank goes down. Very well balanced.
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@Polygeekery and that it's not that wanacry one that just run away with your money