The Official Status Thread
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Status: For the first time ever, a static I'm in cleared a floor of raid content the first week it was out
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@adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Sometime between last night and now the wireless on (one of) my laptop died
It happened to my laptop too, and the reason was the antenna cables unplugged from the network card.
You could look inside to see if the antenna is connected.I applied the Win10 update. Rebooted. Now it works again. Whatever...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
applied the Win10 update. Rebooted. Now it works again. Whatever...
Windows : if you reboot and it still doesn't work, you have a REAL problem
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Status: The two copies of Bleach 2 were indeed delivered to my mailbox. They were inside an envelope made of two pieces of cardboard taped together a lot. Inside of a yellow packing envelope full of bubble wrap. Inside a USPS envelope.
Both seem to be in perfect quality, and I've been trying to regain my fighting game muscle memory. FighterZ helps with that in some ways, and increases my response times, but this game forces me to slow down, or else it ignores me, and many things are way more manual.
I need to crosstrain with these two, and maybe mix back in Hisoutensoku. The completely differing styles should compound my skill gain.
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Installing Visual Studio 2017 on my work computer, along with a couple packages. Total size ~20GB.
Office is on an upper-tier fiber connection. I often see download speeds of 50+ mbps.
This fucking "online" installer is going on it's 3rd hour, and it just finished "acquiring packages". For the longest time it just said "13%" because an actual download status bar would be too fucking difficult.
Now it's on "Applying (package)". It's only at 39%. It finished acquiring packages an hour ago.
The last Visual Studio I installed on this machine was 2012. I downloaded the MSI, clicked "install", and it was ready in, like, 5 minutes?
PROGRESS!
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@lorne-kates That's like the opposite of every time I've seen 2017 vs 2012 installed.
Everything before 2017 takes like 3+ hours, and 2017 lets you install less stuff and only add stuff when you need it, so it can be done in 10 minutes for a basic install.
I wonder if you have some weird proxy setting blocking the download?
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates That's like the opposite of every time I've seen 2017 vs 2012 installed.
Everything before 2017 takes like 3+ hours, and 2017 lets you install less stuff and only add stuff when you need it, so it can be done in 10 minutes for a basic install.
I wonder if you have some weird proxy setting blocking the download?
Nope, no blocking. Either Microsoft's servers are shitting themselves, or the installer is shitting itself.
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@lorne-kates Wow. When I put VS2017 on a clean machine (a VM at that!), it didn't take much more than 1/2hr.
edit: I only installed C++, .Net, and UWP.
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@dcon It definitely matters what packages: the more mobile dev kits and C++ things, the worse it gets. But yeah, even then, it's not that slow. And certainly faster than the old ones.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates Wow. When I put VS2017 on a clean machine (a VM at that!), it didn't take much more than 1/2hr.
edit: I only installed C++, .Net, and UWP.
I'm also installing the Xamarin framework for mobile development, but not C++. Even if I installed a whole bunch of add-ons, 4+ hours (at 55%) is just stupid.
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@lorne-kates The android stuff seems to all come from different servers, and makes everything awful.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates Wow. When I put VS2017 on a clean machine (a VM at that!), it didn't take much more than 1/2hr.
edit: I only installed C++, .Net, and UWP.
I'm also installing the Xamarin framework for mobile development, but not C++. Even if I installed a whole bunch of add-ons, 4+ hours (at 55%) is just stupid.
I did Xamarin at home... I have seen some MSI installs (which under the hood is what VS is - like 150 of them) take a while due to signature validation slowness.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I did Xamarin at home... I have seen some MSI installs (which under the hood is what VS is - like 150 of them) take a while due to signature validation slowness.
Now at 73%. Working on installing Android Images, I think. It's launched a Power Shell instance, currently pegging a CPU core.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon It definitely matters what packages: the more mobile dev kits and C++ things, the worse it gets. But yeah, even then, it's not that slow. And certainly faster than the old ones.
I've got everything besides WPF and Unreal installed and even that took less than an hour on both my desktop and the Surface Book.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Now at 73%. Working on installing Android Images, I think. It's launched a Power Shell instance, currently pegging a CPU core.
An hour later. Still at 73%, "Applying AndroidImage_x86_API25". Still. STILL.
edititalicised text** This wouldn't be so bad if it would at least give a proper sense of what it was actually doing. A standard install UI-- where it's downloading from, what it's downloading, the percentage + MB done, the speed. And then when it's installing, actually saying what it's doing "unpacking, configuring, copying files, etc".
This "flat interface with no info" might be good for dumb shit like Office365 where you don't want to scare off the Grumpy Cats-- but god fucking damnit, this is VISUAL STUDIO. It is the most core and fundamental DEVELOPER TOOL in the entire MSDN. Literally the only people using it will be developers, and we can handle lots of information in our installers. I don't need a baby interface made of crayons, you dumb microfucks.
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Status: Waiting for the livefeed for the Falcon Heavy launch to begin. Due to high winds, they already moved the launch twice. It currently stands at 20:45 UTC.
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@rhywden Me too, thanks.
Launch window closes at 4 so beyond that they'll have to scrub for tomorrow.
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@lorne-kates (anti)virus software running quadruple-redundancy checks by sending all the bits to a server before writing?
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Dammit Visual Studio 2015!
: Why the hell can't I set a breakpoint!
(global search onABC
for some reason)x.cpp: struct ABC : public X { ...} y.cpp: struct ABC : public X {...}
The classes where pretty much identical. Until I tried adding debugging code. That did nothing. I now wonder if we have any other "local" classes lurking like this...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates (anti)virus software running quadruple-redundancy checks by sending all the bits to a server before writing?
AV software is off. But checking the event log, since it is still at 73%, and wtf is this?
"The speed of processor 0 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 86401 seconds since the last report."
"The speed of processor 1 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 86401 seconds since the last report."
"The speed of processor 2 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 86401 seconds since the last report."
"The speed of processor 3 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 86401 seconds since the last report."
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@lorne-kates Thermal throttling?
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates Thermal throttling?
Nothing in Windows Power Plan. It's set to "When on battery, fuck it, go for max performance!"
It may be a shitty BIOS setting. I may need to {shudder} reboot.
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@lorne-kates Might also be a hardware problem. Which would explain the problems you're having.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
"The speed of processor 0 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 86401 seconds since the last report."
It's an Intel CPU and you applied the patch for Spectre and Meltdown.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
"The speed of processor 0 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 86401 seconds since the last report."
It's an Intel CPU and you applied the patch for Spectre and Meltdown.
I don't think so. I haven't run Windows Update in a long time. (Windows 7 here). But I'll check.
e: Nope, not there
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Status: So, this job application I went for? I had to develop a concept for that which included a paragraph about the new EU data protection laws which come into effect this May.
Basically, those are saying: "Any kind of personal info may not be stored on or transmitted to servers outside your direct control." There's also a bit about: "Only people with a need to know shall be able to access personal information of others."
We currently have a bit of chaos going on and it'll be my job to enforce that noone will exchange an Excel file of grades with others via email (or similar stunts). To make things easier, we already have two services which allow this kind of data exchange - one is similar to WhatsApp but with transparent end-to-end-encryption (with the usual consequences should you forget the password to your private key), the other is a SharePoint solution which has been customized to serve our type of school's needs.
So, it'll be a bit like herding cats but I think it's doable.
We also have this solution to manage our local PCs - I already griped about that before and yesterday a colleague dropped another bombshell.
Basically, any teacher can access any pupil's folders. Which goes kind of heavily against the requirement of "Need to know". But that's not the worst (though I'm kind of doubtful they'll be able to solve that one).
No, the worst one is that this colleague reported that using a variant of the method to access the folders, he was also able to see the pupil's password. No, not a SHA-hash.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
using a variant of the method to access the folders, he was also able to see the pupil's password.
Bwah??!?!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
using a variant of the method to access the folders, he was also able to see the pupil's password.
Bwah??!?!
Yes. Exactly my reaction.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
We currently have a bit of chaos going on and it'll be my job to enforce that noone will exchange an Excel file of grades with others via email (or similar stunts).
Wow :) :(
When I was at school the results for the whole year group's (150+ pupils) results in the previous year's public exams (GCSEs), broken down in minute detail, were provided as a source data set for the statistics class to analyse.
Not so great for privacy, but somewhat cool (in a creepy stalker-ish way) if you wanted to know more about the girl you had a crush on...
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@japonicus said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
We currently have a bit of chaos going on and it'll be my job to enforce that noone will exchange an Excel file of grades with others via email (or similar stunts).
Wow :) :(
When I was at school the results for the whole year group's (150+ pupils) results in the previous year's public exams (GCSEs), broken down in minute detail, where provided as a source data for the statistics class.
Not so great for privacy, but somewhat cool (in a creepy stalker-ish way) if you wanted to know more about the girl you had a crush on...
Yeah, they did that too at my school.
My university did it a bit differently - they assigned a number to everyone and then solely used those numbers in their displays of exam results.
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OMFG!!! That was cool! Both boosters landed simultaneously successfully.
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Status: Is it normal to change CIOs every 2-3 years? Asking for a friend.
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Fucking hell
Doing a boot configuration database repair. Still. Waiting.
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status: UE4's Swarm Coordinator app is super simple, there's basically no configuration, no logging, just a "here's a list of agents that spoke to me, and a button to ask them to restart".
Unfortunately that also means that troubleshooting is a bitch.
Far as I can tell, the connection to the coordinator is dandy, but when agents try to ping other agents, it silently says nothing and doesn't work. WTF.
Not sure what to do, since clearly the connections are working.... But if it doesn't say the other agents are available during the ping it never coordinates anything. Ugh...
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Several reboots, repair and unplugging every fucking usb device later, it's alive!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Go home, FreeNAS, you're drunk...
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...There are no active ports on a thing that doesn't exist? That's... actually pretty much what I would expect.
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Status: Installing a graphical user environment on a server that has no graphics card. This ought to be interesting? Maybe? We'll see how it goes...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I do have all variations possible in the folder, btw. It just seems to be ignoring it.
Maybe it recognizes that there's more than one, and it's ignoring them all because it doesn't know which of them to choose.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra IMO the name 'Bob' should be saved for your database server, which you should call Bobby Tables.
No, the db server is Jack, we shove all sorts of stuff inside it...
Ahhhh. So... it's a Jack... of all trades.
At least it isn't named Uranus.
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Status Played around with the Paint3D app that came with one of the Crater's Pupdates. Actually worked well for my purposes.
Made a model of a star system in my setting, showing the astral and abyssal planes above and below the 4-planet system. The main planet is the green one with two moons. Took about 10 minutes.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
At least it isn't named Uranus.
Never again. Too many backdoors
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@lorne-kates The better to shove all sorts of stuff inside you, my dear...
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Yes! Firefox Mobile still supports image.animation_mode
In other words, fuck you, @tufty
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Literally the only people using it will be developers, and we can handle
For a longtime member of this forum, you sure have a lot of confidence in developers.
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Status: Slightly disappointed that my Subnautica world seemed to have broken somehow after I died, and I might've lost over an hour and a half's worth of stuff I did. Hope it didn't corrupt the save entirely...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates The better to shove all sorts of stuff inside you, my dear...
I finish reading Sunstone today, and then I see this...
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Status: Finally finished Enterprise. That series finale... what a steaming load of !
In case anyone's wondering I was alive during the series run. I just didn't watch it, but with Star Trek Discovery airing, I figured it'd be nice to watch some older series.
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