The Official Status Thread
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Status: It's Remote Desktops all the way down!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's Remote Desktops all the way down!
When I worked at VMware, I often RDP'd from M1 into M2 (to avoid switching keyboards, and to allow copy/paste). M2 was running a VM that had vSphere in it. I then RDPd from M2 into the VM in the VM. Just try and figure out where a ctrl+alt+del is going to go!
Edit: There may have been some more layers in there. Too many years ago. And those contortions hurt.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Just try and figure out where a ctrl+alt+
delend is going to go!Ctrl+alt+del should always only work on the local machine. Ctrl+alt+end should do it for the first level RDP session. You shouldn't be able to trigger it any further down without some shenanigans and mixing clients (which will probably have a different key combo anyways).
It's even more fun when you get a VPN or two involved.
In any case, I so dearly hope I get the chain of desktops updated in the right order, going outside the chain is rather annoying...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Ctrl+alt+end should do it for the first level RDP session.
It's easy forgetting which level you're in! (I ultimately trained myself just to use the 'send ctrl-alt-del sequence' menu item [or whatever it's actually called] after sending to the outer level instead of the inner one too many times)
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Status:
https://i.imgur.com/95Aru09.png
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
https://i.imgur.com/95Aru09.pngYou're on DSL?
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@tsaukpaetra Worse. An airplane.
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Meanwhile, in other machines...
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@tsaukpaetra sounds like you need a bigger swapfile.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra sounds like you need a bigger swapfile.
Windows is not doing so well with 1Gb of RAM, that's for sure...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
1Gb of RAM
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Status: The Microsoft Update Catalog is refreshingly Web 1.0...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
1Gb of RAM
Works fine normally. Well, until you want to do Windows Update, apparently.
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Status: Dinner tonight is chocolate ice cream and decaf coffee. This is wrong on several levels.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Ctrl+alt+end should do it for the first level RDP session.
It's easy forgetting which level you're in! (I ultimately trained myself just to use the 'send ctrl-alt-del sequence' menu item [or whatever it's actually called] after sending to the outer level instead of the inner one too many times)
Oh yes, especially when you full-screen them and don't have the toolbar pinned:
Or do, but they're all overlapping because default:
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What corflags is and where you can find it
C:\>corflags /? Microsoft (R) .NET Framework CorFlags Conversion Tool. Version 4.6.1055.0 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Usage: Corflags.exe Assembly [options] If no options are specified, the flags for the given image are displayed. Options: /ILONLY+ /ILONLY- Sets/clears the ILONLY flag /32BITREQ+ /32BITREQ- Sets/clears the bits indicating 32-bit x86 only /32BITPREF+ /32BITPREF- Sets/clears the bits indicating 32-bit preferred /UpgradeCLRHeader Upgrade the CLR Header to version 2.5 /RevertCLRHeader Revert the CLR Header to version 2.0 /Force Force an assembly update even if the image is strong name signed. WARNING: Updating a strong name signed assembly will require the assembly to be resigned before it will execute properly. /nologo Prevents corflags from displaying logo C:\>where corflags C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6.1 Tools\CorFlags.exe
What the hell are they doing with that file? They're certainly not allowed to redistribute it, and there's no reason to use it anywhere except during build.
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
What the hell are they doing with that file? They're certainly not allowed to redistribute it, and there's no reason to use it anywhere except during build.
Better question: Why do they want me to launch that program every six hours via Windows Task Scheduler?
Incompetents, the lot of them...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
you need a bigger swapfile.
Seems to have helped. Windows apparently wanted a max pagefile size of 0.5GB when automanaged. I set it to 4Gb, and now it's at least churning...
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Status: Told my summer class instructor that I'd probably be in the air when the deadline hit and asked if I could get the deadline pushed. I finally received an email back five hours later, at the exact time that the summer course disappears from my Canvas page altogether.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I finally received an email back five hours later
What did it say?
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Serious question: what would we lose if Javascript could no longer change
window.location
(or could only do it in response to direct user input on a button)? Malicious ads (of the fake prize variety) that do page redirects on load (on mobile, so no working adblock that I can find) are starting to really grind my gears.
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Status: Soggy. Very soggy.
Was asked to make a document on tear-down and re-build of a component on one of our test systems. I had helped decommission, depressurise and disconnect it from the other parts of the installation last week so I knew it was empty.
Disconnected one set of pipework with no issues. Disconnected the second and a, frankly impressive, geyser appeared and soaked me and the phone I was taking pictures with.Co-worker had decided to refill and repressurise it for testing and then disconnected it again with it all still 'hot'. Non-toxic process fluid but quite pungent, so that's great.
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Status: Shortened tests run time from 2.5 minutes to 10 seconds.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Shortened tests run time from 2.5 minutes to 10 seconds.
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Status: Should be writing code to format exams automatically (because doing it manually in Word is obnoxious, due to Word "helping"). Facing due to extreme right now.
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Status: Recovering from severe work overdose due to this morning's cooties storm
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Shortened tests run time from 2.5 minutes to 10 seconds.
Nope, just making a script that should run only once, run only once.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Recovering from severe work overdose due to this morning's cooties storm
I'm lucky I've only got cooties when I was about to go home anyway.
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Is anyone else getting nginx 502 bad gateway error when trying to access the site? Or is it just me?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Meanwhile, in other machines...
Hey I got the exact same shit when I tried to play Just Cause 3 on my computer. What it suggests does not seem to help :/
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
Is anyone else getting nginx 502 bad gateway error when trying to access the site? Or is it just me?
I was for a while. It stopped. Apparently it was either some plugin going nuts or the restart to clear it that was causing the 502…
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra sounds like you need a bigger swapfile.
Windows is not doing so well with 1Gb of RAM, that's for sure...
Yeah, you make Windows do weird things.
Resolved: Won't Fix, Edge Case.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
Is anyone else getting nginx 502 bad gateway error when trying to access the site? Or is it just me?
I was for a while. It stopped. Apparently it was either some plugin going nuts or the restart to clear it that was causing the 502…
After it came back, I saw an update in https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/19454/nodebb-updates...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra sounds like you need a bigger swapfile.
Windows is not doing so well with 1Gb of RAM, that's for sure...
Yeah, you make Windows do weird things.
Resolved: Won't Fix, Edge Case.A Standard_B1s is supported on Azure. If it was not, it should not be offered in conjunction with Windows 10.
Also, attempting to run Windows Update (because it failed for the last half year) is not "make Windows do weird things." If anything, it's prodding Windows to do the NORMAL thing.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
A Standard_B1s is supported on Azure. If it was not, it should not be offered in conjunction with Windows 10.
(Google "minimum memory for windows 10")
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit.No one I have ever known would say Windows works well when using a minimum configuration! (Disclaimer: I know nothing about Azure, so I don't know how that may affect the above min)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
No one I have ever known would say Windows works well when using a minimum configuration!
You know me.
It works well.
Until you let it do Windows Updates. Then it does not work well.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
No one I have ever known would say Windows works well when using a minimum configuration!
You know me.
It works well.
Until you
letsit back and helplessly watch it do Windows Updates. Then it does not work well.Big time FTFY.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
No one I have ever known would say Windows works well when using a minimum configuration!
You know me.
It works well.
Until you
letsit back and helplessly watch it do Windows Updates. Then it does not work well.Big time FTFY.
Well, yes. But in my case, it was not even trying to do Windows Updates (probably because whatever-the-fuck logic can't run with less than 2GB of RAM anymore), and cheerfully claimed that the "device" was up to date, despite last "checking" over half a year ago.
So: Word to the desperate: If you don't want Windows to update, ensure it has less than 2GB of RAM and a pagefile that will never autogrow past 512 MB (because pants on head automanagement).
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status Bug status, unchanged, no work done, etc,etc,etc
QA update: Bug still happens on build x.y.z
: (thinks/fumes/wants to respond in bug, but doesn't) Well, duh! We haven't marked it asFixed
, have we
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Bug status, unchanged, no work done, etc,etc,etc
QA update: Bug still happens on build x.y.z
: (thinks/fumes/wants to respond in bug, but doesn't) Well, duh! We haven't marked it asFixed
, have we
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Bug status, unchanged, no work done, etc,etc,etc
QA update: Bug still happens on build x.y.z
: (thinks/fumes/wants to respond in bug, but doesn't) Well, duh! We haven't marked it asFixed
, have weA few months ago, I did actually respond that way. Now? (and the QA lead had a "reasonable" explanation - regression testing on all open bugs. Well, ok.)
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Serious question: what would we lose if Javascript could no longer change
window.location
(or could only do it in response to direct user input on a button)? Malicious ads (of the fake prize variety) that do page redirects on load (on mobile, so no working adblock that I can find) are starting to really grind my gears.Mobile Firefox -> Addons -> Install adblocker of choice. (Does not work on iOS because says to proper user choice.)
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like, despite it appearing that the machine locked up, it came back (eventually) and is now waiting for a reboot:
Seem Azure noticed. Let's see what kind of helpful information it provides...
So, Azure is patting itself on the back for doing... nothing. Good jorb.
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I'm screwed. Literally lost it. Going nuts about it.
If you see a small screw and O-Ring laying on the floor please return it.
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So my dad might be dying.
Lumps on the liver that look cancerous, lump in his throat and possibly more in his lungs. Coughing up blood and what sounds like bad jaundice.
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@jaloopa
And suddenly a lost screw doesn't seem that important anymore ...
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@luhmann sorry to steal your thunder. I hope you find your screw and your marbles
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Status: Made a method async and now objects are apparently disposing themselves mysteriously for no apparent reason.