The Official Status Thread
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Someone hasn't heard of new-skin
I was trying to find the jingle that ends in "That's when new-skin is there for you" but that jingle doesn't seem to exist online :/
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heard of it, but i don't get injured often enough that i would need it often enough to buy.
that and the few times (like today when it was only location that made it necessary) i need it i have superglue around because of how handy that stuff is.
and superglue works great for cuts (it's just less than good for you if the tube you have has certain classes of additives)
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I also assume superglue stings less than new-skin
Status: SSO down for our SIT environment yet again :/
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well probably not. new skin is more for scrapes than cuts. that's a different pain curve.
i don't tend to get bad scrapes as i'm not what you would call an outdoors fox. I've been too thoroughly urbanized.
interestingly Chrome marks i'm as correctly spelled but not i've. it wants i've capitalized to call it correct.
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I could do a greatest hits on these people
I'm more interested in the Venezuelan intern.
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Status: Dealing with the blowback of a dumb decision my boss made.
We have three virtual hosts for our VMs. Off to a good start, right? They are all nearly maxed out for processor and RAM subscription, and one is severely oversubscribed on RAM (81 GB out of 48 GB, mostly hosting SQL Server boxes). These VMs are all running in VMWare.
Around 11:00 AM local time, I find out that my boss has scheduled an outside company to do some maintenance on our VMWare setup, starting at 10:00 AM. They work by cramming all VM's on two hosts and upgrading the one now-empty host, and moving on. 11:30, things start blowing up. I start receiving error emails from our main production program: it can't connect to the database. No one can do their job. And the maintenance is expected to last until 2:00 PM.
I can't even do my job today. I need to test some systems for release, and our test servers, including the test DB, are among those VMs affected.
I'm not happy with my boss.
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it's getting a little crowded in here isn't it? ;-)
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it's getting a little crowded in here isn't it? ;-)
Then maybe we should have booked a bigger room…
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Status: just realized that something I was asked to estimate was talking about X hundred million items being Y TB. Where X and Y meant each item was in the mid teens of KB. As each item is insurance claims I've no idea how they got them that small.
Basically grossly under speced thing I was asked to estimate also is pulling the few numbers it has from who knows where.
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Status: Network Solutions just sent me an email saying a domain I didn't even know I owned is expiring.
(Turns out I did own it, it was a freebie I got years ago then promptly forgot about.)
... that's the most interesting thing that's happened to me today.
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I just learnt that pressing Alt + numbers switches between tabs in Firefox.
HOW COULD I NEVER KNOW THAT?!
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CNR (chrome)
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11:30, things start blowing up. I start receiving error emails from our main production program: it can't connect to the database.
Status, con't: Now up to 347 error emails about this issue. Is it over yet?
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Ctrl + $number.
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My boss isn't allowed to make technical/infrastructure decisions like that. They're all referred to us.
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My boss isn't allowed to make technical/infrastructure decisions like that. They're all referred to us.
Yeah, but that is the sane way to do things...
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One of the few things we do sanely.
Ideally, he'd not be allowed to make any work decisions without us approving them, but that won't fly. Nor do we have time for that.
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It is always nice when you have to babysit the person who is supposed to be supervising you.
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My boss isn't allowed to make technical/infrastructure decisions like that. They're all referred to us.
I wish.
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It is always nice when you have to babysit the person who is supposed to be supervising you.
And the other (read: non-technical) half of the team. Sometimes it feels like 3 of us thinking for 7.
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Status, con't: Now up to 347 error emails about this issue. Is it over yet?
Update: Not over yet. Maintenance was supposed to be done an hour ago, but the emails indicate that they are still working on it. Now at 541 error emails.
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If not for your religion, I would just tell you to go to the pub until it blows over.
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If not for your religion, I would just tell you to go to the pub until it blows over.
He can still do that, so long as he sticks to soft drinks ;)
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As long as it is caffeine free? I think? I have shown I know squat about LDS, so I am not going to speculate. ;)
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Update: Not over yet. Maintenance was supposed to be done an hour ago, but the emails indicate that they are still working on it. Now at 541 error emails.
Belgium it all!!! Just got an email from the contractor which indicates they just finished updating the first of the three host machines. They were supposed to be done an hour ago!
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As long as it is caffeine free? I think? I have shown I know squat about LDS, so I am not going to speculate. ;)
That's a misconception. Caffeine is acceptable. Coffee, and teas made from actual tea leaves, are not. Herbal teas are ok.
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That's a misconception. Caffeine is acceptable. Coffee, and most teas
May I ask why caffeine is acceptable, but coffee and tea are not? Serious inquiry here.
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May I ask why caffeine is acceptable, but coffee and tea are not? Serious inquiry here.
It's part of a commandment we refer to as the Word of Wisdom. It specifies that coffee and tea are not to be consumed, but it doesn't say anything about other edibles which also contain caffeine, such as chocolate. There has been some speculation about why coffee and tea are on the verboten list, but since the Word of Wisdom doesn't actually say, no one knows.
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Interesting, I always assumed that coffee and tea were prohibited because of the caffeine and the LDS stance against consuming anything mind or body altering. (did I at least get that right?)
Or, maybe I have watched too much 'Big Love'? ;)
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LDS stance against consuming anything mind or body altering. (did I at least get that right?)
Yeah, you got that part right.
Or, maybe I have watched too much 'Big Love'?
That's still a possibility. ;)
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Status: Back at my desk after the Australia Day long weekend
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You Brits have strange holidays.
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It's also led to decades of conspiracy theories about Coke.
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Are you angling for a whoosh also?
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Whoosh?
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
Status: Back at my desk after the Australia Day long weekend
You Brits have strange holidays.
I know. This is an especially weird as it goes from Noon till Noon so you get the afternoon of one day and the morning of the next as the holiday.
Filed under: Having two passports
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except he actually lost me at moving to south texas.
i LIKE maine
Hey, you know what we don't have here (bear in mind I'm in North, not South, Texas, but the rest of the sentence will be even more true there)? TWO FEET OF SNOW.
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Jesus fuck, how do they expect to fill that position?
Thinking about it, I bet they're really looking for an H-1B. I've heard this is a trick they use. "Oh, we can't find an American to do this job [because none of them are that stupid!] so let's bring in an Indian".
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Hey, you know what we don't have here (bear in mind I'm in North, not South, Texas, but the rest of the sentence will be even more true there)? TWO FEET OF SNOW.
Me too!
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timings a bit off. the storm is still about 2 hours out..
:-P
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I can usually trace it from incident, to songs playing in similar incidents, to that same song playing another time, where I had a conversation that led to something else, which made me think of...
It is usually easier to just say, "I don't know."
Also, sometimes there's a step in there you figure you're not going to be able to explain.
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timings a bit off. the storm is still about 2 hours out..
I won't have two feet of snow tonight, either, or tomorrow, or, frankly, until the glacier gets here, and even then I'll probably see you encased in ice as it rolls on south.
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status: I was 4-500 posts behind in this thread until I replied. Then Discourse decided my replying would reset the count of unseen posts, so now I will have to use the up-arrow to figure out where I was so I can resume.
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.... you do realize your name is FrostCat?