The Official Status Thread
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
Besides, I don't drink coffee - only Nescafé.
I agree with you, Nescafé is not coffee
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Status: Spending vast quantities of other people's money
Dual 18 Core Xeon Gold, 256GB RAM, 6TB RAID-10 SSD storage, M.2 boot array. This thing is going to fly.
It's the new Domain Controller/file server/SQL server. No Exchange on this one because we're moving to Office 365.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Domain Controller/file server/SQL server
TIL: You need a machine beefy enough to run VMWare and at least 20 virtual servers just to run a DC and SQL server
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't recall ever seeing it ask for anything other than password hint.
It just did that to me today... New desktop tower. Wanted to install Ubuntu on it. But first had to boot into windows to disable the secure boot shit. And so I could boot from the USB drive (via the recovery stuff).
Which brings me to:
status Who the fuck thinks Linux is ready for the common user? Every time I locked my new box, it froze and required a hard reset. Googled. Tried various "it worked" options. Yeah, no. Finally stumbled on the "get rid of the open source XORG shit and use the proprietary nVidia drivers". Finally!
Linux Mint is your friend. It's basically Ubuntu but without being retarded.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Domain Controller/file server/SQL server
TIL: You need a machine beefy enough to run VMWare and at least 20 virtual servers just to run a DC and SQL server
The server its replacing was installed in 2009, so I thought I'd spec this one for 10 years as well!
On the practical side SQL server does use an ungodly amount of resources, so I think the utilisation is actually going to be decent.
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@Cursorkeys
Then again, if your DBA (snerk) would actually properly configure the SQL server, it wouldn’t try to suck up 2TB of RAM for its file cache and would thus look like it’s consuming fewer resources.NB: assumption made based on the typical server i see on SQL consulting engagements. No aspersions against any DBAs, professional or accidental, are intended.
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Status: Tried a bit of Warframe. I'm now on the second plant (Venus) and I think I just bounced hard off it. First of all, the combat is very floaty (both gunplay and melee weapons don't feel very impactful), then you get bullet sponge enemies and lastly, I repeatedly ran into "one hit wonders) where enemies spawned from thin air, did some special jump move on me from behind my back (which wiped out my shield completely) and then, a mere second later, another enemy did the same thing, wiping the floor with me.
They're also regularly braindead enemies - i.e. regularly just trying to swarm you.For all its (past or present) faults - that's what Destiny gets right: Potentially fatal attacks by enemies are properly telegraphed, the different enemy types also have different types of behaviour (i.e. ghouls will swarm you while wizards will retreat when you pop their shield) and guns feel like you're making an actual impact.
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Status: I'm unable to enroll for "writing a thesis" course at my uni because the supervisor I've chosen and had his signed declaration that he's supervising my thesis filed in the uni administration half a year ago, isn't on the list of available supervisors in the enrollment system. I have until Wednesday to straighten this out or I'm kicked out right before final semester, with no way to get back because they've closed down my major. Goddamn I hate this uni.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm unable to enroll for "writing a thesis" course at my uni because the supervisor I've chosen and had his signed declaration that he's supervising my thesis filed in the uni administration half a year ago, isn't on the list of available supervisors in the enrollment system. I have until Wednesday to straighten this out or I'm kicked out right before final semester, with no way to get back because they've closed down my major. Goddamn I hate this uni.
With that kind of deadline I'd go straight to the Dean and get him to shout at the appropriate person. That's what I mostly ended up doing for serious problems anyway, as the Heads of Department were universally useless.
Edit: The biggest one was that I was somehow enrolled as full-time rather than part-time and no-one could do anything. After an entire term I started to get physical letters that I was in danger of being expelled as I wasn't meeting minimum module requirements...still, absolutely no-one could sort the problem. One incredibly nasty phone-call later, which I was allowed to remain in his office for, and my status was changed. Funny that.
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@Gąska That sounds like something they surely can't get away with, legally. I mean, not that I'd risk letting it escalate that far, but still, they can't screw you that much for their own fuck-ups.
Good luck getting things fixed.
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@Cursorkeys going straight to the dean is a sure fire way to have problems with EVERYTHING in future dealings with administration. I'll try going to the office with a very sad face first.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys going straight to the dean is a sure fire way to have problems with EVERYTHING in future dealings with administration. I'll try going to the office with a very sad face first.
You might be right, one attempt of softly-softly would be worth a go before you get the stick out :)
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Quick question: does this image look like pure white to everyone else?
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@anonymous234 Nope, I see a white and light-gray checkerboard pattern.
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@hungrier My BenQ screen must be fucked then because I can't see the checkerboard pattern at all. Until I drag a window over it, which casts a shadow (i.e. lowers brightness) and then I can see it.
It looks fine on my older screen though.
EDIT: I found the answer: Display Settings -> Picture Advanced -> HDMI RGB PC Range -> Change from "Auto" to "RGB (0~255)"
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
On the practical side SQL server does use an ungodly amount of resources
By default it tries to keep as much data in RAM as possible so.....
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@Tsaukpaetra I think your monitor settings are even worse than mine.
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@anonymous234 Maybe it's not his monitor
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 Maybe it's not his monitor
Pfft such an old version. That poor sod probably wobbles when walking too, huh?
Status: that feeling when sneezing trips a pressure safety sensor and disables pneumato-gyroscopic systems across the board...
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Earlier today I accidentally deleted the only copy of some code changes that I only had a backup of about 85% of... and what I did have hadn't been merged with the latest copy whereas the deleted copy had.
Ridiculously even if I'd had to rewrite the whole lot from scratch, doing it twice would still have taken me less than 1% of the time the Indians quoted for the same work.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
doing it twice would still have taken me less than 1% of the time the Indians quoted for the same work.
Imagine how fast it would be done if you didn't spent half your working time here
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
doing it twice would still have taken me less than 1% of the time the Indians quoted for the same work.
Imagine how fast it would be done if you didn't spent half your working time here
I spend none of my working time here...
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Tried a bit of Warframe. I'm now on the second plant (Venus) and I think I just bounced hard off it.
IIRC, it's hard until you start to pick up (and get nicely upgraded) decent decks of powers. Once you make it that far, you become vastly more capable than the mooks. But maybe they changed that; I've not paid attention to that game for many years now.
It certainly used to be the case that one of the frames you could get early on had a power that let you disarm all the enemies in a considerable radius, depending on how you built for it. The Grineer would switch to little stun sticks when you did this so they weren't rendered totally harmless, but they might as well have been. It was hilarious, as it changed an effective ranged faction into a useless melee faction, and left you able to wipe them out with comparatively little effort. (It stacked very well with other players' powers in coop play, which is definitely where Warframe aims itself. That was why I stopped; I just generally prefer solo play in all games.)
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
I spend none of my working time here...
Evidently! I don't see any work being done here
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@dkf @Rhywden Warframe has a serious learning curve, and is not exactly discoverable. I played for a while, got to MR 12 or so, then moved on to other games. Too much grinding, and nothing I particularly cared about doing. But I'm more of a story-oriented gamer than a challenge/twitch-style, so that might have been a lot of it.
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@Benjamin-Hall Well, story-wise I was actually somewhat impressed - for instance, I didn't expect a frickin' Musical piece upon first entering the Venus hub. And it wasn't even half bad!
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@Rhywden Yeah, that was added pretty soon before I started. BTW, that part of the game is designed for people with better gearing. The advice I got was try to push the whole starmap as quickly as possible. Also, get Rhino (parts drop from Venus assassination) soon--he's a great tank frame.
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@Tsaukpaetra are you sure you’ve updated to a more reliable version?!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra are you sure you’ve updated to a more reliable version?!
I never said reliable, did I?
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
and guns feel like you're making an actual impact
If you're not underleveled of course. If so.. good luck.
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Status: Blender attempting to use 22 GB of RAM on a machine that only has 16, and lots of other processes asking for RAM, too, makes the whole machine very unhappy.
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Status: Wondering if there's a program to monitor CPU usage when it's supposed to be idle and log bad processes. Seems like every time I walk away the CPU fan ramps up to max but when I wake up the screen Task Manager is at me like "I don't know what you're looking for, nothing to see here!"
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@Tsaukpaetra I've seen that, too, although not recently.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I've seen that, too, although not recently.
I suppose I should fix my WSUS server so I can see if there are any updates... It's been down for a year or so...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm unable to enroll for "writing a thesis" course at my uni because the supervisor I've chosen and had his signed declaration that he's supervising my thesis filed in the uni administration half a year ago, isn't on the list of available supervisors in the enrollment system. I have until Wednesday to straighten this out or I'm kicked out right before final semester, with no way to get back because they've closed down my major. Goddamn I hate this uni.
Status: Called dean's office today. Quickly explained the problem, the office assistant only asked one question - who's my supervisor. They said he'll be added in a moment - and sure enough, I checked the system 30 seconds later and here it is. This was MUCH less painful than I expected.
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Status: took a bath. I probably did it wrong, for it was mostly unpleasant, uncomfortable, and unsatisfying.
How does one properly lay down in a tub that is less than 62 percent one's height in length?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
How does one properly lay down in a tub that is less than 62 percent one's height in length?
Step 1: get a bigger tub.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
How does one properly lay down in a tub that is less than 62 percent one's height in length?
Step 1: get a bigger tub.
It might be one of those tubs that are integrated to the walls and floor. I have one of those too. Came with the apartment. Since bathrooms are rarely very large, the built-in tubs are all kid-size.
Mine is going to go the way of the Dodo later this year, when the water pipes get changed. Since they'll rip up the bathroom walls down to concrete anyway, I just had to tell them to not re-install the tub. Problem solved.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
How does one properly lay down in a tub that is less than 62 percent one's height in length?
Step 1: get a bigger tub.
Sure, I'll get right on that as soon as I get Creative Mode permissions and move rooms and walls around to accommodate.
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@Tsaukpaetra I don't see the problem. Your country has wooden houses, doesn't it?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I don't see the problem. Your country has wooden houses, doesn't it?
Yeah, made of matchsticks and so easy to remodel.
And no, my house is made of stone and it can be fucking annoying to do anything with it.
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@Tsaukpaetra assuming you're inspired by human physiology, there should be joints at your hip and knees.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra assuming you're inspired by human physiology, there should be joints at your hip and knees.
I'm just imagining he's bathing QWOP-style now: Well, I've got most of my limbs in the bath, but the soap's stuck to the ceiling again
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Who the fuck thinks Linux is ready for the common user?
Those of us not using Ubuntu
What, both of you?
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
QWOP
TIL. Holy fucking shit, I am now suddenly glad walking works mostly subconsciously.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Called dean's office today. Quickly explained the problem, the office assistant only asked one question - who's my supervisor. They said he'll be added in a moment - and sure enough, I checked the system 30 seconds later and here it is. This was MUCH less painful than I expected.
Sounds like it's happened before, and there's an established procedure for getting it sorted. Which is good and you've benefited from it. Always be polite to office assistants, secretaries, etc., as they can do you a lot of good if treated nicely.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Sounds like it's happened before, and there's an established procedure for getting it sorted. Which is good and you've benefited from it.
More like it happens all the time and now they strongly rely on students to catch all the errors for them.