The Official Status Thread
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Status: While I'm glad MS lets me do this, I'm not glad that they put a soft "bump" on the corner that will therefore prevent the mouse from passing between screens if you're not moving it fast enough...
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Status: I hate bugs that only appear in Release builds and not Debug builds.
Apparently, something is being optimized away that breaks my Dimmer application such that adjusting the "dim" settings causes the affected screen to flicker in Release mode (like, as if it were setting the opacity to zero then back to the proper value), but this is not observable in Debug mode.
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Edit: Nevermind apparently it's happening when running the debug build outside of VS as well.
FML.
Oh well, for the curious here's the current code dump.0_1475916327729_Dimmer2.7z
Based off the work of this guy:It's literally a form that's set to a given opacity.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
twitches, paces, taps, fidgets, bites her lip. Resists the urge to check the clock. Checks the clock anyway. Fidgets.
Goddammit, someone answer me!So true.
Then I give up on it, and solve the problem some other way.
Then, 6 months later: "Heyyyy, dear issue submitter, can you provide us with these specific bits of information about your issue?"
Me: "Ummmmm. Who are you again?"
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Still totally weirded out (and kind of nauseated) by that picture of someones fingers with serious physical damage that someone posted in a thread somewhere here today. Spoiler that shit, man!
Man, don't tease me like that. Now I have to go look for it.
Pics or it didn't happen.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Dude just stole our air compressor from right under our nose. Literally 30 seconds from leaving the house (I'm still in it, not pictured), guy stops by, peeks around, and within a minute just lifts the unit and is gone.
The problem with petty crime like this is that absolutely nothing happens to anyone involved. So they just come right back to doing it again.
Get a dog.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
FFS Go away! You make my PC go slow!
FIVE DIFFERENT MEMORY OPTIMIZERS YOU HAVE FAILED ME FOR THE LAST TIME!
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Just wanted to point out that you could switch to it if you wanted to minimize tray space usage.
He could also sell all his belongings and go live under a bridge. That would also minimize his tray space usage, and be just as fun as Firefox.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Dude just stole our air compressor from right under our nose. Literally 30 seconds from leaving the house (I'm still in it, not pictured), guy stops by, peeks around, and within a minute just lifts the unit and is gone.
The problem with petty crime like this is that absolutely nothing happens to anyone involved. So they just come right back to doing it again.
Get a dog.
We have to. He looks like a mailman, so it didn't make sense to worry at the time.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
It uses dlopen, but it's type-safe
So… either it is doing name munging (like C++, spiritually) or it is looking for a special symbol that has the type information. The actual
dlsym()
call only gives you a raw address. I'm guessing that they're only really interested in having a system that interoperates with its own toolchain, not libraries produced in different languages? (Type safety doesn't work across languages unless they're explicitly written to be otherwise, e.g., by targeting the JVM or CLR.)
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Go 1.8 will support shared libraries loaded at runtime. That's right, plugins!
What is this thing called
dlopen()
and why does it matter?It uses dlopen, but it's type-safe, so when you grab a symbol from the shared object, you do a type assertion instead of a cast.
So name mangling? Still not sure we're up to current-millenium tech here.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
or it is looking for a special symbol that has the type information
That one.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
how is it that restoring the backup takes longer than backing up and transferring the backup combined?
Gotta
COMMIT
after eachINSERT
…LOLNOPE. Mongo.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@cheong
And if you send your credit card information over e-mail, pretty soon your Visa will be everywhere you wish you could be.It depends.
There was a mini-hotel operated by Taiwanese couple in Hong Kong which a lot of Taiwan tourists choose to stay. They accepted bookings through email (they don't have a website) and also need credit card number to do reservation. Never heard people on the board complained their credit card number is sent anywhere.
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STATUS:
TDWTF just got mentioned as a "must visit" website at Ohio LinuxFest!
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Uh, Microsoft, you forgot... the entire page?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Uh, Microsoft, you forgot... the entire page?
500 OK
E_NO_REPRO: Try logging out, if you're logged in already you must know exactly what you're doing.
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Status: the DirecTV box just turned on randomly. Scared the piss out of me.
We're apparently watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
E_NO_REPRO: Try logging out
That's the funny thing... Edge is set to delete all data on exit. There are no cookies or other stored data at all. I'm going directly to onedrive.com. I've just tried with Chrome and Firefox and they're all showing blank pages too (except for the title). It also happens if I'm already logged in from another Microsoft page. So it's not me, it's them.
Other Microsoft sites still work though.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
E_NO_REPRO: Try logging out
That's the funny thing... Edge is set to delete all data on exit. There are no cookies or other stored data at all. I'm going directly to onedrive.com. I've just tried with Chrome and Firefox and they're all showing blank pages too (except for the title). It also happens if I'm already logged in from another Microsoft page. So it's not me, it's them.
Other Microsoft sites still work though.
So Microsoft is temporarily hating on you from that specific server?
MS is known by me to be extremely flaky on its ability to serve me pages....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Try logging out
Did you try turning it off and on again?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
MS is known by me to be extremely flaky on its ability to serve me pages...
They should try turning it off and on again
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Did you try turning it off and on again?
Maybe MS should turn their server off and on again? Just sayin'…
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Status: Power Outages suck
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Power Outages suck
But they do such wonderful good at making Windows work right!
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@dkf
My windows still open and close manually
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
TDWTF just got mentioned as a "must visit" website at Ohio LinuxFest!
Invasion of the
Body SnatchersBuckeyes
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
For me, Hangouts doesn't use up tray space. Instead, it uses up the bottom right corner of my screen and covers half the minimap in whatever game I'm playing. And also a bug in Windows 10 means the taskbar no longer hides if I'm running Hangouts over a fullscreen windowed game.
It must be bad drivers.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Just putting this out there...
you know which browser doesn't come bundled with crapware like that?
Or should I say, which VERSION of a certain browser....
I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).
I do the same thing, but I have interns do it for me.
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Well, I can no longer use "classic" Google+. The whole reason I kept backdating myself to classic was because the new layout doesn't respond to click events. Yes, you read that right. I had to clear my cookies and now I'm stuck on this new layout. No JavaScript errors in the console, it's just impossible to do anything. Clicking on stuff highlights it as if you clicked it, but nothing happens. Space and enter do nothing. I literally cannot use Google+. I can look, but not touch.
It's a shame, because it's the primary form of passive communication among my family. Guess it's back to email...
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@LB_ anchor tags have been deprecated in HTML7, the recommended way to do it now is in javascript
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@LB_ Eh? What noscript blocker are you using?
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Status: The new website is live! Now to add some Meta tags so it can get oneboxed, because this is just sad......
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm not! I've tried disabling all extensions and it still doesn't work. Other family members have the same problem with the new Google+.
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I'm not! I've tried disabling all extensions and it still doesn't work. Other family members have the same problem with the new Google+.
Huh. Maybe bad DNS? Does it work outside your house? Over VPN?
You don't get any BAD_REQUESTs when loading the page (in developer console), do you?
Dunno, just reaching.
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Status: Loading up KeepAss with convention passwords, because I believe storing them in a Google Docs spreadsheet is just asking for trouble...
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm using Google DNS. Too lazy to try a VPN. This is all that shows in the dev console:
Strangely when I try to +1 a post, it plays the click animation, and I doubt it's CSS since the animation changes based on where you click.But hey guess what? I just tried it in Microsoft Edge and it works perfectly! Not sure what's up with Google Chrome hating Google+.
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I'm using Google DNS. Too lazy to try a VPN. This is all that shows in the dev console:
Strangely when I try to +1 a post, it plays the click animation, and I doubt it's CSS since the animation changes based on where you click.But hey guess what? I just tried it in Microsoft Edge and it works perfectly! Not sure what's up with Google Chrome hating Google+.
Hmm. Better check you don't have any rogue extensions then.
I have an issue with Google Drive apps (Docs, Spreadsheets, etc) because of some extension or other that kills things, but I can't be arsed to hunt out which one is doing it.
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Status: Is SNL required to offset all their funny sketches with extremely unfunny ones? The cold open and the monologue-song were great, but then they had two sketches back to back that were just songs with no jokes in them. And now it's the third commercial break.
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@Arantor
This bingo parlor is going to be quite long until I can unlock it
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Is SNL required to offset all their funny sketches with extremely unfunny ones? The cold open and the monologue-song were great, but then they had two sketches back to back that were just songs with no jokes in them. And now it's the third commercial break.
Status: Ok so they just had two funny sketches. How much do you bet the next two are completely empty of humor?
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@Tsaukpaetra I had forgotten that I had a couple extensions enabled in incognito (which was how I was testing with no extensions because I'm lazy). Swapped out ABP for UBO and things work now. Probably should have done that a long while back to be honest...
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Is SNL required to offset all their funny sketches with extremely unfunny ones? The cold open and the monologue-song were great, but then they had two sketches back to back that were just songs with no jokes in them. And now it's the third commercial break.
Status: Ok so they just had two funny sketches. How much do you bet the next two are completely empty of humor?
Status: I was wrong
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Status: Just spent four hours trying to figure out why Chrome was splashing a SPDY error on the website I just enabled http/2 for. Turns out nginx by default doesn't enable the strongest ciphers or something.
W. T. F.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Power Outages suck
They must be rippling... I just had one that flickered - enough to reset the microwave, not enough to clear the presets on the (cheapo) radio.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Power Outages suck
But they do such wonderful good at making Windows work right!
My Windows continued working fine! (Laptops FTW!). However I couldn't read WTF because the browser is sitting on the 2nd monitor (non UPS-protected - the UPS is for the router and server). Luckily power was back before I had to use the magic keystrokes to move an off-screen window.
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Status: Finally got a mobile broadband connection (while waiting for proper internets) working for me and my flatmate after three days of raging.
For future reference, on Linux:
- Add/uncomment the line
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
in
/etc/sysctl.conf
2. Enable NAT masquerading iniptables
by issuing the command:# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE
- ???
- CAKE!
On Windows:
- Click around
- Give up and read shit on technet
- ???
- WAAARRRRGHAAABL!
Fuck networking. On Windows especially.
Filed under: Since when is
???
an emojicon shortcut?
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@Onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
Filed under: Since when is ??? an emojicon shortcut?
I think ever since nodeBB
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Status: some big Windows 10 update installed itself last evening. Took half an hour to complete.
Immediately after completion, it notified me that it will uninstall TortoiseGit without my consent, because incompatibility. Best part? It didn't.
So far, I noticed two major changes: the Start Menu overhaul (which is IMO better than ever now, but will require some getting used to), and enlarging the buttons on UAC dialog so now they take the whole window width instead of like a quarter. Already managed to misclick because my muscle memory still thinks "Yes" should somewhere in the middle of "No".