The Official Status Thread
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Then again, pessimism suggests that the promise of the first two may be intended to keep you there only long enough for the third to happen.
If they all came from my boss, yes. But I got the second direct from the owners of the third party company. If I get an offer before the first actually happens, there's a good chance I'll take it. If I get a good raise, then who knows?
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Status: PROGRESS! The Stash server is now returning 503 both to the browser and to Git.
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At least it's consistently broken now!
I'd make a comparison but I don't want to break out the Second Law.
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Status: wrote a program to extract text from videos:
https://github.com/BenLubar/df2014/blob/master/cmvtimings/main.go
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Status: Listening to the Sonic the Fighters soundtrack. It's actually quite good. Not great, but good.
Yes, again
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Done!
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Downloading PDF file I need some info from. It's only 7.4MB, but after the first 50% was downloaded, the server decided it didn't like me and reduced my speed to exactly 20 KB/s .
Some computers are just assholes.
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You know, there was an april fool's joke where you could show YouTube videos in ascii art mode. It would sure come in handy if you could simply upload your video in text mode eh?
Hmm, this might work. A website that hosts and plays "text videos" and output recorded from terminal? You wouldn't need much bandwidth.
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All I need now is someone to host a bunch of ~100MB files containing 10 hours of video each.
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Status: Going through an exception process so I can have Chrome and Firefox to use for development use even though I have developer access
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xterm -fn 5x7 -geometry 250x80 -e "mplayer -vo aa:driver=curses video.avi"
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Status: RDP-ing into a Windows machine so I can use TortoiseSVN to view the log for a file in the repository, because apparently it's too much to ask for an SVN log viewer on Linux that actually works!!!
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Well crap, apparently it's too much to ask for an RDP client that works, too.
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Your progressbar is still running backwards.
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a bunch of ~100MB files containing 10 hours of video each
Has anyone ever watched 10 hours of DF, let alone "a bunch" of 10-hour videos? It sounds to me like it would either be a very effective, and not addictive, cure for insomnia, or a means of inducing violent psychotic episodes.
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Has anyone ever watched 10 hours of DF, let alone "a bunch" of 10-hour videos?
There are some questions, for which any possible answers just provoke yet more questions...
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The video format doesn't have any way of getting the number of frames without decoding the whole thing. Once it does that, it'll show the total time instead of
LIVE
.mp4 does support getting the length of a video, but it can't be streamed while it's being recorded. I've uploaded an mp4 of that to YouTube, but:
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apparently it's too much to ask for an SVN log viewer on Linux that actually works!!!
Just tried kdesvn...it at least does something. Takes it 20 minutes to download the log for a file, then it says finished. I have not yet found how to actually view said log.
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I have not yet found how to actually view said log.
Mystery solved, it opened the log but it opened it in a minimized window.
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kdesvn
kdesvn is OK, but has been crashy for me...
RapidSVN and the python one (SVN Workbench?) are fully featured enough, but really really slow.
There is also RabbtVCS which wants to be TortoiseSVN for Linux, but isn't anywhere near there yet. (Needed manual tweaking of its source code to get working at all, but actually not too bad now it is working...)
I generally use Rabbit, or Workbench when I need an SVN client on Linux, but the entire time I am openly sobbing like TortoiseSVN has died...
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I use Commit Monitor to keep an eye on stuff. I assume it works well on Windows, but I've always just run it under WINE. It polls for new updates every so often, so I'm always on top of when cow-orkers try to break shit.
Otherwise, I use the svn client in Eclipse or the CLI.
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I'm trying to fix a feature that's probably been broken for the past 1 - 2 years for Linux (works on Windows) and nobody has noticed because nobody has released it for Linux since I've been here.
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Status: Contemplating quitting my job out of the blue without any current or foreseeable prospects because of how miserable I feel at work, and knowing it won't get better any time soon, especially due to a project that will turn into a crunch time/bunch of overtime due to bad planning and more and more items being tacked on.
Hrm...would you happen to be familiar with C++ by any chance? I have this ring over yonder you could throw your hat into if that's so...
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Not familiar with, unfortunately. I have done some work in C++, but it's been many years and when I was doing it, I didn't do anything more complex than a DLL that was used as a callback to a software "printer" without using any libraries. Then eventually rewrote it in C++/CLI.
Most of my skill is in the .NET world (VB and C# equally) and general web front end work.
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Status: Wondering why DeviantART is wishing me a Happy (nearly) Valentine's Day
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Status: Wondering why DeviantART is wishing me a Happy (nearly) Valentine's Day
It saw you browsing Sonic fanart and you listed "IT" under occupation so it thought at least someone should?
Filed under: Attempting to fix own bad mood by trolling
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Status: YouTube took my 231kbps 800×300 50fps video (485MiB) and compressed it down to a 622kbps 640×240 25fps video (445MiB).
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Status: Deleted nearly 30k lines of code today. :D
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Status: got assigned a pri-1 bug that isn't present in my copy of the source. Which means, since Stash is still down, I'm screwed...
Except maybe Stash works over SSH, so I'll try syncing a new copy that way. But even if that works, it'll take an hour plus just to download.
Awesome.
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Why would you sync a new copy? Just add a remote to your current copy.
Oh wait, Visual Studio doesn't support that?
Does Visual Studio even support adding files?
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Status: Kid with fever kept me up most of the night. I'll need plenty of coffee today (and I am probably going to spend even more time here on WTDWTF).
Also: Spent the last three days looking for a solution to the following. Am giving up and doing it The Ugly Way today.
Context: I am setting up a lab exercise for a cloud computing course. I want the students to first create a local virtualised cloud (using VirtualBox and Vagrant, with a multi-machine setup), and then make it transparent so that they can just set the "provider" option to e.g. DigitalOcean.
Problem: It seems like it is a common enough requirement that you want your machines to find and be able to communicate with each other. For example, you may have one box running the db, and another the main application. It also seems like you would want to do this with a dynamic IP, especially if you are going cloudy with your solution. However, and sadly, it also seems like there is no support for doing this in a neat and tidy way from inside the Vagrantfile.
My Ugly Hack:
vagrant up
vagrant status
, followed by some script-fu to get the machine names so that I canvagrant ssh <each machine> -c "ifconfig-and-a-lot-of-grepping-to-get-the-ip-numbers"
- Put all the thus acquired info in a file that is reachable through the /vagrant share.
vagrant push
in order to populate e.g. databases and "stuff".- for each machine do
vagrant ssh -c "start.sh <machine-role>"
to fire up my application.
This would work until the point where one of the machines reboot and DHCP, in its wisdom, gives me a new IP-number for it. Then I would need some watchdog server with a static IP (or a DNS name) that I can, in my startup scripts go to and flag the list of ip-numbers to be dirty, causing a re-request and reload of it to all machines.
Please, please, please, tell me that there is a better way of doing this?
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Please, please, please, tell me that there is a better way of doing this?
Is there any reason you can't give the virtual machines static IP addresses locally?
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Locally, no problem. But part of what I want to do is to make the transition to a real cloud transparent, and there I cannot assume a static IP. And there's too little information available about how the "private_network" thingie work. In particular whether I am racing with everyone else at the cloud provider's for the addresses I want to statically assign.
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Please, please, please, tell me that there is a better way of doing this?
Opening a new topic in the coding help category?
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Thought about it, but wasn't sure it was "big enough". Was hoping for a "You're Doing it Wrong" answer...
On your recommendation, I'll open a topic.
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Not my cup of tea, but a nifty little car.
Underpowered massively though.
I had one as a hire car and it couldn't cope with moderate hills on a motorway at 70mph.They're also far too small, but if you live in a city, I guess that's useful.
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On a related note, I've actually been to the garage that photo as taken.
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because apparently it's too much to ask for an SVN log viewer on Linux that actually works!!!
svn log -l3 -r999 svn+ssh://example.com/path/to/file.txt
svn log svn+ssh://example.com/path/to/file.txt --stop-on-copy | less
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Status: Bonus announcement day - much bigger bonus than previously Worked out how much gets hoovered for tax and student loan payments
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Status: Friday before a 4-day-weekend is not a productive day.
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Status: Friday before a 4-day-weekend is not a productive day.
FTFY
QFT
also Madden says "Bark"
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Status:
#BACK IN THE 5% BITCHES!
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BACK IN THE 5% BITCHES!
You have somehow returned to the state of being contained within a creature that is 5% female dog?
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Why would you sync a new copy? Just add a remote to your current copy.
I didn't know you could do that.
Oh wait, Visual Studio doesn't support that?
Visual Studio doesn't support SSH at all.
Does Visual Studio even support adding files?
Yes.