Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel
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So I'm flying off to meet friends for a fun weekend of übergeekery, but I thought I'd use the airport's free wifi to catch up here. Something to do until the gate is called. :) But it's stalling in the captive portal stage. “What's going on?” I think, and crack open the web debug tools…
Guess what? Their system is in a state where it is generating a
302 Moved Temporarily
to every request that redirects back to exactly the URL that was requested. Funny, that's not going to work too well!Fortunately I can just tether my phone. But stuff shouldn't be broken that way…
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@blakeyrat Thanks. Exactly the tune I was thinking of. (I know it in a different version, but that's no problem at all.)
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Perhaps you were thinking of this: Dusty Springfield – Windmills of Your Mind
Windmills of your mind - Dusty Springfield – 04:09
— EileenML aka AdamfulgenceAlthough I do like this variation - with the added drum effect
https://youtu.be/ELKDYJMWOGo
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@loose So the ad is "Audis are really good at doing donuts to impress your redneck friends"?
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@blakeyrat Not interested in the doughnut, or any aspect of the culture behind it. Besides, I'm not entirely sure how much it has been "tweaked" - apart from the merge into the Audi trademark. What I like is the slow cymbal / drum beat at slightly less than normal heartbeat that accompanies the lyrics, which are in themselves a bit softer than than in the clip above - not that I am claiming it's the original or anything, it was just the first suitable one I selected from Google,
That said, the R8 looks cool, but I have no idea of it's spec or it's comparative rating / performance. Besides, I'm a Mercedes fan and I want the Maclaren.
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@loose said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Perhaps you were thinking of this
Not exactly, but it seems there are a lot of versions of it about.
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@blakeyrat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@loose So the ad is "Audis are really good at doing donuts to impress your
redneckyuppie friends"?Rednecks are never going to be impressed by an Audi.
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@boomzilla Yeah, fuck that efficient European engineering when there's gasoline to be burned!
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@boomzilla said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@blakeyrat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@loose So the ad is "Audis are really good at doing donuts to impress your
redneckyuppie friends"?Rednecks are never going to be impressed by an Audi.
Yeah, that's a waste of good rubber that could be much better spent on a burnout!
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@loose said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
That said, the R8 looks cool, but I have no idea of it's spec or it's comparative rating / performance. Besides, I'm a Mercedes fan and I want the Maclaren.
Clarkson liked it less than the flagship 'Vette of the time when Top Gear reviewed it. From a quick peek at the specs, it doesn't look like too much has changed over the past few years.
Corvette ZR1 vs Audi R8 (HQ) | Top Gear – 08:05
— Top GearI'm not really a fan of cars that cost much more than about $100,000, for the simple reason that one can gut a Civic hatchback and turn it into something much faster, for a lot less money. Or build up a Mustamarallenger.
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@Groaner said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Mustamarallenger
Oh wow! Just discovered how Quoting works, or maybe it just started working all by itself. Anyhoo. Tried to find out what Mustamarallenger is and got this:
Impressive. I guess I'll never know... :)
Edit: On reflection, I guess it could be a bastardized hybrid of a Mustang and a Challenger, whatever they are....
Edit edit: With a hint of Trans Am?
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@loose said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Trans Am
The Guacamole thread is
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@loose said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Edit: On reflection, I guess it could be a bastardized hybrid of a Mustang and a Challenger, whatever they are....
Edit edit: With a hint of Trans Am?Close, except my intention was a car that's still being produced. Any of those three cars are pretty capable from the factory, and another $20k or so to build them up would make them even more so.
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@loose said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Tried to find out what Mustamarallenger is and got this:
Mustang + Camaro + Challenger?
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@Groaner Thanks. Now I know :P :)
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@Groaner Ariel Atom has a base price of $65k and blows them all away. Of course, you can't really use it as a daily driver...
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@blakeyrat I misread that as Intel Atom and was really confused for a few seconds…
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@dkf said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@blakeyrat I misread that as Intel Atom and was really confused for a few seconds…
I personally thought it was a new hype gaming rig, but then iFramely caught up and the YouTube video pic showed up.
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@blakeyrat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Of course, you can't really use it as a daily driver.
Hah, I could.
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@blakeyrat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Of course, you can't really use it as a daily driver.
Hah, I could.
Because you don't drive daily?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Because you don't drive daily?
No, because my commute is 5/4 of a mile.
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
5/4 of
Wat.
Heck, if I didn't recently discover a personal system malfunction I would walk to work at that distance!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Heck, if I didn't recently discover a personal system malfunction I would walk to work at that distance!
I've been over this before. In the summer the temperature's 100° for almost 6 months, and I have nothing but a public restroom sink to clean up and de-sweat with afterwards, and I'm not willing to put up with that aggravation.
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Heck, if I didn't recently discover a personal system malfunction I would walk to work at that distance!
I've been over this before. In the summer the temperature's 100° for almost 6 months, and I have nothing but a public restroom sink to clean up and de-sweat with afterwards, and I'm not willing to put up with that aggravation.
Today it's 110°F, but I still walked the 1/3 mile roundtrip to lunch today. Luckily it's not very humid, so evaporative cooling actually worked (well, for a while, you mave have seen my status update).
Maybe my lack of aversion to sweat is what prompted those weird looks I received coming back...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Luckily it's not very humid
The humidity was about 118% today. Also, I didn't mention this, but I did walk to work for about 6 months. It kind of sucked. If I lived in a not-so-hot climate, I probably would keep doing it (or, as I said last time, if my building was big enough to have a gym where I could shower.)
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
The humidity was about 118% today
So it was raining buckets?
Yeah, humidity is a dealbreaker for outdoors activities.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
So it was raining buckets?
That would've been an improvement. No, today was Swamp Air.
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
today was Swamp Air.
No, he lives in the Great Frozen North, and I'm pretty sure his air smells like burning cannabis, although an additional aroma of inadequate personal hygiene wouldn't surprise me.
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@blakeyrat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@Groaner Ariel Atom has a base price of $65k and blows them all away. Of course, you can't really use it as a daily driver...
True, although now that the weather's warm, I'm seeing lots of Slingshots parked everywhere.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
So it was raining buckets?
i don't know about buckets but this morning it was raining feathers.
..... i think the local red hawk finally pissed off the local murder of crows enough that they were going at it like crazy in the rain this morning....
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
That would've been an improvement. No, today was Swamp Air.
You could always go for the fun combination that is both at the same time.
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@dkf said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
That would've been an improvement. No, today was Swamp Air.
You could always go for the fun combination that is both at the same time.
A sauna?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
A sauna?
Almost right. Lower temperature though. And more rain. :(
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@dkf said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
A sauna?
Almost right. Lower temperature though. And more rain. :(
Yes. It's particularly bad in the office today...
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@HardwareGeek said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
No, he lives in the Great Frozen North
That's the first time in history, I think, that Dallas had been described as such.
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@boomzilla said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
That's the first time in history, I think, that Dallas had been described as such.
I think he was talking about @Tsaukpaetra, not me? I'm not sure why he would've been, since I was saying that day was swamp air where I live.
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
I think he was talking about @Tsaukpaetra, not me?
I think he was just thinking weird things about people. I don't believe either of us live in the Great Frozen North.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Maybe my lack of aversion to sweat is what prompted those weird looks I received coming back...
you know that you feel your own smell a lot less than other people, right?
also, the nose gets used and start ignoring a smell in a few minutes
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
I think he was talking about @Tsaukpaetra, not me?
Yeah....I think @Tsaukpaetra lives somewhere like Arizona. To wit:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
I don't believe either of us live in the Great Frozen North.
He was probably remembering your stories about living in Taxachussetts or something.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
don't believe either of us live in the Great Frozen North.
Even compared to the tropics, it's hard to think of Dallas as frozen
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@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Even compared to the tropics, it's hard to think of Dallas as frozen
Sounds like the sort of thing someone from Houston would say, just to wind people up.
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Accursèd utter inability to post from mobile at all most of yesterday...
@dkf, et al.:
Wow, y'all are ing. Ok, maybe it wasn't a very good joke, but y'all really, really didn't get it.
@FrostCat said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Swamp Air.
Swamp Air.
Swampy Air
@HardwareGeek said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
No, he lives in the Great Frozen North, and I'm pretty sure his air smells like burning cannabis,
Swampy lives in and he is well known to have turned his brain into oatmeal with pot (or maybe it was already oatmeal, but certainly the pot doesn't make it less irrational).
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@candlejack1 said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
you know that you feel your own smell a lot less than other people, right?
Full disclosure: I actually like my scent.
I don't like it when all the bacteria and crap adds to it though...
@HardwareGeek said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
Swampy lives in
Yay! Another location-based joke! Paging @lucas1!!!!!1!!!1!one1!
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@dkf said in Round, like an Airport Wifi captive portal, like a never ending wheel:
someone from Houston
Now there is Swamp Air.