WTF Bites
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We have an instance of Artif
aucktory here. It runs on Derby. As it's grown quite big over the years, the admins fear trying to export the content to import it into something more reliable because it almost certainly won't be able to complete the dump.FTFM
@Atazhaia said in Quotes Out of Context:
@Bulb is being constipated:
almost certainly won't be able to complete the dump
Yes, our Artifucktory almost definitely is constipated.
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- It's all SSDs these days.
- Even a spinning disk spins up faster than that.
- Servers would be unlikely to spin disks down anyway.
You're assuming the server is not from 10 years ago, and has been set up by someone somewhat competent. That's a pretty bold assumption.
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Today in intra-organisational e-mails courtesy of Google: Someone came up to me and said "I sent you an email asking for x, did you see it?" I checked my mail and I had not received any e-mail. But I told him x was fine. After he had left I got the mail. According to Google, delivery took 12 seconds. I would say more like 12 minutes, minimum...
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According to Google, delivery took 12 seconds. I would say more like 12 minutes, minimum...
The only way to be sure is to look at the
Received:
chain. There's a lot of places where email can get delayed.
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Today in intra-organisational e-mails courtesy of Google: Someone came up to me and said "I sent you an email asking for x, did you see it?" I checked my mail and I had not received any e-mail. But I told him x was fine. After he had left I got the mail. According to Google, delivery took 12 seconds. I would say more like 12 minutes, minimum...
Slow email:
Cow-orker going "I sent you an email, you didn't reply within 16ms":
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@Zerosquare in this case, it's all in AWS. On an instance spun up yesterday.
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How do you think we do bans?
by fighting the
If you fight the you have already lost.
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Are you sure it's really hosted on AWS, not @Tsaukpaetra Web Services? Better check!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Are you sure it's really hosted on AWS, not @Tsaukpaetra Web Services? Better check!
Well, recently, someone apparently discovered my port 52200 is running SSH and so started trying to fuck their way inside.
Really, all they needed do was ask nicely. Instead they're asking
ron
andbob
andlisa
and all sorts of random folk that don't live in my house!
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Thanks VS, very helpful
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Thanks VS, very helpful
Now you know that it wasn't zero errors - that eliminates some possibilities. Helpful, no?
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Thanks VS, very helpful
My "favorite" is when it gives you a path to a log file "with more information" and when you open it it says something like "unknown error".
Also, "Error: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))".
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Thanks VS, very helpful
My "favorite" is when it gives you a path to a log file "with more information" and when you open it it says something like "unknown error".
Also, "Error: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))".
Apple successfully brainwashed people into accepting error messages like
The program has been terminated because unexpected error -2 occurred
as the pinnacle of user-friendliness just so long as they're being shown in high resolution with proper kerning in a font designed by Susan Kare. Other people just don't kare about the font
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@LaoC don’t diss the proper kerning, mmkay? There is a lot to diss about macOS but keming isn’t one of those things.
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Today in intra-organisational e-mails courtesy of Google: Someone came up to me and said "I sent you an email asking for x, did you see it?" I checked my mail and I had not received any e-mail. But I told him x was fine. After he had left I got the mail. According to Google, delivery took 12 seconds. I would say more like 12 minutes, minimum...
Slow email:
Cow-orker going "I sent you an email, you didn't reply within 16ms":At least, your cow-orker knows that he is running on Windows, and a Windows time-slice is (approximatelly) 16 ms. Some people still assume below microsecond range.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
a Windows time-slice is (approximatelly) 16 ms
Glad someone picked that up, I was going for the interrupt timer frequency. (Although I'm not sure what the default for that is nowadays, nor if I remember correctly, so I just assumed "old Pentium FSB".)
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@topspin I tried to google it for modern Windowses, didn't find anything specific. However, I ran across this little piece of insanity. Apparently prior to Windows 10 (v 2004), this would change the global timer frequency and affect all processes.
This post has some more details, including this note at the end:
The change_interval.cpp test program only works if nothing has requested a higher timer interrupt frequency. Since both Chrome and Visual Studio have a habit of doing this I had to do most of my experimentation with no access to the web while writing code in notepad.
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piece of insanity.
Including the
TIMERR_NOCANDO
error name...
Why is that spanish, and what does the verbnocar
mean?
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TIMERR_NOCANDO
The ptc parameter is NULL, or the cbtc parameter is invalid, or some other error occurred.
Might as well have named it
TIMERR_LOLNOPE
.
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Apple successfully brainwashed people into accepting error messages like
The program has been terminated because unexpected error -2 occurred
as the pinnacle of user-friendlinessThat's way too much information for an Apple error message. Apple error messages have no error codes, just a
Something went wrong
. And that goes both for program crash and kernel panic.
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Apple successfully brainwashed people into accepting error messages like
The program has been terminated because unexpected error -2 occurred
as the pinnacle of user-friendlinessThat's way too much information for an Apple error message. Apple error messages have no error codes, just a
Something went wrong
. And that goes both for program crash and kernel panic.They used to sneak the m68k exception vector number into the error so you could look up that -5 was "division by zero" and -3 "illegal instruction" or so. ISTR seeing some error number on an M1 Macbook but it was probably random shit.
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Lately, every time I start up Outlook, it pauses to give me a warning that if I send information over the internet, someone else might see the information.
YOU'RE A FUCKING EMAIL PROGRAM. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.
Of course, there's a checkbox labeled, "Don't show this again." That is a total lie.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Lately, every time I start up Outlook, it pauses to give me a warning that if I send information over the internet, someone else might see the information.
Also, while I've not seen it in action yet (having used OWA only 2 days so far), the Outlook settings have a default-on option for one-boxing link previews. I could now guess if MS has implemented this in a way that doesn't allow for all kinds of exploits (sane email programs block loading of any external resources), but given their track record, I wouldn't bet on it.
So I'm going with
:ironic:
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Lately, every time I start up Outlook, it pauses to give me a warning that if I send information over the internet, someone else might see the information.
YOU'RE A FUCKING EMAIL PROGRAM. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.
Of course, there's a checkbox labeled, "Don't show this again." That is a total lie.
Outlook was always utter shit and everything else was killed by retarded gmail.
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Outlook was always utter shit
I don't know. I used it at work 10 years ago, and it did basically work. At least for me.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Outlook was always utter shit
I don't know. I used it at work 10 years ago, and it did basically work. At least for me.
If it's kind of your thing, then I'm happy to inform you that it's just as good as it was then.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Not really. I use Thunderbird myself.
There was something utterly retarded thing happening with Thunderbird also, which is why I'm still sitting on v68. Can't remember now what it was. It keeps pestering once in a while to update.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
It keeps pestering once in a while to update
Mine does not. And it's older.
Oh, that's the trick , I guess...
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@Applied-Mediocrity If I remember correctly: You can no longer set your own e-mail settings -- if it's not built-in, not listed in the ISPDB, and doesn't have an autodiscover manifest, it doesn't exist -- and IMAP must support STARTTLS with a CA/BF-approved certificate, no more self-signed or legacy SSL bullshit.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
If it's kind of your thing
Not really. I use Thunderbird myself.
I used TB at work for a few years but when got on my nerves I was surprised to find that Evolution, which used to utter crap like 10 years ago, is actually usable these days.
I'd like to stick to neomutt but just too many business fuckers send HTML-only "mail".
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@TwelveBaud Okay, yeah, that's retarded. But mine was more petty and miniscule. Most likely just cheese having been moved.
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(not my screenshot)
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Outlook was always utter shit
I don't know. I used it at work 10 years ago, and it did basically work. At least for me.
Well, yeah - "basically work".
Now "work well", that's a completely different story...
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Well, yeah - "basically work".
You take that for granted, but remember, it could be Lotus Notes.
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@Zerosquare Ahem, we don't use that term around here. It can be... triggering for some.
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@Zerosquare Ahem, we don't use that term around here. It can be... triggering for some.
Hey, ever use Oracle Forms?
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@Gribnit Ahem, we don't use that term around here either. It can be... triggering for some others.
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@Gribnit I've got 8kloc written by a former co-worker with horrible style which handles the binary format. I just pray it does not break.
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Today I discovered that the Discourse Avatar CDN is still a thing, and is now on version 4.
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@Arantor Ahem, we don't use that term around here, etc. etc.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Fair play. However let me just note... version 4. How in the what-the-fuck is that a thing?
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@Arantor I believe it has been on v4 for some time now. To what end, considering how utterly bizarre that thing is to begin with, I'm more amazed that it has remained on v4 and hasn't been replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Are you sure it's not like USB versioning, where it should be called version 7 but instead it's 4.2 Extended Plus?
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@hungrier I'm not sure, and I'll be thankful and blissfully happy to remain that way if I can help it.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
It keeps pestering once in a while to update.
It keeps pestering me to download the latest update. I tell it to do so. Soon thereafter, it pesters me again.
Hello, did you actually download the update I told you to? Did you install it?
Thunderbird is up to date
They why are you pestering me again??? (The answer, of course, is that there's a new release every hour and a half.)
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@HardwareGeek I've had that happen with Java updates
Hey! There's a new Java update! Install now
Sure, why not
Installing...
Done!
Hey! There's a new Java update! Install now