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> Someone else in the world reported the problem back in September, and aside from some random person asking a totally useless question, nothing had happened on
by krylon 11y ago
> Someone else in the world reported the problem back in September, and aside from some random person asking a totally useless question, nothing had happened on the thread.
It's a special kind of horror to find, after hours of high-end-googling, the one thread where someone reports the same problem you are experiencing, and it's just the question, and then one other person asking if the problem has been solved because she/he is having the same problem.
The one thing that is worse is if the OP then makes another post that simply says "Solved it! =D", without giving any explanation on how they solved it.
- yansal1 11y agohttp://xkcd.com/979/ http://xkcd.com/979/
- krylon 11y agoYes, thank you. I was kind of thinking of that one but too lazy to look it up.
- Unklejoe 11y agoOr when you find a thread where someome is asking the question and the only response is by some wise guy telling him to "search". And of course, searching keeps pointing you back to the same thread.
- fla 11y agoNo no, The very _worse_ thing is when there is only one answer saying he found a solution but doesn't provide any information.
- stuaxo 11y agoAlso, when 4 years later you come back to the thread to find it is was you, asking the question before.
- craigching 11y agohaha! OMG, that has happened to me before!
- david-given 11y agoOn the plus side, the last time this happened to me, I discovered that someone had posted a really useful answer to my question which helped solve me problem. The person who had posted the answer was, of course, also me.
- dekhn 11y agothis is working as intended; the web is an external memory.
- SEJeff 11y agoMy experience is that said person coming back to my thread is a coworker. Then they tell me they can't get away from me and even after they try to find something on their own I helped them fix it. Quite amusing
- krylon 11y agoMmmh, that has never happened to me. That is just plain mean. Now that I think of it, I have seen that happen, but the reply was inevitably "I have already googled the question to death, without finding any useful results."
- CaptSpify 11y agoMy favorite is "Oh, you can find the answer here: http://brokenlink.com" http://brokenlink.com"
- HCIdivision17 11y agoAt least half of every enterprise software I have used suffers from catastrophic link rot. And when you look at the URLs that do still map or redirect to something marginally on-topic, you just know it's a single API change away from redirecting to "we don't know what you're looking for, try searching here for hundreds of completely off topic (and occasionally broken) links". No, I am not bitter. Learning where their FTP server is and how to navigate, well, that was gold.
- pygy_ 11y agoThis can often be solved by prepending https://web.archive.org/web/*/ to the now broken URL.
- kbenson 11y agoHmm, there must be some extension that detects 404 errors and/or server unresponsive and prompts whether you want to check Google's cache or the Internet archive. That browsers haven't already integrated this (with a configurable list of archiving services, like search engines), is actually rather surprising to me.
- pygy_ 11y agoThere are extensions with that kind of functionality, but by now I have that sequence hardwired in my fingers.
- slrz 11y agoThere is: Resurrect Pages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pages/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag... https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages https://github.com/arantius/resurrect-pages
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- martin-adams 11y agoThis EXACTLY!
- mzs 11y agoSomeone should reply "tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms" in the original thread [ https://communities.vmware.com/thread/519888 https://communities.vmware.com/thread/519888 ] and link to the blog post. Ideally that person would know enough about tc to suggest how to do it only for outbound tcp6 handshakes too.
- aexaey 11y ago> suggest how to do it only for outbound tcp6 handshakes too. Here you go: ip6tables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -m multiport -o eth0 --protocol tcp \ --tcp-flags ALL SYN --dports 80,8080,443 -j MARK --set-mark 6 tc qdisc del dev eth0 root tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb default 1 tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:6 htb rate 10000Mbps tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:6 handle 6: netem delay 100ms tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ipv6 prio 1 handle 6 fw flowid 1:6 Although, I would personally throw in an extra class to add 200ms delay to legacy IP protocol: iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -o eth0 -j MARK --set-mark 4 ip6tables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -o eth0 -m multiport --protocol tcp \ --tcp-flags ALL SYN --dports 80,8080,443 -j MARK --set-mark 6 tc qdisc del dev eth0 root tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb default 1 tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:4 htb rate 10000Mbps tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:6 htb rate 10000Mbps tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:4 handle 4: netem delay 200ms tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:6 handle 6: netem delay 100ms tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip prio 4 handle 4 fw flowid 1:4 tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ipv6 prio 6 handle 6 fw flowid 1:6 ...just to be compliant with draft-howard-sunset4-v4historic-00 once it becomes RFC.
- dekhn 11y agoThe worst is when somebody reports "solved it", then you spend four hours figuring out why it didn't work only to learn the kernel changed behavior (this happened to me recently) and the problem can't be fixed.
- noja 11y agoEven worse than "Solved! With no explanation" is being told by ten different people how I shouldn't be doing X anyway, and simply do Y instead.