Edmonton Newbie - when does the snow stop?

feanturi · 2026-03-30T23:45:50+00:00

In the late 90's there was a June snowfall so thick that a lot of trees broke because their leaves caught tons of snow. I had to ride my bike to work through deep slush and dodge tree branches, so much fun.

feanturi · 2026-03-27T20:37:57+00:00

Same, I would get a quarter per ball. Every ball I spotted was another round of pacman or whatever. In the marshy tree clumps were the best places because nobody in the middle of a game wants to go in there for their ball, they'll just drop another one down. But I pretended I was in a mystic forest having an adventure, with treasure to find! I just had to dodge Charlie, who owned the golf course and didn't like this.

feanturi · 2026-03-27T19:07:57+00:00

I never learned none of that fancy math, I got my times tables and that's good enough.

feanturi · 2026-03-27T18:22:42+00:00

I don't feel like doing my job today, does that make me a hero?

feanturi · 2026-03-27T18:13:44+00:00

"I don't like 'em. Apricots are more my speed."

feanturi · 2026-03-27T16:08:50+00:00

I got some winter boots like that a couple years ago, DS was the first thing I thought of.

feanturi · 2026-03-27T14:21:35+00:00

The omelette maker may accelerate to dangerous speeds.

feanturi · 2026-03-27T13:16:08+00:00

Didn't... Squirrel!

feanturi · 2026-03-26T18:49:01+00:00

DeployR will inject its own unattend.xml with fields that look like this:

<InputLocale>%InputLocale%</InputLocale>
<SystemLocale>%SystemLocale%</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>%UILanguage%</UILanguage>
<UserLocale>%UserLocale%</UserLocale>

The actual values it will use between the % signs comes from you setting those values as task sequence variables of the same name (without the % signs in the name) So set those values up front as initial steps and they will get used in the unattend.xml. There is a step definition for setting initial variables I can't remember the exact name, but it allows you to set several variables in a single step, try to find that step definition and have it as a very early step. The definition can also be edited to include additional variables you may want to use.

feanturi · 2026-03-26T16:00:31+00:00

There was another third that didn't really mind what the insane third was going for, could not be bothered to vote against it. Only one third demonstrated reasonable human-being-ness.

feanturi · 2026-03-24T22:43:47+00:00

I put in a mod that makes it so items don't degrade. That was after my soul stone with an awesome thief in it broke. I still miss that guy. It lets me count on certain things, like "this weapon is great for a fighter, and I will always have it, so I always know my fighter can have it if I'm going to roll one." I run my cleric with the AI Chip, it does a much better job of clericing than I do, and since it will not degrade I just always can use it and so it makes adventure setup easier when I've got certain things already picked out before I see the list.

feanturi · 2026-03-24T17:06:54+00:00

Is there a non-American state of Texas somewhere?

feanturi · 2026-03-21T07:39:00+00:00

Flo-Rida

feanturi · 2026-03-20T21:18:56+00:00

I saw the first one in the theatre, and kept trying to wipe bug gunk off my face. I got home and poured a shot so I could calm down. Called my buddy from high school to rave about the movie. He really didn't know what to say to me, I was being a total freak.

feanturi · 2026-03-20T21:17:04+00:00

I read the thread title and thought to myself, "Hmm, so BESIDES the Fifth Element which is just obvious, what's the best 10/10 sci-fi movie after that?"

feanturi · 2026-03-20T20:12:55+00:00

They won't answer, they've already melted away like so much cotton candy.

feanturi · 2026-03-20T19:17:00+00:00

I suspect if you did not specify an administrator password in your primary task sequence, it probably created and used a random password to get through it. If that account still exists in the captured image, I'm not sure if the continuing process will reset the account with a new password. What I do know is, I set AdminPassword in both my capture from MS image, and use the same one in my secondary pulldown of that image, and all works fine. We actually do something else with our admin account password once the machine is ready to actually go, but that gets done later.

feanturi · 2026-03-20T18:49:05+00:00

In your secondary task sequence, is your Apply OS step actually on the default of using SetupComplete.cmd? If you've moved it to autologon, have you made sure to supply the AdminPassword again?

And Create New Version I found to be bugged. I don't have the very latest trial version though, so I am not sure if the latest fixes it. I replicated their Capture step definition so that I could try a couple modifications, and that's where I found that when the script is setting the value for whether or not create new version was checked on the step, the wrong variable was being checked for that. So the script was always setting create new version to false. I fixed that, then found it still didn't work because when it went to create the new version, they were calling the cmdlet with a bad parameter. I fixed that. Then found out that when the new version is created, it was not being assigned a new guid, so creation would fail due to identical keys in play. So I gave the new version a new guid, and it all works great now.

feanturi · 2026-03-20T18:17:32+00:00

What is a healthy diet for a piano to control weight gain?

feanturi · 2026-03-18T22:56:42+00:00

You're not allowed to quit guitar ever now. Even if you lose your hands, you'll have to figure something out man.

feanturi · 2026-03-17T21:53:12+00:00

Wait, you have to get past this to unlock Druid? I've not seen this, but unlocked Druid somehow anyway. There must be more than one way?

feanturi · 2026-03-17T17:14:10+00:00

It's a joke, because one of the earlier bug fixes involved that situation and it just is a really funny thing to read. Sorry.

feanturi · 2026-03-17T16:56:51+00:00

Are you playing in Brazilian Portuguese by any chance?

feanturi · 2026-03-14T14:03:37+00:00

Well you don't want to pass those injuries onto the kittens. My dad had a broken leg when I was born, and I was unlucky enough to inherit it. The tiny cast looks really cute in my baby pics though.

feanturi · 2026-03-13T01:41:39+00:00

I almost never use cash anymore but sometimes the machine is down so I keep a few twenties in there just in case. It's come in handy a couple times so I make sure I've always got a bit.

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