Root Access

Bob

1:26 AM

@MichaelFrank Try \\Administrators

Bob

1:47 AM

Hm. Blackwidow ultimate is $125

ouch

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, its pricy.

(Razer tends to sell at a premium + mechanicals...)

Journeyman Geek

3:12 AM

boldport.com/blog/2014/8/14/…

Michael Frank

5:09 AM

@Bob I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Bob

5:40 AM

@JourneymanGeek bad news: couldn't find distilled water. good (?) news: found demineralised

Journeyman Geek

Good enough for your (paranoid) needs ;p

Bob

-_-

@JourneymanGeek I just wanted to see what was available -_-

I'm more annoyed i can't find the plastic cups I was using for pen flushing.

And forgot to buy more, too.

I swear I had half a pack left somewhere...

Tom Wijsman

8:14 AM

@MichaelFrank Command line using cacls... :P

Bob

8:36 AM

@TomWijsman You mean icacls, right? :P

Tom Wijsman

Any derivation that fits your purpose.

Bob

@TomWijsman cacls has been deprecated for a while now

Oliver Salzburg

9:12 AM

That looks trustworthy

Oliver Salzburg

9:26 AM

sed: invalid option -- 'z'

Anyone else seeing that from cron on their Debian machines? Some php5-common update mishap as it seems :\

Tom Wijsman

11:31 AM

@Bob Deprecated, yes; but there's no icacls on Windows XP if u know what I mean.

Psycogeek

11:54 AM

superuser.com/questions/842161/… this has come up more than once. Why not, click a software switch shut the computer down, and return it as hibernated instead? the whole last state it was in when last hibernated would return. wouldnt it?

I am sure it would still be better for the person to cut thier losses and move foreward, or move foreward more carefully next time, but it seems feasable.

Bob

12:38 PM

@TomWijsman I prefer to not bother considering XP anymore.

Unless it's explicitly mentioned as a requirement.

And even then I might just tell them to install something supported.

Journeyman Geek

karosium.com/2014/11/…

This is just badass

Bob

> Heatsinks forcefully removed with what I would imagine were bolt-cutters (Not a clue why someone would do this.)

wtf

Journeyman Geek

lol

This guy is a soldering god.

Bob

> the SuperIO chip's pins were a big mangled on one side

???

how does this even happen??

Resistors too?

How do you damage a resistor? O_O

Also surprised he actually found mobo schematics.

@JourneymanGeek With those ancient irons too O_O

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

12:47 PM

> Let it be known that I have since bought a proper soldering iron (though no tips that would've helped me with this...)

Hm. A hollowed/well tip would've helped a lot to drag-solder that connector.

Psycogeek

@Bob better question is why this guy cant find hundreds of tossed out laptops and desktops that are not in that bad of shape. really going for the challenge here , when 1/2 the stuff is tossed because somone didnt clean the coolers :-)

Bob

@Psycogeek Eh, I have no idea where I'd look for that kind of thing :P

Though apparently one of the SF guys has a really nice dumpster in the basement :P

Psycogeek

@Bob around here they take them to a "recycler" because they have to pay $15-25 green type of fees to put them in the dump. so there are locations bursting with aged and your guess is as good as thiers older stuff.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Psycogeek

There are some days, you can find a computer sitting out on the sidewalk, either with the "free take me" idea or for recycler pickup.

Bob

12:56 PM

@JourneymanGeek He... went to the trouble of installing SSDs.

mSATA SSDs, no less.

At that point, might as well get a properly modern computer... wouldn't have cost much more.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: with an adaptor. And hacking up the original cable and...

Bob

> True, very slow. Could get out and push my data faster!

Psycogeek

"After the fourth disassembly " after the 3rd i would be glaring menancingly at the garbage can :-)

That Brazilian Guy

I have changed the name of the windows 7 admin account, but some programs still think the old name is valid and the new one is invalid

Even after reboot

Psycogeek

@ThatBrazilianGuy I think your supposed to do that before you install programs :-)

That Brazilian Guy

1:04 PM

I wasn't aware the old name was being used

How do I list the user objects?

Oh, found it.

Time for a new question!

Psycogeek

One of my setups i had taken over the admin and changed the name, but the user folder for it had stayed administrator for the whole time i was using the new name? wierd.

something had not got fulley changed over, and i never did know what.

That Brazilian Guy

I think the folder name stays the same by design, because some poorly programmed software might have it hardcoded

However, "user objects" (dunno the official name) should change.

I'm posting more info on the question I'm currently writing

Psycogeek

This time the user forlder is using my applied name, and i do not see any dude in there by that name (administrato).

I always thought that MS should just make that a thing after install, where your asked to give this systems admin a "special" name and password, just to confuse the hackers, with one more thing that is not normal :-)

That Brazilian Guy

Here, my question:

0

Q: Windows username has been changed. But it hasn't. But it has

I'm wanting to try a remote deployment software and it apparently requires the admin username and password to be the same in the origin and target computers. So I have changed the name of the administrator account on this Windows 7 Pro 32 bits PC I have installed it. I changed it on the control ...

Bob

1:20 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy You haven't changed the user name.

You changed the display name

control userpasswords2 or lusrmgr.msc will give you options for the actual account name.

That Brazilian Guy

SO WHY THE F#$#$#$CK CONTROL PANEL SAYS "CHANGE ACCOUNT NAME"

I'm yelling at Bill, Ballmer and Satya, not you @Bob

Psycogeek

its like linux :-) if you really wanted control you have to type shit :-) (control userpasswords2)

Bob

I want to link to a dupe, but the accepted answer is fucking terrible.

That Brazilian Guy

Yeah, there it is:
`User name: [newaccount]`
`Full name: [oldaccount]`

Bob

Performing a profile transfer to change the username? What the fuck?

@Psycogeek Nah, wmic would be typing shit. userpasswords2 is just a hidden control panel (control) dialog.

Psycogeek

1:27 PM

And so what still is going to happen for any programs that installed thier user data stuff and actually referance it with full real path names ?

Bob

@Psycogeek They break. And you go yell at the dev for doing stupid shit.

User config data should be stored in the %APPDATA% path. This path may change at any time.

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob Per the 2nd most voted answer on the linked question, netplwiz shows the same dialog as control userpasswords2

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy Ya. I keep forgetting the netplwiz name.

Psycogeek

That works the same, wow, all that huge typing i have been doing and it was that simple

@Bob Ahh i prefer to yell at MS for making the devs do stupid stuff to being with :-)

Bob

@Psycogeek Hardcoding paths like that is a big nono on any OS

If you use /home/username in Linux instead of ~ or $home, same story

Psycogeek

1:37 PM

@Bob plastering folders all over the computer, and cross linking stuff to other stuff, and being mixed up between compatability and obsolecence, that doesnt help. Trying to change the thing to be Better different, and ending up instead with it worse off than leaving it the same, nono.

Ahh in my dreams, this is your program folder, you Stay in your freaking folder, and the rest of us will do the same. No barking, no flinging poo, and no escaping your cage.

Then any loose animals found running around your system, ya just trank em , and toss them out.

Journeyman Geek

2:10 PM

ahem

I'll bark all I want TYVM.

Psycogeek

I also thought that they were going to solve Dll Hell, by having a program install the parts and pieces it needed, and that not effecting other programs. there are 2 of them small redistributable things that have caused me major greif still, when one program changed them. this after having 4 total (x2 because of 64&32bit) .

I was sure there were many versions of them, because each different program would use the one it was Made For, so that each program would remain stable. First that doesnt apply to stuff like Versions of .NET (which would only be sizable if it was small needed distributions) Vcred , Visual C, Java and even DX3d. So a person could say they fixed 1/2 of it. the half i never had problems with.

On the other side of Impractical to have 2 susbsystems repeated for insured operation of one program. A game will be comming out today taking 30Gig of space, sooo is another 1/2Gig of insured operation a real problem?

GFSE

gemsfromstackexchange: But… but… I wanted to be a cucumber! YOU CAN’T...

posted on November 19, 2014

But… but… I wanted to be a cucumber! YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

Psycogeek

2:29 PM

a dll is a library, the programming subsystems are masses of libraries :-) So we going to fix the problem of changing a library , underneath a program. Which could have been solved by all the program parts and pieces being only in it's own folder.

Yet we still have the problem of changing the subsystem , which is indeed usually 100% compatable, underneath the program, and that being masses of parts and pieces required for the proper operation of the program.

Psycogeek

2:49 PM

This week java 8 seems to have ruined another program, that is hell to setup, and costs me another day or 2 trying to get it working as it did.

allquixotic

3:14 PM

I've linked this multiple times before but I feel the need to link it again because I need to laugh right now: quickmediasolutions.com/flack

> .
Hardware (simultaneous) threads of execution, then these features are only implemented when they change because a node goes down; sometimes they change because routers decide literally at random to change the P? This is saying, "If you and you still need to store a lot of data, you might be responsible for rendering graphics to stack up into measurable time. In order to support multiprocessing, the CPU specs (note: "MHz" actually refers to coding this, it's probably not going to packages.ubuntu.com and doing a search for "regedit" in the start menu and then right-click and do "Run As Ad…

Psycogeek

3:41 PM

Sgt Boomer, grab those grenades. Lt. Cook and Prv. Baker your on flamethrower. Hackemov the 50 cal. Prv. Rickey grab that launcher. and Sgt. Limpton make sure you have the Mine sweeper this time. Ahh i am running out of good names too fast.

I need lots of good names for Riflepersons other than Prv. Fire , and Prv. Smoke ya just can't call everyone gunnar .

GFSE

4:35 PM

gemsfromstackexchange: Ram: Hai Raju: How are you Ravi: I am fine Ravi:When are you...

posted on November 19, 2014

Ram: Hai Raju: How are you Ravi: I am fine Ravi:When are you planning to put bomb Ravi: Bomb will blost today at 10pm Raju: Bomb have heavy explosure Ram: All the best Question: Program to find most of the time who used bomb

DragonLord

5:46 PM

@EmilioPisanty: Your inclusion of the words "Good day!" is intended to belittle. That's precisely what we don't want to see here on Stack Exchange. See also meta.stackexchange.com/questions/46494/… and meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243846/… — DragonLord 2 mins ago

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Q: Voting patterns indicate users seem to like bashing users when they make conceptual mistakes

An extension of this question. When a user shows some some major conceptual mistake in his or her question, I often see users post answers and comments that are only marginally helpful and are often condescending. Two examples follow. This image (very tall—displaying it inline would hurt readab...

discussion comments voting etiquette behavior

The lack of civility I sometimes see on Stack Exchange is driving me nuts.

Super User is better than others, but this is still an issue.

allquixotic

6:08 PM

@DragonLord apparently people seem to think it's just fine

Psycogeek

I dont get being arrogant in physics until someone can tell me how Gravity works exactally first :-)

DragonLord

@allquixotic I noticed your comments there. This attitude is really unacceptable. If it's spam, yes, terminate with extreme prejudice, but there is absolutely no reason to be so condescending to legitimate contributors.

Psycogeek

There is sooo much about so much that we do not know, and so much that we do know that will be called horribly ignorant once we do know. so being really arrogant about the really ignorant , is going to backfire once we do know :-)

allquixotic

There's also that bit of advice that (hopefully) every high schooler learned in English class when critiquing their classmates' papers: when you are writing a critique, always focus your critique on the paper -- the writing itself, or what it says or implies -- and not the individual who wrote it. "You are wrong", or "You do not understand" is a much more inflammatory statement in many peoples' minds than "This statement (paraphrase it) is incorrect; here's why". It's much harder to misinterpret it as hostile when you focus on the material rather than the person. — allquixotic 57 secs ago

DragonLord

@allquixotic Upvoted. We absolutely don't want ad hominem statements of this sort.

Psycogeek

6:19 PM

On the other hand being wrong is more likely that (on the web) some person will come along and helpfully correct you :-)

The advantage of being called an idiot, is you get the question answered at least .

GFSE

6:45 PM

gemsfromstackexchange: Hackers got in to the BIOS *and* the Windows install disk.

posted on November 19, 2014

Hackers got in to the BIOS *and* the Windows install disk.

Canadian Luke

@GFSE Wow...

allquixotic

@CanadianLuke Wow...

Canadian Luke

@allquixotic I know it's just a feed...

jokerdino

Wow

Ionică Bizău

Hello!

Does anybody has an idea how to fix this?

allquixotic

6:55 PM

@IonicăBizău It's a printer. The best way to fix it is to physically attack it until it either starts working, or breaks such that you have to replace it.

5

In all seriousness: no. Troubleshooting printers sucks and I feel for you. If you can't get the software resetter to work, I don't know. Try Windows is all I can think.

jokerdino

PC Load Letter.

allquixotic

It seems to be the only lead you have that you haven't tried.

No one here can tell you whether trying Windows is going to work, unfortunately.

You'll just have to do it, if you value having the printer that much. Or if not, replace it.

Ionică Bizău

@allquixotic Hehe :-)

I am already connected on a Windows machine. However I cannot make Windows recognize the printer.

DragonLord

@jokerdino That just means the printer is out of paper.

Ionică Bizău

I installed drivers, but the printer is still an unknown device.

jokerdino

6:58 PM

-_-

allquixotic

...On an unrelated note, I find myself desperately running warmth.exe and imploring my coworkers to run it as well.

It's about 60 Fahrenheit in here, and dropping by the hour. Very cold (below freezing) outside and the heat does not work well.

DragonLord

Besides, newer HP LaserJet printers give something like "LOAD TRAY 2 PLAIN PAPER".

Ionică Bizău

Now Windows installs the latest updates.

allquixotic

I wrote a program in C# using OpenCL that multiples random numbers using the Nvidia GPU. It utilizes about 80% of our small GPUs here and 50% of the CPU. It's heavy enough to spin up the fans, but light enough that you can keep doing your work.

If everyone runs it, hopefully it'll bring up the temperature by a degree or two.

Ionică Bizău

There is a quote in our country: Be brother with evil until you pass the bridge.. That's what I'm doing now: trying to fix my problem using MS Windows... :/

allquixotic

7:03 PM

I should find a business justification for ordering 4 x GTX TITANs and max them out generating heat. My coworkers would love me.

Psycogeek

@IonicăBizău I have reset the internal ink pad overflow thing on epsons before, the software you can find on the web isnt always correct. or they will claim it works for 8 models, and it only works for 6 but they dont really know. Soooo sometimes you did not get the correct resetter software yet?

allquixotic

@IonicăBizău :/

Ionică Bizău

@Psycogeek The first problem is that Windows doesn't recognize my printer actually...

I ran the latest updates and still Unknown Device appears in devices window.

@Psycogeek Do you have any suggesstions?

Psycogeek

The whole idea of there being a Set number for when the ink pads will overflow is rediculous anyways. I can overflow them in an hour, or never overflow them ever by naturally letting them dry out, wherein they will hold another gallon. The stupid machine doesnt know unless there is a wet sencor, not a "Sucked this much ink out sencor". More stuff that does not know WTF is going on.

@IonicăBizău Well unknown device means it at least recognises that the hardware is connected right? that has to be good.

Ionică Bizău

@Psycogeek Yes, but it doesn't know that it is the Canon printer.

How can I fix that?

allquixotic

7:12 PM

kickstarter.com/projects/1468280928/…

Psycogeek

@IonicăBizău Windows updates, might be a best place to get a printer driver, because it would driver it and "work" without a lot of fluff and belotion and crap everywhere. but you cannot expect windows update to fully driver anything (in all cases). so when that does not work, you still have to find a driver the hard way?

Ionică Bizău

@Psycogeek Yes, I'm doing that right now. I saw an update related to Canon driver.

Would the E27 error a reason not to install the drivers correctly?

Psycogeek

@IonicăBizău Plus resetting can be trickey, you could have to cycle the power switch (not the wall power) , mabey cycle the wall power after proper turning it off, then fire it all back up again, and pray.

@IonicăBizău not that i know of, it is just some Counter (not sencor like i accidentally said before) that is spewed out of the printer, and talks to the driver, to talk to the software, to put up an error ?

Ionică Bizău

What is a Counter? I don't understand what do you mean...

Psycogeek

The software that worked for one epson, was only allowable to be used by repair tech stuff. Something provided by epson with time limits and activation trash, so it would not get releaced to the public. Crasy load of BS to have to set the clock back on the computer, tell it i was Raza the repair guy :-) all to set one number back to zero. After that i would have rather seen the ink come pouring out on the desk :-)

@IonicăBizău On epson, it does not really "know" how much ink is in a cart, it assumes based on how many times it was told to push ink out. In the same sence the ink pad counter was not using a wet sencor, it was only a counter for how many times a cleaning process had been used.

Ionică Bizău

7:23 PM

@Psycogeek I followed the first steps from this answer and now I get E22.

DragonLord

@Psycogeek Epson's recent cartridges are pretty accurate. When the printer declares a cartridge empty, it really is empty. (There may be a tiny amount of ink left, but it isn't a good idea to run a inkjet cartridge totally dry.)

Psycogeek

@IonicăBizău refer back to step #1 as allquixotic posted :-)

Jordan Richards

8:37 PM

Hi

For some reason, my screens (linux screen command), are randomly closing. I cannot find the cause... I can clarify it's not anything to do with memory.

@allquixotic Helped me out a few days back. ""you could screen -md bash and run your actual command in there; that will give you a screened interactive bash which will keep running (and display stdout/stderr of the program) after the program crashes
example, if you're running screen -md mono something.exe now, you'd run screen -mdS bash bash, then screen -rS bash, then run mono something.exe within the subshell, then hit Ctrl+A Ctrl+D to detach
then rock on until you notice mono crashing, and once it does, run screen -rS bash to see the stdout/stderr

But I am having trouble following this.

What do you mean when you say "bash", I noticed you used it twice in some places.

"if you're running screen -md mono something.exe now, you'd run screen -mdS bash bash, then screen -rS bash, then run mono something.exe within the subshell, then hit Ctrl+A Ctrl+D to detach"

I'm not sure what the "-md" part is for.

Here's what I currently do;

screen -S jmrbot

cd /var/twitch/jmrbot/users

node jmrbot.js

then I ctrl+a+d

then when I want to check I use

screen -r jmrbot

(screen -ls to list the current screens)

But the issue is, randomly, I'll check screen -ls and find no screens running at all.

So then I have to start them all over again.

Michael Frank

9:02 PM

@TomWijsman That sounds tedious...

ekaj

9:14 PM

I just upgraded a Windows XP machine to a brand new Windows 7 SP1 machine on a domain with Server 2008r2 as the DC. I've been having trouble with getting the roaming profile onto the new computer. It would not copy to the computer at all, but it started to after I edited "Set roaming profiles for all users..." to Enabled with the path to the profile. It copies the profile, but now as soon as I log into the user account it logs right back off. Any ideas as to why it is doing that?

Canadian Luke

9:28 PM

Need to log in as the Administrator, and check the logs

That Brazilian Guy

Hi @CanadianLuke

Canadian Luke

Hi @ThatBrazilianGuy

That Brazilian Guy

I tried both PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory

Quite impressive

Specially Deploy

Bizarrely, I had to manually add a registry entry to allow ADMIN$ share access

Hmmmmm here's why

> Local user accounts (Security Account Manager user account)
When a user who is a member of the local administrators group on the target remote computer establishes a remote administrative connection by using the net use * \\remotecomputer\Share$ command, for example, they will not connect as a full administrator. The user has no elevation potential on the remote computer, and the user cannot perform administrative tasks. If the user wants to administer the workstation with a Security Account Manager (SAM) account, the user must interactively log on to the computer that is to be administer…

So I just followed some random tutorial and ended up opening a huge security risk

HV Problems

ekaj

@CanadianLuke This seems to be the most relevant: This event is generated when a logon session is destroyed. It may be positively correlated with a logon event using the Logon ID value. Logon IDs are only unique between reboots on the same computer.

This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in domain CLARKSBURG due to the following:
There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.
This may lead to authentication problems. Make sure that this computer is connected to the network. If the problem persists, please contact your domain administrator.

ADDITIONAL INFO
If this computer is a domain controller for the specified domain, it sets up the secure session to the primary domain controller emulator in the specified domain. Otherwise, this computer sets up the secure session…

But I know the DC is running.. else other computers on the domain wouldn't log in..

Canadian Luke

@ThatBrazilianGuy It's a security risk if you add people to the Local Administrators group. Otherwise, no big risk

That Brazilian Guy

9:43 PM

@CanadianLuke On the target computer, I assume

Canadian Luke

@ekaj Do you wait before logging in?

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yes

That Brazilian Guy

We do not have a windows domain, so we just set up the same administrative account / pass on all the computers.

Changing passwords is FUN! \o/ (and takes multiple days)

ekaj

Wait as in the time after I type the password / and enter and Windows is loading stuff?

Canadian Luke

net user Administrator <newpass>

@ekaj Yes

It needs to be able to contact the domain controller before it can do roaming profiles

@ThatBrazilianGuy Do all your users run with full admin rights?

ekaj

Yes, while I am waiting it copies the profile (it is now visible in C:\users\<profile> and then proceeds to log me out before I can view the desktop

That Brazilian Guy

9:45 PM

@CanadianLuke !!no

ekaj

The only way I was able to get it to load the profile was to add a group policy role (the one I mentioned)

That Brazilian Guy

We're not that f'ed up

Canadian Luke

@ThatBrazilianGuy Good... Do other people outside of your network admin team know the Administrator password?

That Brazilian Guy

In theory, no.

But we're changing it on all PCs because... weird stuff has been showing up installed

And no one on our team could have possibly installed it

Canadian Luke

Do you also block out BIOS changes, with an Administrator Password, so people are not changing the boot order and removing the Admin password?

That Brazilian Guy

9:50 PM

I extremely doubt so. But I also doubt there's anyone there with such knowledge.

The admin password hadn't been removed on the cases I mentioned

It just looked like it had been bypassed

Or there's some malcrapbizarreware out that that can bypass the admin prompt

Those "we are an antivirus and btw we also make your pc faster" stuff

Canadian Luke

And you're sure no one is in the Administrators group on their PCs? net localgroup Administrators

That Brazilian Guy

We usually disable the "Administrator" account, create a new "IT" admin account that only us know the password, and then one or more non-admin accounts; the end user only knows the password to these

Or sometimes I won't even set a password, because why should I?

Michael Frank

"usually"?

That Brazilian Guy

The password for accounting is "money". [disclaimer: not really, but something equally "clever"] And it is written on a poster on the wall. Not a post-it note. A big poster.

lol

9:57 PM

O.o

@MichaelFrank Yes, "usually" because there's no official, definitive, explicit, enforced, properly documented policy. We try to use common sense (update flash, java, windows updates, virus definitions) and our boss verbally tells us what to install (vnc, firefox), for instance

DemCodeLines

Anyone know where Internet Explorer resource images reside?

Like the blue back and forward buttons?

That Brazilian Guy

But we're replacing another team that stayed on that branch for years and were a HUGE MESS. I constantly find installers for media codecs, pirated games and other crap.

allquixotic

@DemCodeLines inside the .exe, I think

DemCodeLines

10:00 PM

@allquixotic Well, yes, but I'm trying to use them in a web browser I have to make for a school project and I can't seem to find them anywhere.

Michael Frank

@ThatBrazilianGuy Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way...

@DemCodeLines This sounds copyright infringy...

allquixotic

@DemCodeLines don't steal them; use the buttons from KDE or something

DemCodeLines

@MichaelFrank It's educational purposes and I'm trying to make it look good...

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank We're gradually replacing the machines and I've set a page on the internal wiki stating what to install and how to set it up.

DemCodeLines

kde ones aren't very good look, tbh

That Brazilian Guy

10:01 PM

What REALLY should be nuked from orbit are printers.

IMHO, every damn printer should be sent back to Hell.

Specially on an environment with multiple versions of Windows XP, 7, and 8, 32 and 64 bits

Psycogeek

Sorry in hell they only have Vista And ME

Michael Frank

@DemCodeLines iconarchive.com/tag/webbrowser-buttons

That Brazilian Guy

Great, so I'm not on Hell yet, things can get even worse?

Just kidding, the "Hi I'm IT support" part of my week is actually quite calm and easy

Except for printers, every day I get 5~10 complaints

If I had any political power I'd just ban them

I can't understand people's fetish for paper

"Uhhhhh I guess if it's not on paper then it's not really real"

"Let's put an official seal (tm) and lots of stamps to make it really, really really real"

Canadian Luke

Well, do you have an imaging solution, so you can make sure they're all up to a single standard? I recommend FOG (Free Open-source Ghost) if you need one

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke You mean me?

Canadian Luke

10:07 PM

Yea

You

With the [bird] face!

That Brazilian Guy

The hardware is far from uniform, there's too much different setups

Would have to have a lot of drivers installed after imaging

The bigger issue is we don't have much of a standardized process

I work most of the week somewhere else, doing something totally unrelated

In this building we have just 1 guy Mon-Fri

and even our boss goes there not more than a couple times per month

(not that I blame him, he's overwhelmed with emails, meetings, more emails and more meetings)

We're not even from support, there's an official IT support team

They just never go there

So our boss had initiallly each of us going there once a week

And now this new guy stays there all days

People got so happy with the results we ended up getting a reward: a 2nd building to support!

Canadian Luke

10:45 PM

Shitty, @ThatBrazilianGuy

But you just need one Linux server with lots of storage for images

And if you make the images tiny, you can go anywhere from 8GB to 15GB per machine image... Well, machine type.

Tom Wijsman

@MichaelFrank Or it sounds like automation.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: Been thinking of mucking with this urbackup.org

That Brazilian Guy

11:05 PM

> File and image backups are made while the system is running without interrupting current processes.

WHAT SORCERY IS THAT

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: volume shadow copy?

That Brazilian Guy

!!wiki Volume Shadow Copy

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Shadow Copy

Shadow Copy (also known as Volume Snapshot Service, Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS) is a technology included in Microsoft Windows that allows taking manual or automatic backup copies or snapshots of computer files or volumes, even when they are in use. It is implemented as a Windows service called the Volume Shadow Copy service. A software VSS provider service is also included as part of Windows to be used by Windows applications. Shadow Copy technology requires the file system to be NTFS to be able to create and store shadow copies. Shadow Copies can be created on local and external (removable...

That Brazilian Guy

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> Image backups only work with NTFS formated volumes and with the Windows client.

Makes sense

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