Root Access

12:27 AM

@MichaelFrank Sometimes, when a brownout happens, hardware glitches and you need to completely cut power for it for a few seconds before turning it back on in order to recover.

Ramhound

1:55 AM

You should invest in a cheap UPS, has done wonders, for my home setup

Michael Frank

4:11 AM

Yea, a UPS would be useful... I can probably get one from work that's due to be decommissioned actually...

Journeyman Geek

4:22 AM

@MichaelFrank iirc the batteries on those are mostly standard too

Hennes

5:24 AM

Batteries always surprise me with their price

Burgi

9:02 AM

morning

@Hennes which sort of batteries?

Gandalf

@bergi

Could you be well versed with cloudflare

Michael Frank

Try @Burgi ...

Gandalf

@Burgi @MichaelFrank Anyone who knows how cloudflare works

Burgi

on a purely abstract level, yes

Gandalf

How do they manage to keep the old nameservers

Burgi

9:12 AM

they don't?

Gandalf

for instance, they ask someone to chnage the nameservers of your domain to yours

to theirs

but the website still is pointed to the old host

Burgi

so they just copied the DNS records?

Gandalf

I am not sure whats happening but they somehow how the authority now to manage my dns. That happened when i changed the nameservers from the ones i was given by my website hosting company and put in the ones cloudflare provided

Burgi

you know DNS is public right?

all they did was look up the existing records, copy them to their servers and carried on as normal

it reduces the potential for unexpected downtime

Gandalf

I get

Usually, when you change nameservers in the domain,say update from namecheap given nameservers to godaddy nameservers, the website is supposed to go offline

until you transfer the website to godaddy

Burgi

9:19 AM

o.O

never happened to me

Gandalf

ok

Bob

@Burgi the list of subdomains actually isn't public unless you have zone transfers enabled

@Gandalf uh, nope

DNS has nothing to do with the website

Burgi

@Bob i did just assume he was talking about www

Gandalf

@Bob am sure if i change nameservers from host1 using ns1.example.com to host2 ns1.example.net , the website at host1 will no longer be accessible and will only be accessible from host2,so therefore, the website at host1 must be transffered to host2, it has always been that way for me

Burgi

you just need to copy the A records before you swap the name servers

you should also swap the MX records are you risk losing email

Bob

9:31 AM

@Gandalf you're relying on your website host to manage DNS for you

that's different

and has nothing to do with the DNS protocol

it's just a hidden automagically-created A record

from the perspective of pure DNS, there's no reason changing nameservers should ever affect your website

but if you have different (automagic) records, well, they're different

but, yea, in the world of shared hosts and magic, what you describe is reasonably common

Gandalf

@Bob Wow, this is new to me,somewhat

Bob

I'll explain more in 2 hours, kinda busy

djsmiley2k

urgh what a fun problem

how to issue a saveState command to Virtualbox for windows shutting down

Gandalf

@Bob okay thanks

djsmiley2k

surely I can schedule a task to run on shutdown?

Journeyman Geek

9:38 AM

isn't that a task scheduler thing?

djsmiley2k

9:49 AM

:D

there's no specific option for 'on shutdown'

it looks like i can tie it to an event, if I knew what event it was...

this rabbit hole maybe deep

Burgi

just get the ID of the shutdown event from the eventviewer

djsmiley2k

yeah, cept what is that ID :D

seems to be 1074

rahuldottech

Third of the time boring, third of the time regular, third of the time crazy

djsmiley2k

oh awesome. can't create scheduled tasks o_O

even as admin on this machine o_O

rahuldottech

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djsmiley2k

10:05 AM

ok the task works at least.

now just to reboot at some point and see if it works then

wait, is a reboot task different from a shutdown one? arugh.

rahuldottech

10:52 AM

Huawei's next phone will kill the notch with a 'hole punch' selfie camera

What's the point of not having the notch if you still have the hole? Might as well have the... uh... w(hole) notch!

plz appreciate good punz

Bob

@Gandalf Ok, so. At its most basic, a domain's parent has NS records telling the client where to look for the domain's records. The NS record points to another DNS server.

For your typical website, a domain (or subdomain) has an A record that tells you the IP address the domain resolves to.

In a pure DNS server, the parent points there by NS records and you define A records which map the domain to the host of your website (IP address). You can also define further NS records to point your subdomains to another nameserver, or A records to map your subdomains directly to IP addresses.

A lot of shared hosts will try to make this easier (and retain more control) by telling you to let them handle your entire domain. This is done by NS records on the domain's parent.

Then they can silently define the A record mapping to the IP address hosting your website.

But this is only a convenience offered by whatever infrastructure (usually some crappy control panel) the shared host uses.

You could just as easily define these A records independently.

If you do so, you can freely change the authoritative nameserver independently of the website host.

@Burgi @djsmiley2k If you do it on event ID you can't block the shutdown while your saving occurs.

Burgi

huh... interesting point

Bob

If you can catch the WM_ENDSESSION message you can delay returning from it until your state saving is completed.

I don't think Task Scheduler offers that, but it'd be trivial to write a program that does it.

But apparently you only get 5 seconds.

You could also respond FALSE to WM_QUERYENDSESSION to prevent the shutdown? idk

rahuldottech

11:14 AM

Uh, if my phone is jumping around with battery percentages and unable to measure them correctly, what do I do?

(it's less than a year old)

Bob

Ok, reading this and this, on WM_QUERYENDSESSION you'd ShutdownBlockReasonCreate and return TRUE. On WM_ENDSESSION you'd either initiate saveState and afterwards ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy/return, or (if you receive false because something else vetoed the query) just ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy

@djsmiley2k ^

I can do a dummy program if you want :P

@rahuldottech define "jumping"

Burgi

HOLY SHIT!!!!

MY CHROMEBOOK ARRIVED!!!!

rahuldottech

And has now been at 10 for several minutes

@Bob just went from 24 to 20 to 10 in under a minute

Bob

@rahuldottech I thought you meant up and down

eh, drain it to empty and charge it to full

rahuldottech

11:39 AM

@Burgi congrats

Burgi

it isn't the speediest of things

djsmiley2k

no suet? ;D

djsmiley2k

12:52 PM

> Get-DhcpServerv4Scope : Cannot connect to CIM server. The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or
because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

uwot?

Gandalf

@Bob many thanks for taking your time to explain @Bob I appreciated.

rahuldottech

@Burgi What're the specs of your machine?

I mean, whatever they are, it can run linux

Burgi

1:23 PM

@rahuldottech support.hp.com/my-en/document/c04945273

rahuldottech

@Burgi Not too bad!