Root Access

Boris_yo

20:02

@Hennes I have many commands here. I tried to list but it says disk is not selected.

Hennes

diskpart

list disk (shows the disks)

select disk #

list partitions

I think, that is from the top of my head)

HDPARM -N
Get/set max visible number of sectors, also known as the Host Protected Area setting.

I forgot what it was called. (Host Protected Area )

man.he.net/man8/hdparm

and

Host protected area

The host protected area (also referred to as hidden protected area) is an area of a hard drive that is not normally visible to an operating system (OS). History HPA was first introduced in the ATA-4 standard cxv (T13, 2001). How it works The IDE controller has registers that contain data that can be queried using ATA commands. The data returned gives information about the drive attached to the controller. There are three ATA commands involved in creating and using a hidden protected area. The commands are: *IDENTIFY DEVICE *SET MAX ADDRESS *READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS Operating systems...

Boris_yo

Hennes

Two partitions. Offset on the first is 1MB so I am guessing on win7 ?

Boris_yo

@Hennes Ah yes, it was migrated with included Intel Acronis Branded migration tool from HDD to SSD with alignment already in place.

Offest is something that comes before 111GB or after?

Hennes

Older installation skipped 8MB (I think dos, windows 2.01, windows 3.1). Then they moved to 1GB and now to 2GB

Boris_yo

20:08

@Hennes Second partition is connected to Bitlock, encryption software. It was migrated from old HDD so I guess data is not useful anymore because it's new drive.

Hennes

I never used bitlocker. Might polay around with it some time on a VM

Scared of messing up and loosing real data though

And with backups/restores taking 6 hours backups a good but not fun

Boris_yo

@Hennes On UPS hopefully or at least without power outage.

Hennes

Well,power never fails unless in third world countries ;-)

peers around for Murphy

5 4 3 2 1 peeewnn (sound of spindown)
#Carrier lost Hennes has disconnected

But seriously, how often do you loose power

I lost power twice in the last 4 years and that is enough to annoy me already.

Braiam

@Hennes the term third world is inexact and pejorative ;)

Hennes

They have better power over there?

In a few decades "first world countries" might mean "Those who grew first and who collapsed first"

And maybe we should call the area around Arabia "0th world countries" since their science was so much better than the western science (before the mideval ages)

Boris_yo

20:16

@Hennes 8x more than you. And that is more than enough to annoy me.

Hennes

ugh. Yeah, that is enough to buy an UPS an use it for its intended purpose.

Mine is currently serveing as a doorstop

Ariane

Just wanted to say that I've fiiiiiinally gotten everything to work.

ChatBot John Cavil

HAMMERTIME!

Hennes

@Ariane Yay. ;-)

Boris_yo

@Hennes What happened after?

HAMMERTIME! lol

Ariane

20:18

Not to brag but I think I've become a Windows reinstalling/upgrading/user profile moving expert. x.x

Hennes

Well, this:

Boris_yo

@Hennes That's because I live in bad sector. I think this sector is jackass if all trades when it comes to power saving by electrical company.

Hennes

Boris_yo

@Ariane How you secceeded?

Ariane

Can't really describe how I solved 999999 problems spanned over 3 days, sorry.

Boris_yo

20:20

@Hennes Here I see they relied heavily on sun?

Hennes

Sun flare

A big one will fry our electonics

Boris_yo

@Ariane You should have filmed it and uploaded to YouTube.

@Hennes But not our brain?

Hennes

No. You need long connection of wires. E.g. a power grid

Ariane

I must've downloaded like 30 GB's worth of WIndows 8.1. Even with the 60 GB extension I bought for the month, I don't think I could handle uploading 25 hours of video.

Boris_yo

@Ariane Bandwidth is limited there?

Hennes

20:22

Big enough flares are an actual risk and are being monitored. There is a 'space weather forecast' and the gird is adjusted or shut down when needed.

Boris_yo

@Hennes Can I see this forecas on TV?

Hennes

swpc.noaa.gov/SWN

So, if you got a smart TV: yes

Ariane

Yeah it is.

75 GB a month which is actually a pretty huge limit, that's what I have.

Y'can get it unlimited, but it costs an arm and a leg unless you have the TV with them too, which I obviously can't afford.

Boris_yo

@Hennes The view of sun scares me. Reminds me of planet in 5th Element that was growing.

@Hennes How come 1st world country has bandwidth limit while 3rd world country doesn't?

Hennes

Storm levels: swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/index.html#SolarRadiationStorms

Economics

Blame marketing!

Boris_yo

20:26

@Hennes Cosmos has radiation?

Ariane

People actually care about sun storms?

Boris_yo

@Ariane At least those who are susceptible to them that cause headache.

Hennes

Yes, satelite people mostly (e.g. broadcast sats)

Ariane

Not like you can do anything about it. I'm all for not caring about what you can't do anything about as much as possible.

Hennes

But a severe enough solar flare can knock out power. A big enough one all the way from the pole to southof NY

One there was one big enough in the last century

Ariane

20:28

Well not just what you can't do anything about actually.

Since I stopped caring about microbes altogether I've never been so rarely sick.

Hennes

Well, you can. Shutdown sats. Do not fly near the poles during a severe storm (probably just take a longer route). If needed shut down and disconnect the power grid.

Ariane

Yeah, in the 1980s Ithink there was a severe problem over here. But well, caring or worrying about that won't bring any benefit ot my life.

Hennes

I agree, not much use to use ordinary citizens. But people do care and people do adjust

Ariane

Though I wonder, can damage to power lines be prevented? I kinda don't think it can.

Oliver Salzburg

> I know this is 100% off topic here, but I would like an answer before closed.

Hennes

20:33

The voltage builds up over the lenghh of the conducting wires. So either disconnect in the middle halving the voltage. Or just disconnect from sensitive equipment. That will still give problems, but you will not have burned out devices in addition to that.

Ariane

@OliverSalzburg Eh? xD

Oliver Salzburg

@Ariane A quote from a question I just closed ;P

Ariane

@OliverSalzburg Well... uh... being hopeful is nice?

Hennes

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Q: What is the best low-point and shoot camera?

I am wondering this. Thank you! I have no problems whatsoever, I am just asking this question.

camera

I guess I was not nice in my comment.

Oliver Salzburg

Same guy :P

Boris_yo

20:41

@Hennes You implied that he is in wrong place.

Oliver Salzburg

So probably a troll

Hennes

Aye. (prob. troll)

Boris_yo

@OliverSalzburg He is not. He did not provoke aggression or controversy.

He is just lost.

Oliver Salzburg

I'm starting to think you're a troll

Hennes

Reads the FAq of photo.stackexchange.com

hmm, as soon as I find it. Well hidden.

Boris_yo

20:48

@OliverSalzburg Did I say something wrong?

Oliver Salzburg

@Hennes Turns out he's a well known network-wide troll with 12 accounts on SU alone :P

Hennes

Damn. I just fed a troll

Boris_yo

@Hennes Meaning gave him some of your time?

Hennes

Or encauraged him/her.

Boris_yo

I think I will order slingshot from DX. I am annoyed by stubborn crows.

@Hennes That's one of problems spammers make their way. We need to make Faq as popup message on homepage.

Boris_yo

21:26

Windows 95 Doom commercial with Bill Gates

►

Boris_yo

21:52

If Windows 95 and 98 are DOS based and Windows 2000 and XP are NT based, then what Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 are based on?

What is NT anyway?

Hennes

22:16

New Ten

An offspring of OS/2 for a new system with designation 9 and 10.

Later adapted with a windows personality over its core.

Boris_yo

!!define os/2

ChatBot John Cavil

@Boris_yo No definition found.

Boris_yo

Okay so DOS and OS/2 are different but NT was made from OS/2

If Windows 96 and 98 are based on DOS, what Windows Vista, 7 and 8 are based of?

Braiam

22:37

> A few days ago, Oracle released a Critical Patch Update (CPU) to all Oracle products, including Java. In Java alone, this patch will solve 51 vulnerability issues, 12 of those could be used by hackers to take full control of a PC.

@Boris_yo Windows NT

Boris_yo

@Braiam If Windows 95 is result of MS-DOS and Windows combination then which Windows is assumed here? Windows 3.11?

Braiam

you should check what was Windows 1 and 2 (just a ugly DOS windowed windows)

Boris_yo

@Braiam Were they based on OS/2?

Braiam

@Boris_yo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0

Boris_yo

22:52

Source model - Closed source

This is what I see about Windows. What is source model? The source code Microsoft used to create their Windows?

Boris_yo

23:31

Wikipedia in russian says Windows 95 is result of unification of products DOS and Windows that earlier were distributed separately. However I found something that says it differently.

"Windows 9x/ME: the 16 bit subsystem was salvaged from DOS and Win 3.1 and therefore was written in assembly language; the rest was a combination of assembler and C. Win 9x was designed to work well on suboptimal, older hardware (486s and such), therefore needed the speed advantage of assembly language. Remember that Win 95 was originally packaged as an upgrade from Windows 3.1.

It's like first claims Windows 95 was made from already existing products but another source claims it was written on assembly language and assembler and C language.

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