I thought there should be some registry with value entry in which the location of the .lnk file or the program file to which lnk file is referring might be there. but not found anything.
It is really odd also the way they did it, and makes little sense. I have some proof of location on a answer here somewhere. superuser.com/a/627711/98855
Only the top of that answer has any useful info to your query.
There is a utility program for windows that will find all "global shortcut keys" I had it once, but because I abandoned the use of them for other methods, I am not sure if I have it in storage to check what it was called, But there does exist a small utility that does that.
well I wasn't going to post it in binary (not sure if that was funny or not)
"ShortcutsMan displays the details about all shortcuts that you have on your desktop and under your start menu. Broken shortcuts (shortcuts that point to file that doesn't exist) are automatically painted with pink color. You select one or more shortcuts, and then delete them, resolve them or save the shortcut's details to HTML/Text/XML file. "
Also, for the record, since I know I'll be bugged about it... I had to unplug my server while doing renovations over the weekend, and the Ethernet cord broke. The DNS name is fixed, but the server isn't on the Internet right now. It should be back up tonight.
the Midatlantic states have a fairly long season from about March to November where the weather is "temperate" -- temperatures between about 52 F to 83 F -- with the occasional heat wave in the summer up to 100+, and then from about mid-November til February the temperature stays around freezing, but doesn't get WAY below freezing
ridiculously cold for us is 0 F, but I know up north it gets much colder regularly
We get cold from -45 C, and sometimes as warm as +15 C. Anywhere from November 15th-ish to March-ish. From March on, it's usually above 0 C. Sorry, I don't know F, I'll be Googling the conversion.
provided that the video file is being downloaded from the beginning, so i can watch the 1st half of the video while the 2nd half is being downloaded...
@DarthAndroid I think it might depend on the video format (MKV is not a format; it's just a container) -- most modern video codecs should be designed so that streaming is an inherent property of the format, but maybe a really old codec shoved into an MKV might not work
MKV itself does not have anything that would impede streaming, and something like H.264 Baseline inside of MKV should certainly be receptive to linear streaming (download the file "in order" from its 0th byte forward, and play it "as you go")
I do not think the other one had large memory, i think this thing has like 1G or something. it also says it wants 200FPM airflow, and talks about 50*C temps, but then re-explains that as the heatsync temps.
"Will It boot" is your oppertunity to Game a guess on if between me and the hardware (and software) I can get the thing to work right. here are your multiple choice guesses 1) everything will go fine Odds 1-3 2) computer wont even post anymore Odds 50-1 3) Bios is recognised and operates Odds 3-1 4) Non_server win7 system wont start it driver problem 3-1 5) overclocked computer causes problems for it 2-1
6) doesnt last past the warrenty odds 1.5-1 , all final results for #6 will be mailed to you by snail mail :-)
@DarthAndroid I'm betting there will be a simple-to-fix hardware issue initially, like cables not plugged in correctly, or something like that. I think the card itself will be recognized and load its Option ROM alright, but then require a good amount of effort navigating its screens to set up the RAID volume and get an OS installed on it.
That's based on personal experience with a 6405E, which is only two generations removed from that card.
So my bet is neither very pessimistic, nor particularly optimistic. My guess is he'll get it working fine after some time, but will hit a number of roadblocks along the way.
I would be stunned if he plugs it in, boots it up and everything is peachy.
And the cards seem quite reliable, at least in my deployment of them (I've also remotely "used" three separate Adaptec 5405E cards in Hetzner servers I've rented over various generations, and not a one of them has failed)
In fact, one time with a RAID10, the disk failure alarm went off in the Hetzner datacenter for one of my drives, and a tech heard it, sent me an email, and I told him it was installed in RAID10 config (he had no way to confirm this without basically violating my privacy as a tenant), and that he could install a new disk online and let it rebuild.
I also had a "fun" experience with the disk failure alarm on my Adaptec 6405E, just about 4 or 5 months ago, in my desktop
it was 3 AM and I had left my desktop running as I very often do (I give it a break now and then, but it frequently sees uptimes of 5 or 6 days). I hear BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!! (continuous) and think it's the smoke detector. then I think it's the mobo telling me something's overheating.
then I realized it was a RAID problem when, after power cycling the computer and turning it back on, the beeping didn't start until the Option ROM said the controller was booted.
@DarthAndroid I have configured raids and ran them on desktops for 15 years, I even was able to do it for LSI :-) and it is only 4xRaid0 , sooo 7) I give you 2-1 on me configuring it, but your game wont be in play unless at least #3
one of my old Seagate disks was having a SMART failure, so I replaced it with an HGST.
the integrity of the volume was never in serious doubt, since I have a complete copy of both stripes on a pair of HGSTs that are well under a year old... it was just one of the much older Seagates that was dying
I kind of built my array in a "staggered" way by complete accident, because it started off as RAID0, then about 1.5 years after starting it off on RAID0 I expanded it to RAID10
this is how you're supposed to manage an array for the best guarantee of integrity, because the probability of both new and old drives failing simultaneously is extremely low
having all the drives coming with the same firmware, make and model from the same manufacturing run is super risky
@DarthAndroid my next card is going to have flash cache (8405 + the AFM-700 flash cache which is as reliable as having a battery, without the battery running out problem)
Why don't RAID1 / RAID10 suffer write holes? Is it possible to atomically update two disks without risk of power failure leading to one being updated but not the other?
Either way, after my flirtatious period in college with RAID5, I've moved to RAIDZ+Carbonite for all my data storage systems.
@DarthAndroid with write caching enabled, yes, there is a write hole phenomenon of sorts there, but it's less severe, in that it would only be noticed if one of the disks fails, and it can be detected by doing periodic stripe verification
but stripes are more reliable than parity (which is why RAID10 is more reliable than RAID5; logically this makes sense, since 4x4GiB disks yields a usable capacity of only 8 GiB on RAID10, but a much higher 12 GiB on RAID5) because you don't necessarily lose your entire disk
you might lose some blocks, but with write caching disabled, you will lose very, very few blocks in the worst case, and they're usually the same blocks that are sitting in the FS journal, so your files will at least be rolled back to some previously fsync()ed state, which is unlikely to be corrupt even if not the latest
with write caching enabled, you will lose more blocks, and you might even lose blocks which had previously been written off by the FS journal, which can cause random data loss that the FS isn't even aware of
in practice, on NTFS, or ext4 with periodic forced fsync() timer enabled, you only lose a few seconds of data with write caching disabled, and the filesystem is able to clean up any corruption after the stripes are made consistent (just arbitrarily overwrite one stripe with the other's value) because the corruption is stuff that's still in the journal
so basically it's like a single HDD in terms of data integrity, plus you don't really care if any single disk fails
btw, this is yet another great reason to use a filesystem that does checksums, like btrfs or zfs
I am waiting with bated breath for the day when we can boot a Windows Client OS on ReFS as its boot volume
ReFS : Windows :: btrfs : Linux
with the AFM-700 flash module (which beats a BBU for many reasons, including performance and reliability; thank god flash is non-volatile, and it keeps enough juice in onboard caps to finish any writes it starts), you never lose any data except that which is dirty in RAM that programs haven't had a chance to flush to disk yet
but any data that's within the disk subsystem's write pipeline at any level of caching is never lost
and the stripes stay consistent as long as the disks physically don't fail
It's mostly the checksum part that I'm interested in. Suffered lots of issues where the main copy of the data was written, but the parity was never updated. Rebuilds would cause the FS to implode as it recovered after power losses.
On the other hand, I've watched ZFS exceed and sustain 1GB/s on a 5-disk raidZ array. That was awesome.
I'm almost crazy enough to make Solaris my host OS, put ZFS on it, dump my RAID card, and PCIe passthrough my GPUs to Windows... except I know that would cause no end of frustration with drivers... the likelihood that Catalyst could handle Mantle CrossFireX when handed virtualized GPUs... yeahno
I have an Adaptec 2405 installed on ESXi 5.0. When the card is idle, it flashes the red LEDs back and forth, Knight Rider -style, just like this video. Is this normal, or is this a fault? I have dug everywhere through the manuals and can't seem to figure it out.
If it is in a fault state, I ca...
Whether our engineers were inspired by Cylons or KITT when they designed it I do not know, but I can tell you that this is normal behavior for our cards when there is no I/O.
there are two kinds of Option ROMs, unfortunately: UEFI extensions, and traditional BIOS Option ROMs.
and then there are three kinds of cards: cards that don't work with a UEFI-based BIOS at all; cards that can be booted from in UEFI mode even though the card initializes itself with the BIOS Option ROM (this is thanks to the Compatibility Support Module (CSM) feature of UEFI BIOSen); and cards that natively load a UEFI extension rather than doing anything BIOS-y at all.
@Psycogeek no. the 8405 will try to load a UEFI extension if your system supports UEFI. if your system does not do UEFI, it will load a BIOS Option ROM.
Well, the options I would try are: Windows 8 Features: Windows 8 Enable CSM: Always Enable Boot Mode Selection: UEFI and Legacy Storage Controller: Legacy First
Well I would still expect it to show up as a device in the Operating system (especially seeings the lights are on). so I think it is more than just a bios issue.
@Psycogeek When you reply to someone, you wait for his reply back but what if you forgot to add something to your reply? You add but what if you want to reply again all while waiting for someone's reply?
I want to know how to ensure recipient does not miss my previous replies due to receiving newer ones. This is about Gmail.
Yeah I go to the sent box, find the message I sent, reply to it, double check that the proper recipient is still on it, and finally send once I've written my message.
That is the Intel Raid in the UEFI, which when set Other (or legasy first for storage) the Intel Bios would normally show up before the UEFI in its own bios.
I had just pulled out the LSI a few days ago, and at least with it a (slow ass) separate bios came up. But after you splain how this UEFI extention was supposed to work, I wish I had also tried that.
With the LSI I could also see it in the OS, but drivering it Failed.
so it is believed that the slot works, and the lights are on too.
Also it did boot to win7 with the Windows8 turned on. Probably because CSM is also still on.
I have made a few but not all adjustments to the PCI Gen so I can play with that, but this is not going well.
more weirdness but I got Controller live, in both bios and existence of device in OS. I had defaulted the bios, but it was not till I screwed up and hit the Wipeout the freaking bios which slams the power and all, that it suddenly woke up
And it Does KitCar :-)
Bigger hammer hardware inc.
Driver install worked , which is only significant to me having code 10 on every driver version when dealing with the LSI
Now it is running gen 3 PCi .
If anyone knows what "BackPlane" is options IBPI or SGPLO?
I have a lot of gadgets, most of them are provided with a tiny AC charger which outputs something like 1A*5V. (This can happen with larger PC power supplies and laptop chargers as well.) Some of them produce a high-pitched whining noise when plugged in but not connected to a device, and stop maki...
I have an Adaptec 2405 installed on ESXi 5.0. When the card is idle, it flashes the red LEDs back and forth, Knight Rider -style, just like this video. Is this normal, or is this a fault? I have dug everywhere through the manuals and can't seem to figure it out.
If it is in a fault state, I ca...
Whether our engineers were inspired by Cylons or KITT when they designed it I do not know, but I can tell you that this is normal behavior for our cards when there is no I/O.
