Root Access

Ben N

15:00

In other news, DISM appears to be perfectly willing to install the Remote Server Administration Tools on a Home edition

bwDraco

TBH, this is not a great reflection on someone with a master's degree. I seriously need to read critically.

I'll be addressing this issue over the coming days. I'm sorry if anyone was adversely impacted. Let's move on.

Journeyman Geek

lol

probably barely passed obedience school

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek Well, that's the problem with my upbringing.

Journeyman Geek

More seriously, I took 3 attempts to get my BSc

that's not really a reflection of my online or offline social skills

bwDraco

We've discussed this before. I already have plans in place to address ongoing issues with social soft skills.

Bob

15:07

@OliverSalzburg That's... not the worst idea. Especially if you still want control over subdomains.

@bwDraco eh. you have opinions, I have opinions. It's alright to disagree.

I tend to be rather harsh when criticising those posts, but that's more directed at the post (and its author) rather than at you.

(And there's absolutely no guarantee that my criticisms are remotely accurate...)

bwDraco

I'll just read more critically. Accepting things at face value is a Bad Thing (tm).

djsmiley2k

@bwDraco there's a huge different between you linking something you read

and you going 'GUYS THIS IS TOTAL LEGIT!!!! <link>'

If anyone blindly trusts something, because someone linked it, they are the one at fault, not you.

bwDraco

You have a good point.

djsmiley2k

Even if they know you usually post good quality stuff.

bwDraco

Regardless, I'm still going to read more critically.

djsmiley2k

15:12

That said, anaylising while you read, and concidering if you believe it or not, is a good thing to do :)

bwDraco

Gotta go soon. See ya in a bit.

djsmiley2k

You can always say 'Not sure I believe it, but it's interesting <link>

bwDraco

Thanks for the advice :)

@djsmiley2k Yup.

TBH, Gawker has always relied extensively on clickbait, so I've never really had much faith in their writing.

NotAdmin Dave

@OliverSalzburg: I agree with you, It really honestly just depends on how ones infrustructure is built. For instance, someone may host a webserver with multiple sites being hosted on 1 ip address using NamedBasedVirtualHosting, having a CNAME record to point to the hostname of the webserver makes it easy to migrate 300 websites if they all point to the same one webserver host. Otherwise updating A records for 300 separate hosts can be quite annoying, and time consuming.

another good example where a cname record would be ideal would be records related to pop / imap since these services generally run on the same host as most mailservers.. However when configuring clients.. its easier for the end user to understand where to put the pop and imap settings in textbox fields.

djsmiley2k

I wrote a load of scripts at a old job

they updated 9000 dns entries on demand

was a pita but it worked XD

about 100 zone files

NotAdmin Dave

15:23

lol damn

djsmiley2k

yeah, the best bit was if something was screwed up in any file

the whole dns server would just fall over

Journeyman Geek

0_0

djsmiley2k

And we didn't have split dns servers for our public and private queries, meaning that 1. everyone lost internet access, and 2. the website would be offline for anyone without a cache..

The best bit was one how my boss just 'accidently' deleted half the file

Still no clue how he did it, he litterally cut the bottom half of the config file off, and we found it like that the next morning

NotAdmin Dave

You should totally switch to a DNS server that has a dns backend. ;P

djsmiley2k

by hand we had to re-write half the config :D

NotAdmin Dave

15:33

One update query to rule them all.

Ben N

MS DNS has been not bad in my experience

Journeyman Geek

0_0

@BenN probably cause you can powershell it into submission ? ;p

Ben N

DnsServer module to the rescue

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: Looking for a replacement part for PCI Interface Low Profile Sound Card?

I can't find a replacement for this card. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829270005 It needs to use a 3.3 volt slot or a dual voltage signaling board. The motherboard only has 1 pci 3.3 volt slot. I tried to use this card. https://www.amazon.com/Channel-Surround-Sound-CM...

The magic smoke appears to have escaped

Paul Vargas

Journeyman Geek

15:40

man, that's a big brute. Kong there's no slouch either, but that crt... ;p

djsmiley2k

0

Q: Old Computer, after one year unused startup time 45 minutes?

I have a old Lenovo Laptop, with XP, a diagnostic machine, no internet access, no extra programs, just XP and diagnostic program. Last time I used it, worked and booted ok. But now, startup time 45 minutes. Can anyone explain me where is this dog buried? Thanks!

boot

erm, wat?

NotAdmin Dave

@djsmiley2k: probably failing HDD

djsmiley2k

I don't even understand the question...

NotAdmin Dave

The dog burried lmfao

Just saw that

Ben N

I would guess it's a translation of a different language's colloquialism

Journeyman Geek

15:44

I am tempted to say "I didn't bury anything"

NotAdmin Dave

I'm actually quite scared to reply

I think i'll ignore that one.

Journeyman Geek

I commented

NotAdmin Dave

haha

Journeyman Geek

;p

djsmiley2k

ooooooooo

it took 45minutes to boot?

Journeyman Geek

15:46

0

Q: I cant open powershell although it is running it is not visible.

I have a windows 10 and an intel core i5. I also cant open mt start menu and I cant hide my taskbar. Help?!

software-rec

djsmiley2k

Maybe it started patching prior to being turned off?

Journeyman Geek

We shouldn't have to guess ;p

djsmiley2k

Guessing is fun! :D

DavidPostill

@BenN Did I miss something?

Ben N

No, I was talking about the US presidential campaigns

djsmiley2k

15:51

oh hahaa

wait, who's been decived about that?

'Everyone's at risk of being dumb' is more appropriate XD

Ben N

Pretty much everyone on all sides tried to foist some less-than-factual perception of the opposing candidate onto the general public

Journeyman Geek

ahh, politics.

NotAdmin Dave

@BenN: Totally in agreement.

Ben N

@djsmiley2k I think the Get-ADObject cmdlet with the -SearchBase switch (in LDAP path form) will do what you want

NotAdmin Dave

yesterday, by NotAdmin Dave

Low participation rate and oversampling.. That's all it is..

yesterday, by NotAdmin Dave

"We know college people hate trump... lets reach out to them as a majority for this poll.. And the people that actually like him and think hes doing a great job.. lets only call 2 of those guys..."

yesterday, by NotAdmin Dave

Thats why I dont provide any personal information about myself if i ever decide to opt into one.

And providing that information is actually worse.. Since now they can ignore people that dont opt in that information and always target individuals that have opted in

This is why we need to keep PRIVACY PRIVATE.

Its easily exploitable.

Journeyman Geek

15:58

lol

yup

djsmiley2k

@BenN can I have it in a fancy gui?

Ben N

Tack on | Out-GridView for a GUI-ish table

djsmiley2k

need to be able to clicky and reset passwords and stuff

ya seeing my issue yet? :/

Ben N

Oh

djsmiley2k

/me cries

i'm tired

and really can't do this today

damn this ubuntu vm for being so slow

i might just go cli

Bob

16:03

Tom Wijsman

@djsmiley2k you might just go Gentoo

/me runs

Ben N

With the -PassThru switch on Out-GridView, it'll return the selected object for you to do more things with if desired

Bob

hm. weird characters

Ben N

Alternatively I could stop throwing PS stuff at you and let you rest :)

@Bob Both those messages appear blank to me

Bob

@BenN eww LDAP

LDAP paths are ... ugh.

@BenN 0x08, no idea how I managed to type it :P

djsmiley2k

16:05

@TomWijsman haha, I'm getting very seriously tempte to setup a tunnel, use my binhost and do exactly that :D

Ben N

◘

Bob

think it's come up before... something to do with firefox, textboxes, SEchat JS and backspace

djsmiley2k

◘

wtf is that

and why did it add a line return, before rendering it outta existance?! :D

Bob

good question

Ben N

Bob

16:06

0x08 is a backspace char, not funny-box-char

Ben N

Ah, typing 8 with the numeric keypad makes a Unicode thingy I guess

Bob

*shrug*

NotAdmin Dave

I hate life◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘love lamp

Ben N

I got a real 0x8 with [char]8 | scb

djsmiley2k

@Bob All questions are good questions, some are badly formatted.

Ben N

16:07

Thing 12

There's an 0x8 between the numbers

Bob

14

Q: I can enter U+0008 (backspace character) into a chat message under Firefox

I typed a chat message including two pings. I believe I tab-completed @rumtscho and fully typed @MarthaF (since she doesn't tab complete). However, other people tell me that a Unicode character was inserted into the message; I can't see it: Originally, I abandoned this bug report for a lack of...

bug chat firefox unicode

found the meta post :P

@bwDraco Where are you getting 1.12PiB from?

241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB 0x0032 000 000 000 Old_age Always - 1152

bwDraco

nvm, misread it.

Not sure what I was thinking.

Bob

1152 GiB ~= 1.1 TiB, no?

bah, non-decimal counting

NotAdmin Dave

yeah 1.125ish

/ 1024

bwDraco

Never worked with a SandForce drive. The SF2200 series is pretty much obsolete, and the SF3700 series proved to be vaporware.

djsmiley2k

16:14

wtf is going on with the rendering o_O

(there's no space on that page)

NotAdmin Dave

This is what I'm reading "Here's how to remote access YER L's.."

bwDraco

Are they using a wiki program that uses CamelCase autolinking?

Bob

@bwDraco IIRC SandForce controllers are still used in other drives

Intel used them, yea?

@djsmiley2k keming

bwDraco

I've seen this happen on TV Tropes, which uses PMWiki.

@Bob Phison and SMI hav pretty much overtaken SandForce for generic SSD controllers.

NotAdmin Dave

Could it be a CamelCase rendering function of somesort improperly adding spaces?

djsmiley2k

16:20

@Bob I thought it was Kerning

NotAdmin Dave

RemoteAccessURLs... May be treated as Remote Access UR Ls ?

Bob

@djsmiley2k ya, keming is a joke :P

djsmiley2k

yeah it's PM wiki @bwDraco

:D

Bob

kerning with bad kerning is keming

2

djsmiley2k

@Bob BOOM.

bwDraco

16:21

@Bob PmWiki does this. I've seen this on TV Tropes.

It's basically autoformatting CamelCase. If the word is all caps except the last letter, the software will separate the last two letters.

NotAdmin Dave

Facepalm

That sucks =)

That's what im thinking as well.

bwDraco

To escape this, use [= =], e.g. [=URLs=].

See tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/…, under Linking to Pages.

> To prevent a CamelCase word from being linked when you don't want it to, use the "Escape sequence" demonstrated here: [=CamelCase=]

djsmiley2k

lul, it's the page title, can't.

NotAdmin Dave

@djsmiley2k: check wikiwords.php include file

djsmiley2k

i can't :(

NotAdmin Dave

16:31

/* Copyright 2001-2015 Patrick R. Michaud ([email protected])
This file is part of PmWiki; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version. See pmwiki.php for full details.

This script adds WikiWord (CamelCase) processing to PmWiki.
Originally WikiWords were part of the default configuration,
but their usage has died out over time and so it's now optional.

djsmiley2k

nod

I don't have server access D:

bwDraco

@Bob Intel has switched to SMI controllers for their latest SSDs.

NotAdmin Dave

boo =(

bwDraco

Got stuff to do. Will be back.

allquixotic

@Bob fuckyeahkeming.com

Blog bot

16:49

Women in the 2016 Stack Overflow Survey

Julia Silge on January 19, 2017

The 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey opened last week, and we on the Data Team are looking forward to analyzing the survey results to better understand our developer community. I am particularly interested in women in tech, for probably obvious reasons, and recently I explored last year's survey data to see what we can learn about women developers.

djsmiley2k

hmmmm diagnosing proxy issues

with no access to the actual proxy

just a uri and a port

NotAdmin Dave

use fiddler

djsmiley2k

o_O??

NotAdmin Dave

life 300x easier to diagnose a proxy

you'll thank me later. promise

=P

djsmiley2k

what is fiddler?

k so dns lookups are working

NotAdmin Dave

16:54

its a http debuggin tool

djsmiley2k

ok weird

just google.com not loading XD

NotAdmin Dave

oh ahah

Bob

@JourneymanGeek finally finished reading it and those linked, and... tbh the name-and-shame thing he has going on makes me uncomfortable.

djsmiley2k

There's links between things which I don't think he's revealed (for reasons he'll know).

Otherwise, I don't see how he jumped between some of the things linking people

Bob

@djsmiley2k yea, some of them did seem rather circumstantial

hopefully he has more

djsmiley2k

16:57

I didn't go back and re-anaylise

but found my self thinking 'how did we get here?'

Bob

otherwise there's the possibility he's just ruined a few people's lives

^ see also, why name-and-shame is ... risky.

djsmiley2k

Yah

but Krebs seems to be really on his stuff, and I don't think he'd do that unless he was sure?

Bob

*shrug* dunno

djsmiley2k

Something that is interesting, I see none of the 'shady underworld' the DDoS'ers appently inhabit

you know, the same one that the murders, gangers, drug dealers, etc all use

NotAdmin Dave

they hang out generally on internet relay chat in rooms with mode +s

I used to know a few of them on efnet. Yearrrrrrrrrs ago

Bob

17:03

@djsmiley2k you haven't looked hard enough :P

djsmiley2k

yey

my file upload works

@NotAdminDave people are everywhere

next step, 'processing' the file

this is where things get fun

NotAdmin Dave

yea yea yea

Dog

17:25

@Bob Looks like you and @allquixotic

Alan Watch

18:03

i'm having problem in understanding how open vpn exchanges encryption/decryption keys..does anyone know in simple words? the open vpn security overview is too complicated

allquixotic

@Dog :P those cat ears say "I'm keeping my eye on you, but I'm not worried about an immediate threat"

Boris_yo

@allquixotic "Soon..."

bwDraco

18:28

Okay, I'm back. Was working on an application for a paid summer internship.

anandtech.com/show/11051/…

They're making them 512n for legacy compatibility, but 1 TB and 2 TB "Enterprise Capacity" hard drives sound like an oxymoron...

Just what is the demand for these lower-capacity 512n drives?

allquixotic

@bwDraco people with ancient RAID controllers who are happy to throw new money after old to maintain their existing infrastructure? (e.g., they want to continue to replace existing 1 TB disks with hot spares that are the same size for block-level copying)

although I don't understand why a 512e drive wouldn't work equally well; the 512-byte sector still gets exposed to the OS the exact same way

the only difference is that the 512n firmware doesn't have to go through some gymnastics to do a read/update cycle on a 512n sector, whereas a 512e drive does

bwDraco

ZFS can be picky, from what I've read. You can't add 512e drives to a 512n zpool IIRC.

Have you actually tried doing this?

allquixotic

I'm sure governments will buy them by the hundreds for servers that don't experience unbounded capacity (e.g., web servers or databases that grow ridiculously slowly)

bwDraco

I'm not sure why ZFS would care about the physical sector format if the logical sector format is the same...

allquixotic

@bwDraco haven't tried it myself, no, but ZFS literally can't see the native 4k sectors on a 512e drive; the lowest level interface ZFS can access shows 512-byte logical sectors

e.g. the /dev/sda block device on Linux... it'd be exposed as 512-byte

bwDraco

18:40

11

A: What's the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?

The 512-byte emulation is intended for compatibility with older systems. However, writes involving only part of a physical 4K sector can cause reduced performance because the sector needs to be read and modified before it can actually be written. When a legacy operating system tries to write to ...

allquixotic

even in the kernel, at the SATA driver level, it'd just see 512-byte

bwDraco

communities.intel.com/thread/49328

> We can't just stick a 4K drive in an array formatted with 512b disks. Many arrays (most notably ZFS based storage, which is increasingly popular as software defined storage makes waves) will not accept a replacement drive with a different physical sector format.

I really have to wonder why ZFS does this.

Does ZFS actually care about the physical sector format?

Paul Vargas

19:19

@JourneymanGeek :P

Dog

@allquixotic nah Linux kernel implemented native sector size hinting long ago and ZFS uses it to choose block size when creating an array

bwDraco

19:43

Seems to have something to do with the ashift parameter.

Dog

20:29

Bleh, my S4 modem is borked

Oliver Salzburg

21:20

@NotAdminDave So what? If I have an A record that points foo to 1.2.3.4 and I need to change the IP address, then I change the A record. How would the additional CNAME improve the situation? Maybe I just didn't understand the question :P

NotAdmin Dave

Im confused too.. A cname only points to a host not an IP address.. unless you use the in-addr.arpa equivalent of the address.. but even that's still considered a hostname according to rfc

I was agreeing with your original comment

Oliver Salzburg

Oh

:D

NotAdmin Dave

Lol

:p

bwDraco

21:39

pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/…

lol

Using a sticky note to disable 8 PCIe lanes :P

So, in highly compute-intensive workloads, does PCIe bandwidth matter? Well, not by much.

However, multi-GPU workloads that depend on communication over the PCIe bus suffer a big performance hit. This is of no significance for most multi-GPU users as they will likely be using SLI rather than having cards communicate over the PCIe bus.

Tested with an i7-6900K and one or two GTX 1070 cards.