Root Access

bwDraco

00:10

I figured it was a formatting oddity.

Bob

Huh. @JourneymanGeek Looks like Intel's launched C3000-series. Denverton.

> Significantly improved IPC compared to the Avonton/ Rangeley cores. We expect a 70% or so raw performance improvement per core

> Lower IPC than Broadwell-DE and no L3 cache

So, sitting between C2000 and Xeon-D.

I wonder when Online'll introduce them... and the pricing

If they go for the same price as C2000, that'd be a nice upgrade. (And yea, I know you just upgraded. whoops?)

Hm. nup, -D's still almost 2x faster

Journeyman Geek

@Bob not set up yet tho :p

Things have been crazy

Bob

@JourneymanGeek In half a year you can upgrade again! :P

Journeyman Geek

Lol

Bob

Apparently AES-NI will get a ~1.7-2.5x improvement

great for VPNs - but most people won't be using enough to need it anyway...

speaking of VPNs. I still need to find a provider.

Journeyman Geek

00:44

Lol. I'm in the pre-planning stages for my next desktop at the moment.

Bob

00:57

> Kvasir - God of inspiration. Killed by Dwarves.

bwDraco

Battery test criteria (punctuation corrected from the original)‌:

> No distortion, no rust，no leakage, no venting, no rupture, no fire, no explosion, the discharge time is not less than 3hrs.

lol

> The electrical properties of normal.

Who the heck translated this?

More translation silliness:

Oct 4 '16 at 16:41, by Hennes

Oct 4 '16 at 16:42, by Hennes

That makes me really curious as to just what they were trying to translate.

Bob

01:14

...

I love how rebooting my server can give me a DIMM Not Present error

bwDraco

WTF.

Support ticket time?

Bob

It's not the first time. Last time a hard (IPMI) reboot cleared it up.

But yea I think I need to open a ticket this time.

Which means they'll probably bring it down at some point to fix. Bleh.

bwDraco

Blah. I don't have the budget for a dedicated server.

Bob

@bwDraco depends what kind you want; they go for as little as 6 EUR/month :P

Bob

01:31

@bwDraco There we go, ticket created :)

That REDACTED Guy

01:42

@bwDraco If you just want to test and tinker (or even real usage with low spec requirements), you can rent one for as low as 3 USD per month, or even 15 USD per year on buyvm.net

bwDraco

I already have two VPSes on Linode.

That REDACTED Guy

Oh ok

Bob

@ThatREDACTEDGuy buyvm isn't dedi

That REDACTED Guy

I'm shamefully admit I don't know much about servers.

Despite ~~owing~~ renting one. And working with dozens of others on a daily basis.

##google devi vs vps vs bare metal

bwDraco

News on the adjunct job: It's not happening. I'll be continuing with photography in September.

@ThatREDACTEDGuy Google no longer works on the chatbot.

That REDACTED Guy

01:48

STUPID BOT!

bwDraco

02:21

> Intel, the ball is in your court, but it looks like you're playing without a racket [...] If you're in the digital content creation market, there is simply only one choice that makes sense, and that choice is whatever Threadripper CPU you can afford.

lol

The Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review - AMD On Top Again.

►

Consensus: Don't buy a Threadripper if gaming is your primary use case and you don't plan to stream or otherwise have a use for all these cores. It's not better than Ryzen 7 in that regard. However, in workstation tasks that requires lots of cores, Threadripper is the clear winner, every time.

I cannot justify going Threadripper. I don't want to deal with the hassles of a NUMA system, among other things.

It's also too expensive.

hothardware.com/news/…

Hmm...

AMD mining-optimized driver, but Vega is still not exactly great at mining, at least right now.

Bob

02:38

enp1s0f0

because "predictable" network naming

3

bwDraco

lol

I miss eth0.

Sure, if you have multiple NICs, you might run into issues, but I'm pretty sure datacenter folks have workarounds for this.

@Bob What's the f0 at the end about? I've seen enp1s0 but not with that suffix.

(At least under SUSE.)

Bob

@bwDraco github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/…

it's p1 (bus 1) s0 (slot 0) f0 (function 0)

> PCI Ethernet multi-function card with 2 ports

Probably that way because I have a enp1s0f1

Which is probably that way because the host has two ethernet ports :P

bwDraco

Ah, okay.

Bob

I dunno, though. Just guessing. Most server hardware has two ports on the motherboard.

@bwDraco It's worse in this font

I totally read that as enpls0f0 at first

wondered why it didn't work

enpls0f0 != enp1s0f0

Journeyman Geek

03:09

@Bob sounds like the worst way to die

Bob

@JourneymanGeek creative, though

Journeyman Geek

03:30

like being nibbled to death by ducks

..... soooo my boss is like "this IP's got a virus... scan it"

Its my laptop. My personal laptop...

I think fortigate hates it when I port scan ;p

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek tell him "NP, false positive"

Journeyman Geek

basically told him that, and I was taking it off the staff network. IRONICALLY, it was only on cause I was port scanning it

user226528

03:49

Hi

Journeyman Geek

lo

allquixotic

JES

Job Entry Subsystem 2/3

The Job Entry Subsystem (JES) is a component of IBM's MVS (OS/VS2 R2 through z/OS) operating systems that receives jobs into the computer system, schedules them for processing, and controls their output processing. There is also a JES in OS/VS1, often referred to as JES1. While MVS/370's immediate predecessor, SVS, retained the spooling facilities of OS/360, most installations used the optional ASP Version 3 or HASP II Version 4, sometimes incorrectly referred to as HASP4; ASP V3 is available for OS/360 and HASP II V4 has been quite easily retrofitted to OS/360, even on systems which did not, and...

Journeyman Geek

o0

bwDraco

So, took a BIOS update on Bifrons two days ago. Here's the patch notes (and boot times are now slightly shorter):

> Summary of Changes
Where: < > Package version
UEFI: UEFI BIOS version
ECP: Embedded Controller Program version
[Important] Important update
(New) New function or enhancement
(Fix) Correction to existing function

<5.9>
UEFI: 5.9/ECP: 2.8
[Important updates]
N/A

[New functions or enhancements]
N/A

[Problem fixes]
1. Copy the OBB region from SPI to memory to reduce the POST time

ECP fixed:
N/A

<5.7>
UEFI: 5.7/ECP: 2.8
[Important updates]
1. Modify the eMMC Max Speed to SDR25 during POST

I'm not sure I understand all the patch notes. Can someone explain?

> Copy the OBB region from SPI to memory to reduce the POST time

> Modify the eMMC Max Speed to SDR25 during POST

> Modify related asl code according to pm spec for cloud OS.

> Modify audio verbtable for speaker noise.

@Bob?

Journeyman Geek

errrrr page 7 here indicates its a mode for SD cards. sdcard.org/press/past_evens/pdf/…

bwDraco

04:01

I know what SDR25 means, but what about the others?

OBB region? That did cut a few seconds out of boot times, though.

Journeyman Geek

._.

(curious so googling ;p)

SPI is a low speed bus

Bob

@JourneymanGeek You were testing the IDS, don't worry.

bwDraco

ASL code, I don't get. Seems to have to do with ACPI, can anyone explain?

Journeyman Geek

Serial Peripheral Interface Bus

The Serial Peripheral Interface bus (SPI) is a synchronous serial communication interface specification used for short distance communication, primarily in embedded systems. The interface was developed by Motorola in the late 1980s and has become a de facto standard. Typical applications include Secure Digital cards and liquid crystal displays. SPI devices communicate in full duplex mode using a master-slave architecture with a single master. The master device originates the frame for reading and writing. Multiple slave devices are supported through selection with individual slave select (SS) lines...

@Bob which amusingly he is entirely aware of

Bob

@bwDraco hm?

Journeyman Geek

04:03

ODDLY, I've also got zenmap on our 'admin' system

bwDraco

@Bob What is this "OBB" region? And what are the other changes about?

Bob

hel is alive! :D

bwDraco

(see BIOS patch notes above)

Bob

@bwDraco eh, probably an OEM-specific term

root@hel:~# traceroute google.com
traceroute to google.com (216.58.218.238), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  139.99.130.252 (139.99.130.252)  0.709 ms  0.672 ms  0.657 ms
 2  10.95.193.16 (10.95.193.16)  0.361 ms  0.345 ms  0.327 ms
 3  po10.syd-g1-a72.routers.ovh.net (103.5.14.226)  0.306 ms  0.293 ms  0.271 ms
 4  po1.syd-g2-a72.routers.ovh.net (103.5.14.225)  0.257 ms  0.238 ms  0.214 ms
 5  15169.syd.equinix.com (45.127.172.73)  0.390 ms  0.369 ms  0.344 ms
 6  108.170.247.50 (108.170.247.50)  0.943 ms 108.170.247.34 (108.170.247.34)  1.329 ms 108.170.247.51 (108.170.247.51)  0.993 ms

O_O

bwDraco

I'm kinda surprised (and pleased) that Lenovo keeps pushing all these firmware updates. The patch notes are really cryptic, though.

In an earlier update...

May 22 at 3:13, by bwDraco

> Patch for DCI security issue.

scmagazine.com/…

JTAG over USB, WTF?

Bob

04:10

root@hel:~# man dig
bash: man: command not found

halp

I can't RTFM :(

@bwDraco so... more hysteria over nothing

> An attacker could change the BIOS configuration (for example, with a use of a Flash programmator)

As Raymond would say, they're already on the other side of the airtight hatchway.

bwDraco

Well, all bets are off when the attacker has physical access.

Bob

Forget debugging interfaces. Nothing stopping your attacker from replacing the CPU, or the motherboard, as a whole at tat point.

Unless the debug interface is enabled by default in which case I'll call it a dodgy OEM. But that's not what they're claiming here?

bwDraco

Then again, the fact that Lenovo actually patched this out of the firmware can only be a good thing.

@Bob It is enabled by default.

Bob

Dodgy OEM then.

bwDraco

> As the researchers found, this can be accomplished in several ways, and on many computers, DCI is enabled out-of-the-box and not blocked by default.

@Bob Have you tried /usr/man or /usr/bin/man? It's possible PATH is screwed.

Bob

04:21

@bwDraco no, it was quite literally not installed :P

bwDraco

wat.

Bob

I'm surprised there's no tcpping package

bwDraco

(not uncommon with lean server images, though)

Journeyman Geek

o0

@Bob debbootstrap?

bwDraco

I spend a while updating and cleaning up my gold master image, removing a whole bunch of extraneous stuff like GTK+, last week. This also involved going from openSUSE Leap 42.2 to 42.3.

The gold master updates are typically done on a separate instance and take about one hour. With hourly billing on Linode, the cost is minimal.

linode.com/docs/platform/linode-images

(actually, it's currently 1.2 GB; it was previously about 1.4 GB)

Bob

04:26

@JourneymanGeek probably similar - it was an lxd image

user226528

05:28

What the hell is wrong with the American tech industry?

user226528

theverge.com/2017/8/5/16101978/…

user226528

Once upon a time Americans had discrimination through direct discrimination and now they are having discrimination through anti-discrimination! Can't they just stop paying attention to one's gender and go to work?

Journeyman Geek

05:57

@FleetCommand no cuz politics

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Crotch-minded politics. ;)

rahuldottech

06:30

@FleetCommand That's... old news

@BenN That review is impressive :)

djsmiley2k

07:06

> What the hell is wrong with the American

ftfy

Burgi

07:51

morning

back to the grindstone :(

djsmiley2k

:O

Has the bad smell left manchester yet @Burgi ?

We've got muck spreading going on here atm, funny when a few people posted on the facebook group asking what the smell was, and most of the residents responded with 'welcome to the countryside!'

Burgi

i live about 500 metres from a sewerage plant so i can never tell either way

user226528

What would have happened if the Dragon Age world had smartphones? I think their chantry would have said: "Android must serve human, not rule over him."

user226528

They wouldn't say the same thing about iOS because, iOS would only be present in the Tevinter empire! ;)

user226528

And instead of the Circle of Magi, they would have had the Circle of Jailbreakers and Rooters.

djsmiley2k

08:10

@Burgi ah ok

yawn

@Burgi United Utilities iirc?

Burgi

yeah

djsmiley2k

some how they are worse than STW. not sure how tbh

djsmiley2k

08:41

k work is strangely... non-active

/me wibbles

djsmiley2k

10:12

The non-activity continues.

Oliver Salzburg

You can break it by telling me how Microsoft wants me to handle spam on an O365 group

Because, apparently, they don't

djsmiley2k

Don't want you to handle it?

I'm not even sure what a O365 group is

Burgi

rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/11/no-mans-sky-atlas-rises

Oliver Salzburg

That would be a problem :D

Burgi

OMG!

a reason to play it again!

djsmiley2k

10:40

almost tempted to pick it up cheap now

hahaha nah I'll wait

Burgi

£15 is a fair price tbh

djsmiley2k

it may have a ok single player eventually, which is all I ever wanted in a game.

yeah it is

I don't have £15 tho

o_O

Yikes.

Some how when i was updating one rule, the firewall added a rule for any - any drop

as the first rule -_-;

Bob

10:55

@OliverSalzburg wouldn't it be individually filtered in each mailbox? or is that not how groups work?

<== still using distribution lists

djsmiley2k

11:25

<<=== still using pigeons

Oliver Salzburg

11:44

@Bob They are different now. With O365 groups you get an actual folder with all mails for that group and you get them individually

...in your personal mailbox

I would like to block a specific sender (because that is the pinnacle of spam protection offered through Exchange) for that group. But there is no option to do that

djsmiley2k

Ice Lake? Really Intel?

Block them.... from the group?

Surely just remove them from being a member of the group?

(I'm reading the online stuff, it states that you can only send to groups when your part of the group?)

Oliver Salzburg

@djsmiley2k It's public

As in, it can receive mails from anyone

Like [email protected] or [email protected]

djsmiley2k

create blocklist

add domain to blocklist

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt842200(v=exchg.150).aspx

appently? (me srhugs)

Oliver Salzburg

11:59

Yeah, that would be the insane (but probably only) approach

If it's not a button in Outlook, it's too much hassle :P

djsmiley2k

it seems to be the official approach.

it's not a button.

Outlook wasn't designed for this.

Oliver Salzburg

Meh

Well, thanks anyway :)

djsmiley2k

:D

I'm supprised you can't just right click and mark as spam tho

or 'move to junk' as they cutely put it

Oliver Salzburg

Email is really the weak point of the entire Exchange/Outlook setup

Which is understandable, as this is cutting-edge tech

DavidPostill

@OliverSalzburg lol

allquixotic

12:05

someone is going to make a company named Contoso someday and sue MSFT for trademark infringement

DavidPostill

> William Fox is listed as fired for having used personal devices in a working environment

I'm surprised all the William Fox' haven't already sued MS ;)

allquixotic

@DavidPostill Geez, that's strict -- if you can't use personal devices in a working environment, nobody would be left at my company

DavidPostill

> On April 1, 2011, an April Fool's Day joke from Google Enterprise said that Contoso abandoned many of Microsoft's technologies in favor of Google Apps.[9] The joke was a response to the 2010 whitepaper listed above. In response to this joke, the Why Microsoft blog responded saying that Contoso was lured back from Google by promises of "proven cost savings".[10]

@allquixotic I suppose it is understandable if you work for a bank or some 3LA

djsmiley2k

we support a large bakers

thhey have to leave all loose belongings in a locker before entering the production areas.

having a phone on em would be instant dismissal

well, maybe not instant, but certainly not gooooooood

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Same for me when I worked at Sainburys

Couldn't have any money in my pockets either. Only a boxcutter :)

djsmiley2k

12:13

what you work as?

DavidPostill

I did get permission to carry a Swiss Army when my job changed to occasionally dismantling and building shelving :)

djsmiley2k

I worked in safeways/morrisons.

Was never meant to have Cash on me, but regularly did

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Merchandising Controller

djsmiley2k

Shelf stacking?

I was expecting you to say baker... ;D

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k To start with yes. Then stock taking/changing shelf stickers/new layouts/rebuilding the shop/doing the special stuff like Christmas, Easter, summer, Halloween, etc

djsmiley2k

12:16

fun

DavidPostill

I got bored making space for Christmas and then putting it all back to normal afterwards. Repeat for Easter ... so I left.

djsmiley2k

the stores of the future will just have shelving units which come outta the floor/celing!

DavidPostill

Did it for 4 years. Didn't like the new line manager. Old one got terminated for shop lifting!

djsmiley2k

lo

DavidPostill

He got caught leaving a trolley full of stuff in the area for staff purchases and then wheeling it out later. Silly bugger was reasonably well paid as well. He had apparently been doing it for some time.

I used to enjoy catching shop lifters - but I didn't get that one :)

There was one old lady that got caught when she fainted. She had put a frozen chicken under her hat ... ;)

Journeyman Geek

12:24

0_0

djsmiley2k

a whole one?!

Meh I used to be able to spot shoplifters

rahuldottech

12:43

Hello

I did a sex thing!

DavidPostill

lol

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill remember the sponsorship guy? I was told to email the dude's assistant and ask for an appointment. I did so, she never replied

I was kinda hoping that they'd keep it today, but it's too late now

I have an exam on Friday, so tomorrow won't work out

djsmiley2k

this is life @rahuldottech, keep at it

rahuldottech

And I have to stay after school till late on Friday :/

djsmiley2k

just mean you've got more time to work on preparing

DavidPostill

12:46

@rahuldottech And the connection to sex is?

rahuldottech

Yep

@DavidPostill none

Two very arbitrary facts

DavidPostill

Hmm

Avery

@rahuldottech telegram

Bob

13:03

@OliverSalzburg huh. so ... where's the space taken? like, which account gets its quota used?

XKCD

I was thinking of observing stars to verify Einstein's theory of relativity again, but I gotta say, that thing is looking pretty solid at this point.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob No idea. I assumed it's free. Like all those other small areas where you currently get free service because they haven't figured it out yet :P

Like, people are used to having an SMTP connector in their Exchange for all their on-prem crap that needs to send email. Now they have O365, what to do?

Of course O365 offers them as well, but now you basically have an open email relay on the web

Bob

oh god

Oliver Salzburg

Which you're supposed to close up through static IP address validations or client certs

Bob

@OliverSalzburg remember the headphone noise near a phone?

Oliver Salzburg

13:12

But you can supply a CIDR, so everything goes

Bob

I just heard it. With a wireless headset.

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Of course

djsmiley2k

the gsm signaling thing?

Bob

...turns out it came from the other end of this mumble chat :P

djsmiley2k

:D

Oliver Salzburg

13:12

lol

djsmiley2k

duur durr det det det duur duuur

Bob

I was like

oh, not this again

waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

aren't I on wireless

Oliver Salzburg

So I now have a "free" SMTP server to send all the mails I want, while I have to pay good money at mailgun for the same service

Well, in theory anyway, because the whole thing doesn't work right now

But I'm expecting to hear back from support within this month

I'll send them a reminder right now...

djsmiley2k

13:30

the support takes..... a month?

Oliver Salzburg

Well, 24h so far

Which is already 24h too much for my taste

allquixotic

I like sticks

Pick peck peckpick peck pick

djsmiley2k

o_O

that was a fun fire alarm break

allquixotic

13:52

O_o}}}

waves = cartoonish "stunned" special fx

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

WQHEN IS the eclipse

djsmiley2k

@allquixotic coming outta your eye?

allquixotic

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere lmgtfy.com/?q=WQHEN+is+the+eclipse

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

uhh no no no

here's a stick, and I'm outta here

djsmiley2k

14:20

o/

rahuldottech

Debian Linux was officially announced by Ian Murdock on 16th August 1993 - Exactly 24 years ago!

djsmiley2k

14:40

hurrar!

Burgi

brilliant...

our new firewall blocks windows update

djsmiley2k

it sounds like it blocks everything

You want to get some real IT there.

Burgi

i also might have to get a twitter account just to get some support on this umbraco crap

djsmiley2k

15:01

nuke it \o./

or pay someone

Burgi

the customer has specified the tech in this instance

djsmiley2k

ew

rahuldottech

15:27

REDNEX!

djsmiley2k

o?

Avery

Next 24 hours, every RT this gets, I put $1 in a pot for @simonwiesenthal, @NAACP, @TransEquality and @splcenter, up to $10k. You know why.

Tweeted by scalzi on August 16, 2017 at 1:55 PM

doesn't hurt to RT

djsmiley2k

wait what it's wednesday?

DavidPostill

> What makes this eclipse extra special is that it is the first time since the total solar eclipse of January 11, 1880 that a total solar eclipse will occur exclusively over the continental United States—no other country will see totality, though many countries will see a partial eclipse of the Sun.

Because of these reasons, the eclipse is also being called the Great American Eclipse.

djsmiley2k

oh that explains the name at least

huh interesting

Oliver Salzburg

15:36

@Avery Yes, I know why. To get publicity on your Twitter account

djsmiley2k

might be able to see it up 'orth at sunset

Oliver Salzburg

If the person cares so much, why aren't they simply donating the money?

Avery

@OliverSalzburg yeah no

djsmiley2k

yeah yeah

I mean I rt stuff like that, just to cost people money, because \o/

I don't have spare money :(

Avery

you can't blame people for adding interactivity to their donations

they could and likely would not donate

they'll now donate more than 5k

that's pretty good in my book.

Bob

15:38

> Backblaze is looking for a Front End Developer

Our Front End Developer must be proficient in:

HTML, ReactJS
UTF-8, Java Properties, and Localized HTML (Backblaze runs in 11 languages!)
JavaScript, CSS, Ajax
jQuery, Bootstrap
JSON, XML
Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
Basic SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them
Learning about third party marketing and sales tools through reading documentation. Our systems include Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Salesforce, and Hubspot

=> backblaze.com/blog/wanted-front-end-developer

Oliver Salzburg

@Avery I simply find the message "Here is something very important that everyone should care about and I will even put my own money where my mouth is - but only if you RT this lol" unappealing

But, you have a point

Bob

They're also apparently looking for a "Automation Systems Administrator" :P

Avery

> JSON, XML

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k 3.3% coverage is not worth bothering :)

Avery

{"message": "I am quite proficient in JSON"}

DavidPostill

15:40

Bob

@Avery Yay! Go apply! :P

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill ah yus true

Avery

reminds me of bash.org/?400459

> <Sonium> someone speak python here?
<lucky> HHHHHSSSSSHSSS
<lucky> SSSSS
<Sonium> the programming language

DavidPostill

And in other news: Rise of the cat rustler: Up to 360,000 moggies have been stolen in a year with Bengals top of thieves' list :/

Burgi

@DavidPostill thats just a cloudy day!

djsmiley2k

15:59

@Bob sounds like me

Sigh

I keep thinking how good i t would be to level our lawn

then i realise how much work it is and I'm sad

Bob

@djsmiley2k backblaze.com/blog/wanted-automation-systems-administrator if you want

> Responsibilities:

Develop and deploy automated provisioning & updating of systems
Lead projects across a range of IT disciplines
Understand environment thoroughly enough to administer/debug any system
Participate in the 24×7 on-call rotation and respond to alerts as needed

> Requirements:

Expert knowledge of automated provisioning
Expert knowledge of Linux administration (Debian preferred)
Scripting skills
Experience in automation/configuration management
Position based in the San Mateo, California Corporate Office

djsmiley2k

> Position based in the San Mateo, California Corporate Office

no thankey

I Am A Bot

@bwDraco Sorry Dave, but I can't do that.

Circus Cat

Urgh my phone seems to have un-rooted itself

Oh wait maybe encrypting it broke root

bwDraco

16:15

roar

##/funnyfails

I Am A Bot

Burgi

> Eh our kid, apparently our Manc accents are the sexiest in the country. I know, it’s dead good that innit.

source

bwDraco

Here's an interesting new SSD from Corsair. It's a mostly vanilla Phison design but it's set up more like an enterprise drive, with high overprovisioning and endurance: anandtech.com/show/11602/…

Not that it's a stellar performer in consumer workloads given the price.

var firstName

16:35

Holy crap

just got 300 rep in <1day

First time ever

bwDraco

In other storage news, new Samsung portable SSD uses faster USB bridge and adds TRIM support while leveraging new 64-layer 3D NAND.

NotAdmin Dave

16:53

looks like the crazies are going to be visiting my city again here soon.

bwDraco

TIL PowerShell contains a replacement for the defrag command, Optimize-Volume.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Optimize-Volume -Analyze C -Verbose
VERBOSE: Invoking analysis on Windows (C:)...
VERBOSE: Analysis:  0% complete...
VERBOSE: Analysis:  5% complete...
VERBOSE: Analysis:  6% complete...
VERBOSE: Analysis:  7% complete...
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rofl

djsmiley2k

That's a bit.... erm.... verbose

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