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Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance

12:11 PM

Agh, now I have two problems

I am NOCLIPPYtrying to match the contents of a second pair of quotes

And so the obvious choice is regex

DavidPostill

12:40 PM

lol

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12:57 PM

Is there a way to see when an answer dropped off HNQ? Timeline shows things becoming HNQ but not leaving

@bertieb link?

don't you mean question?

@JourneymanGeek Let me dig one up / reopen tabs until I find the one I closed

2 shakes of a lamb's tail

For example:

@JourneymanGeek superuser.com/posts/1453771/timeline

baa

@JourneymanGeek Yes I do

well that was only one

1:06 PM

Brainderp

@djsmiley2k oooooooh

I don't see it either

Fair enough, maybe it's not implemented as an event

I'll dig up the MSE post about that later

Are there any that have been [manually] removed from HNQ to see if that registers as event?

Sure

1:09 PM

I'm sure I did one, but I don't really remember

A: Now you can know if a question really hit the HNQ

There an MSE post about the event for it hitting HNQ

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Oh, hey, someone noticed! Indeed, you're correct. We've added a history event to both the edit history and the timeline to indicate when a question first appears on the Hot Network Questions list. This was made possible by the work Adam did recently to move where we house the HNQ list in our c...

honestly, there's so much going on whenever someone asks about a specific post...

Bison remembers Tuesday

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A: Add an audit log to record when particular question enters and leaves hot list

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As of February 28, 2019, questions that enter the Hot Network Questions list will get an entry in the revisions/post history table, with type 52. It's visible on the site itself in the revisions list: and you can use the API (and probably SEDE as well) to search for these events. There is (as...

Glor reckons not

Not sure if that applies to manual removals though

I could ask a Q on MSE about it

@bertieb at worst, someone finds a dupe XD

@JourneymanGeek Pretty much yeah

1:13 PM

(that's the first bit of 3-4 bits of drama over the last week for me XD)

Closing something as a dupe?

I feel we're much to eager to

and a few folks disagree

Which is fine

Its not a rule, its a suggestion

Sure

1:39 PM

> Why like a particular branch of music
It's just a social construct created by chicken eaters to rule the world
I can link 20 research papers confirming that liking a genre of music is what mentally unstable people do

uhhhhhhhhhh

Research shows that all serial killers consumed water

Research shows that genocidal dictators breathed air

Research shows that all thieves, from petty pickpockets to Bernie Madoff, eat food

WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Just because a research paper shows something, doesn't mean that person has any valid point

My usual subtle approach to making points notwithstanding

You will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors.

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How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012

@JourneymanGeek That's the badger

;-P

Blog bot

1:57 PM

Taryn Pratt on July 22, 2019

Putting the 2019 server into the existing 2012 cluster – as expected, this fails due to the operating systems being different

Attempted to just add it to the existing AGs when not being in a cluster – this fails because it’s not in a cluster

Created a separate single node cluster for the 2019 server and attempted to add as a replica to the AGs – this fails as well

Evict it from the existing 2012 cluster

Rebuild it with the Windows Server 2019

Create a new WSFC with one node

Install SQL Server 2017 …

djsmiley2k

2:57 PM

Lol just found I had £22 in my circle account :D

This PC's BIOS doesn't have options for RAID :(

@rahuldottech That's fine, software RAID is better anyways

@CanadianLuke yeah, but I wanted my Windows install to be on a raid config

Which apparently won't be an option now without a RAID card

3:43 PM

@rahuldottech Is it Windows 10 Core? Pro and above will support making a RAID 1...

@CanadianLuke it's enterprise, actually

I didn't know that was possible

Then yea, it supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10. Maybe even 6

Okay so there's a problem here

I'm trying to install windows on my EVO ssd

And clippy is interrupting? Yea, he does that :P

But diskpart's 'convert gpt' fails

3:47 PM

During the install?

@CanadianLuke hah, I'm on mobile rn ;p

OK

@CanadianLuke so I booted off the USB installer

Shift+F10 to open CMD

During the Install, I always just clean the disk, then run through Setup. If it's booted in UEFI mode, it should automatically try to write the disk partitions in a GPT layout

The 'clean' command works, but 'convert gpt' doesn't

@CanadianLuke hmm I think it's in UEFI mode. Lemme check.

3:48 PM

Is the computer booting the installer in Legacy (BIOS) or UEFI mode?

@CanadianLuke ugh I can't even find the relevant setting here.

Wait no

It's booting in UEFI I think

Yep definitely UEFI

> UEFI boot sources: KingstonDataTraveler

Then when you install Windows, it should automatically convert the disk to GPT. If you don't setup partitions manually and let it use the entire disk, it'll setup the partitions automatically

Either way, you want to setup RAID after Windows is installed

@CanadianLuke it won't let me install Windows

Because it says it's an MBR disk.

Did you run clean on it?

pokes @rahuldottech

3:54 PM

And then diskpart won't let me convert it either

@CanadianLuke yeah, it's the first thing I do

@Burgi ouch. What's up?

Hmmm....

clean should wipe the drive's partition table. What's the issue?

Oh wow

need you in matrix

It worked when I ran clean a second time

@Burgi gimme a sec

3:55 PM

You may have still been booting in Legacy mode when you ran clean the first time...?

@CanadianLuke nup, this USB doesn't even show up in legacy boot sources

OK

Oct 28 '17 at 6:55, by bwDraco

Also, lesson learned: Do not partition more than one drive when installing Windows. The installer might place the bootloader on one drive and the system on the other drive, because when you create a partition, the installer assumes that the drive you've selected is the drive you're going to install Windows on.

Exactly

CowperKettle

4:00 PM

That was exactly what went wrong when I set up Astaroth for the first time. Wound up having to do a secure erase of the second SSD in the UEFI setup (a feature of the ASUS board) and reinstall Windows.

Option 2 - Only have one storage device connected when doing the install

ARGH

> We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one

Lovely

Try my method, just to humour me... Only one device plugged in

Where is the logfile located?

X:\Windows\System32\Logs\*\*.log

4:09 PM

X:\setup.log ?

From memory

Ah, maybe that

@CanadianLuke close!

From memory for me too :P

It's \System32\LogFiles

Okay uh

No it's not this

I was close :P I'm waiting for a server to back itself up to the backup server so I can hook up the replacement server... It's taking forever

dir /ad /s "logs"

There this page docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/… but needs event viewer and aimed at hw integrators etc

4:14 PM

I have just under 1TB of data to transfer, but it feels like it's taking forever (since there's no progress bar)

0x00.to/post/2013/06/15/How-to-view-Windows-Setup-log-files

Uh

....?

Yeah this is the one

X:\Windows\panther\setupact.log

> Selected disk space is not of type ESP

No idea what this means but ok.

Did you already create an ESP?

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/… @CanadianLuke

4:19 PM

(ESP = EFI System Partition)

@bertieb uh... I did create partition primary

I mean if you converted

Can you send a screenshot of your disk layout?

Q: Windows refusing to install due to ESP formatted as NTFS

ISTR something about Windows creating stuff on conversion from non-EFI

Related maybe?

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After converting my MBR disk to GPT when the only partition left is an NTFS partition, I can't install Windows because the partition is marked as EFI System Partition. The guides I found recommend to just remove all partition, but I need the data in that partition and I don't have the time nor sp...

Sorry about the quality

@CanadianLuke

4:28 PM

OK, run diskpart's clean command, refresh the disk, then try again. Let Windows setup its partitions

@CanadianLuke okay. I also just unplugged every other drive

Good. Now, let us know if it installs

@CanadianLuke it worked!

Thank you so much!

No problem

Installed created three extra partitions and then it all worked :)

4:32 PM

After Windows is installed, add your other disks, and make sure the system still boots correctly. In theory, it should, since the UEFI system will look for the partition by its GUID, then load the boot loader

Then you can convert within Windows, set the disks as Dynamic, setup RAID, etc

But get Windows running first

Okey dokey :)

4:45 PM

OH C'MON

Now windows won't accept my activation key!

It starts with three zeroes and it won't even let me enter a zero as the first character in the prompt

Shoot me

djsmiley2k

o_O

0 or O

Whew okay it worked

@djsmiley2k according to "system" on my previous install it started with a 0

But I used produkey to see the BIOS key and it was different. Used that to activate and it worked

Whew.

5:15 PM

Odd. If you've previously activated Windows on this system, select I don't have a product key during installation. Windows should pull your digital license from Microsoft's servers and activate itself.

^^^

(been there, done that; went through this with Astaroth)

Even with a quite different drive layout?

It looks at hardware, not the volumes on them.

I though Rahul was installing on a new SSD with other drives disconnected though

5:29 PM

At the time, Astaroth had two disks, one NVMe, one SATA, with nearly identical sizes.

I know that it looks at other stuff than storage too

And it's less likely to obstinately refuse /lose activation because you swapped out a bad stick of RAM

@bertieb I think that's a small enough hardware change to pass activation automatically. It's only when there's a large hardware change (multiple components) that you might run into trouble.

Sure

That makes sense

But OTOH

> Windows

> Makes sense

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Speakin' on SSDs

I really should get around to installing the 1TB 860