@Tanner Oh, and to be fair, I once got asked to fix a broken electric pencil sharpener. And printers break more than they work. So it's not always a broken computer.
@HopelessN00b Oh god our printer setup... i Series outq --> barcode program --> back to outq --> print session emulator --> Citrix universal printer --> local printer
@Cole Your ego is too high. I asked a simple question. Should not be so hard to give a simple answer. I will not beg you to help. you are not an expert computer.. You have high ego. I came to this website to get help. You're not helping. Also you talk to smb for people. I gave up. I don't want your help. thanks..
@Tanner Last job was in manufacturing. That's how barcode printing was when I started. I switched half of it to Windows software, got half as many trouble tickets for labels not printing.
Does anyone have a good reason (besides laziness/not wanting to deal with it) to only install "required" Windows Updates to servers, and not "optional" ones?
Ugh this morning I got out of bed and my brain was like "HOW DO LEGS WORK?" and my legs were like "LOLIDK" so I stumbled and stubbed my toe. fml it still hurts.
@ewwhite Well, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Wastes a lot of time, but better than the never-entertain-new-ideas-or-products approach my corporate overlords employ.
I have a Barracuda 300. Granted it's running on some old firmware and the Energize updates are quite outdated. I'd like to update them, but, not my financial decision to do so.
Starting around the first of the year, our Barracuda began tagging a rather large amount of emails (that were normall...
@ewwhite Well that's a highly subjective and unanswerable question, innit? Barracuda's certainly got the better rep. Then again, there's a link to a free trial on blahtitan's page... so they could always try blahtitan before going with Barracuda, if they really wanted.
I mean, you could find a review/comparison out there to go either way, if you applied yourself to finding the result you wanted.... but at the end of the day, the better one will be the one their IT guy knows better.
@MichaelHampton it's all about how quickly they update their definitions I guess. I'm utterly disappointed with trend as antivirus as they seem to be consistently last
@DennisKaarsemaker There's a little more to it than that, but yeah. Being first out with a crappy definition, or a definition that tries to disinfect explorer.exe doesn't help a whole lot.
@HopelessN00b People have been mentally maturing at roughly the same rate for most of human history. But reproductive bits and pieces are maturing at younger ages due to a constant stream of "healthy" foods (though excess tests to cause accelerated results). At the same time, we're holding back the title of "adult" until the oldest ages in recorded history... Prompts the question, what should we be doing?
Nobody does this. Primarily because AMD's OpenCL implementation requires the program to be running under the local X session, rather than simply on the computer with the GPU. So you can forget about mining Bitcoins on someone else's computer... — Michael Hampton8 secs ago
You can't create a COM object from a remote powershell session. Windows throws a securityexception. Internet trawling reveals that you just can't do that sort of thing remotely, COM won't let you
Issue: High load average is observed after installing kernel 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6. The high load average is caused by xfsaild going into D state for each XFS formatted device.
Resolution (LOL): There is currently no resolution for this issue. It is currently being tracked via Bugzilla #883905.
So I'm just stuck with a big load.
Artificially-high load, that is... @pauksa Any thoughts on this?
What should we be doing? Not trusting government with making those kinds of important distinctions, seeing as how they couldn't do a worse job if they were trying.
That said, my comment was more along the lines of... ~"well, I've seen preteens flashing `the shocker`, and even more disturbingly, knowing what it meant, so maybe that girl was actually going for what we're all seeing..."
At a crossroads... I need to deploy three new customer systems... (CentOS), and XFS is wonky... ZFS is available, but read speed under this application is lower...
@ewwhite If you can actually show it causing performance problems, then perhaps Red Hat will act a bit faster on it. They seem to think it doesn't cause performance problems and is a minor reporting issue.
I need to display the first N lines of the output of a command (any command).
In other words, I esentially want an equivalent of the Unix "head" command.
After discovering a few tricks from some other user (sorry don't remember who it was), I came up with this:
tasklist | find /N " " | findstr /...
I came back today, at my usual time, to run through the review sections in the ServerFault SE. Today I noted that over 270 first posts were indicated as being in the first posts queue. I am generally up-to-date and have not found that many in a single day. This is VERY unusual and seemingly to...
Note to self - Don't trust others to set your maintenance windows for you. They will schedule every DNS server in the datacenter to reboot all at once.
@Cole Well, TBH, you don't really need to know/remember the FSMO roles. When you need to know, you'll know you need to know. And then you hit up Google.. or the documentation.
@Cole You're thinking about it all wrong. Clearly God doesn't want us to remember things. If he did, he wouldn't have invested pen and paper... or alcohol.
A good example of a real-world problem where knowing your FSMOs would come in handy - say you have a bunch of workstations. Person A cannot log on even though they normally log on to that workstation every day. Person B comes along and logs into it just fine. That might set it off in your mind that maybe Person A's password has expired, but they can't update it, because the DC holding the ________ FSMO role is down.
Or, all of a sudden, administrators are unable to create new user account objects or OUs only on one domain controller, while they can still create new objects on another domain controller. That's because the _______ FSMO role is down. :)
@Cole 1.) Directory Services Systems Engineer at Verizon Business. 2.) I have no life and read MS-Press books for fun. And also I love AD specifically. 3.) Only about 4 years.
Can two rc4 encoded messages be XORed and decrypted if encrypted with the same key?
This is more of a programming question. If I have the following:
E1 = RC4(M1, K);
E2 = RC4(M2, K);
If two different messages M1 and M2 are encrypted with the same key, K, can the key be recovered by doing:
...
So you'd have transient group membership issues (possibly) in the domains where the IM was on a GC depending on which server was giving out the user's tokens
I get the feeling one of our agencies might leave because we (specifically the IT department) "sucks". They like me personally... but overall they don't like our system and how hard it is to reach anybody. Anybody have an idea how I can bring this up without sounding like an asshole?
@Tanner "I get the feeling that $customer is very unhappy, because $reason. I just thought I should bring this to your attention before we lose them for good"
To your manager or their account manager, or however you're structured.
@Cole Sorry for the delay... realized I should have been back from lunch almost an hour ago. This is the site I bookmark. Lists all the FSMO roles and a breif description of what the role actually is.
@MichaelHampton Bah, it's purely (or ought to be) a legacy cipher at this point. Its cumulative weaknesses make it unjustifiable as a choice in a new system.
I have a Barracuda 300. Granted it's running on some old firmware and the Energize updates are quite outdated. I'd like to update them, but, not my financial decision to do so.
Starting around the first of the year, our Barracuda began tagging a rather large amount of emails (that were normall...
I came back today, at my usual time, to run through the review sections in the ServerFault SE. Today I noted that over 270 first posts were indicated as being in the first posts queue. I am generally up-to-date and have not found that many in a single day. This is VERY unusual and seemingly to...
Can two rc4 encoded messages be XORed and decrypted if encrypted with the same key?
This is more of a programming question. If I have the following:
E1 = RC4(M1, K);
E2 = RC4(M2, K);
If two different messages M1 and M2 are encrypted with the same key, K, can the key be recovered by doing:
...
