Root Access

Journeyman Geek

12:03 AM

ASTOUND?

HAVE YOU DUG DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF MUNDANITY TO SEEK THE LAGOMORPH OF AWESOMENESS?

Recycle Bin

damn robots.txt

oldmud0

12:26 AM

@JourneymanGeek Looks really interesting. I hope they get press attention in the very near future to put the system to the test.

Only catch would be that it's Linux only atm

And apache only, not nginx

Journeyman Geek

@oldmud0: supports ngnix I think

not lighttpd support

which sucks

Supports multiple web servers:

    apache/2.x (tested and working on Ubuntu Linux)
    nginx/0.8.48+ (under development)
    standalone (runs its own simple webserver to prove you control a domain)

oldmud0

12:43 AM

no windows though :(

Journeyman Geek

Its still new

oldmud0

Noted

Bob

1:08 AM

O_O

reddit.com/r/lgg4/comments/3q1qgr/…

HackToHell

4:23 AM

Annnd disk is throwing I/O errors

WTF

DragonLord

4:38 AM

Wanted to bring back an old question I asked a while back shortly after I upgraded to Windows 10:

Jul 30 at 0:46, by DragonLord

Your thoughts: Do the Windows 10 Task View and desktop compositing effects feel a bit like Compiz on Linux?

Jul 30 at 23:01, by DragonLord

The Windows 10 desktop has more eye candy than ever. The minimize, restore, and maximize animations are more sophisticated than before and the Task View animations feels like Compiz.

Journeyman Geek

donno

I never used compiz ;p

On one hand.

-1

A: Switch to 64bit Win 10 on a system that was upgraded from Win 7 and has new hardware.

Hardware vs. Software: Make SURE to keep hardware. OMG - Like I DID invent p.i.r.a.c.y. Pay you way, money is NOTHING!!!! Super, if you have a functional system do what it should -- money is NOTHING !!! Super,

Not an answer. On the other, well, Its probably going to get downvoted to oblivion.

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4:58 AM

>Show Me! Flashy Win-7 Upgrade to stick in your file-folder license? The Type that BLINDS you? Print-PDF or just call 1-800 ???

Journeyman Geek

._.

looks around for a mod

Leathe

@JourneymanGeek but how does he have 375 points o.O

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lol

Journeyman Geek

@Leathe: his other answers arn't as strange

Leathe

That's even more confusing

awww. you deleted it :(

Journeyman Geek

5:01 AM

anyway, cleared things up

Yeah ;p

I would typically leave it for another mod, but this seems to be 'my' shift ;p

(since I answered)

Leathe

His comment in Moses' answer is really confusing, too

I mean.. I get it.. but

Bob

creative cloud might just be the absolute buggiest piece of software I've ever used

It's crashed and restarted 3+ times (each time telling me the damn thing has been updated to the latest version in a balloon) while trying to update some of the subprograms

Journeyman Geek

@Leathe: I don't ;p

Leathe

@JourneymanGeek I'm assuming he's talking about Microsoft in the sense of mother earth

it doesn't ask for permission when it does something, it just does.

Journeyman Geek

5:17 AM

Windows 7 licences don't expire.

support does

Leathe

well then he's just an idiot

Journeyman Geek

but I can still do a fresh install of..

erm

XP?

Leathe

I don't even know

Journeyman Geek

XP's the oldest OS to have activation

Leathe

(it's not really fair to call him/her an idiot, but some of his/her stuff is reaaallly confusing/messed up)

Journeyman Geek

5:21 AM

heh

Mod rule 0. Deal with the actions, not the people.

;p

allquixotic

@Bob yup, it's crap

Journeyman Geek

(Occationally indulgent mod rule 0. Let the community deal with stuff sometimes ;p)

Leathe

So, user rule 0. don't be a mod so you can deal with people (and stuff, sometimes)? :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

SU has roughly enough mods that I can occationally go "the hell with it" and take a week or two off ;p

But yes, that is a great idea ;p

Bob

5:58 AM

This BS.

I've just about had enough of Google's absolutely braindead policies.

Leathe

6:10 AM

that's.. literally upvoting yourself for attention

Bob

I just spent over an hour trying to figure out how to (a) change the name and (b) remove crap from the "feed".

I don't know how they could possibly have made this less usable.

"Channel tips: first impressions matter"

Well isn't this an absolutely terrible first impression by Google?

productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/neyuMQCVLSk

The "Unpublish from channel's feed" button literally does nothing.

HackToHell

6:51 AM

Oh look I got 100 gb of storage on Drive

Apparently it's bundled with my phone

Journeyman Geek

7:03 AM

That's pretty common now

a year innit?

HackToHell

7:21 AM

2 years apparently

The space dissipates after 2 years ?

groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/api-craft/kThABXVC2KU

Journeyman Geek

yeah

Bob

7:36 AM

shrug

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: The thread makes my head hurt

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Which thread?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: the one you linked

maybe I'm spoiled but so many me toos

HackToHell

And I think the disks failed

Screw softlayer

Bob

7:53 AM

@JourneymanGeek Well, this is a thread asking Google to do something.

And I just created another one: productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/youtube/MAvpeObFzGg/…

Not really expecting much in the way of an answer.

Google is probably the absolute worst company to actually deal with.

At least you can talk to someone with Microsoft (thousands of useless MVPs notwithstanding).

@OliverSalzburg's had experience with their business side of things too, and that didn't look good.

Journeyman Geek

lol

ahh

yeah

Bob

I still have my 2-year 48 GB Dropbox bonus from my S4.

And 1 TB on OneDrive.

Now... if I could actually upload this much that'd be great.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

8:40 AM

Hm. I get my SMSes from eBay, Yahoo, Microsoft, Steam and Adobe all from the same number.

HackToHell

8:55 AM

Bleh, only one company has a tempered screen guard with the proper holes for the sensors and it's bloody expensive

DavidPostill

9:21 AM

@HackToHell Well they are supposedly bullet-proof ;)

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Q: IBM Hard Drive inside of a Dell latitude D600

I had my IBM ThinkPad fry out on me so doing research I had found a Dell latitude D600 Laptop for sale. The Dell latitude was working very slow so I did a factory reset and found myself in computer management one day and apparently changed the wrong settings because it completely lock the whole s...

I don't see any question in that question :/

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9:36 AM

Dang vandalism

Antony Lee, Hong Kong

611 3 14

windows-7 linux networking windows delete windows-8 wireless-networking

He's vandalizing his posts

Journeyman Geek

erm

I'm aware of that

rofl. Feel free to roll back any I missed ._.

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Can you ask him to chat?

Journeyman Geek

We're dealing with it

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How? Is there something he needs help with?

Journeyman Geek

>_>

seekrit mod stuff?

DavidPostill

9:46 AM

@Clearquestionwithexamples "This account is temporarily suspended to cool down. The suspension period ends in 23 hours. "

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yea

@DavidPostill It's funny but he wants to know why his computer is slow

DavidPostill

@Clearquestionwithexamples That's @JourneymanGeek applying a rolled up newspaper ;)

Journeyman Geek

>_>

@DavidPostill: actually, its a bit more like putting the puppy in a fenced off space, while we work out why he does toilet on the floor.

Right now, I'm working out the latter.

Anyway...

DavidPostill

@Clearquestionwithexamples "he wants to know why his computer is slow" where did you see that?

@JourneymanGeek lol

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He didn't explicitly say it but "Now the latitude is working with the ThinkPad hard drive but everything in my task manager says it's running and the whole system is very slow. "

DavidPostill

9:52 AM

@Clearquestionwithexamples Ah. I thought you were talking about the user whose cooling off ;) Now I realise it was about the question I linked to.

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lol I saw this on SR earlier and flagged it as reposting superuser.com/questions/991276/…

It was just deja vu

DavidPostill

LOL

"Yes sophisticated data hacks happen, I know about them. But the bank and the country I live in don't have that much level of sophistication. My PC already has a bunch of viruses(the in-built incompetent Anti virus notifies me of them from time to time). "

This guy works in a bank.

Journeyman Geek

I'm tempted to ask what bank.

DavidPostill

Me too

"You really think the customer data can be hacked from a single computer or can be accessed by a run of a mill virus. "

!!/yes

ChatBot John Cavil

DavidPostill

10:05 AM

@JourneymanGeek After a bit of google-fu I'm 99.99% sure it's an Indian bank.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill: >_>

@DavidPostill: the cricket related username would be a givaway

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lol he was rejecting my edits

Journeyman Geek

did I miss any?

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-2

Q: please delete as it is -1 rating

please delete as it is -1 rating.

delete

Can that rejection be removed from my record?

Journeyman Geek

no need

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10:10 AM

Why?

Journeyman Geek

takes 2 votes to reject or approve

So, there was no rejection, only zuul

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It says I have a rejection

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/454597

Journeyman Geek

@Clearquestionwithexamples: caching?

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/454618

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No, that's a different review

Journeyman Geek

blah

There's no way I see to undo a rejected suggested edit.

Sorry

Journeyman Geek

11:08 AM

I was watching a video on hackaday...

and I saw this

@terdon ping

any luck with the windows 10 install?

terdon

@JourneymanGeek Haven't started yet. Damn, I am not looking forward to this, it will be a pain.

Journeyman Geek

@terdon: download the media for windows 7 directly, install and activate, then hit it with the update tool.

terdon

Any nifty tools I can use to make my life easier? I mean, will it be possible to drop to Windows 7 without loosing settings at least?

Journeyman Geek

I did that for a SERIOUSLY annoyingly malfed up install

in theory? Yes

In practice, backup first?

terdon

Yes, of course, but how does the theory go?

Journeyman Geek

11:10 AM

I back up

and I haven't really done any downgrades

terdon

Damn, on Linux I'd just save the list of installed packages and leave my /home untouched. Sigh.

Journeyman Geek

lol

terdon

@JourneymanGeek What should I backup to get the settings?

Are they even compatible between 7 and 10?

Journeyman Geek

your /user/username folder is essentially /home

terdon

OK, so I'll be able to copy whatever the equivalent of dotfiles are back?

Journeyman Geek

11:12 AM

yeah

%appdata% is your 'own' config files for things

(I typically build 'disposable' installs so... I'm not too sure)

terdon

OK, and Windows actually keeps compatibility between releases?

Wow.

Journeyman Geek

typically? kiiiinda

terdon

heh

Journeyman Geek

practically? All this is per program

terdon

@JourneymanGeek Ideally, I'd like to keep things like mapped network drives since they were a bit of a pain to set up. Will that work?

Journeyman Geek

11:15 AM

erm

terdon

Damn.

Journeyman Geek

if you don't do a wipe?

Probably

I don't map drives tho

terdon

How can I not do a wipe?

Journeyman Geek

when installing it'll ask

2 of my 7 -> installs upgrades

terdon

@JourneymanGeek Oh, you mean I install from within Windows 10, not by booting off the CD?

Journeyman Geek

11:16 AM

oh to revert?

You can erm...

supposedly do something with your windows.old folder

terdon

Lol. Sounds like I'd better do a fresh install, really.

Journeyman Geek

howtogeek.com/220723/…

To me? Smart money's on 1) do a windows 7 install. 2) ~~salt to taste~~ customise to taste 3) Backup (using something like macrium reflect free if its a one off or veem for persistant backups) 4) install windows 10 as an upgrade

if it cheeses you off, backup windows 10 (or whatever you need from there, so %appdata) restore the last backup, move %appdata% back

terdon

Yeah, I think the clean install will probably be best. Oh man.

Why do you suggest customizing the 7 instead of doing it all on the 10?

Journeyman Geek

If you're going back to 7, the backup will be mostly set up

If you're sure you're going to 10, the hell with it.

terdon

@JourneymanGeek I'm going to 64-bit 10, yes.

Journeyman Geek

11:28 AM

Actually

I'm just about to upgrade a windows 7 VM ._.

terdon

Have fun :)

Journeyman Geek

Its on KVM

APPARENTLY it'll fail unless the processor is set to be coreduo

terdon

Right, back in a bit, have to fix an arch install. At least, there, I sort of know what I'm doing :) Thanks for the help JMG.

Journeyman Geek

feel free to ping me in the next 5 hours or so if you need help ;)

Bob

11:45 AM

@terdon There's two sets of settings.

The user-specific settings are in two places.

%AppData% (default %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming) is the recommended place to put settings-as-files.

%UserProfile%\ntuser.dat contains the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive of the registry.

Technically, MS recommends that applications all use their own file storage and not the registry, the registry being for OS settings and classes.

Of course, many don't listen.

Then there's the system settings.

You've got %ProgramData% as the preferred location.

%CommonProgramFiles% has a bit of a fun story involving unintended uses and backwards compat.

And the system-wide registry is stored in %SystemRoot%\System32\config.

HackToHell

Oh, we ordered 16 gb of ram, guess how much was provisioned ? ;p

Bob

hm

I know there's tier 1 and tier 3 support.

But I've never heard anyone mention tier 2, for some reason.

DavidPostill

12:04 PM

@Bob I used to be T2 support. T1 was front line call centre and dealt with non technical issues (billing, etc) and trivial technical. Non-trivial technical passed to T2 (me). Anything I couldn't fix escalated to T3. T3 was networking. It all depends on how customer support is structured.

Bob

@DavidPostill Hm. Normally I (as a customer/user) reach an automated system first that'll handle routing to sales/billing/tech. Or they might even have different numbers.

So maybe I've been calling "tier 2" all this time, or maybe they just don't bother with the whole human-call-passing thing anymore and billing is just in an entirely different department in bigger companies.

DavidPostill

@Bob Like I said "It all depends on how customer support is structured."

In my case there was also a front end automated system. Lusers would always press the wrong buttons ... I would get billing and front line would get tech calls that should have gone straight to me ...

It probably also depends on the country. In the UK tech support jobs are often advertised as level 1, 2 or 3. You still have to closely read the ads to see what they really mean (especially if the ads are placed by agencies) :/

Journeyman Geek

12:19 PM

@HackToHell: 4?

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek 64 \m/

Journeyman Geek

ahh

until they notice ;p

HackToHell

Softlayer sucks, first they don't attach a SSD, then the HDD fails. The OS reinstall takes half a day. Guess what, two copies of ubuntu. Then I check to see if everything else ordered is there and look ma, much RAM

@JourneymanGeek I am going to open an ticket

HackToHell

12:48 PM

Okay apparently they did due to their policy on ram interleaving for the specific motherboard.

DummyBeginner

Hello guys. Anyone could please answer this qwquestion?
https://askubuntu.com/q/686394/25831

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Q: Changing protocol handler in google chrome, opening a Telegram link

I installed Telegram Desktop for Linux 64-bit. To join a Telegram channel, when a channel URL is opened in google chrome (e.g. telegram.me/channel_name) the browser prompts and asks which application should handle the protocol. But it has chosen xdg-open as default and there's no way to change i...

14.04 google-chrome xdg telegram protocol

DavidPostill

This is a SU chat room. Ubuntu is over there ---> chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/201/ask-ubuntu-general-room ;)

DummyBeginner

Yes, Thanks. But I tought since it's a Chrome stuff. It would be applicable here too.
Also Here's where many super users are gathered. So there's a chance some of them would be SUPER in Ubuntu too :D

Dave

1:40 PM

@HackToHell sorry you got a terribad who set you up. My friend actually built their website many years back and it's still being used today. heh

Journeyman Geek

@DummyBeginner: typically we're a general chat room. We don't really appreciate people popping and going LOOK AT MY QUESTION as much as we might...

If you're a regular, maybe. If its a horribad question... sometimes yes. Alas, since I'm a mod now, I can't go "brb downvoting any more"

also, I don't have an ubuntu/gui box anymore but...

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Q: How to set which application is launched by xdg-open?

I have run update-alternatives as well as gnome preffered apps selection thing. And all point to have chromium browser as default. Yet when I run xdg-open http://askubuntu.com firefox is launched! Similarly emacs and bzr also launch stuff in firefox instead of chromium. Are there any additional ...

chromium default-browser xdg-open

The answer seems to be you change it in gconf editor.

Dave

@JourneymanGeek theres no place like cd ~/

:)

Journeyman Geek

@Dave: lol

for some reason the download for my windows 7 -> 10 vm upgrade is slow :(

I'll likely end up leaving it overnight and hoping it dosen't fail

Dave

ive been trying to upgrade my intel atom media center with 10x all weekend.. and its slow too.

:\

Journeyman Geek

lol

If I can find a spare windows 7/8 licence (I THINK I have one), I might throw it on my old old atom box

Dave

1:56 PM

Keeps getting stuck on 'Doing a quick check before you can schedule your upgrade...' screen

Journeyman Geek

seemingly though the bottleneck for older systems is ram

ahh

updating off USB is quicker for me

but I kinda didn't bother with it on a VM I access remotely

Dave

Well its available to download via windows update, but im scared if i install it that way, i wont be able to avoid the express settings

Havent researched that :)

DavidPostill

The 4th largest UK ISP has been hacked.

TalkTalk 'knew of hacking risk A YEAR ago': Company could 'go out of business' and lose £75million after millions of customers' bank details were stolen in cyber attack

It was reported this morning that lawyers are preparing claims on behalf of thousands of customers, with each in line for a possible £1,000 payout.

Journeyman Geek

@Dave: I typically use the media creation too and make a usb for updating

works great, and is fast

DavidPostill

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3288533/…

Dave

2:00 PM

Funny, now that i mentioned it being stuck. It finally got past that one screen. If it doesnt get anywhere, ill have to do it the USB way

DavidPostill

Cyber-hacking victims' fury as they are charged £245 to leave TalkTalk and calls grow for boss to step down

Bob

> What is the penalty for speeding 140km/h in a 60km/h limit in NSW?

That seems like an oddly specific question :P

@DavidPostill Yay dailymail!

DavidPostill

@Bob More than twice the limit? Should be loss of licence and jail time ;)

Journeyman Geek

> If you are going to try it out, surely you can get faster than 140. 160 is a good target, 100mile/her.

lol

DavidPostill

Apparently it was an SQL injection ...

Dave

2:06 PM

my type of an attack vector being a dba and all

DavidPostill

I hope the developers didn't copy some of the vulnerable code from SO ;)

allquixotic

@DavidPostill Nice. You could make a decent living being a hack victim in the UK. In the US, when our details get stolen, all we get is a year of free identity theft monitoring service from one of the credit agencies (Experian, etc.).

Just register an account on every business's website (most accounts are free even if you aren't buying anything from them), then sue when they get hacked. Another business gets hacked every couple of days, so you could make thousands per month.

DavidPostill

@allquixotic LOL. Nice idea ;)

allquixotic

Bonus if your bank gets hacked: the attackers will probably drain your account as part of the hack, so you can sue for damages on the things you weren't able to buy while your account reflected $0 (they'll pay back the money you lost, and then some).

DavidPostill

What was the name of that Indian bank again? ;)

4 hours ago, by DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek After a bit of google-fu I'm 99.99% sure it's an Indian bank.

Journeyman Geek

2:28 PM

lol

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what is SO / SE written in

C#

pls dont say qbasic

(I think)

cool

2:35 PM

THey're interesting

completely MS based stack

except the load balancers

hm

and a few other things

but basically everything on the back end is windows.

I think

There's a blog post on this somewhere!

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how do you find the routers IP (external IP) with ipconfig again

Journeyman Geek

ahh

433

A: Which tools and technologies are used to build the Stack Exchange Network?

Core Stack Overflow uses a WISC stack via BizSpark (We Graduated!): Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Web Server IIS 8.5 Database SQL Server 2014 CTP2 running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R1 x64 Language C# Software Development Tools IDE Visual Studio 2015 Framework Mi...

You don't

OH

Default gateway?

Not necessarily your router that is tho

but often

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hmm my router should give me .54 or something (forgot now) which is static but it says .0.1 instead

Journeyman Geek

.254 and .0.1 are both common

so..

why not go to both?

Your router should have a config page

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they will probably be dynamic

I dont know how my router is setup exactually

my kid did it

Journeyman Geek

2:41 PM

lol

ask the kid then?

That's exactly what my dad does.

My network is soooo doomed when I move out.

2 routers, a switch and homeplug.

Recycle Bin

okay, bbl

allquixotic

3:18 PM

@Bob To fix my inability to get phone calls and data at the same time on my iPhone, I'll be pressing my old Droid Maxx from 2013 back into service with a no-contract carrier called Page Plus. They use Verizon's network, but service is way cheaper. They have pay as you go plans and other such niceties.

When all you care about is voice and text, the US has tons and tons of very high quality cellular offerings. Most of them even come with a small amount of included data that's more than enough for non-tetherers.

The only limiting factor with most of these companies is if you happen to need more than a handful of GBs of 4G data.

It's usually uneconomical.

qasdfdsaq

@JourneymanGeek Well, by definition, it is "your router", or rather, the first router used by your computer and network devices

GFSE

3:35 PM

GemsFromStackExchange: This one’s for educational purposes. Then I’m going...

posted on October 25, 2015

This one’s for educational purposes. Then I’m going to copy it and do… something else with it. But try to only think about this one!

HackToHell

4:16 PM

@Dave Probably, going to go for the rest of the servers in another Datacenter

Awal Garg

5:35 PM

Heyo

if I burn a live iso (500megs) (no persistence) to a 2 gigs usb drive, what is stopping me from using the other 1.5 gigs as a persistent FAT partition and can I not mount /home to it?

I really don't understand how this live booting works :( is there some good resource to understand the working? (I know how to live boot ofcourse, I wanna know behind the scenes)

HackToHell

5:48 PM

@AwalGarg You can do that

iirc, unetbootin allowed you to do that

Awal Garg

@HackToHell how does it compare to persistent live usbs?

GFSE

GemsFromStackExchange: At least he’s sorry.

posted on October 25, 2015

At least he’s sorry.

tereško

6:40 PM

heh, this thing looks interesting: HP Envy 34c

Leathe

6:59 PM

hmmm. my connection seems to be limited to 10/10Mbit atm

o.O

eventho I should have 100/10Mbit

can't find any notifications or news from my ISP either

Recycle Bin

7:18 PM

does win7 have active setup

Active Setup

Active Setup is a mechanism for executing commands once per user early during login. Active Setup is used by some operating system components like Internet Explorer to set up an initial configuration for new users logging on for the first time. Active Setup is also used in some corporations’ software distribution systems to create an initial customized user environment. Active Setup uses both machine-specific data and user-specific data. The machine part consists of a list of components identified by a GUID each. The user part is basically a mirror of the machine data, but it does not initially...

DavidPostill

@RecycleBin My Google-Fu says An Active Setup Primer

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useful link

DavidPostill

"You've probably seen Active Setup in action before but may not have known it was "Active Setup".

"For instance, the first time you logged into Windows you may have seen a status window advising you it was "setting up personalized settings". Essentially, Active Setup is a mechanism to trigger one or more actions to be run once per user. Windows looks to the Active Setup area of the machine profile (HKLM) and sees if it matches the current user profile (HKCU) copy of the subkey, runs any jobs necessary and then makes HKLM and HKCU match (signifying jobs have run and not need to run again). "

A lot of software that requires a reboot after installation uses this mechanism to setup stuff for the logged in user (first time initialisation for example).

Recycle Bin

7:54 PM

is there a way to use wildcards in the explorer address bar

instead of opening 'search' assistant

hello

Hello Everyone,

If a user belongs to two different groups, whenever they create a folder/file, does all the users in both groups they belong to inherit what ever permission they gave to the folder and file?

Win 7

Recycle Bin

8:12 PM

as long as the group is in a parent object then tes

and the users are in that group

or inherited from child objects

also make sure it is applied to 'this folder' 'only subfolders' or 'both'

or files only, or whatever, theres a dropdown for that

as long as the groups*

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