Ryan Ries

"If you don't protect your machine it may end up attacking mine." I like that statement. Interesting perspective. It makes me think of the shared social responsibility of vaccination.

Ok, I will collect my thoughts and post it on main then, thanks

But I have tried to read the disk from a different operating system and I have verified that the disk is encrypted

No I do not enter a passphrase.

And there's no USB boot key

Well the specific thing I am confused about it, is that I have no TPM chip, so how can the encryption key be stored in a safe manner

I am curious about how Sophos Safeguard full disk encryption works on a technical level... would that sort of question be appropriate for the main site?

I'm just waiting for my activation grace period to overflow int32, then when it does, FREE WINDOWS!

When you're working on answering a question, and that dreaded grey bar "A new answer to this question..." shows up. >__<

@cole The domain rename question on main this morning

Aaaaaargh beaten by two seconds by freakin' Evan!

Well if it's any consolation, it was my Tom Thumb gas rewards that got it down that low, which probably just means I'm taking it up the ass on my grocery bill.

I pumped gas for $1.89/gallon today... I feel like I was magically transported to 1990s for a moment.

My Whopper candy intake is unhealthy

Luckily the CUDA tool kit comes with some really fantastic profiling and tracing tools

Nah I just need to optimize the everliving fuck out of it

Well I have good news and I have bad news. Good news is I got my first CUDA application working. Bad news is that it's slower than my earlier CPU version. >:(

I think I might even start eating dried fruit bats again

Nope, and I even live right next to Dallas

@cole Your Windows DNS server... is it 2003 or 2008? I seem to remember 2003 trying to use funny high-numbered ports for AXFRs and IXFRs instead of port 53.

If I'm on the Windows server and I do nslookup -q=soa company.com do I get a response?

SOA record there?

zone transfer?

What do you mean you can't "do" company.com? What are you trying to do to it?

@NathanC Shhhhh don't jinx me

@cole Ok, shoot!

@Wesley Yes, a stable paycheck will allow you to put up with a lot more than you would otherwise. Funny how that works. ;)

How is the new job, @Wesley?

Heheh

God I love making sweeping changes to production global DNS infrastructure without anyone noticing

Guys, we are full of virus.

What's goin on in cheah

@ewwhite Yeah we are bitchin' and moanin'

Must trick my company into paying for it somehow

KntDD is expensive as hell :(

Basically anything they can do to avoid just answering the $#@ing question

Ugh, 99.9% of TechNet and MSDN forum posts = "This post should be moved to X sub-forum"

Still better than the TechNet forums

Been trying to do some CUDA programming, but it's mind-bending.

Yeah

And we lost a bro in chat when @MDMarra got hitched!

Luckily a good chunk of my upvotes this year came from old answers I gave a year ago or more showing up in people's search engines, etc.

I just didn't feel like upvotes and views were as easy to come by as they were a couple years ago. I'm not saying that all my answers were great, but still.

I don't know if it was just me, but it seemed like Serverfault really ran out steam this year.

Running out of time to get 10k points this year, I wanted my damn rubber duckie from @Wesley :(

I guess I would verify that I have no problems enabling it manually first, before trying to automate it

@HopelessN00b So... do the PCs have TPMs onboard that are recognized by the OS? Because if they don't I would expect for it to ask for an external place to store the key, like a USB stick, but if they do have TPM chips then I don't get it.

Bummer

I rarely manage desktops so I haven't had the chance to deploy it en masse

@HopelessN00b Maybe better luck with the Bitlocker Powershell module? I bet it's just a wrapper around manage-bde.exe, but the syntax might be easier to figure out