The Official Status Thread
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Trying to understand Microsoft's licencing for enterprise products, heck after talking directly with them I'm not convinced they understand them.
I remember talking to a rep about CALs. Eventually we concluded that so long as I had a piece of paper that said we purchased them, that as enough for an audit. I wrote "Purchased: 2 Billion CALs @ $0.00: Total: $0.00 Paid in full".
We'll see who was being truthful.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys
ADMT is an ideal tool for that sort of change, and is the recommended practice. The short of it is basically:- Create a new domain with the target new name
- Set up a two-way trust between the
.local
domain and the target domain - ADMT does magic
- ???
- New domain!
Especially for a straight rename like this, ADMT will work very well with default settings, and will handle security translations for file servers, user workstations, etc. It doesn't really do security translations for SQL, but if you do the necessary setup so that it can import SID History, your SQL servers should be able to handle "translating" new user accounts to the equivalent old account's ACLs if you miss a translation (though I would still recommend updating the mappings in the SQL servers ASAP).
That's awesome, thank you! I was under the impression ADMT only worked if you'd joined the new server to the same domain.
Being part of the same network (as a DC role) will trigger SBSs 21-day deadline though, I guess that should be plenty.
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@Cursorkeys
Hm, I would expect that having a separate domain would cause SBS to not detect it as on the same network. Though it's been a while since I've consulted for SBS, so I can't speak definitively to that, sorry :s
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, they lied to me about a migration path, I don't need an AD trust to migrate NTFS shares.
Though, if you want ADMT to perform an automatic translation of the permissions on the share, you do need a two-way trust.
The problem I have is that I need to change the domain name from
.local
. Any method of doing that still seems to be a really bad idea.Ah, yeah, that was almost as painful as pulling fingernails.
So, my current thinking is to re-create the users and security groups on the new domain and then use
SubInACL
to do the needful.Hmm, maybe?
The advice on ditching
.local
seems to be mixed, but it's already caused problems with not being able to get a replacement SAN certificate since they changed the rules a few years back.Oof...
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Status: Microsoft DNS Service decided to stop working, despite saying it's still running according to Services. Hell breaking loose as we speak...
Edit: Hmm no, dns is working, but several static entries have mysteriously evaporated. I wonder if there's some kind of audit trail for that....
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Status: You have no speakers. WTF are you doing??@!?@
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
WTF are you doing??@!?@
Playing logoff sound.
I mean, it says so right there!
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Status:
I mean, this is how it works, right?
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Status: Why is everything so hard to do on Windows with passwordless accounts I just want to deploy a cube to the local instance of Analysis Services! Had to create entirely new hidden password-protected user account for that! You know how hard it is to make hidden users on Windows Home!?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
You know how hard it is to make hidden users on Windows Home!?
Well first you gotta have a user, then you open the registry...
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@Tsaukpaetra then spell magic undocumented incantations that no one knows what they actually do and pray to a god of your choice that the instructions on a sketchy tech website written in 2010 still work on Windows 10 Update 1903 and don't mess up with any other part of system that you might or might not be aware that even exists, preventing you from doing the thing you want to do. Yes, yes, standard method.
Fun fact: when you google for how to change deployment mode in SQL Server Analysis Services from tabular to multidimensional, you're only going to find one solution, repeated over and over again in thousands of sources - a method that MSDN documentation explicitly says in big red warning that NO PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS IT'S UNSUPPORTED AND IT WILL BREAK YOUR SQL SERVER INSTANCE.
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I think "privilege" makes sense if you think of it as the difficulty setting for your life.
I'm definitely playing on easy.
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Status: Have I mentioned recently how stupid Unreal Engine is?
I'm trying to make a function delegate that needs this:
(i.e. "Tell me which function to call that has these parameters, in this case an Array of Byte")My function:
(i.e. "Accept a single parameter named BlobData that is a Array of Byte")I just don't even right now...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I just don't even right now...
Ah, apparently it was my mistake. Seems the delegate declaration needed to be a
const TArray<Byte>&
, because that makes more sense I guess.Doesn't actually help me in the end, as now I need to sketch a function to take a byte array (raw file data) and shove it through a JSON parser (that's not available in Blueprints, natch) to get me an object filled out with stuff. Sigh.
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Status: Chili. 3 tablespoons of cayenne. 2 cans of jalapeños. This is downright bland by the standards of some of our crazier members, but my mouth is not particularly happy right now, my stomach is going to be even less happy tonight, and I pity my coworkers tomorrow. And I have an entire Crock-Pot full of this stuff.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hmm nyo, dns is wowking,
Fixed everything and left the site.
Several hours later hell breaks loose again. I'm at a loss. Packets are dropping, IP addresses are overlapping, I can't stay connected over the remote socket. EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!
Well it's basically an hour before closing so after much frustration I just tell them to forget about it and I'll be back later this evening.
I arrive and fucking magic is happening, so I shut down all but a few machines. Realize a particular machine is now connected to the wall. This machine was set to bridge its wifi connection to the one beside it because the wall jack was reportedly broken.
Apparently STP doesn't work very well over wifi bridges.
Naturally, this would not have happened if he plugged the cable into the side machine instead.
I'm going to make a gigantic poster that reads "Call me before touching wires, or you're being asked for administrator permission".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I might visit the phawmacy fow antihistaminyes...
Fuck, I might be genuinely sick bacterial infection instead. Yay fever requests!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Chili. 3 tablespoons of cayenne. 2 cans of jalapeños. This is downright bland...
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!
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Status: It's that time of year.
https://i.imgur.com/g71s20r.png
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently STP doesn't work very well over wifi bridges.
Sir Terry Pratchett was better at writing than network maintenance, yes
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Status: Necro-upvoted an old @blakeyrat post for double annoyance.
Too bad he won't see it.
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Status:
Meraki Support? Yes, I’m having problems, automatic firmware upgrade isn’t working for my main network, and when I moved a device to a test network that was cloned from the main network, it upgraded immediately, outside of the scheduled upgrade window.
Here’s how you can schedule an upgrade manually for that network.
No, I want this to be automatically updating. What do I need to do to fix that?
Here’s how you can schedule an upgrade manually for any network in your organization
sigh Can you escalate me to someone who can actually fix my problem?
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Status: I think I've recovered from the migraine I had last night. Felt like I was made of cotton wool all morning.
Waking up in near darkness with that was interesting (afterwards, anyway) where you have the usual grayscale-static of very low-light there was intense patterns round every edge (doorframes etc..), it was almost like everything was on fire in black-and-white.
That was not worth 6 hours of wanting to die though, gah.Mental note: buy more painkillers, all of them.
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You want to do this thing? Sure, that's a built in function DoThing(x).
You want to slightly modify the default settings? Oh, you'll have to use the long form then:
new ThingDoerInterfaceGenerator(ThingDoerFactorySettingsInitializerReal(NewSettingSetterCallbackAsync()))).Initialize(x).Do().Make().AsParallel().ToList()[1].Run((x)=>(x)).
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Can you escalate me to someone who can actually fix my problem?
Shame on you; you're deviating from the script.
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Status: Got all the parts for my new gaming PC yesterday. After a screwup or two, got Windows installed, my Steam library re-detected, and it's updated to 1903 and running smooth as butter.
Now I need to find a suitable stress-test for it to really test its power...
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I need to find a suitable stress-test for it to really test its power...
Crysis
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I need to find a suitable stress-test for it to really test its power...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
This is downright bland by the standards of some of our crazier members
I got my photo on the Wall of Flame at Pluckers, for eating 25 "Fire in the Hole" wings.
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@error I was thinking of ... I think it's @anotherusername ... who buys Carolina Reaper by the truck-load, but that works, too.
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@HardwareGeek There's a shabu-shabu restaurant around, and last time I was there I saw them bring out a bottle of pure capsaicin (kept in a vial inside a container inside a bag) for another customer.
My sadistic girlfriend* promised me next time she'll ask them to bring that out for me.
* see: kink AMA thread
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I need to find a suitable stress-test for it to really test its power...
Google Chrome four tabs open
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Prod launch failed successfully.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I need to find a suitable stress-test for it to really test its power...
Google Chrome four tabs open
With TDWTF open in two and in the other two.
Filed under: "It's dead, Jim."
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I love UI elements that suddenly pop into existence over other UI elements. I was upvoting a post in another thread, when a notification arrived milliseconds before my finger touched what had been the voting button, and I was unstoppably warped to the notification destination (i.e., here).
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@loopback0 it's an upside dish
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Sleep-deprived. Watching my son sleep his midday nap. Little bugger just learned how to climb over his baby-bed's wall last night, and started crying when he was unceremoniously heaved right back in. 21months, 12-something kg, and way too tall for his own safety.
Now I need to buy a new toddler-bed. Either one with higher walls, or one lower to the floor. Can't decide. He tosses and turns so much in his sleep that I'm afraid he'd fall down from anything without walls all around.
Or do like I did with my puppy - a roof!
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status Frustrated. Dammit, Windows "Just Works" with multiple monitors in different resolutions. Ubuntu? Yeah, fuck you. Setting 200% scaling doesn't apply to the selected monitor (like the resolution does), it applies to all of them. Just. Fuck. You.
Oh, and Fuck You to that UI designer too.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I need to find a suitable stress-test for it to really test its power...
Ran this just out of curiosity, since I never had performance issues with FF14 on the previous rig. According to the benchmark site, a score of 7000 counts as "extremely high". This machine ended at 14037.
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@e4tmyl33t
And, to an extent, that score is limited by your graphics settings, if you have the game installed (since it will pull your in-game graphics settings, AIUI). I got about 18k on mine, my FF14 is set to almost-high.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t
And, to an extent, that score is limited by your graphics settings, if you have the game installed (since it will pull your in-game graphics settings, AIUI). I got about 18k on mine, my FF14 is set to almost-high.It's not "installed", per se, but it might've found it on the second hard drive. It was marked "Direct X 11 (High)" for the whole thing, plus I had Chrome open and a couple other things.
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Status: medical bureaucracy.
you are in a twisted maze of referrals, all alike
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Status: Left work at 5pm yesterday, all was fine. At 5:30 an email arrives telling me I've reached the quota soft limit for
$HOME
. At around 6pm (and every hour since) it tells me I've reached the quota hard limit and "can't create new files anymore". What the actual fuck?Oh look, the PyCharm editor I've opened around noon apparently finished with indexing whatever the fuck it indexes and put 3GB of shit in
~/.PyCharmCE2019.1
.
Guess I'll have to symlink that to somewhere else. Or just delete it.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
it's an
upsideAustralian dish
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
you are in a twisted maze of referrals, all alike
here take this blue print
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
it's an
upsideAustralian dishIt's a schnitzel?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
it's an
upsideAustralian dishIt's a schnitzel?
checks spelling again
no I perfectly referred to the wrong side of the globe and not the schnitzel place ...
it looks like barfed out peas so it must be a British dish ...