The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra posting about crying internally made it more visible than if you cried externally.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra posting about crying internally made it more visible than if you cried externally.
Goal: Success.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra posting about crying internally made it more visible than if you cried externally.
Goal: Success.
If your goal was failure would you succeed if you failed?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra posting about crying internally made it more visible than if you cried externally.
Goal: Success.
If your goal was failure would you succeed if you failed?
My New Years resolution is always not to make a NY resolution.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra posting about crying internally made it more visible than if you cried externally.
Goal: Success.
If your goal was failure would you succeed if you failed?
Successfully failed success failure goal would be you succeeded failure to succeed the goal is a failed success you would the goal.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
If your goal was failure would you succeed if you failed?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
If your goal was failure would you succeed if you failed?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
Written another error message dialog for Microsoft?
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Status: Realized I'm a dumbass who got dates wrong, and it is indeed the first day of March... in indelible ink!
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status: I'm beginning to think I wired it wrong at the patch panel.
But I really don't want to move an entertainment system just to get access to said panel and rewire it. The destination jacks are a bit easier to get to.
Choices choices...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Realized I'm a dumbass who got dates wrong
duh, otherwise you wouldn't be single
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Realized I'm a dumbass who got dates wrong
duh, otherwise you wouldn't be single
Correct. I am
float
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And the round-off error gets really big sometimes.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
And the round-off error gets really big sometimes.
That thread is, allegedly,
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The CVS Caremark app says it's 13:02pm.
I'm pretty sure it's either 1302 or 1:02pm, but not 13:02pm.
Filed under: 13 hours post meridian would be 1am.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
And the round-off error gets really big sometimes.
That thread is, allegedly,
I haven't been really big in a while, thanks to a lot of intense diet and exercise.
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Apparently I played myself by disabling the rights management service on my local machine, as now that I've lost admin rights they cannot remotely grant them to me again.
So now I will have to bring the laptop to the office so someone can type in the sooper sekrit password to re-enable the service.
I haven't been to the office in over a year.
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If anyone knows how to re-enable a system service without elevation (escalation of privileges perhaps) on Windows 10, you could save me an hour commute, and a possible audit of my previous activities.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
If anyone knows how to re-enable a system service without elevation (escalation of privileges perhaps) on Windows 10, you could save me an hour commute, and a possible audit of my previous activities.
Able to boot of an external device?
Mount the current control set hive (I forget where) and it's a simple value change so long as you know what the short name is.
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@Tsaukpaetra I think it uses TPM and it definitely uses Bitlocker.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
If anyone knows how to re-enable a system service without elevation (escalation of privileges perhaps) on Windows 10, you could save me an hour commute, and a possible audit of my previous activities.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I think it uses TPM and it definitely uses Bitlocker.
You should still be able to unlock the drive so long as you have a trusted bootable drive it's booting off of, but I'm not as well versed in that area.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I think it uses TPM and it definitely uses Bitlocker.
You should still be able to unlock the drive so long as you have a trusted bootable drive it's booting off of, but I'm not as well versed in that area.
It was worth a shot.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Reading that with "Error" == @error gives a whole new meaning to personalized messages.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I think it uses TPM and it definitely uses Bitlocker.
You should still be able to unlock the drive so long as you have a trusted bootable drive it's booting off of, but I'm not as well versed in that area.
It was worth a shot.
That from a PE environment you booted outside the target's OS? But yeah, like that, but not running. Any possibly adjusting the key's permissions to let you change it (though if you're running PE you're SYSTEM so that probably won't make any difference).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I think it uses TPM and it definitely uses Bitlocker.
You should still be able to unlock the drive so long as you have a trusted bootable drive it's booting off of, but I'm not as well versed in that area.
It was worth a shot.
That from a PE environment you booted outside the target's OS? But yeah, like that, but not running. Any possibly adjusting the key's permissions to let you change it (though if you're running PE you're SYSTEM so that probably won't make any difference).
Created and tested the PE USB key on my personal PC. Work PC won't boot from it (and refuses to mount it).
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I think it uses TPM and it definitely uses Bitlocker.
You should still be able to unlock the drive so long as you have a trusted bootable drive it's booting off of, but I'm not as well versed in that area.
It was worth a shot.
That from a PE environment you booted outside the target's OS? But yeah, like that, but not running. Any possibly adjusting the key's permissions to let you change it (though if you're running PE you're SYSTEM so that probably won't make any difference).
Created and tested the PE USB key on my personal PC. Work PC won't boot from it (and refuses to mount it).
Womp wah...
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@Tsaukpaetra Nevermind, I apparently have a faulty USB port on this laptop...
I had to play with the UEFI settings, luckily no password on those... I'm in!
Let's see if I can do the needful.
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@Tsaukpaetra Thanks for the idea, but I can't unlock the Bitlocker protection, even after installing support for it on WinPE. I need a recovery key it seems.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's see if I can do the needful.
Not out of the box, most likely. Make sure it can actually mount bitlocker drives!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I need a recovery key it seems.
Ah, yes, I was going to mention that too.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I need a recovery key it seems.
Ah, yes, I was going to mention that too.
Apparently I could have retrieved this before I lost admin access, but alas.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I lost admin access
I kinda wonder if the old scheduled task trick still works...
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I need a recovery key it seems.
You should be able to get that from your IT department. I have to re-enter mine almost every time I boot Windows because some ubuntu update has caused something (probably in the uefi) to change.
I put that key into Keepassx so I don't lose it since I need it so often.
edit: Assuming your IT department set Bitlocker up, that is...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I put that key into Keepassx so I don't lose it since I need it so often.
A place I used to work, the IT department had a tablet in their office dedicated for users to walk in and look up their recovery key. Where I usually parked, IT was more or less on my way to my desk, and I would just stop in when I arrived; if I went to my desk first, I'd just have to go back downstairs to IT in 5 minutes anyway.
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Status: A UPS truck stopped in front of my house. The driver spent several minutes rummaging in the back of the truck, then gave up and drove away. I wonder if my package was "delivered". I'd check the tracking, but I'm expecting several, and
to figure out which one.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A UPS truck stopped in front of my house. The driver spent several minutes rummaging in the back of the truck, then gave up and drove away. I wonder if my package was "delivered". I'd check the tracking, but I'm expecting several, and
to figure out which one.
Probably nothing to do with you. Based on my experience driving Doordash, he probably had to reboot his phone to find out where his next delivery was.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A UPS truck stopped in front of my house. The driver spent several minutes rummaging in the back of the truck, then gave up and drove away. I wonder if my package was "delivered". I'd check the tracking, but I'm expecting several, and
to figure out which one.
: Damn, I buried that. I'll deliver that after these 1312 other deliveries then...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I lost admin access
I kinda wonder if the old scheduled task trick still works...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I need a recovery key it seems.
You should be able to get that from your IT department. I have to re-enter mine almost every time I boot Windows because some ubuntu update has caused something (probably in the uefi) to change.
I put that key into Keepassx so I don't lose it since I need it so often.
edit: Assuming your IT department set Bitlocker up, that is...
The whole point of this exercise is to escape having to interact with my IT department, who might wonder how these critical security policies got circumvented to begin with...
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently I played myself by disabling the rights management service on my local machine, as now that I've lost admin rights they cannot remotely grant them to me again.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't see that coming. But it was supposed to happen to @Tsaukpaetra, not you.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I need a recovery key it seems.
You should be able to get that from your IT department. I have to re-enter mine almost every time I boot Windows because some ubuntu update has caused something (probably in the uefi) to change.
I put that key into Keepassx so I don't lose it since I need it so often.
edit: Assuming your IT department set Bitlocker up, that is...
The whole point of this exercise is to escape having to interact with my IT department, who might wonder how these critical security policies got circumvented to begin with...
Just blame Windows. "They did something and bitlocker isn't happy now"
edit: oops, I sneezed. Bitlocker won't let me in again.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I need a recovery key it seems.
You should be able to get that from your IT department. I have to re-enter mine almost every time I boot Windows because some ubuntu update has caused something (probably in the uefi) to change.
I put that key into Keepassx so I don't lose it since I need it so often.
edit: Assuming your IT department set Bitlocker up, that is...
The whole point of this exercise is to escape having to interact with my IT department, who might wonder how these critical security policies got circumvented to begin with...
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time
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@dcon No biggie (as long as the driver didn't sign on my behalf and deliver it to himself). It's one of several books I bought for
reasons, and I won't get around to reading it for quite a while, even if it had been delivered. I'm about 1/3 through a Pratchett that I usually pick up only at bedtime, when I'm too sleepy to keep my eyes open for more than a couple of pages; I'm not going to start another book until I finish it, and at the rate I'm going, that won't be soon.
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status On hold. Because the online registration has blown up 4 times. "due to the high volume of calls..." sigh.
(tho it is only supposed to be 5 to 15 min. I'm hitting the upper end now)
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Is it possible they're using one recovery key org-wide? Because I might still have admin rights on another domain box.
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@error Something like this:
schtasks /create /ru "NT Authority\SYSTEM" /tn "mu" /tr "cmd.exe" /st "18:20" /sc ONCE /IT
Or the equivalent in GUI.
I'm not sure if it works on non privileged accounts.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
schtasks /create /ru "NT Authority\SYSTEM" /tn "mu" /tr "cmd.exe" /st "18:20" /sc ONCE /IT
ERROR: Access is denied.
I keep getting personalized messages at least!
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Hmm... Maybe psexec using my admin account on this other machine.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Is it possible they're using one recovery key org-wide?
While it's possible it's unlikely if they actually bother taking security seriously, which it sounds like they might.