@gjacobse said in Designing for tech startup: Network, AD, Backup etc:
@DustinB3403 said in Designing for tech startup: Network, AD, Backup etc:
I suppose you could use Storage Spaces Direct (all windows across the entire thing) but I wouldn't consider SSD at all mature nor production ready, especially at this scale.
Thanks, had not heard of this.
DataOn solutions fully support this and vice versa. They are experienced with this kind of scale and much larger.
@scottalanmiller said in Ad blockers Advice:
@Skyetel said in Ad blockers Advice:
What about something like:
"We noticed you are using an Ad Blocker - We hate ads too - and don't worry, we don't have any on our portal. However, Ad Blockers can cause issues with our portal. Please whitelist us, there's no ads here :D"
We try and keep notices like this friendly.
You aren't running ads. So it might be better to say "Hey, we see you are running an ad blocker. Your Skyetel Portal is ad-free. Some ad blockers have been known to cause issues with the portal. Should you experience any issues, it is possible that your ad blocker may be interacting with some of the portal components."
Looks good to me!
A Windows 7 key will work to upgrade and activate a Windows 10 upgrade.
This is because MS has no idea or way of knowing when that 7 key was bought. It knows when it was activated, I think they would keep record of that on their activation servers / databases. So if you activate a Windows 10 upgrade based on a prior activated Windows 7 key, you're good to go. If you activate a Windows 10 upgrade based on a non-prior acticated Windows 7 key AND, it was purchased prior to the Free Windows 10 deadline, I don't think you'd therefore be licensed.... though I haven't done much reading on that.
If you have a legitimate Windows 7 install on your device, and you upgrade to Windows 10 on that device, AND it activates. You're good to go.
The only thing that applies is the included EULA or license.rtf with the software (in this case, Windows 10). No FAQ, blog, MS technical document, MS web page, etc. is a valid means of verifying whether or not your installation is properly licensed.
Of course, my screenshots are for quick reference, and could easily be taken out of context. So, view the entire license agreement yourself first. Full context and understanding of definitions are a must.
This is on the MCT download page:
After I use the MCT to download Win10, and start it, it prompts (forces) me to view the license:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1:
@Obsolesce said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1:
The only thing that applies is the included EULA or license.rtf with the software (in this case, Windows 10). No FAQ, blog, MS technical document, MS web page, etc. is a valid means of verifying whether or not your installation is properly licensed.
This is true except in a case (and I can't find one happening, but I've been checking for it) where you have to agree to something in order to acquire the EULA in the first place. But as long as you legitimately acquire the EULA, it applies to you.
Yes, this is why I posted the EULA for MCT first, to show it's a valid method for obtaining the Windows 10 media for installation in this upgrade scenario.
@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1:
@Obsolesce said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1:
@Obsolesce said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1:
And you are 100% allowed to downgrade if you wish.
I didn't see that in the EULA, but wasn't looking for it. Are you sure that they allow a downgrade when upgrading from this path? That seems odd since the underlying goal would be the upgrade itself.
Yes I remember skimming over a downgrade section, and seeing that it was stated you can. I will look again because I also was not looking for that specifically, so I don't remember the exact wording.
Just have to make sure that it is the EULA generated by the MCT as the EULAs can differ depending on the source. Might all be the same, but I doubt it.
Yes that's where I seen it, in the one in my screenshots above.
@DustinB3403 said in Powershell suppress specific error message and not others:
Going off of my earlier topic File Management removing unprintable characters I've got something that works.
This is what works:
(Get-ChildItem -Path "path\to\folder" -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Name -replace '•',''} -verbose -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable daError)
if ($daError) {
Write-Output "ERROR - There was an error. Pay Attention : [$daError]"
}For the final resulting Errors I get...
It would be ideal to suppress these actual non-errors (things that I don't care about since the files are fine where they are and I just want to see if some other Error is found.
I can't reproduce the problem, but you can try changing the error handling like this:
(Get-ChildItem -Path "path\to\folder" -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Name -replace '•',''} -verbose -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable daError)
if ($daError.Exception.Message -notmatch "Source and destination path must be different") {
Write-Output "ERROR - There was an error. Pay attention : [$daError]"
}
I don't know exactly the error path, maybe you can show me $daError.Exception | GM* if that doesn't work.
Anyone not at Spiceworld able to take care of the hooker spam in the meantime?
@DustinB3403 said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:
@IRJ said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:
Is there any real reason for this? OP doesn't mention it either
IDK, I thought the same thing as well, but I didn't not want to provide a potentially useful answer.
When the objective or goal itself is useless, any answer you feel is useful would then default to useless anyways.
So, the only potentially useful answer would be to get the OP to re-evaluate the situation and perhaps approach it differently altogether.
Doesn't editing PHP files directly get overwritten when themes are updated? I found that the best way to customize or edit themes is to add custom CSS in the appropriate custom CSS location.
Here's an example with my Wife's blog, where I use custom CSS to heavily alter the look of the site:
Removing the widget titles:
.widget-title {
display:none;
}
In your example, you'd find which element displays the the icon, and not display it. I mean it completely depends on the theme and how it uses CSS, but that's generally how you'd go about it. I've not used that theme before. Do you have an example I can look at?
Here's where you do it in WP:
Heh, and here I am is someone who doesn't give a shit and prefers to keep it charged whenever it's convenient, because I don't like when it gets low.
And guess what, the phone and battery last for years, longer than I ever needed before updating to a new and improved device. Typically every 2-3 years.
It's great, battery lasts all day because I charge it all night every night, and during the day if I think of it. Sometimes before bed, and it's unplugged all night and still lasts all day because it doesn't move below 99% over night in that case. It's nice never getting low battery!
@Pete-S said in Can I use the first IP in a subnet, for instance 192.168.0.0?:
OK, I did some more research and made some test. I believe most people got this one wrong and for reasons that are historical.
Assume we have the network 192.168.1.0/24.
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0. The address range is 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.255.192.168.1.0 is a valid host IP - contrary to what most people believe.
192.168.1.255 is reserved for directed broadcast.Why?
An IP like 192.168.1.0 used to be excluded from use by a host in the past. This was obsoleted in conjunction with the introduction of classless subnets, CIDR. Mentioned in 1995, RFC 1878, which also obsoleted something related, which was the exclusion of certain subnets called subnet zero and the all-ones subnet.
In the past IPs like 192.168.1.0 has also been used as a broadcast address but that practice is also obsolete. RFC 1812 (also 1995) states that 192.168.1.255 should be used for directed broadcast in the 192.168.1.0/24 network and that 192.168.1.0 is forbidden to use for that purpose.
Problem when something becomes obsolete is that you still have old equipment, old protocols and old habits in use. So it takes many years before you can actually stop doing certain things that were needed in the past.
To test the state of things today I spun up some VMs. I used 172.16.0.0/24 as my network.
No problem setting 172.16.0.0 as IP address on CentOS or Debian for example. Everything works as you would expect.
You could however see some remnants of the past, like this:
As mentioned above, it was a long time since that was considered a broadcast address.Windows 7 was however another story. You can't enter 172.16.0.0 as a valid IP address in network settings. But you can do it on the command line with netsh. And then it shows up as expected. Network works as expected too.
So all in all, it is technically OK to use the first IP as an host IP. It's not reserved anymore and hasn't been for more than two decades. Protocols that used that IP for broadcast or reserved for the network address are not in use anymore.
The biggest risk is probably to run into applications where they on purpose don't allow you to enter a specific "invalid" IP address.
That said, it would probably be very confusing for most people.
I would assume in a /24 network to not use x.x.x.0 when there are other networks, but in a bigger network, perfectly fine since it's inside the network range.
@scottalanmiller said in Centos 8 uses ~250MB ram after fresh install:
@black3dynamite said in Centos 8 uses ~250MB ram after fresh install:
It's been like 5 years since CentOS 7 was released.
You'd think they'd have had more time to make it leaner!
They are focused in playing catch-up, not on improving the system itself.
@Pete-S said in Can remote desktop Win10 be remotely activated somehow?:
I don't administrate the machine so I don't know what's on it. I just want to access it.
Which options are likely to be installed / activated by default?
By default, probably nothing. If it's on the domain, who knows.
@syko24 said in Can remote desktop Win10 be remotely activated somehow?:
@Pete-S said in Can remote desktop Win10 be remotely activated somehow?:
Thanks guys. I tried accessing remote registry, remote powershell and ssh but without success. I have to find out how they do their remote administration and get them to enable rdp for me. It was worth a shot though.
Try MMC and see if you can add Services for their computer. If you can add that successfully then you can enable Remote Registry and then from there enable rdp. Make sure you restart the rdp service after making the registry change.
Another method would be if you have PDQ deploy installed on another system at the location, you can try to push a ScreenConnect or similar install to the system.
There are steps one needs to take to ensure remoteability in any kind of way you are hoping for. Either through specific group policies, in the base image, during deployment, via device management software, etc. It's something they would know they did. Any MMC snap in such as remote registry will have required specific steps be taken first to ensure access that way.
The best thing to do is ask, because it takes 2 minutes to write the question, then do other things while you wait for the answer, rather than wasting time and money throwing darts in the dark.
@WrCombs said in Why Virtualize?:
@DustinB3403 said in Why Virtualize?:
The simple answer is because of consolidation, footprint, energy, cooling, cost savings, administration simplification.
The long answer is paging @scottalanmiller.
okay.. How does it work?
What is virtualization?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/about/
Hyper-V Architecture
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/reference/hyper-v-architecture
Azure Virtual Machines Overview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/overview
Blog
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Virtualization/bg-p/Virtualization
Also, watch the 2nd and 3rd videos in the introduction here (free). They explain it for the most part:
