Posts made by Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in Outage 7/19:

@Obsolesce testing AV updates is uncommon. Compared to other kinds of things. Outside of Wall St. I've never known any shop anywhere to both use third party AV and do testing of it.

I meant CrowdStrike testing their own updates prior to releasing / pushing them to the public.

Simple automated testing, for example as part of a CI/CD pipeline, could have caught this, if no other testing. They really skipped some things on their end prior to pushing it out.

I don't know of many software companies that do not implement a basic functionality test prior to release. This is a 100% failure rate on Windows devices as far as I understand... something any test would have caught. If they had tested this on at leaat a single Windows device...

Meltdown is ‘largest IT outage in history’ says Microsoft

More than eight-million computers have been impacted in the “largest IT outage in history”, according to the software giant Microsoft.

Microsoft, in a report from Reuters, said: “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than 1 per cent of all Windows machines.”

This is something a single test would have caught prior to releasing the update...

You'd think more would be implementing automated testing... apparently, some do no testing whatsoever.

The forums are alive!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot

The samit channel? Been like a year since your last video hasn't it?

No, the Scott Alan Miller vlog. My big one.

Oh. In which aspect did yours pass his channel, # of videos, rating?

I had to look it up... shows his channel having:

• over 1M subscribers
• nearly 800 videos
• over 84M views

And yours:

• over 7.6K subscribers
• nearly 3.4k videos
• over 2M views

That's awesome though, hoping yours keeps growing, I enjoy it! Keep it up!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot

The samit channel? Been like a year since your last video hasn't it?

@scottalanmiller oh I don't doubt there's a real person behind the account, but I don't think it has a single time engaged with the community other than to throw around marketing posts. Super duper spammy. I can't stand visiting the site without being logged in, having to navigate around all the spam from that account. If I want to browse StarWind Blog posts, I'll just visit their site.

@CCWTech I've used live migration of VMs successfully in the past, but not with Starwind. If Starwind offers a live V2V solution, I'd put my money on that more VS what I used successfully in the past.

If unsure, create a test VM to try.

@CCWTech said in V2V Migration - Going from Hyper-V to ESXi:

I know @Oksana is here, maybe she can give some input.

That's just a marketing account most people block.

@dbeato said in Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message:

@Obsolesce We have seen it on both situations and it is annoying to be honest for end users.

Yeah I can definitely imagine that being annoying. If ya can't find or fix the the network or config issue, no choice other than to disable it on all the clients.

@travisdh1 said in Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message:

@Obsolesce said in Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message:

Doesn't that prevent Windows from probing a Microsoft server to check if the network connection has internet access? I imagine that would only not work as designed on user devices if they are on some kind of highly secure network that blocks that connection.

That would be the logical behavior, but I see this reported as offline while actively using streaming services and such. It's just flat out broken, so disabling it makes sense for many end users.

That's odd then, that I haven't seen it at all across tens of thousands of devices around the world using both Win10/11, Pro/Ent editions, both on corp networks and personal.

I can likely assume then, that if one is seeing this frequently, it may be some kind of isolated local issue. Possibly ISP related or some deeper underlying issue with your internal networking / firewalls.

I have seen it personally, but were cases where it's doing it's job. I sometimes connect to a Wi-Fi network that truly does not have internet access.

Doesn't that prevent Windows from probing a Microsoft server to check if the network connection has internet access? I imagine that would only not work as designed on user devices if they are on some kind of highly secure network that blocks that connection.

@DustinB3403 maybe it's also helpful to know that Jupiter's axis of rotation is roughly 3 degrees compared to Earth's 23.5 degrees. But we would see Jupiter at any angle depending on when we look at it.

@DustinB3403 No, it depends on where Jupiter is in the sky, where Earth and Jupiter are in their orbits relative to each other, Earth's rotation/angle, my camera's rotation, and my telescope's positioning.

@DustinB3403

Thanks! There's a learning curve for sure, but it isn't bad. Well worth it if it's your thing.

The angle of the image is determined by my camera's rotation. I have mine attached at about a 0 degrees. So when the telescope is in it's zero-position, my camera has no rotation angle (or close). I don't care about the rotation when doing planetary. With DSOs such as nebulae and galaxies, I generally do care about camera rotation for framing purposes.

The part that takes the most time is the processing of the images. It's a whole different world of understanding and practice.

Some quick fun with Jupiter during the daytime evening before the clouds rolled in, again.

Trying to get back into some planetary work. I have to relearn it, it's been a long long time.

I don't think this one turned out so well, but I think if I redo it later and spend some more time processing and learning, I can get it better. A night-time image would help too.

I think my old one was much better. I spent more time on it and used a tutorial.

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@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:

Still down here.

They were down here a bit ago for awhile.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New (to me) telescope arrived today!

Nice, going to use it for photography?

Yes, astrophotography. This is a bigger telescope than I had before. 203mm aperture, 2032mm focal length, f/10 native.

I finally got a chance to test it out for about an hour last night on Jupiter mostly visually. I looked at it at about 6100mm focal length @ f/30. It looked so awesome. I've never seen it that big and clear in person. I hooked the camera up for a bit but didn't go well due to the balcony being so shaky and Jupiter started going behind a tree by that time.

I'm hoping to get some more clear nights soon so I can give it a real go. Clear nights are truly a rarity these days here.

New (to me) telescope arrived today!

@gjacobse said in Windows 11 Remove PIN and Only Use Password Instructions:

@scottalanmiller

I may have an account I have forgotten about
But I continue to use local only. I believe they call it an “Offline Account”

On my personal Windows laptop, I use my Microsoft account (MFA'd). It makes things all around that way more convenient for me. To avoid passwords, and because I want that separated, I use Windows Hello (fingerprint or PIN). Then BitLocker (TPM 2.0+), and of course the BitLocker Startup PIN.

On my personal Linux laptop, basically the same thing as above, but SW level encryption.
I'm looking forward to trying Ubuntu's TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption soon! I haven't had time yet.