In theory all the files are in sync with your client. In reality: Gremlins, scary little hungry Gremlins who just had a snack past midnight. Create a backup and test with a single or just a few users.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.

Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.

I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man

I imagine it also depends on which military, I came from a newly formed country which was extremely poor, but the Americans did drop some MREs from time to time. That's how I discovered the other love of my life, Tabasco sauce.

Yeah. If Tabasco Sauce can make an MRE edible then that is really a testament to it. I'm American

Are your MREs as bad as ours? http://www.mreinfo.com/international-rations/german-epa/

Nothing is as bad as the MRE Burritos. They are almost 100% plastic. It's so bad.

There are a couple of cakes in our MREs. You can't really eat them, but you can use them to

• lit a lantern (seriously, that's not a joke!)
• abuse it as a weapon
• stuff a hole in a wall
• use it as a bridge for a platoon of Leopard 2's (or M1 Abrams, doesn't really matter in this case)
• use it as fuel for your flux compensator
• ...

But, I can't even say that, M...R...E... B-u-r-r-i-t-o-s. That's going to be a long night full of nightmares.

@Mike-Davis said in MS SQL export / import:

It is Express. Couldn't do a simple export to the new server. It wouldn't connect. New machine is not domain joined and couldn't connect with Windows creds. My thought was to backup the database on the old box, copy the backup file to the new box and then restore it. It seemed to need a database target to restore to, so I tried to create one. That failed and I noticed that the connection type was Windows auth, and the old database was using SQL Server mode with the SA account.

Just create a normal backup (Task -> Backup). Setup the new SQL Server Express, create a new database and restore the backup. Job done. Make sure you install the new SQL Server with mixed mode authentication if you want to use non-Windows users to connect to the DB

@IRJ said in New low cost toy:

I am working on a method to boot Kali from USB. The blog I am following is in spanish, but google translate is helping with that barrier. So hopefully I will have an update on this soon.

Hehe. That's always great. Installed an ADS-B frontend from a Russian dev not long ago. Google translator and my trainee from Macedonia (who speaks a very little bit of Russian) both saved my day

@scottalanmiller said in Got a Pi:

Yes, it is really just a toy, don't really look to them in business.

A Pi does not replace a user's general purpose PC. Maybe in some very special cases or as a thin client.

But there are use cases where a Pi (or similar SBCs) really shines, like @JaredBusch demonstrated. I wouldn't say that it is a toy, at least it's not in the hands of someone who knows what he/she can archive with it.

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@HansiH This community will certainly keep you busy. Once you start in on the conversations, it never stops.

Amen You can easily spend like two or three hours in a piece here when something interesting is going on.

Welcome @HansiH.

@MattSpeller said in Windows Server 2016 - Discrete GPU:

Anyone have any thoughts on this? It's something I've wanted to see for a long time. Still reading through the articles....

Well, having CUDA (and all the other cool names) in a VM is probably a big deal for many different use cases.

@HansiH said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@thwr Thank you. Everyone has been so kind so far!

Oh, erm, this is deceptive

@MattSpeller said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

@thwr said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

@gjacobse said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

@JaredBusch said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

I just received this email.

Not sure what their point is in rebranding.

I could... but I'm not.

Confusion?

Strange new branding... At least they didn't name it "G Spot".

That would have been amazing! With the "cloud" to "butt" chrome plugin think of the possibilities....

Always hard to choose the right plug-in. Different purposes, sizes, some are easy to use, others can be a PITA.

@gjacobse said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:

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@gjacobse said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:

Stepping back to some fundamental items:

• Generating Power using combustion
  ** Makes noise and would draws attention.
  ** Requires Fuel of some kind. Petrol products 'expire' and are limited in supply.
  ** Requires Fuel storage - which can be a hazard and liability, and difficult to relocate.

• Generating Power using Solar
  ** Requires space for panels.
  ** Has to be 'banked' for poor solar exposure days (clouds, darkness)
  ** Has to be converted to run AC devices

You can generate fuel to run a generator, but it is a process - needs time, resources, and space.

There are other ways of generating electricity, using steam power; either solar based or fuel based - fuel being petrol or biomass... again - needs space and generates some noise.

Keep in mind that solar panels (photovoltaic cells) will degrade over time, same is true for the batteries. They will degrade even faster. While solar panels are OK for like 20 or 30 years, you will need to replace the batteries every 5 to 10 years. Think about your UPS for example. There are technologies that let you store power in a mechanical way, like a flywheel generator, but this may be hard to find.

So something nuclear would be better, IMHO.

Nuclear is better until.... it goes nuclear...

Rather being the dark... They did it in the olden days..

But hey, if things go south you can read in the dark - without any light The nice green glow will be enough.

I'm trying to run an (self-written) application which uses an HttpListener. Everything apart from a listener on 127.0.0.1 requires elevated privileges to launch.

I want my application to start without elevated privileges and tried to add a URL ACL:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:12345/ user=SOMEDOMAIN\SOMEUSER listen=yes

("+" is a wildcard in the netsh syntax.)

Windows happily accepts that command, but it does not seem to have any effect. What I tried:

• Different users: the one who invokes the process, NT Authority\Network Service, even Everyone.
• Computer restart does not help.
• Added listen=yes

My HttpListener is configured as http://*:12345/ ("*" is a wildcard for all IPs on that machine)

Any ideas?

You know this feeling when you play that last RTS campaign mission (CC Generals here), survived the initial onslaught, built up your army of paladin and overlord tanks with bunkers, snipers, rocket launchers and a few more overlords with speaker towers and just want to save before you do something stupid? When you just smile because you just know you'll hit the GLA real hard, with nothing to worry about?

EXPECT WHEN YOU HIT LOAD INSTEAD OF SAVE?

@prcssupport said in That moment when...:

I could take this job and cause the system to heat up so much and kill the bugs remotely... would I then be a remote bug exterminator

You probably just need an IoT air compressor. As we all know, IoT solves everything

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classful_network#Introduction_of_address_classes

Classes? CIDR is the only way to fly... or route I guess.

That's why I posted... CIDR has been the norm for the past few years as far as I can tell... Classes never really mattered anyway... Did they?

Sort of, but most often they were used as a means to explain subnetting rather than being used as a literal standard in their own right.

Yepp. There's a reason that no one uses classes anymore. At least in theory.

Hell even now class usually just refers to large groups of what you'd notate with CIDR anyway. Like "It's a class A" "oh OK so I'll put 0.0.0.0/8". A definitely obsolete thing I hear very rarely is the different bytes being referred to as "octets", even though they're obviously written in decimal or hexidecimal. It just tells me they don't know what the hell octet even means and think it means byte or class or something.

They are called octets I thought because it was eight bits. Why octet rather than byte, no idea, but they do the same thing with UNIX perms.

Yeah, never got used to it myself. It's like word vs short, dword vs int32, byte vs octet...

@Lakshmana said in Laptop Suggesstion under Rs.750000:

@thwr In Indian Rupee.Ubuntu OS is the need and SSD Hard disk needed resolution is not thing (15'' inch is preferrable)

You should really provide as much information as possible when you ask a question.

• Provide budget in a well known currency. ML is mostly US, so US Dollar wouldn't be a bad idea. What is 75000 Rs in USD? You don't want the guys who want to help you to do upfront research for you.
• Want a SSD or a SSHD (hard disk with a little flash)?
• Your specs are pretty much low-end. i5 with SSD and 15" with 1440x900 or FHD for example is what I would call a standard config today.
• How much RAM? 8GB?

My garage just ordered some special gasoline resistant plastic glue. Hope that works.

~50 VMs on two 2012 R2 hosts, incl. SharePoint, System Center, multiple SQL Servers, Exchange, lots of Linux and BSD - no issues.

So to summarize:
New fuel pump filter 30 Eur
New fuel pump assembly 350 Eur
New tank assembly incl. fuel pump 900 EUR
Labor costs approx. 500 EUR
Glue approx 50 EUR
New tank air filter 50 EUR
Filling the tank 50 EUR

Could be worse, I guess.

I've worked for a media agency for a few years and used Photoshop (high quality print stuff) myself a lot, while others used Macs. There is only one real difference: Working color profiles. As long as you have a working color profile, which is more likely when using a professional monitor, then there is absolutely no real difference I am aware of.

Fonts are another possible issue, but not so much anymore today.

Still thinking about what I did today: Had to glue together two programs from different worlds, one is C++ (linking to native Linux libraries and calling unistd functions), the other is C#. Both programs need to exchange some data (sending commands to the C++ app and returning data to C# and vice versa) and need to run on the same OS. First thought was to P/Invoke, so compiling that C++ app as a lib and call that lib from C#, but I would not be able to debug that on Windows in Visual Studio at all and the C++ app is using an internal API with quite some complicated callbacks.

P/Invoki'ng works, even with mono, but it would not have been fun at all in this case. Because I could not debug that C++ app (closed system with just a text editor and a huge make script), I went for something very simple: Exchanging data using the filesystem (I know, there are streams and sockets etc., but again, no debugger). Went for a simple ramfs ramdisk to speed things up, as there will be like 20k messages with ~1,600 bytes each per second.

Works like a charm, but there's still a lot to do. Kinda fun to work on such things. Frontends for example, like GUIs or web applications, isn't something I would enjoy.