Posts by Jou (Mxyzptlk) 3435 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2018
No, Below the user interface crap, the actual OS, has a lot of very good decisions. Some not so good (Spooler runs as SYSTEM? still? NT 4.0 Printer drivers on kernel level?), but overall a lot good.
The UI-on-top-of-DOS was destined to go, and with win95 DOS got more a bootloader until the actual Win32 drivers took over.
IF they are hashed, and salted, and HMAC-ed so that the same password does not result the same hash. "Pure" hashes are out since Windows NT 4.0 (unless a client specifically asks for lower PW-encryption, which is still possible in the default fresh Server 2025 AD: Usage of DES, if specifically requested, is still not blocked by default)
Server 2025 still has classical notepad. Classical calculator. Classical non-AI paint with zoom-steps which make sense. SWITCH BEFORE 25H2 GETS RELEASED... Keys are available quite cheap. You get deduplication on top, a possibility to uninstall defender without weird hacks, just a few GUI clicks etc... I switched about two month ago to the "actual Windows Pro" version.
Ever since the release of Windows 11 the task manager showed on way too many occasions the wrong icons. The WinTV icon for the explorer, for example, and a lot of other misplaced icons. No surprise other weird things pop up.
Download Server 2003 r2 x64 service pack 2, unpack it, take THAT taskmgr.exe, still works. In details some numbers are not correct, but they are not too far off reality. Why THAT version? I can tell the difference between x64 and x86 tasks, the little asterix...
Edit: And it shows my 32 SMT CPUs.
20+ years, yep, that fits to my current main language.
Currently, simply due to "need by employers customer", I am using powershell since about 2019. I was programming in various languages from 1986 (Basic 3.5 on C16, soon ASM) until somewhere 1999, when I got employed somewhere where my coding skills were not recognized. Which led to a long pause of actual programming (beyond more or less complex .cmd or bash stuff with custom linux distro) for nearly 19 years. 2018 switch employer. Then, in 2019, it showed that those skills are still there when I started using PS (oder .NET-shell, which is more precise). I like powershell (v 5.1, always) for its simplicity, that you can tell variables from commands, and in a pinch you have the whole .NET, Windows .DLL calls and so on at hand. I rarely need a module, Posh-SSH is for now the only one I actually needed. Was able to do more than expected, including quite a number of things in AD where MS-documentation says "not possible in Powershell". Or PS examples calling compact.exe to use NTFS compression instead of "pure powershell" for some things. Calling compact.exe limit filenames since some characters don't work (like the & character), unicode and LONG filenames fail too.
C# would be the language I would be using when Powershell would be too slow for my need, but up to now I always found ways to get what I need. For example actually working serial modbus communication with Growatt and two Marsteks + 10 shellies for smart solar control. Or found ways to speed up a script by using .NET more directly instead cmdlets, in some cases a 20x speed increase over the previous variant.
I know there are tons of programmers out there better than me, including a lot being much better in Powershell. That does EXCLUDE Artificial Incompetence, since the questions I had are were never answered useful. I am happy to get my private stuff working so well, and at the same time using it as extended admin tool at work to get things done otherwise not possible, at least not in that timeframe... Actually classical "DevOpsAdmin", but I hate that buzzword DevOps since I see too many customers using it as an excuse to understuff IT and development with the "why two when one can do both" argument.
Yeah, that is the 25 GBit capable, which yet none of our customer needed - bottlenecks are somewhere else. No. Scorched earth with x710 (again). No trust.
Do you use the VSwitch to combine two or them for hyper-V cluster HA for the VMs, or the "older" bundling method avail since Server 2012? Current state (Server 2025, x710 cards): I did not get an BSOD like I still got in 2022, but after a few hours uptime communication starts to go weird with unexplainable packet loss when using the actually recommended New-VMSwitch + Add-VMSwitchTeamMember method. We had to HA in a different way - again (no bundling on host level at all this time).
I've seen BSODs more often, but only one reason: Intel 10 GBit "Server Quality" drivers on Windows Servers. They haven't fixed their crap for > two decade now. Don't try "VSwitch" (or Hyper-V switch) with more than one network card member, as MS promotes since Server 2016 -> Blue screen. I was lucky those crashes happened after about two minutes after login, so I could delete that vswitch. Other completely normal fun stuff makes Server 2012 R2 crash hard (mouse freeze, you don't even get a blue screen). RDMA? Never dared to try with those many bugs around. Imagine the other cluster node's network card writing directly into your memory. Faster that going through CPU, but, well, no. There are tons of other things (like advertised 1 GBit / 10 GBit optical cards, which only do 10 GBit), and it all boils down to Intel never getting their drivers really right, not limited to network cards. Imagine how successful intel could have been with good driver quality...
Aw, that is just your prejudices. Since Win7 the stability got quite good. I had Server 2008 R2 with uptime > 700 days, and Server 2012 R2 (as hyper-v cluster) with both hosts uptime > 1250 days each. Until I came along and started Windows Updates, else they would have been running 'till decommissioned. A lot of equipment still run XP Embed, simply 'cause you can concentrate more on the software running and care less about the OS, and those machines get turned off at the end of the day. Haven't seen NT 4.0 and Win9x/3.x for quite a while, but they exist.
Well, in reality it is (incomplete)...
ls -la /sbin
ls -la /bin
ls -la /usr/sbin
ls -la /usr/bin
ls -la /usr/local/sbin
ls -la /usr/local/bin
ls -la /opt
ls -la /opt/<whateversoftware>/bin
Older unix systems put binaries in /etc and various other "should not be there" places too.
Newer systems started to use ~/bin too to circumvent some default restrictions to "install" any software the user want, or NOT want in case of attacks. (same shit as on Windows, with %localappdata%, I hate that style on both except for MY OWN WRITTEN stuff). And on both OS-es I cannot restrict +x on files in the user profile any more (or .exe .com .bat .ps1 .vbs on %userprofile%)
Which is why "man which" got so important. (Windows variant: "where")
> So you international socialists draw the line when the government stores your data for 75 years
Sound very much like the copyright the "socialist" Walt Disney fought for... Steamboat Willy is "free" since 19th November 2023 since its OFFICIAL premiere was 18. November 1928.
> What's so special about a plane? It's not that different to other vehicles.
I smell an education gap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust#Moscow_flight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
etc. No, you don't deserve clickable links.
The sad part is that half of the US population are sane. Used to be more, but recently they started to run. And those who run are a, sort of, better quality pre-selection, automatically, and are usually the most adaptable and able to learn. For example how loud the average American is compared to most of the other world, especially in groups - at least at the beginning. And a bit later they ALL enjoy actual freedom of speech in Germany, since German Directness goes both ways: You can say what you think as long as you don't go ad hominem. Example: I like a movie, you find it horrible. You can say STRAIGHT "Oh that movie was horrible" - can't do that in USA without offending someone, whereas Germans know "it is about the movie, not the person".
WSAIFabricSvc + [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Blocked] "{CB3B0003-8088-4EDE-8769-8B354AB2FF8C}"="Copilot" - on Server 2025 too. The server version gets less bombed with that crap, but there are still prepared mines in the ground. Similar to Germany: 80 years after WW2 ended we still find > 1000 unexploded bombs in the ground each year.
I tried one of those sports-bet bars, was dragged in initially by a friend (US-variant of friend, not German). It is one of those TipBet bars. Initially I won 200 € by dumb luck and a two weeks later I was at -200 €. Result: Yep, TipBet has their math under control, even though sports is not as simple as roulette, where it is obvious. It showed clearly: They don't need to know much about sports, the gamblers know enough about sports, and that is the input the payouts are based on. Just statistics the most boring way possible.
I bet those were not X-rays in the sense which show your bones, but rather UV or similar invisible to human eyes. Which is enough to shine through the table fabric and then actually see the card. Literally.
'cause actual X-ray should not be able to see the card (even if you add lead-inlays), it just goes through, and without a plate on the other side you see nothing. And someone placing something on your cards "to get a good picture" would be weird.
to LinkedOut. Thx for the head up. And how I "like" it always suggesting to use 1. Google, 2. Microsoft and 3. Apple as linked-in-logon. Nope, still separate, even though I know who bought it...
Changed these: Surprisingly more than expected, I must have ignored a lot of terms and services mails...
Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsplatzforschung ► Aus
Daten zur Verbesserung generativer KI ► Aus
Einladungen zu Forschungsstudien ► Aus
Automatisierte Erkennung schädlicher Inhalte ► Aus
Personalisieren Sie Ihre Berufserfahrung ► Aus
Microsoft Word ► Aus
Microsoft Word? What the huh? They "explained" it, but not really explained what that options is supposed to mean...
That is the worst possible place any way.
Other than that: Be aware, and be ready to "accidentally" break an arm by "accidentally" landing your knee with full body weight on it.
Another method: Block the IMEI and SIM, set total alert mode if it shows up - internationally. Makes the phone useless. But then the stolen phones won't be replaced by new ones, which generates more money, so there is no incentive to do so - Again an US pushing its way onto the world, EU (+UK, once it is back) could work here. Even China might approve. Only US won't.
Insider Build 19645 of Windows 10 (no 11 in sight yet) was the first with Nested-V for AMD. That is when I went insider. But then they turned the meter up to 11, added new bugs after the 21h2 release (THEY BROKE SHADOWCOPY!!!! and needed 2 and a half years to fix) and I was out, no more insider.
"If the WSUS Server Role is enabled on your server, disable it. Note that clients will no longer receive updates from the server if WSUS is disabled."
Gotta love that humor in the msrc article...
At least it is included int the normal updates for Windows server and not a separate patch...
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