@scottalanmiller said in how to disassemble Canon MF644?:

@AshKetchum said in how to disassemble Canon MF644?:

@scottalanmiller lol, nice one.

For real. 🙂

Same.

@Super-Sundae : Can you run Sysinternal's RegMon and patch another machine with InTune? That way you can capture the changes.
Perhaps running SysMon at the same time in case it makes changes to file permissions would help..

If you can find out what the policy changes then you should be able to revert on both machines. Hopefully 🙂

@jt1001001 said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:

Sadly latest version of Foxit free (10) got rid of their PDF printer, so Its win10 or Adobe now (haven't checked other PDF utilities)

Boo 😞

@scottalanmiller said in How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring?:

@Grey said in How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring?:

OP wants to see what ports are going offline. My Ubiquiti system tells me that. It is a Software Defined Network (SDN). Do you see where I'm going with this? Did you look at the mp4 that I linked?

Ah, but it's that it is Ubiquiti, not SDN, that does that. It's that he would want a monitored system like Ubiquiti. ZeroTier is a more traditional SDN and would not in any way do what he wants. SDN is a red herring here. It's Ubiquiti itself that is what matters.

I suppose that's true. There are different levels of a software defined network and a ZeroTier or Silver Peak would be at a level that's too high to see ports, while a smaller Ubiquiti system definitely looks at ports. I think Meraki hardware & software shows the same thing, and I know they really defined the SDN space for site management. By definition, however, they're all SDNs. The days of using a command line to add a switch, define a vlan, or extend your footprint in to a new building are done, except for troubleshooting.

@black3dynamite said in Simple Linux Swap File Creation:

I automatically ignore Fedora and CentOS warning about that.

I ignored it also. just pointing out the default behavior.

@fuznutz04 said in Site to Site VPN - not passing audio traffic properly:

This one was interesting to get to the bottom of. @JaredBusch With the VPN tunnel enabled, the phone system was trying to send RTP to the phone on the internal IP. There is a setting in FreePBX on the extension level called "RTP Symmetric". Normally, this is set to yes. I changed it to no and the audio started flowing normally. However, I didn't like this solution. So, as a test, (and what I should have done from the beginning) I blocked all outbound traffic FROM my phone system, to any local network. (10.x, 172.16, 192.168, etc) This immediately solved the issue. I did not yet do a packet capture AFTER the fact to confirm, but I am assuming that blocking the PBX's ability to get to an internal private IP, forces the system to renegotiate and send the RTP to the correct public IP.

Definitely an odd issue.

nice you found a solution - I'm curious why it happens in the first place? Are some of the original phone's packet data still containing the original IP? And if so, why?
Are you using encrypted RTP?

@Pete-S said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@pmoncho said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@JaredBusch said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@pmoncho said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@Pete-S said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

Confirmed, snipping the orange wire (I needed help as I can't see orange) did the job, drive showed up immediately.

Congrats! I wasn't sure you'd be up for the task. A lot of people are afraid to make permanent changes to their equipment.

You can't believe how much pushback I got from @Dominica and @pchiodo about snipping a simple cable on a $2 SATA extension part! For me, it was a no brainer once knowing what it was. But they were up for spending hundreds of dollars to avoid snipping that wire. And it isn't even hard wired to the power supply or anything it's literally just a SATA extension piece! lol Like $2 tops if you don't shop around.

I would have been with @Dominica and @pchiodo on this. Electric scares me. I would think snipping the wire would cause a spark while I wasn't home and come home to a few burning cinders. 🙂

That was mentioned as a concern. lol

FFS people need to just STFU if they don’t know how electricity works.

That was exactly my point and why I wouldn't have done it. As for STFU about well, that is where we differ. Those concerns could be alleviated with an explanation of why it would not be an issue.

For electrons to flow you need a circuit. If you cut the wire you don't have a circuit anymore and because of that you don't have any electricity flowing. Since there is no electricity, there can't be any sparks.

If you just cut the wire but don't remove it, then one end can come in contact with the chassis and then you have a circuit and electricity flowing.

Modern switched power supplies (as in your computer) have short-circuit protection. So nothing would happen except that 3.3V will go down to 0V. So if there is anything in your computer that need 3.3V power from the power supply, it will not get it.

If you had something else producing 3.3V (for instance a battery) and you'd short-circuit that, then it can get cause a fire. Just because it's only 3.3V doesn't mean anything.

And sparks is not a problem unless you're in an explosive environment. The problem is that a short-circuit cause increased current running in the wire. That current will turn into heat. That heat causes things to melt and catch fire. And that's how you burn down a house.

Also nice to know is that any electrical circuit inside a computer is low voltage, 12V or below. It can't kill you no matter what you do. It's the same voltage as you have in an ordinary car battery.

The only way to get into trouble with a computer is by disassembling the power supply. There you have lethal voltage.

Thank you for the explanation. Very helpful.

@Grey said in Issues uninstalling Windows Server 2012 R2 Key:

You mean sfc /scannow? Or DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth?

@op Check your event logs for more information, and try running the commands above.

Ran both, so far nothing, but I will run chkdsk tonight to see if that fixes anything. So far I can't find anything in the logs but I'll keep looking.

P.S.; While the ability to "pivot" from e.g. alert to metrics to log seamlessly from w/in a single UI is indeed attractive, the time series data model of the PLG stack (Prometheus Loki Grafana) does not lend itself well to "The Tail at Scale" problem.

https://www2.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps296.4/fall13/838-CloudPapers/dean_longtail.pdf

IOW; it is all a lot more complex than one may initially imagine... lol.

Balvenie has been mentioned up post. One of the first distilleries to do the double cask thang. Some dandy offerings. Indeed. Yet I prefer their 15yr. old single cask. Ya' know, the stuff the master pulls and sets aside prior to double caskin'.... Dandy elixir. Indeed. If you can find it. 🥃

Other Faves:

Talisker: Robert Louis Stevenson's poison of preference.

McCallan 12yr. Sherry Wood, Cask Strength. No longer exported to USA. But damn, I sure wish I'd not let my wife's neatness OCD polish off the last quarter bottle from my stash... ;(

Glenmorangie 18yr. Old Deep citrus, orange notes from that d'oroloso finish. Recommended. 👍 🥃

@Seb1982 said in Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop Lag:

My Dell XPS 13 lags after upgrading to 20.04. All graphics are fine, but the system simply does not respond quickly enough. Sometimes all is fine, but often the pointer is about half a second behind, so is typing.

And, I assume, it was snappy under the previous version?

Since the initial issues, mine has stayed responsive.

@Obsolesce said in Apple Mac Going to ARM RISC:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple Mac Going to ARM RISC:

RISC-V is seen as the future with more modern and more open design than ARM and zero security risks like ARM has. ARM is so risky, I'd never risk (pun intended) developing something new with it, only something old.

Oh yeah, forgot about that!

Still very low end devices, but moving up fast. I'm really excited to see the first SBCs and desktops built off of it.

That is weird but when things happen out of blue to win10 machines I always start with uninstalling windows updates. In my environment that is by far the number one thing that breaks things. Occasionally a user will do something but if its multiples machines, its always been windows updates here.

@dbeato said in Deduplication on CSV storage:

@scottalanmiller said in Deduplication on CSV storage:

@dbeato said in Deduplication on CSV storage:

For example SQL Servers or Exchange cannot have deduplication on them

Microsoft lists SQL Server as their prime example of "might be good for it, but you need to evaluate your use case" ...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/install-enable

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Well, I would say this is the part with Hyper-V that is so ambiguous
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It's not, it can't be. VDI has massive overlap and can use more aggressive deduplication, but that's all. Dedupe by definition is either always safe, or never safe. There cannot be an inbetween. Not when it runs below the filesystem.

Hyper-V support and safety is never in question. Only Hyper-V for VDI has a specialized tuning option.

@Grey said in Powershell Script Repetitive Process:

@Obsolesce said in Powershell Script Repetitive Process:

@Grey said in Powershell Script Repetitive Process:

@Obsolesce said in Powershell Script Repetitive Process:

Here's an example:

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Neat. How would I call call that function from within the script itself; just & do-function?

The same way I did on line 24.

Ok, I have to test this.

I just noticed, that on line 16, the $timeDate... variable is supposed to be $Something

I did it too quick and didn't catch it when I put it in at the end.

@stacksofplates yup! One of the few using golang 😀
I've enjoyed it too once!

This is going to save me time. Was just starting to look at this.

@matteo-nunziati said in bash script help splitting string:

try this:

# initializing agi variables declare -a array while read -e ARG && [ "$ARG" ] ; do array=(` echo "$ARG" | sed -e 's/://'`) export ${array[0]}=${array[@]:1} #next added line for debug only. comment this out in prod. echo "${array[0]}=${array[@]:1}" done

if you want to "slice" an array use the syntax: ${array[@]:from:to}, not providing the 'to' arg means go up to the end of array.
source here.

Almost right. Because of the export command parsing spaces, I needed to stick it in a variable first.

# Variable to hold the details for the log file DUMPARG=" Begin Argument dump:\n" # Create an Array to hold the results of the loop declare -a array # Loop through the AGI variables while read -e ARG && [ "$ARG" ] ; do # Dump them into an array, after removing the : array=(` echo $ARG | sed -e 's/://'`) # take the array and create a variable from the first element put the rest as the value # value must be put into a holding variable to parse correctly by the export command val=${array[@]:1} export ${array[0]}="$val" # Dump them into a string for the log file DUMPARG="$DUMPARG $ARG\n" done

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