1 hour ago, Spotty said:

 

699 United States Dollar equals 959.64 Australian Dollar

1,499 United States Dollar equals 2,057.94 Australian Dollar

 

Almost 20% more expensive in Australia? Why?

Add GST so its only a 10% markup (probs shipping though tbh)

One I got an 580 shipped off amazon for 50 cheaper then umart/pccasegear without shipping

2 hours ago, BleachedFur said:

Absolutely 100% wrong. GG tho nice try

he's actually correct where it's the same GPU die that's been used normally there are more features (10-bit VDI support etc), and the drivers tend to lag a little behind performance wise (but are alot more stable).

In other cases where it's a different die being used. yes he is wrong.

Don't know why this is a logical leap for people.
 

14 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Before we begin I feel it's important to stress, Microsoft have acknowledged this as a bug and have already stated it will be fixed in the future so t probably isn't intentional.

 

Yeah this one's a doozy, basically if you setup an automated VPN (actually any dial up connection) on Windows 10 1903 then it will cause the RASMAN (Remote Access Connections Manager) service to error out with error code 0xc0000005. Strangely this only happens on automatic connections, manual ones are (probably?) not affected. Older builds are not affected either.

And the fix for this problem? Enable telemetry using GPO or the registry and it goes away.

Microsoft have confirmed this bug and are working on a patch.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2019/07/01/microsoft-acknowledges-new-bug-in-windows-10-may-2019-update/

 

I wonder how many people have been running VPNs for the last few months thinking they were safe and actually the service had crashed? According to some online estimates 50 million users are running 1903.

 

Now you have a choice, either have your ISP spy on you, or Microsoft.

Keep in mind that there is 0 point to modifying that registry entry unless your running education or enterprise enditions on Windows 10 (as it wont actually disable telemtry on pro/home editions).

This "bug" was reported on Day 0 of the 1903 patch release, and has been floating around enterprise message boards for a while now 

1 hour ago, Zodiark1593 said:

If read speeds are better (like, much better), an archival solution would be quite plausible.

Just use raid, you do know how tiny DNA is right?

Even now, the biggest factors are going to be cost and size of the device.

15 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

How? They removed the auto-backup registry feature so now you have more free space, a feature that NO ONE has ever used, and I can guaranty you that you never used it, let alone ever knew about it. So I don't get it...

Was refering to the 7GB update reserved space.

Others have mentioned it and it's been raised as a potential issue before. They just need to change the required HDD space from the 21GB or so to 28GB and it's a non-issue.

13 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Even SSD's.. We are well bellow 0.30$ per GB. Some SSDs are even bellow 0.15$ per GB.

While I agree, what about people with smaller windows devices (i.e. surface 64gb) now theres even less space for them.

18 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

i mean noone cares their 9900k is drawing between 150-200 watts. and when its limited to 95 watts, in multicore workloads it runs like an r7 2700x. 

 

people dont care about power, people care about the sideeffects. which can all be mitigated. 

My $40/week power bill hates you.

Not all of us like in Dubai where you get 1c/kwh

Screen is also an option. 

Use whichever you find easier

4 hours ago, BuckGup said:

Wait why 

Cost of 1TB of RAM v 1TB of this in a SQL Server

Performance differential of having your entire database in RAM versus having a single table in RAM.

37 minutes ago, Arika S said:

really wish people would stop using "far-right" as a way to discredit everything.

You sound like a commie lefty

/s

20 hours ago, Kalm_Traveler1 said:

-snip-

Since I know PFSense can do DHCP and DNS, I'm just wondering if it would make any difference to have Windows Server do those instead?

10 hours ago, Falconevo said:

 

pfSense has a better DHCP interface than windows.  Use pfSense for DHCP and Windows for DNS (if you are using a domain)

10 Pro clients can join a domain

Why not both?

What sort of use case is this going to be for? Education? Dev Boxes? Prod?

Did you want a flat network toplology? or a little 'sub-domain' inside your home network?

Setup windows box/network (on there own vlan if you wish), have the DHCP/DNS on the windows server box forward DNS requests via the pfsense box.

DHCP isn't a requirement for AD, but makes it easier, Same with DNS.

7 hours ago, BiG StroOnZ said:

Jay from "JayzTwoCents" and Steve from "Gamers Nexus" need to get one of these for testing and review, especially for when doing extreme overclocking. 

you mean Jonny, Have yet to see anyone come close to him in terms of PSU reviews.

1 hour ago, Video Beagle said:

This is something I was pondering at 4am instead of sleeping.

 

In my home system,  I have both an iMac and Windows 10 PC. The iMac uses HFS+ for the drives, the PC NTFS.  Neither can natively read/write to the other (putting aside things like Paragon software that enables that on either).

 

BUT, If I connect to the PC from the mac (or vice versa), the drives can be mounted and used across the network with no issues.

 

I'm just wondering the technical reason this works if anyone knows?

Because your not talking to the disk directly, your telling the other system to write X or read Y from the disk. 

Http doesn't care about the OS, Neither does SMB, or NFS, or whatever your are using to setup the files share, they just care that the other system can speak the same thing.

45 minutes ago, Gwersebe said:

Using ntvdm you can still run dos programs even on windows 10

On 1/9/2019 at 2:33 AM, Kickn4ss said:

First off, I love y'all, I am a huge fan. But, before y'all say it isn't possible, currently the DOS program is working on Windows XP Machines with network drives mapped, network printers mapped, and lpt1 printers all functioning as they should. Also-- not sure if this is the right thread to be putting this under.. 

 

So I am working on a project where I need to basically virtualize a DOS program. Yes, I know it's the 21st century, and no I can't just run an emulator. There are roughly 18 users that currently RDP into Windows XP machines. 

 

We need the version of DOS to have a network driver, to be able to map a network drive, and to print to a network printer. It is currently working that way but we are trying to throw away and burn the Windows XP thin clients. Our first thought, and the easiest way for this to work, was to run VirtualBox or something similar on each of the end user's PC's and run the DOS Program on a windows 7 32 bit ISO. This is resource intensive, and wouldn't work long term on their simple 4gb i3 workstations. We would much rather throw the program into a server in the MDF so that this will be accessible from anywhere on their network. Preliminary tests show that this will not work with Synology, though I am sure there are several avenues in which we have not tried yet. We are also trying to avoid buying a $12,000 Dell or HP server and spinning up 18 or so windows 7 VM's. 

 

Thoughts, tips, input.. ideas? 

Unless they are 16-bit apps.

You can Virtualise the Windows XP box, or even the a Dos box. You'll want to double check the compatibility of the Application, as this will be one of the many ways to skin a cat projects. Do you throw the VM on a server and let people RPD to Virtual computer? do deploy the App via App-V? etc etc.

51 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

I know you can install programs on drives other than C but can you store updates there too?

Should be right, just run mklink /J "A" "B"

I've done this with a few Windows files, just need to be careful as a few of them will cause the system to blue screen if the other drive isn't present when the system starts.

The only issue will be if they decide they want to make it hidden\lock it out of the OS.

18 hours ago, D13H4RD said:

The timing is odd.

 

Activision claimed in their letter that the termination had very little to do with finance, and yet, 2018 was not a good year for them.

 

The time when the dismissal was announced is just coincidental.

FYI a CFO doesn't do too much on the generating revenue side of things.

Think of them as glorified Accountants.

23 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

The only way a new computer can join a domain is with a domain use account with join domain privileges. 

 

You could create a new domain user and give that user permission to join computers, and then give people those

credentials. 

 

From an IT/security perspective though, you should be joining them yourself if you’re the IT guy/server admin. 

unless your using a deployment tool like MDT to do it for you.

3 hours ago, corrado33 said:

Educated people don't have this problem. 

What level of education do you have?

Because if you had an education you'd know that, working conditions have been improved as a direct result of unions over the years. Yes even educated people saw better working conditions as a result of Unions. 

3 hours ago, corrado33 said:

I'd estimate that out of their 8 hour work day... most of the union workers I know MAYBE completed 3-4 hours of work. And you could do fuck all about it. You can't tell them to work more because they'll "call the union" on you. 

You might not want to over generalise like that, because you don't know all the facts, and it sounds like you where not in a position of power, if your threatened by "call the union". 

Also, any good manager knows that hours worked doesn't matter, its a mixture of actual KPIs.

Too much focus on hours worked, motivates people to work as slow as possible, while not getting fired, so they can pick up some juicy OT payments.

Too much focus on output, motivates people to 'shuffle papers' to make it look like they are doing a lot of work (i.e. have git commits being a KPI is stupid, as you'd just do a commit for each letter changed in the code).

12 hours ago, porina said:

I've yet to see an employment union that I'd consider useful. If the employer is breaking the law, take legal action. Otherwise, if you just don't like it, GTFO.

Do you work 6 days a week? sun up till sundown?

You can thank unions for that.

Annual leave requirements?

that too.

On 11/27/2018 at 10:45 AM, Thaldor said:

So, if you paid for the digital copy and installed it, you have lost your right for a refund. This is pretty normal with digital codes and they are still in the grey area of consumer rights laws and will probably stay there until someone takes some company to a court to test wether or not you can return used digital codes (At least Valve was careful when some EU countries reviewed their consumer protection laws to digital era that Steam started to offer refunds without questions if game was owned less than 2 weeks and played less than 2 hours and if you have a good reason those are very flexible limits, ie. you can return games that you have played a lot more than 2 hours like NMS).

ACCC would like a word with you.

You can refund it, just because an EULA says you waived your rights doesn't actually mean to forfeited your rights in AUS. Still able to claim the refund. In this instance Besthda would need to prove that the state of the engine (i.e. that it was still a buggy pos) was clearly communicated to the consumer. Which it wasn't, therefore it'd be very easy to argue that the product is not fit for purpose and your' entitled to a refund. There are other remedies available, but your the one that gets to decide if these are considered to be major defects.

On 11/23/2018 at 7:55 PM, Jarsky said:

Best practice is to configure the RDSH (Remote Desktop Session Hosts) role.

 

Not quite.

Best Practice is purely dependant on the use case and business case. In this instance, if they are just looking for to replace a Windows Client OS as the 2 concurrent session limit and nothing else you'd be right. As they are requesting 30-40 users, it'd need more scale then that.

Looks to me that you'd setup RD gateway+RD Web Access (maybe), and a connection broker, then throw a few RD host (depending on scale required), assuming you need full remote desktops. If your looking at giving an app to 30-40 people, look into remoteapp.

9 hours ago, Psittac said:

This site can’t provide a secure connection

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx uses an unsupported protocol.

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

HIDE DETAILS

Unsupported protocol

The client and server don't support a common SSL protocol version or cipher suite.

The web server has the 0 matching SSL settings or 0 matching ciphers to your local system.

Not sure about what web server ESXi uses, but i'd assume you can change that via the CLI on the system locally (or via SSH).

Otherwise change your local security ciphers / SSL settings.

It'd recommend reading: https://blog.pcisecuritystandards.org/are-you-ready-for-30-june-2018-sayin-goodbye-to-ssl-early-tls

the disabling SSL (all versions) and TLSv1.0 and change the ciphers used. Not that windows and linux (i.e. apache, etc) will often call the same cipher something different, even though they are the same.

On 11/21/2018 at 4:58 AM, mckendry1011 said:

At my work, we do offsite backups for companies. It is run using a cent os box with tons of storage and we connect using different ports to access different clients data, for example client 1 = port 2995, client 2 = port 3000.

 

Does anyone know how to set this up or how it is done? I know anaconda is running on these but I dont know if there is anything else.

On 11/21/2018 at 5:07 AM, AbsoluteFool said:

Just change the applications port numbers in the configuration files. This can be done with most systsmes.

Isn't a better system to give the users, usernames and passwords? (and a private key, via sneaker net)?

Then just set the read/write permissions for each client on their own directory on the directory. let the server choose the port from a range (based on who's connected).

edit: Access based enumeration, that's the phrase i was looking for.

11 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

...the stock market crash yesterday...

Yesterday?

Oh, oh no, that wasn't a crash.

On 11/16/2018 at 3:33 AM, Doobeedoo said:

I'm checking my retailers and prices for these cards are way higher than that though. I got R9 290 for like $300ish back then. Now RX570 is close to those prices where I am and RX580 is like almost twice the launch price. Specially looking at custom cards. 

So did I, but that was well after launch.

I got a R9 290 ~3-4 months after launch when the tri-X came out and then 12 months later again and ran them in X-Fire for a while. Keep in mind that was 300AUD, probs closer to 7-800AUD at launch.

the RX590 is mean to be a the same again. Greate deal if you looking at a mid range card on a budget. Are you gaming at 4k? no? it's an option. 1440p also an option, depending on the refresh rate. 1080p, there isn't really a point in going nVidia, unless there is a feature set you want. Just pick your budget and go (which ever team is closest to your budget).