Blake

9 times out of 10 when someone says the [insert network equipment] is overloaded it just means that it's not able to keep up with line speed. If you load snort on your edge router, or have a hole bunch of VPN's or Run a bunch of processes that can't be offloaded (to dedicated hardware), unless your dropping $0,000's on your router the processor wont be able to keep up with the line speed. If on the other hand, your router is not doing any fancy routing, (i.e. it's doing RIPv1 or static routing), it'll likely match lines speeds.

Good work, you've just discovered CIDR or Classless Inter-Domain Routing.

This meme doesn't work. GNU <> Azure in this instance. Think ]OS]\[Kernal]

You wot mate? this is old news, I can already pay ~$9.00/month for windows 10 enterprise. I've been able to do this for a while...

This is 100% due to VMware not allowing for live migrations on hosts with different architectures. A few years with the Opterons lagging behind, means every business is already on the Intel platform. As things move towards the cloud/away from VMware, you'll see more AMD's in servers, but not too much because IT Directors need a Magic Quadrant to think for them.

FTFY

Okay... 1. Make a Directory called C:\Mount\ This will be where you 'mount' the .wim image you want to inject the drivers into. 2. Open a CMD prompt with elevated privileges. If the Titlebar of the windows doesn't say "Administrator: C:\...." you done this step wrong. I'd stop here if that was the case. 3. Run: DISM.exe /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\path\to\wimfile.wim /Index:n /MountDir:C:\Mount\ 3a. To get DISM download the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (or Windows ADK). This kit also includes very useful tools like USMT, lets you download a WinRE and WinPE images. 3b. to get the index run the following command: "Dism /Get-ImageInfo /imagefile:C:\path\to\wimfile.wim" 4. Run: "DISM /Image:C:\Mount /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\path\to\driver.inf" or use a folder full of .inf drivers and the /recuse flag to apply them all at once. 5. run: "DISM /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\Mount /Commit" 6. Congrats, now do this for every index on both the BOOT and INSTALL .wim files you are going to use. If your only using the professional version of Windows 7, only need to do this with the professional indexes listed in 3b.

Turns out they just drugged the kids and dragged em out, no need to fancy submarines.

Disable IPv6, Windows will use that (the AAA record), which isn't configured correctly by the looks of it, where as the IPv4 (a Record) looks to be correct now, after flushing DNS.

It's DNS. few things: 1. Run an "ipconfig /flushdns" to flush out old or stale DNS entires 2. Run "ipconfig /all" to view the configured DNS servers. 3. Nslookup doesn't need a -verify parameter. 4. Run "resolve-dnsname DESKTOP-8Q0UO6R" in powershell and lets see the results. 5. Might want to consider re-naming that Desktop as it's name sucks, O and 0 in it? good luck reading that at 3am.

Then you kindly tell them they are an idiot, and they get all offended. "Fine, i'll leave you to your ignorance"

9/10 this is chrome needing to be updated, if it's worked previously but not any longer (from the same ports - I'd assume you'd know if it was a firewall or vlan config if you where smart enough to enable them on the router). I've had this a few times with a billion tabs open, but didn't want to close them just yet. Closed chrome, updated and everything worked.

in this instance, probs not. Only advantage you'd have is that if the RAID controller died, any Windows computer (windows 7+ from memory) can still read the data off the storage space, where as if the RAID card died, you'd need to either: a) get a program that can create a 'virtual' raid 6 and attempt to recover the data. b) purchase the raid controller again, could be expensive, could be cheap, or c) lose all your data on the raid. You can throw an SSD or two into the storage space to increase the read/write speeds, via caching all the reads and writes, and you'd really want to do that, considering the Write speeds on a parity mirror are the worst of all the configurations. There isn't really any need to migrate to Unraid or flexiraid, unless you'll make use of their feature set.

Pretty sure that's a bit wrong. Not in the US but i'd assume they go after the deceased's estate, not the children etc. Spouse might be a signatory on the contract, but children don't tend to inherit debt.

4GB 'should' be fine for this use case. To make everything a little bit smoother, run server core. seriously, grab a free copy of hyper-v server 2016 and then just make everything with Powershell. Heck, you don't even need to run windows 10, grab server core eval editions and use them to test, if you need to install the minimal interface. You'd be able to get 3-5 servers + clients running on that rig easy. You see too many (it's fucking depressing) "IT Professionals" who just say it's too hard there is powershell involved" and give up in this area.

Don't worry about it. most people say they created a service account, but that's just a standard account with a shared password... make sure its NOT a Managed Service Account /s

Not sure about you, but 99% of the time either my internet connection or steam (read this as the bandwidth between steam and my ISP is congested), has nothing really to do with QoS. Even a shitty 5400rpm disk will beat the speeds supplied due to this. But in saying that, there is a better option... https://hub.docker.com/r/steamcache/generic/ one line and about 30 seconds of your time. just have a NUC with you when you go to a lanparty with meh internet.

to overly Simplify things... Power line might actually make it easier to hack your connection. Wifi? needs a password (or knowledge of Kali linux -> don't actually need network hacking skills if you can point and click your way to the password). Power Line, hacker gets adaptor, plugs into an external power point on your house, they are now considered to be 'authenticated' on your local network. Ethernet, same as powerline, but typically homes don't have external ethernet ports. If you're wanting to protect from physical network intrusions you need something like port security (on the switch/router) and a Network Protection Server on the network. As this is also a 'home/non-professional' solution your limited to layers 1-3 on your local connection, so it's still possible to 'hack' your connection. Only way your going to get any sort of actual security is to get a private line to the company HQ.

Well... I'd ignore this tech news, as they don't even know the difference between 2 parallel operations on the same core (SMT/HT) and 2 parallel operations on different cores (multi-core). EDIT: NVM, looks like someone already called out the journo on the website for the same reason.

What exactly do you mean here? Also what is the model/make of the switch and router? Sounds like port security to be honest, just disable it on the "trunk" port (the port connecting the two switches). On a HP switch, you'll need to enter config mode and type "no port-security [portnumber]" or up the address limit to the 2 works stations + Nas Mac addresses (and maybe the swtich). Also, yes, I know it's not an actual trunking port. Also, it seems like everything is on the same subnet, for your SMB network that's fine, but i'd consider getting a subnet/vlan for your servers. DHCP doesn't actually control the network, it just assigns IP addresses to devices when they request one. You could log into the router and confirm the settings there (i.e. blocked Mac's not enough address leases available, etc)

Grow a back bone and tell him to fuck off, your grandparents pay for the internet, not his mom, not him etc. you have as much right to use it as him, considering your both guests in the house. There are others in the house who'd also be using the Wifi also, and I can almost guarantee they are just too nice to say anything. Yeah if that doesn't work do just log into the router and change the QoS settings to make fortnite the lowest rated. and setup a static DNS A record from fortnite.com (or whatever the website is) to lemonparty.

See this reddit post, basically covers what you need to do:

99% of the time you don't need a GPU to do any compiling. if you complie it on a nVidia GPU, then you'll need to re-do it on every intel, and AMD GPU. then again for every generation. Just because your compiling on the CPU doesn't mean the machine code wont tell the system to perform the task on the CPU, your code tells it to run on the GPU, so that's what it'll do. Now if your planning on testing the build on the same system, that's a different matter. Also, consider that most GPU's are different, are you going to purchase one of every GPU that any potential end user is going to run?so you can compile everything single shader possible? why not just let OpenGL/DirectX handle that?

Sounds like a routing issue, I believe Nginx (or possibly iptables/whatever the default routing stack in linux) will be able to do it. Not a Linux guy past the basics of CLI/setting up a docker image/swam, so someone else would want to chime in. Create a virtual interface on your router/gateway, which points to your VPN. then you need to 'tag' packets so your network knows where to forward them, untagged goes out the normal connection, tagged out via the VPN.

I don't like ImageX as it has been flagged by Microsoft as a deprecated utility. DISM is the replacement. Powershell would be better yet, as that's where windows admining is going.