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hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Captain Foo posted:

paging hackbunny

bitlocker is a little too new for me :shrug:

but skimming the google results it seems it only matters to the recovery key. the actual encryption key is random :nsa:

and stored in the TPM (dunno how a passphrase factors into that). what do I know tho, I have Windows Poors Edition and I use truecrypt fde

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

I'm guessing they do something like salt with the system name instead of a sane thing like the sid

not that you'd notice if they used the SID, because you can't change that

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hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

uncurable mlady posted:

i tried to install the update again - the computer logs off, restarts, looks like it boots to a update screen then immediately reboots again. helpful.

i checked the event log and found some unintelligible info level reports from the windows crash reporter. well, might as well see if i can figure out where the error log got dumped to.

2016-08-03 09:08:32, Error SP CSetDefaultBootEntry: BCD Open failed. Error: 0x00003BC3 2016-08-03 09:08:32, Error SP Operation failed: Set SafeOS boot entry as the default boot entry. Error: 0x80073BC3[gle=0x000000b7] 2016-08-03 09:08:32, Error SP Operation execution failed: 9. hr = 0x80073BC3[gle=0x000000b7] 2016-08-03 09:08:32, Error SP CSetupPlatformPrivate::Execute: Execution of operations queue failed, abandoning. Error: 0x80073BC3[gle=0x000000b7]

gj ms

hresult 0x80073BC3? all hresults of the form 0x8007xxxx are actually win32 errors, so this is win32 error 0x3bc3, or 15299, which is ERROR_SYSTEM_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND. doubt it helps but so there :tipshat:

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 17:58

hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

SupSuper posted:

are you secretly raymond chen

I get that a lot
but seriously who doesn't know what HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(x) expands to

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 18:06

hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Janitor Prime posted:

where else do they go

scanner drivers don't need to be in kernel mode. very few drivers need to run in kernel mode

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 10:23

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