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anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Shaman Linavi posted:

thanks, this helped me find the right docs on Gandi to get it working. no more scary red checkmark by my emails now.

also yeah spf record types are apparently deprecated, rip

they're txt records but they still start with spf so we call them spf records

# ¿ Apr 30, 2018 07:09

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:09

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

graph posted:

can anyone tell me whats causing this

no and also you can't even google search it:
https://www.google.com/search?q="blocked+because+of+admin+action"+"your+system+administrator+has+blocked+your+computer+or+device.+please+contact+the+system+administrator."&tbs=li:1

# ¿ May 24, 2018 20:21

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

carry on then posted:

similarly, tutorials written on medium with half the code left out and no repo link are such poo poo

a blog or forum post which describes a symptom and claims the issue can be resolved, but provides a link or hotlinks screenshots to a long-dead site instead of rehosting any content

# ¿ May 25, 2018 01:59

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

spankmeister posted:

Never use WD products imo.

i've had more problems with seagate disks than wd but it's completely arbitrary. someone is going to have the exact opposite experience

# ¿ May 27, 2018 20:42

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

spankmeister posted:

Just use HGST drives.

you know last year i bought a bunch of hgst sas disks and one of the eight was bad from the factory. take that as you will

# ¿ May 27, 2018 21:00

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

ShadowHawk posted:

Why would you have any production setup where a single disk going bad affected you in any way other than marking a todo item for some datacenter tech

syscall girl posted:

(stupid yes, cheap yes but waste not want not or something)

# ¿ May 28, 2018 00:12

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

crystaldiskmark is good just don't get the anime versions https://crystalmark.info/en/download/

# ¿ Jun 6, 2018 00:24

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

anthonypants posted:

i've had more problems with seagate disks than wd but it's completely arbitrary. someone is going to have the exact opposite experience

i will remember that i said this and then almost immediately afterward the WD 3TB disk in my desktop died just outside of its warranty, which expired in the beginning of april

# ¿ Jun 6, 2018 04:23

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

and what of desktop commander

# ¿ Jun 15, 2018 17:13

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

netwerk23 posted:

Is anyone else seeing random system locking on Win10 1803? Even some reliable, stable systems, once brought up to 1803, are showing it. Clock stops, system totally halts. I tried reinstalling with some media that has 1803 slipstreamed in but I'm seeing the same thing. Hardware is a mix of mostly HP, ProBooks, 8300's, etc.

no what did you do

# ¿ Jun 15, 2018 21:05

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

echinopsis posted:

lol

now here is a comptuer problem

for like the last six months I find that various this, the sound just stops. VLC, just stops. if you gop to the audio menu and change the interface to the only audio output I have it fixes it

spotify stops the sound randomly

netflix too

its like something is happening in windows like the sound interface is loving up...

is there any way anyone has any idea of what I can do???????

hopefully its not a hardware thing

how many sound cards do you have exposed to your operation system? this would include onboard sound cards, expansion slot sound cards, usb headsets, bluetooth headsets, anything like that

# ¿ Jun 16, 2018 04:05

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

echinopsis posted:

hmm there was like 4 hdmi sound outs in the sound settings that werent being used, so I disabled everything but the one I used lets hope it fixes it

what was weird was in VLC when the sound would cut out, the volume slider would only move between say 35-45 and nothing above or below #weird

i don't think anyone in here's going to be able to make vlc suck any less, sorry

# ¿ Jun 16, 2018 09:08

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

echinopsis posted:

anyway yeah i mean i read up about them heaps, everyone saying they�re amazing, compared models, over and over

but it was never clear that you�d need one of those controller things. i knew i�d need specific software rather than a web page to admin it but

hmm, weird

# ¿ Jun 17, 2018 08:59

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

President Beep posted:

any goons know much about surface pros? i use an sp4, and when it’s docked it generally works fine. however, after undocking to work remotely, certain programs crash/don’t work in general. is this a known issue?

surfaces pro

# ¿ Jun 22, 2018 00:13

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

so the original disk you bought was advertised as 8tb.
but you broke it out of its enclosure and tried to use it that way, and you find out it's actually a ???tb disk broken up into three partitions.
and you can't see your data, because the original disk's enclosure was actually doing some sort of raid or compression on the disk.
so what you want to do is somehow reproduce the effects of the oem enclosure, except outside of the enclosure, and also preserve your data. here's how you can do that:

put the disk in its enclosure
make a copy of the data on the disk
remove the disk from its enclosure
clear the partition table from the disk
now your disk is probably broken

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 20:59

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Hello Spaceman posted:

No not quite

Inside the enclosure windows sees it as an 8tb usb storage device with a 8tb exfat volume
Out of the enclosure and plugged into a sata port, windows sees an 8tb seagate hard drive with three partitions (a raw volume of 1tb and two unformatted partitions; the total of all three adds up to 8tb)

I�ve poked around a bit and can establish the following:
1. The sata-to-usb bridge in the enclosure has an ic and a bios, and obviously this is doing some intermediary data jiggery, hence the weird partitions
2. The data is not encrypted or anything - running a data recovery tool still accesses everything. It�s just the partition table that�s whack

but yeah since there�s no real solution i�ll have to figure out how where to store 8tb of data so that i can format the disk fml

It�s loving stupid of transcend/external drive manufacturers to do this because there are a number of legit reasons to need to take a drive out of its housing. Holding people�s data hostage is pro-tier idiocy

no one's holding your data hostage you dumbass nerd, you even admitted the disk works when it's in its enclosure

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 22:47

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Hello Spaceman posted:

the external casing has aggressive power management that powers down the drive every 10 minutes, and when windows powers it back up it locks up any current process (video playing, web browser, etc) for 5 seconds while the drive mounts. the drive can serve the same purpose inside the machine.

you could turn off indexing for that drive but how do you know this is the enclosure's fault

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 23:19

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Hello Spaceman posted:

$200 for another 8tb drive is the issue otherwise I would�ve done this a week ago and not posted here to try solve weird partition bullshit

your question is, "i have a disk in an external enclosure and the manufacturer of this enclosure messed with the partition table so the disk won't work outside of the enclosure. how do i fix, while also preserving all of my data on the disk?"

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 23:40

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Hello Spaceman posted:

what is computering if not hacking apart poo poo and bending it to our will?
i just thought somebody might have had a workaround for this because i�ve long since forgotten how partitions work, sorry for being an idiot

yeah, the workaround is getting a second disk to store your 8tb of horse porn while you zero out the first disk. if that's too difficult you can simply modify the disk's partition table yourself. good luck

# ¿ Jul 22, 2018 23:54

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

President Beep posted:

lol

e: i guess i was under the assumption that anything mega old (in computer terms) isn�t very useful anymore/doesn�t get along well with newer stuff.

it's not like they make ide/pata ssds

Luigi Thirty posted:

my mom's computer's ancient-rear end SSD is full and I need to move her onto a new hard drive

what is the best way to do that atm?

she is running Windows 7

if you buy a new ssd it should come with software to move your old data onto the new disk

# ¿ Aug 4, 2018 21:54

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

if you have a logitech wireless mouse there's logitech flow

# ¿ Aug 20, 2018 22:25

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

echinopsis posted:

ok so i�m sure our pharmacy software uses sql anyway the software lets me make reports and sometimes lets me export them as csv files and i import into excel and do a bit of fuxkery but tell me if this is true at least in theory

sql is a language so i could theoretically, if i had access to the database, i could create the exact reports i wanted?

currently the reports i make often have the data i want but also much more than i need and i have to manually run many in a row to get ultimately what i want. it�s doable but tedious and i can�t help but feel when i�m doing it that you could automate it so easily considering at some place it exists as a database

i also presume these databases are probably locked down so i can�t just access it without some kind of access?

also id have to learn what all the variables and poo poo was called right and also learn query language?

theoretically possible?

yeah, so a very simple sql statement could be something like

SQL code:

SELECT date, patient, ndc, quantity, refills, prescriber FROM prescriptions WHERE date > 1/8/2018 AND date < 31/8/2018

and then whatever's generating the reports would format that into a nice table and stick it in a pdf or excel or something for you. whatever's running that report would have SELECT permissions on the table(s) or view(s) that have the data you want so theoretically it's possible to make it do what you want

# ¿ Sep 14, 2018 06:34

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

my computer isn't fanless but it is pretty silent, just get some decent fans and maybe a liquid cooler

# ¿ Nov 3, 2018 18:55

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:09

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Salt Fish posted:

I want to run a server: RHEL
I want to run a server but I'm poor : CentOS
I want a desktop: Fedora
I want a desktop but I haven't heard anything about linux since reading a magazine article in 2002 about how ubuntu was going to revolutionize desktop linux: Ubuntu
I'm trying to be cool by picking an obscure distro: anything else maybe a BSD or gentoo

once the ibm-rhel releases start popping off this might change, but that's a ways out

# ¿ Nov 4, 2018 20:30

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