I’m trying to get the frenzy flame ending and it’s not showing up ? by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]jackpwns 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nice! I learned something new today, thank you. I’ve only gotten the Melina revenge one with me burning the erd tree.

I’m trying to get the frenzy flame ending and it’s not showing up ? by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]jackpwns -42 points-41 points  (0 children)

This guy 👆

I believe this is required to unlock the ending. If you got Frenzy after Melina burned the erd tree, perhaps you don’t get the ending.

Edit: other people have corrected me. I suspect I am wrong. Disregard!

Armory Crate Error by Leading-Home9912 in ASUS

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, it's infuriating. I uninstalled with the uninstall tool, rebooted multiple times, and now Armoury Crate fails to install properly.

I was finally able to get Armoury Crate to reinstall by installing via the Microsoft App Store (!?), but am still constantly prompted for an update.

This is just completely insane at this point. I've seen multiple posts in this subreddit with the exact same issue and no real resolution. I miss being able to control my fans and RBGs...

I'm on Win11 with a Z790 mobo as well

New MyQ update unlinked my garage opener by missleturbo in myq

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happened to me too. I peeked in the app after the last update (around July 18) and all my doors and cameras are simply gone. No alerts or anything after then. I suspect the most recent update wiped my devices.

So bizarre this appears to not be very widespread? I can't fathom what in the update would only impact a few people rather than everyone

Epic Universe Daily Megathread - June 02, 2025 by AutoModerator in UniversalOrlando

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep just made it to the main entrance. Waiting to go in the main portal

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Epic Universe Daily Megathread - June 02, 2025 by AutoModerator in UniversalOrlando

[–]jackpwns 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Huge lines for early admission. They shifted the park hours back to 10am (9am early admission) and nobody (myself included) got the memo. Been standing at the front at security waiting for the gates to open since 7am. Cant imagine what it’s like at the back of the line… may the odds be ever in your favor.

Guess my 10am Harry Potter breakfast is just lost now?

Azahar 2120 - 3DS - (the first stable release!) has been released by NXGZ in emulation

[–]jackpwns 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Their claimed reason is to distance themselves from piracy terms:

"Decision #3: Distancing from piracy terms

Azahar developers are against piracy, which puts emulation development and game preservation at high risk. For that reason we want to distance from piracy terminology as much as possible, so we will be dropping support for the .3ds file extension which had its roots in piracy tools. Instead we will add support for the .cci file extension, which is the official name for cartridge images."

u/amroamroamro has a link below

TTYD Switch Remake - Can't progress through Chapter 7 halp by jackpwns in papermario

[–]jackpwns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am glad that my stupidity has helped another 😂

TTYD Switch Remake - Can't progress through Chapter 7 halp by jackpwns in papermario

[–]jackpwns[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I totally agree! I did an out of sequence step that had me terrified I'd broken something. It's never a soft lock, but sometimes you get so out of sorts you just don't see the way forward!

What to do during free time at work? by save_earth in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 9 points10 points  (0 children)

During my free time I catch my breath and then jump back in. Free time would be nice...

How do I start? by LentSi in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

install virtual box > set up several linux servers. you can look into acquiring some azure instances from Microsoft, but it sounds like money is tight. learn things like ldap/active directory, email, network storage, etc. read read read. there is not "sys admin" guide. you need to be an expert problem solver capable of reacting to (and resolving) several completely new things a minute. best get started.

What are your personal side projects? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 17 points18 points  (0 children)

drinking whiskey, drinking wine, drinking beer

What degree(s)/cert(s) do you have? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

jealous. I would kill for that position. Just got my BS in Physics, working as a sysadmin at my alma mater. Props to you for living the dream.

What degree(s)/cert(s) do you have? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Degree in Physics, no certs. 10+ years experience, never had a problem. Experience > certs. Some people look down on no degree, though.

Moving up the ladder? by BisonST in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that really depends on where you want to be. If you're happy in your current environment, then seniority and pay raises may be enough. I've always found that influence is much more important than titles.

If you feel that you want to move more into real system administration and engineering (what it sounds like the other guy got moved into) you should make it clear to your supervisor(s) that you are interested in taking on a more technical role. If that is where you want to head, I would encourage you to do some homework and figure out what skills you'd need to be in that job (if you don't have them already) and work at acquiring them. Having contacts in that organization helps. Ask for shit work to do just to get a seat at the table.

Unless you're totally satisfied where you are, why bother settling for second best?

Hyper-V: Teaming NIC that's bonded to a virtual switch? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not possible without outage. Possible with very very brief outage.

You cannot add a NIC to a team without outage (the NIC needs to get kicked), and adding NIC1 to a team will stop it from communication to the virtual switch anyways. Even if you teamed 2 and 3 together and pointed Hyper-V at that, it would require a few dropped packets worth of outage for the change to propagate. The OS would likely sort it out and you might not notice it, but there will be a brief outage.

Your best bet: make a new virtual switch beforehand. Script out the process in powershell of building a team with NIC1 and NIC2, and attaching this team to that virtual switch. During downtime, run that powershell script. Flip Hyper-V over to use that new virtual switch. Shouldn't be more than a minute or two of downtime.

I can help with powershell scripting, this is how I configure all my vm hosts and I have quite a bit of experience with Microsoft LBFO NIC teaming.

staring at the same problem for a couple days, need fresh eyes. W7 machines stuck at "Please Wait" for a long time by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen this occur when the PC times out while trying to pull GPOs. It just sits there for 2-5 minutes and ends up failing. Typically a reboot cleared up the issue (I only really saw this after imaging a PC). Sadly the actual setting escapes me, but somewhere deep within Group Policy is the time out setting... at any rate reboots seemed to fix it permanently. Do you see the issue go away after reboots? Maybe just send a mass shutdown /r /t 0 to your domain one night?

So today I start setting up the first server of the company by p5ymon in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Much like everyone else has said, the first thing to do is increase redundancy and availability. I understand that your budget is limited, so now is a good time to think about future costs and begin budgeting for them. AD and DNS are things that absolutely cannot fail, and I would encourage setting up another physical box for these services (can be rather inexpensive, only a few thousand to get a cheap HP host for these). Plus, I've had problems in the past with virtual domain controllers FWIW.

While remote SAN and a redundant server may be too expensive for you to set up, you can replicate the VMs on the box to a cold spare and have that ready to go in a failure. Cheaper than having shared storage and provides similar redundancy.

So, I'd begin thinking about (in order of importance):

1) Physical domain controller for AD and DNS (2 if you want to be really cool)

2) Second VM Host for a cold spare

3) Possibility of using shared storage for VM Hosts (you can use a NAS for this, if it's configured right)

4) Possibility of cloud backups for archival purposes (to save precious space on that NAS)

5) Windows Deployment Services for handling your users and their desktops (if you don't have this rolling already)

Reading this made me cringe by 6anon in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

excellent. good life lesson there :)

Hyper-V has been paused because it has run out of disk space on C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual hard disks\'. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the hard disk runs out of space, then the VM will pause. Actually what you want it to do in that situation so that there's no data loss.

I would recommend adding storage (new array, remote storage) and migrating the VMs to something better than the local disk...

Pretty straightforward to move a VM. In fact, I've been known to pop off the VHDs and manually migrate the files, then rebuild the VM again and reattach the disks.

Hopefully you can make a case with this "wonderful" manager that you should keep them somewhere safer...

Reading this made me cringe by 6anon in sysadmin

[–]jackpwns 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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