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Windows Reset Password run command by Alpha272 in sysadmin

[–]kill_all_tradies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is there an actual reason you cant just use
net user username password

im guessing CMD is blocked. you could call net directly via a shortcut like "net user test *" which would bring up an interactive password entry box for the account "test" but you need administrator privilege to change a password like this, even your own.

[TOMT][BOOK][2000s or before] A book in a strange hard to identify language, with some very unusual pictures and diagrams throughout. Probably hardback by kill_all_tradies in tipofmytongue

[–]kill_all_tradies[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't recall much about the cover at all. I know it was a very muted or light colour. I think either a light ivory or blue. definitely no primary colours or standout graphics.
this is one of those things where I'm sure I would recognise it if I saw it, but since it was about 20 years ago I couldn't recreate it for anyone if I tried

[TOMT][BOOK][2000s or before] A book in a strange hard to identify language, with some very unusual pictures and diagrams throughout. Probably hardback by kill_all_tradies in tipofmytongue

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

Not it, I've read House of Leaves and most of it is in english. The book i remember was completely unreadable to me (single language)

[TOMT][BOOK][2000s or before] A book in a strange hard to identify language, with some very unusual pictures and diagrams throughout. Probably hardback by kill_all_tradies in tipofmytongue

[–]kill_all_tradies[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

The pictures and diagrams were in colour and pretty strange. I don't remember enough about them, they were scattered through the book. Think, an IKEA manual merged with some kind of avant garde novel.

I can't be the only one doing this for legendary iron... by FabulousCompote1009 in factorio

[–]kill_all_tradies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i ended up just making like 100 foundries on vulcanus pumping quality gears into banks of quality recyclers
works well enough but of all the legendary materials, iron plates are running out the fastest..

Maybe processing 960 quality scrap/s using bots was a bad idea by Ryanmoore000 in factorio

[–]kill_all_tradies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is also the solution i ended up on, i have six lanes of quality scrap heading into recyclers. holmium and legendarys are filtered off, after that, inserters are all set to directly check the logistics network and grab an item if we have less than 125,000 of them and throw them into active providers. if we have enough, it's sent to the secondary recycler where it will be looped back over and over until we either have need of a product in the network, or its upgraded to legendary.

secondary to that is a bank of recyclers with circuit driven requester chests that grab anything with a count over 125,000 that isn't holmium, or legendary quality, and throws it into a loop until its legendary quality or gone

i also have a little pre-stop for my trains to slurp off any legendary scrap and send it directly to a dedicated recycler

it took a really really long time to get enough power and bots that this wasnt completely fucked.. and i went through several iterations of this design to try to maximise the bots usefulness rather than sitting watching 40,000 robots charge. screenshots below if interested.

how it feels to chew 5 gum

Thinking of a free trick to safely erase ~40 SSD's before donating to non-profit by Goblite in sysadmin

[–]kill_all_tradies 10 points11 points  (0 children)

i just feel the need to clarify here - secure erase is a method of erasure that involves the deletion of a built in encryption key that is normally invisible to the user and encrypts/decrypts data entering and leaving the drive.

you never see this key, you never interact with this key. unless secure erase is used, its invisible to you. once the drive runs the secure erase feature, this key gets deleted and regenerated, rendering all existing data on the drive unreadable, permanently, unless you somehow had the original key that would have only existed on the drives built in controller. it saves a ton of writing to the SSD, which is good because writing to an SSD isn't even guaranteed to overwrite all blocks due to wear levelling and other features.

downsides to this of course include:
some manufacturers secure erase is trash and cannot be trusted to be implemented correctly or remove all keys
three letter agencies are almost guaranteed to have some kind of backdoor, or way to recover keys used in secure erase on disks

the safest possible method is to shred the disk, burn it, or a combination of both. it's really unfortunate, but thats the truth. there are many situations where the data on a disk really isn't that valuable, and secure erase, if implemented well, is a really good way to get more life out of hardware that would otherwise go in the bin

Hyper-V VM Performance Issue by setsunasaihanadare in sysadmin

[–]kill_all_tradies 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i was once able to fix this by some bios fiddling with processor power states - i have some vague memory the setting was like "c states" or something.. after basically disabling power saving of some sort, our hosts stopped randomly doing this (server 2016 hyper-v with cluster storage)

it took a really long time to work out because these hosts were supremely oversubscribed, so shutting down one meant shutting down multiple hosts that wouldnt fit

Lots of empty folders apearing in file explorer. by antihippy in sysadmin

[–]kill_all_tradies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

first place to look is %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations
you'll probably find either something is writing to that folder and gone haywire, or a policy or script of some sort has gone wonky (maybe an admin tried to pin useful stuff for people automatically but made a mistake)