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Posted by
jacobwilliamroy on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am looking at migrating a Windows server (Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard) and I am wondering if there is some way to learn what files are being read. I know the operating system keeps this metadata but I have also learned that this metadata is unreliable. Is there a third party tool or some kind of powershell script I can use to track this data?
I need to know what people are doing recently because most of the documentation I'm finding online is from 3-5 years ago and I want the most up-to-date information.
It's just bigger than any amount I've ever dealt with in my whole life (I'm 30) and also it's hard to find solutions to manage it without running into bandwidth caps and also things are running for a very long time on the client side: days or weeks.
This is for a "warm" backup as opposed to a hot backup so restoration timeline would be like seven days.
Posted by
jacobwilliamroy on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:12AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm talking about greater than 5 TB in size. Rclone looks really good because I can just give it a bandwidth limit, point it at google drive and fire and forget. But I'm curious if that is the best way to do this? What does HN think?
Posted by
jacobwilliamroy on Thursday May 29, 2025 @04:36PM
from the ask-hn dept.
So to make a very long story short, at my job we are using Storage Replica to replicate two servers that are sitting right next to each other: one server is a mirror of the other and vice versa. We are using Storage Replica to do this since these are Windows servers but I have a few really big problems with Storage Replica:1) The documentation is very poor2) There is no way to configure...
I am only trying to ensure the data on the local system is the same as the data on the server. There is no adversary in the middle modifying data; so this is strictly about detecting corruption.
Posted by
jacobwilliamroy on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @12:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.
So I have an SFTP server [Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.8.0-55-generic x86_64)] and an SFTP client (Windows 11): the client downloads files from the SFTP server. I had an idea to implement integrity checks by hashing the file on server side and also hashing the client's copy of the file after it is downloaded, then comparing the hashes to ensure the data was downloaded correctly. My question...
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Do you make it like a fun game? Like when me and my friends in school would pass eachother coded notes and the cipher was an inside joke?
I'm genuinely curious: what was the pitch that you used to get others to start using signal?
Do you make it like a fun game? Like when me and my friends in school would pass eachother coded notes and the cipher was an inside joke?
I'm genuinely curious: what was the pitch that you used to get others to start using signal?
Do you exclusively use signal? Do your friends also use signal? Do you have friends who only use signal to communucate with you?
When people would rather use crypto than their national currency, that is an indictment of the currency, not an endorsement of crypto.
Posted by
jacobwilliamroy on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Windows licensing is really complicated: I never know how much it's going to cost, how long it's going to take, for example, to install Windows 11 Pro on 80 different computers. Or it's not clear what the upgrade path would be from Windows 7 home to Windows 11 Pro. Is there something I can read or a course I can take so I can learn more about Windows licensing?
Task Scheduler is available on Windows 10 Home. I think of it as "cron for Windows" even though despite being able to schedule the execution of specific tasks, it is really nothing like cron aside from that.
Windows licensing is the hardest part of my job. Like if I want to have thin clients running Windows 11 VMs hosted on Windows Server 2022, how do I pay Microsoft so they will let me use the software in this way? I have no idea. I think you need to contact some kind of client services representative at Microsoft in order to figure out the whole licensing thing. By the way if it wasn't clear, I hate all of this. The only good thing about it is that I can make a living by dealing with it so other people don't have to.
I administer a Windows domain at my job that I do 40 hours a week so your assessment of me is just wrong and also offensive.
I just restarted one of the workstations with Teams startup enabled and Teams ran when the computer restarted. Then I tried disabling Teams startup in the task manager on the same workstation and then restarted the workstation, and Teams hasn't started. I checked the startup tab in the task manager and Teams is still disabled after the restart. It hasn't appeared in the task manager either. This is Windows 10 Pro, so the behavior might be different on different versions/editions of Windows. Also this behavior might be affected by updates. These machines automatically install updates every Saturday, so they're running the latest Windows 10. Even if the setting is reset on a future update, I can create a GPO to disable it or even a scheduled task if I'm not allowed to manage this computer at the domain level.
In Windows you can use the task manager to configure what programs are started with your computer.
I just don't have a personal computer. I just use other people's computers. Accept all cookies. Honestly if advertisers can figure out how to track me across multiple browsers on multiple OSes on multiple computers on multiple networks, then that's actually really impressive and I would like to know how they did it.
>this should be core OS GUI functionality
Be careful. This is how distros start.
And as a network admin I am pushing to have all of our office computers replaced with thin clients, and centralizing all of our compute resources on a single machine that is probably running Windows Server 2022. The current year is 2024. This architecture was cutting edge in the 1990s. I'm over 30 years behind the curve on this.
I don't know if anyone who worked on this project is going to read this but if you are: good job! This looked like it was really hard.
Keep in mind that was over 60 years ago. Computers now have much more CPU and storage space and ethernet bandwidth is also much bigger (currently hundreds of gigabits per second) and constantly increasing. We live in an unprecedented age of battlefield transparency. I don't have any clearance at all but I am allowed to pull out my credit card and buy time on a satellite to take photos of an area in Ukraine to confirm destroyed equipment or track wildfires. There has never been a time like this in human history.
I remember the last time I was on a military base I saw a poster with a femme fatale looking woman on it and the words "YOUR JOB'S NOT THAT INTERESTING" printed in big letters. If they don't have propaganda posters that say stuff like "DON'T LEAK CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TO WIN INTERNET ARGUMENTS" yet, they should.
Lots of reasons but I'll list two:
1) These documents are historical artifacts like the declaration of independence or the magna carta. They may not seem important now but in 300 years people will care about them A LOT.
2) Redundancy. If the digital records are destroyed or say encrypted in a massive ransomware attack then the UK government can simply reconstruct those digital records using the paper records without having to deal with terrorists and that's a good thing.
The suspect was allegedly embezzling covid relief money and the argument was about things like "why are we using company time to go to your house and install the new flat screen TV you just bought?"
The moral of the story is that you should never steal money from the U.S. government because that is one thing that they will not tolerate and I do not know the limits of what they will do in order to catch you.
A friend of mine was recently a witness for the FBI. He was working in a small office in the middle of nowhere and happened to have a very loud argument with the suspect. A few minutes later he left the building and when he was about to start his car, he got a call from an agent asking him if he wanted to be a witness in the case they were working on.
Sometimes I think about how everything Ive ever known is a tiny invisible spot on a little wet rock hurtling through an empty nightmare abyss.
I already have a little device in my car that let's my auto insurance company spy on me in exchange for a discount. They call it a "Drive Safe and Save Beacon". After asking a lot of questions I have come to believe that it is an accelerometer and a bluetooth radio that sends data to my phone and either the accelerometer data is processed on my phone or it is transmitted via the internet somewhere else where it is processed. I'm not sure which one it is. The insurance company consumes location data too, but they get that from my phone, but there might also be a GPS chip in the "beacon". Probably not though. There's no easy way to take the beacon apart to replace the battery so I would think they wouldn't put unnecessary components in there to draw power. It actually makes me wonder why they need the "beacon" at all because my phone already has an accelerometer, location data and an internet connection. It must be some kind of regulatory requirement. Either that or the people selling the "beacons" to the insurance company are really good at selling redundant unnecessary equipment. Or maybe to get accurate data the accelerometer needs to be in a fixed position in the vehicle and my phone moves around too much.
The only part of a system like this that doesn't work is sometimes the actual posted speed limit doesn't match what the insurance company has in its database and I have to call them and tell them they need to update it. The U.S has a lot of roads. Just keeping track of what the speed limit is for a given location in the U.S. would be difficult, but not impossible. Probably involves a whole lot of boring data entry work.
There are so many people currently employed at Google whose livelihood (think mortgage payments, food, gasoline) depend on having a problem that they can work on but never solve.