jacobwilliamroy

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Ask HN: What is the best way to see what files are being read in Windows?
5 points by jacobwilliamroy 10mo ago|4 comments
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by jacobwilliamroy 10mo ago
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.
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by jacobwilliamroy 10mo ago
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 th
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by jacobwilliamroy 10mo ago
This is for a "warm" backup as opposed to a hot backup so restoration timeline would be like seven days.
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Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?
22 points by jacobwilliamroy 10mo ago|20 comments
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Ask HN: What would you recommend as a replacement for Windows Storage Replica?
1 points by jacobwilliamroy 1y ago|0 comments
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by jacobwilliamroy 1y ago
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.
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Ask HN: Should I implement my own integrity checks on my fileserver?
2 points by jacobwilliamroy 1y ago|3 comments
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
I DO I HAVE 3 3 IS MORE THAN 1
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
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?
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
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?
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
Do you exclusively use signal? Do your friends also use signal? Do you have friends who only use signal to communucate with you?
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
When people would rather use crypto than their national currency, that is an indictment of the currency, not an endorsement of crypto.
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Ask HN: How do I learn about Windows licensing?
2 points by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago|0 comments
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
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.
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
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
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
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
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
In Windows you can use the task manager to configure what programs are started with your computer.
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
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 net
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
>this should be core OS GUI functionality Be careful. This is how distros start.
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by jacobwilliamroy 2y ago
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. Th
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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.
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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.
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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 sta
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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.
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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 i
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by jacobwilliamroy 3y ago
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.

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