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01-23-2019, 11:46 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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Otherwise, I'm sure you can either make or buy a print server. For example, Newegg has a bunch of small <$100 devices that have wifi and a USB port.
I'd read the spec carefully, because some need UPnP, or don't support Windows 10, or the specs don't actually match the ad copy.
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01-24-2019, 02:40 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
My brother managed to rig up something like that for my parents' home office with their printer.
He has the printer connected to an old router, and that router is connected wirelessly to another router, and that router is connected by ethernet to the main modem/router.
So... you might be able to do it without buying anything if you have some old routers.
You can also do it by connecting the printer directly to a computer, and that computer being networked, and then sharing the printer on your network. But then you might need that computer to be on and logged in for you to be able to print from another computer.
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01-27-2019, 06:07 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
On a lark, I connected to my desktop PC via remote desktop. Then I couldn't get the computer to log in locally. Then it went to hell in a handbasket - won't boot normally, I can't reset the OS, I can boot off the recovery USB stick I made, but then it won't do anything. Shit.
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01-27-2019, 10:50 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
Oh ...
That sounds freak(out)y. I can't think why remote desktop access would cause those kinds of problems. (Your metaphor may in fact be literal: you have opened a portal to hell and your PC is now possessed.)
I'm guessing you can't get in via remote desktop any more?
Which OS are we talking about? Do you have any hard drive encryption?
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01-27-2019, 03:10 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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01-27-2019, 05:00 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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Oh ...
That sounds freak(out)y. I can't think why remote desktop access would cause those kinds of problems. (Your metaphor may in fact be literal: you have opened a portal to hell and your PC is now possessed.)
I'm guessing you can't get in via remote desktop any more?
Which OS are we talking about? Do you have any hard drive encryption?
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This is a Windows PC - I think the fuck up after remote desktop is just a symptom of a more fundamental problem. My normal recovery plan would be to refresh the OS, but that failed, so I'm suspecting file system corruption.
I actually had a backup disk connected a day or two before this happened, I have 2 disks in the system, and all of the stuff I care about is on the non-OS disk. The microscope pictures are backed up to a cloud service.
Now I guess I get to see how good my backup plan is.
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01-27-2019, 05:23 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
There's pretty much no way I could figure out what the problem is if you can't, but I am morbidly curious now, and I want all the details and updates.
That's just bizarre and really really scary.
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01-27-2019, 08:55 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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I think the fuck up after remote desktop is just a symptom of a more fundamental problem.
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I agree
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but I am morbidly curious now, and I want all the details and updates.
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Oh, me too
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That's just bizarre and really really scary.
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I agree
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01-27-2019, 09:01 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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There's pretty much no way I could figure out what the problem is if you can't, but I am morbidly curious now, and I want all the details and updates.
That's just bizarre and really really scary.
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Well, I've probably tried a dozen things since it happened. I suspect once one fails, the problems compound.
Initially, when it was just a remote desktop problem, I found a way (using tscon) to log out of the remote session and get the screen back to the local control, but as soon as I locked the PC, it went right back into that state.
After that, I just rebooted it from the login screen, which gave me the option to "update and reboot" - but I think something went wrong, and it went right back into the state it was in before.
So, I booted into recovery mode (3 hard resets in a row) and tried a system restore. The restore seemed to succeed, but then I started getting boot problems. At this point, I've tried things on various orders:
- another system restore point,
- refresh windows, both with keeping and deleting my files.
- boot off a recovery disk and trying all of the above.
- some various tricks on a few different websites.
- backing out of those tricks and trying again.
- sfc /scannnow (got a weird error)
- dskchk (no errors)
Right now, I'm downloading a Windows installation media and I'm going to use it first to try to repair my OS, then if that doesn't work, reinstall.
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01-27-2019, 09:06 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
File system corruption, as you suggest, does seem very likely. A clean reinstall would be the best thing.
A hard drive health check wouldn't be a bad idea, once you've got it working.
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01-28-2019, 02:07 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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Originally Posted by specious_reasons
On a lark, I connected to my desktop PC via remote desktop. Then I couldn't get the computer to log in locally. Then it went to hell in a handbasket - won't boot normally, I can't reset the OS, I can boot off the recovery USB stick I made, but then it won't do anything. Shit.
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Found your twitter.
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01-28-2019, 03:02 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
Nah, it doesn't have enough microscope pictures. Pretty much 95% of my twitter posts are microscope pictures.
Reinstalled Windows from scratch. Slowly getting back all the shit that was on my C: drive and is now gone. All my pictures are on the data drive, so at least that is preserved.
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01-28-2019, 02:50 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
I still recommend performing an exorcism on the hard drive.
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01-28-2019, 03:27 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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Reinstalled Windows from scratch.
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Now you can enjoy many hours of Windows updating itself so as to get back to the bloated state it was in just before it died last time.
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01-30-2019, 01:44 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
So yeah we have a "preview" folder on one of the websites I manage and the folder was configured for username/password access to keep out the riff-raff.
Someone sent an email about a dozen people with the wrong password and the server firewall has blocked the lot of them for using the wrong password. Had to whitelist all their IPs.
I was not the person who sent out that email tho.
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01-30-2019, 01:50 PM
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01-31-2019, 12:26 AM
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01-31-2019, 05:48 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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01-31-2019, 05:36 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
Hahahahahahaha!
Seriously, how many times is this going to happen before people stop buying stupid unaccountable, closed source internet of shit devices?
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Answer: Infinity times.
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02-01-2019, 06:46 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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02-03-2019, 07:40 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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03-07-2019, 04:47 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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03-09-2019, 03:50 AM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
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03-09-2019, 01:01 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
Yesterday I watched a demo of an AI program that reproduced an image that a designer needed 2 hours to do.
AI did it in 3 minutes.
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03-09-2019, 03:03 PM
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Re: Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany
Was it a Xerox brand AI?
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