Random Access Machine Puns

Abit of background. This happened more than few years ago when I was still at phone support. We served one of the bigger company that owned a particular high end mall in our city. This includes their Windows XP, and yes win7 had been out for ages, machines they ran for their POS.

Roughly paraphrased (heck it have been a few years), translated (for your benefit) and dramatized (also for your benefit). BC = blond clerk OP = super experianced support person of 3 months.

OP: Hello this is Tech Support, you're talking to OP.

BC: Hi, this is BC from store such and such. I need you to do some techy stuff and grant me admin access. I can't run this USB cause it keeps asking for password.

OP: Im sorry, did you say USB? What are you trying to run? I assume you mean at the back office computer?

BC: It's a bank USB and no I'm at the POS.

OP: I'm not quite following, what kind of USB was it? Where did you get it?

BC: Listen, I have a gentleman here waiting I dont have time for this, just do your thing and fix the access. It's a big sale and he's in a hurry.

OP: I understand, but per company policy we need to ask these questions for administrative access. So please just explain what it is you're trying to do and why.

(at this point I've connected to the POS to check whats up, it was the old fashioned login to grant admin popup and a drive open with an icon litteraly just named Bank.exe)

BC: (i could hear her sigh) look, this gentleman is a diplomat from china just bought $40k (or something) worth of jewellery. He need us to open this bank program to authorize the transfer to our POS. When I try to do that it keeps asking for administrator login.

(I was gasping by shock at the stupidity and my colleagues already put on the speaker on my phone) OP: Ok, thank you. Unfortunatly this program is not in the preauthorized list of applications we're allowed to install. (theres no such list, no apps is ever to be installed or run on POS thats not in the default image) So I'll have to send this for approvement.

BC: We can't wait for that, I'm going to miss a huge sale and I'll make sure they know you are the cause! Just give me the access!

OP: Sorry, I need to follow policy, but I'll make sure to go directly to the IT director of the company to get this fasttracked.

Got some more rants and we finally hung up. I did send a email to the IT director with all of the details.

This girl, which was probably around 25, not only ran the program on the POS but then calle

Hello sysadmin team. I am in need of some assistance and thought I would check here first. We have recently had a few Windows 7 or newly imaged Windows 10 machines that randomly stop accessing the root of our SMB share. Our team has done some extensive troubleshooting which I would gladly share and unless we completely re-install Windows there is no resolution. Other shares (CIFS on our Netapp) are accessible no problem. At first we thought it had to do with the NIC card or driver but I am not fully determined thats it. Other users that login to that machine have the same issue so I know its not permissions. Our version of Isilon is 8.1.0.2 so not super outdated. Just thought I would see if anyone has encountered this before. Thanks!

Oh god how many more things do i not know

Now, I understand perfectly where people come from when they say they really liked Daft Punk's first albums but where perplexed at RAM. I have a different relationship to their art than someone who discovered them with Discovery, since I first listened to them through RAM. This album might be my favorite of all time. The mixing is so smooth, and the palette of emotions is so diverse, I can't wrap my head around how they did that. Touch is their best track, the melody makes me see very clear and vivid memories in a way that no other song can. It's such an incredible album.

I'm currently in creative mode and say I accidentally destroyed a compact machine that I want to access

How can I access that compact machine again? google was unhelpful :(
Is there a way to set the ID of a compact machine?

I used to do the opposite using Windows Remote Desktop app and its wonderful. I was wordering if there is any option for windows that I can access my Mac from a Windows machine, instead just share the screen like TeamViewer does.

TLDR: Basically the title. Need help/advice.

Sysadmin/network engineer here, I've been on the path of full stack web dev for about a year now - still very green. I work in tech for a medium mobile app startup as their sysadmin/security/ops person. After helping the web team build some small devops projects because of the pandemic (automated remote build machines on M1 Mac Minis + VPN + Azure DevOps Pandemic stuff). I really started to like programming/scripting a lot more, mix in a little on-prem and cloud it was easily the most fun project I've worked on in years!

One of the biggest issues I've been having with learning programming is trust. I literally cannot bring myself to trust all of these packages, repos, libraries that I see YouTubers in tutorials doing. They just have no problem 'brew install w0X0w-crawlme' or 'apt get pupchow-parsemachine2000'. I see what they are trying to accomplish and I can grasp what the tools are doing but I just don't know enough at the beginning of my programming journey I feel like. Often I will open a public repo on github and I scan all the files in a Flask project. I know what maybe 20% of them do right now... my brain/finger will not - can not click the download button. I just can't do it!

To make matters worse, I'm getting mentoring from 1-2 webdevs at my company who are supportive of my efforts (they're great really). And I literally see them just download ANYTHING directly to their company machines. Try out some new improved package/tool and then just keep going like they didn't just download 30,000 files directly from some random AWS server in Brazil???

I've been on the receiving end of too many security issues, phishing attacks, ransomware at companies - I don't even open attachments in my email unless they come from a whitelisted domain. Idk what to do at this point? Learn programming inside of a VM? I know venvs and similar tools exist but I'm still cautious.

Sometimes I just want to say fuck it and just download all of it - learn what I need to learn for a few months and then just image my Macbook...

How did random thugs in the phantom troupe like Uvogin learn to use nen? He doesn’t seem like the kind of character to let someone look down on him and teach him. Furthermore, where did someone like Hisoka learn nen?

>DISCLAIMER: I am not an audio expert, nor a hardcore audiophile. I'm just a music enthusiast living life listening to GY!BE and Wilco. So I am open for criticism, and all is well and cool.

Halu.

There is a discussion about whether the reel to reel rip of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories is actually legitimate or not.

https://preview.redd.it/xmu2jz0ipn981.png?width=1339&format=png&auto=webp&s=2110adc0eb2e49dd8009a879b8ea3818ff295e6d

Straight to the point; there is no reel to reel release of this album, but it is still a tape rip. Here's the known story about this rip:

• It is a fan made tape. The original digital file (88.2kHz) was remastered on DAW and pressed on the tape; then re-ripped from the same tape. It almost like a mirroring situation. I tried to find the original post of this rip on rutracker but it seems like it has been removed (probably because of the doubtfulness of the legitimacy). One person already addressed it ^([1]), but I have seen discussions about the legitimacy of the rip on the site itself.
• I would say it is a fan-made because there is no database about this specific release on Discogs.
• Now this is not the first case because there is a fan-made SACD-R (which also not on Discogs as well) of this album with 5.1 surround sound mix ^([2]) of it only to notice that the drums reverbed when it shouldn't be, which indicates an upmix instead of actual instruments separation mix.
• Also worth mentioning that fan-made tapes are pretty common; there is a video on YouTube where an avid vaporwave fan has made a Macintosh Plus' Floral Shoppe made to reel to reel.

[1]

[2] - Notice the blue-colored hyperlink (chuhonka2010) led to the original 88.2kHz album rip share page; which indicates the acknowlegements of this being a fan made.

Spectrograms for comparisons

Now this is just a simple analysis; by visual understanding of spectrograms in general.

>A. Original Édition Studio Masters

[11 - Fragments of Time ( Édition Studio Masters 24bit 88.2kHz)](https://preview.redd.it/zg0fhyq9sn981.png?

Hi! I'm crossposting this, I also asked the question on r/techsupport, I hope you guys don't mind.

I'm an academic, who mostly works on my personal PC. I've never really needed one from work. But because of all the working from home recently, my colleauges and I need to have access to files on the server remotely, through the institution's VPN. PCs for all of us have been ordered by the IT department, but because of supply chain issues thay haven't arrived yet and won't for a while.

As a stopgap measure, the IT department have agreed to install the VPN client on our personal computers, as long as we also install the institution's antivirus software: Kaspersky Security Center. I just had the KSC client installed on my laptop, and looking over the IT guy's shoulder at his screen, I saw that he could see the names of the folders and files in my Program Files folder. I'm running Windows 10

So now I'm wondering exactly what my IT department can now see and do on my machine. Can they see all files, could they view or download them, could they edit or delete them?

UPDATE: I managed to solve this by following a similar process to how I set up my Plex to work with Mullvad by adding a forwarding rule to forward connections to the Mullvad-assigned port to port 8080 and changing the web-ui's port back to 8080. Thanks to everyone for their help.

I am on a shared network with the rest of my housing complex (I was able to find a 8-way unmanaged switch in my unit and nothing else). I am using Mullvad + wireguard, and have managed to successfully open ports for remote access to my plex server, as well as incoming connections on qBittorrent. I can download + seed fine through the VPN, but cannot figure out how to access the web UI from other machines; even ones on the same network.

I changed the port in the web ui settings to the one Mullvad assigned to me (different than the one I use for incoming connections), I see the port on the Windows Resource Monitor, added an incoming Firewall rule, and have turned on the local network sharing option in Mullvad.

On the pc qBittorrent is running on, curl http://localhost:[Port #] returns the web ui html and (only) on Edge localhost:[Port #] brings up the web UI successfully. Trying to access http://[Exit IP]:[Port #] from a different machine on the same network brings back Empty reply from server in the Cmd Prompt and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE in Edge. What am I missing? Using qBittorrent v4.3.9, and Mullvad 2021.6. TYIA.

I live in London in a flat above a barber shop. The front door is on ground level, it leads to a thin corridor that leads to an unsecured door that leads to stairs up to my flat. The main front door is the the only security to my flat.

The barber shops electric box is in that corridor so they only have access to it if I let them in. They have requested that the landlord move the box into the shop but the landlord will not spend the money to do it. Recently they have been having power cuts on a regular basis, normally they just ring the bell or phone me to let them in, it's a bit inconvenient (and I don't think legal), but it hasn't been a huge issue. It became a problem when I went away for the Christmas period. The agent (I've never had contact with the landlord, communication is always through the agent) had told me that she had a spare key if there's ever an emergency. When I left I informed the guys at the barber shop that they should contact the agent if there's any issues.

On the 19th December I receive an incredible rude phone call from the agent, the electric has gone off in the shop again, the agent actually doesn't have a spare key. The agent eventually requests permission to go with a locksmith to change the locks, to stay witness whilst the barbers access the electric box, then to meet me on my return to London to give me the new key.

I return to London on the 31st, the agent had agreed to meet me but then tells me she's left the key at the barber shop for me collect. I wasn't happy about this but after a long journey I couldn't be bothering to argue about it.

I get to the barber shop, the barber gives me the key which has been kept in a draw in the shop that anyone can access. He also has a copy of the key which he refuses to give to me because the landlord told him to keep it. He tells me that on the 19th neither the landlord or agent came to witness them access the property. He said they gave him permission to change the locks and let himself in, he kept the key in the shop for the last 12 days.

So basically the landlord and agent gave random men permission to change locks and enter my home without anyone witnessing their actions. They could enter my home any point they wanted over the 12 days. There's a handful of men who work and live in the shop, so all have had the ability to enter my home. Since getting home I feel so uncomfortable, the thought that strangers could of been touching and looking through my stuff makes me feel viol

I’ll be sitting here on my day off and get multiple charges from the vending machines at Amazon even on my days off even got a new card and it continues still anyone else have this problem??

Obviously computing has come a long way since WWII. Having a captured enigma machine greatly narrows the possible combinations you are searching for and the possible combinations of encoding, even though there are still a lot of possible configurations. A modern computer could probably crack the code in a second, but what if they had no enigma machines at all?

Could an intercepted encoded message be cracked today with random replacement of each character with no information about the mechanism of substitution for each character?

I am looking into options to access a machine that is isolated from the plant network and any internet connection but would like to be able to connect to the isolated network remotely for support if needed. In this isolated network there is a PLC, Ethernet Scanners and a stand alone HMI that I would all like to be able to get connection to. One options I have seen is the EWON Cozy with a cellular connection. Is this the best option for me or any options I am missing to connect?

I’ve been trying to get my hands on one or both of these albums on vinyl but the prices are just so high, is there a possible set date when one of these will start being remade again? (I know discovery had one recently that got cancelled)

I'm an academic, who mostly works on my personal PC. I've never really needed one from work. But because of all the working from home recently, my colleauges and I need to have access to files on the server remotely, through the institution's VPN. PCs for all of us have been ordered by the IT department, but because of supply chain issues thay haven't arrived yet and won't for a while.

As a stopgap measure, the IT department have agreed to install the VPN client on our personal computers, as long as we also install the institution's antivirus software: Kaspersky Security Center. I just had the KSC client installed on my laptop, and looking over the IT guy's shoulder at his screen, I saw that he could see the names of the folders and files in my Program Files folder.

So now I'm wondering exactly what my IT department can now see and do on my machine. Can they see all files, could they view or download them, could they edit or delete them?

P.S. I'm running Windows 10.