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Just think, right now about 10,000 hackers are adding that word to their tables, so it is no longer useful as a password!
Dave.
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I just spent three weeks trying to figure out the nuances of restarting a process on a remote Windows machine from a web site. The task description started out as "convert an existing VBS script to c# so we could use it from a web site".
Windows XP Embedded does ship with schtasks.exe. This means you can't schedule tasks on the box, so you have to run PSEXEC instead to run your process directly. The PSExec thing on XP boxes is a relative piece of cake to get working. The problems exist in schtasks.
Non-embedded versions of Windows have schtasks, and you have to run it with WMI to avoid permissions entanglements. You also have to be very careful of how you specify parameters. Windows XP uses schtasks v5, and Windows 7 uses v6. If you specify a command line parameter that doesn't exist for the given version of schtasks you're trying to run, it simply doesn't do anything (and v6 has params that v5 doesn't have). Since you're running via WMI, you can't capture stderr or stdout, either.
This has been a freaking nightmare. We still haven't figured out why it won't work in a virtual machine, but for me that's a non issue since the web site won't be manipulating VMs at all.
BTW, you know you have problems when you run schtasks and you don't get a file in the (Win7) Windows/System32/Tasks folder, or the (XP) Windows/Tasks folder. It's important that you have an account on the remote box in question so you can observe (via remote desktop) the task manager and the Tasks folder. Without that ability, you have no hope of determining exactly what has occurred.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 6-Dec-13 9:26am.
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I still haven't figured out how to get cron (*nix task scheduler) to work.
Marc
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No one has, the standard is to get the job 'nearly there' then panic when it fails at the critical moment.
speramus in juniperus
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We have a little snow and ice this morning and the news is treating it like the apocalypse has come.
We get snow and ice all winter most every year.
There are the usual drivers that think the laws of physics (nature) do not apply to them. You know, the ones trying for the Darwin award.
Well I guess I will just turn off the "news".
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Yeah, I had one run into me on Wednesday when the “big storm” hit Minnesota. Apparently didn't know why it made sense to keep a fair distance between them and the vehicle in front of them. Luckily, no injuries.
The same thing here, OMG! AAAAAH! It's snowing! Buy every snowblower, shovel and sandbag from the stores NOW, DURING THE STORM! Idiots...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: OMG! AAAAAH! It's snowing!
I thought that was only Ohio where they forget how to drive between snows. In Minnesota you would think they would know how to handle it.
But yes, people run out and buy everything from shovels to beard.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Wednesday when the “big storm” hit Minnesota
It didn't help that the MNDOT crews all went to Florida because of the scary white powdery substance that fell from the sky.
S Houghtelin wrote: Buy every snowblower, shovel and sandbag from the stores NOW, DURING THE STORM!
Idiots
I've often wondered what happens to all of those shovels / snow blowers after the “STORM OF THE CENTRUY”. As you’re right EVERY TIME there is some snow everyone seems to panic then go buy everything in site.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I have always made it a point to test my brakes when there is snow to remind myself what a skid feels like.
Unfortunately this year I had a new car with ABS and on braking the car juddered like hell and kept travelling in a straight line.
Even when I reduced the brake the juddering continued and it was only by chance that the car did come to a standstill just before hitting a neighbours car.
It would be good if I could turn off the ABS when it snows.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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You can pull out ABS' fuse, but wouldn't advise it. The whole idea of ABS is that you are still able to steer while breaking so if your car just continued to go straight something is wrong...
Either only ice on the road (you can't cheat physics  ) or bad tires (unlikely in new car).
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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deflinek wrote: if your car just continued to go straight something is wrong...
That was probably an EBSAW(Error Between Seat And Wheel) in other words I probably froze - which does not bother me admitting to, because as an ex-biker I am aware of how easy it is to freeze when confronted by an unfamiliar set of circumstances.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I don't own a TV. I have 3 monitors on my desk, a laptop often enough on the side, a Galaxy Tab I rarely use, and an Android phone. But I don't own a TV.
Marc
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Well, I can't hang around here saving your necks all day. I guess I'll go and make a start on the ironing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9d0ZrBnLE[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I used to be smug claiming I didn't watch the telly, but not even that is true anymore as I sit with the kids and watch Sandman before they're going to bed.
(For the culturally challenged, Sandman in this case[^] doesn't have anything to do with neither Neil Gaiman nor Metallica)
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Why has that peculiar looking creature got a flattened icicle where its tongue ought to be?
That's just plain weird...
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's a beard.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Well you don't have to do quite as much explaining then.
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Sometimes one gets the feeling that Dexter is captain and project lead of the star ship Event Horizon sailing for blue skies and rainbows...
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There is a young lady call Susan who doesn't like to see moccasins when she visits the tanning studio.
She wants them off the premises so that she is the brightest thing in there.
"Sue shoos Sioux shoes so she shone in the sunshine shop"
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I think "The Leith Police dismisseth us" is harder to say.
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"No more beer for me, I have to get home" is bloody impossible!
speramus in juniperus
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That's not even remotely difficult!
Try the classic "Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry" instead.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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