jaclaz

Yes, at the very least, you should go through these three steps (though here they are listed about metal detectors, should be applicable to other devices as well): https://kts-electronic.com/en/made-in-germany.html Still the issue about the possibility of having to deal with ex-DDR communists and not integrally German ancestry of employees would remain unsolved. jaclaz

Well, JFYI, I have a few thin clients, good, ol' Fujitsu Siemens Futro S200/S300 (re-adapted as router/firewall) and - curiously enough - they have a TR5670 motherboard, manufactured by by TECO Electric and Machinery Co., Ltd: https://www.teco.com.tw/fa/about.htm which sports a (crappy BTW) Insyde BIOS: https://www.insyde.com/company/fast-facts with a Transmeta Crusoe 800 processor, Transmeta was an American fabless company, processors were actually manufactured, you guess, in Taiwan, by TSMC (part of the Acer group). We are talking of hardware some 20 years old, so it is not a particularly recent trend to outsource the actual manufacturing to Taiwan (or China). jaclaz

You are welcome. There are several possible interpretations to the lack of interest you noticed: 1) your topics are not interesting 2) your topics are interesting (generally speaking) but not appreciated by MSFN members (because of their narrow minds) 3) your topics are interesting and lots of people on MSFN actually like them secretly, but fear that explicitly showing their interest in them will expose them to retaliations of some kind (only as an example targeted EMP attacks) Hard to say which one is more plausible, I would personally think #1, but that is just like my opinion. jaclaz

Sure, and noone said (or at least I never said) that this kind of posts violate MSFN rules. They do violate the (unwritten) rules of good taste and common sense, which are - as you might well know - two among the most uncommon things, and anyway very flexible and personal ones, so noone (I believe) should be banned for violating them. But a stern look of disapproval seems appropriate anyway: jaclaz

What you report is very strange, as you say bizarre. On a "normal" disk once you re-format the partition(s), even as a quick format, nothing (accessible) remains on the partition(s) themselves, i.e. while the data is still there the newly created FAT tables make the data non accessible at a logical level. Fdisk deletes the partition table and should (but it would need to be confirmed) re-write also the MBR code (and possibly also 00 out the DIsk Signature, but in any case the Disk Signature is not used on non NT systems). So the only thing that remains are the so-called hidden sectors (typically sectors LBA 1-62) but those should not be accessed at all during install or normal operation. The diskpart clean should clean also those hidden sectors, so it is possible that this was the difference, still it is strange that those sectors were accessed/checked at all. Maybe it was just voodoo (sometimes it just happens). Happy you managed to solve the issue and thanks for reporting. maybe (hopefully) it will never happen again, but if it does, someone may be able to find this and solve the issue as well. jaclaz

And a related one, actually sponsored by Anne Arundel County, Maryland: https://www.aacounty.org/departments/office-of-emergency-management/emergency-information/before/electromagnetic-pulse.html

Some unrelated videos:

I thought, if every one can post on MSFN crappy random youtube video, why can't I do the same?

I thought, if every one can post on MSFN crappy random youtube video, why can't I do the same?

I thought, if every one can post on MSFN crappy random youtube video, why can't I do the same?

Do we really need to see on MSFN this survivalist/conspirationist/apocalyptic crap? <- this is a rhetoric question, the answer is NO. msfntor, it is already tiring to see all the meaningless, non techinical crap you post on this (supposedly technical) board every single §@ç#ing day, often many times each day, but this is too much. Mind you, you are perfectly free to insist on this as much as you want, but at least you now know how at least one MSFN user is fed up with this senseless garbage. jaclaz

You can try checking with procmon, very likely anything that runs in that moment is under \Sybase\SQL Anywhere 9\Win32\ or anyway \Sybase\ : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon jaclaz

So it is probably an issue with permissions/credentials. Runas or powershell probably will work, but cannot really say. Windows 10 has seemingly some additional (when compared to Vista/7) limitations on account control or permissions: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/run-as-admin/ or maybe elevate: https://code.kliu.org/misc/elevate/ or some similar third party command, the most "powerful" being RunAsTI: https://github.com/jschicht/RunAsTI But really no idea if they work on 10 and specifically on your executables. Also, check with which credentials is the service run in services.msc, maybe you can change them there, or use subinacl or this thingy here: https://www.coretechnologies.com/products/ServiceSecurityEditor/ jaclaz

Thanks, so you are using Romex Vsuite with the flag "Use OS invisible memory". Good to know. jaclaz

I mean, can you stop the service through the dbsvc tool? The tool should be able to list and detail the running instances and allow to stop them manually, presumably the mechanism is the same that the program uses internally. Depending on whether that mechanism works or not it is possible that the issue lies in the permissions/credentials under which the dbsvc or the program runs. jaclaz

So the issue is that it cannot be stopped? But can it be stopped manually? Do you have the dbsvc tool on that install? http://dev.cs.ovgu.de/db/sybase9/help/dbdaen9/00000604.htm Maybe you need (on Windows 10) end the task? https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/34532735/why-is-the-archiving-process-aborted-with-the-message-that-opened-projects-cannot-be-archived-although-all-the-files-in-project-are-closed-?dti=0&lc=en-IT jaclaz

Technically it is a OFM : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Orthodox_file_managers https://softpanorama.org/OFM/Standards/index.shtml Chapter 5: https://softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/Ch05/total_commander.shtml jaclaz

Sybase is SAP since a lot of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Anywhere Version 9 should be 2003, long before signed/verified drivers (and services) became common, it is strange that Windows 10 even allowed you to install (and run) the service. Maybe it cannot be stopped because it doesn't run? (but if it doesn't run I don't think you can fix it, and newer releases - which are Commercial AFAIK - are likely not exchangeable). jaclaz

Yep, good , but you should also detail how you create the Z:\ volume in unused RAM (Imdisk, awealloc, Gavotte, whatever) for your report to be replicable/useful to other users. jaclaz

But does this guarantee that they are not communists? Computeruniverse is (from their about page): https://www.computeruniverse.net/en/page/cuinfo a German company with office in Friedrichsdorf, but founded in Bad Homburg and later moved in Friedberg, since 2006 became part of Burda Consumer Tech Group, so I would say "very" German, but that is just the shop. What you seem to be missing is that DeLock is a brand, not a manufacturer: https://www.delock.com/delock/index.html Essentially what they do is either find (good) existing products on the international market and brand them or find (again internationally) reliable manufacturers and have them produce with their brand particular items. The (sometimes a little, sometimes a lot) markup you pay for their products is mostly about their ability in choosing good products and testing them before reselling them under their brand (for the more common items) and for (AFAIK very good) support (and extended warranty on many items, declarations of conformity). Only to give you an example, do you believe this: https://www.delock.de/produkt/62966/merkmale.html?g=1449 to be very different from these: https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=933 http://www.iocrest.com/index.php?id=2162 jaclaz

Yep, that mock page has been on Dedoimedo since many years, the date is automatically updated to some 5 years in the future. The idea of that post is EXACTLY that of looking spammy. Whether it is funny or not is just a matter of opinions, but contains some good technical references, as an example "an example of a well-crafted socially-engineered email that is so convincing most people will fall for it": https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/email.html Apart from these humour things, another example here: https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/guide-trolling.html Dedoimedo is like the most reliable, unbiased and honest source for reviews of software and particularly Linux related ones, but has also a Windows section and many other ones . From its FAQs: https://www.dedoimedo.com/faq.html jaclaz

There are also good quality ones from Addonics: https://www.addonics.com/product/intro/31 but they are not German[1], they are from Taiwan, cannot say if they count as Chinese. jaclaz [1] in this context German should actually mean China or Taiwan made anyway but chosen and sold by Germans, example: https://www.delock.de/produkt/62510/merkmale.html?setLanguage=en (Made in Taiwan)

Short answer: No. Long answer: Maybe (very likely not yet, but hopefully soon). Coincidentally it was recently posted on reboot.pro about a newish boot manager/Windows OS loader that may (or may not) include a layer of BIOS compatibility mode via the SeaBIOS, JFYI, Quibble: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=22748 As said there, it seems like being yet very experimental and its main scope is different (booting current Windows on EFI with OS residing on a "foreign" filesystem - BTRFS) but from the very scarce and confusing description it sounds like it could work. Still it is the usual "compile as you please" nonsense of many open source projects [1] which limits the possibility to test to a limited number of people with the capabilities to setup a correct build environment and smooth out the (inevitable) quirks preventing a successful compiling[2]. jaclaz [1] the usual Rule being that if you need to compile it, it won't [2] maybe I am too much a pessimist on these, but failure to compile has been the usual outcome of *any* project I ever tried to compile in the last 20 years or so

Maybe we fell in a hysteresis loop of some kind. jaclaz

See reply on your other thread: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184704-help：please-list-some-softwares-or-tools-for-winpe/ jaclaz