The Chat/Spam Thread

**anon** · 09.02.22, 06:06

Originally Posted by Master Razor

Is Koel still here? I so liked that guy.

Me too, but only in hindsight.

**Sazzy** · 09.02.22, 15:49

Originally Posted by anon

Me too, but only in hindsight.

It's weird how life works some times. He was annoying in the best way

**anon** · 10.02.22, 04:07

Nothing weird about filtering out bad things when remembering the past

In any case, he's always welcome back.

**Sazzy** · 10.02.22, 20:21

Agreed!

**Flower** · 11.02.22, 14:38

Hello 2u2

**anon** · 11.02.22, 18:34

**anon** · 13.02.22, 19:24

Lessons learned the hard way: apparently VMware's bridged networking driver is not capable of dealing with high-demand scenarios (lots of open connections and high-speed transfers) and will crash eventually. And we know what happens when a kernel-mode driver crashes

This will set me back a day or two... oh well.

**anon** · 13.02.22, 21:04

How to recover a crashed VMware virtual machine that was running in nonpersistent mode when the redo data still exists.

blank the value of scsiX:Y.mode in its .vmx file
change the value of scsiX:Y.fileName to point to the REDO file
blank the value of scsiX:Y.redo
start VM
recover your data and shut down
revert the value of scsiX:Y.mode back to "independent-nonpersistent"
revert the value of scsiX:Y.fileName to point to the parent virtual disk
blank the value of scsiX:Y.redo
delete the old, lingering REDO file

To VMware, a REDO file is simply a sparse disk image where the sectors that don't exist are filled by the parent virtual disk. scsiX:Y may be sata or ide depending on bus type, use your imagination. And if you haven't yet enabled full memory dumps and learned to use Volatility Framework... do.

Okay, time to grab something to eat then start fixing this.

**anon** · 14.02.22, 20:14

Some observations.

Notepad may not store its text contiguously in memory, and can do so as either ANSI or UTF-16 irrespective of the original encoding.
cmd.exe stores the console buffer as a contiguous stream of text with no line breaks and spaces filling unused areas.
PhotoFiltre splits the DIB header from the actual image contents in memory, making recovery extremely difficult; fortunately I had no unsaved images loaded.
Firefox stores the URLs of open tabs contiguously; order is jumbled and some garbage may follow the addresses, but they're there.
There's a Volatility plugin to analyze virtual machines by scanning the host's memory dump, but it hasn't been updated since version 2.2.

**anon** · 16.02.22, 00:19

Recovery nearly complete. Some reading material for whoever cares follows

https://apprize.best/microsoft/internals_1/7.html

**anon** · 24.02.22, 21:49

How I listened to this sort of music every day for several years, I don't know. Thankfully I'm all grown up and stuff now, yes.

**Sazzy** · 26.02.22, 23:35

I've also been there and I just can't understand why at this point. I really took a hard turn towards becoming a metalhead at some point. I can still enjoy some of these though. Just not full days or often anymore

**anon** · 26.02.22, 23:59

Originally Posted by Sazzy

I can still enjoy some of these though. Just not full days or often anymore

And definitely not in the form of 4-hour megamixes

I was also big into rap and hip hop when I signed up here... was. But tastes change over time, so I guess this is normal. Jazz, blues and the like still aren't for me, however.