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AI
by Tom Gao July 30, 2024

July 30, 2024

Hi guys, I haven't posted in a few years and haven't been on the tools for a long time now as well. I'm on a panel on a digital conference coming up in march. We had a pre meeting today and the topic of AI came up. Two of the panelist said cited CBA and Westpac using AI and were able to save 30% on development effort. Personally I just finished an AI course my view is quite the opposite. My personal opinion of the generative AI space and AI in general having spent time with the academics is that the benefits are significantly over inflated. I want to get some other opinions if you are seeing any significant benefit and that I may be just out of touch or not aware. Thanks, Tom

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[OT] Windows Server install problems
by Greg Keogh July 18, 2024

July 18, 2024

Folks, it's been a non-TGIF day. My old server under the desk running Server 2019 (or 2016 I forget) died this morning and I'm trying to create a replacement I have a brand new *one of these* <https://www.ple.com.au/Products/665032/ple-midnight-gtx-1650-prebuilt-ready…>, so I installed Server 2019 and it all went smoothly until it booted and all chipset devices are dead, including the network adapter and the screen is stuck at SGA. The only drivers I can find are for Windows 7 to 11 and nothing else. I tried installing 2016 as an experiment but it produces the same results. Am I wasting my time? Is that box incapable of running recent Windows Server editions? *Thanks, Greg*

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Active Directory lookup
by Greg Keogh May 25, 2024

May 25, 2024

TGIF! I just spiced-up an ASP.NET app so that it uses DirectorySearch.FindOne <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.directoryservices.direc…> to either verify a login user account exists or to authenticate. It runs perfectly on my work PC, but when I installed the app in IIS on my test server it died with *The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted*. I discovered that because my app was running as NETWORK SERVICE, which isn't a domain user, it can't see the Active Directory. A trap...only domain user accounts can *see* AD. Asking the customer (a hospital) to create a special account, assign it to the pool and set ACLs is impractical. My lovely new login feature has hit a roadblock and I'm not sure of a workaround or alternative. It's a specialist topic, but I thought I'd ask in here just in case some boffin has suggestions. *Greg Keogh* P.S. I just remembered that about 15 years ago I used a Win32 Interop to call LoginUser <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-logo…> for a similar purpose, but it was for local accounts and I'll need to research if it works for domain accounts.

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