Maybe the thought was it would lock out [i]some[/i] scripts trying to HACK IN, but a human sitting there fumble-fingering away could enter the magic code for another shot.

They probably had something else going on after too many failed attempts, but then decided it was too much, or wasn't working correctly. However, they didn't have time to actually remove the whole thing due to a deadline, so they instead went with "enter A1B2C3".

I'm trying to not let the stress get to me. But I can't think of [i]any[/i] logic behind it.

Here are some quotes from the web:

[quote]On a Windows 10 desktop computer I have the account threshold policy to lockout after 3 invalid sign in attempts. It works however it give you one last chance saying to enter the challenge phrase A1B2C3 to make another attempt. Is it possible to disable the challenge phrase so they don't get another attempt?[/quote]

How ... how does entering a phrase - that is not unique! - *do* anything? What is the point? I'm flabbergasted. They have really just morphed logon to stupider and stupider pieces, far dumber than I could have ever imagined.

Here is another page with a graphic:

https://mspoweruser.com/windows-10-mobile-will-now-no-longer-lock-you-out-for-days-if-you-have-passcode-issues/

I mean, I think it's just me. I must be missing something. If you enter the wrong password, it asks you to put in one phrase and then you can try more. The phrase never changes, so it can't protect against automation. This is just ... they just tweeted it out.

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=100802 time=1554841261 user_id=3]Enter A1B1C1 to continue."
[/quote]
They should have just gone with ZERO ZERO ZERO DESTRUCT ZERO.

https://youtu.be/e7WZq9USk5c

I mean, at one point they have a screen that says, "You have tried and failed to enter your password too many times. Enter A1B1C1 to continue."

I would pay $1000 to debate the wizard that thought that did anything. ANYTHING.

I got my dad a Windows 10 computer and the process of him trying to sign in with it makes me want to kill every fucking idiot that has ever existed at Microsoft. The people who worked on this one are absolutely the dumbest fucking people in the history of software.

Powershell SHOULD be as good as bash nowadays for scripting and scheduling. rather than worry about "copy with delete" just place the new copy in something like 'folder-temp', verify the copy worked, then remove last night copy and move the folder-temp to folder-yesterday or what-have-you.

Put in on a private GitHub repo, I say. Free backup!

Robocopy comes with Windows now, and has a /mir switch.

Set up a scheduled task in Windows with the following command:

robocopy.exe source destination /mir

ex: robocopy v:\Cyberganked c:\CybergankedBackup /mir

I'm no Flack, but one fun thing you could do is install Linux using the above discussion as a guide, and then just set up a cron job to rsync from wherever to wherever every so often.

The only catch is that you have to have a Linux window open for cron to operate the way you expect. If you're like me that's not an issue since you always have at least one Linux window open, but -- and I'm just throwing this out there, no judgments -- you may not be like me.

There are a lot of Tdarcoses now.

Flack. Flack!! What would be the best program to do something like the following?

I have an SSD (drive V:). I want to have my copy of Cyberganked there as a develop it. However, I'd like to mirror the directory on another hard drive for my system.

Should I do this in Powershell? And use Windows Scheduler to mirror the directory each night? I think there used to be xcopy in the DOS days but I don't know if xcopy deletes things as well, which it would need to do for mirroring.

This is what I used: https://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

I don't use it anymore, though, since cygwin (and now the linux thing we learned about here) have transparency built in, which was my main use for it. But it's good!

Ack! Pinback turned me onto a replacement Windows cmd skin and I don't remember the name of it. Do you guys use a replacement shell? Can you tell me what you use to see if I can remember it?

Hey man. Everything I thought I knew about Macs and Unix is flying crazy. I ... I don't know what to do now.

Oh yeah, look at that. Well, this is wonderful! MACS SUCK

Not sure about the bash environment, but if you right-click a command prompt window in Windows 10 and select properties, go to the colors tab and there's a slider for opacity.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/iwbWP3X.jpg[/img]

Yeah, I just got it set up. I will miss Cygwin's transparent windows, but yeah, this is just fine.

Yup here: https://www.howtogeek.com/249966/how-to-install-and-use-the-linux-bash-shell-on-windows-10/

[quote=RealNC post_id=100649 time=1554000051 user_id=914]
[quote=pinback post_id=100643 time=1553998316 user_id=5]Windows 10 + Cygwin is way, way better than that. So I take [i]umbrage[/i], good sir.[/quote]
The Windows Subsystem for Linux that is now part of Windows 10 is pretty good. Cygwin kind of lost its purpose now.
[/quote]

I didn't know that was a thing. Okay, then yes, this. This is also better than a Macbook.

Hey, moving systems and I somehow still have my Wasteland 2 and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided saves! WTF! This is amazing! I ... I didn't realize we had that capability, all of us.

I may be feeling something other than rage?