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_MS_ · December 2024

Slow day for deals today.

lukast__ · December 2024

MOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

harrison · December 2024

lovelyserver · December 2024

@dapavn i want this plan, please.

Can you do it?

TrK · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@TrK said:
Looks like dino got annoyed.....

Lol

What happened?

@Dosai happened to me........

harrison · December 2024

i R ARE C LOUD

plumberg · December 2024

@ralf said:
@hSFCfFrrk said:

@ralf said:

@plumberg said:

@ralf said:

@plumberg said:

@ralf said:

@hSFCfFrrk said:

@ralf said:
I've not had chance to even plug it in yet, so that's going to be taking up a lot of my attention today.

It's not that difficult

Well, it seemed that it was transported in an ice lorry, so I was letting it acclimatise to room temperature first.

And it has Windows Pro installer pre-installed, so I'll need to make an image the NVMe before I start so I don't loose the free license. Haven't yet decided whether I'll run Windows on it directly or as a VM and passthrough everything. For travelling, it'd be useful to have a couple of small Linux VMs on there that I can use without a network connection.

Aren't the licenses embedded or something these days?

I don't really know how it works. I think there's a key in the BIOS that it queries, but I'm not too sure. I also think Windows detects a drastic change in hardware by the UUID, and qemu/virsh lets you change that to match, so I figure if I pass through TPM and try to make all the emulated other settings match, then it'll probably be fine if I let Windows install and then pass through the NVMe. But I want to image it first in case I mess it up, because I don't really know - most of my windows licenses are tied to my MS account instead of being OEM versions!

O yeah.
If you activate it once and sync it to your MS account you should be good.

I think that's true for non-OEM versions, but pretty sure OEM versions rely on a key somewhere. It might just be the UUID, it's hard to find definitive answers for obvious reasons.

Afaik (and that's not much seeing as I'm not a Windows user), it's the/a key in the UEFI for OEM.
/edit: apparently, and I assume you've found out the same, you can get the key with this line:
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
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The one I found when googling OEM keys was wmic csproduct get UUID which matches Linux's dmidecode -s system-uuid

I miss the days of the keys pasted in plain sight

hSFCfFrrk · December 2024

@ralf said:
@hSFCfFrrk said:

@ralf said:

@plumberg said:

@ralf said:

@plumberg said:

@ralf said:

@hSFCfFrrk said:

@ralf said:
I've not had chance to even plug it in yet, so that's going to be taking up a lot of my attention today.

It's not that difficult

Well, it seemed that it was transported in an ice lorry, so I was letting it acclimatise to room temperature first.

And it has Windows Pro installer pre-installed, so I'll need to make an image the NVMe before I start so I don't loose the free license. Haven't yet decided whether I'll run Windows on it directly or as a VM and passthrough everything. For travelling, it'd be useful to have a couple of small Linux VMs on there that I can use without a network connection.

Aren't the licenses embedded or something these days?

I don't really know how it works. I think there's a key in the BIOS that it queries, but I'm not too sure. I also think Windows detects a drastic change in hardware by the UUID, and qemu/virsh lets you change that to match, so I figure if I pass through TPM and try to make all the emulated other settings match, then it'll probably be fine if I let Windows install and then pass through the NVMe. But I want to image it first in case I mess it up, because I don't really know - most of my windows licenses are tied to my MS account instead of being OEM versions!

O yeah.
If you activate it once and sync it to your MS account you should be good.

I think that's true for non-OEM versions, but pretty sure OEM versions rely on a key somewhere. It might just be the UUID, it's hard to find definitive answers for obvious reasons.

Afaik (and that's not much seeing as I'm not a Windows user), it's the/a key in the UEFI for OEM.
/edit: apparently, and I assume you've found out the same, you can get the key with this line:
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
The one I found when googling OEM keys was wmic csproduct get UUID which matches Linux's dmidecode -s system-uuid

I'm reasonably sure the UUID is not the same as a Windows Product Key. The UUID changes whenever the hardware changes too much, but the license key, obviously, stays the same. For Linux, I'd use the following command: strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM, which should generate the 25-char key.

s0n1c · December 2024

is it possible to trade a VPS for a VPS guys

amj · December 2024

@lukast__ said:

DigiRDP $3/yr India VPS Giveaway

Specs of the VPS:

1 core
1 GB RAM
15 GB SSD
1 TB @ 1 Gbps
Location: Bangalore, India
$3/yr (paid until December 2025)

YABS:

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-12-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Mon Dec 30 13:28:09 CET 2024

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 2 days, 18 hours, 4 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2399.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 960.7 MiB
Swap       : 1.9 GiB
Disk       : 14.7 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-28-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
ASN        : AS153393 RACKVOLT CLOUD SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Host       : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
Location   : Bengaluru, Karnataka (KA)
Country    : India

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 23.12 MB/s    (5.7k) | 138.68 MB/s   (2.1k)
Write      | 23.14 MB/s    (5.7k) | 139.41 MB/s   (2.1k)
Total      | 46.26 MB/s   (11.5k) | 278.09 MB/s   (4.3k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 231.98 MB/s    (453) | 295.03 MB/s    (288)
Write      | 244.31 MB/s    (477) | 314.68 MB/s    (307)
Total      | 476.30 MB/s    (930) | 609.72 MB/s    (595)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 120 Mbits/sec   | 118 Mbits/sec   | 223 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 255 Mbits/sec   | 479 Mbits/sec   | 174 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 178 Mbits/sec   | 214 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 261 Mbits/sec   | 590 Mbits/sec   | 219 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 328 Mbits/sec   | 235 Mbits/sec   | 233 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 234 Mbits/sec   | 162 Mbits/sec   | 280 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 199 Mbits/sec   | 180 Mbits/sec   | 337 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 278 Mbits/sec   | 204 Mbits/sec   | 224 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 210 Mbits/sec   | 542 Mbits/sec   | 164 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 226 Mbits/sec   | 185 Mbits/sec   | 216 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 112 Mbits/sec   | 467 Mbits/sec   | 215 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 205 Mbits/sec   | 185 Mbits/sec   | 233 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 133 Mbits/sec   | 389 Mbits/sec   | 280 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 153 Mbits/sec   | 167 Mbits/sec   | 330 ms

Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 2696
Multi Core      | 2615
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/18391991

YABS completed in 13 min 31 sec

nws.sh:

---------------------------------- nws.sh ---------------------------------
      A simple script to bench network performance using speedtest-cli
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Version            : v2024.12.20
 Global Speedtest   : wget -qO- nws.sh | bash
 Region Speedtest   : wget -qO- nws.sh | bash -s -- -r <region>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic System Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Model          : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
 CPU Cores          : 1 @ 2399.996 MHz
 CPU Cache          : 35840 KB
 AES-NI             : ✔ Enabled
 VM-x/AMD-V         : ✔ Enabled
 Total Disk         : 14.7 GB (3.6 GB Used)
 Total RAM          : 960.7 MB (192.3 MB Used)
 Total Swap         : 2.0 GB (7.9 MB Used)
 System uptime      : 2 days, 18 hour 18 min
 Load average       : 0.31, 0.31, 0.18
 OS                 : Debian GNU/Linux 12
 Arch               : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel             : 6.1.0-28-amd64
 Virtualization     : KVM
 TCP Control        : cubic
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic Network Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Primary Network    : IPv6
 IPv6 Access        : ✔ Online
 IPv4 Access        : ✔ Online
 ISP                : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
 ASN                : AS153393 RACKVOLT CLOUD SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
 Host               : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
 Location           : Bengaluru, Karnataka-KA, India
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Location         Latency     Loss    DL Speed       UP Speed       Server

 ISP: Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private

 Nearest          0.86 ms     0.0%    712.36 Mbps    602.50 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore

 Kochi, IN        16.90 ms    0.0%    427.91 Mbps    434.01 Mbps    Asianet Broadband - Cochin
 Bangalore, IN    0.87 ms     0.0%    710.22 Mbps    520.07 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore
 Chennai, IN      8.79 ms     0.0%    679.69 Mbps    569.10 Mbps    Jio - Chennai
 Mumbai, IN       26.07 ms    0.0%    362.91 Mbps    335.04 Mbps    Tata Teleservices Ltd - Mumbai
 Delhi, IN        48.54 ms    0.0%    533.58 Mbps    193.20 Mbps    Tata Play Fiber - New Delhi

 Seattle, US      281.81 ms   N/A     366.96 Mbps    96.99 Mbps     Comcast - Seattle, WA
 Los Angeles, US  209.64 ms   0.0%    434.87 Mbps    226.07 Mbps    ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA
 Dallas, US       242.13 ms   0.0%    468.97 Mbps    117.81 Mbps    i3D.net - Dallas, TX
 Miami, US        266.04 ms   N/A     465.63 Mbps    111.00 Mbps    Dish Wireless - Miami, FL
 New York, US     235.88 ms   0.0%    544.10 Mbps    89.29 Mbps     GSL Networks - New York, NY
 Toronto, CA      236.03 ms   0.0%    508.25 Mbps    118.32 Mbps    Rogers - Toronto, ON
 Mexico City, MX  298.20 ms   N/A     432.65 Mbps    87.84 Mbps     INFINITUM - Ciudad de México

 London, UK       209.74 ms   0.4%    487.95 Mbps    105.45 Mbps    VeloxServ Communications - London
 Amsterdam, NL    249.61 ms   0.0%    539.41 Mbps    120.95 Mbps    31173 Services AB - Amsterdam
 Paris, FR        186.29 ms   N/A     695.92 Mbps    145.94 Mbps    Axione - Paris
 Frankfurt, DE    216.14 ms   0.0%    457.18 Mbps    177.05 Mbps    Clouvider Ltd - Frankfurt am Main
 Warsaw, PL       224.30 ms   0.0%    648.88 Mbps    186.38 Mbps    Play - Warszawa
 Bucharest, RO    186.03 ms   0.0%    411.33 Mbps    124.47 Mbps    Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest
 Moscow, RU       177.38 ms   0.0%    619.79 Mbps    159.86 Mbps    RETN - Moscow

 Jeddah, SA       231.44 ms   0.0%    618.70 Mbps    138.51 Mbps    Saudi Telecom Company
 Dubai, AE        74.48 ms    N/A     906.09 Mbps    230.89 Mbps    e& UAE - Dubai
 Istanbul, TR     164.99 ms   0.0%    540.87 Mbps    191.16 Mbps    Turkcell - Istanbul
 Tehran, IR       350.78 ms   0.0%    379.61 Mbps    96.21 Mbps     Asiatech - Tehran
 Cairo, EG        292.81 ms   N/A     348.12 Mbps    121.85 Mbps    Orange Egypt - Cairo

 Tokyo, JP        104.64 ms   0.0%    657.38 Mbps    271.60 Mbps    GSL Networks - Tokyo
 Shanghai, CU-CN  FAILED
 Nanjing, CT-CN   FAILED
 Hong Kong, CN    76.07 ms    N/A     596.52 Mbps    141.63 Mbps    Misaka Network, Inc. - Hong Kong
 Singapore, SG    40.15 ms    0.0%    477.89 Mbps    525.34 Mbps    i3D.net - Singapore
 Jakarta, ID      54.03 ms    0.0%    87.54 Mbps     392.02 Mbps    PT Solnet Indonesia - Jakarta
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Avg DL Speed       : 521.42 Mbps
 Avg UL Speed       : 228.64 Mbps

 Total DL Data      : 21.19 GB
 Total UL Data      : 8.75 GB
 Total Data         : 29.94 GB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Duration           : 15 min 15 sec
 System Time        : 30/12/2024 - 13:57:44 CET
 Total Script Runs  : 93663
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Result             : https://result.nws.sh/r/1735563368_HDP2N1_GLOBAL.txt
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ralf · December 2024

@hSFCfFrrk said:
@ralf said:
@hSFCfFrrk said:

@ralf said:

@plumberg said:

@ralf said:

@plumberg said:

@ralf said:

@hSFCfFrrk said:

@ralf said:
I've not had chance to even plug it in yet, so that's going to be taking up a lot of my attention today.

It's not that difficult

Well, it seemed that it was transported in an ice lorry, so I was letting it acclimatise to room temperature first.

And it has Windows Pro installer pre-installed, so I'll need to make an image the NVMe before I start so I don't loose the free license. Haven't yet decided whether I'll run Windows on it directly or as a VM and passthrough everything. For travelling, it'd be useful to have a couple of small Linux VMs on there that I can use without a network connection.

Aren't the licenses embedded or something these days?

I don't really know how it works. I think there's a key in the BIOS that it queries, but I'm not too sure. I also think Windows detects a drastic change in hardware by the UUID, and qemu/virsh lets you change that to match, so I figure if I pass through TPM and try to make all the emulated other settings match, then it'll probably be fine if I let Windows install and then pass through the NVMe. But I want to image it first in case I mess it up, because I don't really know - most of my windows licenses are tied to my MS account instead of being OEM versions!

O yeah.
If you activate it once and sync it to your MS account you should be good.

I think that's true for non-OEM versions, but pretty sure OEM versions rely on a key somewhere. It might just be the UUID, it's hard to find definitive answers for obvious reasons.

Afaik (and that's not much seeing as I'm not a Windows user), it's the/a key in the UEFI for OEM.
/edit: apparently, and I assume you've found out the same, you can get the key with this line:
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
The one I found when googling OEM keys was wmic csproduct get UUID which matches Linux's dmidecode -s system-uuid
I'm reasonably sure the UUID is not the same as a Windows Product Key. The UUID changes whenever the hardware changes too much, but the license key, obviously, stays the same. For Linux, I'd use the following command: strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM, which should generate the 25-char key.

Yeah, that's the thing. For regular Windows licences, it's supposed to be done with the product key thing. For OEM windows licences, it's supposed to be tied to the original hardware only, and I think it's the UUID that they use to determine that. Certainly, many people on the internet have suggested that's the most important thing, but the posts I found were talking about an already-installed copy and moving the key to another machine.

However, I think there's probably also more to it than just the UUID, because I don't know how they'd know that UUID was originally supposed to receive the licence in the first place, so maybe they do product key for initial install and UUID to stop it moving to new hardware after that.

TrK · December 2024

@yabarg said:
is it possible to trade a VPS for a VPS guys

you might be, @emgh was selling himself yesterday, i think he got another stock today.

TrK · December 2024

@ralf said: product key for initial install and UUID to stop it moving to new hardware after that.

you are right on track, although what they give for installation are some GVLK(i hope i got it right) keys, they are generic and only serves purpose for installation or just do something with installation media, i am not into this stuff.

ravi · December 2024

@lukast__ said:

DigiRDP $3/yr India VPS Giveaway

Specs of the VPS:

1 core
1 GB RAM
15 GB SSD
1 TB @ 1 Gbps
Location: Bangalore, India
$3/yr (paid until December 2025)

YABS:

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-12-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Mon Dec 30 13:28:09 CET 2024

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 2 days, 18 hours, 4 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2399.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 960.7 MiB
Swap       : 1.9 GiB
Disk       : 14.7 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-28-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
ASN        : AS153393 RACKVOLT CLOUD SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Host       : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
Location   : Bengaluru, Karnataka (KA)
Country    : India

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 23.12 MB/s    (5.7k) | 138.68 MB/s   (2.1k)
Write      | 23.14 MB/s    (5.7k) | 139.41 MB/s   (2.1k)
Total      | 46.26 MB/s   (11.5k) | 278.09 MB/s   (4.3k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 231.98 MB/s    (453) | 295.03 MB/s    (288)
Write      | 244.31 MB/s    (477) | 314.68 MB/s    (307)
Total      | 476.30 MB/s    (930) | 609.72 MB/s    (595)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 120 Mbits/sec   | 118 Mbits/sec   | 223 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 255 Mbits/sec   | 479 Mbits/sec   | 174 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 178 Mbits/sec   | 214 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 261 Mbits/sec   | 590 Mbits/sec   | 219 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 328 Mbits/sec   | 235 Mbits/sec   | 233 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 234 Mbits/sec   | 162 Mbits/sec   | 280 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 199 Mbits/sec   | 180 Mbits/sec   | 337 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 278 Mbits/sec   | 204 Mbits/sec   | 224 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 210 Mbits/sec   | 542 Mbits/sec   | 164 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 226 Mbits/sec   | 185 Mbits/sec   | 216 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 112 Mbits/sec   | 467 Mbits/sec   | 215 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 205 Mbits/sec   | 185 Mbits/sec   | 233 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 133 Mbits/sec   | 389 Mbits/sec   | 280 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 153 Mbits/sec   | 167 Mbits/sec   | 330 ms

Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 2696
Multi Core      | 2615
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/18391991

YABS completed in 13 min 31 sec

nws.sh:

---------------------------------- nws.sh ---------------------------------
      A simple script to bench network performance using speedtest-cli
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Version            : v2024.12.20
 Global Speedtest   : wget -qO- nws.sh | bash
 Region Speedtest   : wget -qO- nws.sh | bash -s -- -r <region>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic System Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Model          : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
 CPU Cores          : 1 @ 2399.996 MHz
 CPU Cache          : 35840 KB
 AES-NI             : ✔ Enabled
 VM-x/AMD-V         : ✔ Enabled
 Total Disk         : 14.7 GB (3.6 GB Used)
 Total RAM          : 960.7 MB (192.3 MB Used)
 Total Swap         : 2.0 GB (7.9 MB Used)
 System uptime      : 2 days, 18 hour 18 min
 Load average       : 0.31, 0.31, 0.18
 OS                 : Debian GNU/Linux 12
 Arch               : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel             : 6.1.0-28-amd64
 Virtualization     : KVM
 TCP Control        : cubic
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic Network Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Primary Network    : IPv6
 IPv6 Access        : ✔ Online
 IPv4 Access        : ✔ Online
 ISP                : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
 ASN                : AS153393 RACKVOLT CLOUD SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
 Host               : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
 Location           : Bengaluru, Karnataka-KA, India
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Location         Latency     Loss    DL Speed       UP Speed       Server

 ISP: Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private

 Nearest          0.86 ms     0.0%    712.36 Mbps    602.50 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore

 Kochi, IN        16.90 ms    0.0%    427.91 Mbps    434.01 Mbps    Asianet Broadband - Cochin
 Bangalore, IN    0.87 ms     0.0%    710.22 Mbps    520.07 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore
 Chennai, IN      8.79 ms     0.0%    679.69 Mbps    569.10 Mbps    Jio - Chennai
 Mumbai, IN       26.07 ms    0.0%    362.91 Mbps    335.04 Mbps    Tata Teleservices Ltd - Mumbai
 Delhi, IN        48.54 ms    0.0%    533.58 Mbps    193.20 Mbps    Tata Play Fiber - New Delhi

 Seattle, US      281.81 ms   N/A     366.96 Mbps    96.99 Mbps     Comcast - Seattle, WA
 Los Angeles, US  209.64 ms   0.0%    434.87 Mbps    226.07 Mbps    ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA
 Dallas, US       242.13 ms   0.0%    468.97 Mbps    117.81 Mbps    i3D.net - Dallas, TX
 Miami, US        266.04 ms   N/A     465.63 Mbps    111.00 Mbps    Dish Wireless - Miami, FL
 New York, US     235.88 ms   0.0%    544.10 Mbps    89.29 Mbps     GSL Networks - New York, NY
 Toronto, CA      236.03 ms   0.0%    508.25 Mbps    118.32 Mbps    Rogers - Toronto, ON
 Mexico City, MX  298.20 ms   N/A     432.65 Mbps    87.84 Mbps     INFINITUM - Ciudad de México

 London, UK       209.74 ms   0.4%    487.95 Mbps    105.45 Mbps    VeloxServ Communications - London
 Amsterdam, NL    249.61 ms   0.0%    539.41 Mbps    120.95 Mbps    31173 Services AB - Amsterdam
 Paris, FR        186.29 ms   N/A     695.92 Mbps    145.94 Mbps    Axione - Paris
 Frankfurt, DE    216.14 ms   0.0%    457.18 Mbps    177.05 Mbps    Clouvider Ltd - Frankfurt am Main
 Warsaw, PL       224.30 ms   0.0%    648.88 Mbps    186.38 Mbps    Play - Warszawa
 Bucharest, RO    186.03 ms   0.0%    411.33 Mbps    124.47 Mbps    Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest
 Moscow, RU       177.38 ms   0.0%    619.79 Mbps    159.86 Mbps    RETN - Moscow

 Jeddah, SA       231.44 ms   0.0%    618.70 Mbps    138.51 Mbps    Saudi Telecom Company
 Dubai, AE        74.48 ms    N/A     906.09 Mbps    230.89 Mbps    e& UAE - Dubai
 Istanbul, TR     164.99 ms   0.0%    540.87 Mbps    191.16 Mbps    Turkcell - Istanbul
 Tehran, IR       350.78 ms   0.0%    379.61 Mbps    96.21 Mbps     Asiatech - Tehran
 Cairo, EG        292.81 ms   N/A     348.12 Mbps    121.85 Mbps    Orange Egypt - Cairo

 Tokyo, JP        104.64 ms   0.0%    657.38 Mbps    271.60 Mbps    GSL Networks - Tokyo
 Shanghai, CU-CN  FAILED
 Nanjing, CT-CN   FAILED
 Hong Kong, CN    76.07 ms    N/A     596.52 Mbps    141.63 Mbps    Misaka Network, Inc. - Hong Kong
 Singapore, SG    40.15 ms    0.0%    477.89 Mbps    525.34 Mbps    i3D.net - Singapore
 Jakarta, ID      54.03 ms    0.0%    87.54 Mbps     392.02 Mbps    PT Solnet Indonesia - Jakarta
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Avg DL Speed       : 521.42 Mbps
 Avg UL Speed       : 228.64 Mbps

 Total DL Data      : 21.19 GB
 Total UL Data      : 8.75 GB
 Total Data         : 29.94 GB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Duration           : 15 min 15 sec
 System Time        : 30/12/2024 - 13:57:44 CET
 Total Script Runs  : 93663
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 Result             : https://result.nws.sh/r/1735563368_HDP2N1_GLOBAL.txt
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s0n1c · December 2024

hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

hSFCfFrrk · December 2024

@ralf said:
@hSFCfFrrk said:
@ralf said:
@hSFCfFrrk said:

@ralf said:

@plumberg said:

@ralf said:

@plumberg said:

@ralf said:

@hSFCfFrrk said:

@ralf said:
I've not had chance to even plug it in yet, so that's going to be taking up a lot of my attention today.

It's not that difficult

Well, it seemed that it was transported in an ice lorry, so I was letting it acclimatise to room temperature first.

And it has Windows Pro installer pre-installed, so I'll need to make an image the NVMe before I start so I don't loose the free license. Haven't yet decided whether I'll run Windows on it directly or as a VM and passthrough everything. For travelling, it'd be useful to have a couple of small Linux VMs on there that I can use without a network connection.

Aren't the licenses embedded or something these days?

I don't really know how it works. I think there's a key in the BIOS that it queries, but I'm not too sure. I also think Windows detects a drastic change in hardware by the UUID, and qemu/virsh lets you change that to match, so I figure if I pass through TPM and try to make all the emulated other settings match, then it'll probably be fine if I let Windows install and then pass through the NVMe. But I want to image it first in case I mess it up, because I don't really know - most of my windows licenses are tied to my MS account instead of being OEM versions!

O yeah.
If you activate it once and sync it to your MS account you should be good.

I think that's true for non-OEM versions, but pretty sure OEM versions rely on a key somewhere. It might just be the UUID, it's hard to find definitive answers for obvious reasons.

Afaik (and that's not much seeing as I'm not a Windows user), it's the/a key in the UEFI for OEM.
/edit: apparently, and I assume you've found out the same, you can get the key with this line:
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
The one I found when googling OEM keys was wmic csproduct get UUID which matches Linux's dmidecode -s system-uuid
I'm reasonably sure the UUID is not the same as a Windows Product Key. The UUID changes whenever the hardware changes too much, but the license key, obviously, stays the same. For Linux, I'd use the following command: strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM, which should generate the 25-char key.
Yeah, that's the thing. For regular Windows licences, it's supposed to be done with the product key thing. For OEM windows licences, it's supposed to be tied to the original hardware only, and I think it's the UUID that they use to determine that. Certainly, many people on the internet have suggested that's the most important thing, but the posts I found were talking about an already-installed copy and moving the key to another machine.

However, I think there's probably also more to it than just the UUID, because I don't know how they'd know that UUID was originally supposed to receive the licence in the first place, so maybe they do product key for initial install and UUID to stop it moving to new hardware after that.

Might very well be. I can read either key, but can't verify which one can actually be used for a new setup (well, I can wipe my work laptop, but...no). There's too much conflicting info, and I'm not hands-on enough anymore to be sure.

Army · December 2024

@yabarg said:
is it possible to trade a VPS for a VPS guys

Do you have the 1C1G HK provided by ClawCloud?

s0n1c · December 2024

@Army said:

@yabarg said:
is it possible to trade a VPS for a VPS guys

Do you have the 1C1G HK provided by ClawCloud?

no, i have digirdp's $5/year vps located in Dallas texas and an invoice for his $9/year 500gb ssd vps. im probably willing to overpay for AlexPaw's $3/year vps he dropped earlier today

plumberg · December 2024

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

goshawn · December 2024

@lukast__ said:

DigiRDP $3/yr India VPS Giveaway

Specs of the VPS:

1 core
1 GB RAM
15 GB SSD
1 TB @ 1 Gbps
Location: Bangalore, India
$3/yr (paid until December 2025)

YABS:

# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2024-12-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Mon Dec 30 13:28:09 CET 2024

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 2 days, 18 hours, 4 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2399.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 960.7 MiB
Swap       : 1.9 GiB
Disk       : 14.7 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-28-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
ASN        : AS153393 RACKVOLT CLOUD SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
Host       : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
Location   : Bengaluru, Karnataka (KA)
Country    : India

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda1):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 23.12 MB/s    (5.7k) | 138.68 MB/s   (2.1k)
Write      | 23.14 MB/s    (5.7k) | 139.41 MB/s   (2.1k)
Total      | 46.26 MB/s   (11.5k) | 278.09 MB/s   (4.3k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 231.98 MB/s    (453) | 295.03 MB/s    (288)
Write      | 244.31 MB/s    (477) | 314.68 MB/s    (307)
Total      | 476.30 MB/s    (930) | 609.72 MB/s    (595)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 120 Mbits/sec   | 118 Mbits/sec   | 223 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 255 Mbits/sec   | 479 Mbits/sec   | 174 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 178 Mbits/sec   | 214 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 261 Mbits/sec   | 590 Mbits/sec   | 219 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 328 Mbits/sec   | 235 Mbits/sec   | 233 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 234 Mbits/sec   | 162 Mbits/sec   | 280 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 199 Mbits/sec   | 180 Mbits/sec   | 337 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 278 Mbits/sec   | 204 Mbits/sec   | 224 ms
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 210 Mbits/sec   | 542 Mbits/sec   | 164 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 226 Mbits/sec   | 185 Mbits/sec   | 216 ms
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 112 Mbits/sec   | 467 Mbits/sec   | 215 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 205 Mbits/sec   | 185 Mbits/sec   | 233 ms
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 133 Mbits/sec   | 389 Mbits/sec   | 280 ms
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 153 Mbits/sec   | 167 Mbits/sec   | 330 ms

Geekbench 4 Benchmark Test:
---------------------------------
Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 2696
Multi Core      | 2615
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/18391991

YABS completed in 13 min 31 sec

nws.sh:

---------------------------------- nws.sh ---------------------------------
      A simple script to bench network performance using speedtest-cli
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Version            : v2024.12.20
 Global Speedtest   : wget -qO- nws.sh | bash
 Region Speedtest   : wget -qO- nws.sh | bash -s -- -r <region>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic System Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Model          : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
 CPU Cores          : 1 @ 2399.996 MHz
 CPU Cache          : 35840 KB
 AES-NI             : ✔ Enabled
 VM-x/AMD-V         : ✔ Enabled
 Total Disk         : 14.7 GB (3.6 GB Used)
 Total RAM          : 960.7 MB (192.3 MB Used)
 Total Swap         : 2.0 GB (7.9 MB Used)
 System uptime      : 2 days, 18 hour 18 min
 Load average       : 0.31, 0.31, 0.18
 OS                 : Debian GNU/Linux 12
 Arch               : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel             : 6.1.0-28-amd64
 Virtualization     : KVM
 TCP Control        : cubic
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Basic Network Info
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Primary Network    : IPv6
 IPv6 Access        : ✔ Online
 IPv4 Access        : ✔ Online
 ISP                : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
 ASN                : AS153393 RACKVOLT CLOUD SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
 Host               : Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private Limited
 Location           : Bengaluru, Karnataka-KA, India
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Speedtest.net (Region: GLOBAL)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Location         Latency     Loss    DL Speed       UP Speed       Server

 ISP: Rackvolt Cloud Solutions Private

 Nearest          0.86 ms     0.0%    712.36 Mbps    602.50 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore

 Kochi, IN        16.90 ms    0.0%    427.91 Mbps    434.01 Mbps    Asianet Broadband - Cochin
 Bangalore, IN    0.87 ms     0.0%    710.22 Mbps    520.07 Mbps    Bharti Airtel Ltd - Bangalore
 Chennai, IN      8.79 ms     0.0%    679.69 Mbps    569.10 Mbps    Jio - Chennai
 Mumbai, IN       26.07 ms    0.0%    362.91 Mbps    335.04 Mbps    Tata Teleservices Ltd - Mumbai
 Delhi, IN        48.54 ms    0.0%    533.58 Mbps    193.20 Mbps    Tata Play Fiber - New Delhi

 Seattle, US      281.81 ms   N/A     366.96 Mbps    96.99 Mbps     Comcast - Seattle, WA
 Los Angeles, US  209.64 ms   0.0%    434.87 Mbps    226.07 Mbps    ReliableSite Hosting - Los Angeles, CA
 Dallas, US       242.13 ms   0.0%    468.97 Mbps    117.81 Mbps    i3D.net - Dallas, TX
 Miami, US        266.04 ms   N/A     465.63 Mbps    111.00 Mbps    Dish Wireless - Miami, FL
 New York, US     235.88 ms   0.0%    544.10 Mbps    89.29 Mbps     GSL Networks - New York, NY
 Toronto, CA      236.03 ms   0.0%    508.25 Mbps    118.32 Mbps    Rogers - Toronto, ON
 Mexico City, MX  298.20 ms   N/A     432.65 Mbps    87.84 Mbps     INFINITUM - Ciudad de México

 London, UK       209.74 ms   0.4%    487.95 Mbps    105.45 Mbps    VeloxServ Communications - London
 Amsterdam, NL    249.61 ms   0.0%    539.41 Mbps    120.95 Mbps    31173 Services AB - Amsterdam
 Paris, FR        186.29 ms   N/A     695.92 Mbps    145.94 Mbps    Axione - Paris
 Frankfurt, DE    216.14 ms   0.0%    457.18 Mbps    177.05 Mbps    Clouvider Ltd - Frankfurt am Main
 Warsaw, PL       224.30 ms   0.0%    648.88 Mbps    186.38 Mbps    Play - Warszawa
 Bucharest, RO    186.03 ms   0.0%    411.33 Mbps    124.47 Mbps    Vodafone Romania Fixed – Bucharest - Bucharest
 Moscow, RU       177.38 ms   0.0%    619.79 Mbps    159.86 Mbps    RETN - Moscow

 Jeddah, SA       231.44 ms   0.0%    618.70 Mbps    138.51 Mbps    Saudi Telecom Company
 Dubai, AE        74.48 ms    N/A     906.09 Mbps    230.89 Mbps    e& UAE - Dubai
 Istanbul, TR     164.99 ms   0.0%    540.87 Mbps    191.16 Mbps    Turkcell - Istanbul
 Tehran, IR       350.78 ms   0.0%    379.61 Mbps    96.21 Mbps     Asiatech - Tehran
 Cairo, EG        292.81 ms   N/A     348.12 Mbps    121.85 Mbps    Orange Egypt - Cairo

 Tokyo, JP        104.64 ms   0.0%    657.38 Mbps    271.60 Mbps    GSL Networks - Tokyo
 Shanghai, CU-CN  FAILED
 Nanjing, CT-CN   FAILED
 Hong Kong, CN    76.07 ms    N/A     596.52 Mbps    141.63 Mbps    Misaka Network, Inc. - Hong Kong
 Singapore, SG    40.15 ms    0.0%    477.89 Mbps    525.34 Mbps    i3D.net - Singapore
 Jakarta, ID      54.03 ms    0.0%    87.54 Mbps     392.02 Mbps    PT Solnet Indonesia - Jakarta
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Avg DL Speed       : 521.42 Mbps
 Avg UL Speed       : 228.64 Mbps

 Total DL Data      : 21.19 GB
 Total UL Data      : 8.75 GB
 Total Data         : 29.94 GB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Duration           : 15 min 15 sec
 System Time        : 30/12/2024 - 13:57:44 CET
 Total Script Runs  : 93663
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Result             : https://result.nws.sh/r/1735563368_HDP2N1_GLOBAL.txt
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s0n1c · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

yes

admax · December 2024

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Dammit, you have such a great plan. The legendary plan probably won't appear again...

lukast__ · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

Most likely this, 500 GB HDD.

admax · December 2024

@plumberg said:

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

HDD

plumberg · December 2024

@yabarg said:

@plumberg said:

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

yes

Lucky. I thought it was hdd

s0n1c · December 2024

@lukast__ said:

@plumberg said:

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

Most likely this, 500 GB HDD.

no, it was ssd i think. its intel not ryzen.

plumberg · December 2024

@lukast__ said:

@plumberg said:

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

Most likely this, 500 GB HDD.

I thought so. But he claims otherwise

lukast__ · December 2024

@yabarg said:

@lukast__ said:

@plumberg said:

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

Most likely this, 500 GB HDD.

no, it was ssd i think. its intel not ryzen.

Oh? When/where was it available?

plumberg · December 2024

@lukast__ said:

@yabarg said:

@lukast__ said:

@plumberg said:

@yabarg said:
hmm, because im thinking of trading my $5/year digirdp vps located in Dallas texas for another vps
i also got an invoice for Digirdp's $9/year 500gb ssd vps but im not sure if i should buy it

Ssd? 500gb?

Most likely this, 500 GB HDD.

no, it was ssd i think. its intel not ryzen.

Oh? When/where was it available?

Exactly
I never saw the ssd ones

Even other providers would never offer such deals

s0n1c · December 2024

oh wait nvm im stupid, i misread it as SATA SSD 😭

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