drbawb

13 ms·

61.
by drbawb 4y ago
>I haven't had to go into the registry on Windows 10 or 11 except for enabling beta/early access features. I have to edit the registry on every Windows install to have: sane multi-monitor config, working macro keys (suppress th
62.
by drbawb 4y ago
>Why can't efficient self driving cars also be public transportation? Cars are inefficient. It has nothing to do with the operators, ride-sharing, time-sharing, clever routing, the powertrain, energy storage, emissions, etc. The for
63.
by drbawb 4y ago
Not sure about zrepl, but sanoid/syncoid will keep a separate snapshot for each replication target that has a lifetime separate from your usual expiration policy. So say you setup sanoid to keep 24 "hourly" snapshots, but the
64.
by drbawb 4y ago
I feel like learning how to configure bird, bind, haproxy, rdbms clusters, redundant MXs, etc. has taught me far more than spinning up equivalent virtual infrastructure on a public cloud would have. Getting to play with the underlying FOSS
65.
by drbawb 4y ago
Are VLANs enough to mitigate this? As a concrete example let's say I have an interface on the host sitting on a trunk port receiving tagged traffic. It exposes two such VLANs as pseudo-devices "nic.10" and "nic.20"
66.
by drbawb 4y ago
My main workstation runs Linux. It has a second GPU (NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super), USB 3.1 card, and an NVMe drive passed to a guest via PCIe passthrough.[1] I have a 2x2 DisplayPort 1.4 KVM to drive my monitors with the host GPU on one side, and
67.
by drbawb 4y ago
Rather confusingly the death of the 32-bit version of Windows in practice just means they are dropping support for 16-bit DOS applications. There is a WoW (windows on windows) subsystem which permitted you to either run 16-bit binaries on y
68.
by drbawb 5y ago
>which is insecure Splitting IOMMU groups is not inherently insecure; doing so without ACS is insecure. It is true that's not the motherboard vendors fault - it is because Intel designed it that way. ACS (the part of PCIe which make
69.
by drbawb 5y ago
>You either still believe in a god or need to google the price of harddrives these days. That was pretty funny, and I agree a thousand times over. When I was younger (read: had shallower pockets) I was willing to spend time on these hack
70.
by drbawb 5y ago
I haven't tried this yet but supposedly the Ubuntu installer can setup ZFS on root for a very basic[1] install. (i.e: No redundancy, and no encryption. The former one could trivially add after the fact by attaching a mirror & doing
71.
by drbawb 5y ago
Although this would be an interesting way to drag some of my old NTFS filesystems kicking & screaming into the 21st century, I'd never do one of these in-place conversions again. I tried to go from ext3 to btrfs several years ago -
72.
by drbawb 5y ago
>Getting you an MS account is one small step away from charging you monthly for the privilege of using the computer that you've already paid for. That's already a thing - unfortunately - the only way to get Windows 10/11
73.
by drbawb 5y ago
I have a dream of killing the "hierarchical storage" metaphor. It started as a program to organize my images w/ tags: the images go into content addressable storage, the tags get stored in a relational database, and then you
74.
by drbawb 5y ago
It is unfair though - a warranty covers a product being free from defects in materials and workmanship. The product being stolen happened _after_ it's manufacture, which is the thing that is actually being guaranteed. What would be fai
75.
by drbawb 5y ago
I'm with you on this one. I think perhaps my favorite car interface to date is my '01 Camry. Let's look at the HVAC system: Three knobs: temperature, speed, vent selection. Three buttons: a/c, recirc, rear defroster. Tha
76.
by drbawb 5y ago
There's a number of reasons I feel this assumption is valid in most cases: 1) Unless it's a targeted attack it's highly unlikely that a ransomware strain will be designed to target a specific filesystem. Snapshot deletion r
77.
by drbawb 5y ago
In my experience the problem with the latter isn't even that it requires a skilled analyst & a debugger. The reality is that, in a multi-threaded program, by the time your process has crashed on a null dereference the offending cal
78.
by drbawb 6y ago
>The lengths some people go to ... No kidding. I have a hacked-together solution including 2x GPUs, an HDMI 2.0 KVM, a "USB switch" which is flaky as hell (because the KVM emulates HID devices / doesn't support USB 3.
79.
by drbawb 6y ago
Yup that has been my experience as well - if you read someone's stored procedure it's pretty easy to tell if they're a "relational thinker" or an "imperative thinker." People who embrace an RDBMS will tend
80.
by drbawb 6y ago
The last bit of the article reminds me of an experience I had recently working w/ another group of developers. They write in C# w/ Entity Framework, but they just use it to map stored procedures to C# data-types. All queries to th
81.
by drbawb 7y ago
>I hypothesize that this is because programmers and other various Computer People consider "being on the computer" to be a satisfying goal in itself that sometimes has positive side effects in the real world, while everyone els
82.
by drbawb 7y ago
In my experience Windows 10 runs well enough on even the shittiest of hardware as long as it has an SSD. I can't tell you how many people (both personally and professionally) have asked me to troubleshoot slow Windows installs, and a
83.
by drbawb 7y ago
>I remember using the Up/Down/Left/Right navigation (and full-screen re-renders) in Mapquest pre-google maps. Web apps sucked then, and they still suck today. The only difference between then and now is the decades of deve
84.
by drbawb 7y ago
Same story on Spectrum. On their residential plans they will give out a /64 by default. However w/ DHCPv6-PD I was able to successfully request a /56. What I found mildly interesting was they wouldn't allocate a /60
85.
by drbawb 7y ago
When I was doing a computer repair: I remember a woman coming in with a digital answering machine; the kind that stored its recordings in volatile flash. During a thunderstorm the night prior the machine lost power, and subsequently lost al
86.
by drbawb 7y ago
You Need a Budget[0] also asks for your banks credentials to read transaction data off the ledger. I've seen this done by a number of budgeting softwares to keep their transaction ledger up to date. (It's nominally read-only usage
87.
by drbawb 7y ago
Completely agree. There's no "preserving" a game that requires online-services to run. As an example: I can play CS 1.6 as long as I have binaries for the client & server. (As well as an OS to run them.) Overwatch, on the
88.
by drbawb 7y ago
Great, more tech that relies on hardware keystores that will refuse to work after I unlock my bootloader and it blows an e-fuse.
89.
by drbawb 8y ago
ZFS takes this concept up one level of abstraction. You have a `zpool` which is a collection of disks. You then have "datasets" which would be analogous to partitions. One property of a dataset is a mountpoint, but they have many
90.
by drbawb 8y ago
My project stopped building on compilers w/ the new module system. I did file an issue (56247, see also 56317) and was told it won't be fixed. The fix to my dependency was trivial, but it did stop my code from compiling with no ch

More ›