All my systems are patched up for Spectre and Meltdown. The performance impact isn’t noticeable on my laptop and main desktop as in general they’re lightly used. However, on one of my Win 10 development systems were I have quite a few Docker containers running, the hit was sizable! All my CPUs are pre-Haswell (2015), […]
I’m currently in the process of upgrading the lighting in our home to Z-wave control. The process is complicated by the fact that 2/3 of all the lights are 3-way/4-way. While working on some of the wiring, I came to a box where the Neutral (white) wire was directly tied to the back on a […]
Continuing the trend of getting my crap together in terms of online security, I finally enabled 2-factor authentication across all my online email (e.g. Yahoo, Google) and cloud storage providers (e.g. Dropbox, Evernote). Not naive enough to think that I’m perfectly secure now, but at least these type of measures will slow these nefarious SOBs […]
