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), […]
Initial experience with Windows 8 is that it is an unfinished pile of poo. Upgraded using the wizard and it automatically installed 32-bit version on my i5 x64 processor with no choice given…$39 down the tube. Bought 60Gb SSD for the core OS install, then found out that Windows 8 applications automatically install on the […]
Gotta love it… a $200 Samsung home camera that only allows static IP assignment if you use the wired network port. If you want to use wifi, then you’re restricted to dynamic IP. Wtf! This had to be designed by some marketing schmuck that knows nothing about networking. Dynamic vs static IP has absolutely jack […]
