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Netflix Account Profile dead

Netflix Account Profiles feature has been broken for over 6 months. Customer services says, yes we know its broken and annoying. We hope to have a fix by the end of the year. This from a multi-billion dollar company. Really, they can’t find a team of engineers to fix the darn software. Sad.

Spectre and Meltdown

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), […]

New Apple store

Geek update: Apple is opening a brand new store directly across from our Reston office in the town center. Guess I’m just ahead of the curve w/my new MacBook Pro.