Posts by Bronek Kozicki

I really like AMD hardware, but had to jump to NVidia, because working around poorly implemented soft PCIe reset (a necessity when doing PCIe passthrough) on newer AMD cards was driving me crazy. NVidia hardware was expensive like hell and I would really like AMD to be viable competition, also in "my" market segment. I will be waiting for newer generation of Polaris-based FirePro cards with VDI support, perhaps this will do the trick.

Rust is not something for novices to pick up and quickly bash out code on.

I disagree. Having a good look at the language, it is exactly the right language for a novice programmer to quickly bash the code, as long as (s)he leaves habits from other languages before the door. Of course a new programmer may be slightly impeded by limited choice of available libraries ...

Yes, I see it!

Light blue letters on dark blue background "Do not notify me again". Who would have thought they will put such an option at all, no matter that barely visible!

there is an easy test how honest her intentions are

Let her explain how she would fix the problem of local monopolies of cable/ISP companies in the US. Without deferring all the action to FCC alone.

Pirates?

Bloody hell, this has nothing to do with pirating games, and everything to do with allowing people to play the games they legally purchased. It is Oculus' own goal to couple the hardware recognition with game DRM!

I dont know

on one hand, such a number of threads running would be a boon for some calculations Im running, on the other hand without support for TSX, the synchronization between threads is going to seriously cut into performance numbers. I guess I will wait this one out.

Yay, open source

As in, use someone else's work released under appropriate license, and put it in the very middle of your product.

Not that I'm complaining (much), but it would seem appropriate to show credits upfront.

Falcon 9 home

Despite noticeable tilt, the Falcon 9 booster made it safely back to SpaceX facilities in Florida. Here are the pictures

Depressing list

... but there is a silver lining - Lenovo seem to have learned a lesson. Now is the time to teach it to other vendors.

Interesting

So basically Microsoft are making an effort to make .NET Core attractive platform on Linux, also for migration of applications from Windows, by providing developers with access to basic APIs they are used to on Windows.

Not trying to get into the motivation or future plans in regard to .NET Core on Linux (for what I know there could be many plans, any one opposing others), but the move is certainly interesting.

It is worth explaining that EPO has been granted sovereignty status by the European Comission, hence no local laws apply and its president has status almost equal to that of a head of state (totalitarian one). More on this here

first thing first

Copy Hook Handlers are never called by Windows kernel, they are in-process libraries called only in user mode by Windows Explorer (i.e. what purports to be shell under Windows).

The whole uproar seems to be about bastardization of BSD-derived kernel of OSX. In which case, let me be allowed to cite from a comment above "What's wrong with fuse?"

Yay, new release based on the oldest kernel there is! The funny thing there are actually tons of enterprise environments where they fear new kernels (and new major releases) like fire, and may like to jump to this release. On the other hand, they fear any change so much, might ignore this release as well.

According to Business Wire, this display can be seen today and tomorrow at Moscone Center in San Francisco, booth #521, more information at conference website

Here is an idea: garbage collection of containers. Randomly shutdown (do not remove the data, for at least one year) containers which have not been monitored by appropriate application monitoring tool for extended period of time, then wait until someone starts complaining. Of course, some application monitoring needs to be in place, so if your organization is only monitoring the infrastructure but not the applications, that is not enough to instantiate such policy (and also part of the reason why you might not know what-the-hell-is-that-thing-doing)