Month: June 2018
Screen scraping vnc? docker meets windows meets vagrant meets packer
You know you are itching to have a Windows 2016 server run under Vagrant w/ libvirt so you can play with Windows Containers. You just know you are. Its what’s been missing in your life. And since I feel for you and your empty life, I will share with you my secret recipe. Its got…
Google adds filestore. But what about the Kubernetes unmount issue?
OK, like all good google products its ‘beta’. But, filestore. This replaces the hackery that people like me have been doing. Except it doesn’t really, its actually kind of the same thing. Its still NFS. The issue is still open, no umount leaves dangling nfs mounts on the host. But, progress. Assuming I can work…
avx the saga continues
OK, you might think I’m crazy. Maybe you’ve thought this for some time, maybe its just dawning on you. But I’m working w/ this china ODM on this mini pc to try and resolve the Skylake 6700 HQ AES/AVX-2 problem. Many back and forth emails. Is it UEFI, is it CSM, is it this… Fortunately…
The race to do nothing: how disruptors become dominant
The biggest transportation company has no cars, no drivers (uber). The biggest accommodation company has no buildings (airbnb). There’s this race on to do as little as possible, to just sit between A and B and handle the relationship creation. And so too is this happening in computing. It used to be one would buy…
Back to the avx2 bug in my skylake
If you add clearcpuid=293 to the kernel line, it disables the *kernels* use of the feature: Before: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon…
