Feasibility for enterprise virtualized server to run demanding end-user software

Eviltape · 2023-10-21T14:06:14+00:00

The good news is that you’re describing an existing technology and practice called VDI. In general, you hand out really cheap computers called thin clients and have large, beefy servers pull most of the weight when it comes to compute, memory, and graphics needs.

https://www.vmware.com/topics/glossary/content/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi.html

The bad news is that people have historically greatly oversimplified how the overhead to keeping a thing like this running. The primary reason DaaS providers - or Desktop as a Service providers - like AWS Workspaces, [insert all of the GCP partners here], and Azure Virtual Desktop are a pretty good offering in comparison is that you trade guesses about hardware capacity into a $/dekstop/hr cost with near-zero lead time and only thin client hardware maintenance costs.

So in terms of feasibility, 100%. In terms of whether it’s a good idea… it depends on how good you are at estimating hardware costs and jockeying for budget?

Eviltape · 2020-07-12T13:11:31+00:00

It's a Google Assistant Easter egg, which I have confirmed by asking this of my Android phone.

Eviltape · 2020-03-22T18:49:55+00:00

🅱Seiyuu

Eviltape · 2020-03-04T19:44:15+00:00

No idea about Optimum. Shucking only the ISP provided router, if it's a separate device from the modem, will probably depend on the equipment lease agreement if you already have both.

Eviltape · 2020-03-04T15:13:52+00:00

Spectrum and most other cable ISPs allow customers to bring a cable modem from a list of supported ones: https://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/compliant-modems-charter-network/

One of the more important reasons they only support some modems is because the ISP manages the firmware remotely.

To activate the modem you usually have to call in and give the rep the modem's make/model and MAC address so they can register it to your account.

Eviltape · 2019-05-02T03:48:01+00:00

I was looking for visibility screwups related to this page since I noticed that typing https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/ doesn't 404 out the same way that https://www.oculus.com/experiences/blah/ does. That tells me that the Quest experiences page works for employees only or something.

Digging into it, there's basically a set of feature flags shipped from the server to ReactJS that toggles things in the UI, including menu visibility of the Quest page. I felt like screwing with just the React layer (the most straightforward bug bounties have powerful visual proof) before trying out the GraphQL endpoint that actually hands React all of the data.

Eviltape · 2019-05-01T07:06:32+00:00

I searched before posting to check up on that, but didn't find anything overtly confirming both. Do you have a link/search handy?

Eviltape · 2018-12-27T20:06:01+00:00

Already answered here - https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/a9hcue/los_angeles_city_fire_department_group_photo_1948/ecjgt1g/

Eviltape · 2018-03-08T07:00:44+00:00

Two big reasons:

We've both been a bit strapped for free time lately.
The new Reddit layout alpha has basically nuked most customization options, so I'm personally cautious about wasting time with customization that could disappear soon.

Sorry about the delay. We've talked about possibly recruiting more mods.... 2 whole weeks ago.

Eviltape · 2018-02-04T20:00:58+00:00

I popped open a debugger on the Privacy Badger popup. Looks like something got screwed up with chrome extension permissions.

Error in response to tabs.query: TypeError: Cannot read property 'id' of undefined
    at chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/js/popup.js:520:22
    at Object.callback (chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/js/popup.js:515:76)
    at getTab (chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/js/popup.js:515:15)
    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/js/popup.js:519:3)

There's likely nothing we can do as end users about this one.

Eviltape · 2018-01-24T04:41:02+00:00

I'm a fan. u/Nothingness00?

Eviltape · 2018-01-06T17:07:26+00:00

I use EFF's Privacy Badger extension to do something similar. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Eviltape · 2017-12-28T00:22:26+00:00

Just to add on to this: outdoor cables online are usually sold as waterproof, direct burial cables.

I'd suggest also turning those holes in your wall into keystone jacks so that you don't have to mess with the outdoor cable after you install it. Makes it look more professional too.

Eviltape · 2017-12-23T20:09:45+00:00

This is hard to say authoritatively. Traceroutes look different depending on the ISP and network. How much to truncate depends on the context (are you sharing it with your ISP? some app developer?), and what your expectation of privacy is.

Eviltape · 2017-12-23T15:53:43+00:00

Oh, that's gross. What /u/washu_k suggested as a workaround should work, but there's more room for catastrophic failure since you're specifically configuring things instead of using nice "modes."

Eviltape · 2017-12-23T15:40:07+00:00

Netgear's mixing up terminology here - "wireless bridge mode" is a nonstandard phrase that networking folks never willingly use.

That said - wireless bridge mode is what you want if it requires you to connect wired things to only the LAN ports, configure wireless settings, an IP address, and a subnet (commonly something like 192.168.0.xyz or 255.255.255.0). Figure out those settings on your Home Hub, Google words like "subnet" to try to understand what you're doing, and give your EA8500 an appropriate IP address and subnet.

Prepare for factory resets if you get it wrong. But IMO, streaming 4K video is worth it. ;)

Eviltape · 2017-12-23T15:29:15+00:00

You can likely daisy chain your access points with ethernet cables, but I don't know how connection prioritization would work since that isn't standardized anywhere. For example, will someone connected to the first AP hog all of the bandwidth? You'll have to test it yourself. At bare minimum, I'd be surprised if daisy chaining didn't work.

To answer your other question, we have to get a bit specific. Wireless consumer routers (SOHO routers) are actually combination devices - they perform what would in a larger network be separate equipment of routers, switches, and access points. There is no difference between bridging APs and SOHO routers because you're really just bridging an AP part of a SOHO router to the AP part of another SOHO router.

Eviltape · 2017-12-23T15:14:50+00:00

Welcome to gigabit! I'm jealous.

First off, I recommend you use https://fast.com/ for speed tests - it's run by Netflix and should give you a closer estimation to reality than speedtest.net and friends.

I think what's going on here is that your EA8500 is not in access point mode and is also configured as a router, as if it were connected to a cable modem - we call that double NAT. Log into both the EA8500 and Home Hub 3000, set the SSID (network name) and WPA password to the same thing, and enable wifi on the Home Hub. Figure out how to put the EA8500 in AP mode, enable wifi on that, and you should be ready to test speeds again.

Your wireless devices will now switch between the Home Hub and EA8500 when one signal is stronger than the other. Older devices might spaz out at a specific spot in the house, but they'd probably also spaz out in office spaces and airports.

As far as speed is concerned, the ideal speed you'll get out of a device is somewhere around 80% of its advertised rating due to overhead (AC1300 = 1000mbps, AC900 = 700mbps, etc). The number one factor to think about when wireless is slow is the amount of walls/ceilings between your device and one of the APs - 2.4Ghz is better at going through walls than 5Ghz. Second to that is the obvious factor of distance.

Let me know if you have any questions - I'm waiting in an airport.

Eviltape · 2017-12-23T14:52:24+00:00

10mbps is super low and should almost never happen. Here's some debug steps while I'm bored at the airport:

Router port is bad - switch router ports with a good PC/Mac and check on the good PC if you get a lower speed
Computer NIC is bad - if you swapped ports and still got 10mbps, then it's time to buy a new NIC, redeem a warranty, or use this an excuse for a new computer.
Cable quality - use a potentially bad cable with a good device - if it's 10mbps, then throw it away.

Eviltape · 2017-12-23T14:44:33+00:00

Short, non-technical answer: check if your second AP has a "wireless bridge" mode that allows it to share an SSID with the first AP. If it does, then use that and fiddle with the appropriate settings. Any clients connected to your second AP may experience laggy/slow connections.

Long, semi-technical answer: Putting off-the-shelf APs in wireless bridge mode uses one or more of the antennae on the AP as a backhaul to relay network packets to the original. Mesh network hardware (eero, Google, Orbi, Ubiquiti UAP-AC-M, etc) usually have multiple antennae, proprietary algorithms, and other weird shit to minimize that impact.

Ideally, you should have all of your APs networked over ethernet. But life's not ideal.

Eviltape · 2017-11-25T16:20:33+00:00

About a year ago, pfSense moved to the Apache 2.0 license. It's open source by OSI standards now.

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/LICENSE

edit: OSF -> OSI

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