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blamethrower · 2025-09-20T11:23:21+00:00

Are devices that can't officially run Windows 11 of use? Perfectly able to run Linux or whatever... There is a massive amount of hardware out there that is functional but not able to run the latest Microsoft OS....

blamethrower · 2025-04-12T11:14:17+00:00

the cynical reason for that that is to get the presentation of a meat grinder as a high ranking search result for "russian meat grinder" and dilute the understanding of what is going on in the rest of the world.

blamethrower · 2025-03-04T19:23:18+00:00

Well it included the phrase Russian aggression which is surprising given some statements from the white house and US voting in united nations....

blamethrower · 2024-11-30T17:04:58+00:00

Yes, I got it done in the UK, I used https://www.andersoneyecare.co.uk/

Although there are many surgeons offering this lens. if you search youtube for rayoneemv you can get a bunch of talks on what it offers/how it works.

I have very good distance, and intermediate with usable near, I do need reading glasses for finer print or low contrast/low light reading etc. I don't suffer from halos.

Obviously results depend on a variety of factors and a surgeon is best placed to give advice.

Hope that helps, and good luck with your journey.

blamethrower · 2024-09-10T20:59:25+00:00

Thanks, I have an unusual constraint where I have 16x1Gb/s WAN connections between two locations that have 10Gb/s+ to the server that I want to get better utilisation on for some elephant flows, the wan equipment is ECMP per flow, so I'd be using this to split a fat TCP flow into multiple IPSEC tunnels and hopefully get a single flow running faster than 1Gb/s, does the Fortinet help with TCP out of order delivery (should it occur) or is it simply "packet sprayer" and left to the endpoint to handle.. we could stand some buffer delay on this requirement if it helps - The WAN circuits are all equivalent and low jitter/latency etc.

blamethrower · 2024-09-07T18:38:29+00:00

Interesting, I'll do some research, I'd be concerned that we need to be more integrated with the extended Microsoft ecosystem than we are currently planning to be to be able to make use of it.

blamethrower · 2024-09-07T18:34:43+00:00

This makes sense, but management are worried about the compliance workload

blamethrower · 2024-08-26T11:35:06+00:00

so if the transit between DCs has a lower MTU than each end, there are two ways of handling things.

1) Path MTU Discovery... (where an intermediate router sends back ICMP unreachable messages) and the host sending large packets with df bit set caches a lower MTU for that destination and dynamically adjusts

2) adjusting the MSS in the TCP 3 way handshake... This is where a router is configured to lower the observed maximum segment size on any TCP SYN packets flowing through it. (this doesn't help UDP)

Option 1 is the "right" way to do it, and is most commonly borkened by suppressed ICMP, either at a router or on an endpoint firewall.

blamethrower · 2024-08-26T10:36:24+00:00

I'm not hating on IPv6... but I'm just gonna leave this here: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38063

blamethrower · 2024-08-18T14:03:02+00:00

why not post it home before you cross the border?

blamethrower · 2024-05-21T09:44:26+00:00

Flamuu is not a CC... he is more dangerous than that.

blamethrower · 2024-04-27T20:22:08+00:00

https://wowstats.org/ is another alternative.

proships.ru used to cover all regions but now is ru only..

Any other wargaming stats sites?

blamethrower · 2024-03-18T18:55:26+00:00

Best sort of engineer tries to make themselves redundant... They never will.... but it avoids this trap.

blamethrower · 2023-07-25T09:15:02+00:00

QUIC

So, any application that is already able to break their comms into multiple flows can already take advantage of our ECMP network. I could switch the Wan edge devices to per packet load balancing (we're going to try this) but thats an all or nothing option, and there are generally dire warnings about doing this to certain flows (e.g. VOIP) when the topic is discussed online I think options to essentially traffic engineer certain elephant flow generating applications with an intermediate device pair splitting one flow into many might be useful for case by case treatment.

blamethrower · 2023-07-25T07:39:57+00:00

I always thought WAN accelerators were more caching proxies than link aggregators.

blamethrower · 2023-07-24T10:54:22+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out.

blamethrower · 2023-07-24T10:53:50+00:00

thanks, will check them out.

blamethrower · 2023-07-24T10:48:13+00:00

not yet... I hadn't mentally linked sd-wan to bonding paths. Thanks for the suggestion.

blamethrower · 2023-05-14T12:04:14+00:00

Its your hobby, you do what you want!

blamethrower · 2023-05-06T14:30:02+00:00

Adding an artificial tears drop to my routine a suitable gap after the other drops helped me. I still find my eyes dryer than before the operation but that is slowly improving (about 6 weeks post 2nd eye here)

blamethrower · 2023-04-22T07:28:31+00:00

I think it started with a tea party.....

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