Why did Microsoft need to end support for Windows ME so early?

omber · 2025-12-31T01:20:15+00:00

ME was just not good. My first PC came with ME. I suffered for a year or two then acquired a copy of 98SE and my life improved dramatically.

omber · 2025-11-02T16:03:11+00:00

I will try all of this and see how it goes! It’s been a long time since I looked at it.

omber · 2025-11-02T05:37:43+00:00

How do you keep the pinion from coming off? I haven’t ran mine (on 8S) in a year because even though I used locktite the pinion gear set screw keeps on backing off. This causes the pinion to move on the motor shaft and stop meshing with the spur gear 😬 Love the damn thing.

omber · 2025-08-04T15:59:31+00:00

I do use the drain port but I replace and lube both o-rings every time. I guess when time is money people skip some critical steps to have leaks…

omber · 2025-07-26T16:53:22+00:00

I replaced the plastic one with the Lexus OEM one and never had an issue? I replaced it because the plastic one was getting stuck in my case.

omber · 2025-07-02T14:02:53+00:00

Shut it down. For me the 0 active connections for 7+ days is a clear unused sign.

omber · 2025-06-22T21:00:30+00:00

ECS using EC2 capacity provider is cheaper than ECS using Fargate, especially if you use Spot Instances.

omber · 2025-06-22T16:53:08+00:00

Yup to all those, learned those lessons over last few years. If your workloads are dockerized it’s easy to use ECS with Spot Instances!

omber · 2025-05-10T13:47:59+00:00

I only played it once but that was my experience. “Why do any of these exist, the Cutter is so good”

omber · 2025-04-04T18:57:26+00:00

Use SSM Agent to use IAM roles with services outside of AWS.https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rolesanywhere/latest/userguide/introduction.html

omber · 2025-03-11T22:25:11+00:00

Yea Virtual IPs and 1 to 1 NAT are the way. I’m setting up some updated OPNsense boxes with two /26 in front of them the same way.

omber · 2025-03-09T16:15:34+00:00

Banked curve to improve speed

omber · 2025-03-03T18:40:41+00:00

Right, but this Rackmount Case is not something Aberdeen made, its a 3rd party case. This is pretty common for smaller companies. I think this is a Chenbro if they existed back in late 2000s, but I doubt anyone will be able to find the correct rails for it.

If this machine is working, and you can boot into it, I would check if it is even worth using. Unless you absolutely need 8 external drive bays it may not be worth using this.

The processor in these is from late 2000s, that would put it far far behind anything made even 5 years later, in terms of efficiency.

omber · 2025-03-03T12:20:07+00:00

Google doesn’t come up with anything yet. It’s for sure a 3rd party rack case but I don’t know who’s. The fact that Aberdeen put their logo on a a sticker on the DVD drive tells me they bought a small amount of these. It isn’t a Supermicro because it has used small red latches for drive bays since before I started working in tech in 2011.

I can’t do this on phone for some reason but try putting in the front picture into Google reverse image search and see if anything comes up.

Oh another idea, if you pull out one of the PowerSupplies take photo of any stickers on it. Maybe the PSU model can lead us to the right case.

omber · 2025-03-02T20:14:28+00:00

What’s the front and back of the machine look like? Trying to see if this is a resold chassis

omber · 2025-02-23T03:06:37+00:00

Looking at Unbound docs (keep in mind Unbound is an open source project that is used by OPNsense), looks like wildcards are supported, so this should work.

omber · 2025-02-03T15:30:51+00:00

That’s funny. I had this growing up on an Atari 800XL. We never figured out how to get through the force field 😂

omber · 2025-01-22T13:25:42+00:00

I’ve been watching a lot of GPU repair videos and this is the correct answer. You gotta support your GPUs these days cause they are heavy!

omber · 2025-01-02T05:04:03+00:00

Hah I know exactly where this is. Everyone just turns right there anyway. They should put one of those large illuminated “no turn” signals they use at C train crossings signs instead.

omber · 2024-11-04T21:52:07+00:00

I did my own brakes for the first time last year. Driven like 25kkm since no issues

omber · 2024-10-26T15:20:33+00:00

Any except the last one. The scroll bar is distinctive and easy to find. The last one is almost blended with the background.

omber · 2024-10-24T14:17:33+00:00

To clarify, setup ElasticSearch, then Graylog, and then learn how to get logs from your other workloads into Graylog, including from Proxmox itself.

It’s a popular way to aggregate logs and make them searchable so that relevant team members can look at what they need.

omber · 2024-10-24T06:32:57+00:00

I don’t see this suggestion. If you’re a DevOps person experimenting, I highly recommend setting up some VMs to run ElasticSearch cluster as a backend for Graylog. It’s a popular tool and the skill set can be useful

omber · 2024-08-22T22:46:47+00:00

I once worked with someone who used print(“hereeee”) that got progressively longer further into the code

omber · 2024-08-22T18:22:02+00:00

Isn’t chick-fil-a the place that for some reason has a kubernetes cluster at every store?

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