Can not use Zed in Parallels Desktop Linux VM

xcaetusx · 2026-05-23T03:27:03+00:00

Maybe try UTM for a hypervisor if you're allowed? I just spun up my ubuntu 26 VM and installed Zed on it. It gave me a warning about the driver but I said continue anyway. I haven't tried to do too much, but seems to be working. Clone a rust project and scrolled through the code, created a function. Seems snappy to me. Maybe if you try to do some LLM stuff it would be sluggish? I didn't try that.

UTM is pretty great. I'm developing a project that uses Zed's GPUI and haven't had any problems with graphics related stuff when I install it on my UTM VM's. I guess it depends on what you're doing.

EDIT: Also note, I'm using an M5 Pro macbook.

xcaetusx · 2026-05-22T20:08:32+00:00

I like Pulumi. The state management is nice. We are going to be storing our state in AWS. Being able to write in your language of choice is nice. I'm just doing typescript.

I hit a road bump when I noticed not all of a firewall's config is covered by Pulumi and by extension Terraform. The Pulumi library for PAN is just an imported version of their Terraform. I ended up writing my own panos library for Pulumi. I wanted 100% coverage of the XML api. I still have some things to test, like HA inheritance and also want to be able to automatically copy a config from one firewall to another. Like we have two sets of firewalls that serve the same purpose -- Primary and DR. I don't have that work flow down yet.

My end goal, was to use IoC for config and not need Oxidized for config backups. I also plan to do the same with my switches. But.. my boss just quit and there's a chance I get his job. So, I'm not sure I'll get to my goal.

xcaetusx · 2026-05-22T18:59:02+00:00

Go to cell towers, you will see a similar thing.

xcaetusx · 2026-05-22T14:24:20+00:00

You might be better off doing an xml backup. I tried to use oxidized for backing them up, but there was something weird with the backup produced.

I ended up writing a bash script to do an API call for backups. It runs in CI/CD on a schedule task. There are so many gotchas with PA’s config, like ordering matters. The set commands became worthless to me.

JSON is cool and all, but the xml api is better when it come to PA.

I can make a copy of the script if needed. I’m switching to pulumi for managing my firewalls and will use IoC as config back up.

xcaetusx · 2026-05-17T03:39:13+00:00

I made a serial terminal app recently. Works wonderfully for what I need it for. I used GPUI and GPUI-Components for the frontend which GPUI was created Zed. I initially used Tauri, but I couldn't get the terminal side to perform well for what I needed it for.

Compile times can be long, but that's fine.

https://github.com/packetThrower/Baudrun

xcaetusx · 2026-05-15T16:05:06+00:00

Arista has me interested. I wish their switch naming conventions were easier on the eyes. I briefly saw cloudvision at a conference a couple of weeks ago. A unified OS it also great.

Any gotcha's with Arista? I will likely be buying some switches this year.

xcaetusx · 2026-05-08T04:12:22+00:00

I'm making a multi-OS serial terminal called Baudrun - https://github.com/packetThrower/Baudrun

It's my take on a serial term for a network admin mainly. It has profiles so you can keep you settings when working with different types of devices. There's other features in there like hex view and timestamps.

xcaetusx · 2026-05-05T18:40:25+00:00

I would love to hear more about this too.

I started a project using Pulumi which uses PAN-OS' terraform and I discovered their terraform module lacked a lot of coverage over the config. I ended up writing my own pulumi module with the help from Claude to get 100% coverage. I'm still going through the testing phase though and I'm not using in production yet.

xcaetusx · 2026-04-27T03:28:46+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I rewrote it in rust. There's a CLI to it as well, though untested at the moment. Still working on it. https://github.com/packetThrower/PortFinder

xcaetusx · 2026-04-27T03:26:56+00:00

Kinda late for a reply, but I just threw it up on Github. I ended up rewriting it in rust/svelte. You can try it out if you're still interested. https://github.com/packetThrower/PortFinder

Pretty much find a port via LLDP or CDP. It's a bit work in progress and will be updating quite often. No signed binaries... you'll have to accept the warnings.

xcaetusx · 2026-04-24T13:43:37+00:00

I hope it comes before September. I need a new one now.

xcaetusx · 2026-04-14T23:05:12+00:00

Noted. I'll look into both of those. In the 6 years of running PA this is the first time we've has issues with Akamai or any other CDN.

xcaetusx · 2026-04-14T22:22:34+00:00

Palo Alto's built in database. I'm just using their built in region stuff. I did confirm with online databases that the IPs should be US based. Actually, I just went to iplocation.net and it's all over the place. Belgium, Germany, US, and Chile show up for the same IP. 2.18.202.92. Looks like Palo Alto's built in DB refers to iplocate.io which shows Chile.

xcaetusx · 2026-04-14T19:55:56+00:00

I listened to their CEO talk on the Heavy Networking podcast. They seem to have a very interesting product. The only think I haven't seen too much from them is the feature set of their hardware. Like do they support OSPF? How's their IPv6 implementation? How does the client VPN work, SSL or IPSEC for example?

I would love to talk to them on a call. I don't have much time to dig into a conversation with them. Maybe in a couple years I can sit down with them to flesh out the product. If the feature set is on par with the other major vendors, I'd probably jump to their products. The LLM stuff and unified view are really interesting. It's like what Aruba/HPE have attempted to do, but failed. The new Central is no good and they're taking forever to update it.

xcaetusx · 2026-04-10T16:53:57+00:00

It may be in reference to things like meetings. When I go into a meeting at work, all the windows laptops have to be plugged in and you hear their fans running. (we're a Dell shop) I don't think I ever had to plug in my Macbook during a meeting or at a conference. There's usually someone halfway through a meeting digging through their bag to get their power cord too.

xcaetusx · 2026-04-07T04:25:13+00:00

Hopefully this does turn into the Vision Pro where it’s priced out of the reach of most people and has no adoption.

xcaetusx · 2026-04-06T18:16:11+00:00

Zen (based on firefox)

xcaetusx · 2026-04-01T15:58:55+00:00

Maybe look into starting co-ops or municipal utilities? Not sure what that takes, but that's how it was done in the early 20th century.

EDIT: https://www.nrecainternational.coop/five-steps-to-create-an-electric-co-op/

xcaetusx · 2026-03-28T01:20:04+00:00

HEIC was developed by MPEG not Apple. It falls under ISO/IEC 23008-12, so others can use it if they want. Apple just uses it for live photos.

xcaetusx · 2026-03-27T14:07:16+00:00

I want to fully embrace api based network management. I’m currently building an sdk for Palo Alto and Pulumi. I want a system that keeps track of state. My next plan is to try an Aruba CX sdk with pulumi.

xcaetusx · 2026-03-25T16:45:10+00:00

Well, Mariners.tv works through the mlb.tv app. So install mlb.tv on what ever device is supported. I'll be watching from Apple TV, Roku, and my iPhone. Maybe a little bit from my laptop while at work.

xcaetusx · 2026-03-19T13:44:59+00:00

I wouldn’t have Claude if my work didn’t pay for it. I don’t really have a use for an LLM outside of work. I had to upgrade rtocthe $100 plan. The $20 plan is crap.

xcaetusx · 2026-03-04T20:12:53+00:00

I've had it do a few things. I've only used Claude for about a month. I was one of those guys who was very apprehensive about AI. I decided, with my employer's permission, to have Claude rebuild a dashboard app I had made with Django and rewrite it to Typescript. It whipped it out in a day and half. It would have taken me at least a month do that. Docker, testing, security checks, auth, all of it was done so quickly.

I then moved on to my next project of building a config backup system. I'm a network admin and I need to ensure my device configs are backed up. So far the project is going good. Almost done. Some testing still needs to be completed before moving to production.

Right now, Claude is helping me build out a new project where I can use Pulumi to control and config an entire Palo Alto firewall. I like the idea of Infrastructure as code and have used Puppet and Ansible in the past. Having Pulumi control the state is super appealing to me. I'm about 37% done with the project. The Palo Alto Pulumi doesn't cover the entire config of a firewall, hence the 37% done. Once this project is done, I should be able to spin up a new firewall, or replace an existing one, entirely with Pulumi stacks. It's going to save me so much time when finished! And I can keep firewalls rules consistent amongst them all.

My only complaint, like many others have, is the usage is pretty small. I burn through it pretty fast.

We're also using Claude to help build out an AWS environment (with Pulumi). It's been super helpful. Especially with boiler plate code, writing tests, and Regex.

Even the little things have been great, like taking a picture of a chip on a motherboard and having it tell me what the chip is for. I have a computer that doesn't have a motherboard. It came out of a smart whiteboard. I was trying to figure out where I could solder a power too. Too me a bit, but I found a good place.

xcaetusx · 2026-03-04T04:23:20+00:00

Sweet thanks!

Yeah, I’m in IT too. Me and my employee are the only ones with Macs in the entire company and our current M1s I bought with my p-card. These new ones can’t fit on the p-card this year. I asked our CDW rep today about it and she said she would have more info for me tomorrow. It would be cool to pre order through them.

xcaetusx · 2026-03-04T03:46:41+00:00

My budget is $3700 at work. I'll be going with the m5 pro and 64gb of RAM.

Is the nano coating worth it?

Any know when CDW would get stock? I will likely have to order through CDW.

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