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roygbiv2··on Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading
PCI passthrough just works on esxi, couple of clicks done. Seems a little more involved in proxmox.
roygbiv2··on Andy Bechtolsheim charged with insider trading
Everytime I log into my esxi host I wish the storage used zfs. I know proxmox does and I'll probably head that way eventually.
roygbiv2··on On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV
This is the only reason I still know Roman numerals. Still do try and work out what they are if I get that far into the credits.
roygbiv2··on Serverless Horrors
Your debt will be sold to a collection company.
roygbiv2··on YouTube Oddities
Watch history now include videos you've only hovered over. Very annoying since if you hover over something and then watch it later it doesn't start from the beginning, it starts from where it left off from the hover.
roygbiv2··on Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses
Fair enough. If I change the mac address of my router the ISP locks me out for a substantial amount of time, deffinately not an option.
roygbiv2··on Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses
The mac address is layer 2 and no one other than your ISP knows it. Changing it does nothing for your privacy since your ISP knows it anyway.
roygbiv2··on DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
That's deffinately not true, I used to go to the casino under no illusion I'd come out poorer. I'd just do it because it was fun.
roygbiv2··on Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
This is also exactly how mine is done. Started off with a bunch of 2TB disks. I've now got a mixture of 16TB down to 4TB, all in the original pool.
roygbiv2··on The United States Just Grew by 1M Square Kilometers in Size
There are various reasons why it can't. The main one being that: > Since 1987, when the United Kingdom extended its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, the platform has been in British territory.
roygbiv2··on GTA 5 source code leaks online
You want separate logins to purchase dlc?

You also now want the current login severs to continue to support the old game logins and handle auth for them? So we're still supporting the old game, still maintaining it.

These old unmaintained, unmanaged servers you want to run get hacked they distribute malware to your users. Whoops, the hosting provider finds out, the business account gets locked, now nothing works.

They get hacked a different way, they start mining bitcoin, your hosting provider finds out and locks the business account, whoops, now nothing works.

They get hacked a different way, they intercept the api calls to the auth servers. They use the auth tokens to break into people's main accounts, use that for phishing attacks, steal millions of dollars. Whoops.

>it's not difficult to do.

That's the point you don't get. It is difficult. Standards change, security changes, things NEED updating or things go wrong, people lose confidence in you, you dont make any money and you go out of business.

Spin up an old version of minecaft on an old version of Linux, see how long it lasts before it all goes wrong.

roygbiv2··on GTA 5 source code leaks online
So you want the unsupported, unmanaged, not monitored game server - that will get hacked - access to the credentials database that holds emails, password, names, addresses and possibly payment details?

You also want users to contact the the OS devs when their old, unmanaged, not updated game no longer works? Or you want the users not to install important security updates because they want to play one old game?

None of what you've said really makes sense in the the enterprise IT world. AS it's already been previously stated to you, you can't just spin up a VM and host your game on it, it just doesn't work like that. There are plenty of valid reasons for that in the thread already.

roygbiv2··on Nvidia's H100 GPUs will consume more power than some countries
80? My ev does 15.5 kWh per 100km.
roygbiv2··on GTA 5 source code leaks online
No it's deffinately not as easy as that. You need to manage those servers, manage the updates, security patches, roll out updates to the game server... Because it will need updates because things break or need security updates etc. Managing things like that means it needs to be within the existing infrastructure. Imagine with every old game they just threw up an ec2 and left it rotting, they'd have hundreds of out of date servers running vulnerable software, it would be a nightmare.
roygbiv2··on Diskomator – NVMe-TCP at your fingertips
This is a good video on it https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo?si=nC0MYSfzbfKibHoU
roygbiv2··on Embarrassingly Simple Text Watermarks
Microsoft teams will happily copy the name and time of the person that sent you a message, even though you didn't highlight it. Thanks Microsoft!
roygbiv2··on Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux
Also Android doesn't support DHCPv6
roygbiv2··on Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust
How does one upgrade from v2 beta to the latest v2? The docs for doing that seem to no longer exist https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/24393
roygbiv2··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
Yeah I recently found this out. It never really did work that well, I did manage to telnet into an SMTP server and manually send an email but for anything else it struggled.

I wonder if TCP over ICMP would work better.

roygbiv2··on Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
You can still telnet into SMTP and send mail. Gets tricky if you need to do starttls though.
roygbiv2··on The Floppy Disk (2011)
I wanted a data drive for my mini disks so bad back in the 90s. It just never happened and writeable CDs happened instead.
roygbiv2··on 90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
Haha we had the same thing! Mum was always complaining about the phone being in use and I used to have to put the duvet over the pc to hide the modem calling, the AT commands to turn off the speaker never worked. Eventually that company released the pay once never again CD that put an add at the top of the screen. That was happy days for awhile until they they went bust.
roygbiv2··on How to Be Blind
Thank you, I will take you up on that offer at some stage.
roygbiv2··on How to Be Blind
My limited understanding is that the gene involved is very large and therefore difficult to use in traditional gene therapy, though I have obviously very limited knowledge in this.
roygbiv2··on How to Be Blind
My 18 month old has ushers, we're dealing with the hearing loss but I'm dreading the day when we have to tell him about his eyes. We've got a few years to go before that day, at a loss to when/how that's going to happen.
roygbiv2··on 90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
>calling virtually anywhere cost a certain fixed rate per minute.

This is how it worked in the UK. Calling anywhere cost per min and I racked up HUGE phone bills in the early days.

roygbiv2··on PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator
Just got myself a miyoo mini plus. Plays Tony hawk for the ps1 at 60fps which I find amazing. It's perhaps a tad small but that makes it very portable, there are similar devices if you want something bigger.
roygbiv2··on UK retail electricity prices hit -19p/kWh today
As others have said you need a tariff that's hourly, be warned though people got bitten with this when prices soared to many pounds per kW/h, it's not always this low.
roygbiv2··on Dissecting a Dummy Promo MiniDisc
Back in the day I was all about minidiscs, I seriously wanted a data drive but it just never happened unfortunately.
roygbiv2··on .bestbuy
There's literally thousands of them https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone
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