Oh Red Hat STONITH is an acronym for "Shoot The Other Node In The Head"

Finally got around to updating my vnlib webserver cluster and now vaughnnugent.com all the static sites I host support zstd compression now! That feature was added in v0.1.2 so it's been a little while :)

And just like that I have 4TB of data that is just VM block storage backups across a few backup servers. Crazy how fast that adds up.

Is it just me or did SSD prices climb up quite a bit since Q1?

In addition to the #vgpu saga. I now have remote apps working! Which is damn cool. Having apps on my desktop that appear native but actually running and rendered on another machine is wild. I tried this once when I was learning Windows VDI and RD Terminal Services but I never had a gpu so performance was butt cheeks. With GPU acceleration and some group policy tuning it's pretty slick. You can still tell it's not local, but having the separation, isolation, and reliability of my commercial hardware stack, will hopefully prove to be an improvement over a single do everything workstation. Here is a tool I found that helps make remote apps in a few clicks.

GitHub

GitHub - kimmknight/remoteapptool: Create and manage RemoteApps hosted on Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, XP and Server. Generate RDP and MSI files for clients.

Create and manage RemoteApps hosted on Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, XP and Server. Generate RDP and MSI files for clients. - kimmknight/remoteapptool

Had some issues I figured out with #vgpu on windows this week that was really holding up my dev. Turns out im just retarded and enabled Windows Core Isolation security feature in a vm (which isn't really useful) which requires driver signing, and Grid drivers aren't signed, so the gpu driver would unload immediately after boot. After much troubleshooting I can get back to work!

Also being honest though, I'm sure I'm not the only one who takes pleasure from 1. Doing really hard things no one wants to do 2. Doing things people really need, but most don't have the capacity to do 3. Having the opportunity to take risks other's can't/won't 4. Watching the lights blink as random people on the internet do things on my computers View quoted note →

Sysadmin/hosting in a nutshell. TY for keeping things going! View quoted note →