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Did some quick benchmarks tonight with the mitigation’s enabled and disabled. I’m losing over 10% performance on a Broadwell i5-5300U Enabled: Disabled: If you want to try yourself here is how you can disable the mitigation’s. Run the following from Command Prompt or PowerShell. Make sure you ‘Run as Administrator’. reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session … Read more
I was setting up VeraCrypt on a Raspberry Pi 2 the other day so I could use it as a backup target for my main server and was curious how fast, hahaha just kidding, I mean how slow VeraCrypt would be. To my disappointment VeraCrypt does not provide a method for running the benchmark built … Read more
I’ve got a server at home with a Supermicro motherboard that has a BMC in it. The BMC allows me to access a web interface on a dedicated network interface on the motherboard which will let me control the server in the event the OS has frozen or the hardware has powered down. This is … Read more
(Updated December 11th, 2012 – 9:115 PST) TL;DR: Turns out there isn’t an easy way to do this with just Symantec and trying to block the Java App. We blocked *@skillpages.com on our gateway anti-spam server and that took care of the problem for the most part. Original article We recently experienced a user who … Read more