Non-authoritative list for me to keep track of what is mined how. Elite Dangerous Odyssey etc. The following can be mined using mining lasers: Low Temperature Diamonds Platinum Osmium Cobalt Gold Silver Palladium Samarium Coltan Indite Lepidolite Lithium Hydroxide Methane Clathrate Methanol Monohydrate Crystals Painite Rutile The following can be mined… Continue reading Elite:Dangerous – Mining Lasers vs Deep Core Mining
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How to collect a boot trace on Windows 10 with Windows Performance Recorder from the Microsoft ADK
For: Windows 10 (any x64 build) Requirements: Windows Performance Toolkit from the Microsoft ADK Launch WPRUI as administrator (aka Windows Performance Recorder) by clicking Start and searching for WPRUI. Right-click/click run as administrator Check boxes that are important in your scenario. My recommendation is check First Level Triage Expand Resource Analysis check CPU check… Continue reading How to collect a boot trace on Windows 10 with Windows Performance Recorder from the Microsoft ADK
Everything you do for someone else, matters. (no pressure)
I didn’t have the easiest path into my eventual career in IT. As a result, I think perhaps I recognize that ‘no man is an island’ concept more than some others. I didn’t get here on my own. As Isaac Newton would say, I got here on the shoulders of giants. A post on LinkedIn… Continue reading Everything you do for someone else, matters. (no pressure)
Windows, Zombie Processes, and bullshit code
Hi, In my work at Tanium I do a bit of debugging and performance analytics. Over the last 2-3 years, a LOT of this has centered around how Windows systems get slower and slower over time. This has been a common complaint/statement of ridicule/FUD since I started my career in IT 26 years ago in… Continue reading Windows, Zombie Processes, and bullshit code
CVE-2021-26807 – GOG GALAXY v2.0.35 DLL Load Order Hijacking
Authors: Brian Papile and Jeff Stokes Executive summary The GOG Galaxy version 2.0.35 was vulnerable to a DLL Load Order Hijacking vulnerability. The vendor has patched the vulnerability and released version 2.0.37, as of March 30, 2021. Discovery This vulnerability came about when we tried to uninstall the Folding at Home Client, but its folder… Continue reading CVE-2021-26807 – GOG GALAXY v2.0.35 DLL Load Order Hijacking
Exploring the hidden opportunities of sudden change in enterprise IT management.
Tanium’s blog post featuring Lumentum’s CIO Ralph Loura’s blog post really resonated with me on a couple of levels. The one thing in life that seems predictable is change. I know it is a bit cliche, but this has been true in my life. While sometimes it is difficult to see the positive aspect in situations, it seems to me… Continue reading Exploring the hidden opportunities of sudden change in enterprise IT management.
EDRefCard.info is down! Long live EdRefCard! How to set up your own instance of EdRefCard so you can create a card for your HOTAS config in Elite Dangerous.
<no longer needed, EDRefCard.info is back up!!!> How to set up your own instance of EdRefCard so you can create a card for your HOTAS config in Elite Dangerous. Share with friends, import friends config files and get cards made for those. What? – This used to be served at https://edrefcard.info but the site has… Continue reading EDRefCard.info is down! Long live EdRefCard! How to set up your own instance of EdRefCard so you can create a card for your HOTAS config in Elite Dangerous.
Windows 10 Task Manager ‘% CPU’ skew – A Tale of Two Metrics
Task Manager numbers are inaccurate and display different values between the details and performance tabs
How to collect a boot trace on Windows 10 using xbootmgr
Sometimes in support you’ll be asked to collect a boot trace to help troubleshoot slow boot or slow logon scenarios. The symptoms are a long time passes from startup to the CTRL+ALT+DEL or from CTRL+ALT+DEL to a usable desktop experience. This blog will walk you through the steps needed to do this. While you can… Continue reading How to collect a boot trace on Windows 10 using xbootmgr
Windows 10 20H2 boot trace – dropped events
TLDR: At time of writing, Windows 10 20H2 has a bug where the default buffer allocations in boot tracing are inadequate to capture the data of a boot trace. The fix is pretty simple, use good old xbootmgr instead. This is a binary from the older ADK and gets installed when you install the current… Continue reading Windows 10 20H2 boot trace – dropped events