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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Windows 10 Task Manager ‘% CPU’ skew – A Tale of Two Metrics
EDIT: My co-worker, Aaron Margosis, wrote his take on this issue, you can read about it here: Task Managers CPU Numbers Are All But Meaningless! […]
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 […]
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 […]
What’s using your video RAM? Xbox Game Services naturally…
Applies to: Windows 10, Gamers One of my routines when installing Windows 10 fresh (or updating builds when it wipes my preferences) is to […]
Microsft Edge – “This site is trying to open” dialog box hell – Fix
Applies to: Edge I was downloading mods to start up a game of Witcher 3 and every time I tried to download a mod to […]