Be sure to change SATA Operation from RAID to AHCI in the BIOS Settings before running Symantec Ghost from a memory stick. The former setting will effectively hide your NVMe drive. Better safe than sorry, reinstate the RAID selection afterwards. Ref.: https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln301036/windows-10-install-with-nvme-ssd-and-sata-drives?lang=en
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hostmaster@ximalas.info is compromised. Password must be changed
This is all so cute. Scammers don’t bother doing any research at all, but harvest our email addresses and send their junk emails high and low. Scammers usually have no sense of spelling nor grammar, which is the case in the matter at hand. Sorry, I don’t scare so easily. Continue reading hostmaster@ximalas.info is compromised. Password must be changed
Upgrading localbase on 13.0-CURRENT using ports-mgmt/synth
I upgraded base from 12.0-ALPHA9 to 13.0-CURRENT (r339639) on a VM today. While preparing for rebuilding localbase, I wiped clean /var/synth/live_packages/{All,Latest}/*, and cleaned the ccache repo stored in /var/cache/ccache. Trouble arose when I ordered ports-mgmt/synth to rebuild some 116 ports according to a specification stored in a local metaport. DEFAULT_VERSION+=ssl=base was being used at the time. Continue reading Upgrading localbase on 13.0-CURRENT using ports-mgmt/synth
First attempt at running FreeBSD/amd64 12.0-BETA1
I spent the better part of the weekend upgrading my laptop to 12.0-BETA1.
Three hickups has been discovered so far. Continue reading First attempt at running FreeBSD/amd64 12.0-BETA1
Somewhat improved iperf3 performance on Chelsio T6225-CR
After upgrading to stable/11, r339418, incorporating the recent commits for cxgbe(4) et al. (r339389, and r339393-r339404), I see a somewhat improved iperf3 performance. Continue reading Somewhat improved iperf3 performance on Chelsio T6225-CR
Improvements on ZFS’ scrub speed in r339034
r339034 introduced some improvement in stable/11 when ZFS performs scans, e.g. scrubbing. Continue reading Improvements on ZFS’ scrub speed in r339034
Slow charge on Sony Xperia Z5 Premium Dual
I used my active HDMI adapter the other day to show the display of my phone to some students. Since then, my phone would only charge in slow mode. Continue reading Slow charge on Sony Xperia Z5 Premium Dual
iperf3 and Chelsio T6225-CR
I ran four tests yesterday using iperf3. The T6225-CR NIC still runs with Chelsio’s SM10G-SR optics. It’s amazing that receiving TCP streams runs at full speed. Sending TCP streams limps away only at a few megabits per second. This wasn’t expected at all. Even IPv6 runs faster than IPv4 for these particular tests. The Cisco switch at the other end uses Fiberworks’ SFP-10G-SR optics. Does anyone have any clues? Continue reading iperf3 and Chelsio T6225-CR
Chelsio T6225-CR and TOE
After upgrading to a recent base/stable/11, I noticed ifconfig -m now displays two more bits:
cc0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=ec07bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO, VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
capabilities=ecc7bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,TOE4,TOE6,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
ether 00:07:43:XX:XX:X0
hwaddr 00:07:43:XX:XX:X0
nd6 options=8021<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL,DEFAULTIF>
media: Ethernet 10Gbase-SR <full-duplex,rxpause,txpause>
status: active
supported media:
media 10Gbase-SR mediaopt full-duplex,rxpause,txpause
media 10Gbase-SR mediaopt full-duplex,rxpause
media 10Gbase-SR mediaopt full-duplex,txpause
media 10Gbase-SR mediaopt full-duplex
media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex,rxpause,txpause
media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex,rxpause
media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex,txpause
media 1000baseSX mediaopt full-duplex
TOE4 and TOE6 appear in the capabilities word, but not in the options word. (TOE in this case being TCP Offload Engine.) Continue reading Chelsio T6225-CR and TOE
Error 1603 when installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable and Autodesk Revit 2019
Today I got error 1603 while installing Autodesk Revit 2019 on a student’s laptop. The best solution is to uninstall all Microsoft Visual C++ runtimes, reboot the computer, and let the Revit installer get its way installing the supplied versions.