Christos Argyropoulos MD PhDMar 23
Getting desperate enough to ask gemini for a professional opinion
Show threadChristophe VeltsosMar 23
Extreme technical debt? Don't worry, that can be solved by reinstalling from the original stack of floppy disks. 🤣
Show threadChristos Argyropoulos MD PhD
@drinfosec.bsky.social the file system failed a few hours latter. New nvme btw... so we will end up checking the disks and then reinstalling
Mar 24 at 6:33amTusky
Show threadChristos Argyropoulos MD PhDMar 24
@drinfosec.bsky.social In the process I learned *many things* about putting high speed acquisition devices in FIPS hardened systems. And discovered the wonders of USBFS , URB packet size, process and interrupt pinning etc
Show threadChristophe VeltsosMar 24
Ouch. Hardware failures are never fun. Back in the day, a spinning HD (or a power supply's fan) might *sound* different before completely giving up. It provided a bit of an early warning before failure. Congrats on all the learning stemming from this incident.