Don’t use USB 3.0 Disks With Windows unless you’re okay with total failure.

USB 3.0 in Windows Server 2012 r2 (and presumably many other flavors of windows) is utterly broken.  It has been broken since USB 3.0 came to market, and despite what the Microsoft Core USB engineering blog will tell you, it is still broken in the worst way possible.   If you haven’t read it, check out this very active blog post from the Microsoft core team, but ignore the part at the top where they claim that all the crap you have to go through to work around the problem “is no longer required“.  I assure you, they still have a long way to go before I’ll certify that USB 3.0 is stable on Windows. Continue reading “Don’t use USB 3.0 Disks With Windows unless you’re okay with total failure.”

Don’t Try this At Home: Replacing TCP with a UDP-based protocol

I’m exhausted.  I’ve had this bit of code floating around for a long time that aims to replace TCP with a UDP-based protocol.  I’ve written about it before, and I arrogantly have made many posts recommending such an approach to the masses, both here on this blog and out in the rest of the internet world. Continue reading “Don’t Try this At Home: Replacing TCP with a UDP-based protocol”