36 network interfaces
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My laptop is fairly average in terms of hardware: it has Wi-Fi, a single ethernet port, Bluetooth... so I was fairly surprised to see all this
https://i.imgur.com/1CDrFh9.png
This is a screenshot from before I reformatted and installed a clean Windows 8.1. Now there's only 26.
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I'm willing to bet a lot of those are because the drivers create multiple virtual devices, even though there's only one physical device.
It happens quite a bit in Windows I find.
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it has (loopback
TRWTF is CrashPlan and the crappy POSIX layer it rode in on. The only ones you should see are the ones I mentioned above,lo
,) Wi-Finet3
, a single ethernet porteth3
, Bluetootheth4
... so I was fairly surprised to see all thiseth5
,eth6
, andeth7
, and I'm willing to bet the actual Network Connections screen in Windows would agree.
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Yeah, a Java program that handles low-level file stuff on both Windows and Linux, it's a miracle that it actually works.
(I do keep a second backup on an external hard drive using plain old rsync, for safety)
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No it isn't; they have this thing called JNI where you can write code in C. You get to make a DLL or SO for every ABI that Java supports. They are probably using that for all the "low-level file stuff". And for the low-level network stuff, they shouldn't be using
GetIfTable()
and vomiting the results unfiltered at the screen; instead, there'sGetAdaptersInfo()
, which only lists network stacks applications should actually be submitting stuff to.
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What! A buggy Java program? Naaaaah. You gotta be joshin' me.
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TRWTF is CrashPlan
Couldn't agree more. We use it here.
My compile would lock up while back up was running. Even though I told it not to back up my development directory. Guess it still had to scan with some kind of nasty lock.
I uninstalled it.
My compile is now happy.
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I was just about to dump it but then I saw their 50% sale for a 1 year subscription, and well, I was weak and sleep deprived... I bought it.
So on the plus side, I now have 4 copies of all my data instead of just 3.
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What! A buggy Java program? Naaaaah. You gotta be joshin' me.
No, it really is a buggy Java program.
And stop calling me Josh.
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Go with "lo". It has the lowest latency of any of those.
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What! A buggy
<fuck you not empty>Javaprogram? Naaaaah. You gotta be joshin' me.
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What! A buggy
Javaprogram? Naaaaah. You gotta be joshin' me.Nope. Totally earnest.