Friday 6 October 2023

Windows Sandbox - Triumph of Virtualization

Windows Sandbox allows you to run applications in isolation. Software in the sandbox runs separately from the host machine.

Control-Alt- Break switches into Full Screen Mode. The break key on a laptop may not be labelled such, and delete with or without a function key complement may be required.

Sunday 16 July 2023

Volume Shadow Copy Service Eating Disk

The Volume Shadow Copy Service is effectively a backup and restore service. It was introduced way back when in Windows Server 2003.  Shadow copy is another term for Snapshot or Point-in-time copy, or Point-in-time Snapshot. There is a bunch of terms used in the context of the VSS. These include:

  • The VSS Service - part of the Windows operating system that enables all parties in the shadow copy workflow to communicate.
  • The VSS Requestor - actually requests the creation of the shadow copy (or operations thereon e.g. importing or deleting shadow copies).

WebAssembly Debugging with DWARF Information - but what is DWARF?

DWARF is a standardized debugging data format, originally designed alongside the ELF data format.