Originally published at https://blog.hadenes.io. In Windows, User Account Control (UAC) is a security feature that helps prevent unauthorized changes to the operating system. When an application requires elevated privileges to perform certain actions, UAC prompts the user for permission to proceed. In this guide, we’ll show you how to request…

Originally published at https://blog.hadenes.io. In order to upgrade to a guest to Windows 11 or to passthrough a GPU the way it’s recommended in the official Proxmox documentation, you need to make sure the guest uses UEFI to boot. By default, Proxmox uses SeaBIOS, thus chances are high that your…

Originally published at https://blog.hadenes.io. As a writer, you know how important it is to create compelling content that engages your readers. But coming up with catchy titles, insightful summaries, and relevant tags can be time-consuming and challenging. …

Alerting on file descriptor usage — This story was originally posted at https://blog.hadenes.io/post/prometheus-alerting-rule-for-redis-clients/ Recently, a customer auto scaling farm got out of hand due to a misconfiguration on their end, which led to Redis maximum number of connections to be exceeded, leading to a lot of requests failing. Curiously, they were way below the default maximum…

Originally published at https://blog.hadenes.io on March 16, 2021. In this post, we are going to compare the differences in effectiveness, from a computation and energy consumption perspective, between SystemD Timers and in-code loops for executing infinite loops. We’ll focus specifically on Linux, since features such as timerfd are only available…

Ensuring the team is in good morale and mentally and physically healthy — This story was originally posted at https://blog.hadenes.io/post/health-check/ What is it? The health check cycle is meant to ensure the team is in good morale and mentally and physically healthy. The health check must held between a “checked” and a “checker”. The “checked” can be any employee, in any area. The “checker” must be…

Uma Jornada ao Coração — This story was originally posted at https://blog.hadenes.io/post/a-natureza-e-o-homem/ A masculinidade toxica se refere aos estereotipos nocivos e restritivos que a sociedade atribui ao sexo masculino. Ela tambem se refere ao modo com o qual os homens lidam com tais pressoes. A masculinidade toxico e fruto de um conjunto de mitos que a sociedade transmite aos garotos e aos homens sobre o que significa ser um “homem de verdade”.

Giving experts structure — This story was originally posted at https://blog.hadenes.io/post/the-role-of-the-leader-when-experts-talk/ When leading a high performance, highly skilled team, a leader may find themselves in a situation where their ability to input on the subject being discussed is limited. It’s also possible that a leader may wish to get some distance from the discussion…

Don’t Ask a Crowd to Take an Action — This story was originally posted at https://blog.hadenes.io/post/retrospective-dynamics-make-a-wish/ When assigning a task, a leader can’t just tell “do this” without giving proper context and structure. While you may sometimes get away with assigning overly abstract tasks to senior members, as they have a great deal of experience to support them, it’s…