https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marcus9999Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:19:08 +0000seen this exact pattern in small business FoxPro setups too, DBFs on a share are one dropped SMB connection away from a corrupted index. if you're stuck maintaining something like this the least bad move is nightly copies of the whole folder to a second box, and actually opening that copy in the app now and then instead of just checking that the file sizes match.

]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:19:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810862marcus9999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810862https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810862this fixes a real annoyance on older workstation boards where above 4g decoding is a requirement but the option isn't even in the bios menu. saw a build recently on an x79 board where it had to be exposed with a hand patched bios before anything like this or a modern gpu would work at all.

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