MS Office has native support of WebDAV, you can quickly setup a WebDAV server in Apache for testing, instead of spinning up the fully functioning SharePoint Server.

Here is the quick settings for setting up a Apache WebDAV server.


a2enmod dav
a2enmod dav_fs


And then add a new site in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ as followed.

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName webdav.jimmysyss.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerAlias webdav.jimmysyss.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/webdav

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/webdav/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        Alias /svn /var/www/webdav/svn
        <Location /svn>
                DAV On
        </Location>
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

These few vulnerabilities claims to be the most widely spread potential security issue in the last few years. M$ and Linux has provided corresponding patch in fixing it. However, the fix is not free, it usually counts for ~10% of performance reduction, the effect may be magnified in IO intensive usage.

I found my machine compiling our source slower than before by slim margin (~30 sec difference) and try to dig out the reason of the slowness.

There are ways to stop the patch in either Linux and Windows.

Linux
http://wayoflinux.com/blog/meltdown-spectre-performance

Windows
https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm

Honestly, I am not a terrorist nor government officers, given my notebook is sitting behind the company firewall, I am safe to reclaim my PC performance. You may check that out too, but do at your own risk.