Swap Breaking SSDSwap Breaking SSD
I’ve seen many comments about swap space and SSD claiming that swap will inherently destroy SSD through using too many writes. The latest was in the comments of my post[...]
Author: etbe
BTRFS Status April 2014BTRFS Status April 2014
Since my blog post about BTRFS in March [1] not much has changed for me. Until yesterday I was using 3.13 kernels on all my systems and dealing with the[...]
Sociological Images 2014Sociological Images 2014
White Trash The above poster was on a bridge pylon in Flinders St in 2012. It’s interesting to see what the Fringe Festival people consider to be associated with “white[...]
Sociological Images 2012Sociological Images 2012
In 2011 I wrote a post that was inspired by the Sociological Images blog [1]. After some delay here I’ve written another one. I plan to continue documenting such things.[...]
Swap Space and SSDSwap Space and SSD
In 2007 I wrote a blog post about swap space [1]. The main point of that article was to debunk the claim that Linux needs a swap space twice as[...]
Phone Based LecturesPhone Based Lectures
Early this month at a LUV meeting I gave a talk with only my mobile phone to store notes. I used Google Keep to write the notes as it’s one[...]
Replacement Credit Cards and Bank FailingsReplacement Credit Cards and Bank Failings
I just read an interesting article by Brian Krebs about the difficulty in replacing credit cards [1]. The main reason that credit cards need to be replaced is that they[...]
Finding Corrupt Files that cause a Kernel ErrorFinding Corrupt Files that cause a Kernel Error
There is a BTRFS bug in kernel 3.13 which is triggered by Kmail and causes Kmail index files to become seriously corrupt. Another bug in BTRFS causes a kernel GPF[...]
Comparing Telcos AgainComparing Telcos Again
Late last year I compared the prices of mobile providers after Aldi started getting greedy [1]. Now Aldi have dramatically changed their offerings [2] so at least some of the[...]
Links March 2014Links March 2014
Typing Animal wrote an interesting article about the dangers of stainless steel in a medical environment [1]. Apparently silver and copper are best due to the oligodynamic effect. Instead of[...]