Hard Drives for BackupHard Drives for Backup
The general trend seems to be that cheap hard drives are increasing in capacity faster than much of the data that is commonly stored. Back in 1998 I had a[...]
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Love of Technology at First SightLove of Technology at First Sight
After seeing the Retina display I’ve been thinking about the computer products that I’ve immediately desired. Here is the list of the ones I can still remember: My first computer[...]
Sam Harris on LyingSam Harris on Lying
The Neuroscientist and atheism advocate Sam Harris has written a short blog post about a journalist named Jonah Lehrer who destroyed his career through false quotes and lies about them[...]
Hetzner now Offers SSDHetzner now Offers SSD
Hetzner is offering new servers with SSD, good news for people who want to run ZFS (for ZIL and/or L2ARC). See the EX server configuration list for more information [1].[...]
Cheap SATA Disks in a Dell PowerEdge T410Cheap SATA Disks in a Dell PowerEdge T410
A non-profit organisation I support has just bought a Dell PowerEdge T410 server to be mainly used as a file server. We need a reasonable amount of space and really[...]
ZFS on Debian/WheezyZFS on Debian/Wheezy
As storage capacities increase the probability of data corruption increases as does the amount of time required for a fsck on a traditional filesystem. Also the capacity of disks is[...]
The Retina DisplayThe Retina Display
Last night I played with an Apple Macbook Pro with the new Retina Display (Wikipedia link). Wikipedia cites some controversy about whether the display actually has higher resolution than the[...]
Links July 2012Links July 2012
The New York Times has an interesting article about “hacker hostels” [1]. I had an idea for similar things after watching a Japanese movie about Tokiwa-sÅ – a shared apartment[...]
Some Proprietary Platform IssuesSome Proprietary Platform Issues
Android vs iPad I’m currently in discussions with a client about a potential future project which involves a tablet computer talking to some electronic equipment. The options are an Android[...]
Breaking SATA ConnectorsBreaking SATA Connectors
I’ve just broken my second SATA connector. This isn’t a lot considering the number of hard drives I’ve worked with, but it’s still really annoying as I generally don’t break[...]