Currently I have some significant problems with Javascript CPU use when editing my WordPress blog. Some operations take about 10 seconds to complete which involves Konqueror using 100% CPU time.[...]
It seems to me that we need to have syndicated feeds for Linux job adverts. To start this I have created a new blog for Linux job adverts, it will[...]
Eweek has an article on a new 1TB Seagate drive. Most home users don’t have a need for 1TB of storage (the only way I’ve ever filled a 300G drive[...]
I’ve just watched the video of Stewart Smith’s LCA talk Eat My Data about writing applications to store data reliably and not lose it. The reason I watched it was[...]
Below is a GNUPlot graph of ZCAV output from a 250G SATA disk. The disk has something wrong with it (other disks of the same brand in machines of the[...]
Today I just noticed the following advert on one of my web pages: MINIX3 is a new reliable free operating system. Smaller than Linux. Try it It’s free! www.minix3.org This[...]
Xen (a system for running multiple virtual Linux machines) and has some obvious benefits for testing Heartbeat (the clustering system) – the cheapest new machine that is on sale in[...]
In a comment on my previous blog post a question was asked as to who benefits when customers are able to use cheap electricity. The answer is that the electricity[...]
A question that people often ask about wind power (and was asked in the comments section of my previous post) is what can be done when the wind speed decreases[...]
# foo=bar # name=foo # echo ${!name} bar The above example shows how to make a bash environment variable reference the value of another. # echo ${!f*} foo fs_abc_opts fs_name[...]