Some Ideas About Storage ReliabilitySome Ideas About Storage Reliability
Hard Drive Brands When people ask for advice about what storage to use they often get answers like “use brand X, it works well for me and brand Y had[...]
Wifi Performance on LinuxWifi Performance on Linux
Wifi usually just works. In the past I haven’t had to worry much about performance as for home use things have always been bearable and at work it’s never been[...]
USB Cables and CamerasUSB Cables and Cameras
This page has summaries of some USB limits [1]. USB 2.0 has the longest cable segment limit of 5M (1.x, 3.x, and USB-C are all shorter), so USB 2.0 is[...]
HP ML110 Gen9HP ML110 Gen9
I’ve just bought a HP ML110 Gen9 as a personal workstation, here are my notes about it and documentation on running Debian on it. Why a Server? I bought this[...]
Minikube and DebianMinikube and Debian
I just started looking at the Kubernetes documentation and interactive tutorial [1], which incidentally is really good. Everyone who is developing a complex system should look at this to get[...]
Echo Chambers vs Epistemic BubblesEcho Chambers vs Epistemic Bubbles
C Thi Nguyen wrote an interesting article about the difficulty of escaping from Echo Chambers and also mentions Epistemic Bubbles [1]. An Echo Chamber is a group of people who[...]
More EVMMore EVM
This is another post about EVM/IMA which has it’s main purpose providing useful web search results for problems. However if reading it on a planet feed inspires someone to play[...]
DNS, Lots of IPs, and PostalDNS, Lots of IPs, and Postal
I decided to start work on repeating the tests for my 2006 OSDC paper on Benchmarking Mail Relays [1] and discover how the last 15 years of hardware developments have[...]
Links April 2021Links April 2021
Dr Justin Lehmiller’s blog post comparing his official (academic style) and real biographies is interesting [1]. Also the rest of his blog is interesting too, he works at the Kinsey[...]
Scanning with a MFC-9120CN on BullseyeScanning with a MFC-9120CN on Bullseye
I previously wrote about getting a Brother MFC-9120CN multifunction printer/scanner to print on Linux [1]. I had also got it scanning which I didn’t blog about. found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9,[...]