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[...]
Postfwd and Local Only EmailPostfwd and Local Only Email
Over a year ago when I was considering my first Android phone purchase I setup a test account on my mail server so that I could test email clients on[...]
Links June 2012Links June 2012
This Youtube video is an amusing satire of EULAs and copyright law as applied to uploading consciousness [1]. Washington’s Blog has an insightful article about the way that the lack[...]
Targeted AdvertisingTargeted Advertising
Don Marti has written another blog post about targeted advertising [1]. His main point is that when a company uses the most targeted adverts (such as Google advertising) everyone knows[...]