OpenFiler Performance Testing – Back to Square One
Well, last night I discovered that my testing methodology was flawed and the results are all over the board. Plus I changed the test configuration in the middle...
Category: Computers
Windows DRM is the ‘longest suicide note in history’
There are a couple of stories on The Register about the DRM in the new Windows Vista operating system. Windows DRM is the ‘longest suicide note in history...
Big Nerdcore Article On BoingBoing
Apparently there is going to be a big Nerdcore show in Las Vegas on January 9th and 10th (looks like BoingBoing has the dates wrong.) BoingBoing is all over it ...
New Openfiler Update I
The motherboard is an X5DPE-G2, so it has four PCI busses on it. Nate brought me a Promise Ultra100 TX2 dual channel IDE controller (thanks Nate!) today, and I ...
Starting to build my new OpenFiler!
Finally! I have five 250GB IDE hard drives that I bought from Nate (thanks Nate!) a while ago. I also have some old gear that I picked up with a Xeon motherboar...
HTTP Server Response Codes for Toddlers
You need to be a geek to get these, but they are pretty damned funny. 201 Created “You went pee-pee in the potty!” 202 Accepted “Daddy will do it in a minute.”
Personal firewall for the RFIDs you carry
From BoingBoing comes this wonderful information: A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration is a paper by Melanie R. Rieback and Georgi N. Gaydadj...
Wierd SPAM
I got this very weird SPAM in my webmaster mailbox today. It’s kind of fun to read actually. Subject: Well, I’ve heard it pronounced both ways. It&#...
Fuck the MPAA
More nerd rap. The Futuristic Sex Robots say they are the only Gangster Nerd Rap band. I don’t know if that’s true, but their song (and video on You...
Search all the O’Reilly Code Samples!
Whoa! Here is a page that lets you search all the code samples in all the O’Reilly books. Way cool.