After updating my 1005PE with an Intel 6300 network card and additional antennas I wanted to see how fast a real world copy could be through wireless. So I hopped on my internal file server and a large file 9.88 … Continue reading
For a while now I’ve owned an older EeePC 1005PE. I love the thing, running kubuntu 12.04 LTS it’s been a work horse for me. Recently I noticed that my wireless was becoming less reliable, plus it lacked 5GHz support … Continue reading
As a general rule of thumb external journaling on ext4 / ldiskfs type file systems can and will greatly improve overall write performance. This is due to the fact that you’re off loading small (4K) writes to an external disk … Continue reading
So interestingly on my recent trip to Key West, while my Hero3+ silver was charging, I had the LCD touch bacpac on it, unfortunately for me this resulted in burning in the warning icon which comes up on the screen … Continue reading
So the wife decided that I needed a GoPro, she ordered me the Hero3+ Silver. After some initial fiddling I noticed that the overall video quality and camera quality, etc. was not exactly as good as I was hoping. After … Continue reading
After years of only being able to ‘work’ on my Linux desktop I’m finally able to play some of my favorite games again. These are provided by Valve through Steam for Linux. I’ve noticed a few minor issues here and … Continue reading
What is Lustre DNE? The Lustre Distributed Namespace (DNE) feature is a new technology developed for the Lustre File system. The feature it self allows for the distribution of file and directory metadata across multiple Lustre Metadata Targets (MDT). With … Continue reading
When installing lustre it is necessary to generate the storage targets, this is completed with mkfs.lustre, normally this happens without issue, however from time to time this isn’t the case. The following issues are ones I’ve seen and solutions are … Continue reading
From the Wikipedia article on Lustre File Systems: Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. The name Lustre is a portmanteau word derived from Linux and cluster.[3] Lustre file system software is available under the GNU General Public License (version 2 only) and … Continue reading
Just a reminder, if you’ve got an SSD and any modern Linux distribution fstrim is your friend. I suggest running it as a simple cron job.