Well, another year has gone by and another Super computing conference. This years SC14 conference was held in New Orleans. The notable things I found this year, at least things I found interesting where the 8TB archival drive from Seagate, … Continue reading
So many of us that have purchased the Dell XPS 13 (9333) with Haswell core i7 processors have noticed a rather annoying and near constant electrical noise. If you have an earlier generation of this laptop (early 2014 model year) … Continue reading
ZPcheck 1.5 is now available. It contains a few minor bug fixes and changes. These include: Increased smart log capture time from 1 hour to 24 hours Improve error reporting so as to report correctly on errors when all devices … Continue reading
Just a quick note about figuring out existing internal journal sizes for EXT3 / EXT4 and LDISKFS file systems: First thing to do is determine the current inode block, this is usually inode 8, however this may change depending on … Continue reading
Today I had the task of updating my backup system, for a long time I didn’t bother rolling backups because, well I just didn’t care. However I now wanted to set something up. I remembered long ago that I had … Continue reading
So, back in September I decided to purchase a new laptop, the one I decided on was the Dell XPS 13 Sputnik (9333). This is an Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB mSATA based laptop which ships with Ubuntu 12.04 … Continue reading
I’ve taken five minutes to generate a new splash screen for my new XPS 13 laptop, it’s a silhouette of the famed Russian Sputnik satellite: Download here
After successfully installing Windows 7 SP1 on my wife’s new workstation I noticed right away that the system was no longer able to access my Samba NAS. After searching around for a while and trying various tips, such as making … Continue reading
So… Unforantly for me, I had to reinstall Windows 7 on my wife’s work station. Personally I can’t stand Microsoft OS’s so this was quite the chore. To make things easier I decided to just install via USB disk (Who … Continue reading
So the last month or so I’ve been working on replacing my aging FreeBSD 7.4 RELENG server, running the stable, but some what scary GEOM RAID5 hack (vintage 2008). The system was a total hack, running in an old mid-tower … Continue reading