Author: Joe

I have been a long time reader of Salon. I was there when there were no memberships. I still visited salon throughout their uncomfortable efforts to turn a profit. Nowadays, I mainly stop in to read the AP wire stories,Continue reading… Bye Bye Salon

Well, samba remains my mortal enemy. It is a fickle mistress. I am now getting 30MB/sec downloads, which I am pleased as punch about, but uploading is so all over the boards that it’s hard to figure out what’s goingContinue reading… I hate you Samba

So as my comment-ors have indicated, linux is making my chest very hairy. The Gist: Realtek ethernet boards suck. At least in linux. Replaced the realtek with a D-link 530T. I can now read from the RAID as fast asContinue reading… My Hairy Chest

So I thought, hey, my linux box is working reasonably well, lets break it this weekend and spend a lot of time rebuilding it. Whee! Actually. I was getting bothered by the fact that I could only get 15MB/sec readsContinue reading… Fun with 2.6.4

Okay, so here’s something interesting for you linux/mac os x geeks. I’m getting insanely fast results for DD tests on the Mac. i.e. dd if=/dev/zero of=user_fs bs=1m count=1000 1048576000 bytes transferred in 19.193296 secs (54632409 bytes/sec) 52MB/s is not howContinue reading… whither to dd

I have had some pretty annoying spam action on the blog, so I, like the Big Swede, have taken action. So now I have one thing to say to my spammers. I’m Rick James Bitch!