Nov/090
To SSD or not to SSD?
Hmm, SSD prices are falling, capacities are increasing, and reliabliuty sees to be getting better, although it’s still to early to tell what the long term performance will be like.
Toms has a fairly decent roundup of current drives, and excluding the Asax (which seems to be unavailable in the UK, the best drive seems to be the Crucial M225 256GB. If you hunt, you can find this for about £400 ex vat.
I’ve been putting off upgrading to snowleopard because of all the tweaks I have made to my leopard install (I’ve just about gotten comfortable in it) but one of these may tip the balance. I have been p***ed off recently with the time it takes for the box to change between firefox and textmate. I’m actually starting to sympathise with all tose graphic designers that whine about the beachball of doom.
Jul/081
I’m an idiot. I just bought the wrong type of SCSI disks, again.
Damn it.
I needed SCA, and i bought normal 68pin type. SCA are the top in this image.
Hopefully I’ll remember to come look here next time.
Apr/080
Storing Data For The Next 1000 Years
Tom’s has a nice article on a bit of research done on data storage
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/harddrive-storage-hdd,news-28035.html
Pergamum, named after the ancient Greek library that made the
transition from fragile papyrus to more durable parchment, is designed
as a distributed network of individually fully functional network
storage devices. Compared to current MAIDs (Massive Arrays of Idle
Disks), NAND flash memory (described as on-volatile random access
memory – NVRAM) within the project has been added to each node with the
purpose to store data signatures, metadata, and other small items,
allowing deferred writes, metadata requests and inter-disk data
verification to be performed while the disk is powered off. Since the
NVRAM can run frequent searches without the need to spin up a hard
drive, the disk media can remain powered down more often, effectively
reducing wear as well as the power consumption of a MAID.
Feb/081
Rename hardware devices (like eth0) using udev for linux
shamelesly stolen
udev is a daemon which dynamically creates and removes
device nodes from /dev/, handles hotplug events and loads drivers at
boot time. It replaces the hotplug package and requires a kernel not
older than 2.6.12.udev – /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
Aug/070
EqualLogic
Been looking for some SAN boxes for a while, Quite like the look of EqualLogic’s PS50E.
Jul/071
PuppetMaster – Bluetooth/GPRS Remote Control for Windows
Control your pc from your mobile (media remote, powerpoint an ting)
May/070
Flat Screen Monitor Arms and Flat Panel Arms from Humanscale – flat panel monitor arms, monitor arms, adjustable monitor arms
May/070
Improved Dutch helix/helical for WLan
Improved Dutch helix/helical for WLan
Below you’ll find the description of a 22-turns helix antenna according to the downscaled design.
Both sides of the reflector have edges with a V-shaped cut. This is to mount the antenna easily to the mast, using a simple clamp. The V-cut must be beside the center line of the reflector to prevent for the antenna mast obstructing the N connector area.
Mar/070
Sonnet | Tempo SATA E4i – Serial ATA Host Adapter for PCI Express
Sonnet | Tempo SATA E4i – Serial ATA Host Adapter for PCI Express
Cheapest PCIe SATA raid that’s not fakeraid.