I’m adding in an older Hitachi 1TB desktop drive to my FreeBSD ZFS server. I want to get it paired up with another Hitachi drive that’s in use on the system. Since I want both of the Hitachi drives to be my mirrored drives for my “backup” pool and filesystem (where our home laptops drop… Read More »
I’ve added a page showing the physical-to-logical mapping of hardware to VM for my new ESXi environment. This is my “production” use of PCIe passthrough, check it out.
A few months back (OK, 6 months) I bought a Seagate Momentus XT for my unibody MacBook Pro. The theory of operations is great: Add 4GB of NAND Flash to a good 7200rpm hard drive, and cache the slow seeks. Slow thrashy reboots and application launches get cached, giving you SSD-like read speeds on some… Read More »
Derek Marcotte’s blog post over at “Do Something Every Day” was a great time saver for me tonight. He stepped through the process of making a bootable FreeDOS USB Key, and made the image available for all. Check it out.
Given all the information, and misinformation on the news these days, my friend Earl Ruby has written a very knowledgable and level-headed blog post on the subject of nuclear radiation and contamination. Check it out at his site.