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Having reshaped a RAID5 twice of as many weeks, I’ve found that adding a 2TB drive takes a good 36 hours, which is kind of frustrating.
After a bit of searching, I discovered that there is a setting in /sys/block/md*/md/stripe_cache_size which by default is set to 256. This is enough for normal day operations, but [...]
I really think it’s great that Apple develop all these cool things to make the experience of using their software an really nice and relaxed experience.
But, as there is always a but in there, they absolutely silly and annoying way they chose which language one can use would be something someone should be @$!@#$!@$%@#$% [...]
There is a problem with the protocol Adium used to implement the Facebook Chat, which means that some people have problems seeing their contact (they are not there…).
As of Adium 1.4.2 this will be fixed as Adium is moving to the new protocol – or they say they are.
I recently had the “pleasure” to try a NAS device, more specific a QNAP TS-410, which is handy little box which takes 4 harddrives (each upto 2TB), 2 Gigabit network ports, a few USB ports, and a 2 eSATA ports.
Very neat, but it’s let down but the lack of a decent CPU (Marvell [...]
According to Mr. Jobs people want:
Hollywood movies & TV Shows Everything in HD Lower prices for content Don’t want a computer Don’t want to manage storage Don’t want syncing Silent,cool & small
I am sorry, I could not care for most of these things, I want to be able to stream content from a [...]
Firefox has become a memory hog, it will do it best to use all the memory available, or so it seams. I sometimes see that Firefox uses more than 1GB Ram, which will grind my computer to halt, or make everything else very slow.
According to this, there is a simple way to [...]
I some times feel like a fool, why would one wonder, well I tend to buy the software I use, even the more expensive parts.
Now there is a wast amount of good freeware around, but not all of it always working (for example Adium seams to crash 2 – 3 times a day, [...]
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