Well another year, and another LUG. This one was in San Diego California. It was generally interesting, some good talks on topics that are near and dear to my heart. Rich at InsideHPC has a great series of video presentations … Continue reading
Below is the README file for mdtest, an application designed to test meta data performance of a given file system /******************************************************************************\ * * * Copyright (c) 2003, The Regents of the University of California * * See the file COPYRIGHT … Continue reading
I picked up a new wireless router after the SnR of my pre-ban Buffalo WHR-HP-54G got out of control, I think the radio might be failing. In either case after much investigation and trying out a few different models I … Continue reading
To boot a FreeBSD machine (just about any version) from a single user maintenance boot (boot -s from loader or option 4 from boot menu) into full multi-user mode: # mount -a # swapon -a # exit This will boot … Continue reading
So while playing around with one of the local ski resorts website I decided, hey wouldn’t it be neat to time lapse the whole day by grabbing a frame a second from the public web cam. After collected my images … Continue reading
Um.. well brain dead moment tonight after putting in huge hours last week. echo `expr 2 * 2` expr: syntax error Of course… forgot to escape * 🙂 echo `expr 2 \* 2` 4 Sigh!
After some recent file system woes as well as some past system updates I ran into this error while trying to mount my encrypted home directory: Enter your login passphrase: Inserted auth tok with sig [**********************] into the user session … Continue reading
Well I wasted my day off fixing my elliptical exercise machine. The old ramp lift motor was shot and making a lot of noise (mostly when using the machine while it was static) so I replaced it with a spare … Continue reading
So once again I had to go googling the man page to find this so I’m posting it here. convert animated.gif -scene 1 +adjoin frame_%03d.gif
IOR is a file system testing tool designed to work in a clustered environment. Below is the usage instructions /*****************************************************************************\ * * * Copyright (c) 2003, The Regents of the University of California * * See the file COPYRIGHT for … Continue reading