So today I was struggling with `time’ trying to get it to redirect. Basically what I wanted to do was time the output of a file, then pipe both timing and file output to gzip for compression. After struggling with … Continue reading
Lustre is a parallel distributed file system which provides high performance capabilities and open licensing, it is often used in supercomputers and extremely large scale hosting facilities (think Netflix via their 3rd party hosts). Generally, most of the worlds largest … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. To help the geeks out there who might have an interest in Lustre FS I’m going to post a series of videos on Youtube detailing how to setup and administrate a … Continue reading
Well it’s that time of the year again when the annual Super Computing conference is held. This year it’s going to be in Salt Lake City, UT. I’ll try and grab some pictures from some of the more interesting items … Continue reading
So this weekend I decided to try some Wii hacking, it was reasonably successful. I managed to get the Wii fully hacked and ready for some backed up games. That said, I wanted to use the Fat32 method rather than … Continue reading
One thing I’ve noticed living here in this apartment is the shear number of wireless networks that propagate throughout my space. Personally I could care less what or where this signal comes from or goes to, however it does present … Continue reading
Over at alephnull they’ve put together a really nice set of file system benchmarks, tracking all softs of various options which can improve and hurt performance when running in various mdraid configurations. From their site: Linux Software RAID Performance Comparisons … Continue reading
If you’ve noticed that your knetworkmanager is no longer functioning, likely NetworkManager has gotten it self into a bad state. This can happen on unclean shutdown or crash of the NetworkManager application. That said the solution is quite simple In … Continue reading