Next time I go to have emacs auto-indent a 12,000 line FORTRAN77 source code, do it before I leave for the evening. It’s now 3:30, and it’s been chugging with roughly 85% of one of my workstation’s two cores for the past half hour.
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I’ve been running OpenSolaris Nevada on my file server for a while now. While ZFS makes administration of filesystems beautiful, I’ve been disappointed with the zpool functionality.
In addition, administering the rest of Solaris is a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Things like Perl’s CPAN, which is supposed to have a high level [...]
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Apple’s walled garden works well for most people. I, unfortunately, am not most people.
This is my story.
As I’ve already discussed previously, iTunes has a certain amount of suck involved.
So, I’ve discovered Play, which sucks less in some ways, and sucks more in others. As so far, the more suckage hasn’t been so much [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
Proof right here.
That is all.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
As you may guess, I run a mac. On the Macintosh, there really is only one music player in town: iTunes. Granted, there’s plenty others that will play music, but none that will manage it. I have enough music to make this a real issue. On Windows, there’s WMP, WinAmp, Foobar2000, [...]
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
One of my more favored software development blogs is Beautiful Code. The concept is that code that is properly elegant is going to be readable, functional, and most of all, working correctly. There’s a lot of focusing on unit testing, proper OO design techniques, and how to squeeze an elegant solution out of [...]
On our SAN at work, we use ZFS across it from a single head node to provide storage virtualization services, which are then exported via NFS to the rest of our machines on the network. At first, performance was a dog, especially on writing many small files to disk. This was indicative of [...]
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
I’ve been looking for a good mail client for Mac OS 10. Apple Mail is pretty close to what I’m looking for: it’s simple, it works, and it’s got a great spam filter. However, it hides a bit too much in the background, has no option to change from the default top-posting behavior [...]
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Why is it that after I accidentally remove system-config-users from my FC 6 box, when I go to reinstall it, it wants to install wireless-tools?
For those not in the know: to install the user management tool, I have to install wireless networking configuration tools.
Whumba?
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OK, I have two three Special Someones tonight to discuss.
The first is Supermicro, because there’s the least to rant about. Namely, when I wrote my last post, it did not take very long at all for someone from an IP address that resolved to Supermicro to respond to my post; less than an hour. [...]
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