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Category Archives: hardware
Mini review of the Dell ST2410 Monitor
Dell ST2410 Monitor Pros: HDMI, vga, and DVI ports. 1080p resolution $189 when I purchased it. Audio in and audio out plug. If you connect a device, like a PS3 to the hdmi port and tell it pass audio through, … Continue reading
New phone, t-mobile tap
I just got a new phone today after 4 years or so with my Samsung T-809 with the T-Mobile Tap and so far it’s pretty cool. The touch screen take a little getting to but so far I’ve been working … Continue reading
Hardware Virtualization Acceleration HP HDX16t
is not supported by the BIOS! One of these was purchased recently and we decided to get the Intel Core 2 Duo P7550 which according to Wikipedia had at the time said it was a chip that supported VT. Of … Continue reading
Tape disappearing/reappearing in fabric
So I came into work and fell into a problem with backups. I noticed that my jobs have been running for 2 days and haven’t finished yet so I figured something was wrong. Checking the logs, I saw that fctl: … Continue reading
sunblade smbus: [ID 639315 kern.warning] WARNING: i2c0 smbus not idle. Unable to reset 0
== UPDATE 2/17/2009 == Looks like it came back on today once when I created a zpool on the machine and exported it out. Not sure if that’s the direct reason but that’s the only thing I’ve done to it … Continue reading
Nvida Cuda hardware
I was poking around because a customer was inquiring about GPU and parallel computing. What I found out is CUDA from nvidia (AMD has one too which will be another post). This is basically C compiler made for the teraflop … Continue reading
NAS or SAN
I was recently asked some questions about NAS’s and SANs and what their differences/similarities were. I could think about 1 main difference, but not too much after that: A NAS (network attached system), is a server with a bunch of … Continue reading
Post about wafl.dir.size.max
Found the following link that talks about wafl.dir.size.max at netapp: http://communities.netapp.com/message/5790;jsessionid=7D859DAC2D127BAF4C4D53A5157E060D The main thing to take from it is: Never increase maxdirsize beyond 3% of physical memory.A volume with 30.72MB maxdirsize can hold up to 416808 CIFS files or 1,006,632 … Continue reading
Wds with my tomato linksys routers
I’ve had a tomato router for awhile now and it’s been working great for my AES WPA2/Personal network. I always wished I could have a wireless bridge or something for my computers that don’t have wireless cards into my room. … Continue reading
openmoko released to the world!
Openmoko's cellphone, the New FreeRunner has finally been released to the consumer world. Right now you can go to their store and buy their phones! The price is a little steep at US$399 but think about the cool program you … Continue reading