Some snaps from the top of Mt. Occoneechee. Click “Read more” to see slideshow.
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Benchmarking Blunders and Things That Go Bump in the Night
A 2004 paper from Neil Gunther which essentially discusses the pitfalls of relying on observed date without applying the known performance laws (most notably little’s law) to the problem at hand.
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The original link to arXiv.org (whatever that is)
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Hardware design for high density storage pod
These guys at ‘backblaze’ claim to be able to provide 67TB for $7,867 based on 45 SATA drives, RAID6 (Linux) and JFS. The hardware design which is presented in the blog as a how-to uses vertically stacked drives and looks very much...
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Map MAC to NIC vendor.
Not sure how well known this trick is, but it is possible to figure out the vendor of a particular NIC by looking at the first few digits of...
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List binary objects by size.
Sometimes you will want to know what a binary file contains (functions, arrays, objects) etc. The ‘nm’ command will do that for you, and the following 1-liner will...
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Case of the failing executable: Killed at startup.
We had a very strange problem at work whereby we could execute 8 copies of our load generation tool, but not more. This is a tool we use...
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