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Views from Mt. Occoneechee.

January 3, 2010
By gary

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

October 9, 2009
By gary

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. PDF The original link to arXiv.org (whatever that is)
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Hardware design for high density storage pod

September 9, 2009
By gary

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.

September 4, 2009
By gary

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.

September 2, 2009
By gary

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.

August 25, 2009
By gary

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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