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Raid Solution

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Shelby

I am in search of a raid solution. I have been pretty interested in the Drobo but due to the cost of what you get I am not sure its the best method, though the idea is cool. I am … Continue reading →

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htop

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Shelby

I have been meaning to post about htop for sometime now.. but for some reason me being lazy has stopped the posting process.  Anyways Htop is a really nice program to get the information that top would normally show you, … Continue reading →

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SATA vs IDE w/hdparm

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Shelby

Can you spot the IDE drive in the mix Drive One /dev/sda: Timing cached reads:   422 MB in  2.00 seconds = 210.72 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:  220 MB in  3.03 seconds =  72.72 MB/sec Drive Two /dev/sdb: Timing cached … Continue reading →

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Block ads on OS X Leopard

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Shelby

I got on a fix today about ads on websites, I already use Adblock Plus as well as the Adblock Filterset.G Updater in Firefox.  But I wanted to take it a step further.  I adid so with the following steps. … Continue reading →

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