Author: jedreynolds
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Year of Bike Commuting Ends With Gasoline
I’ve braved the rain, snow and many a windy day on my bicycle. I’ve towed trailers, filled my panniers, and fixed my flats. This afternoon, I toted books to the library and went to the hardware store, and finally–went and purchased a 1-1/2 gallons of gasoline at a Chevron while on my bicycle. The gas…
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One Year of Carless Computing!
Not an April Fools joke — I’ve accomplished my first year of bicycle computing! I’ve only driven to work on two occasions for after-hours calls. The odometer readings on my bicycles this year are 1412 miles and 564 miles. I bought the latter odometer in December, so that’s 564 miles in 4 months. I’d confidently…
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Finding Ada
Was listening to FLOSS Ep. 114 and the topic is Ada Lovelace Day. Neat concept. Who would you put on the list?
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In Another Life: Solar Power
I am occasionally reminded of how much I admire the concepts of solar power and the future it could sustain. If I were in a different line of work, it would likely be in the solar power industry. Renewable energy is a concept that’s satisfying to get behind, like it has become satisfying to become…
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Copyright Thought
Just now–looking at Slashdot and reading the post about 20,000 lawsuits of copyright infringement against BitTorrent users–makes me think that that copyright litigation is going to be a growth segment for the next decade. Like online advertising, online marketing and online gaming…copyright litigation is backed by solvent clientelle. Back when I was first out of…
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You Want a Vertex Turbo
Unless you want to go all spendy on an Intel X25-M or X25-E…However, after reading Anand’s SSD Anthology, the best value SSD is the OCZ Vertex Turbo. Some of my lingering questions have been answered! TRIM commands provide a modest performance enhancement if the drive is not near capacity. However as drives approach capacity, TRIM…
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Three SSDs? Or One?
So I was thinking about how fast the write speed for a striped set of OCZ Vertex Turbos would be: between 300-435 MB/s. That’s simply awesome. However, there are some drawbacks to my plan: 1) assuming onboard RAID0 will be sufficient 2) onboard RAID0 won’t have TRIM support 3) extra effort and cost of three…
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Are Two SSDs Worth It?
I was just pricing out components for a Windows 7 system for a Photoshop user. My idea was to have two SSD drives, one for the boot drive, a second for ssd for photoshop scratch, and a 1TB drive for finished work. A Core i5 system with 8GB ram seems to price out at $2000,…
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Diffed and Merged…and Ported
“Hard at it,” is how you’d describe me these days. I’ve really learned a lot about programming C# in the last three weeks. There’s some stuff I like, even. I’m still, rather instinctively, feeling hesitant to praise Microsoft for anything…but it’s melting. Consider this latest Tools episode from The Commandline podcast. Thomas Gideon describes a…
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