Category: computing
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XP System Does a Dodge Monaco Ka-Boom!
Apparently, the Dodge Monaco was the cop car in the Blues Brothers movie that served Ellwood so well. It came to a catastrophic end, of course. My mom just had her seven year old Dell do a Dodge Monaco Boom on her: > I’m very glad that I kept the old machine running all the…
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64 Bit Windows Filesystem Voodoo
I was really baffled by why I couldn’t find a file in my editor. This article explained why. I ended up copying it out of that location, editing it, and copying it back.
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When NOT to Use a SAN?
The vast number of filesystems, distributed file systems, and network replication schemes available for Linux all come with learning curves and caveats. When does one actually want to avoid merely picking out an average SAN solution and go with a Linux oriented distributed storage solution like Gluster or NFS on DRBD?
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Love Visual Studio, Crashes!
Moving the Call Stack window while debugging was crashing VS2009. Luckily, there was a KB article about it.
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What Prizes Will LinuxFest Northwest 2010 Behold?
I enjoyed taking Liam to LinuxFest Northwest 2009. I won i Core i7 system at the raffle there! I don’t expect to win such a thing again. I thought I’d just post a screenshot, because Compiz is just so cool. It runs BOINC pretty well: top – 21:07:17 up 2 days, 9:08, 2 users, load…
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Checking the Ends of Files
Bash command displays the end of files written recently: find -type f -mtime -1 | xargs ls -tra | tail | xargs tail
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What Every C# Dev Needs to Know About Dates
There’s a big difference in what a M, MM, MMM, and MMMM mean in a date format. Also, you can say: String.Format( “{0:yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss}”, DateTime.Now ) to convert a .Net date into a MySQL format date, without needing to pass a format string to the DateTime.ToString() method.
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Search Highlighting in VS 2008
I found a way to highlight search results in Visual Studio 2008, using the RockScroll add-in. I still miss the Highlighter plugin in jEdit, tho.
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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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