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So far I’ve been pretty satisfied with my Nexenta setup. Dedup is a great feature and I’ve rsynced all other computers to it without a single thought of which files are copied more than once (all Windows and program files, multiple copies of pictures, multiple copies of Dropbox dirs, etc.). However, the following three things [...]

I’ve written about my small and green home server before. I love its low power consumption, integrated UPS/keyboard/screen and the small size. But it was time for an upgrade — to a real server.   The reasons for an upgrade The thing I missed most was more CPU power. The 600 MHz Celeron CPU got pretty bogged down [...]

One of the things that bothers me in Mac OS X is that you cannot delete files without skipping the trash (apart from using the console). This means that to free the disk space of, say, a 2GB file, you have to empty the trash; if you delete large files often, your trash either grows [...]

Stormy weather makes me worried about my electronic equipment, especially servers. A summer storm can take out power, corrupt a HDD in the process, or in the worst case, fry absolutely everything by a strategically placed lightning strike. But even on a quiet winter day, hard disk can quietly fill with logs, one byte at [...]

It appears that Dr. Strangelove in the movie with the same title1 also uses the Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer slide rule in a scene or two. I just spotted it (and I have proof: see two screen grabs below, around 01h25 in the movie). So now I can add a tagline to Nuke Effects: As [...]