2012-07-24 | 0 comments
I need to ship a clone of a VM image “transhemispherically” over a high latency link that tends to have many connection failures with scp/ssh+rsync. I decided to investigate shrinking the raw images that are in use for performance reason. … Continue reading
2012-07-17 | 0 comments
The first “enterprise” model 4TB Ultrastar 7k4000 (HUS724040ALE640) disks are starting to ship from Hitachi. One hundred of them are currently sitting in my office with a manufacturing date of June 2012. 🙂 They are 7200 RPM with a SATA … Continue reading
2012-07-08 | 0 comments
Everybody hates Firefox updates is one of the more insightful pieces I’ve seen on how disruptive the desktop software update process can be. However, I believe almost everything in the essay applies to website updates as well. The discussion of … Continue reading