Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
David Holland organised NetBSD’s Hackathon 11 at the last weekend. The goal was to fix bugs in preparation for the NetBSD 5.0 release.
I decided that this was the best opportunity to fix PR kern/38100 which had rendered my ULTRA60 useless the past few month. I started with trying to reproduce the problem without using the [...]
In the past NetBSD has been reported to deliver poor I/O performance when running under the Xen hypervisor. Because I’m considering running Xen on my home server in future I ran some benchmarks under NetBSD/xen myself recently.
I used my HP Proliant ML110 G4 for the benchmarks. The machine has an Intel Xeon 3040 CPU (Dual [...]
I like movies based on comic books. Unfortunately a lot of them are mediocre and some are really bad.
Based on the trailer I decided to watch Iron Man although I never had read one of the comic books. And it was really worth the visit because it is an excellent movie. It is full of [...]