Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
Only three years after moving to Cambridge Silke and I finally managed to visit the nearby Imperial War Museum Duxford. It is Chris Cunningham’s fault that we finally made it. He visited Duxford two weeks ago and published a lot of photos in his blog. We took advantage of the nice weather last Saturday (which [...]
A few weeks ago I posted about NetBSD’s new journaling technology WAPBL. I received a lot of questions concerning the benchmark results that I published. People were especially interested in a comparison with FFS using soft dependences. I hadn’t used this mode in my original benchmark because my personal experiences with soft dependences weren’t very [...]
It started with a single loud beep from my UPS. The thunderstorm outside had caused a short power fluctuation but I wasn’t really worried. After all the server is connected to the UPS so that I don’t have to worry about such things. As my desktop was still happily running (without assistance from the UPS) [...]