Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
One of the hard disks in my NetBSD server developed problems … again. This time it was one of the Western Digital VelociRaptors which I use for performance reasons. The good news is that I didn’t notice for almost two weeks because NetBSD RAIDframe handled the situation smoothly. It kicked the broken disk out of the RAID [...]
Watching videos online has become very popular in recent years. Large video web sites as Youtube or Netflix are responsible for a lot of the Internet traffic these days. The predominant technology for delivering video over the Internet is still Adobe Flash. Unfortunately the Flash Player isn’t only renown for its poor security record and [...]
For the first time since Silke and I moved to Cambridge (or England for that matter) we had a decent amount of snow today. We measured 14cm in front of the house. And as it is the weekend we had the time to go on a long walk in the snow with our Cocker Spaniel Vader. [...]