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 [...]
VMware recently released version 4.0 of VMware Fusion, their virtualisation solution for Mac OS X. I tried out the new version on my Mac Pro under Mac OS X Snow Leopard yesterday. The update from VMware 3.1.3 to 4.0.1 worked absolutely smoothly. I didn’t even have to reboot my Mac. Both of my virtual machines [...]