Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
Over a year ago I replaced Sendmail with Postfix on my main mail server. The new mail setup has worked very well ever since. There was however still room for improvement: I still used UW IMAP as the IMAP and POP3 server. This software works fine in general but is neither particular fast nor under [...]
A few days ago I read a review of a high-end graphics card in the c’t magazine. The card featured nVidia’s latest and greatest GPU and a very elaborate cooling system which was required to reduce the fan noise to acceptable levels. I was shocked by the price of the graphics card. At €510 the [...]
I don’t have much luck with hard disks these days. One of the new hard disks in my server started reporting a lot of write errors after only a few days of service. I swapped its place with the other new hard disk to make sure it’s not a problem with either cabling or the [...]