Monthly Archives: May 2008

Hackathon 11

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 … Continue reading

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NetBSD/xen I/O Performance

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 … Continue reading

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Movie of the Week: Iron Man

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 … Continue reading

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