Monthly Archives: May 2008

Hackathon 11

Posted on 26 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

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

Posted on 23 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

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

Posted on 11 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

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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