Monthly Archives: July 2008

RAID and file system performance tuning

Posted on 25 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

The last time I tested software RAID 1 under NetBSD I wasn’t really satisfied with the performance. Especially file system operations were much slower than I expected. Resulting from that my current home server uses an Intel SRCS14L RAID Controller … Continue reading →

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Movie of the Week: WALL-E

Posted on 20 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Pixar are back at the box office: after fishes and cars it is time for robots now. The hero of their latest movie WALL-E is a box shaped robot which looks like a cute miniature version of Number 5. The … Continue reading →

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Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D

Posted on 20 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Since 2005 a number of movies using a new 3D technology called Real D have been released. Silke and I used the opportunity and watched the Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D in the Vue in London’s … Continue reading →

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