by Alex Verboon
Today I was testing some OS image within various Virtual Machines and at some stage noticed my available space on the disk became lower and lower. Although after each test i had deleted the VM entirely somehow i must have Read More …
Today we had a brief discussion about the impact of power cycles on the disk drive lifetime. In searching for some background information on this subject, I found the followiing. http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/pubs/factsheets/sw/ComputersMonitors.pdf http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf This is not directly related but found it Read More …
From time to time I visit the Microsoft Research site. It seems that there is much focus on photography and displaying pictures. AutoCollage 2008 allows you to create a photo collage with little effort. Another interesting project is HD View Read More …
Steve (a friend of mine) had send me this interesting article about how one makes money with free software. The story is about the design of a 5 euro piece that has been made with free software. Read “How to Read More …
Finally after several attempts, i’ve been able to install VMWare ESXi into VMware Workstation 6.5. The intend of doing this is purely to get familiar with the product. To get this done, i have been mainly following the instructions provided Read More …
VI – last time i had my very personal fight with this text editor was back in 1992 or 1993 when sitting in a Oracle Administration trainging class, and probably was the only non-UNIX guy (some time months later I was Read More …