The desktop I would buy today
While choosing an SSD may be difficult at the moment, other components for a solid workstation are not. Here’s what I’ve been looking at for the past few months:
Archive of entries posted on May 2010
Getting more entropy for virtual servers
It is not uncommon for people to have performance problems with the their virtual servers and chalk it up to virtualization as the problem instead of insufficient entropy. Running a mail server or SSL web server are particularly vulnerable to virtual servers without much entropy. I have noticed that my virtual servers have had a …
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My kingdom for the perfect Linux filesystem
It is extremely difficult to keep up with all the filesystems being developed for Linux these days. Clearly, so much activity represents an understanding that the current filesystems do not address the needs of users. However, as is all too often the case, development is extremely fragmented with very small groups each trying to build …
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