Posted on February 15, 2010 at 2:45 pm
So I recently bought a Pogoplug device, sort of on a whim. I needed a NAS device, and the fact that the Pogoplug had HFS+ (OS/X filesystem) support made it a clear winner for me. I’ve been living with mine for about a week now, mostly with single 320GB HFS+ formatted drive. The $130 device [...]
Posted on January 5, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Me again, yup. Been a while eh? Well, I’ve been busy. Rebuilding a pretty big site essentially from scratch. Trust me, I have plenty of things to rant about! This post though I hope to be another informative, less ranting, post about IPv6.
I keep seeing a LOT of well meaning but mis-informed or mis-understood claims [...]
Posted on September 18, 2009 at 12:37 pm
First excuse the err…crude “Screen Shots” – I don’t have my ’scope setup yet for proper screen captures so I just took pictures.
For a while now I’ve had a +12VDC wall wart that I use occasionally. It always caused weird heating though in regulators. I was never sure why, the multi-meter read it as having [...]
Posted on August 25, 2009 at 1:07 am
For the few people who actually read this you may or may not know I’m an amateur/hobbyist electronics nerd. I’ve recently gotten back into building custom circuits. I’ve got a couple prototypes on the way and am in a sort of holding pattern until they arrive. One of which I realized I fudged up, but [...]
Posted on July 26, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I originally wrote this back in about August, and WordPress apparently lost it during an upgrade or something. Most likely the fault of a beta version of WordPress.
I have a bit of egg on my face. I trusted the LSI people a bit too much. There was a critical race problem in their driver for [...]
Posted on July 26, 2009 at 8:32 pm
American Science & Surplus is a great little place a friend of mine just introduced me to. It is what it says, like Army/Navy Surplus, but for geeks! They have some interesting stuff, but beware, it IS SURPLUS! Good stuff nonetheless
Posted on July 22, 2009 at 3:17 am
So being the type of “computer history” nerd I am I got one of my odd and unusual itches. This time I wanted to poke around with MVS (and it’s correspondng JCL) and TSO. TSO is Time Sharing Option…A multi-user environment, something we tend to take completely for granted. I did this with the help [...]
Posted on August 19, 2008 at 9:16 am
Well, the box running dotblag.com, while plenty serviceable, is showing it’s age. I’ve ordered a pretty large machine (just short of $3000 in total parts) and the bits are on their way, woohoo! I’ll be setting it up and burning it in over the next month or two. Once it’s ready dotblag will be moving [...]
Posted on July 25, 2008 at 5:26 pm
While it’s not clear exactly who-is-causing what, what is clear is the areca driver tries to de-reference a NULL pointer, this is either because the adapter screws up, or the driver screws up somewhere. The result is a Solaris kernel fault, pointing at the arcmsr driver, and apparently an adapter lockup. It’s not 100% clear [...]
The resident lunatech.