Tag Archives: lame

Why RAID-Z isn’t appropriate for me (or for almost any home user)

August 21, 2011

So, ZFS is cool. OpenSolaris derivatives are cool. RAID-Z is cool. But it lacks one simple feature that other software RAID solutions handle – the ability to grow a volume by increasing the stripe size. For instance, let’s just postulate that you have 3 2TB hard disks in a RAID-5, and you want to add 2 more to make a 5-disk volume. Well, with ZFS, you have 2 options: Back up everything on the current volume, destroy it, and create a [...]

Siebert: Hates Google Chrome

September 21, 2010

So, I went to check out Siebert today. Turns out they hate Google Chrome. I guess they’re not getting my business.

Annoying Web 2.0 Stuff

July 1, 2008

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if no one ever upgraded to Web 2.0? I mean, really, what have we gained. Here’s a list of things that I personally find really stupid about the phenomenon…

Angband save games directory in Ubuntu

January 2, 2008

I finally found where Angband saves are stored in Ubuntu thanks to the helpful file listing it provides. It’s all in /var/games/angband, and the save directory looks like this: root@rofl:/var/games/angband/save# ls -al total 60 d—rwx— 2 root games 4096 2008-01-01 23:57 . drwxr-sr-x 9 root games 4096 2007-12-31 16:18 .. -rw-r–r– 1 hank games 45651 2008-01-01 23:57 1000.Hank -rw-rw-r– 1 root games 47 2006-11-13 01:20 delete.me The inside of 1000.Hank is complete binary gibberish, but at least I can back [...]

I can’t read the news because of advertising.

June 27, 2007

What is wrong with this picture? Oh! I know! Maybe its that I can’t read the article because of an ad!! Good work, CNN! Original Story. You might have to refresh a few times. This is because of oversize flash advertisements. Here is a short flash video of my experience.

Thoughts on Flying

June 2, 2007

I was looking to see if I could bring my deoderant on the plane. Turns out I can’t since it’s over 3oz. But wait – down the list a little is this gem: Gel-filled bras and similar prosthetics – Gel-filled bras may be worn through security screening and aboard aircraft. Wow, awesome. I wonder why this is. Couldn’t a terrorist just sport some bomb boobs? I mean, could a convincing transvestite take down an aircraft? Why is this allowed and [...]