http://uminac.com I'm not creative enough for this, and you can't help me. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:49:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Got a new storage server, it's a PE2900 from Dell. Installed FreeBSD 7.2 on it, rebuilt the kernel with all the updates and included: options iscsi_initiator connected to the iSCSI target across the LAN, then I used: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testiscsi/file.out bs=65536 to test the speeds after mounting it. I observed horrific speeds ... http://uminac.com/2009/06/19/poweredge-2900-iscsi-performance-problems-w-freebsd/ I hate it. I didn't buy it, someone else did and I got stuck "using" it, then selling it. It came preconfigured with a bunch of 300GB SAS 15K RPM drives in it for use with iSCSI. To me that makes no sense. What's the point of the ... http://uminac.com/2009/06/10/hitachi-simple-modular-storage-100-review/ Here's my horrible looking summer schedule. I can't wait for August 15th. Seriously? History of Folk Music?!?! One more semester after this!!! http://www.easymac.org/~uminac/schedule.pdf http://uminac.com/2009/05/18/summer-schedule/ In a recent battle at work I put a Cisco 2960G up against a Dell PowerConnect 5424. The PowerConnects aren't bad... They're cheap, gigabit, and Layer-2. Anyway, I quickly found out that unless you use GVRP, the Dell cannot learn what VLANs are out there. You ... http://uminac.com/2009/04/26/vlan-trunking-cisco-vsdell/ So, I hate hard drives. I think everything about them is like a bad flashback to the 1980's. They have something that constantly spins (stupid), which means they require lots of power (also stupid) and in turn generate lots of heat (ridiculous). All that aside, they're by ... http://uminac.com/2009/04/05/f-you-hard-drives/ Why don't they let you download images with anything except picasa?! Isn't that a feature that the world might like? Why do you have to install picasa to download a friend's web album? Google, you're the worst company ever. You're the queens of doing 85% of something. EDIT: ... http://uminac.com/2009/03/31/picasa-sucks/ Alright, I guess it's impossible to do anything except blog or wiki. I was thinking it might be nice to have some good knowledge base software implemented for myself, but I've played with a few of them that I found (via Google) and they're terrible! Can someone write a not ... http://uminac.com/2009/03/31/wiki-or-die/ The other night, I noticed that popsicle.easymac.org's mailq was >22,000 message. I figured that was a problem. Turns out one of my users (who's account I deleted without hesitation) was running a PHP proxy from his ~ directory. Looks like the stupid thing allowed some idiot to ... http://uminac.com/2009/03/20/mod_security-ftw/ Okay, so the imgfixr.com update is coming fairly. I know i've been super lazy about it, but I'm actually working on code for it right now. The trouble is this: I can't design ! Anyone who feels like helping out on a new design for imgfixr.com please let ... http://uminac.com/2009/03/13/imgfixr-update/ Recently I got angry about the fact that IRSSI opens a new window to message the bots when I join a channel and doesn't close it. I'm sure many have had this problem. Turns out the people who make IRSSI thought of this. I know, crazy right? Anyway... ... http://uminac.com/2009/02/10/irssi-botcmd-hiding/