Last week I had the chance to take a peak at the Gadget Show Live event hosted at the NEC in Birmingham, UK. There were literally hundreds of vendors present, all showcasing their latest products and innovations; aswell as the usual suspects and big names you’d expect. Rather than bore you with a mash up [...]
I’ve been playing around with some IDN’s and TLD’s and DNS etc…. i’ve realised you can create IDN (punycode) subdomains to any existing domain, in addition, i’ve created my own TLD, and setup a DNS server that works for this purpose. If anyone would like an IDN or a custom TLD, get in touch! From [...]
Who knew translating from German > German would be so fun!? I recently reminded myself of a great “google hack” during a lecture today on International Computing. (hello to anyone from there who is reading this!) In honour of internationalisation Google seem to have taken it upon themselves to make the CPU voices beatbox for [...]
Following on from my popular Asus S101 mod, Look what I just got my hands on: ION2 Powered Dual Core Atom Net-top all I can say is… preliminary results look very good, with very nice performance. Expect a full review and tutorial soon. =)
Following on from my previous post regarding AFP and iSCSI benchmarks i’ve decided (after many requests) to post a few raw benchmarks of the system gathered by bonnie++, the environment is as follows: CPU: Athlon 64 3700+ RAM: 2gb DDR400 Controllers: 2x SATA-II and 1x SATA-I Hard Drives: 7x Samsung 2tb Spinpoint F3 5600 RPM [...]
UPDATED WITH BOTH iSCSI & AFP RESULTS I’ve recently setup a ZFS raidz with 7 disks using NexentaStor, natively this doesn’t come with AFP, but I managed to get a package and get this all working (which i’ll demo in an upcoming tutorial), one thing i noticed however is that I could never find any [...]
Many people already know that the Samsung green drives have a bug in the firmware that may cause data loss, Samsung have created a patch that you need to create a bootable floppy disk along and drag in their file, if like me you don’t have a floppy disk drive & don’t want to mess [...]
Well, i’ve used FreeNAS for around 2 years+ now, and all has been good, however, in that time demand for large quantities of storage has now been joined by demand for high speed storage; Once I had replaced all of my drives with 2tb 7200rpm drives I realised that FreeNAS wasn’t giving me the performance [...]
Hi everyone! I keep getting lots of emails from people asking where they can buy xyz to complete the tutorials and try out some of the things listed on CaptainGeek, well after I kept emailing people the same links i had a thought, why not setup an amazon affiliate store. Basically, i’ve setup a small [...]
Well, i know i’ve been slacking lately on this blog, but heres a lil treat, I recently got an iPad and iPhone and bla bla, and soon got very tired of converting all of my mkv and avi content over to the iPad, so I made a little tool to simplify the process, it supports [...]