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September 19, 2016

Some thoughts on the performance of SSD RAID 0 arrays

My Friend Alan Rocker and I often discuss ideas about technology and tradeoffs.  Alan asked about SSDs for Linux: > I haven’t been following…

June 25, 2015

Another reason to have a policy not to eat at your operations

I’ve worked in places where the policy was that you’re not allowed to bring a camera in; that was before cell phones, I admit,…

April 25, 2014

OpenBSD forks, prunes, fixes OpenSSL

http://www.zdnet.com/openbsd-forks-prunes-fixes-openssl-7000028613/#ftag=RSS86a1aa4 Interesting, eh? At the very least, this will apply a ‘many eyes’ to some of the SSL code and so long as the…

April 22, 2014

Film or digital?

Do you recall Alan Cooper‘s book “The Inmates are running the Asylum”? He makes the case that once you put a computer in something…

October 23, 2013

Linux Archive file systems – ext3 vs reiser vs … ?

So what’s the best file system to use for archiving and data storage rather than the normal usage? Won’t that depend on … a)…

August 6, 2011

Fwd: How Quality Drives the Rise and fall of hi-tech products

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2011-summer/52403/how-quality-drives-the-rise-and-fall-of-high-tech-products I’m dubious. On the one hand I recall a book titled “In Search of Stupidity“, which I strongly recommends reading, its about the…

February 24, 2011

Are *YOU* ready to give up yet?

Apparently (ISC)2 did this survey … which means they asked the likes of us …. http://www.darkreading.com/security-monitoring/167901086/security/security-management/229219084/under-growing-pressure-security-pros-may-be-ready-to-crack-study-says.html Faced with an attack surface that seems to…

July 21, 2010

When organizations put a lot of eggs in one basket – desktop side

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/when-organizations-put-a-lot-of-eggs-in-one-basket-desktop-side-of-the-story/2103?tag=nl.e539 This is a chicken-little story. We’ve been putting many computer eggs in one hardware basket for a long, long time. What do you…

June 4, 2010

Google Phasing out Windows

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Report-Google-phasing-out-internal-use-of-Microsoft-Windows-1012679.html “According to a report in the Financial Times, Google are phasing out the use of Microsoft‘s Windows within the company because of security…

January 4, 2009

Is it the end of the road for LiveCDs?

Image via Wikipedia http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/it_end_road_live_cds No. I don’t think so! The price of recordable DVDs is now under $0.22 each That’s roughly 60 times cheaper…

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