I just got 200MB/s read/write rate from my swap device on my laptop. Fast laptop eh? OK, so I'm cheating by using the compcache/zram module from the staging tree ( Read more... )

Erik de Castro Lopo mentions Geany as a replacement to NeditI personally don't use geany or nedit[1], but a coworker has said "geany is almost OK", except it doesn't have keyboard macros, and there's a weird bug in that it thinks a line with more than one "#" (and following comment lines) is not a comment (presumably in his language of choice - tcl ( Read more... )

Attendees of LCA2009 may be pleased to know that there is at least *some* hope for the Tassie Devil.

There is a completely separate monoculture that has thus far not been affected by the facial tumor. Whether it will be enough is the $44,000 question.

Everytime I've ever read a redhat bugzilla report, I've always come away with the feeling that they've spent a *lot* of effort discussing why they shouldn't do anything.

See this for example. EDIT:Or an earlier effort of mine in trying to report a bug: bug 463880 or indeed any of my other bugs. I mean, absolutely no justification whatsoever for ( Read more... )

I sat by the water for half an hour just making sure my camera wasn't about to blow off its "tripod" (a boat anchor thingy).

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(here for PLOA viewers; and the video has been updated to make it look like I can hold the camera level. I must have tilted eyes ( Read more... )

I got a nagios alert from the acquisition/guidance system at work (which won't be used for several days, but I don't plan to be back before the weather turns good again!) that it had gone down ( Read more... )

Dear filesystem developers (and Stewart Smith),

It's an old discussion, I know, but please read all the comments on Ts'os blog post, at least as far as Daniel Colascione's comment (and tell me if there's anything worth reading beyond his post, because there's kind of a few of them there ( Read more... )

I know a lot of people around here are really happy for the "relatime" mount option, but I prefer my filesystems being POSIXly correct. I also happen to use atimes a lot.

Which makes me pissed off about debian bug 535156What am I doing wrong? The patch made to kernels sometime around 2.6.30 can't possibly be so stupid as to make it completely ( Read more... )

I just found out through bug #482695 that grip has been removed from debian ( Read more... )

Tasmania is teh ace. Forestry Tasmania, the Hydro Electric Comission, Queenstown mining and Gunns workers (and 100 years of respective Tasmanian Premiers) can go stick large poles up their bums, but the rest of the state and linux geeks are teh ace.

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