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Continue reading →: Wow real reliability data and hard disk purchase analysis
I was a little surprised to see this, but Backblaze (hat tip to Anandtech) is publishing detailed information on drive failures. Up to 15% annual failure rate(?!!) on Seagates and they provide model numbers too. Interesting to see a desktop drive do very well (HGST 7K4000, $185 Amazon) at 1.4%…
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Continue reading →: Black Friday for Geeks
So what’s a geek to do but drool over the Black Friday discounts and beyond. But as with all things technical, it pays a little to wonder if it is time to buy or whether you should wait for the next product cycle. Here’s a quick low down on popular…
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Continue reading →: Cooler Gotchas
We’ve been building lots of machines lately and it seems like we have struck out twice. Both times with cooler issues and once with a lack of an SSD: We got the nice case and it says there is 65mm of clearance, the problem is the (??!!) people who designed…
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Continue reading →: Regin: Top tier espionage
Vlad told me about this and it is indeed scary what Symantec has discovered. A super sophisticated hacking tool with five layers and great ability to hide itself when it detects anti-virus programs: An advanced piece of malware, known as Regin, has been used in systematic spying campaigns against a…
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Continue reading →: Grokking Snowmix
This is another amazing tool that complements gstreamer. It lets you mix audio and video feeds quickly and easily and most importantly dynamically without having to write programs. Here are some notes from the wiki, the discussion group there, but mainly by looking at the sample snowmix ini files in…
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Continue reading →: Grilled Opah
Well it’s also called Hawaiian moon fish, but it’s apparently more sustainably caught than tuna. We tried this Food & Wine recipe and was really surprised how tasty the fish is. The main thing is not the sauce but a little salt and quite a bit of oil to keep…
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Continue reading →: too cool f15 strike eagle low levelWow, Jalopnik found a GoPro dream. A low level flight through the mountains of Washington in an F15E Strike Eagle. I can remember spending hours in a simulator of that jet flying around looking for targets.
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Continue reading →: Grokking Gstreamer
Well as I’m kind of someone who is knows how to use Play Doh trying to build the Empire State Building, but in a week or so of hacking and understanding Gstreamer. Here are some of the conclusions: Wow, this thing really has no documentation. There is a huge command…
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Continue reading →: Linux benchmarking
Well now that we are trying new Linux machines from VMware Fusion to Zotac, it’s interesting to see how fast they really are. Phoronix seems like the top hit and their 4.x suite is available as a Debian repository sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite How easy is that. If you want…
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Continue reading →: Updates on Zotac CI540 Nano and SSDs for a silent $600 desktop
Well that Zotac box is sure nice at $370. It is only 1.5GHz, but ultra quiet and we paired it with a screamer drive (the SanDisk Extreme Pro for $299) and 8GB of Crucial SO-DIMM memory for $68. The only wish is that it would have 16GB or two slots…
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