Wiremap produces 3D images using a projector and layered surface. In this case the layered surface is made up of 256 vertically aligned strings. Wiremap web site found here
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Bigfoot’s NIC
You probably haven’t heard of the Killer NIC and there’s probably even less of a chance that you’ve heard it runs Linux. Bigfoot claims that their NIC reduces ping times, and produces a better gaiming experience by off-loading networking to the card. In addition to its job as a NIC the card can also run …
Hard power-off and JFS
For the holy love of god, never tell your significant other to power off a computer by holding down the power button. I witnessed a crash via ssh while in another state and needed to restart a computer. Now I’m constantly finding un-mountable partitions thanks to JFS and a fiance.
Reliability vs. Processor Usage
Recently I made the choice of using IBM’s journaled file system (JFS) as the file system for a new 320 GB sata harddrive. Usually I’m a reiserfs kind-of-guy but I’ve been reading recently that deletes of large files are faster on JFS and with MythTV’s .19 release I’ve suffered a slight wait while large files …
Hello world!
Well this is pretty damn cool! I’ve just imported my old blog postings from blogger into my shiney new wordpress driven blog. Thank you dreamhost.com