Facebook Knox and yelling at your JBODs

I wonder if the Facebook storage engineers developing Knox know about this?

Pro Tip: Don't yell at your storage or it will eat your expectect performance for lunch.

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remapping PC keyboards to work happily on a mac...

i've not had a chance to fully vet this process but will hopefully soon. At work I have a daskeyboard that I love very much, but there is no function key for things like forward delete(FN+backspace), and some of the function key mappings.
Here are a few pages …

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bit in the ass by the seagate bug...(or not)

Stupid seagate firmware bug that causes data loss. fail for my PVR! time to backup what I can and re-install KnoppMyth/LinHES.

update: My xorg.conf got replaced some how? weird. maybe the recent apt-get update. not sure. fixed xorg.conf by setting the correct screen resolutions and driver. PVR …

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nifty hardware links

How computers boot up - http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up

Motherboard chipsets and memory maps - http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/motherboard-chipsets-memory-map

Kernel boot process - http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/kernel-boot-process

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