Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

box is such an important server to my home network, while the last time it failed wasn't due to drive failure...there had been times in its past where it was. And, since I was playing around with RAID a lot on orac, I decided that it was probably time… more »

Was discussion storage speeds with some friends over lunch....so I wondered if I could get some data comparing the performance.vg0 is are two internal SATA drives, each on their own SATA channel, being mirrored. vg1 is the SANS Digital pair of drive… more »

I've been wanting to try a Port Multiplier eSATA enclosure on my Ubuntu 8.04LTS Server, known as 'orac', for sometime. But, keep getting sidelined by how much it would cost to get a 5-bay enclosure and 5 drives... it would only be a matter of time that… more »

I didn't really plan on getting this UPS, but I was planning to get a UPS.I had been eyeballing the CyberPowerSystems CP1000AVRLCD. The university computer store had one in for $145. While Amazon.com has it for ~$109. Though wasn't quite sure how… more »

Intended to just quickly enter the W2 and 1099 forms, to get a rough idea of how bad I'll owe this year.But, preliminary findings is that I'll get a refund of $2288 from federal and $384 from state. This is largely due to the deductions of being a h… more »

....after upgrading the other harddrive in my main desktop. I finally got around to doing it. Sure was a pain being without my main computer. All the things I wanted to do online (and offline), but couldn't. Sure, some of the (online) things I could'… more »

I was all in a rush last week to upgrade the other drive in my primary desktop. Partly because the plan was to use the old drive as the backup drive of my other computer. Guess, I'll just have to go without backups for a while longer. I had resorted… more »

Today after lunch, I popped into the K-State Computer Store....and walked out with an Iomega Ultramax 1TB External Harddrive - dual interface (USB 2.0 & FW400). Sticker price was $205, but it rang up as $199 + Tax. As soon as I got home from work… more »

I'm about to take the plunge on buying an external 1TB drive....I had been eyeballing one on and off for some time. I currently use a pair of 300GB drives (Maxtor OneTouch II's) to do backups of my main (XP) PC. And, I have one that does backups of… more »

Once again, after some thought yesterday, I decided that I'm going to pass on getting a new Windows XP computer. Even though I was eyeballing something based around a Phenom X4 based system. And, my old XP machine is almost 5 years old....and new syste… more »

Of course, I'm talking about my Ubuntu server (well, maybe not obvious....except that I'm not known for doing upgrades). I had debated waiting for Hardy Heron's release before building this Linux server. Except that I had bought the box back in Decem… more »

While looking over my credit card spending, I noticed that the current balance out of line....some where significantly higher than expected, others were significantly lower. I then noticed that some claimed to have had an opening balance of (~88k)....… more »