Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

LifeStream

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

So yesterday I came across SweetCron, and liked the idea of it. I was half tempted to installed it until I came across a plugin for Wordpress. I have installed the plugin and now you can follow my LifeStream here. Also you may have noticed that I removed the Flickr feed at the bottom of the site…

No Love for Flickr

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I decided not to renew my Flickr account. They want to give me 3 months free if I sign up again. But I have decided to go back to my roots and use Gallery2. Gallery2 has come a long way and I can import photos via email messages, just like I did with Flickr. And they allow for a whole bunch of goodies now. I will post the link once I get around to uploading all my images again.

iPhone 3g Upgrade

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

So with the help of selling my 8gb iPhone to a co-worker, and then pawning off my iPod.  I was able to aquire a 16gb 3g iPhone for about $11… Not bad.  I would include more in this post but I see no reason, mainly doing this for Chris.

New Twitter Design

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I really wish I could make this in to a post with a little more content. But just wanted to say that I like the new Twitter layout. Now if they could only concentrate on getting rid of the overloaded whale messages and bring back the damn IM client.

SSL Goodness

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Thanks to InMotion hosting, Fauxzen.com now has SSL. Right now its only running for the Wordpress admin section, but I might push it over to the rest of the site just because.

SATA vs IDE w/hdparm

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Can you spot the IDE drive in the mix

Drive One

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads:   422 MB in  2.00 seconds = 210.72 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  220 MB in  3.03 seconds =  72.72 MB/sec

Drive Two

/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads:   412 MB in  2.00 seconds = 205.55 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  224 MB in  3.01 seconds =  74.37 MB/sec

Drive Three

/dev/sdc:
Timing cached reads:   420 MB in  2.00 seconds = 209.78 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  240 MB in  3.01 seconds =  79.66 MB/sec

Drive Four

/dev/sdd:
Timing cached reads:   442 MB in  2.00 seconds = 220.48 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:   76 MB in  3.06 seconds =  24.81 MB/sec