Archive > February 2007

Partitioning Lots of Drives in a Linux RAID

So, I had a really fun question and I’ll open this up for others to volunteer other solutions. But I ran into one of those tedious little jobs while prototyping some Linux-based storage solutions. Underneath it all is a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). But I wanted to mess around with some different tuning [...]

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Wildblue.net Connection Reset Issue

Back in November, I did a post about getting high-speed Internet access restored via Wildblue. The access equipment we were using was fairly dated and I was looking at a pretty hefty fee to get things back up to speed (pun intended) via HughesNet. Well, the service has had its ups and downs over the [...]

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Performancing for Making Posts

Okay, found another useful tool. And the primary reason it’s useful is because it’s making up for a shortcoming in WordPress 2.1. Since making the recent upgrade, I’ve noticed some strange behavior with the WYSIWYG editor. At first, it had very limited button functionality. In fact, I could bold, italicize or strike out words. Sure, [...]

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Get Control of Your Comments

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people complain about how blogging can be so time consuming. It’s one thing to write posts. I actually think that’s the easier part. For me, the fun in blogging is in the exchanging of comments. Sometimes it’s like a game of dueling banjos. Ever do rapid [...]

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