Buy one 1U server from $supplier, specifically ask for a pair of rails, learn that « Of course it comes with rails! ». Two weeks later. Buy a 42U rack, and eight 1U servers, all of these from the same $supplier, and at the same time. Receive your rack and 8 servers, without rails. Inquire by…
05/03/2008 Lire la suite...-
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Raw jealousy
There are still, on this planet, some unboxed Apple //c. And I don’t have one. That’s profoundly unjust. of course, it works. (via Planète Béranger, photo Kathryn Yu)…
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Geek pr0n again
Take one 3U server from SuperMicro, fitted with an Adaptec 31605 SATA RAID controller and 16 one-terabyte disks. Create a RAID 0+1 array for data storage, with 14 of these 16 disks. You get: #available storage [root@sam119 ~]# df -h /data Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 6.3T 941M 6.0T 1% /data…
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SDL applications and Maemo’s Task Navigator
When porting an SDL game or application to Maemo, if you wonder why the app doesn’t show up in the Task Navigator (at the bottom left-hand corner of the screen), you need to do two things. Example with Biloba: Match the SDL window’s WM_CLASS and the .desktop StartupWMClass, the easiest being: biloba.desktop: Exec=/usr/bin/biloba.sh StartupWMClass=biloba /usr/bin/biloba.sh…
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Biloba ported to Nokia’s Internet Tablets
Biloba is a little board game that I wrote a while ago for Guillaume Demougeot, its inventor. It’s free software, thanks to Guillaume’s willingness, and as such I’m glad to work on it from time to time… I just finished the porting of that game to Nokia’s Internet Tablets (770, n800, n810). Get it…
09/01/2008 Lire la suite...
