I recently read a doctorate’s thesis on file system robustness by Vijayan Prabhakaran from the University of Wisconsin. It’s very interesting, and may explain in part the recent ruckus on the LKML around file systems. read more Free Software Magazine »
One of the goals of early low cost ultraportable laptop makers (like the OLPC Project and Asus) was to make computers that are both cheap and durable. The cheap side was pretty easy. By using older components like an Intel Celeron chip, Asus was able to... (posted on 27 Aug 2008 by Liliputing)
FosiX and SpaceMonger are pretty good free windows disk space usage analyzer's, but if you are looking for a simple and fast pie-chart of your disk usage, Give open-source utility "Scanner"a try. The small (just 164 KB) free utility creates a... (posted on 27 Aug 2008 by Tech Guide)
Flashget has always been my download accelerator of choice, but recent inclusion of Adware like components and stat collection modules in latest versions forced me to stick with the older builds, But here we have a brand new version of their upcoming... (posted on 26 Aug 2008 by Tech Guide)
If you want to work / test / learn many of the VMware ESX Server advanced features, like VMotion, VMware High Availability (VMHA), and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you should have SAN (Storage Area Network). For my Home Lab I’m... (posted on 25 Aug 2008 by The System Administrator)
Here's an interesting example of a cloud computing service targeting a key vertical: systems integrator Apptis and data center specialist ServerVault have partnered on FedCloud, which offers "Federally Compliant Trusted Cloud Computing." FedCloud... (posted on 25 Aug 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
Have you noticed your hard drive has been slowly filling up? If you’ve had your machine for a while, a lot of extra “stuff” can build up over time. Whether it’s temporary files from your browser, old music files in your iTunes library, or something... (posted on 22 Aug 2008 by Make Use Of)

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