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stories from the trenches.. vmware, san, backups and general hacking

25 May
2009

Utilization

When you have a powerful processor such as the AMD Phenom, you really want to use the full fucking force of that thing. It’s kind of like keeping a Ferrari in the garage the whole year if you don’t. So i figured, how much difference would it make, if you benchmarked one core (out of […]

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21 May
2009

Off the Hook!

Yesterday was Wednesday, and that means, at 2 AM Thursday’s Finnish time, 7PM Eastern Standard Time in New York, “It’s time once again, for Off the Hook”. Yeah, that’s the show I’ve listened to for a good number of years, regularly. Now, I’ve been downloading the old episodes, since 1988 up to today, so that […]

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18 May
2009

The BBS Documentary

I was listening to Off the Hook (episode of May 14, 2009) and they had on there a premium for people pledging money for the station, where if you pledged 75 dollars or more, you could have the BBS Documentary on DVD. This is a documentary on the BBS age. They interview a bunch of […]

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14 May
2009

Jack-fucking-pot

The company got an offer from a local ISP, Nebula, for a fast DSL connection for our employees. Now, Nebula is known among hackers as the best ISP in Finland. Not because of their quality of service (which doesn’t always compete with the big players), but for it’s customer support, flexibility, and freedoms they offer […]

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14 May
2009

The Continuity Factor

My main machine, Continuity is being upgraded quite heavily. I’ve purchased three new parts for it: Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4 motherboard 2x2GB OCZ Reaper DDR2-800 memory AMD Phenom II X4 940 processor This will make it in to a pretty sweet fucking rig. The only problem now is the graphics, which is currently handled by a PNY […]

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