Archive for the ‘tech’ Category

Yay :)

Another drive for the file server at home…. this could take a while. Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid5 sdd1[2] sdb1[0] sdc1[1] 976759936 blocks super 0.91 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] [>....................] reshape = 0.2% (2311424/976759936) finish=1381.4min speed=11754K/sec

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Bloombox == Awesome

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What is wrong with you people?

According to Professor August Wilhelm Scheer a whole Quarter Of Germans Happy To Have Chip Implants. If the article is true, then I have only one thing to ask, namely: what is wrong with you people?!. Only someone who willfully takes stupid pills would glibly reply in the affirmative if asked something to the effect [...]

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Amazing technology: Bioengineering

Today I watched a BBC video about a man who lost his hand to cancer, and now has an artificial hand that is connected directly to his brain, and more amazingly: is able to feel with it. This is cool for so many reasons, for example: giving someone the ability to have a hand again, [...]

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Clonezilla

Clonezilla is excellent software, a great way to clone stuff (including virtual machines i.e. virtualbox) easily.

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Flash

The Adobe Flash plug-in for Linux clearly has issues, and so do many flash applications. However the Flash Block plugin seems to work wonders. If I want to enable a flash app (like Youtube or whatever) all I do is click on the appropriate con. Brilliant

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