Category: Computers

Hadoop

November 26, 2007 - Computers , Cool things , Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

A while back I mentioned Hadoop as The Next Big Thing. Looks like demand has been high in the intervening months, and the Yahoo Developer Network has recently announced a new blog all about Hadoop. An open source Mapreduce implementation with a scalable, clustered and highly redundant storage system? Yes […]

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MythTV Remote

October 10, 2007 - Computers , Home , Technology - by admin - No Comments

For a long time now, our MythTV setup at home has been entirely reliant on the full sized wireless keyboard sitting on the coffee table to control it. I’ve had two Hauppauge Nova-T remotes sitting idle for a long time now, pending me getting my finger out and making them […]

iSCSI

September 3, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Technology , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

Lately a Howto has appeared, detailing how to set up iSCSI on Linux. I first set up and used iSCSI almost 2 years ago, back when it was a little known buzzword. Microsoft were still on v1 of their free initiator, UNH had theirs, and linux-iscsi seemed to be the […]

Freeloaders

July 11, 2007 - Computers , Web - by admin - No Comments

This evening, I have been mostly playing with Upside Down Ternet. Having the transparent proxy preconfigured makes it a lot easier too… Well, not all of this evening. Watched Supersize Me with Ellen earlier. Scary film, and I’m about to go out and put the new chain onto my bike […]

SMART

April 16, 2007 - Computers , Friends , Holidays , Life , Lodge - by admin - No Comments

Sods law isn’t it… You spend half an hour or so prodding and persuading SMART to monitor the hard disks in all your critical machines, only to find that the machine with the oldest (and thus most likely to die) hard drive doesn’t support SMART. Thankfully it’s just the router, […]