Hardware, HowTo’s, and the Haps of a Texan!

Kevin Blalock

March 8, 2010

One too many hobbies!

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Photography, Computers, Drag Racing, books, electronics, and others that I can’t think of right now are my hobbies. Problem is, all of my hobbies are expensive and I sure don’t have time for all of them. I must have ADD because I do skip around quite often between them.

With that said, I have decided that it is time to cut down on my hobbies.  Photography has always been a huge interest of mine since I was very young. Computers are also very high on that list, and that in itself breaks down to many different arrays of hobbies.

I have decided it is time to get more serious about photography. Part of that is starting a new forum geared around Photography and photographers in general. I have always been a junkie when it comes to running and operating forums, so what better way to enjoy photography and computers at the same time?

Without further a do, here is the URL to my new forum. http://www.photoglounge.com

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June 13, 2009

Jody Keys

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DSC_0184, originally uploaded by kevinblalock.

It is going to be a sad day when Jody sells this car. It is such an awesome machine!

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June 11, 2009

Classic Muscle

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24hoursoflemons-253, originally uploaded by kevinblalock.

This was the pace car for the 24 Hours of LeMons at No Problem Raceway located in Belle Rose, LA. Talk about a real treat!

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March 28, 2009

Spidey the crazy cat!

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dsc_0168, originally uploaded by kevinblalock.

I was sitting on the couch watching TV when I noticed sunlight was beaming in right on Spidey. It was perfect, so I ran to grab my camera before the sunlight moved. Here a few shots I got while the kitty would cooperate and the sun was still shinning nice.

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March 20, 2009

NFS Speed Test: Quick and Dirty

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Here is a quick and dirty way to test your NFS transfer speed. What I did was to use the command “dd” to create a dummy file on the network share mounted with NFS. This will work when mounting a network share with Samba as well.

First, mount your network share if it is not already mounted.

Now, lets create the file,  here is the syntax of the dd command to create the file. I will fill the file with NULL characters.

dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile.test bs=1k count=5000000

Explanation of above command:

if = input file

of = output file

bs = block size

count = file size in kb

The output will show you the size of the file created, how long it took, and how fast in MB/s that it “transferred” the file across the network.

Example output:

5120000000 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 134.357 s, 38.1 MB/s

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