June 24, 2009
June 13, 2009
Jody Keys
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!
June 11, 2009
Classic Muscle
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!
March 28, 2009
Spidey the crazy cat!
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.
March 20, 2009
NFS Speed Test: Quick and Dirty
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
March 19, 2009
San Antonio Tweetup Hosted by Blellow, Rackspace, and Robert Scoble
Blellow HQ
This evening I headed to downtown San Antonio with Charnell for a Tweetup hosted by Blellow. This was my first time to attend a tweetup. It was really cool to finally meet several people that I have talked to on twitter, such as @rackerhacker, @joeruiz, @scotmckay, and @scobleizer.
It was a unique experience, the atmosphere was full of energy. You could really feel the presence of many great minds! The Blellow HQ was a full house. I had seen a lot of familiar faces from twitter, but didn’t get to talk to everyone I had wanted to; maybe next time.
Attending this event was an almost last minute thing for us. Blellow had just went into public beta a few weeks ago, they had a booth at SXSW. Today I registered, and started participating and poking around their site. It looks like it will be a great success!
For those not familiar with Blellow – Blellow is a productivity microblog. Their goal is to encourage open collaboration and the sharing of knowledge. They have a very cool concept going on and I encourage you all to go give them a look, join their network, and enjoy sharing!
Charnell posted some pictures from the Tweetup on Flickr here.
