
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!
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!
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.
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





