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Kevin Blalock

Archive for March, 2009

March 28, 2009

Spidey the crazy cat!

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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

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 [...]

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March 19, 2009

San Antonio Tweetup Hosted by Blellow, Rackspace, and Robert Scoble

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 [...]

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March 19, 2009

ServerBeach and SXSW 2009

I had the opportunity to attend SXSW again this year, for the second time. ServerBeach exhibited in the Interactive Festival, and I was one of the lucky employees to work the booth. Yes, it is a lot of work! I was able to meet a lot of ServerBeach and PEER 1 customers. I was able [...]

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