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 [...]
Quoting from “Just Your Average Geek-Girl” – PEER 1, the company that I work for, participated in the 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race in Kershaw, South Carolina last year. We will be participating in this event again this year at the No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose Louisiana, June 6-7. This year, PEER 1 [...]
It can be a real pain trying to find detailed hardware information in Linux when you don’t know what tools to use. I will try and outline a few tools that are typically pre-installed in many Linux distributions, as well as show you where to find information stored on your computer using the cat command [...]
The other day while working on my GPT article, I had noticed that there was alot of space being used with a clean partition and zero data on the drive. What is this about? So, I hit up Google. I found the following: The most likely reason is reserved space. When an ext2/3 file system [...]
I have run into an issue where I needed to boot off of a partition larger than 2 TB, which was created as a hardware RAID 5 array. Here is the problem, the partition end’s up being a GPT partition and you cannot boot off of a GPT partition. So, after carving out a decently [...]
[dailymotion id=x3dftj&v3] PEER 1 Growing Pains: Episode 1 The parent company of ServerBeach, a local tech company here in San Antonio by the name of PEER 1 has created a video series of a couple attempting to start their own business. These videos show a humorous yet realistic view of what could happen, the problems [...]
This is not the first time the RIAA‘s website has been taken down. In the past, the site had been hit by a Denial of Service attack, among other attacks. This time, hacker’s had used a SQL injection attack to gain access to the site and deface it. For more information on the attack and [...]
I downloaded a DVD torrent of a documentary titled “Steal This Film II“. This torrent was saved as a single ISO image. I figured there has to be a way to play a DVD ISO without having to burn that ISO to a physical DVD disc. Here is how to play a DVD ISO in [...]
Now what is the point of this? Corsair has decided it would be a great idea to spend the time and money to produce a waterproof flash drive! Now the CNC machined, aircraft aluminum casing is cool. I could use a flash drive like that, instead of the cheap plastic, but how many army rangers, [...]
