Pc

don’t start your php upgrade at 2:40 in the morning. as you’ll stay awake until 5am :)

you could meet me sometimes during late night hours on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer servers. now, i decided to change environment a bit and return to love of my life - flight simulators. i dusted off CD with Microprose Falcon 4.0 and i’m downloading BMS patches while reading about Allied Force (CD is already on my way from one of the Amazon warehouses). i’m still using Saitek Fly 5 but if i’ll be able to find more time to fly - there are couple of better sticks out there. after watching some youtube videos, old memories are coming back - with packs of friends doing missions together. ...

…how tightly coupled should it be? i can’t help to think about it. i’m writing this post on construction that was defended to his last days by Steve Jobs. according to his belief, only software tightly integrated with software can be effective and predictable. independently of what Steve believed, there are other examples of such thinking in the world. let’s take for an example company i work for - Cisco. most of our solutions are based on software integrated with hardware without ability to add questionable “apps” to the mix. only then vendor can claim predictability, and so it happens across the whole market of network devices (and not only them). ...

Google sponsored a interesting project some time ago and shared the open font project with community. it’s not a news per se, but today while looking at one of the blogs I’ve browsed through sources and found out about it :D the concept is pretty simple and I recommend you to have a look at it (I’m using them already as you can see).

after experiencing massive hardware problems with MacBook Pro, i immediately fell into series of mysterious SSD failures. i’m baffled with the state of the (pro) electronics market. first, there was OCZ Vertex 2. my MacBook Pro couldn’t properly work in SATA3 mode despite the fact that Intel controller could. so i moved then to OCZ 2 working on slower SATA bus. it died after week, silently and ultimately. well, RMA submitted, disk will travel to Netherlands and then they’ll send me back working one. i immediately started search for some other, stable solutions. my next best option - Intel 320 announced firmware problems and tried to convince PC owners that it wasn’t happening ’too often'. ...

it started in a innocent way - my company W510 started to work slower and slower. as it is very busy usually and i need full performance and every bit of power for daily work, obviously i decided to investigate. Windows 7 x64 installed in a clean and very controller manner, 8GB of RAM available and usually not used in more than 50%. so what’s going on? Lenovo is using SSD drives of a different size. i have 128GB model. this is Samsung device - and specifically MMCRE28G8MXP-OVBL1. it would be all fine and great, but due to the way Lenovo distributes those drives, they land in your laptop somehow stripped from TRIM feature. ...

those of you frequently visiting my home site noticed that it wasn’t available for some time. unfortunately, that’s because of interesting RAID 5 failure in my server that hosts also my web page. FreeBSD relentlessly tried to serve web traffic from filesystem that was failing apart because of hardware problems, but then, 30 minutes after first failure, second hard disk failed in the same array! temperature was finely tuned, but it seems that after 5 years of continous work they had to fail. if anyone’s interested those were identical Seagate HDDs. ...

for the next two-three weeks there will be no new posts. i’m preparing move of my server from Białystok to Warsaw. old, tired IBM PII-233 will be replaced by new IBM x306. if everything goes well, you’ll see no change. in the meantime i should be able to push new revision of Cisco FAQ PL plus some other stuff.

i dedicate this short article to all pc maniacs.