Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Amazon Kindle DX Graphite – First Impressions

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

When you read a lot (and I think I do), sooner or later you end up having a dilemma: keep buying books and run out of physical space or get increasingly frustrated and tired with reading from the computer monitor. Luckily, (more…)

Energy and Money Saving Tips

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Humans are amazing in their adaptability. We can get used to whatever conditions are out there and with time we even stop noticing. I remember when I first went on a trip to (more…)

How Do We Use Our Phones?

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Recently I’ve made a very interesting observation in regards to my phone usage patterns. I actually rarely use it as a phone per se nowadays: probably 10% max. (more…)

How We All Can Help: www.helpjapan.ca

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Hello,
as you may already know, there was a terrible earthquake followed by tsunami in Japan. So, instead of my usual blog entry, this time I just encourage you to go to www.helpjapan.ca and consider donating using any of the possible ways listed there. Even if it’s not much, it will still help those, who are in great need right now.

Thank You.

Building a Software RAID 5 Using mdadm

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Nowadays there are lots of options if you want to give your hard drives some independency. Furthermore, for me it seems to be more of a necessity, since my server is built (like you may have previously read) around a (more…)