Archive for the ‘General’ Category

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…)

My Thoughts on E-commerce

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Wrote the title and realized that my thoughts are mostly based on my personal e-shopping experiences rather than on something else. And as everywhere else, there are 2 sides of business – buyers and sellers (more…)

Microsoft, Where Are We?

Monday, February 14th, 2011

How do you stay current? How do you know what technologies will continue developing in the next, let’s say, 5 years? If you’re building a new website or creating a new piece of software, how do you decide what to build them with? (more…)

Trying to Live a Greener Life – Some Actual Numbers

Monday, February 7th, 2011

During the weekend I’ve finally got a chance to test some of devices in my household and see how well are they performing in terms of energy saving. I’ve used Blue Planet EM100 energy meter and tested each device in both “ON” and “STANDBY” modes. (more…)

Life with Mac – 1 Month Later

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

It’s been 1 month since I’ve got my Mac, so a little bit more about it. About the stuff that I like, for starters: I like the keyboard even though it’s completely different from Thinkpad’s, (more…)