These are my links for April 14th through April 15th:

• HP Pavilion dm1z (with AMD Fusion) review — Engadget –
• Brazos comes to Acer’s Aspire One 522 netbook – The Tech Report – Page 1 –
• Acer Aspire One 522 netbook review –
• YouTube – acer aspire one 522 ram upgrade 2 GB –
• LVM, RAID, XFS, EXT3 tuning for small files parallel I/O on Debian / Linux blog / Tech Force – Linux Blog –
• RAID setup – Linux Raid Wiki –
• Optimizing Performance – MythTV Official Wiki –
• 10.04 – How do I align my partition table properly? – Ask Ubuntu – Stack Exchange –

These are my links for April 14th from 13:28 to 15:58:

• Re: Fastest Chunk Size w/XFS For MD Software RAID = 1024k –
• Filesystem performance tweaking with XFS on Linux@Everything2.com –
• Linux Not Fully Prepared for 4096-Byte Sector Hard Drives –
• Aligning an SSD on Linux –
• [linux-lvm] does alignment work out of the box now – md_chunk_alignment
• O+P Insights: Linux HW RAID Howto –
• ReliableRaid – Ubuntu Wiki –
• Mdadm-faq – Linux Raid Wiki – eg.
  "
  Array Slot : 2 (failed, 1, 0)
  Array State : Uu 1 failed
  "

These are my links for April 14th from 00:09 to 08:41:

• Red Hat’s Future Linux Desktop | ZDNet –
• Difference Between Samsung Galaxy S2 (Galaxy S II) and LG Optimus 2X | Difference Between | Samsung Galaxy S2 (Galaxy S II) vs LG Optimus 2X –
• Tegra 2 CPU and GPU benchmarks, Motorola Atrix 4G vs LG Optimus 2X – Android and Me –
• Mobile-review.com Preview of Samsung Galaxy S II i9100. Part 1 –
• Motorola Atrix 4G vs LG 2X Benchmarks –

These are my links for April 13th from 20:20 to 20:31:

• Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice –
• ATA 4 KiB sector issues – ata Wiki –
• –
• Partition Alignment : Managed Server Hosting – Dedicated Windows Servers, Cloud, ASP.Net, SQL and Shared Hosting plans provided by OrcsWeb Managed Hosting. –
• Best RAID and Cluster Size for a Small Server | MCB Systems –

These are my links for April 12th through April 13th:

• Grub 2 Title Tweaks Thread – Ubuntu Forums –
• Grub 2 Basics – Ubuntu Forums –
• Guide RAID / Non-RAID Partition Alignment for max performance –
• –
• MightyOhm » Blog Archive » Announcing the “Soldering is Easy” Complete Comic Book! –
• GPT fdisk Tutorial –

These are my links for April 11th through April 12th:

• 16 Unusual Ways to Build Great WordPress Websites – tripwire magazine –
• freedesktop.org – Software/systemd –
• Rindfleischfischteich mit Bier –
• Rindfleischfischteich mit Bier –
• You probably already saw this, but … – Charlie’s Diary – You probably already saw this, but …: SpaceX announce Falcon Heavy. It's been expected for some time — it's be…
• Bookmarks for April 3rd through April 11th — Somewhere out there! – blog: Bookmarks for April 3rd through April 11th: These are my links for April 3rd through April 11th: Install p…
• MikroTik Password Recovery –

These are my links for February 24th through February 27th:

• Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives [LWN.net] –
• Being Email Free – Atos Origin Sets a Goal – Michael Sampson on Collaboration –
• Secrets of a Mind-Gamer – NYTimes.com –
• Secrets of a Memory Champion – Slashdot –
• Handling my music collection with git-annex –
• Migrating SVN repos (with full history) to Git – A story from the trenches –
• Free delivery worldwide on all books from The Book Depository –
• The iPad 2 is About to Eat the Xoom’s Lunch | GottaBeMobile –
• Bookmarks for February 23rd through February 24th — Somewhere out there! – blog: Bookmarks for February 23rd through February 24th: These are my links for February 23rd through February 2…
• Calling all cars: cell phone networks and the future of traffic – Feature: Calling all cars: cell phone networks and the future of traffic:

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If you install a vm with vmbuilder without virtio the swap section of /etc/fstab will use /dev/sda2 instead of /dev/vda2. You can use blkid

nic@vm-base:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/vda1: UUID="bac299c4-c545-46ca-aed3-26da4a56f6d7" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/vda2: TYPE="swap" UUID="0c75b2dd-6c6f-4729-b041-0d95475dc171"
/dev/vdb: UUID="jIkLcQ-zXUo-KIWR-zvmm-cpKP-9PpT-eE9RY3" TYPE="lvm2pv"

nic@vm-base:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system>                                 <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc                                            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda1                                       /               ext3    defaults        0       0
UUID="0c75b2dd-6c6f-4729-b041-0d95475dc171"     swap            swap    defaults        0       0

in order to get swap working with different driver types.

I’ve started running KVM recently and I’ll post a review at some point. I’m finding it very flexible and much much easier to use that Xen.

There are still a few questions regarding file caches and disk images. In general I’m happy that it’s ready for production.

I haven’t seen much yet to confirm this deal, but if it does happen next week it mark an interesting change in course.  The thing that would interest me greatly would be zfs on linux – with Sun owned by IBM and their investment in Linux it might lead to a reconcilation between Sun and Linux licenses.  While Solaris has come a long way in the last couple years, but the only reason why I use solaris is zfs.  Linux is still a much more flexible, effective and deployable solution.