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May '10
15
New WD green drives and 4k (4096) block sizes
Rossco pointed out to me that the new 4k blocks on WD green drives can cause performance issues. I also found reference to it in Ubuntu 10.04 release notes ( search for Partition alignment ), and refer to this bug. … Continue reading
May '10
05
Sketch Board
Found this nice Java app that you can draw a sketch with then import it into blender
Apr '10
23
Bad Company 2
I’ve been Getting into Bad Company 2 playing Multiplayer with the Guys from Work, so i thought i’d jot down some notes here on the weapons, as i’m always forgetting the different weapons. Assult 1911 Pistol M416 /Â Xm8 Extra Grenades … Continue reading
Apr '10
15
SSH and port forwarding
I seem to forget every time i use ssh for port forwarding which side goes where in the syntax, so to make it easy here it is. Forward a local port to a remote port at the far end, ie: … Continue reading
Mar '10
23
iptables (updated)
Been working on iptables again, found a good guide to some recent changes. Also need to look at trying out Ulogd2 which supports the NFLOG interface, and a nice front-end NuLog Also of a worthy note is NuFW
Mar '10
13
Overclocking the i7-860
I’ve found people using the following settings 171×21 vCore 1.3125 Vtt 1.21 vDimm 1.6, No LLC I’m using the following at the moment 170×21 vCore 1.325 Vtt 1.21 vDimm 1.58, enabled LLC no turbo, alarms on fans and heat, turbo … Continue reading
Mar '10
03
i7-860 Upgrade
So i bought all the parts for my PC (internals) and setup everything in my old case. Everything seemed OK at first, but then i noticed it was getting hot without even doing much. I found running realtemp and doing … Continue reading
Mar '10
03
Scheduled Tasks
Vista / Windows 7 UAC is a pain, OpenVpn is poping up a UAC prompt every time i boot windows, one way to get around it is turn off UAC, however thats not a great solution. Another way around it, … Continue reading
