Brendan Gregg from Sun’s Fishworks team makes an interesting discovery about inducing disk latency.
For more details, see Brendan’s blog entry.
Now you know what the technicians do to hard disks when they get angry. They shout at them and then notice something surprising and go like woah. For me, I whisper sweet nothings to my hard disk. It fetches documents a lot faster this way.
A 14 pound (6.5Kg) heavy duty LEGO NXT SAFE with 6.6 Gallon (30 Liter) storage space inside. The code lock accepts 5 numbers by changing the rotation direction of the wheel. Only after entering the correct combination of numbers, the door will open.
Lego lovers continue to amaze me with different creations.
These are Ridzuan’s keys, they not only let him open doors, but documents too.
(Ridzuan keys.)
I took this a long time ago but keep forgetting to post this up.
These are my Singapore polytechnic and secondary school notes all stored in a box. Every alternate year I’ll add more things into this box. And when the box can’t contain more things, I start dumping the really old things.
Sort of force myself to keep things within the limits of the box size. My disposal policy goes like this: If it’s something I am not going to use or look at in the next five years, it probably should end up in the bin.
(I still keep one stack of secondary school stuff because they’re my English compositions. I sucked at them but that’s precisely why I keep them – to laugh at myself.)
I just cleared all the files in Previous Versions and it cleared 52GB of my disk space! I was wondering why I used so much disk space in just 1.5 weeks of computer usage! So it is Previous Versions. (Some people refer to it as Shadow Copies.) (more…)