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So my extensions became corrupted somehow so I decided to just erase the extensions directory and start over. As I do so I want to take note of extensions I feel important enough to restore right away.

SuperMicro AS-1020P-TB 1U + 2x Opteron 265 for less than $1750 (not including disks and ram). That’s a great deal for a dual-proc dual-core system. Of course I’d probably spend the $200 for the TRB model with dual redundant power supplies.  Maybe I just haven’t done the research but I don’t think Intel [...]

Seems like my week to talk about purchasing from companies that I usually don’t like or recommend. But I have been increasingly asked about laptops, as laptop purchases are way up. As laptops have become relatively cheap and powerful enough to the common set of computing tasks many people have ditched their desktop [...]

Well, first of all I wouldn’t because so many price drops are right around the corner. But the interesting thing is that if I had to build a computer, for myself or someone with similar needs, I would actually build it with an Intel CPU. That’s significant because I’ve used AMD for all [...]

So after disabling acpi on an athlon 64 x2 / nforce 4 system by passing acpi=off to the kernel at boot time in order to improve system stability I got hit with a clock running too fast issue (gaining about 400 seconds every hour). Apparently this has to do with the tsc timer. [...]

Seems that machines running initramfs-tools will hang on boot while any degraded array is being rebuilt. What should happen of course is that the machine should boot and the array should be synced in the background. While this isn’t as bad as the yaird error it’s still far from ideal and is a [...]

Luckily we found this out in a non-production environment with a non-critical situation. It was simply during a relocation of a drive in a RAID 1 array to a different channel that we learned that YAIRD will fail to boot on a system with a degraded RAID 1 array. That is simply unacceptable [...]