The arrow of time

MongoDB and durability

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:55:00 +0100

It looks like my post about MongoDB got a lot more popular than usual, and also provoked a sort-of official response from the MongoDB developer(s). It is fair to metion them together to allow people finding one part of the story to find the other. Since my original post talks about multiple issues and the comments wander through various topics I want to summarize the part of the discussion about durability here.

The "Silent Scene"

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:04:00 +0100

Ken Macleod's Night Sessions is one of the most interesting books I've read in a while - I can wholehartedly recommend it to anyone who likes have his/hers imagination be carried away by great (if a bit geeky) ideas. One of the really intriguing examples of this in the book (from a geeky/technical point of view), and also kind of aesthetically pleasing, is the concept of the "silent scene".

Fun with iSCSI and VMWare

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:20:00 +0100

FreeBSD having two iSCSI targets and an initiator, and VMWare in the latest edition having access to the three probably most used remote storage technologies - iSCSI, FC and NFS - there is room to play the combinations and see what is best and most convenient.

FreeBSD Forums

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:34:00 +0100

Sometime around these days, FreeBSD Forums will celebrate (possibly quietly) two years of its existence! According to its stats, it now has over 10,000 members and over 61,000 posts!

Firefox 3.6

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:45:00 +0100

OMG! It's been like 15 minutes since Slashdot announced Firefox 3.6 is released and there is still no FreeBSD port for it! What. Are. The. Porters. Doing?!!

(I kid, I kid - I saw tantalizing commits coming in :) )

update: it's in the ports now!

LLVM DevMeeting

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:19:00 +0100

Apparently there was a LLVM devmeeting recently. I don't see any FreeBSD-related talks but maybe some day...

Android SDK on FreeBSD

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:44:00 +0100

An interesting thing for Android enthusiasts: there's an Android SDK for FreeBSD 8 available!

Help test SU+J

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:01:00 +0100

Jeff Roberson has published a call for testers for an early development version of the new journal / intent log addition to UFS SoftUpdates code.