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I recently upgraded my work laptop to the new MacBook Pro 17″ (2.3Ghz i7, 8GB RAM), being ever the tinkerer I was keen to replace the stock HDD for one of the latest SATA III (6Gbps) solid-state drives. After a brief bit of research it boiled down to two options OCZ Vertex 3 240GB or,…

World IPv6 Day is fast approaching (June 8th 2011), excerpt from their website; On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations…

I just noticed that the Earthquake Data I’ve been collating had some minor errors (no lat/long), a quickity quick fix to some of the regular expressions and its back to normal.  A total of ~31,020 earthquake events, updated daily from data provided by the fine people involved in the GEOFON Extended Virtual Network project.

With today’s events unfolding in Japan I went looking for sources of earthquake data when I stumbled upon the GEOFON Extended Virtual Network and after a quick bit of scripting I collated all the data into a simple CSV format making it easier to analyse. I have published the collated data on a new page…

OCZ 30GB SSD $ hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 3358 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1679.46 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 452 MB in 3.01 seconds = 150.05 MB/sec Western Digital WD10EADS 1TB $ hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 3372 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1685.85 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:…

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