Johan Guldmyr Articles


  • 2011-05-01
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HEPIX Spring 2011

I'm heading to Hepix this whole week! Looks like there's some really interesting topics like: Lustre, glustre, ipv6, stuff about the CERN it facilities, Scientific Linux report, cloud/grid virtualization, Oracle Linux. I'll sure be doing a bit of blogging about what's going down.


Learning Storage

** 2011-08-18 Just updated the link to the HP forum. I also wrote a primer to Data Storage. Just listened to this podcast episode #96 of Infosmack on theregister (about storage). Very interesting to hear what some really experienced people say about storage and the future. Like hybrid disk drives becoming …

Songs of the day 28th of April

The Submarines - You, Me and the Bourgeouisie - Lovely swing, great song to start the day with. Found a review on the Washington Examiner. Her voice sounds quite a bit like The Cardigan's - Nina Persson. Or maybe Hello Saferide. Just beautiful anyway. ... "here we are in the center of the first …

  • 2011-04-21
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Spinning Camera in FPS games

Ever experienced this relatively frustrating phenomena? My setup: Windows 7 x64 with an ATI Card HD5700 series. A logitech wireless keyboard+mouse. Camera just keeps on spinning and if you move the mouse it changes pitch, speed or whatever. Things to try: Got a joypad/joystick in the vicinity? Plug …

  • 2011-04-20
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Installing Squid 3.2 on CentOS 5.3

Giving this one a shot :) I will be compiling it myself as well. Squid for those who do not know is a proxy server. Proxys can be used for many things, but one great thing if you have a thinner connection to the Internet, you can use this to speed …

Making use of IBM Laptop T40 – Part 4

Logging in! Wireless worked straight from the start. It says that my battery probably is broken (only 28% capacity). Some 2.6~GB is used by the default installation out of my 40GB disk. 1.6GB for swap. Step 1 - set up Synergy This is so I don't have to …

Music of the day – 19th of April + Go Detroit Day

Dog Days Are Over - Florence and the Machine - Just awesome. Satellite - Leila Boussard - Also quite nice. But not as nice as ^^ Happy Tuesday :) Saw the 3rd game in the Detroit - Phoenix Stanley Cup series this morning. Lovely to see Helm fight like a bull and the Mule got in a …

  • 2011-04-18
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Making use of IBM Laptop T40 – Part 3

Preface Two previous posts: Part1 - thoughts before installing Part2 - ultimate boot CD - for diagnostics I ran the laptop with google-chrome 10 and two flash-pages loading all night, no blue-screens, no errors in event viewer. No actually it looks and feels pretty ok. It's not very fast, but I suspect this …

Music of the day - 18th of April

Allison Weiss - You + Me + Alcohol - Lovely. Upbeat. Fnun. Lots of more songs by here on there. Very very nice. Got stuck on this all day ;) Beautiful. I want more. More treats here: http://allisonweiss.tumblr.com/site/