Category Archives: Computers

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Instant onChange with IE checkboxes

Browser differences are a daily fact of life for webdevelopers. It is something you either learn to deal with, or it kills you before 40. Some of these are just plain stupid, but some are simply different ways of interpreting the standard. A good example is the onChange event. This is a simple event, commonly […]

Growing a ZFS pool

I run several fileservers using the excellent ZFS filesystem. While originally a Solaris invention, it was successfully ported to FreeBSD for version 7. It is extremely well suited for large fileservers due to a combination of reliable software RAID (modes 1, 5, and 6), checksumming and snapshots. Combined with the option of nested filesystems and […]

Holy Wars: Mac vs PC

I recently got drawn into another ‘Mac vs PC’ argument , which is a bit silly, as I don’t really like Windows, and don’t really mind Macs (to be clear: I’m always on the Windows-side of the argument). The only real problem I have with Macs, are the users. For some reason, pretty much all […]

Replacing bad motherboard capacitors

Now, this is a problem that likely won’t affect you if you either replace your PC every 2 years, or don’t use it very often. However, if you’re like me and build your machines to specs that’ll set you for five years, and then keep them on 100% CPU load 247 for those 5 years (thank you, […]

Useful Unix Units: Screen (part 1)

Ok children, time to learn about screen, one of the most useful little Unix tools available today. First, let me get this straight: I don’t believe in the ‘one OS to rule them all’ crap. Horses for courses, and for server work, my horse rides a command line FreeBSD install. Digression: I’ve never much seen […]