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Article Archive for July 2009

Bad iPhone Apps

July 29, 2009 – 4:37 pm
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Oh quit your whining, you will say, they are just a couple bucks each, so no big loss if some iPhone apps turn out to be trash. True, but they are so addictive. My first …

Protected: WordPress Usage Example

July 16, 2009 – 3:56 pm

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iPhone: No Clicking Sound

July 16, 2009 – 4:58 am
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Many long-time iPhone users are familiar with the mystery of disappearing keyboard clicking sounds (among other sound effects). Here are a few things you can try before you take your fruity phone back to the …

The Follies of Traffic Driving

July 11, 2009 – 4:31 pm
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Imagine a busy street in the city with sidewalks packed with pedestrians. Hundreds of people are pushing and shoving, eating, arguing, talking on their cell phones and not paying any attention to each other. Suddenly, …

Testing Filesystem Performance with Bonnie++

July 10, 2009 – 4:33 pm
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Bonnie++ is a benchmark utility designed to test performance of hard drives and filesystems by simulating various types of disk I/O. Bonnie++ may be used to test local disks as well as network-mounted filesystems. It …

Tracking Prices of Hard Drives

July 5, 2009 – 5:40 pm

It seems that only a year ago terabyte hard drives were a novelty item. Today they are on clearance at computer stores trying to free up the shelves for 1.5Tb drives and the 2Tb hard …