by Charles | Aug 18, 2018 | Tech
I use ProxMox in my home lab which has been really helpful to spin up VMs as needed for tests and experiments. I recently ran into an issue with the LVM thin pool used by ProxMox. The metadata space was completely full. The metadata space reported by lvs -a was...
by Charles | Oct 14, 2015 | Tech
Interesting news in TC: A $1.5M Kickstarter Project Fails, Leaving Most Backers Without Their 3D Printer Is this high profile and high value project failing to deliver a marketing and image blow to Kickstarter? Can it be interpreted as a sign that the bubble is...
by Charles | Feb 20, 2015 | Tech, Uncategorized
Very interesting article in Forbes on MS and Google: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/02/18/microsoft-google-swap/ I have a been a big Google fan and always knocked on Microsoft but they made interesting points. Google does spend a fair amount of time on...
by Charles | Apr 24, 2013 | Tech
Impressive that the shortage of IPv4 addresses (the classic xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and the very slow transition towards IPv6 (designed to alleviate this shortage) is now adding a new metric to potential merger deals between hosting companies: does the target have available...
by Charles | Apr 1, 2013 | Tech
First org2blog post I recently switched to emacs after years (prob > 15) on vi/vim. The main reason I decided to dabble in emacs is to play around with org-mode. so far I am really happy with result and though the transition has been difficult, I’m getting...
by Charles | Jan 17, 2013 | Tech
Wall Street’s Mission: Cutting Costs While Staying Competitive By Ivy Schmerken January 10, 2013 URL: A flood of new regulations, coupled with falling profits from once-lucrative areas such as derivatives and equities trading, has Wall Street firms making some...
