pseydtonne | Registering optimal performance

My old IBM Deskstar 40 GB hard drive, which was cutting-edge in 2001 with its 2 MB cache and scary-fast 7200 RPM spin, still has some fubar sectors. I could either carve partitions into the drive that would leave those sectors alone, which I still may for the sport of it, or buy another hard drive.

When I got to Best Buy to pick up the Seagate 120 GB with 8 MB cache, I assumed I'd be paying $140. However, the Rebate Fairy waved his magic wand and said "here's an IOU for $60 back in two months." Woo!

I grabbed the stage3 tarball off the old IBM, carved up the new drive and redid all my work. It was faster going this time, since I had my own notes for reference. However, I got hung up on taking notes I really already had and thus slowed myself down.

It dawns on me that I take a lot more notes than I'll ever use. I found myself staring at my notebook as if it were the camcorder of an obnoxious parent. I promise to tape useful things, like stories.

Seeburg had a little fit in its rebirth -- I needed to recompile the kernel with an extra option for devfs to support xfs. I've been talking to some audiophiles that use Linux to tape audio and mix it. Their consensus is that the Extended File System developed by Silicon Graphics is the best journaling file system for streaming bandwidth-hungry stuff -- like vinyl records being dubbed into .wav files or spoken word recordings.

I have a box, but again I'm wasting too much time talking about it and not enough time setting up its vital apps.

-back to the trench, Dante