23 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Macbook Pro locks up with SSD installed.

TweetA few weeks ago I switched from my trusty old HP nc8430 to a Macbook Pro (MC118LL/A) that was left spare when another employee left. I mostly enjoyed using Linux but I was tired of dealing with weird quirks like having X lock up, essentially forcing me to do a hard reboot. To transition, I [...]

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02 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Amazon EC2 – ext3 mkfs takes 30+ minutes?

TweetI’ve been playing around with Amazon EC2 for a new project I’m working on and so far I’m really impressed. One thing I’ve noticed, however, is that it takes forever to create an ext3 filesystem on a new volume. For example, the below command took over 30 minutes to create the filesystem on a 300 [...]

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