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Check out this incredible satellite image taken from Seasonality of Super Typhoon Ioke. Ioke is the strongest typhoon in recorded history to form in the central Pacific Ocean, with sustained winds of 160 mph and gusts up to 185 mph. That yellow dot in the middle of the storm is Wake Island, a [...]

With the additional resource requirement I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, I ended up deciding it was time to upgrade the server here (Rio) with some additional CPU hardware. When building Rio late last year, I wanted to make sure the hardware was fairly upgradable. The easy choice at the time [...]

Between all the great sessions here at WWDC yesterday and Buzz’s excellent blogger party last night, I’ve had just about 0 time to blog about anything that has been announced here. The typical news sites have been posting all the details on Mac OS X Leopard that Steve talked about yesterday, but I thought [...]

One thing I wasn’t expecting when entering the world of weather software with Seasonality was the sheer amount of computing resources that weather data and processing requires. You hear about the supercomputers that different government organizations purchase for weather forecasting and research, but I never really gave a second thought to it. I [...]

There has been a flood of excellent blog postings these past couple of days. Most are related to WWDC, but I threw in a few others as well. Here are the ones that caught my eye…
Brent’s WWDC talk: Brent has posted several entries on his blog, requesting tabbed interface updates (I second [...]

Since the release of Boot Camp back in February, the rumors have been flying on the future of running Windows on a Mac. When Boot Camp was released, I couldn’t wait to try it, and I wasn’t disappointed with the results. There were some slight drawbacks to installing Boot Camp on my MacBook [...]

I’m very thankful for RAID 5 at the moment…gotta love that parity thing. I checked my server status emails this morning, only to find these lines in /proc/mdstat:
md1 : active raid5 sda4[0] sdc4[2] sdb4[3](F)
576283520 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [U_U]
Hmm, that little F doesn’t look [...]