For a while, I’ve been wondering when Apple will finally ditch the put-storage-in-the-iPod-and-sync-to-your-computer model and just let you keep a library of music in the cloud and stream it. I thought that day was here when Apple bought Lala. It hasn’t come. (Yet.) For a long time, I’ve been using my 8GB nano and using […]
If you have a lot of files you’re not going to check in, git’s default behavior of showing untracked files can get cluttersome (new word I just made up). Doing the following suppresses this behavior: In the git-config man page, it shows it as case-sensitive, but I tried it all lowercase and it works. Now, […]
As I stated before, I wanted to move the underlying devices in my ZFS pool to glabel-based naming. To do so, I did the following 3 commands: Then, doing a yields: When the resilvering of is done, I’ll do and in a similar manner. This way, I don’t have to plug the USB drives into […]
I went ahead and bought this USB stick to put in the back of my Portwell machine. The idea is to use it as a device cache to speed up my ZFS tank. Based on this post by Alexander Leidinger, it should reduce latency (when data is in the cache), but not otherwise. I was […]
