Google: Find free comic books – lifehacker.com

Google: Find free comic books
The always handy Tech-Recipes has come up with a way to quickly search for free comic books online using Google. There are a couple ways to accomplish this, but if you are looking for title specific searches, this is what you would do:

Examples:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” spider-man cbr
and -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” simpsons cbr

I’m not a huge comic book fan, but this tip is intriguing enough to make me think about becoming one.

Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks – Lifehacker Top 10

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks
When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: finding exact phrases matches using quotes like “so say we all” or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little input box. Dozens of Google search guides detail the tips you already know, but today were skipping the obvious and highlighting our favorite obscure Google web search tricks.

O+P Insights: Linux HW RAID Howto

O+P Insights: Linux HW RAID Howto
Hardware RAID boxes are cool things. Plug them in and they behave like a big and fast disk. If properly configured, they’ll be another 30% faster.
Issue

There is great software RAID support in Linux these days. I still prefer having RAID done by some HW component that operates independently of the OS. This reduces dependencies a great deal and takes load of the server.

Currently, my favorite hardware RAID configuration is rack-mountable servers with lots of disk bays, an 8 or 16 port Areca controller, and all configured as a large RAID 6 device.

So far, so simple, even without any optimization, performance is quite convincing. But surely there must be some things you can do to improve on that.
Raid Structure

RAID5 and RAID6 work by striping the data across multiple disks and writing parity information such that the data can be recovered when a disk breaks. This means, that even when writing a small amount of data, the parity information has to be updated for every write. Small updates are therefore not very effective on a RAID5/6 configuration. The optimal amount of data to be written to the system in one go is defined by the ‘stripe-size’ of the RAID configuration.

By working with ‘stripe-sized’ chunks of data you can help the RAID to work to its best performance. Often the stripe-size is 64 KByte, this means that everything should be aligned to 64 KByte.

Real Men Dont Click — The Project

Real Men Dont Click — The Project
The plan was, to create a fully automated, server based, Windows 2000 setup. Fully automated in this context means two things:

1.
Basic tasks like, Client Installation, Server Setup, Application Deployment, Hotfix application and Account management happen without continous user intervention.
2.
The Setup is reproducible. This means that the whole system should constructed automatically from basic components.

We did achieve the first goal in all areas but the server setup. The second goal was more difficult but we still managed to get there often.