After much deliberation I finally decided to purchase an external hard drive to provide for a complete backup solution for my server. I finally decided on the Western Digital 500GB MyBook Essential. I duly brought it home and connected it to my Linux server (Mandriva 2006.0), but after initially recognising the drive it basically produced …

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A recent post on the ILUG got me thinking again about the 64 -vs- 32 bit editions of Linux, and so I’m gonna do some more testing. My last test revealed that on a 64bit AMD box, code compiled with GCC actually suffered a performance degradation when using 32bit integers in 64bit mode. I’ve got …

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