A few things all of us are probably interested in:

SSD Write Amplification:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2329594,00.asp

Journaling and write performance in ext4:

http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/01/ssds-journaling-and-noatimerelatime/

The bottom-line as far as wear and tear: vfat is basically the same as a journaled FS from a wear-leveling standpoint, both are worst case. Thankfully vfat, being the worst case, forced the manufacturers to deal with the [...]

It’s been three years since we upgraded the hardware that hosts our various sites. I contacted my provider (Crucial Paradigm) and got some competitive offers. Stefan, my friend in Berlin that I split the server with, and I agreed on the following specs:

Athlon 64 x2 4000 (2 cores @ 2.1GHz, 512K L2 each)
4GB RAM, [...]

I’ve been thinking of researching the PS3 hypervisor. Mainly from a security perspective but this led me to thinking. You know what would be cool? Micro-partioning a PS3. Obviously IBM has experience with micro-partitioning on the PPC and the Linux distros are already tried and tested in these exact environments. [...]

I’ve been having tons of wireless network issues lately. At work, which is not surprising being I work at tech company – only God knows who is running what service on their laptop or who is running the microwave in the kitchen across the hall. More worrisome, I’ve been having issues at home [...]