ZFS, XFS and Ext4 benchmarks

Today I have found a benchmark comparing XFS, Ext4 and ZFS. After reading the results it's clear that each file system has its own strengths and weaknesses, although it's quite impressive to see that ZFS - supporting such a wide range of features - can copy the whole Linux kernel tree in 3 seconds, don't you think?

alobbs.com comments support

I have finally written a tiny little module to add comments support to my blog software. It has been the perfect example of: "If you don't personally need the feature, it can be postponed almost forever".

String library comparison

This website on String library comparison is very interesting. You might want to check it out.

Here is a great talk on Dtrace, and how to see software without making it slower. Definitely worth watching!

Today, while I was walking in the street, I saw a computer component store. I entered to take a look and ended up buying a pack of blank DVDs. "What an amazing story!" you should be thinking by now..

I wouldn't be interesting it wasn't because I'm kind of used to the madness that is going on in Spain. I have written about this before: basically, there is a greedy association called SGAE, that collects a tax on each single blank CD or DVD sold in the country (actually, the tax has been extended to virtually every device able to store or reproduce music or video).

So, I bought a 50 DVD+R pack for $9.99. It was a good deal, wasn't it? Now, let's see how much would had it cost in Spain (or here) because the of the tax I told you about. It would have been around 70€ (around $96) in the best of the cases.

That is basically ten for the price of one! Isn't it unbelievable? I suppose we should thank the government for this. It surrendered to the greedy and barely legal association, and it even approved a custom law to allow them to collect the tax.

Anyway, I'm very sorry for the shops and businesses in Spain, but I don't buy it.. literally. From now on, I will do my best to buy all my blank DVDs abroad.

What a gem! Check out this Apache's XML-RPC class interface:

RequestProcessorFactoryFactory.RequestSpecificProcessorFactoryFactory

<Sigh!> Over-engineering.. you gotta love it! :-)