http://james.com.sg Blog of a budding (another word for poor) entrepeneur Tue, 24 May 2011 05:40:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Boy… never knew technical writers can write so well.  Was just going through the foreword when I was dumb struck by the prose.  Check out the para below: A digital flood is upon us. Content inundates us. It begins as bits of content swirling everywhere—a document, ... http://james.com.sg/2011/05/24/interwoventhe-definitive-guide-to-interwoven-teamsite/ Just came back from the States after a week of training.  Hmmm… just realised that they do indeed hire people to return trolleys back to their original locations! Shoppers leaving the trolleys in the carpark after shopping Trolley pushers pushing ... http://james.com.sg/2011/05/07/returning-the-trolleys/ Well I was pondering over the trolley issue I kind of blogged about yesterday and came to the realization that such situations are very common in our daily lives. Basically, we humans are much like flowing water and mindless sheeps when we make our daily decisions in ... http://james.com.sg/2011/04/24/costs-benefit-analysis-littering/ It wasn’t that long ago when our trolleys in the supermarkets were in disarray.  Shoppers after checking out their items in a supermarket generally do not bother to move the trolleys back to their original holding location.  That is… till the innovation of the chain contraption whereby a ... http://james.com.sg/2011/04/22/getting-our-trolleys-to-line-upalignment-of-incentives/ Recently, I did a project with NLB.  It is to facilitate the telling of a story through pictures and one-liner descriptions.  Hmmm… wonder how it will really work in practise… And since just gotten myself a nice digital camera… why not just give it a try! ... http://james.com.sg/2011/04/21/picture-story-one-liner/ Recently, I was feeling really bored writing our own standard proposals… so I decided to try something strange.  I started to write my proposals in a more graphic and exploratory way. Not sure why I did it that way.  I guess I was just bored… tired of doing the ... http://james.com.sg/2011/04/20/head-first-proposal-writing/ Hmm.. have been working with CMS for all these years.. but never seemed to have heard of this supposed CMS jargons, i.e. frying and baking… http://dev.day.com/content/docs/en/cq/current/exploring/concepts.html In CMS jargon, "baked" refers to the concept of committing data to static files at publish-time, while "fried" refers to the concept ... http://james.com.sg/2011/04/19/cqcaching-frying-and-baking/ I was just kind of curious.  Will there be any performance difference when we run bonnie on a single disk vs a mirror disks array? Mirror Disk Array Performance Single Disk Dun really see a any performance bonus using a mirrored ... http://james.com.sg/2011/04/19/bonnie-mirror-vs-single-disk/ Just realised that ESXI is compatible with almost every MOBO I could lay hands on in my office.  Installation basically depends on 2 things: a.  Intel Pro 1000 GTS NIC b. Disabling C1E Support (http://james.com.sg/2011/04/09/installing-esxi-on-m4a89td-prousb3) Got it working on GA-880GM-USB3…. http://james.com.sg/2011/04/19/esxi-compatibility-ga-880gm-usb3/ Well,  seems like most ZFS fans use a tool called Bonnie to test hard drive performance.  So here I go… some notes on the installation of bonnie based on the different ZFS base system. Bonnie on OpenSolaris Download bonnie++ from http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/bonnie++-1.03c.tgz), After that, just do the standard ... http://james.com.sg/2011/04/18/benchmarking-toolbonnie-installation/