Diary of a Network Geek

The trials and tribulations of a Certified Novell Engineer who's been stranded in Houston, Texas.

4/29/2009

Problems with Solid State Drives?

Filed under: Geek Work,News and Current Events,Red Herrings — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Tiger which is terribly early in the morning or 5:08 am for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waning Gibbous

Seems like these might not be all they’re cracked up to be.

I’ve wondered about these since first reading about how they worked. Basically, these solid state drives, or SSDs, are giant flash drives. And, apparently, just like flash drives, they tend to slow down with use. Maybe I’ve just had too much bad luck with flash drives going suddenly strange and needing a reformat, but I wonder what else might go wrong with them in time?

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4/2/2008

WordPress Version 2.5

Filed under: Criticism, Marginalia, and Notes,Fun Work,News and Current Events,Personal,Red Herrings — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Tiger which is terribly early in the morning or 5:34 am for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waning Gibbous

You may have noticed a few very minor cosmetic changes.

That’s because I upgraded the blog to the new version of WordPress Monday night.
I have to admit, I’ve been eager for the upgrade because I’ve been a little behind on that. With all the antispam plugins I was running, though, I never really had a security problem. I did have to fix a couple of plugins and replace one. You’ll notice, for instance, that the titles are a bit different. That’s due to a plugin not working with the new version and being replaced. Other changes are all behind the scenes, but involved editing other people’s ancient, and no longer supported, plugins to work with the new version. The Time Of Day plugin, which shows you, roughly, what time of day I posted something, was one of those that I had to edit a bit.
Sadly, one very good plugin, Bad Behavior, just simply had to be turned off for now. I hope the author updates it soon for the new release of WordPress, because it’s very, very good.

Now, I just have to update all my other blogs…

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