REVIEW: THE NEW WELEES VISUAL LVM, A NEW STYLE OF LVM MANAGEMENT, HAS BEEN RELEASED
by George Whittaker
Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools are hardly friendly to system administrators while generally . . .
NVIDIA LINUX DRIVERS CAUSING RANDOM HARD CRASHES AND NOW A MAJOR SECURITY RISK STILL NOT FIXED AFTER 5+ MONTHS
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The recent fiasco with Nvidia trying to block Hardware Unboxed from future GPU review samples for the content of their review is one example of how they choose to play this game. This hatred is not only shared by reviewers, but also developers and . . .
PARALLEL SHELLS WITH XARGS: UTILIZE ALL YOUR CPU CORES ON UNIX AND WINDOWS
by Charles Fisher
Introduction
One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this article is file compression, but the problem rises . . .