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		<title>LSI Logic 6Gbps mps Driver for FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EDIT: Binary modules have now also been provided for 7.4, 8.1 and 8.0.  The instructions below should apply to all three, with the exception that you&#8217;ll want to download either mps-bin-7.4.tar.gz,  mps-bin-8.1.tar.gz or mps-bin-8.0.tar.gz. Unfortunately, the mps driver, which supports LSI Logic&#8217;s 6Gbps series of RAID controllers, didn&#8217;t make it into the FreeBSD kernel until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2011/08/lsi-logic-6gbps-mps-driver-for-freebsd-8-2-release/</link>
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		<title>Complete GPT Support Coming to FreeBSD 9.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the release notes for FreeBSD 9.0 CURRENT: [amd64, i386] A new gptboot boot loader has been added to support booting from a GPT labeled disk. A new boot command has been added to gpt(8), which makes a GPT disk bootable by writing the required bits of the boot loader, creating a new boot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2011/07/complete-gpt-support-coming-to-freebsd-9-0/</link>
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		<title>4TB Hard Drives, Coming to a System Near You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Samsung announced it had achieved 1TB/platter, allowing them to produce 4TB hard drives.  A prototype was subsequently shown off at the CeBIT trade show.  Samsung refused to provide a projected date for its commercial release, but did reveal that they intended to begin shipping them in 2011.  There are only 6 months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2011/06/4tb-hard-drives-coming-to-a-system-near-you/</link>
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		<title>It May be Debian, but it&#8217;s also FreeBSD!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Debian.  That&#8217;s a Linux distribution, right?  Debian is (understandably) strongly associated with Linux.  But, did you also know that a port of Debian exists that&#8217;s built on top of the FreeBSD kernel? Say What? The project is called KFreeBSD.  At first glance, it may sound like a contradiction.  After all, how can you run Linux [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2011/06/it-may-be-debian-but-its-also-freebsd/</link>
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		<title>The Quest for a good Ubuntu netbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had a long and arduous search for a usable resolution (at least 1366&#215;768) portable netbook, that will run Ubuntu smoothly,  and we&#8217;re pleased to report our findings! The MSI U230-040US netbook fulfills all our requirements without so much as a hiccup. Most netbooks have a 1024 x 600 pixel display. This fails miserably with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2010/10/the-quest-for-a-good-ubuntu-netbook/</link>
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		<title>USB 3.0 and SATA 3: Is It Worth It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two new high speed buses have recently become available to consumers, USB 3.0 and SATA 3.  But are they worth considering now, or should you wait until they&#8217;ve been around for a while?  Let&#8217;s first examine the differences between these interfaces and their predecessors, then take a look at the devices that are available and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2010/09/usb-3-0-and-sata-3-is-it-worth-it/</link>
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		<title>Living in a Land of High Capacity Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The history of computing is littered with examples of storage capacity overstepping software&#8217;s ability to effectively make use of it (for a list of examples &#8212; and an entertaining read &#8212; check out this old article from 2000: http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm).  Today is certainly no exception.  With RAID arrays in excess of 32 TB (one terrabyte is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2010/08/living-in-a-land-of-high-capacity-storage/</link>
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		<title>Open Source Media Center Solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been evaluating various open source media center applications in an effort to put together a new unit and had the opportunity to weight the relative pros and cons of each. Below, you&#8217;ll get to read about my findings and hopefully learn a little bit about what&#8217;s out there. So, without further ado, here&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2009/08/open-source-media-center-solutions/</link>
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		<title>The Folding@home Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a server lying around someplace that spends a significant amount of time in idle? If so, you might want to consider running the Folding@home client. Folding@home is a project based at Stanford whose goal is to simulate and study protein folding, which is crucial in order to understand and develop better treatments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2009/06/the-foldinghome-project/</link>
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		<title>Learning How to Write Software for Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought to yourself, &#8220;gee, it would be a lot of fun to learn how to write software,&#8221; but you didn&#8217;t want to shell out money for books or a development environment? Perhaps you&#8217;re just curious, or maybe you aspire to be a developer one day. Whatever your reason, thanks to open source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eracks.com/2009/06/learning-how-to-write-software-for-free/</link>
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