Category: Software
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OmniOS: The Hardware
Choice of the components and BOM This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here. Requirements and Options The server I was going to build was meant to last five years and to be used both as simple…
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Why a NAS and Which One
Why storing data on a dedicated device and available alternatives This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here. Introduction About ZFS Last year in September ZEVO was released, making finally a reasonably recent (v28) version of ZFS available under Mac OS…
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Simulation of the Air Flow Inside an Olidata Computer Case
Executed with FlexPDE 2.22 Versione italiana in fondo Some time ago (2004) I tried to simulate with FlexPDE how the air moved inside the case of my Olidata computer. I was unable to define a good 3D geometry due to the restrictions in the student version of the software (1800 nodes max), so I had to use…
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X-Logo
An AviSynth/VirtualDub filter The filter I publish in this page belongs to “Leuf”. I found it on the web but the original page, with the VirtualDub version, was missing, so I wrote the author a mail and obtained to publish it here, along with the sources. Complete package, with old versions as well. The VDub…
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Mouse and Joypad in Video Games
Versione italiana in fondo Comparison of the two input methods and possible explanations for the success of specific game genres in consoles and personal computers This article as been adapted and expanded from a forum post I wrote in the MacityNet.it website. The standard input controller that ships with consolles like Nintendo or X-Box is, nowadays, a joypad with…
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Hints about Backups Strategies Under Mac OS X
Versione italiana in fondo Some time ago I started making backups from the command line, with a command similar to: The result was the update of the backup folder, at each backup. After the discussion in the MacityNet forum about the WWDC 2006 from Apple, I thought about using Subversion to make my backups by executing a “commit”…