I’ve been using OpenOffice on Windows lately and I must say they’ve come a long way from when I first tried it years and year ago. However, their Mac version from openoffice.org requires X11, and well, it’s not as awesome of an experience as it is on Windows. Fortunately there’s NeoOffice which is very usable […]
While I’m on the topic of 3ware cards and performance issues (or lack of performance thereof) I thought I’d share this as well: [SCSI] 3w-9xxx: fix abysmal write performance on some motherboards The fix is as simple as grabbing the driver source from 3ware and inserting a call to pci_try_set_mwi() right after pci_set_master() as some […]
I recently came across this discussion about a poorly performing 3ware array. Aside from being rather horrified of the ignorance the original poster displays of the fancy card he’s already purchased, there’s a few points I wish I could drive into his brain with a rapid-fire nailgun: 1) Software RAID leaves the drive’s write cache […]
3Ware’s latest installer for the 3DM tools likes to require a JVM – not something I usually have on things like a mail server. I knew there were binary .deb packages out there, and I finally stumbled across their home in knowledge base article Q15126: http://jonas.genannt.name