Posts in "ideas"

Idea: Faster Metadata Downloads With Yum and Git

The presto plugin for yum has worked great for me so far.  It’s been very useful, not for the lack...

We open if we die

I wrote a few comments about introducing “guarantees” in software – how do you assure your customers that they won’t...

Re-comparing file systems

The previous attempt at comparing file systems based on the ability to allocate large files and zero them met with...

Comparison of File Systems And Speeding Up Applications

Update: I’ve done a newer article on this subject at http://log.amitshah.net/2009/04/re-comparing-file-systems.html that removes some of the deficiencies in the tests...

Startups in 14 sentences

Paul Graham has an article on the top 13 things to keep in mind for entrepreneurs. I have one to...

Making Suspend Safer for File Systems

I saw these File System Freezing patches that got merged into Linus’ tree yesterday and instantly thought that these patches...

Laptops: The New Desktops

As laptop sales are outpacing desktop sales and laptops becoming more and more capable, it’s no wonder that laptops are...

Piracy

The Indian movie industry (and that’s not just “Bollywood”) is plagued with piracy of movies as well as music. I’ve...

Traffic

Traffic of the vehicular kind. Not the one I see on this blog. It’s not just traffic, it’s terrorism on...