Yet another stupid Idea…
Or better the same stupid idea over and over again from different politicians!
Franco Frattini wants to “prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism.” Once such a system is set up we gonna have almost chines conditions in our “democratic” Europe! Does this people really think they can avoid terrorist attacks by censoring information, which every 17 year old wannabe revolutionizer has? We should start to think about why this “terrorists” are so angry with us. Not only fighting against the symptoms.
Disk Speed Issues Solved! (at least for me)
I finally found out why I had such a bad disk performance! Actually I wanted to care about this problem later, because I’m traveling at the moment and therefor I wanted to have a stable system. But it got so annoying that I decided to take the risk of breaking the system totally and so I did some more serious research. A simple hdparm -tT /dev/hda revealed the following:
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 7932 MB in 1.99 seconds = 3985.16 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.02 seconds = 2.60 MB/sec
So what the heck… why only 2.6MB? And by the way, why is it hda shouldn’t it be sda for a SATA disk?
It turned out that I still had compatibility mode activated in my BIOS, so the kernel recognized the SATA disk as a old style ATA disk which apparently caused this incredible low performance. After 2 minutes of changing /etc/fstab and the boot options in GRUB the hard disk was running with nice 44 MB/s.
What do we learn out of this? Don’t blame always the operating system! Maybe it’s just a wrong BIOS option…
