On my lab machines I use a pair of physical disks, configured in a RAID 1 with MD, with LVM on top of that. This gives me a lot of flexibility with full redundancy. However recently I had a failure of a drive.

The term was coined by John Wheeler. Whether the concept is a reflection of our time much as the Clock Work Universe. Mirrored the Age of Enlightenment. Is too early to judge.

Irrationality at the service of rationality in decision-making. The shared decision, or group decision, is one of the fundamental stones of modern western civilization, democracy itself is based on this concept.

Small Business IT from the ground up. To verify file integrity, people sharing files will often provide a hash. That way, when you receive the file, you can run the same function on the file and verify if it is the same as the one you intended to receive. There are various hashes out there, but this snippet will show you how to get SHA1 hash on a Mac.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Saturday, March 13, 2010. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils.