Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
Last month Nintendo released Super Mario Galaxy 2, the highly anticipated sequel of Super Mario Galaxy. As I greatly enjoyed playing the first game I had high expectations. So the pivotal question is whether Super Mario Galaxy 2 is as good or even better than the first part: If you have played Super Mario Galaxy in the [...]
Due to massive problems I had to replace two of the hard disks in my server in a hurry recently. As I had positive experience with Western Digital RAID Edition drives in the past I bought two RE4‑GP WD2002FYPS drives. Silke and I installed them earlier last week and our server is in a satisfactory state [...]
My home server is using RAID 1 to keep all the files stored on it safe. The idea is that if one of the hard disks fails I can just replace it without losing any data. Well, that is the theory. Last night both of the hard disks in the primary RAID 1 volume of my [...]