ats:
Hmm.
One of these related books is not like the others.
Or perhaps I'm just forgetting the epic bouzouki scene?
ats:
"That ZFS almost ate a terabyte because it had a snit is only half of why I am really unhappy with ZFS right now. The other half is that ZFS is the perfect example of the new model of Unix systems and system administration, and this new model is busy screwing us."
"The new model is non-transparent and tools-less. In the new model of systems there is no level between 'sysadmin friendly' tools that don't really tell you anything (such as ordinary zpool) and going all of the way down into low-level debuggers (such as zdb) plus reading the fine source code (where available). There is no intermediate level in the new model, no way to get ZFS to tell you what it is doing, what it is seeing, and just why something is wrong
Yes; this is essentially the concern I had about ZFS.
It's a big, complicated, single component; at least with a conventional FS on RAID I've got an abstraction layer that I can debug at.
ats:
So, if you haven't already done so: go out and vote.
It's easy, and you're allowed to dress as a pirate.
If the last US election was scripted by the authors of The West Wing, this one feels more like The Thick of It: "[...] the prime minister went off for a nap at about 8.30pm. David Cameron, meanwhile, spent two hours chopping logs."
Technology problems galore on the BBC TV coverage...
I see the Conservatives have heard the talking-points thing that the US politicians do and decided they like it.
Erm. That well-known political commentator Bruce Forsyth...
And our next report will be coming from some nice EBU colour bars in Nottingham...
"Nick Clegg accepts the petition calling for electoral change, said to have 20,000 signatures, and urges campaigners to carry their message to every street in the country."
That's a very polite way of saying "please stop standing in my street shouting at me".
Could the BBC really not find a better image of Gordon Brown for use in this Week in Pictures montage?
I mean, he's not even wearing the right colour tie.
ats:
A different format for search results.
I find it interesting that by default, I see Everything...
... and I have the option to see More than Everything.
Which appears to be some Javascript cruft they've not bothered to test with large fonts, and the "Wonder wheel" is some Flash applet I can't see.
Great.
David: 20,000 letters. 40 MPs turned up for the debate. 10 stayed for the whole thing. Wonderful.
David:
"""8.41am. Bob Ainsworth, Defence Secretary, walks into No10, followed by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, who wishes the waiting media a "good morning". """
I don't know how I would have got through the morning without knowing that.
ats:
Suggests political parties to vote for by picking policies you like.
Apparently I agree with the Green Party on everything except the environment. Shame there's absolutely no way I'd vote for them.
(There was a similar site around for the last election, which suggested I agreed with the SNP on everything aside from Scottish independence. This is clearly an ongoing problem.)
ats: Back To The Future through the eyes of someone who was probably born around the time I first saw the trilogy.