Dropsafe

I just got IM’ed by Simon Phipps who was making a transparent attempt to plug the latest (if awkwardly titled) posting on his Sun Blog – but that’s OK, because it’s a fairly cool thing 🙂 – although I believe the actual goal is best described on the relevant Sun Wiki page: Purpose: The goal

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I have a 2.5Tb Solaris (nv71x) box, and the five disks which create the primary pool are joined together in RAID-Z. On that pool I have created five filesystems: default – just a vanilla filesystemcopies-2 – set copies=2 for data dittoblockscopies-3 – copies=3compress-gzip – use gzip compressioncompress-lzjb – use lzjb compression …and I have exported

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I love Windows. I love the way you can boot it to do something small but urgent, having not booted for several weeks, and it will chug, chunder, whiz and chime, repeatedly demanding to be rebooted whilst achieving precisely nothing for you. So many flashing lights! So many resonant bongs! It’s like a flower that

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On Geoff Arnold‘s Facebook Page – and I am in good company… 🙂

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I seem to remember Eric having an interest in Astronomy, so I am not surprised by this happening. I look forwards to trying it out.

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Dear Mr Muffett, Transport for London has published the third series of its Local Cycling Guides. The new series is made up of 14 individual guides, with 4,000km of routes covering the whole of London, with Guide 1 covering central London. Each Guide shows up-to-date routes for cycling in your local area, all of which

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…shame about the song; well actually it’s an OK song (heh) but the video is superb; and it is just about worth waiting until about the end. I can’t help but think it’s the sort of thing Gondry would have had a hand in making. Via

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“The trouble with cycle commuting is you end up at work!” (from the Tasmanian Bicycle Council)

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Albert Bridge, in Pink Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …and a nice excuse to test Flickr’s “Blog This” feature…

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Bart pointed me at this Brompton innovation: After many years of denying customers an anti-flop clip, Brompton has relented and in typical fashion has introduced a small engineering jewel. This is from their memo: Why did we do it? Over the years, countless Brompton owners have come to appreciate the way the Brompton’s rear wheel

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Pah. If the Upper-Class Twit of the Year is one of funniest sketches of all time, then there’s nothing wrong with watching Chav Hunting.

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Nowadays I have a hard stop, and move to decaf after a max of four singles; I mildly OD’d once, and it was not nice… Girl overdoses on espresso coffee A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee. Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos

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