I spotted an ad in the paper, a computer store was offering a kit to build a computer for 2200kr so I jumped at the offer. AMD Duron, 128MB RAM, 30GB drive. Perfect for my server and quite affordable. So I got it right away, put it together and surprise surprise.. no hardware problems whatsoever. My first time, I must be doing something right finally. Even the MSI mainboard, the manufacturer which has given me so much grief in the past, checked out fine.

So I plugged in the old drive from the get go, but it wouldn't quite work, I got some weird error messages saying my new 30G drive wasn't partitioned properly. Even though I had done that and formatted the drives booting from Knoppix, it still wouldn't work. I decided to recompile the kernel just to be on the safe side. As it turned out, that's all it took to get working and I now get 48MB/s instead of 10... :-) The kernel message is also a pleasant read, 2600 bogomips up from 300..

I stumbled upon a fascinating article in the June 2003 issue of Scientific American. I believe the vision set forth represents a much needed critical case study of today's situation, that being frequent breakdown of systems and poor reliability. Downtime is a much less significant problem to me than the actual restoration process which at times is a killer. "Self critical" systems should be the next step in the grand scheme of computing.

The project is labeled ROC for Recovery-Oriented Computing. The research team looks favorably to new concepts such as benchmarking the recovery time of a system, micro rebooting (that is restarting only subcomponents of a system rather than the whole system) and undo functions to trace the steps a system administrator would take.

I finally got around to something I've been putting off for weeks, that being getting the Rome pics online finally. Most of them are raw copies of the originals, not even touched, the worst cases I hacked a bit with Photoshop.

Took me a couple of hours to get the script working the way I wanted, apparently it was meant for sites revolving around blogs rather than a single blog. Though now that I have it installed I've no idea what I'll be using it for.

Q. What's a blog anyway?

It's a weblog, people mostly use it to jot down all kinds of interesting happenings. In this case it'll probably be a set of monotonous notes.

Now playing : Eros Ramazzotti - 9

Decent album no question, I do think "Stilelibero" was a bit better, though. The top tracks seem to be "Un emozione per sempre" and "Il buio ha i tuoi occhi".

Comic recommendation:

www.hackles.org - definitely in the geek category, simple but humorous