Chickens are also cool...
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Because they catch and eat mice. Who needs a cat to keep your property free of rodents, when you can have a chicken?
Big file-systems
So, you've got almost a quarter of a terabyte of space sitting around on that RAID-5. You know, if the machine ever crashes, that fsck is going to take forever. Wouldn't it be great to drop in a journaling filesystem? Ext3 sits over the top of ext2, it's easy to setup and configure. Why not use that?
Probably because I didn't compile it into the kernel.
UPS
The UPS wasn't talking nicely to the computer for a while there. I tried to look-up information on my UPS and the cable it uses, and what settings I should use under genpower. What was google's top and most useful source for this information? My diary entry from last year. Great!
As it happens it looks like the cable just wasn't seated properly, or some other stupidity. It all works fine now.
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