Prompted by Author's entry :

A story like TWGOK generally livesor dies based on how interesting you find the character of the week (orcouple of weeks) whose story is being explored, and so my initialinterest was because the first girl that Keima hadto deal with had an interesting story. The second character lookedpromising, but I dropped the show shortly into the third episode when Iwound up feeling that she was an unsympathetic idiot and I didn't carewhat her story was or what happened to

For a long time I thought of DRBD as a wayof getting shared storage or networkbased RAID-1 (as its website puts it), and I didn't entirely see thepoint. But there's a different way of looking at it, one that's quiteeye-opening and which I was recently exposed to somewhere.

A standard high availability setup for something like virtualizationhas four machines: two frontends and two backend disk storage machines,with the storage mirrored between the backends and both frontends

Mostly for historical reasons, my office workstation still runs itsown mailer and I still get a very small amount of email to it. I getmany, many more spam attempts, because for very many years (in thepre-spam days) it was the primary email address that I used and Iused it widely. Over the years I've put up an ever-increasing set ofanti-spam precautions that wind up rejecting almost all attempted SMTPconnections.

(Technically I wind up dropping connections after sending