The good and bad of SQL
The good of SQL is that it is an excellent ad-hoc query and reportingtool. If you have an SQL database with a decently formed schema (and inmany ways a denormalized schema is the easiest), you can bang togetherlots of things very fast and easily. Raw SQL is an excellent way toexplore your way around a bunch of data, for example to see if there aresigns that something odd is going on.
(It also makes it possible to answer silly amusing questions that wouldnot be
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How Linux software RAID is making me grumpy right now
This weekend, one of my machines sent me email to report:
WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md0
WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md3
What this means (as opposed to what it says) is that a softwareRAID data scrub has detected some number ofinconsistencies between the mirrors for two of my software RAID devices.
(I believe that the kernel also notices this under some othercircumstances, but I can't follow the code well enough
自我提醒
- 將自己對自己的評價跟別人對自己的評價脫鈎,是難乎其難的事。有時你以為做到了,其
腦作大業 – 縮小自己

《腦作大業》(Synecdoche, New York) 是一齣很奇妙的電影,妙在電影雖然由有序變為混亂,由現實變為超現實,但故事其實還是說得通,不合情,但合理。身為觀眾,總認為電影得說點甚麼的,尤其對於鬼才 Charlie Kaufman 更有期望。但電影中後段

