Normally, one of NFS's irritating features is that when you mount afilesystem from a server, you don't automatically get access to anysub-filesystems mounted on that filesystem; you have to know about themand mount them yourself.

(Yes, yes, some NFS servers offer features to do this for you; suchfeatures have their own problems.)

But there's an old sysadmin trick that turns this into a feature. If youNFS mount a filesystem, such as / , you can

One of the interesting things about programming DWiki is how it'swound up making me notice and appreciate the subtle cleverness of WardCunningham's original simple wiki design, in particular the choice of aflat page namespace. Many of the advantages are relatively technicalbut there are more abstract ones, one of which I stumbled into today:

You do not have to taxonomize information before you put it into aflat wiki; you just have to give it a reasonably good name.

When you have a page hierarchy of some

For my sins, I decided that my new machine should run the 64-bit versionof Fedora Core 5. I knew this was going to be somewhat painful, becausevarious important things (such as Flash and Sun's Java) don't yet have64-bit versions; I was going to have to build 32-bit versions of thingslike Firefox in order to use them.

Little did I know that Fedora has made it all but impossible to compilea 32-bit version