I'm on record as building systems that usemirrored system disks with plain /boot and swap partitions (that is,non mirrored, just duplicated), mostly through ancient caution.

You know what? I was wrong. Totally wrong. I've now built a system witha fully mirrored system disk and not only does it work, it works betterthan my old way. I will henceforth now mirror /boot and swap, inaddition to all of the regular filesystems, on all future systems that I

This is one of the rare entries that I have to present in pictorialform.

Here is a 65% size view of what kscd , the KDE CD playing program,looks like in Fedora 8 (where it is version 1.6, from KDE 3.5.10):

Here is what it looks like in Fedora 10, again 65% size:

To amplify on a previous entry ,I've found that the biggest thing that gets under my skin as a sysadmin,that really leaves me frustrated and short-tempered, is being helpless.Well, not exactly helpless in general; what I mean is being faced with asituation where there's a technical problem (something within my sphere)but there is nothing that I can do, or nothing useful (where I know I amjust flailing around, taking random stabs completely in the dark).

This

Let us suppose that you are a well meaning driver who wants to help outbicyclists, but you don't bicycle yourself (or at least not anywherewhere you're sharing the road with cars) so you don't have directexperience to draw on. So, what can you do to help?

Paradoxically, one of the best things that you can do to help is tonot do us bicyclists any special favours; to treat bicyclists justas you would any other vehicle (which is what they legally