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).

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