I have a simple request for people putting together installers formodern systems, especially systems generally aimed at servers: it shouldbe dirt simple to do an install with mirrored system disks .

With most modern servers having two drive bays (often hotswap ones) anddisk space being so cheap, going to mirrored system disks make a lotof sense. But most people won't move to this configuration until it issomewhere between easy and trivial to set up, much like many people didnot move to LVM-based system

I recently applied a bunch of pending Eee updatesfrom Asus, and suddenly the full desktop mode that I prefer stoppedworking. The Eee always booted into the basic interface, and when Iswitched back to advanced mode everything in my Desktop directory haddisappeared (which is bad, because I have some customized launchersthere)

(Fortunately I had an off-machine backup of my Desktop directory so I couldrestore my customizations.)

I enabled advanced desktop mode the easy way , namely by installing the advanced-desktop-eeepc

I recently read an entry by someone whowas surprised that Python subclasses did not automatically call theirparent class's 'constructor' method, by which he meant __init__ .This is a straightforward consequence of Python's inheritance model,but Python's inheritance model is slightly odd.

The straightforward way to explain Python's inheritance model is thatit uses what I could call 'lookup based' or 'name based' subclassing,where what subclassing does is change what binding will be returned when