Theoretically, the usual way to set up your dual-headedsystem on a modern machine that uses the modern XRandR extension is to run xrandr onceyou've logged in to set things up. Suppose that you are not happy withthis; you want your system to be properly dual-headed from the momentthat X lights the display. This means that you need to have RandR set upin your xorg.conf .

(Alternately, you can hope that your Linux version has a graphical Xconfigurator that understands how

The problem with ' mount -t nfs ' is that it can't make up its mindabout what NFS mount options it lists. Is its purpose to list all of theNFS mount options, or is its purpose to list only user-supplied ones?Right now the answer is some peculiar mixed blend; most of the timeit lists only user-supplied options, but sometimes it will also listadditional ones.

I care about this because I have programs that parse mount 's output to seeif we

The problem with the simple approach to scrubbing your ZFS pools (justdo ' zpool scrub ... ' every so often) is that ZFS pool scrubs putenough of a load on our systems that we don't want to do them duringthe week and we don't want to do more than one of them at once (well,not more than one per fileserver). And we certainly don't want to haveto manage the whole process by hand. So recently I wrote a script to