An unconventional reason for large RAID stripe sizes
Here's a surprising reason to have a really large RAID stripe size: toreduce per-spindle IO loads for random IO.
How and why this works is going to take some explanation. First,modern disks read and write very fast; what costs time isseeks. Random IO means lots of seeks. In random IO on a striped RAID,this means that any time you have to touch a new disk you pay anadditional seek cost. And you switch disks every time you cross astripe boundary.
我都知下面篇文又突然地長左
1. 呢篇文的heading不甚吸引 ，但文章中後段談了很多傳媒運作的內幕，留言中更有署名心戈的一段留言，討論傳媒客觀中立的問題，請各位留意，copy低做日後論辯的資源。行家一伸手，便知有沒有。
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小脂的文章越來越精彩，叫我汗顏，對於讀書深刻的人我向來佩服，他現在逍遙於網上似乎最好不過，沒有了報章出版的壓力果然如魚得水，問題是：澳門有大量想讀這種文章的人是不上網的，小脂越寫越勇，其實也反證了澳門
中秋．新年．單行
我以為絕食的都是自己友，我以為已經沒有人關心被拘捕人士的事了。誰知一來到，發
How not to set up your DNS (part 7)
Presented in point form, because the illustrated form is too verbose:
- The subdomain bos.netsolhost.com has nameserversNS1.bos.netsolhost.com and NS2.bos.netsolhost.com.
- according to the nameservers for netsolhost.com, these have IPaddresses 205.178.146.11 and 205.178.146.12 respectively.
- according to 205.178.146.11
On not logging things
One of the machines I help look after is an open, read-only Usenetserver (details here ; the openaccess is a 'because we can' thing). You might be surprised to knowthat the server logs only minimal information about NNTP sessions, andthis is a deliberate action that required hacking the software a bit.
When I was setting up the machine and planning open access foreveryone on campus, I found myself thinking about how I'd feel if, forexample, some day a department
我應該關心什麼?
立法會明日投票決定是否就東亞運開支問題展開聽證程序，我是關心的。
因為鹹潮，我家的膠樽堆積太多，不利於環保，我是關心的。
媽媽生日，明晚宴請親友，不知新試的酒樓味道如何，收費怎樣，我是關心的。
有傳李澤佳有
Recording attribute access and method calls
Here's a little bit of magic, demonstrated in the Python interpreter:
>>> from record import Record>>> r = Record()>>> r2 = r.a.b('abc').c>>> print r2a.b('abc').c>>> print r.d.e(r2, t=20).f()d.e(Record().a.b('abc最好的時光
星期日下午，我一個人，躲在家裡看侯孝賢《最好的 時光》。三個故事， 三個時代，戀愛夢、自由夢、 青春夢，害我不能入夢。
侯孝賢的電影從來適合打發時間，通常先要令腦海空空如也，不加思索，才可以裝載那麼慢的節奏，
The peculiar effects of grant funding at universities
One of the things that makes universities such peculiar computing environments is grant funding.
The straightforward effect is to inject uncertainty into the year toyear budgeting process, since few grants have a sure renewal. Evenwhen the total amount of grant funding stays more or less the same,who gets it (and thus what projects are funded) can vary a lot, withthe attendant localized lurches. (The uncertainty of grant money maybe one reason that people are often far more willing to pay forequipment and consulting than to