Our storage infrastructure here has a number of NFS servers sittingin front of a pool of SAN RAID storage boxes using commodity SATAdisks. This is a somewhat unusual setup for a comparatively smallenvironment like ours; a far more common setup is to have the disksdirectly attached to the fileservers.

We have a SAN setup for a simple reason: failover between the NFSserver machines . We consider the server machines to be the things mostlikely to suffer failures, either hardware or software, or just to needdowntime. With

Programming fun is spending a couple of hours writing, revising, andtuning a DWiki feature that I'm not sure I'm actually going to like wellenough to keep.

I'm serious, not being sarcastic; I like programming, but not all ideasfor improving a program pan out. An idea that seems great in my mind canbe less attractive once I've made it concrete and explored all of thebits that I could gloss over when it was just thought-stuff. So I can

There are three types of authentication :

They are:

1. Something you've lost,
2. Something you've forgotten, and
3. Something you used to be.

The full entry includes an illustrative story and bonus comments (and,unfortunately, a certain amount of comment spam, at least right now).

(From Richard Johnson of river.com.)

The Dell 2950 is a decent 2U server that has recently started beingpopular around here; like most recent servers, it has dispensed withPS/2 connectors and only has USB for the keyboard and mouse. It has fourUSB connectors, two on the front and two on the back.

If you plug your keyboard into the back USB connectors, the Ubuntu6.06.1 x86_64 server kernel hangs with ' BUG: soft lockup detectedon CPU#0!