I've always seen how a mirrored /boot could work if the disks wereabsolutely identical up to the end of the /boot partition; if theywere identical, the absolute block positions of everything that the bootblocks wanted to load would be identical, so nothing would care aboutwhich disk it was talking to. My concern was always what happened if thedisks weren't quite so utterly identical, because back in the day itseemed to me like that required quite a lot of magic.

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There's a fair bit of enthusiasm for ticketing systems in the sysadminworld, and it's not hard to see why. But I'm going to be a contrarianhere: while ticketing systems are all well and good, you shouldabsolutely not require users to use them in order to interact with you.

The problem with ticketing systems is that they're like bug trackers ; they're internal systems that are almostalways filled with fields and procedures that exist for your needs.Your users should not

Recently I wound up reading the Weblessinitiative ( via ), which advocates avery strict CSS-less sort of web design. To coin a phrase, I think thatthis is a hairshirt too far; not only does it make it harder to creategood web pages, but it can damage the web viewing experience for yourvisitors.

First, I think that it's clear that 'graphics', broadly interpreted,are superior to plain monospaced text even for text content, as theyallow you to do important