So today I did about the stupidest thing I could have done at the time. I was planning on clearing my USB hard drive so I could start my new backup plan on it. Of course any Linux geek knows the easy way to erase a hard drive is to do a ‘dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1′. On almost all my computer there is only one hard drive which maps to /dev/sda. Of course you know exactly where I’m going here don’t you? So this is my home server with two hard drive combines into one volume group. The first hard drive is /dev/sda, the second /dev/sdb and the USB hard drive got mapped to /dev/sdc. So in my case that command obliterated the first 125Mb of my second drive before I [...]
So it appears I called the feature freeze a little early. The feature freeze will actually happen on July 28. You will need to read my other post for features that haven’t changed since [...]
SystemTap is the Linux analogy to Solaris DTrace and is similar to the strace command, only much much more powerful. It effectively lets you set breakpoints in the kernel to monitor what your applications are doing. For example if I was worried that some application I’d written was polling way too often, I could ask [...]
Pick the correct headline:
* Meteorologists Determine That Hell Has Frozen Over
* Scientists Genetically Engineer a Pig Capable of Flight
* Microsoft Releases 20,000 Lines of GPL code to the Linux [...]
I often hear people attacking GNOME and Linux because of the claim that they’ve emulated the Windows Registry in Gconf. While this looks to be true at first glance, looking a bit deeper reveals many differences that make the two into completely separate entities. Both GConf and the Registry have their own advantages and [...]
