You know you want to.
It's high noon for the internet and the ITU.
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It's high noon for the internet and the ITU.
The watch you see was from the 1998 plenipotentiary conference in Minneapolis. I implemented the RealAudio streaming for the conference back when I worked in the IT department at the ITU.
Engraved on the back of the watch is the text "Offered by SWISSCOM".
Instead of tossing that torrent of catalogs consider using Catalog Choice to stop them at the source.
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Instead of tossing that torrent of catalogs consider using Catalog Choice to stop them at the source. Results have been noticeable after using them for about a year.
WTF? Why is this snippet so awful? Can we fix it?
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WTF? Why is this snippet so awful? Can we fix it?
Liking btrfs a lot.
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Liking btrfs a lot. This weekend I started upgrading to a 2x2T drive setup for media from a single 1T drive. A bit of a pain, but I learned a bit. I also found out that my current drive was probably in worse shape than I thought.
- Upgrading Seagate drive firmware using grub2 chained bootable iso was a no-go. Will just have to live with it.
- Learned about GPT partitions and 4k sectors and gdisk. Nice to see that drive partitioning has almost progressed beyond MBR and 4 partitions.
- Added the new drive using btrfs device add
- Converted to RAID1 using btrfs balance
- Almost freaked out when my old drive hit a patch of bad sectors.
- Deleted some unused junk on the drive. Rebooted
- Started the balance again, success! (btrfs also remapped a bunch of bad metadata using it's built-in redundancy! btrfs read error corrected:)
Next up, removing the old drive and adding in the 2nd 2T drive, followed by moving the root and home partitions to a new SSD. Anyone using btrfs on their boot partition?