Mirrored drives on Fedora 7 and 8

This is a companion piece to my earlier post on Mirrored USB drives under Linux, and covers a few bits and pieces that should make your life just that little bit easier. The first thing that you need to be aware of is that in Fedora 7 and above you will… more »

Book Review: Navigator - Stephen Baxter

Title: NAVIGATOR Publisher: Gollancz Author: Stephen Baxter Edition released: 2007 ISBN: 978-0-575-07991-5 323 pages Reviewed by: Adam Donnison Orm, a mercenary in the clean up team following the Norman troops crushing the rebellions after Hastings… more »

Gryphon Tailes 8 - Master or Slave?

Things are relatively calm with Gryphon at the moment, he seems to be able to go three or four days between cortisone doses, and is getting around reasonably well. There are the few glitches where he will try to climb the stairs or get onto a couch and… more »

More errata on USB Mirror solution

In my USB Mirror solution post I had left out a simple, but vital piece of information. When rebooted the system failed to find the RAID devices because it wasn't told where to find them. To get around this you need to use the mdadm tool to write out or… more »

Book Review: The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow

Title: THE LAST WITCHFINDER Publisher: Phoenix Author: James Morrow Edition released: 2006 ISBN: 978-0-7538-2153-4 544 pages Reviewed by: Adam Donnison It is 1688 and Walter Stearne is the master pricker and Witchfinder-General for Mercia and East… more »