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Well, I now have 4 of the... (15 May 2002)

Well, I now have 4 of the 5 aforementioned SCSI drives in a RAID 0 array (I can't fit all the drives in the case). Nice to see my PSU didn't melt and it's pretty sweet speed-wise. You mke2fs and the count shoots up to about 120 right away. Then all the drive LEDs light up and the room shakes for couple of seconds before the mke2fs finishes

Another Lisp Love story

Five Little Languages and How They Grew

NYTimes story about how a company is buying out a whole town (for 20 million dollars) in order to stop the people sueing them over pollution. (registration required for NYT - try user:strsnyt, Password:strsnyt). You gotta love the American disregard for the enviroment. Five percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the pollution.

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