ZFS is a very promising filesystem that Sun developed for SunOS. When they released the source code it got ported to Linux. A lot of people speak very highly of it, so I decided to give it a go before committing to use it in a real installation ( Read more... )

I've just realised something; I probably could and should have realised it literally decades ago ( Read more... )

(Long time no post! I've no idea how many people are still reading, but this is as good a place as any for me to post this so I can refer interested parties to it.)

I visited the UK Games Expo yesterday.

Things I bought

Arboretum, sort of a set-collecting card game, but with three or four very unusual twists. I've played it twice and want to play ( Read more... )

A few weeks back, I was in Sweden. With family. Who are… a little more normal than I am ( Read more... )

There's a lot of bile in the US on the subject of gun control right now, most of it relatively grim and uninteresting ( Read more... )

What's the difference between God and Satan ( Read more... )

I'm seriously missing the good old Livejournal days. For the most part conversation was lively yet temperate and cogent ( Read more... )

Tesco has a guarantee that is cunningly crafted so as to appear to guarantee that you can't save money by shopping somewhere other than Tesco ( Read more... )

Suppose you wish to designate an option to a piece of hardware. You could stick down a little EEPROM, but maybe you'd prefer to make links, or join PCB tracks, without any active componentry ( Read more... )

It appears I'm developing an electronics itch that I need to scratch in a few ways.

Now here's the thing: I've spent decades tinkering with software, including some that's quite low level. I've played a cameo rôle a couple of times in semiconductor design. I know my way around a circuit diagram.

But I'm painfully aware that to create a PCB, you ( Read more... )