I’m sure the readers of the Sector know exactly what RAID is and the intricacies of each variant, however, not everyone is tech savvy enough to follow either the Wikipedia article or the even easier Gizmodo primer. I’ve found the best way to explain RAID to the masses is by using the image below. While it doesn’t cover all possible variations, it not only hits the most commonly used ones but does it in an easy and concise manner. I’m not even sure how I came across the image (I think it was flickr or digg or somesuch) but I’m hoping there’s a repository of awesome explanatory pictures just like this one. If you have any other tools to easily explain tech topics to the masses, feel free to share them in the comments.
So Lenore and I got a couple cats a few weeks back. They are a brother-sister pair of ~1 year old Maine Coons. The girl was named Pepper Lily or some shit and we forgot what the boy’s name was, so we decided to give them new names. We’ve been calling them boy-cat and girl-cat since we brought them home.
So far we’ve tried:
- Doris and Boris
- Littlefoot and Bigfoot
- Champ and Idiot
- Bananas and Potatoes
- Perl and Bash
Both parties are okay with Perl, but we (Lenore) is iffy on Bash. She also vetoed Java.
Also shot down were any references to Firefly, Star Wars, The Wire, and Jim Groom.
I would prefer a computer or internet reference that could also sound like a regular name to the hoi polloi.
We will also accept a pair of people names with some kind of reference to history, movies, TV or computer games.
So I ask you, Internet: name my goddamn cats.
SOME PHOTOS FOR REFERENCE:
Boy-Cat: If you look at him long enough he starts to look kind of retarded.
Girl-Cat: she flips shit over that thing.
Boy-Cat again.
How we find Girl-Cat every morning.
What a lady.
AWWWWWWW.
The chair broke when boy-cat jumped on it after his twelfth meal of the day.
If you leave the winning comment I will make a custom LOLCAT image for you, or maybe a t-shirt if your suggestion is that good and I like you.
Godspeed, dear readers.
If you’re a regular reader of the Sector (and not one of those high faluting RSS users) you may have noticed a change to the site as you’re reading this post. What’s that? You didn’t notice? Take a second look….
OH SNAP, there’s a FAVICON! But wait, what’s a favicon? Well it’s a16×16 image which serves as a visual cue for a particular website and tends to show up in the address bar, browser tabs and next to any bookmarks. In the Sector’s case, our favicon is the lighter half of our infamous longcat banner. The screenshot below is Firefox using the Faviconize Tab Add-on and in it you can see (from left to right) gmail, google reader, a blank tab (and as such has no favicon), devmaster.net and lastly our own illustrious Sector.
Adding a favicon to your own site is incredibly easy. Simply create a 16×16 icon (.ico) using your favorite image editor or pretty much anything that shows up in a quick google search. Upload the image to wherever your site lives on the web and add
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/path-to/favicon.ico”>
to your site’s header or if using wordpress to your theme’s header. If you aren’t incredibly web savvy, the header is the section of your site that exists between the <head> and </head> tags. With that, you should be set. So go forth and happy updating.
I was doing a little housecleaning today and discovered that my 87 year old future self pulled a Marty McFly and played a little Fallout 3. I’ve noticed problems with this window before, but it’s been limited to things showing up that have already been uninstalled or having no access date while being used fairly frequently. Needless to say I’ve submitted a bug report, but couldn’t add a whole lot of meat to it. If anyone has ideas, throw them my way so I can see if I can reproduce it with other programs.
I also had a problem including the image in still keeping it readable, so I went on a search for a good Wordpress Gallery plugin. After a few attempts at failed Google-fu, I decided to search the blog of the foremost Wordpress Guru the Sector knows: Jim Groom. It’s probably not surprising to note that he had an answer in the form of NextGen (which you can download the plugin here). Simply unzip the archive into your wp-content/plugins and you’re good to go. Rather than trying to use the readme or a faq, just head to the NextGen Gallery for simple examples of every kind of image or gallery the plugin offers.
